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* ''SpacePirateMito'' tells her HalfHumanHybrid son Aoi the story of her own reveal to his father Kagero after Aoi breaks her heart at the firefly festival, reassuring him that he is the living embodiment of ThePowerOfLove because "you are our future."

* LightNovel [[NyarkoSan Haiyore! Nyarko-san]] takes this to a comparative extreme: boy meets [[CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]].

* The medieval story of ''Melusine'', which dates back at least to the 12th century, tells of a knight marrying a woman called Melusine on condition that he never look at her naked. One day his curiosity got the better of him and he peeked while she was taking a bath. To his horror he saw that she had a snake-like tail, showing she was a water-sprite or mermaid. When she realized that her secret was out, she left through the window, never to be seen again. In the most common version of the story, this Melusine is the supposed ancestress of the French Lusignan family.

* ''LetTheRightOneIn''. A dark puppy-love version. A Boy meets a mysterious girl and makes friends with her, only to discover, later, that she's a vampire responsible for a series local murders. [[spoiler:Also, "she" is actually a castrated boy.]]
** The 2010 remake ''Let Me In'' has the same. Without the twist of the original.

* Parodied by a ShowWithinAShow soap opera in ''JohnnyBravo'', wherein a woman confesses to her lover that she is not what she appears, revealing herself to be a giant dalmation. In another episode, Johnny goes on a date with a deer. No, not a humanoid deer, part-deer human, anything like that - an actual, albeit talking, deer.

* ''EurekaSeven'': [[spoiler:Eureka is actually a HumanAlien. Renton finds out late in the series, by which point he doesn't care, even after she starts [[ButYourWingsAreBeautiful changing.]]

* ''EurekaSeven'': [[spoiler:Eureka is actually a HumanAlien. Renton finds out late in the series.]]

* ''TheDeathsOfIanStone'' has a peculiar relationship to this trope. In the very beginning, everyone in the setting seems clearly human or clearly inhuman. [[spoiler:The second iteration of the main character's DreamWithinADream reveals that his secondary love interest is both [[EldritchAbomination completely inhuman]] and willing to kill him if he finds out about it. A later iteration reveals that [[TomatoInTheMirror he's inhuman too]], albeit with LaserGuidedAmnesia. Unlike most examples, this isn't about the human primary love interest learning to accept him--rather, he learns to think and feel like a human.]]

* ''TheManWhoFellToEarth'' gender flips and deconstructs this with alien Thomas Jerome Newton and his Earthly mistress Mary-Lou. They actually consummate their relationship before he reveals his true, RubberForeheadAlien form to her. Once he does, their already-troubled relationship is only further damaged -- out of his disguise, he's not capable of lovemaking in the human manner, and she finds him physically hideous anyway. [[spoiler: They ultimately fall out of love with each other.]]
* TheBermudaDepths: Magnus and Jennie, servant of a sea demon.

* ''FireEmblem: Blazing Sword'': Boy meets [[spoiler:dragon]].
** ''FireEmblem: Path of Radiance'': Boy meets cat(girl) in his backstory. [[spoiler:They break up before the game starts.]]
* ''{{Disgaea 2}}'': Boy meets demon. Turns out to be a non-issue since ''{{Disgaea 1}}'' already showed that human/demon {{Half Human Hybrid}}s are possible (and for those who haven't played it, a character from that game explains it anyhow). [[spoiler:And it doesn't matter anyway, as boy is a demon too but doesn't realize it]]. Of course, by that point, it's stopped being "boy meets demon" and started being "boy meets [[spoiler:reincarnated God Of All Overlords]]."

* ''{{Splash}}'': A variation on the classic mermaid-falls-in-love-with-a-human story; she can appear fully human unless she gets wet, which comes as quite a surprise to him the first time it happens.

** ''BlueSubmarineNo6'' Man meets mermaid/catgirl hybrid with similarly ambiguous bittersweet ending.

* ''LightNovel/HatarakuMaouSama'': Girl develops crush on [[BlandNameProduct MgRonald's]] coworker. Girl goes out with coworker. Coworker's [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend alleged ex-girlfriend]] interrupts date and warns girl to stay away from coworker, as he is {{Satan}} incarnate. Girl discovers that alleged ex (really a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-angel hero]]) was being literal.

* ''LightNovel/HatarakuMaouSama'': Girl develops crush on [[BlandNameProduct MgRonald's]] coworker. Girl goes out with coworker. Coworker's [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend alleged ex-girlfriend]] interrupts date and warns girl to stay away from coworker, as he is {{Satan}} incarnate. Girl discovers that she was being literal.

* ''FateStayNight'': Boy meets superpowered ghost of [[spoiler:{{Gender Flip}}ped KingArthur]]. Boy meets superpowered magus. Boy meets [[spoiler:corrupted Holy Grail]].

* ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'': Boy meets [[spoiler:flesh-eating EldritchAbomination]].
* ''{{Disgaea 2}}'': Boy meets demon. Turns out to be a non-issue since ''Disgaea 1'' already showed that human/demon {{Half Human Hybrid}}s are possible (and for those who haven't played it, a character from that game explains it anyhow). [[spoiler:And it doesn't matter anyway, as boy is a demon too but doesn't realize it]]. Of course, by that point, it's stopped being "boy meets demon" and started being "boy meets [[spoiler:reincarnated God Of All Overlords]]."

* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'': [[InterspeciesRomance Girl meets bird]]. Wait, that's not this trope... [[spoiler: Nageki's route: Girl meets bird's ''[[GhostAmnesia ghost]]''.]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint That's more like it!]]

* There was a subplot in the Game Boy Advance RPG ''{{Robopon}} 2'' based around this. You have to round up a group of alien schoolgirls on a field trip from the moon (ItMakesSenseInContext) and one of them disguises herself as a human and has a guy fall in love with her. You chase them all over the world map. When she finally admits to him that she's an alien, he says that he'll love her no matter what.

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[[caption-width-right:200: Poor [[RobotGirl Jinmay]], this could lead to some serious heartbreak down the road- both figuratively ''and'' literally.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': Chiro's girlfriend is revealed to be a robot. He doesn't mind, though.

* ''TsukuyomiMoonPhase'' Japanese boy meets [[CatGirl nekomimi]]-wearing vampire girl in a German castle.

[[caption-width-right:200: Poor [[RobotGirl Jinmay]], this could lead to some serious heartbreak down the road- both figuratively ''and'' literally.]]]]

* ''ChronoCrusade'': Girl meets demon.

* {{Fractale}}: Boy meets Doppel and a [[spoiler:clone]].
* FruitsBasket. Girl meets boy(s) who turn to have a secret, magical association with the signs of the Chinese Zodiac, and turn into total animals whenever they're hugged by a member of the opposite sex.

* From ''VampireKnight'', we have Yuki, a human, falling in love with the vampire Kaname. [[spoiler:But then we find out that Yuki is actually a vampire as well.]] All the students at the Night School are secretly vampires.

* Retroactive example: DragonballZ: woman learns her husband is an alien. He didn't know either until his brother showed up.
** Although he was pretty obviously not a ''human'' from the beginning, as he had a tail and turned into a giant ape under the light of the full moon. We just didn't know he was an ''alien.''

* ''{{FLCL}}'': Boy meets a girl who eventually turns out to be an alien. Alien seduces boy, uses him, then tosses him away.
* ''EurekaSeven'': Boy meets alien.
* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': Boy meets [[{{Immortality}} immortal]], [[ObliviousToLove borderline]]-[[{{Asexuality}} asexual]] [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homunculus]].
* ''ChronoCrusade'': Girl meets demon.

* ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' has an inversion (mermaid meets boy), [[spoiler:which is later subverted as the boy isn't entirely human either; they are allowed to remain together.]] The other members of the PowerTrio, also mermaids, get human love interests as well; the manga makes it more clear that they'll probably end up StarcrossedLovers because of this, but the anime ends on a happier note. Finally, the series' backstory includes other stories of boy-meets-mermaid played straight; one is a legend with an ambiguous ending, but the other... [[StarcrossedLovers didn't]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil end]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge well]].
** ''BlueSubmarineNo6'' Man meets mermaid/catgirl hybrid with similarly ambiguous bittersweet ending.
* ''MahouSenseiNegima'': Boy meets [[UnwantedHarem all]] [[FantasyKitchenSink of the above]].
* ''LightNovel/AsobiNiIkuYo'': Boy meets CatGirl Alien, knows a [[HalfHumanHybrid Half Alien]].

* ''LightNovel/DragonCrisis'': Boy meets Dragons and a [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-wolf girl]].
* ''YumekuiMerry'': Boy meets Dream Demon.
* FruitsBasket. Girl meets boy(s) who turn to have a secret, magical association with the signs of the Chinese Zodiac, and turn into total animals whenever they're hugged by a member of the opposite sex.
* {{Fractale}}: Boy meets Doppel and a [[spoiler:clone]].
* DragonautTheResonance: Boy meets giant, alien dragon.

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