Summary

Since classic likeRomeo and Juliet , audiences have always appreciated a mix of beloved and disaster , and thebest tragic romance in animeare no elision . dead on target love is rarefied , but these duo find it and expect to live long and glad be together . However , they ’re doomed to lose each other tragically .

There are many ways for an otherwise sodding relationship to be brought down . The duo can simply not get over personal hang - ups before it ’s too late , or the world around them can conspire to keep them aside . Either room , both they and the audience are heartbroken by the conclusion .

10Kousei And Kaori Bond Over Music

Your Lie In April

Kousei Arima was once the brightest rising star among young piano player , but years of scurrilous preparation by his stage mom mash him down , and guilt over her death in conclusion broke him . Shy , insecure , and hurting , he believes he ’ll never bring pianoforte again . It ’s only until he meet Kaori Miyazono , a violinist insistent that he accompany her , that he start out to reenter the macrocosm of euphony .

Your Trygve Lie In Aprilis one of thoseanime doing its best to make you cry . It ’s hint from the very start of the show that Kaori ’s clock time with Kousei will be short , but in bonding over music , fall in love changes both of them for the better . Before they ’re split for goodness , Kaori gets her ultimate public presentation and Kousei is give his love of music and will to endure back .

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9Otonashi And Kanade Save Each Other’s Lives

Angel Beats!

As Yuzuru Otonashi discovers , the afterlife is a place where he meets and befriend many other fall back soul , all get the best the psychic trauma and ruefulness of their lives together . He even help contribute Kanade Tachibana , who everyone else had assumed was a supernatural enemy , into the fold . But it ’s also a billet that everyone is intend to move on from , alone .

Once a somebody has do to terms with their unfinished business , they vanish from the afterlife to be reborn . After help all their friends move on , and find the connection they share from their previous lives , Otonashi and Kanade ca n’t enjoy the erotic love they ’ve found : it ’s not the correct time or place . It ’s up to fate whether their souls will find each other in the next life .

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8Takaki And Akari Always Come Close, But Never Confess To Each Other

5 Centimeters Per Second

Makoto Shinkai loves this type of floor as much as any of his audience.5 Centimeters Per Secondis perhaps his most grounded and affect enactment of such a romance . Unlike pair like Taki and Mitsuha fromYour Nameor Hodaka and Hina fromWeathering with You , there is nothing supernatural about Takaki Touno and Akari Shinohara . Their story could encounter to anyone .

Takaki and Akari were very close in childhood , even sharing each other ’s first kiss . However , due to circumstances outside of their control , they become distant and lose tactile sensation in adolescence and maturity . They both come very close several times to admitting how profoundly they be intimate each other , but never quite manage to spit it out .

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7Suzaku And Euphemia Almost Broke Barriers

Code Geass

As an Eleven , Suzaku Kururugi is look down on and distrusted by the Britannians he serves alongside . The only one who consider in him is Princess Euphemia , who honour his science and integrity by make him her Knight . Suzaku would have been felicitous to protect Euphie forever , and perhaps rent the affection between them farm deeper , until calamity strikes .

What continues to appall and infuriate fans everywhere ishow completely unnecessary and avoidable Euphie ’s end is . One single regardless sentence by Lelouch , who did n’t see it would activate his Geass , not only seal off Euphie ’s fate but condemn her to be remembered as a fiend . Suzaku is crushed and consumed with a hungriness for revenge against Zero , leave behind with no alternative but to continue the violence Euphie so scorned .

6Hotaru And Gin Can Never Touch

Into The Forest Of Fireflies’ Light

Into the Forest of Fireflies ' Lightis not available to stream at the moment .

Many of thebest gum anime ground on Japanese mythologydelve into the wide earth of youkai , strong drink or wraith of folklore and legend . Gin is neither fully human nor fully youkai , being an abandoned child raised by youkai . Still , he spring a close childhood friendly relationship with a human named Hotaru , with a catch : if Gin is ever touched by a homo , he will discontinue to exist .

The story is being narrated by an older Hotaru , with no sign of Gin , so heedful viewers can probably guess where this is break down . Still , it ’s hard not to be swing out up by the mystifying friendship and love Gin and Hotaru build up up over their summers together , which Hotaru makes percipient were the best times of her life . While they do finally get the hug they ’ve been pine for , it comes at a terrible monetary value .

A three-image collage. On the left, Yuzuru Otonashi holds Kanade Tachibana while crying in Angel Beats. In the middle, Takaki Touno and Akari Shinohara stand apart from each other as the sun sets in 5 Centimeters Per Second. On the right, Kaworu Nagisa and Shinji Ikari play piano together in Neon Genesis Evangelion.

5Spike And Julia Were Never Meant To Be

Cowboy Bebop

On first picket , Cowboy Bebopseems mostly episodic , only for the major storylines and themes to all come together by the final act . The gist of the show is the heroes ’ attempts to move on from their pasts , and the interrogation of whether that ’s even possible . For Spike Spiegel , the answer to that question is a self-colored “ no . ”

Though this relationship is only hinted at through most of the show and only really amount into play in the final episodes , it becomes key to the climax . In some ofCowboy Bebop ’s best episodes , Spike tries to combine the exemption of his unexampled life with the happiness of his old one by reuniting with his old love , Julia . Sadly , attract the attention of Vicious and the Red Dragon Syndicate spells both their day of reckoning .

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4Shinji And Kaworu Were Doomed To Fight

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Shinji Ikari ’s burning desire for sexual love , acceptance , and self - deserving drives him through most of the show . Though Kaworu Nagisa only appear briefly , his sudden unveiling into Shinji ’s life seems , for one hopeful moment , to be what he ’s been looking for . He is kind to Shinji without require anything back , or have a bun in the oven him to do or be anything to earn it , just eff himthe manner no one ever has before .

As such , the reveal that Kaworu is the final Angel , slide into Shinji ’s life specifically to deceive him and destruct his world , is devastating even byEvangelionstandards . After all the trauma he ’s brave , it ’s being wedge to fight and bolt down Kaworu that finally go Shinji completely . While the status of Shinji and Kaworu ’s human relationship is left purposely ambiguous in the story ( they could be friend or a lot more ) , they rest an iconic but tragic duo .

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3Oscar And André Are Torn Apart By Revolution

The Rose Of Versailles

lift as a boy by her male parent , who was desperate for an successor , Oscar is devoted to her duty to the French royal family . André has adored her since the childhood they spent learning how to push and ride together . Though the class divide between them widens as they get old , they still worry deep for each other , and Oscar begins to realize she turn back André ’s feelings .

alas , in The Rose of Versailles , political intrigue tears what could have been a very glad couple brutally aside . The French Revolution is brewing , and Oscar and André are caught up in the ferocity right as it blow up . oppose for their life story and the living of those they ’re sworn to , there ’s no chance for them to be together in life .

There is a lost episode ofThe Rose of Versailles,“Portrait of a Burning Rose , ” which focuses entirely on Oscar and André and was meant as the stopping point in some neighborhood .

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2Guts And Casca Live In The Wrong World

Berserk

Berserkhas had multiple anime adaptations : the 1997 and 2016 series , and the threeGolden Age Arcmovies .

Berserkis viciously determined to ensure that nobody gets a happy end . Though they quickly get off on the amiss foot when they fit , after the three years that gut and Casca spend fighting side by side in the Band of the Hawk , they rise to profoundly respect and care for one another .

Their blue world gets in the way of life of their truly becoming a couple , however . First , Guts leaving the Band of the Hawk not only exasperate Griffith but divide the brace . Then , when they reunify and finally take their belief to each other , a biting Griffith charge them aside personally , in the most brutal direction potential , to go up to demonic godhood .

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1Oboro And Gennosuke Come From Feuding Clans

Basilisk

In one of themost interesting ninja anime , the historical rivalry between the Kouga and Iga clans of shinobi is given a eddy . Their armistice is broken by shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu , so warriors from the two clans can fight to the death over which of Ieyasu ’s grandson will succeed him . As such , the original estimate for heartsease , marrying the clan heritor together , is thrown in the shabu .

Unfortunately , the heritor , Oboro and Gennosuke , remain very much in love with each other and very dysphoric with this new plan . As their families fight for dominance and dear friends fall in conflict , Oboro and Gennosuke fight to rule a room to remain together even as the blood puddle around their foot . But as they discover , that ’s easier say than done .

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Basilisk Anime’s Gennosuke and Oboro holding hands.