Most of you are aware of how much I wish I had a girlfriend (and I'm fully aware that it's mostly my fault I don't have one, so please, no "well, if you would just..." replies), so a frequent source of respite for me is the relationship/harem genre. When I was 20, watching Love Hina, I thought, "Man, this guy is also 20 and he's living with this awesome girl! Granted, she outwardly hates his guts and regularly abuses him, but there's hope for me yet!" It is a little sad that I look up to a fictional guy who got the shit kicked out of him by this girl on a daily basis, but that's how a depressed lonely guy's mind works. Or at least my depressed lonely mind.
Right now I'm re-watching REC, a cute little anime about a man and a woman who, through bizarre circumstances, grow into a couple. Unlike Love Hina, the whole series is realistic — it's very much an adult comedy/drama, just animated. And (here's where the delusion kicks in), the guy in it is 26. This means I have at least another year before I'm more pathetic than a fictional character. There is hope for me yet. :)
Yep, ladies, that's how awesome I am.