Mismatched protagonist duos, anime edition – go!
She’s a bubbly, pink-haired schoolgirl who’s secretly a magical princess from space! He’s a broodingly mysterious white-haired pretty-boy whose cursed blood carries a terrible power! Together… they fight crime!
(I like to imagine that every time he goes off on one of his grandly nihilistic rants, she interrupts him with a well-placed whack upside the head with her sparkly princess wand.)
He’s a shy, bookish middle-schooler with an adorable pet monster. She’s a world-weary full conversion cyborg with PTSD. She teaches him how to stand up for himself; he teaches her how to feel again.
(It only gets worse from here.)
She’s an up-and-coming high school volleyball star looking to step up her game in preparation for the big tournament. He’s a legendary ninja assassin looking for one final student to pass his ultimate techniques onto before the slow-acting poison inflicted upon him by a traitorous ex-pupil claims his life. A chance meeting leads them to discover that maybe – just maybe – they can help each other.
(This one could get messy.)
He’s a gruff, scar-faced pirate leading a life of epic romance and intrigue on the fringes of Federation-controlled space. She’s his perfectly ordinary pet cat, whose adorable misadventures – chasing bugs through the cargo holds and getting stuck in the ventilation shafts – are somehow accidentally responsible for the success of all of her owner’s schemes. He never figures it out.
(Only slightly meta.)
She’s an adorable five-year-old girl whose irrepressible curiosity and high spirits help her adjust after she’s sent to live with her estranged father following her mother’s sudden illness. He’s the Sorcerer-King of Lost Atlantis, and is adjusting to the challenges of fatherhood rather less well.
(No, don’t touch that. Or that, or that, or…)
One’s a disgraced ex-samurai on a bloody-handed quest across Sengoku period Japan to avenge the death of her murdered child. The other’s a wacky, pop-culture-loving Shinto demigoddess who’s traveled back from the 21st Century in search of her missing cat, accidentally binding herself to her new companion in the process. They hate each other’s guts, but it looks like they’re stuck with one another!
(Angry yuri shipping edition, posted by request.)
One’s a cynical, hard-drinking ex-police detective turned private eye on the trail of the conspiracy that killed his former partner. The other’s an energetic young martial arts prodigy whose superhuman prowess is fueled by the power of friendship. After a series of disastrous and seemingly coincidental encounters, it transpires that they’re both after the same villain; can they work together – or at least stop getting in each other’s way – long enough to see justice done?
(One for the boys.)
One’s a hard-working single mom struggling to make ends meet as she raises her precocious four-year-old daughter. The other’s a slacker angel who got kicked out of Heaven after she carelessly killed God’s favourite potted plant. Through a chain of unlikely events, they end up sharing an apartment!
(It’s about responsibility or something.)
One’s a terminally shy shut-in who gets most of her information about the outside world from overwrought romance novels. The other just wants to help her sister get out more, make friends, maybe even meet someone nice – a plan complicated by her day job as Grand Inquisitor of the Galactic Imperium.
(Work-life balance is tough!)
One’s a librarian. The other’s the goddamn Devil.
(That’s it. That’s the entire premise. Just the Devil hanging out in a library, bothering the librarian for the entirety of each weekly 22-minute episode. They probably kiss at the end, because of course they do.)
One’s an incredibly boring salaryman. The other is… also an incredibly boring salaryman. It is a heartwarming tale of two incredibly boring people in love.
(Bet you didn’t see that one coming.)
I would watch every goddamn single one of these
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