The Metal Gear Solid example has a redlink for "...some kind of Super Solider plan". Is that a typo or a good pun?

Speaking of Metal Gear Solid, playing through MGS 1 has convinced me that the Snake/Meryl relationship belongs here. It takes up a lot of screentime, it's terribly done, it damages the characterizations of all involved, and it is so irrelevant to the plot that it that the later games in the series dropped the relationship. However, I'm not certain if everyone will agree. Any disagreements, or should I put it up?

Nuked Tom Sloane. Again. Really tired that the Daria/Jane and Daria/Trent shippers can't just get over it and "forgive" the writers for writing a good story instead of their ideal fanfic fantasies.

It should stay George Lucas Love Story God Damnit he deserves all the scorn he gets.

I removed Bakuman's example largely because whatever you may feel about the romance, it's hardly a dominant part of the plot. The romance between Mashiro and Azuki only really comes to the forefront of the story for more than a chapter in a few cases (in the first volume, when Azuki's torn over the picture book, when Mashiro gets hospitalized, and when Azuki learns that Mashiro also kept secrets from Miyoshi). In most other cases, the manga takes the forefront of the story; notice that during Kaya and Akito's wedding, Mashiro is mainly thinking about whether he should continue writing Tanto, although he does consider that the newly married Akito is unlikely to quit. The romance between the characters, with the exception of Hiramaru and Aoki, is not taking on an increasing part of the plot, as Azuki has not been seen in almost 20 chapters.

In short, considering that the main character and his girlfriend correspond through email, and promise to not see each other until they've fulfilled their promise so that they can fulfill their dreams, the romance cannot be considered the dominant factor in the plot.