14 Cross-Series Anime Ships That Would Be So Good Together

Tohru Honda spends years of her life embroiled in the Sohma family's dismal affairs, and while she obviously adores them, the emotional labor she constantly performs for them must be exhausting. That's why she needs a relationship with someone just as focused on the needs of others as she is. Ryuuichi Kashima might just be her perfect match.

Like Tohru, Ryuuichi is a total sweetheart, fully dedicated to his own caretaking duties. He has a preschool aged brother named Kotaro for whom he acts as a surrogate parent, and he works in a daycare center. He goes out of his way to help anyone with their problems. Also like Tohru, he has a tendency to ignore his own needs and work so hard he literally makes himself sick.

Since both Tohru and Ryuuichi are so in-tune with the needs of others, they're both best suited to people on the same wavelength. Tohru might not notice when she needs a break, but she'll notice when Ryuuichi does and make him take one – and he'll do the same for her. 

Violet Evergarden and Decim both lack a fundamental understanding of human nature. For Violet, this stems from a combination of inborn personality traits and traumatic experiences as a soldier. For Decim, it's because he's not human: he's a living mannequin tasked with determining whether human souls should be reincarnated or destroyed. 

Both Decim and Violet spend their respective series trying to understand human emotions from the outside, while struggling to understand their own unique experiences with these feelings as they start to experience them. Because the two of them share the same struggle, it would be quite touching to see them approach the problem as a team, and to experience romantic love with one of the few individuals either could successfully relate to. 

Few people want to break up Bulma and Vegeta, but should the Saiyan prince and his mad scientist wife ever stop getting along, Vegeta will want something pretty specific from his next relationship. Citing his Saiyan blood as the reason, Vegeta makes it pretty clear he prefers strong women. As a human, Bulma may not be able to match his physical strength, but she never hesitates to put him in his place. 

Another woman who fits this criteria is Olivier Mira Armstrong, a commanding officer in the Amestrian army. She may not be able to defeat him in battle – even the best swordplay encounters some difficulty when put up against a Super Saiyan – but she could easily command his respect and esteem with the sheer force of her personality. Meanwhile, Olivier would dig Vegeta's pride and his relentless drive toward self-improvement. 

Motoko Kusanagi and Faye Valentine, both utterly badass women from action-packed anime series, make perfect choices for an anime power couple. Faye works as a bounty hunter who plays an integral part of the Bebop crew, while cyborg Motoko Kusanagi serves as a major in the Public Security Section 9. They're independent, intelligent, women capable of holding their own in a fight. However, both of them spend most of their time working with men, and each is sorely in need of the company of a woman as awesome as herself. 

Haven't you heard? Sakamoto is the most charming, elegant, exquisite human being to ever grace the earth with his presence – and so is Aoyama-kun. Both of these unusual teenage boys always appear flawlessly dressed, unfailingly polite, and supernaturally skilled at nearly everything they try. Both have flaws; Sakamoto doesn't always find it easy to comprehend human nature, and Aoyama obsesses over cleanliness to the point that he spends hours every day scrubbing down his soccer team's locker room. Sakamoto isn't bothered by much of anything, and he'd probably help engineer a way to make cleaning easier and quicker. Aoyama could easily relate to Sakamoto's social strangeness, as he possesses it himself.

The only problem with this couple lies in the fact their respective classmates are so obsessed with them that they'd lose their minds completely if their perfect forces combined.

For this one to work, Tomoko Kuroki would have to meet Satou Tatsuhiro when she's a little bit older; assuming that both are adults, the two could really hit it off if they can get past their crippling anxiety. For Satou, it gets so bad he can't go outside most of the time. Tomoko gets through her daily life, but not without intense struggle. Both want desperately to break out of their depressing daily life of social failure and dating sim addiction, but they can't seem to make it work. 

In their respective canons, both try to solve their problems through relationships with people with better social skills than they do; as a result, neither can really empathize with them. As a couple, Tomoko and Satou would have at least one person who had their back when the rest of the world proves too daunting. Since both of them constantly strive to improve themselves, they're not likely to enable each other – instead, they might just help each other feel more comfortable with being themselves.