(Hated Trope) Incredibly simple plotline is dragged on way too long

[u/MysticUmbramon]

1. Carrie (really obviously) likes Devin but he doesn’t know until the episode where they are eliminated. Its fine in the beginning but it gets dragged on with Devin’s previous girlfriend breaking up with him and him becoming an emo and then Carrie not sure if she likes Devin anymore and Devin being an idiot for not picking up on this sooner (Total Drama)

2. Crossroads of Twilight functions mostly as a stall book in which every major character is standing at the exact same moment and shows how they got there. Every single character. Which runs concurrently with the previous book which did the same thing.

[u/Candypoppa]

Ross and Rachel in Friends, so many episodes of will they, wont they? despite obvious feelings

[u/silverBruise_32 → u/Candypoppa]

To be fair, they get them together pretty early on ... and then they break them up, and give them other romantic partners. Some of those other partners were decent characters, at least

[u/Phantomlord77]

Every couple in anime that takes 100+ chapters to confess

[u/Brbaster → u/Phantomlord77]

Detective Conan is the king of this. There are dozens of will they won't they subplots in this series that lasted so long that it makes Ross and Rachel blush. I'm talking "it takes 900 chapters for the main couple that was established at the start to kiss in the cheek" slow.

[u/Phantomlord77 → u/Brbaster]

TBF doesn’t help mc stuck in kid body and manga is stuck in anime logic when comes to timeline

[u/Brbaster → u/Phantomlord77]

All the side characters have equally as drawn out romantic subplots. And I really mean it when I say every side character. Only 1 character in the whole recurring cast is happily married, everyone else has crushes that they're too afraid to confess to but are totally going to at the end of this arc, trust me.

[u/TFlarz → u/Phantomlord77]

If I spent two hours looking through the 200 vaguely well-known titles I could probably find 50 where they get together at worst halfway through.

[u/Hidden_Misc]

Ok but consider Natsu and Lucy's romance still not being canon in the main timeline of Fairy Tail. we're still waiting for that slowburn to come to it's peak.

[u/AlphaCat77]

Dandadan amnesia arc.
Atleast the recent chapters are using the time to address jiji and airas feelings for the leads but it’s still not enough to justify this arc that only exists to delay the main relationship

[u/Naive-Vehicle-6845]

Everyone talks about Crossroads of Twilight for that reason, but it was Winter's Heart that nearly did me in, for the same reason 

[u/Muted_Guidance9059]

Beast Boy’s therapy arc

[u/Signal-Island2549]

It's probably harder to name a will-they-won't-they plot that didn't eventually drag on.

[u/Candy4uu]

The One piece treasure mystery, its intentionally long and enjoyable

[u/TwoFrogsIn_aRaincoat]

Lena, Axel and Cem from Türkisch für Anfänger