This is the 8th of a series of posts about 10 notable tropes of 2025, and I'm going to collect them in a master post too if I get that far. If I miss a 2025 example of any of these, please let me know and I'll happily edit my post to add it!

I know that title is overly long; I was trying to think of a shorter wordplay type phrase about hand-kissing, but let's be real. Nobody wrote a sexier, more romantic hand-kissing scene than the Bard!

OK, I'm not sure two instances make a trope, but these two examples of worshipful hand-kissing made such a big impression that I'm counting it! Like many of the tropes of 2025, I never thought about it much one way or the other, but these depictions were soooo good I rewatched each one a dozen times at least.

Both of these series nailed it, but I had to give top honors to THE most romantic show of 2025!

The Flagship: Reset

The Next Prince

Glow - Khanin and Charan

8 shades of golden brown over 24 hand drawn frames limited palette art gif

I’d been wanting to do this one since the show aired. I really enjoyed it - I love costumes and pageantry so this was my shit.

I wanted to make sure Khanin was glowing so the brightest color I only used on his outfit.

Bold and daring, I’ll give you that.

But these are really things the two of you should discuss beforehand.

Consent is key.

Consent is sexy!

It was good. I feel like (having only watched the first 20 minutes of the episode previously), I had checked out right before it got good.

Definitely loving Zee’s character, Charan, so much more in this than his character in Zomvivor (San can still catch threse hands).

Can we talk about how he reacted with the Pocky game kiss?

What a fucking dweeb. I love him.

I just know Charan probably couldn’t help but start planning their wedding, the moment they got back to Khanin’s house.

I assume he’ll try to play it cool during the rest of the season, but I see you Charan. You’re not fooling anyone.

Moving on from his hopeless romantic ass…

Khanin, is just so aggressive. Honestly, it’s like when my sister’s chihuahua barks at anyone who visits. Yes, please tell me what you’re going to do, small one.

I teared up a little when he finds out about his dad and begs him to just let him continue to be his son.

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--bonus: their students' drawings...