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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Put [[GuileHero Lelouch]] with a girl. ''Any'' girl. Some more specific examples:
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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Put [[GuileHero Lelouch]] [[Characters/CodeGeassLelouchLamperouge Lelouch Lamperouge]] with a girl. ''Any'' girl. Some more specific examples:
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* ''Manhwa/TheBreaker'': Ji-Nie as the FieryRedhead, HotBlooded, leather-wearing tomboy bodyguard to the kinder, gentler Shi Woon.
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* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': Ryunosuke was unwillingly raised to be the ultimate manly man by her father, and later discovers she's in an ArrangedMarriage with Nagisa, the ghost of a guy raised to be ultra womanly. Though after coming back to life, he turns out to also be insanely strong, despite mostly hiding it behind over the top girly behavior.
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* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': Ryunosuke was unwillingly raised to be the ultimate manly man by her father, and later discovers she's in an ArrangedMarriage with Nagisa, the ghost of a guy raised to be ultra womanly. Though In the one story they share together after coming back to life, Nagisa's introduction, Nagisa is shown acting like Ryunosuke's HouseHusband, still wearing dresses, and Ryunosuke complains that he turns out to also be insanely strong, despite mostly hiding it behind over cries at the top girly behavior.slightest criticism. That said, the trope isn't entirely clearcut; Ryunosuke ''wants'' to be more feminine, and still maintains a very strong sense of feminine modesty. Nagisa, on the other hand, has some very masculine failings; he's [[BigEater gluttonous]], a bit of a horndog (albeit only for Ryunosuke), and whilst he doesn't ''like'' to fight, contrasting his hardened brawler of a fiancee, he's actually [[SilkHidingSteel very good at it]], and is the only character in the series to ever beat Ryunosuke in a fight. Ironically, they find a CommonalityConnection in that [[WouldntHitAGirl neither likes the idea of fighting girls]].
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** Seven-foot-tall, ripped [[TheLadette Ladette]] aging and reserved, reluctant [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask Man Wearing the Kingly Mask]] Luchino B. Campanella.
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** Seven-foot-tall, ripped [[TheLadette Ladette]] aging and reserved, reluctant [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask Man Wearing the Kingly Mask]] ReluctantRuler Luchino B. Campanella.
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* ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'': The biggest badass AcePilot Chifuyu Orimura living with her little brother and main protagonist Ichika Orimura for the majority of their lives. He is the series HouseHusband who takes care of all the housework while she earns the money for both of them.
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* ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'': ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'': The biggest badass AcePilot Chifuyu Orimura living with her little brother and main protagonist Ichika Orimura for the majority of their lives. He is the series HouseHusband who takes care of all the housework while she earns the money for both of them.
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* Hinagiku and Takuro's romance plotline in the original manga version of ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' particularly centers around this, with them having been ChildhoodFriends but drifting apart as gender differences became more intrusive in their lives, with Takuro developing an inferiority complex over being emotionally sensitive and physically weak while Hinagiku gets repeatedly told [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon she'll never get a boyfriend for being too masculine]]. Eventually, Takuro feeling he's not enough of a "man" gets him to accept a DealWithTheDevil to make him stronger, more capable, and more confident, but it has the trade-off of making him arrogant and conceited, which breaks Hinagiku's heart because [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan what she really liked about him was his kindness]]. Eventually, one attempted HeroicSacrifice and a heart-to-heart later, they work it out.
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* Hinagiku and Takuro's romance plotline in the original manga version of ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' particularly centers around this, with them having been ChildhoodFriends but drifting apart as gender differences became more intrusive in their lives, with lives. Takuro ends up developing an inferiority complex over being emotionally sensitive and physically weak (and therefore not being enough of a "man") while Hinagiku gets repeatedly told [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon she'll never get a boyfriend for being too masculine]]. Eventually, Takuro feeling he's not enough of a "man" gets him to accept accepts a DealWithTheDevil to make him stronger, more capable, and more confident, but it has the trade-off of making him arrogant and conceited, which breaks Hinagiku's heart because [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan what she really liked about him was his kindness]]. Eventually, one attempted HeroicSacrifice and a heart-to-heart later, they work it out.
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* Hinagiku and Takuro's romance plotline in the original manga version of ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' particularly centers around this, with them having been ChildhoodFriends but drifting apart as gender differences became more intrusive in their lives, with Takuro developing an inferiority complex over being emotionally sensitive and physically weak while Hinagiku gets repeatedly told [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon she'll never get a boyfriend for being too masculine]]. Eventually, Takuro feeling he's not enough of a "man" gets him to accept a DealWithTheDevil to make him stronger, more capable, and more confident, but it has the trade-off of making him arrogant and conceited, which breaks Hinagiku's heart because [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan what she really liked about him was his kindness]]. Eventually, one attempted HeroicSacrifice and a heart-to-heart later, they work it out.
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* ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'': Identical twins Yuuko (masculine girl) and Hideyoshi (feminine boy) Kinoshita. While Yuuko is typically feminine in traits (such as being good at cooking), her personality fits this trope because of her aggressive, prideful, arrogant, quick-to-anger, and competitive behavior. Hideyoshi, on the other hand, is calm, helpful, and supportive. Ironically, he is also much more popular than Yuuko, much to her dismay, because of [[AttractiveBentGender his]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady looks]].
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* ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'': ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'': Identical twins Yuuko (masculine girl) and Hideyoshi (feminine boy) Kinoshita. While Yuuko is typically feminine in traits (such as being good at cooking), her personality fits this trope because of her aggressive, prideful, arrogant, quick-to-anger, and competitive behavior. Hideyoshi, on the other hand, is calm, helpful, and supportive. Ironically, he is also much more popular than Yuuko, much to her dismay, because of [[AttractiveBentGender his]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady looks]].
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** In the prequel novel ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', ''Literature/AnotherNote'', [[ActionGirl Naomi Misora]] acts as [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection L's]] "shield" and teaches him [[UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}} how to fight.]]
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* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': [[HeadlessHorseman Celty]] and [[BackAlleyDoctor Shinra]]. Celty works a courier, rides a motorcycle, has super strength, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and doesn't have a head]]. Shinra works as a BackAlleyDoctor, is a HouseHusband when off the job, is a {{Bishonen}}, and barely has the strength to knock Celty's helmet off of her neck.
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* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': [[HeadlessHorseman Celty]] and [[BackAlleyDoctor Shinra]]. Celty works a courier, rides a motorcycle, has super strength, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and doesn't have a head]]. Shinra works as a BackAlleyDoctor, is a HouseHusband when off the job, is a {{Bishonen}}, and barely has the strength to knock Celty's helmet off of her neck.
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* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'': Ryuji and Taiga have aspects of this in personality, but it contrasts with their appearance. Taiga is [[{{Shorttank}} small]] ("looks like a doll") but has a brash, loud and angry personality. Ryuji has the FaceOfAThug but is generally quiet and enjoys housework (especially cleaning but also cooking).
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* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'': ''Literature/{{Toradora}}'': Ryuji and Taiga have aspects of this in personality, but it contrasts with their appearance. Taiga is [[{{Shorttank}} small]] ("looks like a doll") but has a brash, loud and angry personality. Ryuji has the FaceOfAThug but is generally quiet and enjoys housework (especially cleaning but also cooking).
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* ''LightNovel/VenusToMamoru'': Ayako's the violent, tsundere PersonofMassDestruction who gives off HugeSchoolgirl vibes in her attempts to act more feminine (not at all helped by the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil constantly teasing the two about their relationship), and Mamoru's a cute boy who takes all the craziness around him with a gentle smile.
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* ''LightNovel/VenusToMamoru'': ''Literature/VenusToMamoru'': Ayako's the violent, tsundere PersonofMassDestruction who gives off HugeSchoolgirl vibes in her attempts to act more feminine (not at all helped by the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil constantly teasing the two about their relationship), and Mamoru's a cute boy who takes all the craziness around him with a gentle smile.
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* Played with but ultimately averted in ''Manga/NanaToKaoru.'' Kaoru is short, uninterested in sports and academics, has no real professional aspirations, prefers to blend into the crowd in public, but is an excellent cook and very skilled at sewing and other craftwork. Nana is tall, athletic, an outstanding student with very high career prospects and plenty of public leadership positions, yet is a hopeless cook and despite (or perhaps because of) her incredible beauty, knows almost nothing about cosmetics and make-up. But beneath these traits, Kaoru and Nana share an intense longing to respectively fulfill the masculine and feminine roles, and to be loved by a partner who recognizes and values them respectively as a man and a woman. The most prominent conflict of the story is Kaoru's struggle to overcome his self-doubt and self-hatred and accept his worthiness to stand by Nana's side as a man and a dom.
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* Played with but ultimately averted in ''Manga/NanaToKaoru.''Manga/NanaAndKaoru.'' Kaoru is short, uninterested in sports and academics, has no real professional aspirations, prefers to blend into the crowd in public, but is an excellent cook and very skilled at sewing and other craftwork. Nana is tall, athletic, an outstanding student with very high career prospects and plenty of public leadership positions, yet is a hopeless cook and despite (or perhaps because of) her incredible beauty, knows almost nothing about cosmetics and make-up. But beneath these traits, Kaoru and Nana share an intense longing to respectively fulfill the masculine and feminine roles, and to be loved by a partner who recognizes and values them respectively as a man and a woman. The most prominent conflict of the story is Kaoru's struggle to overcome his self-doubt and self-hatred and accept his worthiness to stand by Nana's side as a man and a dom.
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* ''Shikimori-san is Not Just Cute'' concerns the relationship between a cute, but [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer popular]], naturally athletic, and cool girl and her supportive, unlucky, cute {{Protectorate}} boyfriend. In-universe and out, many think they could switch genders and they'd fit in each other's roles perfectly.
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* ''Shikimori-san is Not Just Cute'' ''Manga/ShikimorisNotJustACutie'' concerns the relationship between a cute, but [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer popular]], naturally athletic, and cool girl and her supportive, unlucky, cute {{Protectorate}} boyfriend. In-universe and out, many think they could switch genders and they'd fit in each other's roles perfectly.
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* ''Manga/BinboGamiGa'': Ranmaru and Tsuwabuki aren't a couple (although Ranmaru wishes they were) but their dynamic fits this trope well. Tsawabuki is the dutiful [[PromotionToParent promoted to parent]] big brother to his four younger siblings, he is skilled at domestic chores and is pretty even-tempered. Ranmaru is the ridiculously HotBlooded BornInTheWrongCentury HeirToTheDojo girl. It's not that Tsuwabuki is not manly but that Ranmaru is significantly MORE manly. Case in point, number of girls in their class in love with Tsuwabuki? Three. With Ranmaru? [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Pretty much all the rest!]]
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* ''Manga/GoodLuckGirl'': Ranmaru and Tsuwabuki aren't a couple (although Ranmaru wishes they were) but their dynamic fits this trope well. Tsawabuki is the dutiful [[PromotionToParent promoted to parent]] big brother to his four younger siblings, he is skilled at domestic chores and is pretty even-tempered. Ranmaru is the ridiculously HotBlooded BornInTheWrongCentury HeirToTheDojo girl. It's not that Tsuwabuki is not manly but that Ranmaru is significantly MORE manly. Case in point, number of girls in their class in love with Tsuwabuki? Three. With Ranmaru? [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Pretty much all the rest!]]
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** Ukyo Kuonji is a {{Bifauxnen}} who manages to attract two different WholesomeCrossdresser suitors. The second of these, Konatsu, was [[RaisedAsTheOpposoteGender raised so feminine]] that they can almost be argued as female-identifying, to the point their his reaction when surprised in a bath is to squeal like a girl and cover non-existent breasts.
** Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo can be seen as a zigzagging example of this. Akane is a notoriously short-tempered and violence-prone {{tomboy}}, infamous for her total [[LethalChef lack of cooking skill]], horrible at anything arts and crafts (such as making cookie shapes, sewing, painting, etc), and poor at housework. Ranma, in contrast, is capable of acting much more feminine, is very good at cooking and sewing, [[NeatFreak hates mess]] to the point he once forgot about [[ItMakesSenseInContext burglarizing a flat to clean up the mess inside instead]], can [[GenderBender turn into female more or less at will]], and often dressed up as a girl for whatever ZanyScheme he was pulling. On the other hand, [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Akane]] ''desperately'' wants to be more feminine and tries her hardest to achieve that, and had both stereotypically "girly" fears (such as loathing ghost stories) ''and'' a rather idealized view of femininity (due to her beloved mother's early death ''and'' [[PromotiontoParent having been raised]] by her YamatoNadeshiko older sister Kasumi), while Ranma is a macho jock-type who'll even go around near-naked in female form because he's that masculine.
** Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo can be seen as a zigzagging example of this. Akane is a notoriously short-tempered and violence-prone {{tomboy}}, infamous for her total [[LethalChef lack of cooking skill]], horrible at anything arts and crafts (such as making cookie shapes, sewing, painting, etc), and poor at housework. Ranma, in contrast, is capable of acting much more feminine, is very good at cooking and sewing, [[NeatFreak hates mess]] to the point he once forgot about [[ItMakesSenseInContext burglarizing a flat to clean up the mess inside instead]], can [[GenderBender turn into female more or less at will]], and often dressed up as a girl for whatever ZanyScheme he was pulling. On the other hand, [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Akane]] ''desperately'' wants to be more feminine and tries her hardest to achieve that, and had both stereotypically "girly" fears (such as loathing ghost stories) ''and'' a rather idealized view of femininity (due to her beloved mother's early death ''and'' [[PromotiontoParent having been raised]] by her YamatoNadeshiko older sister Kasumi), while Ranma is a macho jock-type who'll even go around near-naked in female form because he's that masculine.
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** Ukyo Kuonji is a {{Bifauxnen}} who manages to attract two different WholesomeCrossdresser suitors. The second of these, Konatsu, was [[RaisedAsTheOpposoteGender [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender raised so feminine]] femininely]] that they can almost be argued as female-identifying, to the point their his reaction when surprised in a bath is to squeal like a girl and cover non-existent breasts.
** Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo can be seen as a zigzagging example of this. Akane is a notoriously short-tempered and violence-prone {{tomboy}}, infamous for her total [[LethalChef lack of cooking skill]], horrible at anything arts and crafts (such as making cookie shapes, sewing, painting, etc), and poor at housework. Ranma, in contrast, is capable of acting much more feminine, is very good at cooking and sewing, [[NeatFreak hates mess]] to the point he once forgot about [[ItMakesSenseInContext burglarizing a flat to clean up the mess inside instead]], can [[GenderBender turn into female more or less at will]], and often dressed up as a girl for whatever ZanyScheme he was pulling. On the other hand, [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Akane]] ''desperately'' wants to be more feminine and tries her hardest to achieve that, and had both stereotypically "girly" fears (such as loathing ghost stories) ''and'' a rather idealized view of femininity (due to her beloved mother's early death ''and'' [[PromotiontoParent having been raised]] by her YamatoNadeshiko older sister Kasumi), while Ranma is a macho jock-type who'll even go around near-naked in female form because he's that masculine. Akane also prefers wearing dresses and skirts when not in her martial arts gi (even when discounting her school uniform), while even in female form Ranma only wears girls' clothes when wearing a disguise, a swim suit (out of necessity), or to keep his/her mother happy as "Ranko" [[spoiler:before Mrs. Saotome learned about his genderbending curse]].
** Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo can be seen as a zigzagging example of this. Akane is a notoriously short-tempered and violence-prone {{tomboy}}, infamous for her total [[LethalChef lack of cooking skill]], horrible at anything arts and crafts (such as making cookie shapes, sewing, painting, etc), and poor at housework. Ranma, in contrast, is capable of acting much more feminine, is very good at cooking and sewing, [[NeatFreak hates mess]] to the point he once forgot about [[ItMakesSenseInContext burglarizing a flat to clean up the mess inside instead]], can [[GenderBender turn into female more or less at will]], and often dressed up as a girl for whatever ZanyScheme he was pulling. On the other hand, [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Akane]] ''desperately'' wants to be more feminine and tries her hardest to achieve that, and had both stereotypically "girly" fears (such as loathing ghost stories) ''and'' a rather idealized view of femininity (due to her beloved mother's early death ''and'' [[PromotiontoParent having been raised]] by her YamatoNadeshiko older sister Kasumi), while Ranma is a macho jock-type who'll even go around near-naked in female form because he's that masculine. Akane also prefers wearing dresses and skirts when not in her martial arts gi (even when discounting her school uniform), while even in female form Ranma only wears girls' clothes when wearing a disguise, a swim suit (out of necessity), or to keep his/her mother happy as "Ranko" [[spoiler:before Mrs. Saotome learned about his genderbending curse]].
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* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Despite being a notorius former assassin, Kenshin Himura has a slender physique and feminine-looking face with long hair, is one of the most polite and deferential speakers you'll ever find, and is very skilled at housework[[spoiler:, eventually becoming a house-husband]]. His female landlord [[spoiler:and eventual wife]], Kaoru Kamiya, is a skilled kendo instuctor who brings in the dojo's income and often wears a masculine training gi (although is also a feminine beauty when dressed in traditional women's clothes), is a short-tempered {{tsundere}}, and her cooking skills are mediocre at best.
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* Played with but ultimately averted in ''Manga/NanaToKaoru.'' Kaoru is short, uninterested in sports and academics, has no real professional aspirations, prefers to blend into the crowd in public, but is an excellent cook and very skilled at sewing and other craftwork. Nana is tall, athletic, an outstanding student with very high career prospects and plenty of public leadership positions, yet is a hopeless cook and despite (or perhaps because of) her incredible beauty, knows almost nothing about cosmetics and make-up. But beneath these traits, Kaoru and Nana share an intense longing to respectively fulfill the masculine and feminine roles, and to be loved by a partner who recognizes and values them respectively as a man and a woman. The most prominent conflict of the story is Kaoru's struggle to overcome his self-doubt and self-hatred and accept his worthiness to stand by Nana's side as a man and a dom.
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%%* ''Manga/MaidSama'': A non-romantic example ([[spoiler:not counting Aoi's one-sided crush on her]]) is Misaki and Aoi.
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** For a platonic example, Kashima and Mikoshiba. Kashima is a TallDarkAndHandsome "prince charming" who can easily make girls fall in love with her, while her best friend Mikoshiba is a shy guy who often behaves like a {{Tsundere}}. When Mikoshiba tried to ask Kashima to become his pretend girlfriend (which she agreed to), the roles got reversed and Mikoshiba claimed that he felt like he has got a boyfriend instead.
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** For a platonic example, Kashima and Mikoshiba. Kashima is a TallDarkAndHandsome "prince charming" who can easily make girls fall in love with her, while her best friend Mikoshiba is a shy guy who often behaves like a {{Tsundere}}. When Mikoshiba tried tries to ask Kashima to become his pretend girlfriend (which she agreed to), the roles got reversed and Mikoshiba claimed that he felt like he has got a boyfriend instead.
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* ''Manga/NukoDuke'' has Sasame (female) and Kei (male). Kei has silky long hair, and is very good at keeping the house. Sasame has BoyishShortHair and is a natural charmer towards females. Naturally, people frequently get their genders mixed up.
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** Miwako Satou and Wataru Takagi. Takagi isn't super girlish but he's mentioned to be a "herbivore" (non-aggressive) kind of man ([[ActionSurvivor unless he's in the line of duty]]) and is a VERY dorky NiceGuy, whereas Satou is his tomboyish and straightforward ActionGirlfriend.
** Platonic example with [[spoiler:Hidemi Hondou (an ActionGirl who is also TheMole for the CIA in the Black Organization) and her little brother Eisuke ([[DudeLooksLikeALady girlish looking]] and [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]] TeenGenius)]]
** Miwako Satou and Wataru Takagi. Takagi isn't super girlish but he's mentioned to be a "herbivore" (non-aggressive) kind of man ([[ActionSurvivor unless he's in the line of duty]]) and is a VERY dorky NiceGuy, whereas Satou is his tomboyish and straightforward ActionGirlfriend.
** Platonic example with [[spoiler:Hidemi Hondou (an ActionGirl who is also TheMole for the CIA in the Black Organization) and her little brother Eisuke ([[DudeLooksLikeALady girlish looking]] and [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]] TeenGenius)]]
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** Miwako Satou and Wataru Takagi. Takagi isn't super girlish but he's mentioned to be a "herbivore" (non-aggressive) kind of man ([[ActionSurvivor unless he's in the line of duty]]) and is a VERY dorky NiceGuy, whereas Satou is his tomboyish and straightforward ActionGirlfriend.
** Platonic example with [[spoiler:Hidemi Hondou (an ActionGirl who is also TheMole for the CIA in the Black Organization) and her little brother Eisuke ([[DudeLooksLikeALady girlish looking]] and [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]] TeenGenius)]]
** Miwako Satou and Wataru Takagi. Takagi isn't super girlish but he's mentioned to be a "herbivore" (non-aggressive) kind of man ([[ActionSurvivor unless he's in the line of duty]]) and is a VERY dorky NiceGuy, whereas Satou is his tomboyish and straightforward ActionGirlfriend.
** Platonic example with [[spoiler:Hidemi Hondou (an ActionGirl who is also TheMole for the CIA in the Black Organization) and her little brother Eisuke ([[DudeLooksLikeALady girlish looking]] and [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]] TeenGenius)]]
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** Miwako Satou and Wataru Takagi. Takagi isn't super girlish but he's mentioned to be a "herbivore" (non-aggressive) kind of man ([[ActionSurvivor unless he's in the line of duty]]) and is a VERY dorky NiceGuy, whereas Satou is his tomboyish and straightforward ActionGirlfriend.
** Platonic example with [[spoiler:Hidemi Hondou (an ActionGirl who is also TheMole for the CIA in the Black Organization) and her little brother Eisuke ([[DudeLooksLikeALady girlish looking]] and [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]] TeenGenius)]]
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** Miwako Satou and Wataru Takagi. Takagi isn't super girlish but he's mentioned to be a "herbivore" (non-aggressive) kind of man ([[ActionSurvivor unless he's in the line of duty]]) and is a VERY dorky NiceGuy, whereas Satou is his tomboyish and straightforward ActionGirlfriend. [[http://mangafox.me/manga/detective_conan/v52/c537/18.html Rather hilariously lampshaded in this manga page]] (Spoilers alert)
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** Miwako Satou and Wataru Takagi. Takagi isn't super girlish but he's mentioned to be a "herbivore" (non-aggressive) kind of man ([[ActionSurvivor unless he's in the line of duty]]) and is a VERY dorky NiceGuy, whereas Satou is his tomboyish and straightforward ActionGirlfriend. [[http://mangafox.me/manga/detective_conan/v52/c537/18.html Rather hilariously lampshaded in this manga page]] (Spoilers alert)
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* ''Manga/HandsomeGirlAndCrossdressing Boy'' is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the relationship between a crossdressing guy and an assertive]] {{bifauxnen}}. Iori (the guy) tries to show his masculinity and be a good boyfriend, but finds he likes letting Hazuki (the girl) be the masculine one.
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* ''Manga/HandsomeGirlAndCrossdressing Boy'' ''Manga/HandsomeGirlAndCrossdressingBoy'' is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the relationship between a crossdressing guy and an assertive]] {{bifauxnen}}. Iori (the guy) tries to show his masculinity and be a good boyfriend, but finds he likes letting Hazuki (the girl) be the masculine one.
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* ''Manga/HandsomeGirlAndCrossdressing Boy'' is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the relationship between a crossdressing guy and an assertive]] {{bifauxnen}}. Iori (the guy) tries to show his masculinity and be a good boyfriend, but finds he likes letting Hazuki (the girl) be the masculine one.
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* ''While Cross-Dressing, I Was Hit on by a Handsome Guy!'' takes this UpToEleven by being about the relationship between a crossdressing guy and an assertive {{bifauxnen}}. Iori (the guy) tries to show his masculinity, but finds he likes letting Hazuki (the girl) be the masculine one.
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* ''While Cross-Dressing, I Was Hit on by a Handsome Guy!'' ''Manga/HandsomeGirlAndCrossdressing Boy'' takes this UpToEleven by being about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the relationship between a crossdressing guy and an assertive assertive]] {{bifauxnen}}. Iori (the guy) tries to show his masculinity, but finds he likes letting Hazuki (the girl) be the masculine one.
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* The main characters of ''Manga/ShesMyKnight'', Bifauxnen Mogami and {{Tsundere}} Ichinose, embody this. Look at the ''Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun'' example for Kashima and Mikoshiba to get a sense of what their relationship is like.
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* ''While Cross-Dressing, I Was Hit on by a Handsome Guy!'' takes this UpToEleven by being about the relationship between a crossdressing guy and an assertive {{bifauxnen}}. Iori (the guy) tries to show his masculinity, but finds he likes letting Hazuki (the girl) be the masculine one.
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* ''Anime/TheAdventuresOfPeterPan'', the Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater take on ''Peter Pan'', has the series' versions of Tiger Lily (a mix of ActionGirl and {{tsundere}}) and John Darling (a ShrinkingViolet who doubles as her DoggedNiceGuy) and even dedicates [[ADayInTheLimelight a whole episode]] to their potential relationship.
* ''Manga/AILoveYou'': Forty can fill both roles. His/her big sisters Saati and Toni (their names mean "Thirty" and "Twenty" respectively since they are computer programs) wanted a younger sibling, but Saati wanted a sweet and feminine sister while Toni wanted a rough punk of a brother. The inevitable disaster gave rise to a GenderBender who can switch at will between a sweet, gentle-hearted ''boy'' and a foul-mouthed punk of a ''girl''.
* ''Manga/AiOreLoveMe'': Akira and Mizuki [[PlayingWithATrope play around this.]] Akira is feminine-looking and the "princess" of his all-boys school, while Mizuki is androgynous and the "prince" at her all-girls school. However, personality-wise Akira is quite dominant and masculine and Mizuki isn't really all that boyish -- though in the counted times she ''does'' show a more assertive side, Akira isn't that displeased either.
* ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'': Deunan and Briareos could possibly count, except that Briareos is a hulking cyborg four times the size of Deunan. But their relationship follows the trope pretty straight.
* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'':
** [[ShrinkingViolet Timid]], chronically anxious AllLovingHero Jacuzzi Splot and his {{Pyromaniac}} ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Nice Hollystone.
** [[LeeroyJenkins Impulsive]] BloodKnight [[McNinja Mexicano Samurai]] Maria Barcelito and the passive, soft-spoken ([[DissonantSerenity though plenty disturbing]]) TortureTechnician Tick Jefferson
** Seven-foot-tall, ripped [[TheLadette Ladette]] aging and reserved, reluctant [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask Man Wearing the Kingly Mask]] Luchino B. Campanella.
* ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'': Identical twins Yuuko (masculine girl) and Hideyoshi (feminine boy) Kinoshita. While Yuuko is typically feminine in traits (such as being good at cooking), her personality fits this trope because of her aggressive, prideful, arrogant, quick-to-anger, and competitive behavior. Hideyoshi, on the other hand, is calm, helpful, and supportive. Ironically, he is also much more popular than Yuuko, much to her dismay, because of [[AttractiveBentGender his]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady looks]].
* ''Manga/BattleRoyale'': Although there are signs of it in the book and movie, Sakura Ogawa and Kazuhiko Yamamoto's relationship is shown to be like this in the manga.
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', initially played straight with Farnese and Serpico. When she was introduced Farnese was a callous apathetic commander of the Holy Iron Chain Knights with a serious sadomasochist streak, while her step-brother Serpico is polite, sincere and dislikes the sight of blood and is a good cook while Farnese (who was raised in luxury) sucks at "servant's work". Ironically Serpico is actually a [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass capable warrior]] while Farnese has [[FauxActionGirl no combat experience]] despite being more aggressive than him, later on, Farnese goes on some [[CharacterDevelopment radical character changes]] and becomes more feminine.
* ''Manga/BinboGamiGa'': Ranmaru and Tsuwabuki aren't a couple (although Ranmaru wishes they were) but their dynamic fits this trope well. Tsawabuki is the dutiful [[PromotionToParent promoted to parent]] big brother to his four younger siblings, he is skilled at domestic chores and is pretty even-tempered. Ranmaru is the ridiculously HotBlooded BornInTheWrongCentury HeirToTheDojo girl. It's not that Tsuwabuki is not manly but that Ranmaru is significantly MORE manly. Case in point, number of girls in their class in love with Tsuwabuki? Three. With Ranmaru? [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Pretty much all the rest!]]
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Revy swears like a sailor, chugs rum, collects guns, and has no problem jumping onto a moving boat and killing every hostile on it, by herself, like an ActionHero. In the first arc, she was about to put Rock in a dress and hairbow because he seemed so feminine in contrast; the sensitive one who wants to talk things out without anyone getting hurt. Revy even tries to protect Rock from seeing tragic events [[spoiler:e.g Yukio's suicide]] knowing how sensitive he is. However, there are times where this dynamic is subverted, such as when Rock stood up to Revy by refusing to apologize and grabbing her gun and when it was inches from blowing his head off, seeing his boldness shocked Revy and she treated him better after that.
* ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'':
** Downplayed. Ryousuke is a LongHairedPrettyBoy who crossdresses but doesn't have a feminine personality. His girlfriend, Miki, is a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak. In elementary Ryou was noted for having long eyelashes and looking [[StrongFamilyResemblance too much]] like his sister while Miki was {{bifauxnen}} and OneOfTheBoys.
** It's later shown Ryousuke and his older sister fit until she became a model. Yui was a [[LadyLooksLikeADude short-haired, boyish tomboy]] who Marika even mistook for Ryousuke in a photo, while Ryousuke was [[DudeLooksLikeALady pretty enough to be mistakable for a short-haired girl]].
* ''Manga/BokuToBoku'': Yuuki is a tomboyish {{bifauxnen}} who saves a cute girl from [[TheChikan a pervert]], only to learn said girl is a crossdressing boy and later becomes his friend. Later she gains the affection of another crossdressing boy.
* ''Manhwa/TheBreaker'': Ji-Nie as the FieryRedhead, HotBlooded, leather-wearing tomboy bodyguard to the kinder, gentler Shi Woon.
* ''Manga/ChottoEdoMade'': A {{Bifauxnen}} swordswoman is paired with a feminine LongHairedPrettyBoy.
* ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'': [[OfficialCouple Chrono and Rosette]]. Chrono is implied in both versions to be better with housework (in the manga he's shown ''in an apron'' at one point, and in the anime, the Elder says he does the cooking and cleaning for him), and is much more meek and gentle (although has an extreme BerserkButton, often putting him into an UnstoppableRage), while Rosette is loud, brash, swears constantly and was a LethalChef as a child. They both have their moments where they act more stereotypically like their genders (Chrono is very protective of Rosette, and Rosette is very fond of pretty dresses), but they still don't fit neatly into gender roles.
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'': Played up early on, between Clare and Raki, where Clare is the badass lone wolf from a mercenary organization sent to hunt demons, while Raki was the "damsel in distress" whom she rescued, and who then needed her companionship so traveled with her and made himself useful by cooking for her. This slides off later on as Raki [[TookALevelInBadass starts learning the ways of combat]], though does not disappear entirely.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Put [[GuileHero Lelouch]] with a girl. ''Any'' girl. Some more specific examples:
** Lelouch with Kallen and C.C. are non-romantic examples ([[ShipTease maybe]]). Lelouch is badass, but [[TheChessmaster his forte]] [[SquishyWizard is strategy]]; Kallen (the AcePilot ActionGirl) and C.C. (the immortal witch) protect him.
** A more romantic example is Lelouch's dynamic with [[NaiveEveryGirl Shirley]]; she's part of the swim club, is more upfront (in the end) in regards to the romantic relationship, and can't cook. Meanwhile, Lelouch, particularly in his civilian identity, is a HouseHusband in skillset (cooking, cleaning, and sewing are all canonical skills of his) and plays up his more gentle, if snarky, side as "Lelouch Lamperouge".
** There's also Kaguya, a 14-year-old girl who is the president of half the world and very serious about being the third maiden protecting Lelouch.
* ''Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx'' has Ichigo (a socially assertive spitfire) and Goro (her quiet, diplomatic NumberTwo), who met when she convinced him to fight off the bullies preying on him.[[note]]Technically; [[LongingLook he'd been watching her for a while before that]].[[/note]] His character arc is about developing the courage and emotional knowledge to honestly convey his feelings to her; hers is about understanding and accepting what she truly feels.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** Misa and Light. While Misa looks very feminine (IdolSinger, GenkiGirl, enjoys cooking, [[TheFashionista loves wearing pretty and girly clothes]] and ''really'' wants to be Light/Kira’s wife) her personality actually fits this trope: she deliberately seeks out dangerous situations and is more of a risk-taker, while [[NonActionGuy Light is more cautious]] and of the two of them, she is definitely more [[StalkingIsFunnyIfItsFemaleAfterMale sexually aggressive]]. Misa [[DeclarationOfProtection will go to any lengths to protect Light]], even withstanding ColdBloodedTorture, and [[LoveMartyr she would gladly die for him]].
** [[ActionGirl Halle]] (secret service agent and karate champion) and Mello (badass effeminate mafia lord).
** In the prequel novel ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', [[ActionGirl Naomi Misora]] acts as [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection L's]] "shield" and teaches him [[UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}} how to fight.]]
* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'':
** Miwako Satou and Wataru Takagi. Takagi isn't super girlish but he's mentioned to be a "herbivore" (non-aggressive) kind of man ([[ActionSurvivor unless he's in the line of duty]]) and is a VERY dorky NiceGuy, whereas Satou is his tomboyish and straightforward ActionGirlfriend. [[http://mangafox.me/manga/detective_conan/v52/c537/18.html Rather hilariously lampshaded in this manga page]] (Spoilers alert)
** Platonic example with [[spoiler:Hidemi Hondou (an ActionGirl who is also TheMole for the CIA in the Black Organization) and her little brother Eisuke ([[DudeLooksLikeALady girlish looking]] and [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]] TeenGenius)]]
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Teen Gohan and Videl play it very straight, she's a stubborn {{Tomboy}} and he's a [[CuteBookworm shy bookworm]] their high school days consist of Videl pushing Gohan around and chasing his alter ego Great Saiyanman. Of course there's double irony of Videl [[{{Tsundere}} secretly]] [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak having a crush]] on him and fact Gohan is actually thousands of times stronger than her and his reluctance to fight Videl comes from the [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength fear]] of [[WouldntHitAGirl hurting her]].
* ''Manga/DoctorSlump'':
** Robot Girl Arale is a careless troublemaker who loves monsters, superheroes, playing with poop, and she's completely clueless about romance, while Robot Boy Obotchaman is very polite, sensitive, and romantic. This only applies to their personalities, since they both can fight and have the same SuperStrength.
** Arale's closest friends and classmates were the tall, feisty, tomboyish Akane and the short, wimpy, and insecure Peasuke.
* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': There is a gadget called "Boygirl". It is a spray which have ability to make boys girlish and girls boyish.
* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': [[HeadlessHorseman Celty]] and [[BackAlleyDoctor Shinra]]. Celty works a courier, rides a motorcycle, has super strength, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and doesn't have a head]]. Shinra works as a BackAlleyDoctor, is a HouseHusband when off the job, is a {{Bishonen}}, and barely has the strength to knock Celty's helmet off of her neck.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': Lucy the AxCrazy {{mutant|s}} who will [[{{Pun}} single-handedly]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction fight and kill armies in order to protect]] Kouta the NonActionGuy. Kouta isn't exactly archetypically girly, but he ''is'' much more quiet and less-action geared than Lucy.
* ''Anime/ErgoProxy'': Re-L Mayer and Vincent Law; Vincent is easily more emotional while Real is usually expressionless, impatient, or angry.
* ''Manga/HaikaraSanGaTooru'': TheLadette Benio in ''two'' of these. A non-romantic version with her best male friend Ranmaru (a very feminine-looking boy who's a member of a ''kabuki'' troupe -- who as much is put in the [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Unlucky Childhood Friend]] role), and a more romantic one with her [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage arranged boyfriend]] Shinobu Iijyuin (who, like the below-mentioned André Grandier from ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', isn't that girly but is still more patient and sensitive than she is.)
* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': [[BattleButler Hayate Ayasaki]] is extremely polite, humble, and skilled at domestic tasks. Mirroring him is pink-haired swordswoman [[StudentCouncilPresident Hinagiku Katsura]] (one of his LoveInterests) who is assertive, highly-athletic, and projects an aura of leadership. Simply put, he can make women around him feel their femininity is being challenged and she is cooler than any of the boys at school resulting in most of the guys ''and'' [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer girls crushing on her]]. Each of them is a mix of traits however, and CharacterDevelopment has resulted in them evening out somewhat. Hinagiku becomes less "tomboy" and more "girly", by showing that she is just as good a cook as [[SupremeChef master-chef]] Hayate and adores cute things, as well as focusing on her romantic side. Hayate gets to show off his determination and combat ability in addition to his dedication to duty and fulfilling his promises. Notably, he seems to like her "boyish" traits and {{Imagine Spot}}s from her show that she kinda likes his "girlish" side as well.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
** Roderich/Austria and Elisaveta/Hungary, though it's a variation. Austria is more of a PrincelyYoungMan rather than traditionally feminine. While Hungary is more feminine than most blue girls, being an adoring TeamMom. Doesn't stop her from [[CurbStompBattle kicking your ass]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend if you dare to harm him]] though.
*** She was much more tomboyish when she was younger (and frequently kicked Austria's butt), but mellowed when she got older and she ended up in his care.
** A more appearance-based, non-romantic variant in [[PlatonicLifePartners Hungary and Poland]]. She's a tomboy TeamMom, he's a WholesomeCrossdresser [[ValleyGirl Valley Boy]].
* ''Manga/HimegotoJuukyuusaiNoSeifuku'': Kaito is a {{bishonen}} ChickMagnet who has a fetish for pretending he's the girl he has a crush on while Yuki (who isn't said woman) is a {{bifauxnen}} who wishes she was girlier.
* ''Himitsu Kichi'': Haruka and Kotake from the one-shot ''My Own Secret''. She's a boyish {{Bifauxnen}} who practices judo and he's a feminine guy who likes cooking and sewing.
* ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'': The biggest badass AcePilot Chifuyu Orimura living with her little brother and main protagonist Ichika Orimura for the majority of their lives. He is the series HouseHusband who takes care of all the housework while she earns the money for both of them.
%%* ''Manga/MaidSama'': A non-romantic example ([[spoiler:not counting Aoi's one-sided crush on her]]) is Misaki and Aoi.
* ''Manga/KamichamaKarin'': Karin the {{tomboy}}ish CuteBruiser and Kazune the [[DudeLooksLikeALady girly-faced]] {{tsundere}}.
* ''Kanojo Ni Naritai?!'': Invoked when the ([[DudeLooksLikeALady already slightly effeminate]]) protagonist begins crossdressing to attract the attention of a cool {{tomboy}} he has a crush on. He later finds out she actually ''isn't'' a lesbian and the one shot ends with implications they will begin dating.
* Sora and Sebastian from ''Manga/MassuguNiIkou''. Sora is loud, rude, and athletic Dachshund while Sebastian is a polite and dainty Yorkie with a bow on his head. Sora is quite protective of Sebastian. She's also in love with him, but he's ObliviousToLove.
%%* Fuuka and Mei from ''Manga/MeiNoNaisho''
* ''Manga/MinamiKe'': Makoto isn't girly per se, but most of his scenes alongside the tomboy Touma feature him masquerading as a girl. In one episode, he also describes masculine and feminine traits inherited from his mother and father, respectively.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'' has Mora Bascht and Chuck Keith. Although Chuck isn't all that girly, he's a fairly unassuming guy, and Mora is pretty Amazon (and head and shoulders taller than him), so this vibe is definitely present.
* ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'':
** The Wakamatsu/Seo couple has this dynamic, as Wakamatsu is a sensitive guy who believes in ShoujoGenre manga while Seo is a brash [[TheLadette lad-ette]].
** For a platonic example, Kashima and Mikoshiba. Kashima is a TallDarkAndHandsome "prince charming" who can easily make girls fall in love with her, while her best friend Mikoshiba is a shy guy who often behaves like a {{Tsundere}}. When Mikoshiba tried to ask Kashima to become his pretend girlfriend (which she agreed to), the roles got reversed and Mikoshiba claimed that he felt like he has got a boyfriend instead.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' likes to analyse gender roles, and as such plays with the trope regarding the couples in the series:
** Shinji is obviously a HouseHusband in training, cooking and doing most of the chores around the house he occupies with Asuka and Misato, and has a shy, timid, and kind personality most of the time ([[BewareTheNiceOnes unless extensively provoked]] [[DespairEventHorizon or completely snaps]]). By contrast, Asuka is a FieryRedhead ActionGirl who revels in combat and remains the better pilot for most of the series.
** While Kaji is clearly quite manly, he has some feminine touches to his personality, in that he enjoys gardening, drinks coffee, specializes in espionage, and likes tidying up. This is in contrast to Misato who enjoys cars, drinks beer, specializes in combat, and is very sloppy (as seen that Shinji picks up after her and Asuka.)
* ''Manga/OresamaTeacher'': Several pairs, as the female protagonist Mafuyu is a {{Tomboy}}[=/=]ActionGirl. So there is Mafuyu and Hayasaka, Mafuyu and Okegawa, Mafuyu and Ayabe...
* ''Manga/OtomeNoIroha'': In the manga, the main siblings' grandmother comes back from the dead and forcibly [[GenderBender Gender Bends]] them because of this. Her feeling was that the odds of a Pink Boy and a Blue Girl successfully marrying, [[IWantGrandkids let alone providing great-grandchildren]], were so minute she had to take matters into her own hands.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has the aggressive FieryRedhead Jessie and the CampStraight James of Team Rocket (though James falls more under the PrincelyYoungMan type). Over the seasons they have more than a few times they were DisguisedInDrag as a man and woman respectively.
** ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' has the CampStraight coordinator Ruby and the aggressive battle-loving {{Tomboy}} Sapphire. Ironically enough, it was implied they had more traditional roles when they were younger. However, both underwent a traumatic incident involving Salamance as young children. Ruby felt ashamed in how his battling frightened Sapphire and developed into someone calmer and more serene while Sapphire was ashamed by her timidity in response and became more fiery.
** Ash's Unova companions in the anime, Iris and Cilan. Cilan cooks and has a more passive and nurturing role while Iris is more battle-oriented and wild.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Junko is a corporate ladder climber as well as a HardDrinkingPartyGirl when off-work. Tomohisa is her level-headed and kind HouseHusband. This is reflected in her style of dialogue, which is more similar to Kyouko's than any of the other female characters (though less vulgar).
* The calm and serene So Touma and hyperactive tomboy Kana Mizuhara from ''Manga/{{QED}}''.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** Ukyo Kuonji is a {{Bifauxnen}} who manages to attract two different WholesomeCrossdresser suitors. The second of these, Konatsu, was [[RaisedAsTheOpposoteGender raised so feminine]] that they can almost be argued as female-identifying, to the point their his reaction when surprised in a bath is to squeal like a girl and cover non-existent breasts.
** Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo can be seen as a zigzagging example of this. Akane is a notoriously short-tempered and violence-prone {{tomboy}}, infamous for her total [[LethalChef lack of cooking skill]], horrible at anything arts and crafts (such as making cookie shapes, sewing, painting, etc), and poor at housework. Ranma, in contrast, is capable of acting much more feminine, is very good at cooking and sewing, [[NeatFreak hates mess]] to the point he once forgot about [[ItMakesSenseInContext burglarizing a flat to clean up the mess inside instead]], can [[GenderBender turn into female more or less at will]], and often dressed up as a girl for whatever ZanyScheme he was pulling. On the other hand, [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Akane]] ''desperately'' wants to be more feminine and tries her hardest to achieve that, and had both stereotypically "girly" fears (such as loathing ghost stories) ''and'' a rather idealized view of femininity (due to her beloved mother's early death ''and'' [[PromotiontoParent having been raised]] by her YamatoNadeshiko older sister Kasumi), while Ranma is a macho jock-type who'll even go around near-naked in female form because he's that masculine.
* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': Juri is TheStoic captain of the fencing club. Miki is a gentle {{Bishonen}} and a skilled pianist.
* ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'': André Grandier and Oscar François de Jarjayes. Perhaps not a textbook example, since André is not tremendously effeminate. But André is the more sensitive and people-oriented one, while Oscar is very direct and more goal-oriented. Oscar is referred to as the "light", and André as the "shadow".
* ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'': Genjo Sanzo and his new best friend Sharak Sanzo are two peas in a pod. They're a mirror reflection of each other, except for appearance. Genjo Sanzo is short, was mistaken for a girl a lot as a kid, is teasingly referred to as "princess," has men hitting on him because of his looks, wears a long flowing garment, and is the weakest guy in his party. Sharak has barely noticeable breasts, wears men's monk robes, is very buff, is covered in scars, talks and carries herself in a masculine manner, plus she does not like being thought of or looked at as a woman.
* ''Manga/SakuraDiscord'': Mebuki and Oka are revealed to have been very close in the third volume. She's a blunt, sarcastic and uncaring AcademicAthlete while he's a nice and soft pretty boy, who met her through his reading hobby. After much drama involving Mebuki's family, they end up together. And they turn out to have a strange and unexpected affinity when it comes to {{troll}}ing.
* ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'': [[NonActionGuy mild mannered]] [[MessianicArchetype Kyrie]] and [[{{Jerkass}} arrogant]] [[LadyofWar Morte]]. Because the two are so different, Kyrie [[spoiler:has the power to convince Morte to stop destroying the world.]]
* Kazuto "Towa" Sakuma and Miya from ''Manga/SensualPhrase''. Kazuto's a very girly-looking rock musician who dresses as a female even off-stage. Miya is the {{Bifauxnen}} beautician who both dates him and created his androgynous looks.
* ''Manga/SpecialA'': Brash, competitive Hikari and thoughtful, cultured Kei. It also inverts typical plot roles: Kei has [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest loved Hikari since forever]] but is too shy to say it; Hikari is so dense that she doesn't notice.
* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'': Ryuji and Taiga have aspects of this in personality, but it contrasts with their appearance. Taiga is [[{{Shorttank}} small]] ("looks like a doll") but has a brash, loud and angry personality. Ryuji has the FaceOfAThug but is generally quiet and enjoys housework (especially cleaning but also cooking).
* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': Ryunosuke was unwillingly raised to be the ultimate manly man by her father, and later discovers she's in an ArrangedMarriage with Nagisa, the ghost of a guy raised to be ultra womanly. Though after coming back to life, he turns out to also be insanely strong, despite mostly hiding it behind over the top girly behavior.
* ''Shikimori-san is Not Just Cute'' concerns the relationship between a cute, but [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer popular]], naturally athletic, and cool girl and her supportive, unlucky, cute {{Protectorate}} boyfriend. In-universe and out, many think they could switch genders and they'd fit in each other's roles perfectly.
* ''Manga/UsotsukiLily'': Numerous, including the main couple Hinata and En, with boyfriend En being a pretty crossdresser and girlfriend Hinata shown to be a pretty boy when crossdressing and sometimes does not know her own strength.
* ''Utopia Of Homosexuality'': Jung Suk Ha and Park Bong Bin are respectively a ButchLesbian and a CampGay [[spoiler:who eventually end up together. Yes, a very misleading title.]]
* ''LightNovel/VenusToMamoru'': Ayako's the violent, tsundere PersonofMassDestruction who gives off HugeSchoolgirl vibes in her attempts to act more feminine (not at all helped by the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil constantly teasing the two about their relationship), and Mamoru's a cute boy who takes all the craziness around him with a gentle smile.
* ''Manga/WanderingSon'': Downplayed with Maho and Riku. Maho is a loud, aggressive girl while her boyfriend Riku is a softspoken NiceGuy.
* ''Woman in the Man'': Childhood friends Tsuyomaru and Hazumi, a short story by Creator/MasakazuKatsura. Mixed with FreakyFridayFlip as they switch bodies.
* ''Webcomic/WelcomeToRoom305'': Yoona and her twin brother Yoon Sung when they were young. Yoona is boisterous, looked androgynous, and would get into fights protecting her short, crybaby brother. As adults, Yoona is still TheLadette but Yoon Sung is a JerkAss.
* ''Manga/WJuliet'': Ito and Makoto. So much that it's even implied that [[spoiler:they'll get married in drag!]]
* ''Manga/YourAndMySecret'': Soft-spoken boy, Akira Urehara and loud-mouthed girl Nanako Momoi being [[FreakyFridayFlip Body Switched]] into one another's bodies. Just about everyone notices how much more masculine Akira and how feminine Nanako has become, and approve.
* ''Manga/YourLieInApril'': Tsubaki and Kousei, when they were in elementary. Kousei was a short, sensitive boy who played the piano while Tsubaki was an athletic {{tomboy}}.
* ''Manga/YoureMyPet'': Sumire and Momo. Sumire is an efficient, successful journalist who watches pro wrestling and {{Sentai}} anime in her spare time and is a martial arts master on the side, while Momo is a modern dancer who is fairly emotional and doesn't mind taking on the role of Sumire's pet.
* ''Manga/AILoveYou'': Forty can fill both roles. His/her big sisters Saati and Toni (their names mean "Thirty" and "Twenty" respectively since they are computer programs) wanted a younger sibling, but Saati wanted a sweet and feminine sister while Toni wanted a rough punk of a brother. The inevitable disaster gave rise to a GenderBender who can switch at will between a sweet, gentle-hearted ''boy'' and a foul-mouthed punk of a ''girl''.
* ''Manga/AiOreLoveMe'': Akira and Mizuki [[PlayingWithATrope play around this.]] Akira is feminine-looking and the "princess" of his all-boys school, while Mizuki is androgynous and the "prince" at her all-girls school. However, personality-wise Akira is quite dominant and masculine and Mizuki isn't really all that boyish -- though in the counted times she ''does'' show a more assertive side, Akira isn't that displeased either.
* ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'': Deunan and Briareos could possibly count, except that Briareos is a hulking cyborg four times the size of Deunan. But their relationship follows the trope pretty straight.
* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'':
** [[ShrinkingViolet Timid]], chronically anxious AllLovingHero Jacuzzi Splot and his {{Pyromaniac}} ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Nice Hollystone.
** [[LeeroyJenkins Impulsive]] BloodKnight [[McNinja Mexicano Samurai]] Maria Barcelito and the passive, soft-spoken ([[DissonantSerenity though plenty disturbing]]) TortureTechnician Tick Jefferson
** Seven-foot-tall, ripped [[TheLadette Ladette]] aging and reserved, reluctant [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask Man Wearing the Kingly Mask]] Luchino B. Campanella.
* ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'': Identical twins Yuuko (masculine girl) and Hideyoshi (feminine boy) Kinoshita. While Yuuko is typically feminine in traits (such as being good at cooking), her personality fits this trope because of her aggressive, prideful, arrogant, quick-to-anger, and competitive behavior. Hideyoshi, on the other hand, is calm, helpful, and supportive. Ironically, he is also much more popular than Yuuko, much to her dismay, because of [[AttractiveBentGender his]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady looks]].
* ''Manga/BattleRoyale'': Although there are signs of it in the book and movie, Sakura Ogawa and Kazuhiko Yamamoto's relationship is shown to be like this in the manga.
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', initially played straight with Farnese and Serpico. When she was introduced Farnese was a callous apathetic commander of the Holy Iron Chain Knights with a serious sadomasochist streak, while her step-brother Serpico is polite, sincere and dislikes the sight of blood and is a good cook while Farnese (who was raised in luxury) sucks at "servant's work". Ironically Serpico is actually a [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass capable warrior]] while Farnese has [[FauxActionGirl no combat experience]] despite being more aggressive than him, later on, Farnese goes on some [[CharacterDevelopment radical character changes]] and becomes more feminine.
* ''Manga/BinboGamiGa'': Ranmaru and Tsuwabuki aren't a couple (although Ranmaru wishes they were) but their dynamic fits this trope well. Tsawabuki is the dutiful [[PromotionToParent promoted to parent]] big brother to his four younger siblings, he is skilled at domestic chores and is pretty even-tempered. Ranmaru is the ridiculously HotBlooded BornInTheWrongCentury HeirToTheDojo girl. It's not that Tsuwabuki is not manly but that Ranmaru is significantly MORE manly. Case in point, number of girls in their class in love with Tsuwabuki? Three. With Ranmaru? [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Pretty much all the rest!]]
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Revy swears like a sailor, chugs rum, collects guns, and has no problem jumping onto a moving boat and killing every hostile on it, by herself, like an ActionHero. In the first arc, she was about to put Rock in a dress and hairbow because he seemed so feminine in contrast; the sensitive one who wants to talk things out without anyone getting hurt. Revy even tries to protect Rock from seeing tragic events [[spoiler:e.g Yukio's suicide]] knowing how sensitive he is. However, there are times where this dynamic is subverted, such as when Rock stood up to Revy by refusing to apologize and grabbing her gun and when it was inches from blowing his head off, seeing his boldness shocked Revy and she treated him better after that.
* ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'':
** Downplayed. Ryousuke is a LongHairedPrettyBoy who crossdresses but doesn't have a feminine personality. His girlfriend, Miki, is a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak. In elementary Ryou was noted for having long eyelashes and looking [[StrongFamilyResemblance too much]] like his sister while Miki was {{bifauxnen}} and OneOfTheBoys.
** It's later shown Ryousuke and his older sister fit until she became a model. Yui was a [[LadyLooksLikeADude short-haired, boyish tomboy]] who Marika even mistook for Ryousuke in a photo, while Ryousuke was [[DudeLooksLikeALady pretty enough to be mistakable for a short-haired girl]].
* ''Manga/BokuToBoku'': Yuuki is a tomboyish {{bifauxnen}} who saves a cute girl from [[TheChikan a pervert]], only to learn said girl is a crossdressing boy and later becomes his friend. Later she gains the affection of another crossdressing boy.
* ''Manhwa/TheBreaker'': Ji-Nie as the FieryRedhead, HotBlooded, leather-wearing tomboy bodyguard to the kinder, gentler Shi Woon.
* ''Manga/ChottoEdoMade'': A {{Bifauxnen}} swordswoman is paired with a feminine LongHairedPrettyBoy.
* ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'': [[OfficialCouple Chrono and Rosette]]. Chrono is implied in both versions to be better with housework (in the manga he's shown ''in an apron'' at one point, and in the anime, the Elder says he does the cooking and cleaning for him), and is much more meek and gentle (although has an extreme BerserkButton, often putting him into an UnstoppableRage), while Rosette is loud, brash, swears constantly and was a LethalChef as a child. They both have their moments where they act more stereotypically like their genders (Chrono is very protective of Rosette, and Rosette is very fond of pretty dresses), but they still don't fit neatly into gender roles.
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'': Played up early on, between Clare and Raki, where Clare is the badass lone wolf from a mercenary organization sent to hunt demons, while Raki was the "damsel in distress" whom she rescued, and who then needed her companionship so traveled with her and made himself useful by cooking for her. This slides off later on as Raki [[TookALevelInBadass starts learning the ways of combat]], though does not disappear entirely.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Put [[GuileHero Lelouch]] with a girl. ''Any'' girl. Some more specific examples:
** Lelouch with Kallen and C.C. are non-romantic examples ([[ShipTease maybe]]). Lelouch is badass, but [[TheChessmaster his forte]] [[SquishyWizard is strategy]]; Kallen (the AcePilot ActionGirl) and C.C. (the immortal witch) protect him.
** A more romantic example is Lelouch's dynamic with [[NaiveEveryGirl Shirley]]; she's part of the swim club, is more upfront (in the end) in regards to the romantic relationship, and can't cook. Meanwhile, Lelouch, particularly in his civilian identity, is a HouseHusband in skillset (cooking, cleaning, and sewing are all canonical skills of his) and plays up his more gentle, if snarky, side as "Lelouch Lamperouge".
** There's also Kaguya, a 14-year-old girl who is the president of half the world and very serious about being the third maiden protecting Lelouch.
* ''Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx'' has Ichigo (a socially assertive spitfire) and Goro (her quiet, diplomatic NumberTwo), who met when she convinced him to fight off the bullies preying on him.[[note]]Technically; [[LongingLook he'd been watching her for a while before that]].[[/note]] His character arc is about developing the courage and emotional knowledge to honestly convey his feelings to her; hers is about understanding and accepting what she truly feels.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** Misa and Light. While Misa looks very feminine (IdolSinger, GenkiGirl, enjoys cooking, [[TheFashionista loves wearing pretty and girly clothes]] and ''really'' wants to be Light/Kira’s wife) her personality actually fits this trope: she deliberately seeks out dangerous situations and is more of a risk-taker, while [[NonActionGuy Light is more cautious]] and of the two of them, she is definitely more [[StalkingIsFunnyIfItsFemaleAfterMale sexually aggressive]]. Misa [[DeclarationOfProtection will go to any lengths to protect Light]], even withstanding ColdBloodedTorture, and [[LoveMartyr she would gladly die for him]].
** [[ActionGirl Halle]] (secret service agent and karate champion) and Mello (badass effeminate mafia lord).
** In the prequel novel ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', [[ActionGirl Naomi Misora]] acts as [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection L's]] "shield" and teaches him [[UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}} how to fight.]]
* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'':
** Miwako Satou and Wataru Takagi. Takagi isn't super girlish but he's mentioned to be a "herbivore" (non-aggressive) kind of man ([[ActionSurvivor unless he's in the line of duty]]) and is a VERY dorky NiceGuy, whereas Satou is his tomboyish and straightforward ActionGirlfriend. [[http://mangafox.me/manga/detective_conan/v52/c537/18.html Rather hilariously lampshaded in this manga page]] (Spoilers alert)
** Platonic example with [[spoiler:Hidemi Hondou (an ActionGirl who is also TheMole for the CIA in the Black Organization) and her little brother Eisuke ([[DudeLooksLikeALady girlish looking]] and [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]] TeenGenius)]]
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Teen Gohan and Videl play it very straight, she's a stubborn {{Tomboy}} and he's a [[CuteBookworm shy bookworm]] their high school days consist of Videl pushing Gohan around and chasing his alter ego Great Saiyanman. Of course there's double irony of Videl [[{{Tsundere}} secretly]] [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak having a crush]] on him and fact Gohan is actually thousands of times stronger than her and his reluctance to fight Videl comes from the [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength fear]] of [[WouldntHitAGirl hurting her]].
* ''Manga/DoctorSlump'':
** Robot Girl Arale is a careless troublemaker who loves monsters, superheroes, playing with poop, and she's completely clueless about romance, while Robot Boy Obotchaman is very polite, sensitive, and romantic. This only applies to their personalities, since they both can fight and have the same SuperStrength.
** Arale's closest friends and classmates were the tall, feisty, tomboyish Akane and the short, wimpy, and insecure Peasuke.
* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': There is a gadget called "Boygirl". It is a spray which have ability to make boys girlish and girls boyish.
* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': [[HeadlessHorseman Celty]] and [[BackAlleyDoctor Shinra]]. Celty works a courier, rides a motorcycle, has super strength, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and doesn't have a head]]. Shinra works as a BackAlleyDoctor, is a HouseHusband when off the job, is a {{Bishonen}}, and barely has the strength to knock Celty's helmet off of her neck.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': Lucy the AxCrazy {{mutant|s}} who will [[{{Pun}} single-handedly]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction fight and kill armies in order to protect]] Kouta the NonActionGuy. Kouta isn't exactly archetypically girly, but he ''is'' much more quiet and less-action geared than Lucy.
* ''Anime/ErgoProxy'': Re-L Mayer and Vincent Law; Vincent is easily more emotional while Real is usually expressionless, impatient, or angry.
* ''Manga/HaikaraSanGaTooru'': TheLadette Benio in ''two'' of these. A non-romantic version with her best male friend Ranmaru (a very feminine-looking boy who's a member of a ''kabuki'' troupe -- who as much is put in the [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Unlucky Childhood Friend]] role), and a more romantic one with her [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage arranged boyfriend]] Shinobu Iijyuin (who, like the below-mentioned André Grandier from ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', isn't that girly but is still more patient and sensitive than she is.)
* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': [[BattleButler Hayate Ayasaki]] is extremely polite, humble, and skilled at domestic tasks. Mirroring him is pink-haired swordswoman [[StudentCouncilPresident Hinagiku Katsura]] (one of his LoveInterests) who is assertive, highly-athletic, and projects an aura of leadership. Simply put, he can make women around him feel their femininity is being challenged and she is cooler than any of the boys at school resulting in most of the guys ''and'' [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer girls crushing on her]]. Each of them is a mix of traits however, and CharacterDevelopment has resulted in them evening out somewhat. Hinagiku becomes less "tomboy" and more "girly", by showing that she is just as good a cook as [[SupremeChef master-chef]] Hayate and adores cute things, as well as focusing on her romantic side. Hayate gets to show off his determination and combat ability in addition to his dedication to duty and fulfilling his promises. Notably, he seems to like her "boyish" traits and {{Imagine Spot}}s from her show that she kinda likes his "girlish" side as well.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
** Roderich/Austria and Elisaveta/Hungary, though it's a variation. Austria is more of a PrincelyYoungMan rather than traditionally feminine. While Hungary is more feminine than most blue girls, being an adoring TeamMom. Doesn't stop her from [[CurbStompBattle kicking your ass]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend if you dare to harm him]] though.
*** She was much more tomboyish when she was younger (and frequently kicked Austria's butt), but mellowed when she got older and she ended up in his care.
** A more appearance-based, non-romantic variant in [[PlatonicLifePartners Hungary and Poland]]. She's a tomboy TeamMom, he's a WholesomeCrossdresser [[ValleyGirl Valley Boy]].
* ''Manga/HimegotoJuukyuusaiNoSeifuku'': Kaito is a {{bishonen}} ChickMagnet who has a fetish for pretending he's the girl he has a crush on while Yuki (who isn't said woman) is a {{bifauxnen}} who wishes she was girlier.
* ''Himitsu Kichi'': Haruka and Kotake from the one-shot ''My Own Secret''. She's a boyish {{Bifauxnen}} who practices judo and he's a feminine guy who likes cooking and sewing.
* ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'': The biggest badass AcePilot Chifuyu Orimura living with her little brother and main protagonist Ichika Orimura for the majority of their lives. He is the series HouseHusband who takes care of all the housework while she earns the money for both of them.
%%* ''Manga/MaidSama'': A non-romantic example ([[spoiler:not counting Aoi's one-sided crush on her]]) is Misaki and Aoi.
* ''Manga/KamichamaKarin'': Karin the {{tomboy}}ish CuteBruiser and Kazune the [[DudeLooksLikeALady girly-faced]] {{tsundere}}.
* ''Kanojo Ni Naritai?!'': Invoked when the ([[DudeLooksLikeALady already slightly effeminate]]) protagonist begins crossdressing to attract the attention of a cool {{tomboy}} he has a crush on. He later finds out she actually ''isn't'' a lesbian and the one shot ends with implications they will begin dating.
* Sora and Sebastian from ''Manga/MassuguNiIkou''. Sora is loud, rude, and athletic Dachshund while Sebastian is a polite and dainty Yorkie with a bow on his head. Sora is quite protective of Sebastian. She's also in love with him, but he's ObliviousToLove.
%%* Fuuka and Mei from ''Manga/MeiNoNaisho''
* ''Manga/MinamiKe'': Makoto isn't girly per se, but most of his scenes alongside the tomboy Touma feature him masquerading as a girl. In one episode, he also describes masculine and feminine traits inherited from his mother and father, respectively.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'' has Mora Bascht and Chuck Keith. Although Chuck isn't all that girly, he's a fairly unassuming guy, and Mora is pretty Amazon (and head and shoulders taller than him), so this vibe is definitely present.
* ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'':
** The Wakamatsu/Seo couple has this dynamic, as Wakamatsu is a sensitive guy who believes in ShoujoGenre manga while Seo is a brash [[TheLadette lad-ette]].
** For a platonic example, Kashima and Mikoshiba. Kashima is a TallDarkAndHandsome "prince charming" who can easily make girls fall in love with her, while her best friend Mikoshiba is a shy guy who often behaves like a {{Tsundere}}. When Mikoshiba tried to ask Kashima to become his pretend girlfriend (which she agreed to), the roles got reversed and Mikoshiba claimed that he felt like he has got a boyfriend instead.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' likes to analyse gender roles, and as such plays with the trope regarding the couples in the series:
** Shinji is obviously a HouseHusband in training, cooking and doing most of the chores around the house he occupies with Asuka and Misato, and has a shy, timid, and kind personality most of the time ([[BewareTheNiceOnes unless extensively provoked]] [[DespairEventHorizon or completely snaps]]). By contrast, Asuka is a FieryRedhead ActionGirl who revels in combat and remains the better pilot for most of the series.
** While Kaji is clearly quite manly, he has some feminine touches to his personality, in that he enjoys gardening, drinks coffee, specializes in espionage, and likes tidying up. This is in contrast to Misato who enjoys cars, drinks beer, specializes in combat, and is very sloppy (as seen that Shinji picks up after her and Asuka.)
* ''Manga/OresamaTeacher'': Several pairs, as the female protagonist Mafuyu is a {{Tomboy}}[=/=]ActionGirl. So there is Mafuyu and Hayasaka, Mafuyu and Okegawa, Mafuyu and Ayabe...
* ''Manga/OtomeNoIroha'': In the manga, the main siblings' grandmother comes back from the dead and forcibly [[GenderBender Gender Bends]] them because of this. Her feeling was that the odds of a Pink Boy and a Blue Girl successfully marrying, [[IWantGrandkids let alone providing great-grandchildren]], were so minute she had to take matters into her own hands.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has the aggressive FieryRedhead Jessie and the CampStraight James of Team Rocket (though James falls more under the PrincelyYoungMan type). Over the seasons they have more than a few times they were DisguisedInDrag as a man and woman respectively.
** ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' has the CampStraight coordinator Ruby and the aggressive battle-loving {{Tomboy}} Sapphire. Ironically enough, it was implied they had more traditional roles when they were younger. However, both underwent a traumatic incident involving Salamance as young children. Ruby felt ashamed in how his battling frightened Sapphire and developed into someone calmer and more serene while Sapphire was ashamed by her timidity in response and became more fiery.
** Ash's Unova companions in the anime, Iris and Cilan. Cilan cooks and has a more passive and nurturing role while Iris is more battle-oriented and wild.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Junko is a corporate ladder climber as well as a HardDrinkingPartyGirl when off-work. Tomohisa is her level-headed and kind HouseHusband. This is reflected in her style of dialogue, which is more similar to Kyouko's than any of the other female characters (though less vulgar).
* The calm and serene So Touma and hyperactive tomboy Kana Mizuhara from ''Manga/{{QED}}''.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** Ukyo Kuonji is a {{Bifauxnen}} who manages to attract two different WholesomeCrossdresser suitors. The second of these, Konatsu, was [[RaisedAsTheOpposoteGender raised so feminine]] that they can almost be argued as female-identifying, to the point their his reaction when surprised in a bath is to squeal like a girl and cover non-existent breasts.
** Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo can be seen as a zigzagging example of this. Akane is a notoriously short-tempered and violence-prone {{tomboy}}, infamous for her total [[LethalChef lack of cooking skill]], horrible at anything arts and crafts (such as making cookie shapes, sewing, painting, etc), and poor at housework. Ranma, in contrast, is capable of acting much more feminine, is very good at cooking and sewing, [[NeatFreak hates mess]] to the point he once forgot about [[ItMakesSenseInContext burglarizing a flat to clean up the mess inside instead]], can [[GenderBender turn into female more or less at will]], and often dressed up as a girl for whatever ZanyScheme he was pulling. On the other hand, [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Akane]] ''desperately'' wants to be more feminine and tries her hardest to achieve that, and had both stereotypically "girly" fears (such as loathing ghost stories) ''and'' a rather idealized view of femininity (due to her beloved mother's early death ''and'' [[PromotiontoParent having been raised]] by her YamatoNadeshiko older sister Kasumi), while Ranma is a macho jock-type who'll even go around near-naked in female form because he's that masculine.
* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': Juri is TheStoic captain of the fencing club. Miki is a gentle {{Bishonen}} and a skilled pianist.
* ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'': André Grandier and Oscar François de Jarjayes. Perhaps not a textbook example, since André is not tremendously effeminate. But André is the more sensitive and people-oriented one, while Oscar is very direct and more goal-oriented. Oscar is referred to as the "light", and André as the "shadow".
* ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'': Genjo Sanzo and his new best friend Sharak Sanzo are two peas in a pod. They're a mirror reflection of each other, except for appearance. Genjo Sanzo is short, was mistaken for a girl a lot as a kid, is teasingly referred to as "princess," has men hitting on him because of his looks, wears a long flowing garment, and is the weakest guy in his party. Sharak has barely noticeable breasts, wears men's monk robes, is very buff, is covered in scars, talks and carries herself in a masculine manner, plus she does not like being thought of or looked at as a woman.
* ''Manga/SakuraDiscord'': Mebuki and Oka are revealed to have been very close in the third volume. She's a blunt, sarcastic and uncaring AcademicAthlete while he's a nice and soft pretty boy, who met her through his reading hobby. After much drama involving Mebuki's family, they end up together. And they turn out to have a strange and unexpected affinity when it comes to {{troll}}ing.
* ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'': [[NonActionGuy mild mannered]] [[MessianicArchetype Kyrie]] and [[{{Jerkass}} arrogant]] [[LadyofWar Morte]]. Because the two are so different, Kyrie [[spoiler:has the power to convince Morte to stop destroying the world.]]
* Kazuto "Towa" Sakuma and Miya from ''Manga/SensualPhrase''. Kazuto's a very girly-looking rock musician who dresses as a female even off-stage. Miya is the {{Bifauxnen}} beautician who both dates him and created his androgynous looks.
* ''Manga/SpecialA'': Brash, competitive Hikari and thoughtful, cultured Kei. It also inverts typical plot roles: Kei has [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest loved Hikari since forever]] but is too shy to say it; Hikari is so dense that she doesn't notice.
* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'': Ryuji and Taiga have aspects of this in personality, but it contrasts with their appearance. Taiga is [[{{Shorttank}} small]] ("looks like a doll") but has a brash, loud and angry personality. Ryuji has the FaceOfAThug but is generally quiet and enjoys housework (especially cleaning but also cooking).
* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': Ryunosuke was unwillingly raised to be the ultimate manly man by her father, and later discovers she's in an ArrangedMarriage with Nagisa, the ghost of a guy raised to be ultra womanly. Though after coming back to life, he turns out to also be insanely strong, despite mostly hiding it behind over the top girly behavior.
* ''Shikimori-san is Not Just Cute'' concerns the relationship between a cute, but [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer popular]], naturally athletic, and cool girl and her supportive, unlucky, cute {{Protectorate}} boyfriend. In-universe and out, many think they could switch genders and they'd fit in each other's roles perfectly.
* ''Manga/UsotsukiLily'': Numerous, including the main couple Hinata and En, with boyfriend En being a pretty crossdresser and girlfriend Hinata shown to be a pretty boy when crossdressing and sometimes does not know her own strength.
* ''Utopia Of Homosexuality'': Jung Suk Ha and Park Bong Bin are respectively a ButchLesbian and a CampGay [[spoiler:who eventually end up together. Yes, a very misleading title.]]
* ''LightNovel/VenusToMamoru'': Ayako's the violent, tsundere PersonofMassDestruction who gives off HugeSchoolgirl vibes in her attempts to act more feminine (not at all helped by the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil constantly teasing the two about their relationship), and Mamoru's a cute boy who takes all the craziness around him with a gentle smile.
* ''Manga/WanderingSon'': Downplayed with Maho and Riku. Maho is a loud, aggressive girl while her boyfriend Riku is a softspoken NiceGuy.
* ''Woman in the Man'': Childhood friends Tsuyomaru and Hazumi, a short story by Creator/MasakazuKatsura. Mixed with FreakyFridayFlip as they switch bodies.
* ''Webcomic/WelcomeToRoom305'': Yoona and her twin brother Yoon Sung when they were young. Yoona is boisterous, looked androgynous, and would get into fights protecting her short, crybaby brother. As adults, Yoona is still TheLadette but Yoon Sung is a JerkAss.
* ''Manga/WJuliet'': Ito and Makoto. So much that it's even implied that [[spoiler:they'll get married in drag!]]
* ''Manga/YourAndMySecret'': Soft-spoken boy, Akira Urehara and loud-mouthed girl Nanako Momoi being [[FreakyFridayFlip Body Switched]] into one another's bodies. Just about everyone notices how much more masculine Akira and how feminine Nanako has become, and approve.
* ''Manga/YourLieInApril'': Tsubaki and Kousei, when they were in elementary. Kousei was a short, sensitive boy who played the piano while Tsubaki was an athletic {{tomboy}}.
* ''Manga/YoureMyPet'': Sumire and Momo. Sumire is an efficient, successful journalist who watches pro wrestling and {{Sentai}} anime in her spare time and is a martial arts master on the side, while Momo is a modern dancer who is fairly emotional and doesn't mind taking on the role of Sumire's pet.
