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{{quote|''If you bump into a member of the opposite sex, causing one or both of you to drop whatever you're carrying in a hilarious fashion, then congratulations, you've just fallen in love.''|'''[[RifftraxRiff Trax]] Live''': "Only in the Movies" trivia card.}}
 
A variety of [[Meet Cute]]: A bad first impression wherein a character in a hurry or simply not paying attention runs into another character as their first meeting, often done while [[Late for School]].
 
Sometimes the inattentive/hurrying character apologizes for doing so, but the other character shrugs it off with some snarky comment. After all, [[Thanks for Thethe Mammary|it could be worse]]. [[Naked First Impression|Far worse]]. With the latter situations, this usually starts a small animosity but is a nice guarantee to the audience that they'll get together by the end of the show.
 
If there is no animosity involved, this kind of situation is perfect for a [[Love At First Sight]] scenario.
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** ''Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days'', which takes said Alternate Universe and makes it into a full-fledged manga series, extends this into a clear form of [[Meet Cute]], with Asuka demanding that Rei apologizes to Shinji. Rei not only apologizes, but has a change of heart and forms a close friendship with Shinji, much to the ire of Asuka.
** Turned [[Up to Eleven]] in ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'' in the case of {{spoiler|Mari}}, who actually crashes into Shinji with a freaking ''parachute.'' Not to mention that his face winds up [[Marshmallow Hell|between her breasts.]]
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'': Prompted by [[Genre Savvy|a mischievous Sasami]], both Ryoko and Ayeka engineer "crash meetings" with Tenchi ''months'' after they first met him, thinking it's a necessary part of Earth courtship rituals. A somewhat in-character [[Lampshade Hanging]].
* Parodied In ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu|Haré+Guu]]''. Marie, persuaded by advice from an [[Otaku]] attempts this on Haré. It doesn't work as Haré already knows her and she knocked him against a tree.
* Yumi and Sachiko [[Meet Cute|meet]] this way in ''[[Maria-samaMariasama ga Miteru]]'', at a time that's unclear in the first episode.
* During the "[[Dating Sim]]"/"[[Shojo]]" episode of ''[[Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai (Anime)|Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai]]'', Sasshi and Amiryun have an intentionally cliched collision meeting.
* In episode 2 of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', Momoka [[Invoked Trope|bumps into Fuyuki intentionally]] in order to get an excuse to talk to him.
** A flashback chapter in the manga shows this is, in fact, how Fuyuki and Momoka originally met.
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* Seiji's meeting of Lucy Winnlad in the ''[[Midori Days]]'' [[Manga]].
* In [[Basilisk]], Oboro not only trips on her future fiancé Gennosuke, but she dumps the contents of a tea tray she was bringing for him and the elders. Ouch.
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (Anime)StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]'', done when Caro tumbled down the train station escalator and Erio used Sonic Move to save her. They crashed into the top of the upper floor -- with Erio's hands on Caro's chest, accidentally and innocently (they're about ''ten'' years old), though ''both'' were embarrassed and went to an [[Instant Seiza]] position afterward. It should be noted they did ''not'' dwell on it, a rarity in these instances.
* ''[[Kashimashi]]'' - the entire series starts when a spaceship, who also has a [[Spaceship Girl|humanoid form]] named Jan-Puu, crashes into and kills the main character, setting the entire series into motion and also starting Jan-Puu's crush on the main character because she interprets the crash as her [[Sacred First Kiss|first kiss]].
* [[Eiken]]. It's how Densuke and Chiharu met in the first chapter of the manga, and it got adapted as the first few minutes of the first OVA episode (which, for the most part, ''loosely'' adapted a storyline from the third volume of the manga).
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* In the ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' manga, this is the way Shampoo continually meets up with Ranma: she [[Running Gag|lands on his head]], ''with her bike''. The anime cuts this almost completely; it only happens in one fifth season episode and the first movie.
* Happens in the first episode of ''[[Princess Tutu]]''. [[Dojikko|Ahiru]] runs into the ballet classroom thinking she's late for class (she's actually an hour early), where Mytho happens to be practicing. She flails while yelping out an apology, then turns to run out the door--and promply trips, causing the princely Mytho to run to catch her, hurting his ankle in the process. This also happens later in the second season, {{spoiler|in a flashback that shows how Rue and Mytho met. She was running away from the evil crows, and literally runs into the wandering, heartless prince, who saves her from them.}}
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin (Manga)|Rurouni Kenshin]]'', Kenshin Himura meets Kaoru for the first time when she attacks him with a bokken, thinking him to be the legendary Hitokiri Battousai. She turns out to be right, but there's also an impostor running around.
** Kenshin also meets [[Kid Samurai|Yahiko]] this way, though the then [[Street Urchin]] Yahiko was doing it to [[Five-Finger Discount|rob]] him.
* In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', Sakura's parents sorta met this way... when [[Cute Clumsy Girl|a teenage Nadeshiko]] fell off from a tree ''and'' landed on [[Hot for Student|her handsome student teacher]] [[Hot Dad|Fujitaka]], whom she'd marry after her school graduation.
** Also, though it isn't their first meeting, Sakura and Syaoran meet up again in the second movie when Sakura crashes into Syaoran.
** Rollerblading right into her is how Sakura first meets her new teacher Kaho Mizuki.
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** Much earlier on in the series, Nodoka first meets Kotaro this way, although they don't really interact much until a lot later.
** Collet meets Yue by literally crashing into her while on a broom. Granted, Yue had just been teleported there from the teleport gateway, and she didn't remember it anyways due to a magic misfire erasing her memory, but Collet believed the entire incident was her fault because she was focusing too much on her studies, and fussed over it for a while in the chapter explaining it that way.
* Played around with in ''[[Toradora (Light Novel)|Toradora!]]''. Ryuuji walks straight into Taiga, but doesn't even see her until he looks straight down.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'' [[Teen Genius|Toushiro Hitsugaya]] meets his future lieutenant this way though [[One Head Taller|a small problem]] also makes it a [[Funbag Airbag]] her... generous assets almost snap the poor boy's neck! Then he began to cry and nosebleed at the same time.
* In [[Goshuushou-sama Sama Ninomiya-kun Kun]], Mayu [[Dojikko|falls down]] a helicopter ramp and lands on Shungo's face ass-first. This may be a warning to the viewer that "yes, it's going to be that kind of show."
* ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]]'' leads Emma and William meet when Emma opens a door right when William is about to knock. It leaves quite a mark.
* In ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'', Van materialized in the middle of the track Hitomi was running around as fast as she could. No points for guessing what happened next.
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* Averted in ''[[Super Dreadnought Girl 4946]]'', a foreign girl calling herself Isaac Montana tries to consciously pull this on the protagonist Tobita. He swiftly dodges the assault, resulting in the girl bumping her head on a street light. Confused on why he dodged [[Genre Savvy|she asks if it isn't normal for boys and girls in japan to bump into each other while munching on a slice of bread on their way to school]], showing him the slice of bread she seems to have been munching on before. Tobita's friend later [[Strange Minds Think Alike|chews him out for dodging it]].
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'', at the beginning of the Greed Island saga, in Love-Love City.
* In ''[[Ai Kora (Manga)|Ai Kora]]'', not long after Maeda arrives in Tokyo, Sakurako crashes into him on a bicycle.
* ''[[Kenichi: theThe Mightiest Disciple]]'' actually begins with a variation of this trope: while running down the street because he's [[Late for School]], Kenichi accidentally touches Miu from the back, and she promptly knocks him down (a reflex conditioned into her through years of martial arts training). She apologizes, he runs away, she notices that he forgot a "how-to" book on making friendships (in the anime version it was a karate tutoring video), and the rest is history.
* [[Millennium Actress]] - Chiyoko meets the man with the key twice this way. When, as an adult, she bumps into a random stranger on the street, she half-expects it to be him.
* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' takes it to another level, when Eureka crashes a giant robot into Renton's house. She then holds a funeral for his room, and asks for a flamethrower. It's the start of a beautiful friendship.
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* In ''[[The Cherry Project]]'', Chieri crashes into her idol and professional skater Tsuzuki at the rink. Naturally, they fall in love after [[Love Triangle|some trouble,]] although she had a huge crush on him in the first place.
* Ataru from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' crashes into Shinobu this way. Except he saw her coming and did it entirely on purpose.
* This is usually how Ash and the gang meet Barry in the ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' anime. In ''Best Wishes'', Bianca also does this.
* In ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'', [[Student Council President]] Shino decides to remove the rule forbidding students from running in the hallways in hopes of [[Invoked Trope|invoking]] this trope, with the motivation that it will raise Japan's birth rate.
* In the manga version of ''[[Princess Lover]]'', this is how [http://www.mangareader.net/559-30948-7/princess-lover/chapter-1.html Teppei meets Charlette].
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* How Michikyuu Kanae, the absurdly cute [[Yaoi Fangirl]], [[Covert Pervert]] slider is introduced in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]''.
* One of the most common ways for "X and You!" love stories to start out.
* In ''[[On a Cross And Arrow (Fanfic)|On aA Cross And Arrow]]'', this is how Fluttershy and her [[Rule 63|gender-swap]] alternate universe counterpart, Butterscotch, [[Meet Cute|meet each other]].
* Rainbow Dash first meets Caramel this way in [[Assumptions (Fanfic)|Assumptions]]. Unusual for this trope, he's completely unconcious, and Rainbow just leaves him there. It says a lot about Caramel when he forgives her despite her not apologizing, and taking advantage of his generosity for almost two weeks.
* In [[Touhou Project|Gensokyo Great Sports Day]], Patchouli calls upon the combined forces of Eientei, the SDM, and Hakugyokurou to try and intentionally invoke this trope for Sakuya and Youmu through military-esque actions and overcomplicated planning. Needless to say, it doesn't work, and Reisen and Meiling suffer greatly when the blading weilding couple to be finds out.
 
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* In ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'', the [[The Klutz|eternal klutz]] Jeremy finds his longed-for soulmate when she rams into him at full speed. This happens at the end of the film, rather than at the beginning (as is more traditional for this trope).
* In ''[[Modern Times]]'', this is exactly how Charlie Chaplin meets the girl: she has just stolen a loaf of bread, runs at full speed around a corner and crashes straight into him.
* Subverted in ''[[Arthur (Filmfilm)|Arthur]]'', as the title character thinks he's done this, only to realize that he's crashed into a hedge.
* Played a [[Foe Yay|little]] [[Les Yay|different]] in ''[[D.E.B.S.]]'', with the dropped items being guns.
* Done in ''[[North Byby Northwest]]'' {{spoiler|turns out it was a deliberate set up.}}
* This is how the producers of the show have Truman meet his [[Relationship Sue|designated love interest]] and future wife in ''[[The Truman Show (Film)|The Truman Show]]''.
* Happens in ''The Cutting Edge'' (the first one). The male lead bowls the female over as he's rushing to his Olympic hockey game.
* ''The Wrecking Crew''. Happens to Freya Carlson when she first meets Matt Helm.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Mara Jade met Luke Skywalker in [[The Thrawn Trilogy]], but the first time they meet in the flesh in ''[[Hand of Thrawn|Specter of the Past]]'', he's [[Space Is Cold|cold-shirting]] in a Jedi hibernation trance through a stretch of space, she's standing in a hangar bay to catch him, and she speaks the phrase that will snap him out of the trance as she intercepts him, so he wakes up straddling her on all fours. They then converse a bit about his [[We Will Not Use Stage Make-Up in Thethe Future|disguise]] before she says, "So. You want to get off me, or were you just getting comfortable?"
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]]'': While he had just seen them in their commander's office, D'Artagnan first speaks to Athos and Porthos after running into them. This being seventeenth century France, they immediately challenge him to duels.
* In the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, Sturm Brightblade and the elven princess Alhana Starbreeze literally ''fall in love this way.'' They have absolutely zero interaction beyond running headlong into each other, and Sturm pulling her into a doorway out of the way of a rampaging, crazed mob. This is enough to get the xenophobic elf princess to give Sturm a precious, empathic amulet-thing, and to pine for him for the rest of the series.
* ''Ginger Pye'': The main character's parents met when he decided to run up the down escalator at the mall and crashed into her as she was going down.
* In ''[[GriffinsGriffin's Daughter (Literature)|Griffins Daughter]]'', Jelena and Ashinji bump this up a notch: Ashinji accidentally tramples Jelena with his horse, while patrolling the forest. Ashinji recognizes her as the literal [[Dreaming of Things to Come|girl of his dreams]] and ensures she's taken proper care of.
 
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Happens several times to Darrin and Samantha in the very first episode of ''[[Bewitched (TV)|Bewitched]]''.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]] on ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'': Moze hopes such a scenario will make a kiss with her new boyfriend cause the magical spark she's hoping for. It doesn't.
** Actually, she was hoping for more of a [[Meadow Run]], but it turned into a [[Crash Into Hello]].
* Played textbook straight in the first episode of Season 2 (a.k.a. Volume 2) of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', in the scene where Claire is late for her new school and forgets to look both sides before she crosses the street, and thus runs right in front of West's car. From that moment on, West stalks her, they bicker like teenagers, until they end up together as girlfriend and boyfriend in record time... and then, at the end of the aborted shortened season<ref>as a result of the [[Writers Strike]]</ref> {{spoiler|Claire tells West that it's over.}}
* This was actually how Jin and Sun from ''[[Lost]]'' met for the first time, as seen in the season 2 episode ''...And Found''. Various details make the scene a semi-subversion of this trope, though: 1) It was a flashback scene, as the show starts out with the couple already married. 2) It was the climax of both characters' flashback scenes for this episode. 3) The episode implies that they immediately started dating following their crashy first encounter. 4) The distraction that caused Jin to run into Sun in the first place was another woman wearing an orange skirt (a friend had prophesized him that love would "wear orange").
* Although her role as a [[Recurring Character]] faded out after awhile, overeager ensign Sonya Gomez memorably met Picard this way in the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' episode "Q-Who?", as she turned a corner much too quickly while holding a cup of hot chocolate...
{{quote| '''Ensign Gomez:''' Oh, I wasn't looking! It's all over you!<br />
'''Picard ''[trying very hard to sound calm]'':''' Yes, Ensign, it's all over me. }}
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== [[Music]] ==
* The Cat Empire song "Beanni" is about this happening between a pair of bogans, whose predilection for ugly headwear is apparently genetic. Yeah.
* 2D and Murdoc, singer and bassist of the [[Gorillaz (Music)|Gorillaz]], respectively, met in a horrible twist on this trope. Murdoc was attempting to ram-raid the music store 2D worked at, and ended up running over him. In fact, 2D's... [[Eye Scream|distinctive eyes]] were caused by this injury, as "a bumper to the face will do that to ya."
 
 
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* This is exactly how Marius and Cosette meet in ''[[Les Misérables (Theatretheatre)|Les Misérables]]''. He bumps into her, knocking her basket out of her hand, which they both bend to pick up, and then they look into each other's eyes.
 
 
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* The inclusion of a [[Crash Into Hello]] in the [[Dating Sim]] ''Cross Channel'' inspired the flash game [[Nanaca Crash]].
** And thus we find out that the [[Unsound Effect]] of "person getting whacked by a bicycle" is ''zubaaaaaaan''. Yes, with seven 'A's.
* The object of one of the minigames in ''[[Wario Ware (Video Game)|Wario Ware]]: Twisted!'' is to help a girl have a [[Crash Into Hello]] meeting with a boy.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', simultaneously introducing the female lead and the first [pendant-shaped] [[MacGuffin]].
** Robo gets his own version in one of the endings; the Reptite Ending also reproduces it, with the lead characters as, well, Reptites instead of humans.
* Happens several times in the [[Dating Sim]] ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'', with [[Shrinking Violet]] [[Cute Clumsy Girl|Miharu Tatebayashi]], [[Genki Girl]] Yuko Asahina, and the [[Alpha Bitch]] Mira Kagami. Subverted in Miharu's case, as she's actually doing it ''on purpose'', because [[Cannot Spit It Out|she's too shy to tell the protagonist that she likes him]].
** It's similarly common in ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side''; the protagonist inevitably meets Kei Hazuki and principal Ikkaku Amanohashi via collision, and can potentially also meet Kazuma Suzuka, Chiharu Aoi, Shiho Arisawa, and Natsumi Fujii this way as well (although those last two are female friends, not love interests).
** In ''Tokimeki Memorial'''s [[Spiritual Successor]] game ''[[Mitsumete Knight (Video Game)|Mitsumete Knight]]'', this is how you meet [[Bokukko|Hanna Shawski]] (in combo with [[Late for School]] in her case), and [[Emotionless Girl|Raizze Haimer]].
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game)|Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]/Platinum'' is your rival doing this every time he appears as he is impatient and runs everywhere. It was carried over to the anime.
* Happens in ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', except here the girl has prosthetic legs while the guy has a form of heart arrhythmia and is ''not'' supposed to get hit in the chest. Luckily, nothing happens.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'' features a crash to introduce a member of the party to Squall. You might be surprised to remember that it isn't the [[Love Interest]] Rinoa who gets introduced this way, but the team [[Genki Girl]] Selphie (before her official FMV introduction during the first mission, [[Dojikko|where she falls down a small hill.]]
* In ''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny]]'', Stahn and Mary meet this way.
* In ''[[Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards (Video Game)|Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards]]'', Kirby meets [[Fairy Companion|Ribbon]] when she crash lands on him from outer space.
* The ending of ''[[Persona 2]]: Innocent Sin'' has Tatsuya running into Maya. This kicks off ''Eternal Punishment'' as Maya is curious about the deja vu kid.
* ''[[Fire Emblem Blazing Sword]]'' has [[Hot-Blooded|Hector]] and [[Shrinking Violet|Florina]] meet this way. She falls on top of him...with a Pegasus. They have potential for an A Support and a paired ending, and the conversation calls back to this.
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== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* In ''[[Maji Dede Watashi Nini Koi Shinasai (Visual Novel)!|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'' Yamato literally bumps into Mayucchi at the start of the game, and already takes advantage of it by snapping shots of her thighs while she's down.
* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', Hisao's first meeting with Emi happens when she crashes into him in the hall, resulting in him getting a heart flutter, as any impacts to the chest put him at risk.
 
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In [http://www.tsunamichannel.com/index.php?date=2003-04-22&comic=ExCoKo this strip] of ''Tsunami Channel: Experimental Comic Kotone'', the [[Crash Into Hello]] is [[Lampshade Hanging|presented]] as a staple of dating sim games the comic parodies.
* [http://www.xkcd.com/417/ This] ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' strip.
* In [[Amya|Amya Chronicles]] Accel tumbles down some stairs and crashed into Faye early in the story, bringing the main characters together for the first time.
* This is how Bob and Jean first meet in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' in an [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20060829.html homage to old Reese's Peanut Butter Cup commercials.] Their collision gives rise to [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20060831.html Molly the Peanut Butter Monster.]
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has lampshaded this on [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1543 this page]. The character whose arms she stumbles into has never met her, but has given her his number by proxy, was only just contemplating turning into a [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]], and sarcastically saying how likely it would be for her just to crash into him randomly.
** Also happened to Steve previously in [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=191 this strip], though it's also something of a subversion as the relationship doesn't last long. [[Webcomic Time|Relatively speaking]].
* ''[[Anime News Nina]]'' subverts and lampshades this twice. The first time, Nina crashes into a man, and begins to fantasize about falling in love with him (just like in Kimidori Story), not noticing that he's walking away with his [[Ho Yay|boyfriend]]. The second time, Nina witnesses a girl crash into a guy. Saying "accidents like these are usually the start of a great anime romance!" Nina watches...only to see the guy yelling at the girl to watch where she's going.
* This is how Bleu and BLU Scout meet in ''[[Cuanta Vida (Webcomic)|Cuanta Vida]]''. Scout then proceeds to shove Bleu and call him a fag {{spoiler|but later in the story ends up confessing that he's attracted to Bleu}}.
* In ''[[MSF High]]'', an ENTIRE SUBCULTURE is devoted on trying to invoke this. The one we've seen failed, because she was almost up to ''[[Higurashi]]'' levels of Yandere.
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=920 Matt bumps into a comely guest lecturer] with a pet rabbit and an obession with the moon.
* [[Dubious Company]] has a [[Fastball Special|different take]] on applying this trope to [[The Heart|Elly]] and [[The Dark Chick|Mary]].
* In ''[[Ears for Elves (Webcomic)|Ears for Elves]]'', Tanna's opinion of Rolan is forever shaped by how she first met him. Running through the forest, he knocks her down and lands on top of her. He gets up too quickly for her to protest and vanishes off, narrowly averting an [[Instant Seiza]].
 
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* This is how Twilight and Spike (and, by extension, the viewer) are introduced to Rainbow Dash in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.
* In a reference to ''[[FLCL]]'', Asami hits Mako with her moped and then introduces herself to him in of ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'' "[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)/Recap/S1 E4 The Voice in The Night|The Voice in the Night]]". Mako is initially angry, then stops being angry when he sees how pretty Asami is. She then asks him out to dinner.
 
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