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See also [[Tournament Arc]] and [[War Arc]].
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** Kenshiro's objective during the later ''Shura'' arc is to rescue Lin from the ''Rasho''.
* ''[[Get Backers]]''' [[Overtook the Manga|anime-only]] final arc was about rescuing Makubex, who was kidnapped by [[The Mole|Masaki]] and Brain Trust for knowing too much about the various secrets of the series. Ginji {{spoiler|barely stopped him from making a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].}} The ''manga'' has two arcs like this: the goal of the Eternal Bond arc was to rescue [[Distressed Damsel|Madoka]] and goals of the final Lost Time arc included rescuing Himiko, Juubei, Toshiki and Sakura.
* Aside from Hiei kidnapping Keiko for one episode, ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' has a short arc (about four episodes) about rescuing Yukina. Unusually, she wasn't a friend of the heroes at the time, but Yusuke's pretty much stuck doing what Koenma says to do and Kuwabara fell in love with her at first sight. (Coincidentally, he ran off and missed [[Locked Out of the Loop|the biggest not-secret the series]]: ''[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Yukina is Hiei's sister!!]]'')
** And in the Sensui arc, with Kuwabara
* The second half of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'', which also involved rescuing {{spoiler|Nanoha and Fate's daughter as well as Subaru's sister}} in addition to stopping the [[Big Bad]].
* The Zoldyck family arc in ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' is about Gon trying to rescue Killua from his family. However, unlike most Rescue Arcs, the problem is resolved without much violence.
* Most of the plot of ''[[
** ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', the series Kurumada made before [[
* A good portion of the Phantom Arc of ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' involves rescuing Lucy after she's kidnapped (twice), with the enemy planning to hold her for ransom for her family fortune.
** The next arc starts off like this, but with Erza being... [[Lady of War|Erza]], she doesn't play the role of the distressed damsel for very long.
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