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[[The Undead]] are usually scary, but sometimes they're [[Evil Is Sexy|sexy]] as well, and sometimes, a guy or a gal falls in love with one. A little bit of stalking-the-night and [[Horror Hunger|feasting-off-the-bodies-of-the-living]] is no impediment to true romance, after all. When Boy Meets Ghoul, or girl meets vampire, or, in general, when a normal person meets an attractive member [[Ghost Shipping|of the opposite, uh, side of the border between life and death]], love can flourish. They say that [[The Power of Love|love conquers all]]. Maybe it can even conquer undeath?

* ''[[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.

* ''[[My Lovely Ghost Kana]]'': [[Unlucky Everydude|Boy]] meets [[Cute Ghost Girl]] haunting his new apartment. Boy drowns his sorrows. Boy has long conversation with ghost about life and death. Boy accidentally gropes ghost, somehow. Ghost is surprised, then excited at the implications of a living boy being able to touch her. Boy and ghost make sweet love, then begin a bizarre, surprisingly tender romance in the apartment where the girl [[Mood Whiplash|brutally killed herself many years ago]].

** {{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.}}

* ''[[Durarara]]'': Boy meets [[Headless Horseman|Headless Horsewoman]] and {{spoiler|other boy meets Headless Horsewoman's head}}.

* 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>

* ''[[Tasogare Otome X Amnesia]]'': Boy meets girl. Girl turns out to be amnesiac ghost of a 50 year old corpse in the school basement. Mysteries ensue.

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

* ''[[Sazan Eyes]]'': Boy meets immortal, boy killed by immortal's pet, immortal absorbs his soul to resurrect him as a <s>zombie</s> Wu.

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

* A [[Will They or Won't They?|possible romantic, or possibly not romantic example]] kickstarts ''[[Bleach]]'': [[Perpetual Frowner|Frowning]] [[The Hero|teenage guy]] [[I See Dead People|who sees ghosts]] meets [[You Can See Me?|understandably surprised]] [[Cute Ghost Girl|Shinigami]] [[Big Entrance|who comes in]] [[There Was a Door|through his window]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]], along with over 400 chapters.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Let the Right One In]]''. Another puppy-love version, though a very dark one. Boy meets a strange young girl who turns out to be a vampire. [[Childhood Marriage Promise|Childhood love]]/[[Axe Crazy|violent deaths]] ensue.

* ''[[Innocent Blood]]''. Undercover detective meets... vampire (no points for guessing that). "I take lives." "Ya well, if you were perfect you wouldn't still be single."

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Let the Right One In]]'': Young boy meets apparently-young vampire, and, as with the movie version, puppy love + carnage ensues.

* ''The Vampire's Beautiful Daughter'': Rebecca is a half-vampire, and has to choose between undeath with her father and vampire friends or a human life with her human boyfriend Johnny. The story is told from Johnny's point of view.

* ''The Peony Lantern'': Boy meets ghost. It doesn't end well.

* ''The Gravesavers'' by Canadian author Sheree Fitch had a girl met a boy, who {{spoiler|turned out to be a ghost from the wreck of the RMS Atlantic.}}

* The vampire detective show ''[[Moonlight]]'' features the romance between the main character and his human love interest.

* In ''[[Vampire Diaries]]'', Stefan and Damon both meet Katherine. A few hundred years later, Stefan meets Elena. Then, {{spoiler|Jeremy and Vicki, after she becomes a vampire}}. And then {{spoiler|Jeremy meets Anna, though initially she was just using him}}.

 

== Music ==

 

== Video Games ==

* A possibility in one of the [[Multiple Endings|endings]] of ''[[Mana Khemia]]'', in which Vayne [[Walking the Earth|walks the earth]] with [[Cute Ghost Girl|Pamela]] as a travelling doctor.

* One minor sidequest in ''[[Skyrim]]'' has you searching for the journals of the necromancer Arondil. As you search the barrow he is currently squatting in, it's impossible to ignore the fact that it's populated entirely by female Draugr and ghosts. As you read his journals, it becomes clear that Arondil's interest in the female undead wasn't entirely scholarly. Apparently he finds the feel of ghostly ectoplasm arousing. Eventually you get to the end of the dungeon and find a double bed...with a female ghost "sleeping" in it.

== Webcomics ==

* The webcomic ''Ghost Friend'' was based on this trope.

* In ''The Repository of Dangerous Things'' [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Repository_of_Dangerous_Things/4863933/ Davis meets Wanderin' Laurie], the [[Pirate Girl]] Ghost.

{{quote| '''Davis''': (thinks) She was hot. But dead. But hot.}}

* ''Undead Friend'': One of the more bizarre example, as the only reason for meeting said boy is for an [[Inevitable Tournament]], and they can witch places at the cost of his life for Superpowers.

* ''Unlife Is Unfair'' is about the other way around, a nice zombie (nando) meets a girl and falls in love of her. She only wants to be his friend though. {{spoiler|Later on she discovers feelings for him, which can be kind of harring.}}

* Tsukiko of ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' is a weird mixture of this and [[I Love the Dead]]. As a necromancer with necrophilia who [[Insane Troll Logic|believes the undead and sweet, gentle beings because they are the opposite of the living and the living are bastards]], she has a habit of raising corpses as undead minions and then sleeping with them. For an extra dosage of [[Squick]], she also manages to combine these already unsavory cocktail with [[Parental Incest]], because she also treats herself as their mother.