Seen today (short enough to quote essentially in full):

Here is something that I did not see and understand until the last (aired) episode of Bakemonogatari smacked me in the nose with it: Bakemonogatari is really a love story. A romance, like Toradora.

And like Toradora, I think that it is a good one. It does not have a love triangle, because that's not the kind of story it is telling; it is more telling the story of how two peculiar people come to fit together and to more or less understand each other.

I don't want to say that the supernatural elements of Bakemonogatari are just trappings, because they're a lot more than that, but ultimately they're the means to an end and not an end to themselves.

The analogy tells us more about Toradora than Bake really. In particular, lots and lots of bloggers were wilfully blind to what Toradora was showing them in ep.2, and then complained that the ending was "sudden".

More to the point, any instance of romcom has its specific twist (and I'm going to go by reputation here). KimiNozo had angst, sex, guilt. Kimikiss had a confusing relationship graph. Nodame had rich content outside of the relationship, the struggle and achievement. And Toradora exemplifies the story of pre-destined development (although, Ami...). I am racking my brains for a better example and finding none.