Aggretsuko features this dynamic in every season with Retsuko, Haida, and a mutable third party. Season 1 and 2 feature Retsuko as the Archie and Haida as Betty, with the the Veronica role being taken by the quiet Resasuke in Season 1, and tech mogul Tadano in Season 2. In Season 3, Haida takes his turn as the Archie, with Retsuko as his Veronica and the role of Betty filled by Innui.
Ai Yori Aoshicould have had this, with Kaoru between the sweet, innocent Yamato Nadeshiko Aoi (Betty), and the wilder, worldly Blithe Spirit Tina (Veronica). This would have also reversed the usual color coding, as the former is brunette (sorta), while the latter is blond. However, the Veronica never really had a chance, in this case.note Tina is still "innocent" in one way (ie, still a virgin).
Beelzebub has Aoi and Hilda, Oga Tatsumi's romantic options. Aoi (Betty) is human, and kind-hearted despite being a delinquent. Hilda (Veronica) is a demon who dresses in black and is very cold and dismissive to Tatsumi. Due to circumstances involving Hilda imposing herself in Tatsumi's home, this perspective is inverted in-universe, with Tatsumi's classmates calling Hilda and Aoi "wife and mistress", respectively.
Played slightly different in Bitter Virgin: Main character Daisuke initially has two primary suitors who each view the other as her biggest rival in love, Yuzu, the childhood friend who's fiercely straight-laced, and Kazuki, the most stylish girl in the class. However, in this case neither is the true love interest; that title goes to the Shrinking Violet Hinako.
Black Cat: The protagonist Train has three female love interests and one male one. The three girls are like this on a scale of Betty to Veronica: Saya (the one closest to Train and was very caring to him when she was alive), Rinslet (the Tsundere thief who tend to deny any attraction to him), Kyoko (although she is smitten with Train, she was an assassin who had killed more than a few people by the time she had a crush on him and thus the most disturbing female love interest). However, all of them are Betty compared to the aforementioned male Creed, who is Train's Arch-Enemy, has a very creepy obsession with him, gets insanely jealous at anyone close to him, killed Saya because he believed that she was a "witch" who corrupted Train, and when he realized that Train will never become his ally, he decided that he would rather have Train by his side as adead body rather than continue to let the "witch" ruin him.
Black Clover: The hero Asta has two primary love interests who have romantic feelings for him. Mimosa is the Betty, being much kinder and gentler, more openly affectionate towards Asta, and modest about her status as royalty. Noelle is the Veronica, as she's haughty and aloof girl, a Tsundere to Asta, and proud about being a royal. Incidentally, both of them are royalty instead of one or the other.
Bleach: The kind and pacifist Girl Next Door Orihime Inoue looks like a good Betty and the Tsundere Rukia seems to be a nice Veronica. Ichigo and Rukia are very close friends; on the other hand, Orihime already confessed her love for Ichigo but he wasn't conscious at the time to hear. Ichigo is more than willing to scale both Soul Society and Hueco Mundo in order to rescue both of them (in separate arcs) and the 'other' girl heartily participates in the rescue: Orihime is the Barrier Warrior and healer in Soul Society who actually came up with the idea of rescuing Rukia, while Rukia recovers her Action Girl credentials by the time the Hueco Mundo arc kicks in and joins Ichigo's quest for Orihime without hesitation. It turns out that there was never a Love Triangle between them to start with: Rukia was always The Not-Love Interestto Ichigo and her romantic feelings were for her childhood friend Renji instead, whereas Ichigo and Orihime developed more and more Ship Tease as time passed, and ultimately were Happily Married.
In Blue Comet SPT Layzner, the cute-looking Anna Stephanie (Betty) and the tomboyish Simone Reflanne (Veronica) were tailor-cut to be this to The Hero Eiji Asuka. The series finishes with Eiji and Anna as the Official Couple, and with Simone staying with Eiji's Lancer David Rutherford.
Combined with Sibling Triangle, there's the rough and lively older brother Rin as the Veronica and the calm and polite younger brother Yukio as the Betty to their mutual crush, Shiemi. However, as the story goes on, they begin to switch places as Rin matures and Yukio's inner darkness rises to the surface.
To a lesser extent, Rin serves as the Archie to Shiemi's very sweet Betty and Izumo's haughty Veronica. However, Rin doesn't even realize that Izumo is crushing on him, and Shiemi reveals that she isn't even interested in romance with anyone right now, feeling that she is too young for that.
The heroine Tsukushi Makino is the object of both Rui's (the calm, supportive Betty) and Domyoji's (the violent, passionate Veronica) affections. Subverted in that Makino initially has unrequited feelings for Rui, while it is Domyoji who has (initially) one-sided feelings for her, and in that the Veronica triumphs.
To take the comparison further, Tsukushi is the Betty (tomboy but nice) and Sakurako (snarky and manipulative) is the Veronica to the Archie Tsukasa. Later on, Shigeru replaces Sakurako as the Veronica (energetic, aggressive, passionate) while Tsukushi is still a Betty to Tsukasa's Archie.
Sakura's two potential love interests are the gentle Nice Guy Yukito (Betty) and the foreign Jerk with a Heart of Gold Syaoran (Veronica). Played with in the end: Yukito ended up with Sakura's brother, and by the time Sakura fell for Syaoran, he was far more of a Nice Guy.
From Dominique's perspective, there's two love triangles going on in The Case Study of Vanitas: Dominique believes the sheltered Friendly Neighborhood Vampire Noé (Betty) is attracted to Jeanne, who is becoming captivated by the mysterious Anti-Hero Vanitas (Veronica). Whereas, Dominique sees herself as Noé's Unlucky Childhood Friend (Betty) who pales in comparison to the more enticing and buxom executioner-turned-knight Jeanne (Veronica). However, Dominique is very likely a case of Wrong Genre Savvy since she's just assuming Noé has feelings for Jeanne because she sees in Jeanne what she lacks to be desirable as a woman. Dante does tell Dominique that Vanitas and Jeanne becoming a couple would be in her best interests, but considering Dante is all but stated to be a VanitasxNoéshipper, he probably means someone other than Jeanne might take Noé.
Cat's Eye has a lot of fun with this trope, depending on who's the Archie:
The first triangle has Toshio as the Archie, while Hitomi and Asatani mix up Betty and Veronica traits: Hitomi is Toshio's childhood friend, they have actually been dating the whole time (though they're in a rough period at the start of the story), and she works at the family cafè, while Asatani is the newcomer with an aggressive personality and working as a police officer like Toshio, making them appear the Betty and Veronica respectively... But Hitomi is also far more attractive (to the point Toshio flat-out stated that in summer, when wearing less-covering clothes, Hitomi makes him horny just by being there, but he calms down immediately by looking at Asatani), and being one of the Cat's Eye thieves Toshio is hunting down she's the less "safe" option.
The second triangle has Hitomi as the Archie and once again mixes up things, as Toshio should be the Betty while Chivalrous Pervert Kamiya should be the Veronica... But Toshio is the cop hunting down her secret identity and Kamiya an allied thief, so Kamiya is in a way the safer option.
A third has Asatani as the Archie, with Toshio as the unknowing Betty, Kamiya as the accidental Veronica, and the mysterious male member of Cat's Eye as the Third-Option Love Interest... Except the male member of Cat's Eye is actually Hitomi's older sister Rui in a male disguise who charmed Asatani by complete accident (she walked on Rui as she was trying out the disguise, and was immediately smitten). Asatani gets together with Kamiya after his epicAccidental Proposal.
Devilman: To Akira's Archie, Miki is his caring, gentle and more "normal" Childhood Friend Betty, while Ryo is a pretty, exotic foreigner with a more aggressive nature and much more obsessive with Akira. No one wins because Miki ends up being killed, while Akira also dies in his last battle with Ryo - who was revealed to be Satan - and by Ryo's hands, no less, which leaves Ryo to suffer forever for killing his own love.
Subverted in Double Arts. When "Betty" (Ellie) tentatively inquires about Kiri's feelings for the obvious "Veronica" candidate (Sui), he practically goes into a Heroic BSoD. Turns out they already tried dating. And she dumped him. Three times. So much for thatLove Triangle...
Elfen Lied gives Kouta (Archie) two conflicting and very different love interests: Lucy/Nyu, the superpowered mutant with an extreme case of Split Personality that makes her a poster girl for Cute and Psycho (Veronica), and Yuka, Kouta's cousin who has had a crush on him since childhood and often plays Team Mom for the other residents at their house (Betty).
While he doesn't think of them that way, the protagonist Soma has the most Ship Tease with Megumi Tadokoro and Erina Nakiri. Megumi, the Betty, is cute but has a slim build and is overall much plainer with a quiet, domestic and very supportive personality. On the other hand, Erina, the Veronica, has more of a sexy body type with considerable curves and blonde hair. As far as personality goes, she tends to be more ambitious, aggressive and demanding, though secretly quite nice. For the most part, only Megumi is confirmed to have a crush on Soma, while Erina is more ambiguous but it's heavily hinted that Soma fits the type of man she'd like to be with.
Free!: For Haruka's stoic and quiet Archie, Makoto is his Childhood Friend who is very kind and soft that has been with him since they were babies and is still always by his side, while Rin is his Hot-Bloodedrival whose relationship with him at the first season was pretty intense due to the guy having experienced bad stuffs. The ship war between shipper of Haru/Makoto and Haru/Rin is very heated, to say the least. However, as of season 2, due to the introduction of Rin's own Childhood Friend Sousuke, the preferred ships have mostly become Haru/Makoto and Sousuke/Rin.
Full Metal Panic! inverts this: Chidori is the Veronica despite being the Ordinary High-School Student, while Tessa, who is a captain in a covert paramilitary organization and has command of a submarine and several hundred troops, Sousuke included, is the Betty personality-wise.
Ryuuichi Kashima, the protagonist of Gakuen Babysitters have two girls crushing over him: the shy and gentle Ushimaru (Betty) and the Ice Queen Inomata (Veronica). However, due to the lack of focus on actual romance in the series, the Love Triangle dynamics are rarely focused, and the two girls are frequently more intimate with each other than with their crush.
GE - Good Ending has Shou (Betty) and Yuki (Veronica) for Seiji, the protagonist. One is bubbly, the other one is more serious. One comes from a mid-class family background, the other one from a high class family. One is blonde, one is black-haired.
Then played with; Shrinking Violet but exotic mermaid and human but Broken Bird witch. Though Tatsuya shows more attraction to Seine, he still can leave Sheila alone when she's in trouble.
The Hellsing anime has a twisted, 'sort of' affection triangle between Alucard, Integra Hellsing, and Seras Victoria that creates an animosity between the women. While Seras looks as the Veronica (being the one with sultry clothes and the newest addition to the Hellsing group) to Integra's Betty (long-standing bond with Alucard and with more tomboyish traits), personality and role wise could be switched: Integra's the Rich Veronica that has Alucard's affection while Reliable Betty Seras longs for it. Studio Gonzo claims that in the Anime, Alucard actually turned Seras because her eyes reminded him of Integra during her youth, but he was mistaken. The manga averts this situation with an emphasis on a platonic bond between Alucard and Seras, but curiously adding Les Yay subtext between Seras and Integra, and having Pip Bernadotte as Seras' Love Interest.
Hetalia: Axis Powers, with its tons of characters, gets lots of Love Triangle combinations set up in fanworks that deliberately invoke this dynamic. Even the most canon-supported ones have been played with by fans to extensive degrees:
And just in case your head isn't spinning enough yet, there are numerousfanon combinations of other characters with many of them bouncing back and forth between the Betty and Veronica roles depending on who their designated romantic rival is. To list all of them would take up half of this page, especially since this fandom is way more prone to OT3s than most other fandoms.
Highschool of the Dead presents Rei and Saeko's ongoing Love Triangle with Takashi as the Light Feminine and Dark Feminine equivalent: Rei is the down-to-earth 'wholesome girl' and childhood friend of Takashi, who's plainly stated her feelings for him. By contrast, Saeko freely admits to preferring to be the seductress, so she uses her sex appeal instead. This is also reflected by the difference in how they dress. Rei's school uniform is essentially the same as it's always been with the addition of knee pads and elbow pads for protection. Saeko modified hers with lacey black thigh-high stockings, stiletto-heeled boots, and a matching black miniskirt that has a split-seam so high, it flashes her panties when she walks. When Rei and the others see what she's wearing, Rei calls her out on it:
Rei: (incredulous) "What the heck is THAT!? Aren't you embarrassed showing off like that!? I can't believe you're walking around like that!!"
Ordinary High-School Student Kagome is the Betty and Dark Magical Girl Kikyo the Veronica. Solved when Kikyo dies for a second time but now is able to go in peace, so Inuyasha finally lets go of his regrets and stays with Kagome.
In an anime episode, Sango has Kuranosuke Takeda, the admiring nobleman who asks her to marry him, as the Betty against Handsome Lech Miroku as the Veronica. In this case, the deck is heavily stacked against Kuranosuke, since marrying him would also require Sango to give up her quest for Revenge; she chooses to continue the journey, Kuranosuke does not appear again, and Sango and Miroku end up Happily Married in the Distant Finale.
In Jewelpet (2009), Rinko has to choose between her accessible neighbour Akira (Betty) and bad boy Andy (Veronica), who's actually the Big Bad in disguise.
The one-episode Love Triangle from Kaleido Star had Sarah as Archie, Kalos as Betty, and Andy as Veronica. Sarah chooses Kalos — in fact, she had chosen him quite a while before and that's why she had stayed in the Stage in the first place. Andy never really stood a chance, and he immediately acknowledges it.
Kimagure Orange Road. Kyosuke is torn between Hikaru (the ever-doting Betty) and Madoka (the Wild Child Veronica). Both of them love him, with the added complication that Hikaru was Madoka's Only Friend. Madoka is the one he chooses.
In The King of Fighters: KYO manga (a Spinoff from the KOF games), there are several prospect love triangles like this:
At first, Kyo Kusanagi is the Archie to Yuki's Betty and Athena Asamiya's Veronica. Since Yuki is already Kyo's girlfriend when Athena comes into Kyo's school to be closer to him and see how his powers are like, she "wins" this round.
With Athena as Archie, then Kyo switches to the Veronica while Sie Kensou is the Betty. As said above Kyo stays with Yuki, but Athena never really "switches" to Kensou anyway.
Later, due to a series of meddling and misunderstandings, Yuki becomes the Archie with Kyo as Veronica and Takaya Maeta as Betty. Maeta does get a serious chance to get closer to Yuki and Kyo has other matters to attend... but ultimately he gets better, Yuki stays by his side, and Maeta relents.
Sana ends up in a love triangle with Akito and Naozumi, which can be interpreted in two ways:
Akito is Sana's classmate who has a close (if complicated) friendship with her (Betty), while Naozumi is a super-popular celebrity who rarely hangs out with Sana (Veronica).
Naozumi is a Nice Guy who has a lot in common with Sana (Betty), Akito is an uncommunicative "bad boy" who has trouble expressing his feelings (Veronica).
Akito's love triangle with Sana and Fuuka also has two interpretations:
Sana is his long-time crush and close friend who understands him the most (Betty) and Fuuka is the newcomer (Veronica).
Fuuka is a normal student who is open about her feelings for him (Betty), Sana is a popular celebrity who is often away for work, and is Oblivious to Love (Veronica).
In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (2005), Ghanti, who is a hot-blooded and dangerous bandit girl in a revealing outfit, is jealous of Link's feelings for Zelda, who is a kind, wise, and modestly dressed princess.
Love Hina has a pretty basic version of this: Cloudcuckoolander Mutsumi (Betty) versus Tsundere Naru (Veronica). Keitaro, however, makes his preference the latter quite transparent halfway into the series, no matter if she's the little girl of the promise or not.
Love Pistols had one during the summer trip to the Madarame household. Norio becomes the Archie to a cold, aggressive and increasingly distant Kunimasa (Veronica) and a caring, sweeter and openly in love with him Hidekuni (Betty).
Macross in all its incarnations is actually built around this:
Super Dimension Fortress Macross has Idol Singer Lynn Minmay as the Veronica and Bridge Bunny Misa Hayase as the Betty. Minmay herself has a similar case, with military pilot Hikaru as the Betty and manager/martial artist Lynn Kaifunn as the Veronica.
Macross 7 had a gender-reversed version of the trope, with dutiful military pilot Gamlin as the Betty, and Hot-Blooded rock musician Basara as the Veronica.
As does Macross Plus, where brash and rebellious Isamu is the Veronica, and serious and caring Guld seems to be a Betty. And then it puts everything on its head in The Reveal, because Guld, while normally a nice guy, occasionally has random psychotic moments, and once he remembers that he attempted to rape Myung during one of those moments, it turns him into The Atoner who gets his Redemption Equals Death moment in the end; while Isamu actually wanted Myung to be happy, and thus removed himself from the picture, becoming something of a Death Seeker, but after Guld's Redemption Equals Death he and Myung stay together..
Macross Delta plays with this. Sweet-natured Plucky Girl Freyja Wion would at first seem like the Betty compared to older Tsundere Mirage Jenius, but the former is an Idol Singer with a fairly rambunctious personality, while the latter is a straight-laced military pilot.
In Maid-Sama!, Misaki is the Archie, with her childhood friend Hinata as the Betty and her mysterious, popular, wealthy love interest Takumi Usui as the Veronica. Interestingly Hinata is a brunette while Takumi is a blond.
There's a male version where Kyoko has to choose between the awkward, indecisive, but fundamentally kind-hearted Godai (Betty) and the suave, flashy Mitaka (Veronica).
Godai himself encounters an interesting variation on this trope: although he has romantic options that play the Betty and Veronica options straight (his good-natured fellow student Kozue and his outspoken, sexually aggressive pupil Ibuki respectively), his true romantic interest, Kyoko, is a blend of the two types, as she is both a responsible, supportive, somewhat traditional young lady and an independently minded woman with a temper who is unafraid to criticize Godai or defy her parents when necessary.
In MÄR, Snow and Dorothy are the Betty and Veronica respectively towards Ginta. In the manga, nothing is really resolved and both stay behind in MÄR Heaven, although Ginta eventually hooking up with Snow's real-world counterpart Koyuki isn't out of the question. In the anime, Ginta resolves things with Dorothy by explicitly not choosing her. Snow merges with Koyuki to become one whole person to be with him on Earth, and the ending heavily implies a mutual relationship occurs, so in this case, the Betty wins.
The kindhearted and seemingly bashful Neko (Betty) initially competes with the cynical and abrasive Aki (Veronica) over Masamune (Archie). Interestingly, both Aki and Neko have Hidden Depths that one could argue make Aki the Betty and Neko the Veronica.
Superficially, Aki serves as the Archie to Masamune's Betty and Kanetsugu's Veronica. However, it's all subverted since Kanetsugu isn't really romantically interested in Aki, but still poses as Aki's fiancé to get a chance at using Aki's wealth to save the Gasou family from financial ruin. Meanwhile, Aki only hangs out with Kanetsugu because she believes that Kanetsugu is her childhood friend who disappeared eight years ago, Masamune, unaware that the real Masamune is the guy who has been trying to make her fall in love with his new slim self since before Kanetsugu showed up. On top of that, Kanetsugu is actually a woman and drops the facade of being Masamune after the real one exposes her disguise.
In the last parts of the series, once Neko and Kanetsugu have both bowed out of their respective triangles and Masamune and Aki start dating, Yoshino enters the equation as the last potential Love Interest to Masamune aside from Aki herself. It's Played With; Yoshino is much more humble and supportive than Aki, but she's also sarcastic and pressures Masamune into being with Aki, whereas Aki has been nothing but sweet to him since learning he's her true long-lost childhood crush.
MegaMan NT Warrior: Lan Hikari is the Archie to Maylu's Betty, who is a sweet Girl Next Door who clearly has a crush on him. The Veronica role is filled by Princess Pride in Season 2, and by Jasmine in Stream, both of whom develop crushes on Lan and thus become rivals to Maylu for his affection.
In the manga Momokuri, a gender-inverted version occurs with Shouta as the "Betty" to Rihito's "Veronica"note not so erotic, fanservice-laden but still very rude and cold and possessing a sort of bad-boy feel for Yuzuki's "Archie. Both have loved her for years, and her own feelings remain extremely confused, with her asserting a deep love for Rihito and a desire to always have him with her and unchanged, but it's also made clear that Shouta is always the first one on her mind, and she can't even imagine him changing toward her or not being there at her side forever.
In Nana, rock star Takumi would probably count as a male version of Veronica for Hachiko while Nobu serves as a male Betty.
In Naruto, there's a weird variation. Naruto, of course, is the Archie, who has a one-sided shallow crush on Sakura (Veronica), who is a Tsundere towards him and has always been in love with Sasuke. Watching from afar is Hinata (Betty), who has admired Naruto since childhood and has been in love with him for years. The weirdness comes in when one brings up of social classes, where Hinata has the Veronica trait of being the heiress of the most illustrious clan in Konoha (probably the closest the village has to a princess barring Tsunade), while Naruto, for all of his childhood and most of Part I, was the village pariah — socially speaking, a relationship between them would be unacceptable. This obstacle for any potential relationship between them was removed when Naruto became the village hero, and became gradually clear to the people of Konoha that he was the son of the Fourth Hokage. The series ends with Naruto and Hinata as the Official Couple, while Sakura and Sasuke are the Beta Couple (since Sasuke reciprocated Sakura's feelings two years before Naruto realizes and reciprocates Hinata's love for him).
In the original anime, while he has the kindness of a Betty, he is still a villain threatening humanity. Zig-zagged in that Kaworu asks Shinji to kill him so humanity can survive, so he's more Betty.
In the manga, due to having his naivetytowardhuman culture played up, Kaworu comes off as an Adaptational Jerkass Veronica, who is surprisingly a lot more rude and inconsiderate than most of his incarnations. However, it's not out of actual malice, but rather due to his very severe lack of knowledge in humanity.
In Rebuild of Evangelion, Kaworu's mysteriousness is stressed upon to make us believe he's a Veronica. However, in his actual debut in 3.0, he's revealed to be a Betty who wholeheartedly supports Shinji without any hidden agenda, is pretty much the only one who is nice to him at that point and even sacrifices himself to stop Shinji from triggerring Fourth Impact.
In Nisekoi, there's Kosaki, the gentle Girl Next Door whose family owns a bakery, as the Betty and Chitoge, the aggressive Tsunderedaughter of a mafia boss, as the Veronica. In a twist, Raku is chasing after Kosaki, but he's forced to pretend to be dating Chitoge to prevent their families from starting a gang war.
Melfina from Outlaw Star gets a male version of this with Gene (Betty) and Harry (Veronica). When the "safe" choice is a foul-mouthed Badass Longcoat, the "bad boy" is definitely going to have someserious issues.
In Peach Girl, Momo spent years with a crush on the chivalrous and polite Toji, until she finally gets him. They guy helping her out on the way is Kairi, a lecherous, school-skipping bad boy she discovers she now has feelings for. Throughout the series she bounces back and forth between them, until finally she ends up with Kairi.
Penguindrum's Kanba Takakura is kind of an an Archie, with his little sisterHimari as the Betty and Masako Natsume as the Veronica. It turns out Himari is adopted while Masako is Kanba's twin sister. And at the end, Kanba goes the Redemption Equals Death way for Himari.
The Pet Girl of Sakurasou: Sorata has his ordinary classmate and aspiring voice actress Nanami and the world-famous, extremely talented Idiot Savant artist Mashiro as his two love interests. Personality-wise, however, it can be debatable which is Betty and which is Veronica, since Nanami is a Tsundere, while Mashiro is an Emotionless Girl with No Social Skills.
There's Fakir (the Tsundere Bad Boy) and Mytho (the Prince) for Ahiru. In the end, she doesn't end up with neither because Mytho chooses Rue as his bride and Ahiru turns back into a duck forever, although Fakir at least continues taking care of her.
Ahiru is the good Magical Girl Betty to Dark Magical Girl Rue's Veronica, with both pining after Mytho. Surprisingly, Rue's love turns out to be far more devoted and selfless, which ultimately allows her to save Mytho from his curse and he chooses to make her his princess, with Ahiru's blessing.
As shown in the image at the top of the page, Ranma is the Archie to the short-tempered yet good-hearted Tsundere Akane's Betty and the seductiveAnime Chinese Girl Shampoo's Veronica. Although this being an Unwanted Harem situation, it's not so much about Ranma being torn about which one to choose (though he is attracted to both girls, he feels much more attracted to Akane), but torn because he's engaged against his will to both women (Akane being an Arranged Marriage, Shampoo an Accidental Marriage) and rejecting one in favor of the other would bring lots of trouble for the three of them. This triangle also includes a Third-Option Love Interest, in the form of childhood friend and Bifauxnen, Ukyo Kuonji who is also engaged to Ranma because of a deal her father made with his.
With Akane as the center figure, the bumbling Bruiser with a Soft Center Ryoga can be considered the Betty to Jerk with a Heart of Gold Ranma's Veronica. Also, Ranma is the snarky yet ultimately well-intentioned Betty to Kuno's delirious, hammy Veronica.
Parodied with Tatewaki Kuno who sees himself as caught between a Love Triangle between him, Akane, and the Pigtailed Girl. Akane is Betty, the girl he's known longer and has always been close at hand. "The pigtailed girl"(female Ranma) is Veronica, a mysterious beauty who disappears and reappears like the wind. Of course, Kuno doesn't seem to get that neither of the two like him. An episode of the anime also had Kuno consider his vitriolic best bud, Nabiki, as a Third-Option Love Interest, ultimately leading to Kuno saying he'd Marry Them All. Unsurprisingly, Kuno was turned into A Twinkle in the Sky after saying that.
In Ratman, Shuto's female admirers are both a mix of Betty And Veronica traits while still in stark contrast to one another. On one hand is Mirea Mizushima, his exotically gorgeous Yamato Nadeshiko classmate whom he's known for some time, however her family are the ones who turned him into the Anti-VillainProtagonist, Ratman. On the other hand is Rio Kizaki, who better fits the "cute and spunky" type, but is also the wealthy and tomboyish daughter of the Hero Association's president, and the two of them bond over their shared dream of being heroes.
Male example in The Rose of Versailles: The commoner childhood friend André is Betty and the foreign nobleman Fersen is Veronica. At first, Oscar doesn't see André as a love interest and pines after Fersen who is single-mindedly devoted to Marie-Antoinette. After Fersen rejects Oscar as a potential romantic partner, Oscar realizes that her feelings for Fersen were just infatuation and that she truly loves André.
In School Rumble, Harima initially has his sights set on Tenma alone but it's clear from the start that he has no chance of winning her heart as she's already in love with Karasuma. The two girls who do express interest in him are Tenma's sister Yakumo and local OjouEri who fit the Betty and Veronica dynamic well.
Played With in Seraph of the End: Yuu has Mikaela and Shinoa as potential love interests, but who is Betty and who is Veronica isn't very clear for a good part of the series. Shinoa is ultra-polite, but rather snarky and tends to pick on Yuu. Mikaela is Yuu's Childhood Friend, is utterly devoted to protecting him, and always has nothing but the best interests for him, but his transformation into a vampire followed by years of hardship made him incredibly cold, unemotional and almost uncaring to everyone except Yuu. Later on, Yuu is all but stated to reciprocate Mikaela's feelings and rejects Shinoa when she confesses to him. As a result, Shinoa becomes so filled with jealousy and resentment that she turns into a Yandere who is willing to kill Mikaela and force Yuu to be with her, firmly establishing her as the Veronica to Mikaela's Betty.
The Seven Deadly Sins: To Meliodas, Elizabeth is a royal Betty due to being a generally calm regular human while Diane is a common Veronica due to being a clingy easily jealous exotic giantess.
In Shakugan no Shana, Yuji has the sweet and ordinary schoolgirl Kazumi Yoshida as the Betty and the Tsundere mysterious monster fighter Shana as the Veronica.
In Skip Beat!, Kyoko has Ren (Betty) and Shou (Veronica). Also played with in that while personality-wise they are that way with Ren as the Dogged Nice Guy and Shou as the Jerkass who breaks Kyoko's heart, appearance and background-wise, Shou is the Betty and Ren the Veronica: Shou is the childhood friend and guy next door, whereas Ren is Troubled, but Cute, Tall, Dark, and Handsome and has a Mysterious Past. Later on, Kyoko acquires a Third-Option Love Interest in the form of Reino.
Nagisa with Tamao as the Betty and Shizuma as the Veronica.
Hikari with Yaya as the Betty and Amane as the Veronica.
In Tenchi Muyo!, Ayeka is clearly the Betty (traditional, reserved) to Ryoko's Veronica (sultry, unreserved). And then it's subverted because some side materials reveal that Ayeka, who's seen as kinda prudish in canon, actually has more knowledge of S&M than most Betties have...
Virtua Fighter has a minor case of this early on. Akira is the Archie, with Pai being a short-tempered Tsundere who gets irritated often by his antics (plus she's mad that he stole her Sacred First Kiss and has had to rescue her), while Sarah is much sweeter and makes it evident that she has a crush on him (much to the irritation of Pai, as well as her brother Jacky). As the story advances, Pai and Akira's Belligerent Sexual Tension tones down, and the two seem to grow much closer, possibly helped by Sarah spending a large part of the story kidnapped and Brainwashed and Crazy.
Voltron has a male version. Boy Scout Keith (Betty) and Evil Prince Lotor (Veronica) both love Princess Allura. But Allura only loves Keith- so this may actually be a subversion. Some fans try to pair up Allura with the rebellious Lance (Veronica)- but in the canon anime and other series they show absolutely no romantic interest whatsoever in each other.
Wandering Son had this early on, between siblings. It was between Bratty Teenage Daughter Maho, her gentle transgender younger sister Shuuichi, and the boy who the former was attracted to who had accidentally fallen for he sister when she was dressed as a girl. Shuu shows no attraction to Riku and by one year in-series Riku and Maho are a couple. They stay a pretty happy couple past high school, though Riku occasionally blushes at Shuuichi.
Your Lie in April has reliable childhood friend Tsubaki as Betty and the wild, mysterious, cheerful musician Kaori as Veronica for Kousei's Archie. At the end, Kaori dies and while Tsubaki makes clear her intention to always be by Kousei's side, it's obvious he's not ready to settle things with her yet.
Gender-flipped in You're My Pet. Sumire, the tall, smart and successful businesswoman, made a rule that she would only date her equal. One day, she finds a down-on-his-luck dancer sleeping in a box and... takes him on as a pet. She names him Momo and they form a relaxed, if unusual relationship. Soon after this, Hasumi (Betty), her tall, dark and intelligent sempai from university appears. He's everything she's been hoping for, but when they start going out, she feels that she has to present her best side at all times, instead of the unconditional, doglike affection offered by Momo (Veronica). The dramatic tension between "I can be myself around him" and "He's everything I ever wanted" drives the plot.
In Yu-Gi-Oh! (particularly the manga), Téa Gardner/Anzu Mazaki is shown being torn over her feelings between shy Covert Pervert Yugi (Betty) and his darker alter ego Atem (Veronica). The show ends with nothing resolved though technically Yugi wins because Atem dies at the end.
Briefly pops up in the third season of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX for Jaden: Alexis is Betty, as at this point she's been a good friend of his for months now, and Jesse is Veronica, as he's a mysterious foreigner with an "unusual" destiny. Then there comes Yubel, who's mostly Veronica (being the villain), but with streaks of Betty (they are Jaden's Forgotten Childhood Friend) and Third-Option Love Interest (the last one introduced) thrown in. Yubel wins. note Interestingly, the aspect of Alexis being "Betty" is only noticeable to the audience, because in-universe, she is not even acknowledged by Yubel as a threat and Jaden never shows interest in her. Instead, they feel more threatened by Jesse, seeing how he and Jaden acts like they're married. So, in this situation, Yubel is the evil villain Stalker with a Crush Veronica to Betty Jesse, as he is close to Jaden and is always willing to risk his life for him.
reveal that Ayeka, who's seen as kinda prudish in canon, actually has more knowledge of S&M than most Betties have...