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* In ''[[Pumpkin Scissors]]'', Alice is engaged to be married to a high-ranking noble named Lionel Taylor. However, this went against her wishes to stay unmarried and continue working for Section III. She was even willing once to go as far as to try and get her fiance to call off their engagement.
* The premise of ''[[Zettai Heiwa Daisakusen]]'', although the people getting married in question set it up themselves to put an end to the war between their respective countries. [[Hilarity Ensues]], surprisingly.
* The "Flower Festival" arc of ''[[Rosario
* Haruka in ''[[Moyashimon]]'' is the daughter of an executive and is in an arranged marriage, with the caveat that she won't have to marry until she is done with the university. Naturally, she intends never to graduate, and an attempt by her father to push matters leads to him and the fiance [[Fate Worse Than Death|exposed to point-blank]] [[Foreign Queasine|Surstr?ng]].
* Appreantly, the parents of Miyabi "Professor" Oomichi of ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'' already arranged her a husband--despite she's only a tenth grader. A later chapter showed that she {{spoiler|was not particularly pleased with that, and was glad that the ''omiai'' was delayed}}.
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* In Masaki Kobayashi's ''[[Samurai Rebellion]]'', the son of a prominent samurai is ordered by his daimyo to marry a concubine who has fallen from favor. At first, he objects, but as in some of the other examples on this page, the couple eventually find happiness. Later, the daimyo's primary heir dies and he demands the concubine back. The samurai (played by [[Toshiro Mifune]]) refuses, as he wants his son to have the happiness he was denied in his own loveless Arranged Marriage. This ends [[Downer Ending|about as well as you'd expect]].
* In ''[[The Karate Kid]] II'', it's revealed that Mr. Miyagi left Okinawa so he wouldn't have to fight his best friend over his friend's bride-to-be, with whom he'd fallen in love. Miyagi discovers that his first love has refused her family's arrangement and remained single, awaiting his return. Now if he'd just left an address, she could have written and told him so saving them both a lot of time. (Of course, one scene in the first movie indicates that Miyagi was a widower, so that might not have worked...)
* ''[[Monty Python and
* Many of the works of [[Yasujiro Ozu]], considered to be one of the three undisputed masters of Japanese Cinema, deal with this, including his famed "Noriko" trilogy: ''[[Late Spring]]'', ''[[Early Summer]]'', ''[[Tokyo Story]]''.
* Given measured historical treatment in ''[[Perfume]]''. Nobleman Antoine Richis arranges the marriage of his daughter to a wealthy, handsome, and good-natured nobleman he knows well. His daughter protests that she doesn't know if she loves him, but ultimately bends to her father's wishes.
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* The twelve-year-old Rindi, from the Morris Gleitzman book ''[[Bumface]]'', is the child of a Middle-Eastern ex-pat family living in Australia, who is being heavily pressured into an arranged marriage with a much older man by her family. Much of the plot of the book consists of her and Angus coming up with [[Zany Scheme|Zany Schemes]] to get her out of it.
* All the female characters in ''[[Moment in Peking]]'' ended up in arranged marriages. Since this was the norm for their time and place, they simply learned to deal with it.
* The [[Star Wars]] EU gives an unusual take on this, that also crosses into the [[High
** The main reason this crosses into the high class call girl trope is that the Telbun's original family is compensated for the Telbun's services.
*** [[Truth in Television]]. Buying concubines was an established custom in many polygamous cultures.
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* In ''[[Tsunami Channel]]'', [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] Haruna arrives and stays because she has promised with the protagonist, or so she claims. {{spoiler|It's eventually discovered that she ''was'' in an tight arranged promise before, made when she was still a child. However, she and her fianc?ventually fell in genuine love with each other, but the boy got a mortal disease and dissolved the promise a couple of days before his death. Obviously, she was devastated, until the professor Hasegawa showed her a photo of the protagonist who, coincidentally, was too similar to her dead fianc?This [[The Reveal|reveal]] is done by her ''new'' arranged fianc?who was a friend of the dead one.}}
* [[The Cyantian Chronicles]]: Tira and Caite. Twice.
* [[8-Bit Theater
* The first story arc of ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' involved a [[Squick|squicky]] forced political marriage between [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] Princess Voluptua and [[Starfish Aliens|Starfish Alien]] Ahem.
* ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]:'' The backstory of the comic is that [[Everything's Better with Princesses|(Princess) November]] ran away from home in order to escape a [[Standard Hero Reward]] with the [[No Name Given|unnamed]] "[[Idiot Hero|Boy]]," a naive peasant who managed to rescue a huge treasure from a haunted castle. The Boy seems genuinely smitten with her, however; between November's own story arcs the comic features him traveling around the world with an upbeat spirit, hoping to find her. Well she is the youngest if you catch my drift.
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