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* ''[[Voices of a Distant Star]]'' and ''[[5 Centimeters Per Second]]''. [[Makoto Shinkai]] ''loves'' this trope.
* Koyuki and Maho in [[Beck]], but [[Gecko Ending|only in the manga]].
* In ''[[Gunbuster]]'', Kazuki's relationship with Coach Ohta is not only long distance, it very quickly becomes a [[Mayfly-December Romance]] because relativistic effects means that Kazuki will outlive Ohta (and most of human civilization, as a matter of fact) by a long shot.
* During the Sailor Stars arc of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Mamoru went to America to study, leaving Usagi behind for a large part of the series. (And then it turns out that {{spoiler|Mamoru actually had his heart crystal ''stolen at the airport'', and Usagi witnessed it, but she was so traumatized that she repressed this memory. In the anime it's slightly changed; Mamoru gets killed off a little after his plane took off, and since Usagi didn't see it she truly believed Mamoru wasn't able to contact her.}}.)
** A lesser example is Motoki and Reika. Reika agonizes over accepting a two-year trip to Africa because it will take her away from Motoki. He promises to wait and, after the usual monster attack, she goes. In a later season she returns, only to turn right around and go back to Africa again—this time for ''ten years.''
* The anime version of ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' had this for a while. {{spoiler|It didn't work very well though.}}
* In ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'', Sana goes on an extended film project out in the woods and is plagued by rumors and [[Yoko Oh No|angry fangirls]] of her colleague who hate her for apparently dating him; later, the prospect of her love interest Hayama going overseas to recuperate from serious injury is enough to send her into a [[Heroic BSOD]], though eventually she comes to terms with it and they are reunited in the [[Distant Finale]].
* [[Les Yay|Subaru and Teana]] fell into this after ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'' when their personal goals stationed them in different posts. But as Teana told [[Genki Girl|Subaru]] [[Tsundere|in an annoyed tone]] when they reunited in ''[[StrikerS Sound Stage X]]'', the latter kept on bombarding her with so much e-mail that she didn't even notice the distance.
* Variant in [[Case Closed]]: Ran thinks that Shinichi has run off to investigate some kind of case, but in truth he's Conan, aged down thanks to plot.
** Also,
* Implied at the end of ''[[Psycho Staff]]''.
* ''[[The Conditions for Paradise]]'' is a [[Girls Love]] manga that centers around the challenges of maintaining a long-distance romance.
== Film ==
* The film ''[[The Lake House]]'' has an interesting variant: the distance isn't in space so much as in time.
* The movie ''[[Going the Distance (Film)|Going the Distance]]'' is set around a couple trying to have a long distance relationship.
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== Literature ==
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Done to all the married couples on ''[[Defying Gravity]]'', what with half of each pairing being in space for six years.
* Ziva had one of these on ''[[NCIS]]'' - cue "sympathy" from jealous Tony, as well as comments from an ex-hooker suggesting that Ziva look closer to home. Now, ''who'' could she mean?
* Kathleen and Jeff on the ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]'' whenever Jeff goes on one of his frequent and extended medical missions to Kenya.
* This trope is petty much the entire point of the show ''[[Ny-Lon]]'', which is about a relationship between a girl in New York and a guy in London... which, naturally, leads to a break-up or major fight about how hard long distance relationships are just about every other episode so that one character can dramatically fly across the ocean to re-proclaim there love. Of course, in the end {{spoiler|they break up anyway.}}
* ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' takes this to another level, with multiple characters having left significant others on the other side of the universe. The communication stones make things easier. Camille Wray looks likely to stick with her partner, Sharon. Colonel Young's marriage, on the other hand, is less solid.
* ''[[The X-Files]]'': Mulder and Scully carry on a rather clumsily-written version of this trope in the show's final season.
* ''[[Zoey 101]]'': Chase and Zoey attempt this via webcam after
* ''[[CSI]]'', post season 9. Grissom and Sara are married, but Sara is working at the lab in Vegas, while Grissom travels and researches and lectures.
* Ted in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' with Victoria, his first serious girlfriend in the series when she moves to Germany for a baking scholorship. Future!Ted tells us right from the start that long distance relationships never work. Including theirs.
== Music ==
* On the [[Bruce Hornsby]] and the Range album ''The Way It Is'', the narrator in "Every Little Kiss" is in one.
== Oral Tradition ==
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