17 Anime Characters Who Ended Up With The Wrong Person

Kyousuke Kousaka has multiple romantic options, but he chooses to pursue his sister, Kirino, instead. The two even have a wedding - not a real one, since siblings can't legally marry, but a ceremony designed to celebrate their romantic feelings nonetheless. 

Not only is this inherently unappealing to the majority of viewers, but it's still not a great relationship even if you are an inbreeding fan. Kirino is consistently cold and cruel to Kyousuke, showing no appreciation whatsoever for all the times he goes out of his way to help her. What's more, Kyousuke actually has a healthy relationship with Kuroneko before he randomly develops feelings for his sister, so this poor girl gets shunted to the side.

With a title like My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute, it's not like this development comes out of nowhere, but in the story itself, it feels arbitrary and unfair. 

When Rin Kaga and Daikichi Kawachi first start getting to know each other, Rin has recently lost her father, and Daikichi, her father's adult grandson, decides to adopt her. Nothing about this scenario sounds even remotely romantic, so when the Bunny Drop manga turned the father-daughter duo into an official couple, some readers voiced their displeasure. At first, Daikichi rejects the 16-year-old Rin's request to get married and have children, but as soon as they learn they aren't biologically related, he changes his mind.

Who else could Daikichi have dated? Well, he tries to get into a relationship with a woman named Yukari, but she rejects him because her teenage son isn't into the idea of her being in a relationship. In another creator's hands, Yukari might not have rejected him and could have had a heart-to-heart talk with her son. Or, Daikichi could date literally anyone else in the world besides the teenage girl this now 40-year-old man has raised over 10 years. 

The end of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX features one of the most bizarre, unsettling end game relationships in the history of anime. Protagonist Yuki Judai (known as Jaden Yuki in the dub) follows his friend Johan (Jesse) Andersen into an alternate dimension that vaguely resembles Hell. There, the being who took Johan possesses Judai and forces him to commit a plethora of atrocities, which include enslaving and slaying thousands of sentient card spirits and wiping out nearly all of his friends. While the victims do come back to life, the experience remains.

Who is making Judai do all these awful things? As it turns out, it's his girlfriend from a past life, Yubel. She took Johan out of jealousy because Judai was showing him too much affection. She made him eliminate all those people for a series of convoluted reasons that boil down to wanting him to accept her back into his current life. This means literally living in his body like a parasite since Yubel lacks her own physical presence. 

Judai accepts her terrible proposition on the grounds that in his past he had apparently loved her, and she had made some serious sacrifices for him. For the rest of the series, Yubel just sort of lives in his body, helping him win card games and warping his personality such that the formerly friendly guy completely isolates himself from everyone who cares about him. 

To be fair to Judai, Yubel would probably have ended him if he hadn't accepted the relationship on her terms, but that doesn't make it any less horrifying a conclusion. Ideally, Yubel would have been defeated by card games, and Judai could have gone on to continue his close relationship with Johan. Or Asuka, who he showed vague interest in at one point. Or Shou or Kenzan or Manjoume or literally any other character besides the person who treated him so poorly.

The reason Misa Amane and Light Yagami get together stems from Misa's obsessive devotion to the one she believes enacted justice for her late parents. Still emotionally raw from the trauma of their deaths, Misa is ill-equipped make good decisions about, well, anything. Light, meanwhile, feels no interest towards her romantically, but he does like the idea of using her to further his career as the "god of the new world."

What's disappointing is that they never move past this. Light distances himself from Misa when he no longer needs her help, only to happily use her when it's to his benefit. Misa deserves better than being a psychopath's groupie, and Light should probably be with someone who he can have a real conversation with. That is, assuming you believe Light deserves to be with anyone

Many fans suggest that Light is best suited for L, the detective trying to catch him. Intellectual equals with similar priorities and personalities, Light and L complement each other by forcing the other to be their "very best." The whole cat-mouse aspect of their relationship sort of ruins that theory, but it could work, especially when you consider how much they clearly value each other.

Misa, on the other hand, deserves someone capable of actually showing love - and that's Touta Matsuda. He's a kind, well-meaning person who treats everyone around him with respect. If Misa doesn't want someone quite that wholesome, she could date Kiyomi Takada, Light's other girlfriend. Seeing the two of them unite against Light would be a dream come true. 

There's nothing especially wrong with Kayo Hinazuki's ultimate relationship, which is with Hiromi Sugita, a childhood friend who has always been sweet to her. The problem isn't Hiromi or the dynamic between Kayo and Hiromi. The problem is that the entire series builds up to a relationship between Kayo and Satoru Fujinuma, the protagonist.

Satoru goes back in time to stop Kayo from being slain by an unknown maniac who turns out to be their teacher. Over the course of his repeated attempts to rescue her, the two develop a genuinely meaningful bond. His final try is successful, but it ends in Satoru being severely harmed and entering a coma. He spends the next 13 years on life support, and by the time he wakes up, Kayo is already married. He's happy to see her happy, but the missed opportunity for these two still stings. 

The original anime version of Fruits Basket ends without any established relationships, but in the manga, things go totally buck wild. Nearly every character ends up paired off, and half of the relationships are forced, nonsensical, or just plain horrible.

The worst example of this trend is the romance between Shigure and Akito Sohma. They're related, but that's totally relevant in this series since everyone is related. The problem is that their relationship is utterly toxic. To get back at Akito for sleeping with someone else, Shigure seduces Akito's mother and hooks up with her. The two are not dating at the time, so the act is ridiculous. Shigure's intentions for Akito are ultimately positive, but his manipulative approach to the relationship is just intensely creepy.

Like most of the cast of Fruits Basket, both of them are probably better off staying away from relationships until they've done some serious work on themselves.