Love At First Sight/Anime and Manga

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Examples of Love At First Sight in Anime and Manga include:

  • Renton loves Eureka. That's the whole premise of Eureka Seven, a giant mecha anime. Renton, the hero of the story, falls madly in love with Eureka the moment she crashlands near his grandfather's house. Complicated by the fact that Eureka is not human and doesn't understand his feelings.
    • This is true until around the end of second season, when Eureka begins to show more and more human emotions and eventually falls in love with Renton. The fact that she is a Coralian, however, leads her to think that she and Renton are unable to be together, leading to problems in their relationship.
  • The trigger to the action of Maison Ikkoku: Yusaku meets Kyoko and falls for her hard. Really, really Hard
  • Andrei Smirnov from the second season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 apparently fell in love with Louise Halevy upon seeing her.
  • There's an implication that Spike, at least, fell in love with Julia at first sight in Cowboy Bebop. It's not completely clear since their Backstory is never fully told, and there are only a few Flash Back images to go by, but in what was apparently the first time Spike saw Julia he reacts with wide eyes and his mouth hanging open.
  • In Outlaw Star, Jim develops a crush on Hanmyo when he first sees her practicing her martial arts at a water fountain. Apparently, she felt the same towards him. Unfortunately, it was not meant to be, as she turns out to be an assassin sent after Gene, and Jim unknowingly causes her death.;-;..
    • Harry also falls for Melfina in this way to a rather extreme extent.
  • In Flame of Recca, Recca has this to an extent with Yanagi (The Dulcinea Effect kicking in full power). Despite meeting her for the first time, he swears to protect her and is shown blushing around her. Of course, as the series goes on, his feelings for her deepen (as do hers for him), but it's still nevertheless Love At First Sight.
  • In the Alternate Universe spin-off of Mirai Nikki, Mirai Nikki: Paradox, Akise Aru (who already seemed to have a suspicious Ho Yay crush on Yukiteru in the original) is shown to have fallen in love at first sight with the wounded Yukiteru. It's so bad to the point where he is shown "championing" for Yukiteru, so that when he defeats all of Yukiteru's enemies, Yukiteru can become God.
    • In the main story, Yuno Gasai also fell madly in love with Yukiteru during the first time the two talked, and protects him from the other participants in the game. Unlike with Akise, this is a very mixed blessing for Yukiteru...
  • Hardly one of those pure-hearted, Disney-esque fairy tale types, but apparently Gauron from Full Metal Panic!! fell in love with 12-year-old Sôsuke at first sight, becoming something of a Stalker with a Crush towards him. Yes, warped and disturbing as it is, it's probably the closest thing Gauron has experienced to being in love. Even after five years of not seeing or hearing from Sōsuke, he still manages to recognize Sōsuke right away (at least, after he manages to get a clear view of Sōsuke's face), and apparently has never forgotten him ever since they first met. Gauron himself even confesses to Sōsuke that he loves him.
    • It's also shown in the novels, that Lemon was heavily implied to be attracted to Sōsuke. When he first saw him, he thought Sōsuke was very good looking and "charming", despite the boy being completely emotionless (read: "eye candy"). Later, after Sōsuke wins a tournament that helped win back Lemon's money, Lemon hugged him with "more passion than a french kiss would warrant," making Sōsuke slightly uncomfortable. And later still, Lemon gets drunk, and subsequently invades Sōsuke's personal space by hugging and groping him while blushing—which irritates Sōsuke to no end.
  • Rohfa from D.Gray-man falls for Allen at first sight. Of course, it's not like that's anything unexpected...
  • After listening with agonized stoicism to an awkward not-quite-confession from Elraine that she's been falling in love with him bit by bit for the entire series, though she doesn't expect him to understand or even know what she's talking about... Kiri Luchile reveals to the reader, although not to her, that he actually did this. He's got his reasons for keeping quiet, though.
  • In Black Cat, Kyoko fell in love with Train at first sight (some of it might have to do with how, at first sight, he was saving her). She then becomes his rabid Stalker with a Crush.
    • Creed, as well, is shown to have fallen in love with Train at first sight (in the short excerpt in the manga which shows the scene where they first met). It also cements Creed's status as a masochist, considering that his first interaction with Train consists of Train disdainfully glaring at him, and basically telling Creed to shove off, saying that he's useless to Train. Creed, being Creed, gets aroused by this and ends up becoming Train's Stalker with a Crush.
  • Baron Kelvin from Black Butler immedietly fell in love with a seven-year-old Ciel at first sight. This is barely justified by the fact that his love was based on how he views Ciel as special and beautiful, and only special people could interact with other special people. He then goes through a painful surgery to look more beautiful so he could have a chance as Ciel's romantic interest. His obsession leads to a point where he literally recreates the most painful of Ciel's memories of being sacrificed just so he could be there and be killed in the same way that Ciel had murdered his tormentors. "Talk to the demon", indeed.
  • Subverted in Baccano!. Claire Stanfield completely insists that Chane is The One after a single meeting...just like he insisted that the last girl he crushed on was his One True Love. And the one before that. And all those other ones too...
    • On the other hand, Chane is the first person who didn't reject him on the spot when he declared his love.
    • For a straighter version, Firo claims Love At First Sight for Ennis. Too bad that she happens to be the one woman in the series that happens to be borderline asexual... It takes them fifty years to get married.
  • In Emma: A Victorian Romance, William fell in love with Emma at first sight.
  • In Cardcaptor Sakura, both Sakura and Syaoran describe their attraction to Yukito as Love At First Sight. Subverted as Yukito was created to be the perfect match for Sakura, and his power was what Syaoran was subconsciously attracted to.. Still, Yukito falls for Sakura's brother, and Syaoran and Sakura fall in love with each other.
    • Been a while but where was it stated that Yukito was created to be a perfect match for Sakura? He was a pretty boy long before Sakura came into the picture. The entire reason why Syaoran was attracted to him is because of his powers and at least part of the reason for Sakura's attraction is also his power.
      • Where Eriol said what was 'unexpected' in his plans was that Sakura fell for Syaoran, not Yukito. Yue was (in love?) with Clow, and so Clow thought that Yue would be less lonely if he loved his new master. Eriol also did not expect Yukito to love Touya.
  • In Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Shion Sonozaki loses three nails, goes Ax Crazy and considers suicide because she is in love with Satoshi Hojou - whom she talked with for maybe twenty minutes tops, during most of which he was under the impression she was her twin sister Mion.
    • In the anime that's more or less the case, but they have a more complex friendship in the manga and sound novels.
  • It is very difficult to interpret the Sengoku Basara anime's first meeting between Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune as anything but this. Especially when Yukimura clutches at his heart and literally goes weak at the knees while waxing rhapsodic about the One-Eyed Dragon of Oshu

Yukimura: Burning.
Sasuke: ... What?
Yukimura: My heart is burning. Such presence. Such fighting spirit. Such... strength.
Sasuke: Er, please don't tell me he lit your soul on fire.

    • Later on when Shingen asks Yukimura if Masamune was really that strong, Yukimura responds, with shining eyes: "He was! So much that he shook my very soul."
    • This trope also took place between Kasuga and Uesugi Kenshin in the Backstory; she was sent to assassinate him and instead fell in love with him.
  • In the Manhwa Pig Bride Ji Oh and Mu Hwa get one of the most detailed Love At First Sight sequences ever. 4 pages are dedicated to the few seconds where Ji Oh first sees Mu Hwa perched on his dormitory veranda railing and there's even a close up of her reflected in his eye when she springs at him wielding a sword. The strangest part? They're only the Beta Couple!
  • Also happens in Crying Freeman, where Emu Hino becomes attracted to the handsome and sad assassin she saw first after he accidentally killed his targets in front of her.
  • Shizuka Doumeki from ×××HOLiC pretty much fell for Kimihiro Watanuki like this, when he saw the other sadly cradling a dead kitten and stating "I'll die like this. Alone." Doumeki then swore to himself this wouldn't happen.
  • Kodachi Kunō from Ranma ½ fell for the title character once she glanced at him for the first time after he saved her from taking a bad fall.
    • Her brother Tatewaki, likewise, fell for "the Pigtailed Girl" more or less after first confirming her existence. This did not prevent him chasing after Akane Tendō, his first crush, as well, and seems strong enough to keep him from realizing that the "Pigtailed Girl" is Ranma Saotome.
      • OF course, both of the Kunō siblings have rather... forceful and dramatic personalities.
    • The anime has Sentaro and Satsuki. They sit and stare at each other for so long when they first meet, that by the time Sentaro finally says something to her, it's the next day and everybody else has fallen asleep. To top it off, the first words out of Sentaro's mouth are a proposal.
    • It's implied that Ranma himself believes in love at first sight. He once said:

Ranma: Time means nothing to love.

  • Muraki from Yami no Matsuei constantly reminds Tsuzuki of how much he loves his beautiful eyes, telling him that he fell in love with him at first sight when he saw his eyes in a photo.
  • In Tenjho Tenge, this happens to Masataka when he saw Aya the first time. And to Aya, after she meet Nagi.
  • Julia from Strawberry Shake Sweet virtually explodes hormonally as soon as she meets the girl she is about to tutor, Ran.
  • This happens to Fumi in Aoi Hana when she meets Yasuko, the most popular student at her all-girl high school. It appears to be mutual, although Yasuko still dumps Fumi rather abruptly.
  • In the third Pandora Hearts omake, Gilbert Nightray falls for schoolboy Oz upon crashing into him... Note that in this omake, Gilbert is a teacher.
    • Jack for Lacie, who he spends eight years searching for after they first met.
  • Juvia Loxar falls in love with Grey Fullbuster at first site in Fairy Tail
    • Juvia's feelings are compounded as he's the first person to defeat her and his accidental groping her.
  • Hinagiku of Hayate the Combat Butler admitted to Ayumu that her love for Hayate was "at first sight". If you reread the relevant chapters, you see that, indeed it was. All the chapters since have proven that the love is not just as "looks-oriented" as most cases would be though. Especially since it took her a long time to realize the feelings, even though they were clear as day to everyone else.
    • It's also been implied that it might work both ways. He has said that he is attracted to Hinagiku. Of course, with Hayate being a Chaste Hero and thicker than a box of bricks, it might be a while before we find out if that's the case.
  • Subverted in Princess Tutu. Ahiru/Duck falls in love with Mytho the first time she sees him (when she's a duck). She's turned into a girl to help him, and later admits she just liked him because she "thought he was handsome" but came to care about him even more as she got to know him. Then he picks Rue aka Kraehe, the girl he's known for years, as his Princess instead. And she fell in love with him at first sight, too, after he saves her life as a child.
  • Zetsuai1989: Kouji Nanjo falls for Takuto Izumi like this, when they are 10 years old (and he thinks Izumi is a girl). Izumi, however, takes much longer to return his feelings.
  • Naruto: A flashback reveals that Karin fell for Sasuke once she glanced at him for the first time after he saved her from a bear.
    • Shiho seems to do the same with Shikamaru when he is at the code squad's office.
    • Rock Lee falls in love with Sakura at first sight as well early on in the series.
  • Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: There is really no other explanation as to why Jean start following Nadia in Paris during the first episode. (Nadia initially doesn't feel the same way, but he earns her trust when he rescues her. This starts a close friendship between them that gradually does turn into a romantic one; in fact, Nadia is completely transformed by her relationship with Jean.
    • When Grandis meets Captain Nemo on the Nautilus, she becomes madly infatuated with the man, igniting a jealous rivalry between her and the overprotective first officer, Electra (who harbors similar feelings for the captain.)
  • Shinra Kishitani from Durarara!! fell in love with Celty Strulusen the day he met her... when he was four years old at the time, and his father Shingen was also performing a vivisection on her. Twenty years later, though, Celty has mutual feelings for him, but even then, it's no perfect romance. Not that Shinra is complaining.
  • Yandere Kanojo has main characters Reina Ryuuzaki and Manabu Tanaka falling in love with each other at first sight in the first Yonkoma so it can dispense with the typical Will They Or Won't They and instead focus on their wacky hijinx as a couple.
  • Misa Amane from Death Note claims that her love for Light was at first sight. Before seeing him, she was mostly thankful to him for killing the murderers of her parents.
  • Noelle from Tenshi ni Narumon falls in love with Yuusuke right off the bat upon just meeting him when he stumbles across her in the forest and accidently kisses her.
  • Completely Played for Laughs with Riruka in Bleach for Ichigo.
  • In Wild Rock, Yuuen thinks he's doing too good of a job Disguised in Drag charming Emba . He later finds out he's not and the biggest thing that gave Yuuen away is simply that Emba's been entranced since the first time they saw each other and knows exactly who (and what gender) he is.
  • In Battle Athletes Victory, Akari bumps into Kris, who immediately loudly proclaims to have fallen in love with Akari and has no qualms about showing her affection.
  • This is Brief's reaction when he first sees Panty in Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt.
  • It turns out that Keith Goodman from Tiger and Bunny is prone to this. First crush? A high school girl he fell in love with at first sight (who didn't even so much as talk to him). Second love? A woman in the park that he fell in love with at first sight (who turned out to be a malfunctioning android). His "soulmate"? A puppy that he took one look at through the pet store window and, once again, fell in love with (no, not in that way) at first sight.
  • Its been suggested that Daisuke's love for Risa developed at first sight in D.N.Angel. Also, in episode 14 there's Mio Hio towards Daisuke.
  • Shu from Flower Flower falls head over heels with her wife, Nina, at first sight. Nina on the other hand..
  • It's implied in Wandering Son that Saori fell in love with Shuuichi at first sight.
  • In Big Order Hoshimiya Eiji falls for Kurenai Rin as soon as he sees her first enter class. This changes once he learns that she was sent to kill him.
  • In Mamotte Shugogetten Kaori Aihara is like this for Tasuke and Tasuke is like this for Shaorin.
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