Boy Meets Ghoul: Difference between revisions

This probably occurs more often with [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] or [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghosts]] than with any other form of undead creature. Romance with ''actual'' [[Our Ghouls Are Different|ghouls]] is fairly rare, but the pun was too good for us to resist.

 

 

A subtrope of [[Interspecies Romance]]. May be a case of [[Mayfly-December Romance]]. See also: [[Kiss of the Vampire]], [[Lesbian Vampire]], [[Cute Ghost Girl]], [[Woman in White]], [[I Love the Dead]]. May invoke the [[Hemo-Erotic]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Karin]]'': a classic girl-meets-boy story where the girl is a cute, shy, vampire (actually, a rare type of what you might call a backwards vampire).

* ''Wirbelwind'': girl meets ordinary boy (initially), who then turns into undead, but it's all to the better because she's a [[Our Elves Are Better|Dark Elf]] and now they don't need to [[Wangst]] about [[Mayfly-December Romance|their lifespans]] and incompatible alignments and just adventure together. And fuck, of course, because that's an ecchi adventure manga by the famous H-artist Makoto Fujisaki.

* [[Stalker with a Crush|Gosunkugi]] from ''[[Ranma ½]]'' developed a crush on [[Cute Ghost Girl|Kogane]] while they spent time together during an episode. {{spoiler|But at the end, he gets over it and continues to stalk Akane.}}

** {{spoiler|She had to return back to the netherworld at the end of the episode, as she can only manifest one day a year, but it's implied that he'll still be waiting for her until then.}}

** Boy meets buxom girl {{spoiler|symbiotically joined to a demon sword and controlling a pseudo-zombe horde.}}

* A typical ''[[Franken Fran]]'' story usually doesn't start with this as a premise, but that may be how it ends up.<ref>[[Boy Meets Girl]], girl gets in car accident, remainder of girl's body placed in giant [[Techno Babble|bio-reconstructive chrysalis]] to regenerate while boy helps nurse her back to health, girl emerges seemingly unscathed from chrysalis, boy and girl head to love hotel, girl transforms into monstrous insect creature and eats boy's head, reader is now horrified.</ref>

* ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]'': Boy meets vampire, eventually falls in love with her, boy finds out that he's actually a werewolf.

** Also, Boy meets babysitter/older sister stand in, she gets turned into vampire, {{spoiler|eventually decides to turn him into a vampire as well}}.

* In ''[[Black Butler]]'', {{spoiler|the Undertaker}} has a case of this. While {{spoiler|putting a bunch of [[Came Back Wrong|zombies]] on ship just to see what happens is bad enough, admitting that you think they're beautiful while ''holding one in your arms'' is just plain [[The Creepy Undertaker|creepy]].}}

* ''[[Hellsing]]'': [[Private Military Contractors|Grizzled mercenary man]] meets [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|vampire]] [[Cute Monster Girl|girl]].

== Fanworks ==

* Novembersmith's RPS fan-novel ''[[The Anatomy of a Fall]]'' is based on a boy meets ghost scenario.

 

 

== Film ==