This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
from YKTTW:
Andyzero: Guy trips and lands on top of girl. (Or other way around.) Their faces are right up next to each other. Suddenly, they realize there is an attraction. They may kiss right there and then, or else awkwardly scrabble off of each other. I know this is a trope, but I need examples.
Dark Sasami: Umm...every anime ever? I mean, the last two shows I've watched in the past two days were Mahoraba and Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl, and it happened in both of those--at least twice, maybe three times in Mahoraba. You also neglected to mention that if it isn't followed by kissing, it's followed by 1) feminine violence or 2) Instant Seiza, which I'd call a trope all its own except (that I can recall) it only happens in this situation. You know, one frame they're on top of each other, the next they're in the polite kneeling position facing opposite directions and blushing...
Looney Toons: Love Hina had this multiple times. Ranma One Half also had a few examples of its own.
Susan Davis: Hazumu and Yasuna meet in exactly this way in Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl.
Ununnilium: Heh heh, Instant Seiza, love that. But yes, it'll show up in pretty much any anime that has any kind of romantic/sexual tension.
Dark Sasami again: All I can think of is Have A Nice Trip.
Narrator 1: There was a particularly insidious unlicensed anime called Love Love? that used this trope rather repeatedly. The clumsy main male lead, one Ooizumi Naoto, met nearly all of the female cast in this manner. (He even got in an accidental breast grope on one of them, who instantly fell in love with him because of this.)
Masamage: I removed Usagi and Mamoru from the examples. They first meet when she throws a balled-up piece of paper over her shoulder and hits him in the head.
akb427: Something similar happens in "The Three Musketeers". In particular I seem to remember that D'Artagnan somehow stumbles into Porthos, flipping up a piece of fancy new gold-stitched clothing, which reveals it to be stitched on only one side, causing Porthos to challenge him to a duel. This is the book version, not an anime.
