Not all romance anime focus on young couples falling in love. These great works show characters who live, grow, and love in committed relationships.
Love and anime are old friends. Whether the series is horror, sci-fi, martial arts, slice-of-life, or anything else, romance almost inevitably rears its head at one point or another, even if it isn’t the show’s sole focus. Yet the relationships most often shown are young and new, with protagonists in school or on some great adventure. Rarely is the happy couple a married one.
Yet married couples do exist in romance anime, and their relationships are sometimes all the more profound for having made such a commitment. That’s not to say that these relationships are drama-free; often the best part of these romances is watching two people committed to one another struggle to love their partner’s quirks. In these anime, love might truly be eternal.
Updated May 5, 2023, by Via Erhard: While most anime are about younger characters and their romantic lives, fans of the medium can also find fun and engaging shows that show the many sides of married life. Romance and marriage look different for everyone and these iconic married couples in anime prove just how true that can be. Anime lovers can find all kinds of romantic series with anime couples who are in long-term and committed relationships and still enjoy thrilling and often action-filled adventures. These romantic anime shows also inspire their viewers to appreciate their relationships and to keep working on building deeper connections with their partners in the way that feels most authentic to them. Thanks to these iconic anime, fans can enjoy feel-good episodes filled with romance while also learning more about love, friendship, and personal growth while watching the shows’ couples overcome obstacles together.
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17 Still World is Beautiful
Still World is Beautiful is a great choice for those who love romance and fantasy anime and want to watch a unique show with a powerful married anime couple who weren’t exactly madly in love when they got married. Nike and Livius are a young couple who had an arranged marriage, so their two kingdoms can form a strong alliance.
While Nike is one of the friendliest anime characters, it took her a long time to get used to and appreciate Livius’ behavior and decisions. The story follows their life and relationship as it changes and grows while the young couple has to overcome various difficulties together including personal and political issues. While the show is a fun fantasy romance anime, their relationship, and growing love for each other feels realistic because it develops in a bit slower but organic way.
16 Spy x Family
Spy x Family‘s Yor and Loid are certainly one of the deadliest married couples in anime history. While their marriage was built on deception, the two of them developed a surprisingly strong relationship. There are so many interesting facts about Loid as well as Yor since one of them is secretly a spy while the other is an assassin and they both have their own hidden agendas.
However, the two characters complement each other well, and while they started out as a pretend married couple, they soon developed a mutual respect and admiration for each other. They always had each other’s backs during their many dangerous adventures and missions, and thanks to their active daily lives as a family, they eventually developed feelings for each other which made it much more entertaining, hilarious, and heartwarming for fans to watch their unique relationship develop.
15 Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale is one of the most thought-provoking and heartwarming anime about arranged marriage. This charming romance slice-of-life anime explores married life in a unique and realistic way as the young couple gets to know each other and learns how to overcome various challenges together.
The anime follows Yuzuki and Tamahiko’s married life after they start living together thanks to their arranged marriage. While the young couple doesn’t know anything about one another they both respect and understand each other and learn how to support their partner even during difficult times. While their relationship was flawed and didn’t start as a traditional romance story their marriage still became one of the most inspiring ones in anime since it was built on honesty, and because they were both willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the other.
14 Final Approach
Forced and reluctant marriages are popular plot hooks for many anime: sometimes it’s played for laughs, sometimes more seriously. In Final Approach, Japan tries to solve its population shortage by passing legislation that pairs young people for marriage, hopefully sparking both romance and a new wave of births to revitalize the country.
The series follows two young people: reluctant Ryo and the woman he is being forced to wed, Shizuka. The drama that ensues is somewhat predictable, but Final Approach still has a lot going for it, including solid character designs, good pacing, and the right dash of humor.
13 Spice & Wolf
Economics, trade, and the art of the deal don’t come to mind as anime’s favorite subjects. Yet that’s exactly what Spice and Wolf is about. Kraft Lawrence is a 25-year-old merchant, traveling from town to town trying to make enough money to one day open his own short.
Complicating this arrangement is Holo, a 600-year-old wolf harvest deity who manifests as a girl with wolf ears and a tail. Almost everything that Spice and Wolf does, it does better than most other anime. Romance is a major part of the series, but just as important is the clever financial wrangling that Lawrence has to do in order to make his dream of owning a shop a reality. Clever, original, and charming–Spice and Wolf is worth every minute.
12 The Eccentric Family
In The Eccentric Family, humans share the world with tanuki and tengu. The eccentric family in question are tanuki, capable of transforming into any other creature or even object. Yasaburo, the third son, strikes up a relationship with Benten, a human woman.
While the difference in species would be enough to test their relationship on its own, Benten is also a member of a group called the Friday Fellows who eat a tanuki hot pot once a year. The Eccentric Family is weird by just about any measure, but it’s a great romance nonetheless, carried by its excellent character designs and animation as much as its bizarre plot.
11 Boruto
Naruto is the definitive ninja anime, one of the greatest shonen of all time, and an animated classic in every sense of the word. Boruto is the story of Naruto’s and Hinata’s son, the titular headstrong ninja-in-training. Naturally, this means that Naruto takes something of a backseat as the series shifts its focus to the new generation of ninjas.
Yet it’s fair to say that Boruto is about the romance of Naruto and Hinata in their married years, the consequences of their many youthful decisions–good and bad–now evident. True, the series is more focused on the troublemaking and explosive ninja action of the second generation of ninjas, but that doesn’t stop it from being a tale of the quiet married life of former heroes, too.
10 Marriage Of God & Soul Godannar!!
What do most romance anime lack? Mecha, of course. Marriage of God & Soul Godannar!! corrects that oversight. Mech pilot Goh Saruwatari and Anna Aoi fall in love amidst humanity’s war against aliens, and later they marry.
Marriage of God & Soul Godannar!! might be about marriage, but it isn’t the most mature. Fan service and cool robot fights are the order of the day, and the plot is mostly an excuse to string those two things together. Some characters are underutilized, but for viewers that just want some explosions and romantic fluff, this series delivers.
9 Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You
Some anime plots are more realistic than others. Adding elves or space lasers is an easy way to steer a story away from reality, but even stories that take place in a world very much like the real one can sometimes go off the rails. Tonikawa: Over the Moon For You is an off-the-rails kind of romance anime.
Nasa Yuzaki, ranked first in the nation’s mock exams, is struck by a truck and saved a beautiful woman. When he asks her out, she accepts on one condition: they get married. The series then turns into an exploration of the new relationship, as two young people get to know the person they’ve just decided to spend the rest of their life with. This is what a warm, endearing rom-com looks like.
8 My Bride Is A Mermaid
The spectacularly titled My Bride Is a Mermaid is in some ways the natural evolutionary step after Tonikawa: Over the Moon for You. A mermaid named Sun Seto saves high school student Nagasumi from drowning, and unfortunately, being a mermaid is only the second-most problematic thing about her, as she then reveals that she is part of a yakuza family.
Normally, a human who learns a mermaid’s name must be killed, but the two families decide that Nagasumi can be spared this fate as long as he marries Sun. Perhaps it’s not the best anime, but never before have crime, marriage, and mermaids united so spectacularly.
7 I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying
Good comedy is often built on contrasts, which is why in so many sitcoms the best friend of the tall skinny character is often short and round. Anime exploits this trend as much as any other genre, as I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying demonstrates. Hajime is an otaku who works from home on his blog, and his wife Kaoru is an office assistant and rowdy drunk.
Most of the show’s comedy comes from each partner’s inability to understand or relate to the other despite their loyalty, particularly Kaoru’s struggle to grasp Hajime’s otaku interests. It’s simple, solid, and effective.
6 The Way Of The Househusband
Dragon is an impressive nickname. Immortal Dragon even more so. Legendary Immortal Dragon is a nickname so grandiose that even in anime, a medium where flowery character names are commonplace, a character with such a name would have to be something special.
Tatsu, aka Legendary Immortal Dragon, is a former yakuza boss turned househusband. All he wants is to make his wife’s life easier, whether that means cooking, cleaning, giving her gifts, or otherwise doting upon and helping her. This “bad boy turns good for love” scenario is perfectly executed, and The Way of the Househusband flourishes as a result.
5 Love Is Like A Cocktail
Outside the house, particularly when at her job as an assistant manager, Chisato is calm and collected, the face of professionalism. At home with her husband Sora, however, a different side of Chisato is revealed: one that loves to drink and unwind.
Both lead characters are quirky and interesting in their own right, but the chemistry between the two is what leads to all the anime’s best and funniest moments. The affection Chisato and Sora have for one another is clear, and watching the husband and wife try to make each other happy is a genuine pleasure.
4 Clannad: After Story
If it doesn’t go without saying, Clannad: After Story is a story that takes place after Clannad, and watching that anime first is a prerequisite for this one. Series protagonists Tomoya and Nagisa decide to get married after high school, which is where this anime picks up.
Clannad: After Story does its best to present an authentic, rounded portrait of a marriage, the highs as well as the lows. One aspect of marriage that doesn’t surface much in romance anime is the prospect of growing older, changing, and watching one’s partner change with time. Clannad: After Story isn’t a perfect depiction of that process, and perhaps no series could be, but it goes further than most in exploring what love with age looks like.
3 Jingai-San No Yome
Arguably the weirdest married couple romance anime in existence, Jingai-san no Yome begins with Hinowa Tomori’s homeroom teacher telling him that he has been selected to marry a fluffy, mysterious creature called Kanenogi and be the creature’s wife. By this point, most viewers will already know whether this level of binge-able absurdity is for them or not.
Jingai-san no Yome isn’t groundbreaking in anything but its premise, which is fortunate, because most people can only handle so much strangeness. For those on board with its Beauty and the Beast-esque narrative, the series is cute and simple enough to win most audiences over.
2 Komatta Jii-San
When it comes to exploring what love looks like when the decades have flown by and old age has arrived, no anime beats Komatta Jii-san. The one-minute episodes are gone in a flash, but the memories of them will linger long after the series is done.
Komatta Jii-san is about an old man flirting with his wife to make her happy. The abbreviated episode length gives the show a minimalist feel, each episode building like a comedy set before delivering the punchline. Seeing a husband and wife interact from a place of such love and comfort makes it easy for viewers to imagine the characters’ relationship when they were younger, which only makes the affection they retain more adorable.
1 In This Corner Of The World
The more subgenres an anime tries to incorporate, the more likely it is to fall apart, unable to make its many threads connect. That’s not the case here In addition to being a romance, In This Corner of the World is a historical drama about Suzu, a girl growing up in Hiroshima who is wed to a young man she doesn’t know when she comes of age.
The animation is top-tier, the emotional beats powerful, and some moments in the film are absolutely gut-wrenching. It’s a serious film interested in serious business, but that’s the backdrop for a serious look at romance.
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