ill second skip beat. starts off as your typical anime and almost made me press the x button then it took a turn for the better - all in episode 1 and damn ill second spice and wolf to, that anime is strangly good. The voice actress and expressions and the interactions between the two main characters is brillant. Suzuka is another good anime that i liked more than spice and wolf but less than skip beat.
y_nikita im just throwing this one out there, but i think you will LOVE IT. its called
Hikaru No Go, its not quite romance and i thought it would be bad but god damn its a masterpiece and possibly one of the best written animes/mangas ever made.
Please give one or two episode of hikaru no go a try and let me know what you think. (i was put off it by ages because its about a board game but damn i didnt realise what i was missing, i also watched it because its one of the highest rated animes of all time)