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* The ''[[How clumsy you are, Miss Ueno.]]'' character Tanaka is so blind to obvious clues it's almost supernatural. In fact calling some of the stuff he misses "clues" is a little charitable to Tanaka. Oddly enough, Ueno find's Tanaka's obliviousness not only frustrating, but attractive.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' includes a traditional take on this trope with Shinji and Asuka. Asuka is in love with Shinji (according [[Word of God]]) and often she flirts with him (showing him her cleavage before asking him if he believes her breasts would grow if ''someone'' applied heat, looking for excuses to kiss him...). But since she constantly pushes everyone away because she is afraid of getting close to someone and getting hurt, and Shinji is a shy, oblivious kid and she pushes him away constantly, he doesn't get it because he can not believe she is interested in him. Unfortunately his obliviousness causes she thinks HE is not interested in her, so she gets angry and she keeps on pushing him away. The last scene of ''End of Evangelion'' hints maybe they may break the vicious cycle at last.

** ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'': The two first films spend a good amount of time developing Rei's feelings towars Shinji, eventually getting to the point where she is in love with him. Only it's ''Rei'' who doesn't know she's in love. On the other side, Shinji is equally oblivious to the fact both Asuka and Rei are in love with him (although in the case of Rei it is more understandable, given Rei really doesn't show much by way of emotion).

* Kasumi seems totally unaware that Dr. Tofu is totally infatuated with her in ''[[Ranma ½]]''. Although given that Dr. Tofu basically flips out when he so much as hears Kasumi's voice, [[May–December Romance|has been doing this at least since she hit puberty]], and neither Ranma nor Akane want to tell her why the good doctor does so, it's quite plausible that she sincerely doesn't know what the deal is.

** And her sister Akane is even ''worse'' in relation to Ryoga.

** Sasuke himself has always seemed oblivious to any girl's attention. The worst case was probably Karin, who all but threw herself at him. {{spoiler|However, now she isn't interested anymore after [[The Unfettered|he attempted to kill her.]]}}

*** With Sasuke, it's more that he's aware of said girls being attracted to him, but [[Celibate Hero|doesn't care]].

* Seiji in ''[[Midori Days]]''. Dear God, Seiji. He ends up with three (four if you count his [[Precocious Crush|neighbor's daughter]]) women and one man lusting after him, and is only aware of the feeling of one woman because she says so all the time. Another goes through a painfully transparent [[I Have This Friend]] confession to him and he ''still'' doesn't get who she's talking about until she's halfway through. And the justification for this? Because at 17, he's never had a girlfriend, and so is incapable of picking up the incredibly obvious signals.

* In ''[[Aoi Hana]]'', Akira doesn't realize that her infinite kindness toward her childhood friend Fumi causes the latter's feelings for her to resurface. {{spoiler|That is, until Fumi finally confesses to her}}.

* Kousaka spends most of the first volume of ''[[Genshiken]]'' completely oblivious to the fact that Kasukabe has a big crush on him, even though Sasahara (and really, the reader until Kousaka mentions this) assumed she was his girlfriend just because of how she acted around him. It's especially humorous in that Kousaka actually likes her himself, but the idea that she felt the same way simply did not occur to him. {{spoiler|Madarme's sarcastic suggestion that Kousaka just kiss her and get the whole [[Will They or Won't They?]] subplot over with was genuinely the first time he had any idea she'd actually go along with such a proposal.}}

* ''[[Gankutsuou]]'': Albert was completely oblivious of [[Ho Yay|Franz's feelings for him]]. It helped that Franz kept his feelings a secret from everyone.

* [[A Certain Magical Index|Kamijou Touma]] towards his gigantic harem, which he doesn't really notice, most blatantly with his roommate Index and his "rival" Misaka Mikoto. Either that, or he does know and tries to get by by pretending not to know, which is understandable considering the repercussions there may be if he were to reciprocate any feelings to any single one of them.

* [[Infinite Stratos|Ichika Orimura]] himself can give almost everyone here a run for their money.

** Not to mention the fact that Triela is underage. One suspects that Hilshire ignoring her overtures is deliberate.

* ''[[Madoka Magica]]'': Kamijou Kyousuke's failure to notice that Sayaka even ''likes'' him is impressive, given how much she dotes on him. [[A Certain Magical Index|Maybe it runs in the family?]]

** Not to mention how [[Deconstructed|screwed up]] this trope gets. {{spoiler|Sayaka makes his arm better via a contract, but Kamijou doesn't know it and simply doesn't keep up with her feelings. Then, their common friend Hitomi reveals to have a crush on Kamijou and, midguidedly trying to not make things even awkward, tells Sayaka that [[You Have 48 Hours|she has 24 hours to confess her love]]. [[Awful Truth|Given the angst she had already been put through,]] [[Break the Cutie|poor Sayaka snaps like a twig]]. [[Sanity Slippage|In more ways]] [[Fallen Hero|than one]].}}

** To be fair, Casca was a little oblivious to her own feelings toward Guts until she finally reached her [[Love Epiphany]] when he left.

* Jiyu from ''[[Jubei-chan|Jubei-Chan: Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch'']].