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%%* Ash and Eiji in ''BananaFish'' fit this to a T, [[YaoiGenre except for the "girl" part.]]



* Genderflipped in ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' with its main couple in Lucy and David. Despite her initial ManicPixieDreamGirl act, Lucy has a SugarAndIcePersonality largely fueled by her DarkAndTroubledPast. She falls for David due to his empathetic nature and willingness to go out of his way to help others.

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* Genderflipped {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' with its main couple in Lucy and David. Despite her initial ManicPixieDreamGirl act, Lucy has a SugarAndIcePersonality largely fueled by her DarkAndTroubledPast. She falls for David due to his empathetic nature and willingness to go out of his way to help others.



** A gender inverted version is with Android 18 and Krillin.



* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': Inuyasha and Kikyo would have been this, and sure enough she did manage to "plant the seeds" via teaching him the warmth of the human heart with her kindness. Unfortunately, they were turned against each other thanks to Naraku's deception, making any healing Kikyo managed to do to Inuyasha's wounded heart meaningless. Inuyasha and Kagome, on the other hand, play it straight (BelligerentSexualTension notwithstanding), as Kagome helps Inuyasha recover from his wounds and insecurities and goes so far as to completely accept him for who he is. Kaede and the resurrected Kikyo [[DiscussedTrope discuss]] this, with the latter lamenting that ''she'' would have been the Gentle Girl had she not died.

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* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': Inuyasha and Kikyo would have been this, and sure enough she did manage to "plant the seeds" via teaching him the warmth of the human heart with her kindness. Unfortunately, they were turned against each other thanks to Naraku's deception, making any healing Kikyo managed to do to Inuyasha's wounded heart meaningless. Inuyasha and Kagome, on the other hand, play it straight (BelligerentSexualTension notwithstanding), as Kagome helps Inuyasha recover from his wounds and insecurities and goes so far as to completely accept him for who he is.is, with Inuaysha eventually realising she's the sole reason he's no longer lonely or unhappy. Kaede and the resurrected Kikyo [[DiscussedTrope discuss]] this, with the latter lamenting that ''she'' would have been the Gentle Girl had she not died.



* Genderflipped in ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'', with Madoka Ayukawa as a BrokenBird Brooder who has been rejected by almost anyone outside her family and is believed to be a delinquent, and Kyosuke as the Gentle RidiculouslyAverageGuy who is rather dim sometimes but still approaches Madoka when almost no one else did. Kyōsuke and his family are (besides Hikaru and Yūsaku) the only ones who understand that Madoka is a good person, and how, she's just [[TroubledButCute troubled]] and [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold misunderstood]].

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* Genderflipped {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'', with Madoka Ayukawa as a BrokenBird Brooder who has been rejected by almost anyone outside her family and is believed to be a delinquent, and Kyosuke as the Gentle RidiculouslyAverageGuy who is rather dim sometimes but still approaches Madoka when almost no one else did. Kyōsuke and his family are (besides Hikaru and Yūsaku) the only ones who understand that Madoka is a good person, and how, she's just [[TroubledButCute troubled]] and [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold misunderstood]].

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* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': Inuyasha and Kikyo would have been this, and sure enough she did manage to "plant the seeds" via teaching him the warmth of the human heart with her kindness. Unfortunately, they were turned against each other thanks to Naraku's deception, making any healing Kikyo managed to do to Inuyasha's wounded heart meaningless. Inuyasha and Kagome, on the other hand, play it straight (BelligerentSexualTension notwithstanding), as Kagome helps Inuyasha recover from his wounds and insecurities and goes so far as to completely accept him for who he is. Kaede and the resurrected Kikyo [[DiscussedTrope discuss]] this, with the latter lamenting that ''she'' would have been the Gentle Girl had she not died.



* [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender flipped]] in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. If you strip away all the mind games, Kaguya's story is ultimately one of how she was emotionally scarred by the environment she grew up in and how [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan falling in love with Shirogane]] helped her find happiness in life.

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* [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender flipped]] {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. If you strip away all the mind games, Kaguya's story is ultimately one of how she was emotionally scarred by the environment she grew up in and how [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan falling in love with Shirogane]] helped her find happiness in life.



* ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Naofumi and Raphtalia, respectively. In a world where [[HeroWithBadPublicity almost everyone treats him like a despicable criminal]] (at least at first), Raphtalia is the one person who is always there for Naofumi to comfort him with kind words. Even on the rare occasions where Naofumi returns the favour, he does so by reminding Raphtalia of everything ''she's'' done for ''him''.



%%** Jack Atlas and Carly Nagisa of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''.
%%* ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Raphtalia is the Gentle Girl to Naofumi’s Brooding Boy.
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*''Anime/VoltesV'': PlayedWith. Heinel is closed-off to anyone not in his circle, and speaks to his fellow Boazanians with a grandiose aura. Katherine shares the Upper-Class Twit attitude most Boazanians have, but she's a friendlier and open person than him and even changes her mind about the war later on.
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* ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'' has this with the fake married couple, Loid and Yor. Loid is the cool but brooding and reserved husband who's also a secretive spy while Yor is the sweet and kindhearted wife who just so happens to be deadly assassin.

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* ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'' has this with the fake married couple, Loid and Yor. Loid is the cool but brooding and reserved husband who's also a secretive spy while Yor is the sweet and kindhearted gentle wife who just so happens to be deadly assassin.

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