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* ''[[Ranma One Half]]'', with the Musk Dynasty, who turned animals into women using the Springs in order to have children with them.
* ''[[Angel Tales]]'' (Tenshi no Shippo).
* ''[[Yes! PrecurePretty Cure 5|Pretty Cure 5]]''.
* Pretty much all the relationships between owners and their persocoms in ''[[Chobits (Manga)|Chobits]]''.
* ''[[Tsukihime]]'': because [[Memetic Mutation|"a cat is fine, too"]].
* In ''Man's Best Friend'', a Yaoi manga by Kazusa Takashima, a dog falls in love with his teenage-boy owner and gains the ability to transform into a hunky man.
* Chibi-Usa and Pegasus/Helios from ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]''.
** Also, Luna and Kakeru from same.
* There are the homunculi from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''.
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* There's another example from the [[Tortall Universe|Trickster duology]] written by [[Tamora Pierce]] - Nawat is a crow who becomes human after falling in love with the protagonist. At first he continues to act somewhat like a crow, but she doesn't start to return his affections until some time later, once he's started to act more human.
* [[Terry Pratchett]], of course, plays with this in [[Discworld]].
** Ludmilla Cake and Lupin in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]''. She's a human who turns into a [[Wolf Man|Wolf Woman]] at full moon. He's a wolf who turns humanoid at full moon. They apparently have a relationship for one week a month, and the rest of the time Lupin is kind of Ludmilla's mother's pet dog. Which is a lot [[Squick|squickier]] written like that than it was in the book...
** Another werewolf, Sergeant Angua, has a romantic relationship with Carrot, a human who thinks he's a dwarf. The books mention that relationships between humans and werewolves are usually extremely difficult, but they manage to make it work.
** Inverted ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', where a wolf called Gavin (well, he once ate someone named Gavin) is said to have had a very Carrot-like relationship with Angua. The [[Squick]] mitigation comes less from him being a smart wolf, and more Angua not being human all of the time she's with him.
*** That, and the fact that it's implied that Gavin is the descendant of a yennork--a werewolf who isn't able to morph.
{{quote| "You see, a yennork would go off and be a human or be a wolf but they'd still be carrying the werewolf...blood, an then they'd marry and have children...or pups...and, well, that's where the fairy-tale monsters come from. People with a ''bit'' of wolf and wolves with that extra capacity for violence that is so very human." She sighed, and glanced momentarily at Gavin.}}
** Nanny Ogg's pet cat Greebo, in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', picked up a new skill: he can turn into his human male equivalent, and invokes [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]. He retained the skill, and uses it again in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Maskerade|Maskerade]]''.
* Any one person that's in love with a werewolf in the [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]] universe. Sure, they originally were human so it may be a subversion in that regards, but they're still large wolf like things that don't really look like wolves in the movies.
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* Numerous relationships between humans and aliens on ''[[Star Trek]].'' Captain Kirk was famous for <s>fucking aliens</s> "<s>going</s> coming where no man has gone before".
** And copied on [[Affectionate Parody]] ''[[Galaxy Quest (Film)|Galaxy Quest]]'' with "Jane Doe", who is actually a tentacle monster.
* Both subverted and played straight in ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]''. John's dad tells Aeryn outright that he isn't bothered by her relationship with John since he doesn't think of her as an alien. However, in the TV program they intercept from Earth later, there is quite a lot of debate over whether or not Aeryn is pregnant with John's child and how [[Squick|Squicky]] it would be if she was.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' we have Buffy who has relationships with vampires. And it's an ongoing joke with Xander that demons are attracted to him.
 
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** Ryu in ''[[Breath of Fire]] 2'' is the son of a dragon and a human man.
* {{spoiler|Makoto, one of the girls Yuuichi can fall in love with}} in ''[[Kanon]]'' is actually a fox.
** Similarly, {{spoiler|Shima}} in ''[[Clannad (Visual Novel)|Clannad]]'', the lover of {{spoiler|Misae}} who turned out to be {{spoiler|a cat whom she would later take in}}. Both are played with as much [[Tear Jerker]] potential as possible.
* A robot falls in love with the protagonist of [[Da Capo]] in one of the extra two routes. Apparently this sort of thing is intended to happen as she apparently has a hymen to break and gets pleasure from sex. But um until that point in the story...
* Sora of [[Ever 17]] falls in love with Takeshi. While he doesn't really reciprocate, he does find her very beautiful and the characters in story go awww... as well.
 
== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[Hanna Is Not a BoysBoy's Name]],'' [[Jerkass Woobie|Veser]] is the [[Half-Human Hybrid]] of a human and a selkie (see above). Going by the legend, though, she's not really a willing participant. Veser's [[Parental Substitute]] was also in love with her. It's a pretty dysfunctional family.
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Last Unicorn (Filmanimation)|The Last Unicorn]]'' is fully sentient in her original form, so it may not fully count. But in a poignant scene there's still a slight moment of [[Squick]]/hilarity when Lir, who's in love with her as a human finds out who she really is and says "Unicorn, mermaid, sorceress, no name you could give her would surprise or frighten me. I love whom I love." Schmendrick says "Well, that's a very nice sentiment, but when I turn her back into her proper shape..." and Lir just repeats stonily: "I LOVE WHOM I LOVE."
* Inverted in [[Beauty and The Beast]], although that one still gets lots of d'awwww....
* ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]''. The fact that Finn is the ONLY seeming human in the world at the moment, coupled with that he's lusted after by a whole harem of weird princesses. Most notable relationships he's been associated with is him and Bubblegum (candy person) and Marceline (vampire/demon/human), though.
 
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