History LoveHurts / AnimeAndManga

* ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'': Cosmo suffers a HeroicBSOD discovering that [[spoiler:a girl he grew fond of, Kitty Kitten, was killed almost accidentally. Later, Kasha Imhof dies in the movie... and then [[KillEmAll EVERYONE dies]].]].

** Farnese suffers too since she also is love with Guts (despite being engaged to another man). But of course Guts has given his heart and soul to Casca and Farnese seeing Guts continuously damage his himself to protect her when Casca doesn't even understand, causes Farnese to lash out at her in [[TheResenter bitterness]] and [[ClingyJealousGirl jealousy]]. Farnese regrets her anger at Casca (whose she supposed looking after), her jealousy gets taken UpToEleven in Fantasia Arc where the witches tell Guts Casca can be cured which makes Guts [[WhenSheSmiles incredibly happy]] and Farnese anxious. Farnese especially gets hit hard when sees the love Casca and Guts had in the former's mind.

* The Guts, Griffith, Casca LoveTriangle in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''. Griffith has two love interests in Guts and Casca and has a fall back plan to marry Casca and have kids should his initial plans fall through. However, Guts and Casca become an item and talk of leaving Griffith behind who was crippled by torture. He snaps and tries to kill himself and ultimately ends up sacrificing everyone but guts and Casca and then Casca is raped in front of Guts by the only other man she loved. Currently, because of the rape Casca reverted to an infantile state and is incapable of returning the affection the love starved and broken Guts desires.

* ''LightNovel/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': In volume 4, Nanao admits to Katie that [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove she has very strong feelings for Oliver that probably could be called love]] (prompted by Oliver admitting he had feelings for her in the previous scene). The problem is, not only does her LoveConfessor have a [[LoveTriangle crush on Oliver herself]], but Nanao also still harbors a strong desire for a DuelToTheDeath with Oliver--a holdover from her upbringing as a {{samurai}} to seek a duel with one she loves and respects (first brought up in volume 1).

** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory Gundam]]'' : Even though nearly every couple in this series [[KillThemAll doesn't end well]], the main character's crush on [[spoiler: Katejina]] ends up very badly since she becomes an enemy AND in love with the resident CharClone too!

* Happens to Nanami in ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' when she confesses her love to Tomoe. See Tomoe is Nanami's familiar and a LittleBitBeastly {{Kitsune}} while Nanami is a teenage human girl and Tomoe does not approve of InterspeciesRomance. So he immediately tries to force her to take back her confession which works out about well as you can expect.

* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' is rife with this. Juri angsts and has much heartbreak over her feelings for her friend Shiori who loves to torment her but is secretly in love with her.

* Prior to Maki becoming an AscendedExtra in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', her primary role was to appear in the background crying whenever Kashiwagi and her boyfriend were having an intimate moment. Even afterwards, she often [[MadeMyselfSad upsets herself]] whenever it was brough up that she was trapped in a LoveTriangle with her best friend.
** [[PlayedForDrama A more serious example]] comes via the development of [[spoiler: Miko Iino's feelings for Yu Ishigami. Unfortunately for Iino, Ishigami was paying way more attention to a third-year that treated him so nicely. Unlike characters like Kaguya Shinomiya, who would use underhanded threats and glares to ward off competition, Iino just... [[BreakTheCutie sat alone with a depressed look on her face.]] She even broke into tears when Miyuki Shirogane confronted her about those feelings.]]

*** And if there's the [[TakeAThirdOption other option]] of him possibly having feelings for [[FoeYay Austria]]... yup, still a loss either way.
** Turkey's strongly implied in canon to have a crush on [[YamatoNadeshiko Japan]] who's just as strongly implied to [[BirdsOfAFeather prefer his long-time rival Greece]] [[HopelessSuitor over him]]. And if the Hetalia Wikis are to be believed, he might have also been in love with Ancient Greece a long time ago and ended up ''killing'' her, according to the beta version of the drama CD. ''And'' if certain parts of the fandom are to be believed, he's [[FoeYay actually in love with either Hungary or Greece]], who he has combative relations with and [[TheMasochismTango spends 90% of his time fighting with the otherwise easygoing and kind nations]]. Either way you look at it, he sure gets the short end of the stick when it comes to romance. (Unless he goes for [[MayDecemberRomance the much younger Iceland]], that is.)

* ''Manga/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' is rife with this. Juri angsts and has much heartbreak over her feelings for her friend Shiori who loves to torment her but is secretly in love with her.

** One of the main messages of the series (with the addendum "...but you need it.")

* The first intro to ''Manga/NurseAngelRirikaSOS'' is about how love can hurt you.

* ''Manga/ScumsWish'' is essentially Love Hurts: The Manga, as every romantic entanglement in the LoveDodecahedron is unhealthy and/or painful, mostly due to [[AllLoveIsUnrequited almost everyone's feelings going unreciprocated]]. Hanabi and Mugi are pretending to date to numb the pain of their respective objects of affection (their [[TeacherStudentRomance teachers]]) not feeling the same way, while [[IncompatibleOrientation Sanae]] and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Noriko]] are themselves devastated by those two, respectively, not returning ''their'' feelings. Then things go off the rails when [[spoiler:Hanabi and Mugi develop feelings for each other, just in time for Hanabi to get her heart broken twice in a row when Narumi turns her down, and Mugi stands her up to enter into an ill-conceived relationship with Akane, who is mostly using him for sex]]. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:[[SchoolgirlLesbians Hanabi and Sanae]] start sleeping together, causing both of them intense guilt for a variety of [[ItMakesSenseInContext complicated reasons]]]].

* [[AntiVillain Anemone and Dominic]] of ''Anime/EurekaSeven''. The dangerous drugs she uses to pilot her mech take her DomesticAbuse {{Tsundere}} type behavior way beyond the usual fare. Sure, it can be funny at first to watch her beat the stuffing out of him, but as you gradually realize the depths of his devotion, her cruel indifference or abject violence becomes incredibly painful to watch. On Anemone's side, [[spoiler: when she finally realizes how much he means to her, but believes it's all too late,]] she delivers a gut-wrenching soliloquy, convinced that she doesn't deserve to live. [[spoiler: Amazingly, it all manages to end well.]]

* Roy/Riza in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Even aside from the whole [[spoiler: burning her back]] thing, they have been a massive source of pain for one another. Most of the [[DarkAndTroubledPast traumatic events]] they have gone through would most likely never have taken place if they hadn't met each other (Roy wouldn't even [[spoiler: be a [[PersonOfMassDestruction State Alchemist]]]], she wouldn't have [[spoiler: joined the army and been sent to Ishval]] and he wouldn't have [[spoiler: [[MyGreatestFailure annihilated so many people]]]]; she has made it clear she doesn't like being in the army or killing people, but she won't quit as long as he needs her). They're practically the direct (albeit non-intentional) cause of everything in the other's life that makes them suffer, and still [[LivingEmotionalCrutch they're the very thing that makes the other want to go on living]] [[spoiler: as stated outright in chapter 95]].

*** Murrue Ramius has already lost her first love before the series began, but slowly falls for AcePilot Mu La Flaga over the course of the story. After finally choosing to love again, [[spoiler: Mu pulls a HeroicSacrifice protecting her and the Archangel from a positron cannon blast in the pentultimate episode. [[{{Retcon}} However...]]]]

* ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'': Cosmo suffers a HeroicBSOD discovering that [[spoiler:a girl he grew fond of, Kitty Kitten, was killed almost accidentally. Later, Kasha Imhof dies in the movie... and then [[KillEmAll EVERYONE dies]].]].
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** Gendo behaves like he does because [[spoiler:his wife's death broke him. He was afraid of other people and Yui was the only person who reached out to him. Without her he did not know how to love other people, and he sent Shinji away because he felt he was unworthy of being a parent and was afraid of hurting him]].
** In the latter half of the series, it becomes increasingly Shinji and Asuka harbors feelings for each other. But due to their respective psychological issues, neither of them can fully understand these feelings nor figure out how to express them to each other in any kind of constructive manner. The end result that their mutual misunderstandings of each other breeds resentment and bitterness between them.
** One of the main messages of the series (with the addendum "...but you need it.")
** [[NiceGuy Nagisa Kaworu]] is pretty much the person who is the kindest to Shinji in the whole series. He is nice to Shinji and loves him unconditionally without asking anything back, and is the only one who ever told Shinji that [[LoveConfession he loves him.]] And Shinji [[HomoeroticSubtext does reciprocate the feelings]], which just makes everything sadder when it's revealed that [[spoiler: Kaworu is also an Angel, by default an enemy of humanity that Shinji has to defeat. And Kaworu asks Shinji to kill him because he wants him and other human to survive. Shinji ''does so'', which leads him to his final and greatest emotional breakdown.]]
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Suzaku [[spoiler:witnesses his big love Princess Euphemia fatally shot by his arch-nemesis, after which she effectively dies in his arms (PietaPlagiarism galore)]], then some fifteen episodes later Lelouch[[spoiler:, the said "arch-nemesis", experiences Shirley, a girl he always cared for (well, perhaps not romantically but it was definitely headed that way) dying on him in a very similar fashion... at the hands of his GayOption of sorts, a {{Yandere}} boy who later commits suicide to save Lelouch's own life.]].

** Sanji literally rides this trope like a horse, not only are the bruises Nami leaves on him heart shaped, but tanking brutal beatings so a woman will be unharmed or a wedding dress won't get his blood on it, is all pain Sanji will accept. Even just glancing at Boa Hancock will turn Sanji to stone even when she wasn't even using her powers. [[spoiler: Sanji has more tragic examples of this in Whole Cake Island as he must give up on his crew, so that they and his [[ParentalSubstitute Father figure Zeff]] will survive. Even being forced to beat down Luffy and letting a heart broken Nami [[ArmourPiercingSlap slap him]] in the face and farewell him... further heart brake ensured Sanji when [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Pudding]] the girl he was in a ArrangedMarriage with, had planned to kill him during the ceremony]].

* Lithuania in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' gets all his fingers broken by his crush, the eccentric {{Yandere}} Belarus. [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter He doesn't seem to mind]]. Russia, who is both Lithuania's boss and Bela's older brother (and ''more'' of a {{Yandere}} than her), has a ''very'' twisted, rather one-sided relationship with Lithuania himself, showing his affections through [[StalkerWithACrush stalking]] and [[MadLove abuse]].
** It's implied that Allied Forces' TeamDad England has a one-sided crush on someone that has brought him at least 100 years of pain, and widely speculated that it's his former colony, America. Despite usually being harsh and drunk, he actually gets moments of being TheWoobie when America [[{{Tsundere}} shoots him down and sometimes looks like he has fun doing it]]. And then there's [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution *how* they grew apart]]...
** Also, [[HotBlooded Prussia]] might have feelings for either [[TheDitz North Italy]] or [[ActionGirl Hungary]]. Either way, he's screwed because of their respective romantic ties to [[PerpetualFrowner Germany]] (Prussia's younger brother, who is also heavily implied to have feelings for Italy ''and'' [[spoiler: to be the Holy Roman Empire, Italy's childhood love interest.]]) and [[{{Meganekko}} Austria]] (Hungary's ex-husband).
*** And if there's the [[TakeAThirdOption other option]] of him possibly having feelings for [[FoeYay Austria]]... yup, still a loss either way.
** Turkey's strongly implied in canon to have a crush on [[YamatoNadeshiko Japan]] who's just as strongly implied to [[BirdsOfAFeather prefer his long-time rival Greece]] [[HopelessSuitor over him]]. And if the Hetalia Wikis are to be believed, he might have also been in love with Ancient Greece a long time ago and ended up ''killing'' her, according to the beta version of the drama CD. ''And'' if certain parts of the fandom are to be believed, he's [[FoeYay actually in love with either Hungary or Greece]], who he has combative relations with and [[TheMasochismTango spends 90% of his time fighting with the otherwise easygoing and kind nations]]. Either way you look at it, he sure gets the short end of the stick when it comes to romance. (Unless he goes for [[MayDecemberRomance the much younger Iceland]], that is.)
* Good God, Franz from ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}''. [[HoYay His unrequited love for Albert]] caused him a whole world of pain (and [[spoiler: his death]]). Seriously, he had a lot going for him - being rich, having good looks, and having no shortage of beautiful and kind women after him (including his fiance, who loved him initially). But instead, he ends up constantly angsting and [[LoveMartyr sacrificing everything]] for Albert (who [[ObliviousGuiltSlinging doesn't appreciate any of it]] until the very last moment).
** Albert doesn't have it any easier, though. He develops a crush at first sight on the Count, who at first leads him on and then proceeds to [[spoiler:[[BreakTheCutie break his heart and ruin his life]]]]. And while we're at it, there's the Count himself: Mercedes' "betrayal" aside, [[spoiler:his [[BecomingTheMask unplanned for and unwanted feelings for Albert]] cause him a lot of angst and heartbreak, although [[LoveRedeems they save him in the end]]]].
* In ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'', [[spoiler:Freya [[DrivenToSuicide essentially kills herself]] because of this trope]].
* All over the place in ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'':
** Hajime and Chiaki: Despite her best efforts, Chiaki is unable to convince Hajime that he ''is'' worthy of her, contributing to him disappearing to [[spoiler:sign up for the [[DeathOfPersonality Kamukura Project]]]]. She then spends an entire year waiting for him until [[spoiler:she finally meets him as Izuru, who personally states he doesn't remember her. He then watches her die, triggering some level of too-late recollection as he cries, and holds onto her hairpin in grief and memory.]]
** Kyosuke and Chisa: [[spoiler:Kyosuke losing Chisa drives him insane]]. Then for added fun it's shown [[spoiler:she was [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil tortured into Despair]] during ''Side:Despair'' and has been spending the time between ''Side:Despair'' and ''Side:Future'' corrupting him into the man he is currently.]]
** Makoto and Kyoko: [[spoiler:Kyoko willingly sacrifices herself, refusing to betray Makoto again, and leaving him heartbroken.]]
** Ruruka and Izayoi: Despite Izayoi's loyalty, [[spoiler: Ruruka murders him so he can't betray her in the future. Izayoi still responds that he loves her, leaving Ruruka full of regret and self-loathing.]]
** Adding insult to injury, unrequited and platonic love are also used to the most hurtful degrees, such as [[spoiler:Junko using Juzo's unrequited love for Kyosuke as a way to manipulate him and using the fact that Chiaki is the most loved person in the 77th Class to throw the rest of the class into despair.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'', Kei goes through severe depression multiple times due to his loves dying on him. The first time is when Kishimoto dies (although she never did return his feelings), and subsequent times of him becoming really depressed are caused by his girlfriend Tae (who died but got revived). And since the series is still going on, there's ''still'' no guarantee that they'll be able to be together. A DownerEnding is quite possible...
* Ako Izumi of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. She has a ton of self-esteem issues, and is described as something of a doormat. Then she meets Nagi, he reassures her of her importance, and she falls in love with him. Even after getting TrappedInAnotherWorld and sold into slavery, she's able to hang on because she knows that he's there for her. Too bad that [[spoiler:"Nagi" is her ten-year-old teacher Negi magically aged-up]]. Naturally, she's utterly crushed when she finds out. And then, she gets better, sort of; she still has a thing for 'Nagi'. Which may be transferring to Negi now.
* Sagara Sousuke from ''Lightnovel/FullMetalPanic'' towards Kaname. His whole HeroicBSOD in TSR was caused by being torn away from her after he developed an attachment and feelings for her. As [[spoiler: Gauron]] angrily notices, ever since falling in love, he seems to have a lot more conflicting feelings and doubts.
** And speaking of [[spoiler: Gauron]], ''he'' seems to have lost some of ''his'' edge and become even more messed up since falling for Sousuke... after all, if he didn't ''care'' about Sousuke, he wouldn't have been so very angry in the first place...
*** In regards to Gauron, this is actually brought up and symbolically implied in the novels (though apparently parts of it were lost in the fan translation). Members of Amalgam actually covertly bring up to Sousuke how Gauron was overtaken by "cancer," all while mentioning that he [[StalkerWithACrush "really really liked Sousuke"]]... and according to the original wording, a parallel is implied of Kaname being Sousuke's "Gan" (cancer), and Sousuke being ''Gauron's'' "Gan". Any possible double meaning was [[ObliviousToLove lost to Sousuke]]. In addition, reading about the overall attitude of Gauron's colleagues when they talk to Sousuke, it seems like it's a well known fact to them that Gauron was ''way'' too obsessed with Sousuke.

* Jigen from ''Franchise/LupinIII''. His luck with women runs from bad to worse, with them either betraying him, dying, or both.
* Simon from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. His first love, CoolBigSis Yoko, was in love with [[HotBlooded Kamina]], and he had a rather painful experience seeing her kiss him. [[spoiler:Seeing said kiss would lead to Simon suffering a HeroicBSOD, that resulted in [[BloodBrothers Kam]][[BashBrothers ina's]] death]]. His SecondLove, Nia, [[spoiler: ends up dying ''right'' when they get married]]. And whether you interpret the relationship between him and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Kamina]] as HoYay or as HeterosexualLifePartners, it ''is'' undeniable that [[spoiler: Kamina's death hit him ''[[HeroicBSOD very]]'' hard]].
** Yoko had it pretty hard too: the event that changed her from a {{Tsundere}} to a CoolBigSis was [[spoiler: [[DecoyProtagonist Kamina]]'s death]]. [[TearJerker Which happened on the very morning of their first kiss]] right after he promised to [[spoiler: give her something ten times better when the battle is over ...damn {{Retirony}}]].
** Must have also hurt Kittan badly [[spoiler: when he only had the confidence (and partly because of it) to confess to Yoko before performing an [[DyingMomentOfAwesome EPIC]] HeroicSacrifice to spare her from doing the same... ]]
** And there's Viral, who is immortal and can't reproduce... [[spoiler: and whose greatest dream is to have a wife and child]]. [[TearJerker *sniff*]]

* ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'', has poor Oboro and Gennosuke. They were [[ArrangedMarriage engaged to bring peace]] between their two rival ninja clans but [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage genuinely fell in love]], only for the truce to be broken and forcing them to choose between [[StarCrossedLovers their love or the honor of their clans]]. [[spoiler:In the end they are the only two left alive, and Oboro commits suicide rather than kill Gennosuke. Gennosuke declares Oboro's clan as victorious and commits suicide with her body in his arms.]]
* In ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' Hikaru and Lantis had it pretty bad. She killed [[AntiVillain his brother]] without knowing the true story behind his actions, then spent the entire second season caught between falling in love with Lantis and feeling heartbroken because he probably hated her for killing his only family. Lantis didn't have it any easier. Though he didn't hold her accountable and wasn't averse to loving her after she unknowingly revealed her feelings for him, it all went downhill when she was chosen as a candidate for the Pillar...[[spoiler: thus threatening to repeat the tragic romance of his elder brother and the former Pillar Emeraude. Hikaru managed to destroy the Pillar system later on but still was forced to go back to her world after saving Cephiro in the end]].
* (Almost) everybody in Itoshiki-sensei's class loves their [[Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei Zetsubou-sensei]]. Too bad every single one of them is in some way severely unhinged.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Naruto's [[HoYay platonic love for Sasuke]] has torn him apart ever since he defected. [[LovingAShadow His one-sided shallow crush on Sakura]] didn't give him anything nicer either, and it led to their definitive ShipSinking in the Five Kage Summit arc, where he outright rejects her [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]] [[FalseConfession fake love confession]] in Chapter 469 and then [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/27b99316f2f0e199143d93b0123d55c9/tumblr_inline_p3judwFxzL1vololo_540.png breaks his promise to her]] because he wants to bring Sasuke back for [[TrueCompanions his own reasons]] in Chapter 470. The poor guy can't even be relaxed in a mutual romance when he confesses his love to [[OneTrueLove Hinata]] in the {{canon}} movie ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie''; he gets coldly "[[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim rejected]]" and finds out she's getting married to [[BigBad Toneri]], which leads him to actually cross the DespairEventHorizon for four days--three of which he spends in an AngstComa--until his friends snap him out of it. Fortunately he gets to [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earn His Happy Ending]] with all of the listed above.
** Sakura herself hasn't had it easy either because of [[SingleTargetSexuality her unwavering love for Sasuke]], whom she decides to kill ''[[KillTheOnesYouLove with her own hands]]'' to spare him from more grief and betrayal. At the end of the manga, she finally [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earns Her Happy Ending]] by [[spoiler:marrying and having a daughter with him]].
** This series is rife with this, whether romantic or not. There's Hinata, who wanted to be loved by her clan but was [[AbusiveParents abused and even disowned by them]] until the Chunin Exams arc in Part I; Gaara, who wanted to be loved but was hated by everyone until he befriended Naruto; Konan, whose LoveInterest is none other than Pain; Jiraiya, who was Tsunade's UnluckyChildhoodFriend; Kakashi, who learned what friendship and love were when he lost his best friend Obito and then was forced to kill Rin, who loved him and which he promised Obito to protect; Obito, who actually survived and witnessed all this; etc.
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': The tragic love between Spike and Julia.
* Many all the clients or people they know in ''Manga/NightmareInspector'' are in love with someone, and if they aren't [[LoveMakesYouEvil evil]], [[LoveMakesYouCrazy mad]], or [[{{Yandere}} downright psychopathic]] from it, they're suffering a good deal.

* This is the lesson learned in ''Manga/ApollosSong'', where a young sociopath with a pathological hatred of love is condemned by the goddess Athena to live through a series of tragic love stories.
* In ''Manga/MaidenRose'', the main characters' relationship is the reason their lives are so miserable and screwed up. Their relationship is also exactly why they're both willing to put up with all the misery as they couldn't stand living without each other.
* One of Hinagiku's fears in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' is based on this, and it's implied that her fear of heights extends from this. She's afraid of loving someone because her parents left and her older sister has turned to drinking after making sure that Hina doesn't have to deal with the debt and has foster parents, thus she's afraid of loving anyone again, in an effort to keep from getting hurt by them. She may have even turned to her {{Tsundere}} personality because of it. Her admitting ([[CannotSpitItOut to Ayumu]]) that she does love Hayate has been shown as an effort because of these fears.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. Sayaka Miki, who becomes a magical girl so that her crush's permanent injuries heal (despite being warned that it won't work the way she wants to), [[spoiler:loses said crush to her friend because she is essentially a zombie as result of being a magical girl [[InsecureLoveInterest leading her to feel that she's unlovable]] (and thus when said friend ''does'' give her the chance to confess first to the boy, she cannot take it.) She becomes increasingly self-destructive ending with her turning into a witch, the creatures that magical girls are tasked to fight. In the end when the [[EndOfTheWorldSpecial universe is reset]] to give all magical girls a happier life Sayaka ''still'' ends up dying. WordOfGod says that, in any continuity where she becomes a MagicalGirl, she'll be damned to this and can't be saved]].
** And that's not even counting the YuriGenre pairings... Kyoko's care for Sayaka accomplishes nothing except angsting [[spoiler:and Kyoko's unnecessary HeroicSacrifice to destroy Witch!Sakaya]]. Homura's attempts to save Madoka only end up making both of their lives worse, [[spoiler:and even after Madoka hits the ResetButton, they end up indefinitely locked in separate dimensions]].
** In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' [[spoiler: Homura's [[ThePowerOfLove love for Madoka]] actually drives her to become ''[[SatanicArchetype the devil]]'' [[LoveMakesYouEvil and she steals Madoka's powers]] in order to create [[WellIntentionedExtremist a world where]] [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Madoka can be happy]]. At the very end, Homura accepts that this makes her and Madoka enemies...[[IDidWhatIHadToDo but as long as Madoka is happy she doesn't care.]] As if to reflect this, Demon Homura's outfit has a broken heart]].
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': While many of the romantic hi-jinks are PlayedForComedy, it is obvious that all the girls in Ranma's harem are in love with him. Shampoo is probably the most blatant and forward with her feelings for Ranma, concocting multiple schemes to win his heart while brushing off the similarly strong if not stronger affections that Mousse has for her. Ukyo strives to actually be seen as a "woman" by Ranma, while Konatsu probably wishes for Ukyo to see him as an actual man. Kodachi is difficult to place as she is crazy but she does seem to generally have honest feelings for Ranma. She claims that she knows that he doesn't feel the same way but is determined to keep trying. And that brings us to the Akane. Akane is in love with Ranma. There are just a couple of things that stand in the way of their romance actually going anywhere.
** Akane also goes through this for years by having a crush on [[FirstLove Dr. Tofu]], a man who's in love with her sister, Kasumi. It isn't until she's 16 that she finally moves on and develops a crush on [[SecondLove Ranma]].
--->'''Akane:''' You can stop your feeble attempts to cheer me up now. I've got a broken heart, remember?\\
'''Ranma:''' Well, then...\\
'''Akane:''' Then what?\\
'''Ranma:''' Then you gotta realize that these things happen.
* The plot, point, story and character motivation of Minami Ozaki's ''Manga/{{Zetsuai 1989}}''. Period. Even the bystanders get traumatized by the events.
* In chapter 40 of ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:succubi can die from heartbreak, which seems to be happening to poor Kurumu]].
%% Zero context. * ''Manga/GEGoodEnding'' has this all over the place with all the girls, but especially [[DoggedNiceGuy Utsumi]], the main male protagonist.
* Akise Aru of ''Manga/FutureDiary'' has an unreturned [[HoYay crush on Yukiteru]] and all his actions of love towards Yukiteru get him is [[spoiler: a beheading by [[{{Yandere}} Yuno]]]].
* Rune from ''Manga/KarakuridoujiUltimo'' has an unreturned [[HoYay crush on Yamato]] and he [[AttemptedRape doesn't take rejection well]]. His love for Yamato causes him a lot of heartache.
%%* Kagetora and Naoe's relationship in ''LightNovel/MirageOfBlaze''.
* There's loads of this in ''Manga/DNAngel''. For example, there's Daisuke's unreturned feelings for Risa who has a crush on Dark who he sees kissing Risa at one point breaking his heart. Also, occurs in a tragic example between Satoshi and Daisuke in the manga.
* Harry [=MacDoogal=] from ''Manga/OutlawStar''. You've got to feel for him because he has feelings for Melfina and she doesn't share the same feelings for him and he does everything he can to make her love him only to fail and get curb stomped by a massive douchebag with the ability to break his body parts like a bendy straw.
* ''Manga/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' is rife with this. Juri angsts and has much heartbreak over her feelings for her friend Shiori who loves to torment her but is secretly in love with her.
** There's tension between Akio, Anthy, and Utena. Utena sleeps with Akio and falls in love with Anthy and finds out that both her love interests are sleeping together and they're siblings. Utena and Anthy fit the StarCrossedLovers trope too in that they both have to endure a world of hurt in order to be together, with Akio himself being the main cause of it. There's also a heartbreaking scene in the anime where Anthy regretfully betrays Utena by stabbing her through from behind by a sword. Also, both Anthy and Akio follow that up by whispering cruel words to Utena about how she's a girl and therefore can't become a noble prince.
** Touga is in love with Utena who doesn't show she returns those feelings until right before his death scene.
** Nanami has a incestuous yandere crush on Touga and is heartbroken when she witnesses him getting intimate with her followers and other girls and when Touga tosses her aside and tries to rape her in Akios car. He also cruelly manipulates her to his own ends and it's topped off with Nanami giving a tearful AnguishedDeclarationOfLove to him after learning they are not blood related.
* The Guts, Griffith, Casca LoveTriangle in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''. Griffith has two love interests in Guts and Casca and has a fall back plan to marry Casca and have kids should his initial plans fall through. However, Guts and Casca become an item and talk of leaving Griffith behind who was crippled by torture. He snaps and tries to kill himself and ultimately ends up sacrificing everyone but guts and Casca and then Casca is raped in front of Guts by the only other man she loved. Currently, because of the rape Casca reverted to an infantile state and is incapable of returning the affection the love starved and broken Guts desires.
** If this wasn't tragic enough, when Farnese and Schierke delve into [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Casca's mind]]. They discover beneath her infantile state, Casca ''[[UndyingLoyalty still loves Guts]]'' but her desires are not the same as his and she sees his equally loyal devotion as a fruitless endeavor. Casca in her mind sees herself as broken shell being dragged around by Guts who also chained to her, worst of all her Guts despite all his care cannot be part of her recovery as the surface-layer of still fears him.
** Farnese suffers too since she also is love with Guts (despite being engaged to another man). But of course Guts has given his heart and soul to Casca and Farnese seeing Guts continuously damage his himself to protect her when Casca doesn't even understand, causes Farnese to lash out at her in [[TheResenter bitterness]] and [[ClingyJealousGirl jealousy]]. Farnese regrets her anger at Casca (whose she supposed looking after), her jealousy gets taken UpToEleven in Fantasia Arc where the witches tell Guts Casca can be cured which makes Guts [[WhenSheSmiles incredibly happy]] and Farnese anxious. Farnese especially gets hit hard when sees the love Casca and Guts had in the former's mind.
*** Her half brother Serpico reveals, protecting a helpless Casca is the sole purpose and meaning in Farnese's life. Meaning if that were changed, Farnese [[ForeShadowing would be redundant to Guts]].
* In ''Manga/Reborn2004'' Tsuna has an unreturned crush on Kyouko and Gokudera is implied to have [[HoYay feelings for Tsuna]]. His soft spot for Tsuna results in many, many touching woobie moments for him. The fact that he's willing to (and many times does) go through hell and high water for Tsuna who just thinks of him as a friend makes many people just want to give him a big hug.
* Chaos from ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'' is an unusual spin on this. She believes that pain is love and as a severe LoveFreak she seeks to spread her "love" to everyone.
* Jeremy in ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns''. His girlfriend Vivi breaks up with him after she suspects that he cheated on her (although he was forced into having sex with Greg so he wouldn't break off his engagement with Jeremy's mother) and he spends the next several books not only reeling at Greg's abuse, but mourning the loss of his beloved girlfriend. Poor guy.
** This trope also applies to Ian and Nadia in later books; Ian, because of his confusion about falling in love with Jeremy despite the latter's slight case of BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil and Nadia [[spoiler: because of her heartbreak over losing Ian to Jeremy]].
** Can also be applied to Sandra when Greg breaks off their engagement because Jeremy refuses him. Also tied in with Sandra's DrivenToSuicide and BungledSuicide.
* Happens to Bird's Nest a couple of times in ''Manga/CopernicusBreathing'', once after he thinks [[spoiler: Leo has died in his juggling accident]] (which then leads to a FreakOut ) and then again when [[spoiler: he confuses Michel Bohringer with his dead little brother Michel (twice)]] (again, IncestSubtext. )
* When [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Misaki]] sees [[TheCasanova Jin]] and [[IdiotSavant Mashiro]] on their date in episode 3 of ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', it really breaks her heart. Later when the two are seen outside a {{Love Hotel|s}}, she decides to go home rather than interrupt them.
** Sorata also feels this way after seeing those two together. Unlike Misaki, he does interrupt them, [[spoiler: but fortunately for him Jin had no intentions of entering the hotel with Mashiro, and set this up knowing both he and Mashiro were being followed by him]].
* Happens to Nanami in ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' when she confesses her love to Tomoe. See Tomoe is Nanami's familiar and a LittleBitBeastly {{Kitsune}} while Nanami is a teenage human girl and Tomoe does not approve of InterspeciesRomance. So he immediately tries to force her to take back her confession which works out about well as you can expect.
* Rick Hunter/Hikaru Ichijyo has it pretty bad in ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' and the original ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross.'' For most of the series, he's in love with [[{{Kawaiiko}} Lynn]] [[IdolSinger Minmei]]/Minmay. She, on the other hand, has her own issues with her IdolSinger career ''and'' is very ObliviousToLove. Of course, Rick/Hikaru himself isn't blameless, as he pretty much ignores the feelings of the much more mature CO Lisa Hayes/Misa Hayase until it's almost too late. And Lisa/Misa has her own DarkAndTroubledPast that includes a lost fiancé among other very complicated issues.
* Jellal Fernandez and Erza Scarlet of ''Manga/FairyTail'' have this hard. They were slaves together as children in the Tower of Heaven and were deadset on one day escaping and living their lives together. Then, their plan was discovered, and Erza was dragged away to be punished. Jellal manages to save her, but is punished with unimaginably cruel torture that, coupled with [[ManipulativeBastard Ultear's]] brainwashing, drove him completely insane. Erza rescues him only to have him drive her out of the Tower when she refuses to join him in his madness, and she spends the next eight years dreading the day they'll meet again. Eventually they do, and she's forced to leave him to die after their confrontation. A bit of time after that, he's revived with no memories and completely back to his real personality, but is arrested by the authorities for his previous actions right after they reconcile. Shortly afterward, she is put into a coma for seven years, and when they ''finally'' meet again, he pushes her away because he feels he does not deserve her love any longer, though he can't quite keep himself from following her around. Their whole relationship is built on this trope.
** Zeref. [[spoiler:His love for his little brother Natsu and his desire to bring him back to life resulted in him getting cursed to kill those around him the more he values life. That same curse killed the girl he loved, Mavis.]] In short: love ''kills'', at least for him.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' [[spoiler: when Tomoya's wife dies tragically in [[DeathByChildbirth childbirth]], Tomoya feels that he should never have met Nagisa in the first place, because of the horrible pain her death is causing him.]]
* ''Anime/{{K}}'''s Fushimi Saruhiko has an [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Unrequited Love]] for [[spoiler: Yata Misaki]] that is apparently so strong that it drove him [[AxCrazy insane]]. Because [[spoiler: Misaki]] had found new friends and a new family with [[spoiler: HOMRA]] and started to drift away from him he lost himself in [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] and heartbreak, believing that making [[spoiler: Misaki]] hate him was the only way to get his attention. The Manga Days of Blue shows very clearly that he still suffers badly over being away.
* In ''Anime/UmiMonogatari'', this is Oshima and Kanon's situation in a nutshell.
** Kanon realizes that it was her own insecurity that made her feel like Kojima was going to dump her, when in fact he had liked her all along and never intended to dump her. At the same time, Kojima confesses to Marin that he had liked Kanon from the start, but felt she was purposely separating herself from him, and so they grew distant. Kanon realizes that she never told ''anyone'' she liked them out loud even once.
** Oshima initially seems to be your classic AlphaBitch, but she has heartbreaking hidden depths. She tells Kanon that even when she was going out with Kojima, all he ever talked about was Kanon. She feels she'll never measure up to Kanon in his eyes, and that it ''hurts'' to like someone that much knowing they'll never feel the same way about you.
* Tsukiyama from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' has an obsession towards Kaneki and is said to "love Kaneki above all other things". This is to the point where he breaks down into a sobbing mess when he tries to keep Kaneki from going on a suicide mission who rejects him and ends up in an AngstComa continuing into the sequel.
** Further complicating things is how Tsukiyama comes out of his AngstComa after he learns from Kanae that Kaneki is still alive but is now Sasaki and doesn't remember his past life as Kaneki and the time he spent with Tsukiyama.
** In Chapter 43, Eto confronts Kanae and gives him a Breaking Speech centered around his conflicted feelings about Tsukiyama and Sasaki. She tells him that he's actually afraid of being alone, and his "loyalty" is actually possessiveness over his master. According to her, he enjoyed Tsukiyama being helpless and dependent on him, and found true joy not in helping Tsukiyama reunite with Sasaki......but in tormenting Sasaki and making him suffer. She goes even further, stating that Tsukiyama will never return his feelings. Having broken Kanae down, she suggests that they should break the ones that won't return their love.
*** In the above encounter, the word Eto uses to describe Kanae's feelings is "Aishiteu", the strongest possible word for "love" often reserved for married couples. As such, his feelings are explicitly romantic love.
*** The cover of Chapter 45 shows Kanae vomiting and choking on rose petals. This is called "Hanahaki Byou", a sort of fictional disease/artistic symbolism where a person vomits flower petals as a result of Unrequited Love.
** The Quinx have several characters suffering from unrequited love: Urie is implied to be in love with Mutsuki but Mutsuki is psychotically in love with Kaneki and desperately wants Kaneki to go back to the CCG with him. He begs him to go with him while pulling on his sleeve tightly. His behavior here makes one feel sorry for him especially since Sasaki/Kaneki is in love with Touka.
** Matsuri is continuing on after losing his father because of his feelings for Urie who is just using him and is hinted to have feelings for Mutsuki. Matsuri dies by V with their love going unrequited.
* ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'': In the anime, and how. Not only did Archibald cross the DespairEventHorizon when his dear Lillias died, but [[spoiler: Camilla and Max Hawkins become StarCrossedLovers as well]].
* In ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', Akari is hit with this trope both [[TheFourLoves platonic and romantically]]. While undercover as a normal teenage girl, she came to truly care about her classmates (especially Nagisa) and their BadassTeacher. After a year of '[[BecomingTheMask being]]' [[spoiler:Kayano]] (and being defeated and depowered by her would-be target), the two personae start to clash, and [[HeroicBSOD it ain't pretty]]. Cue angsty screaming... well, she ''is'' a teenager.
* The first intro to ''Manga/NurseAngelRirikaSOS'' is about how love can hurt you.
* ''Manga/ScumsWish'' is essentially Love Hurts: The Manga, as every romantic entanglement in the LoveDodecahedron is unhealthy and/or painful, mostly due to [[AllLoveIsUnrequited almost everyone's feelings going unreciprocated]]. Hanabi and Mugi are pretending to date to numb the pain of their respective objects of affection (their [[TeacherStudentRomance teachers]]) not feeling the same way, while [[IncompatibleOrientation Sanae]] and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Noriko]] are themselves devastated by those two, respectively, not returning ''their'' feelings. Then things go off the rails when [[spoiler:Hanabi and Mugi develop feelings for each other, just in time for Hanabi to get her heart broken twice in a row when Narumi turns her down, and Mugi stands her up to enter into an ill-conceived relationship with Akane, who is mostly using him for sex]]. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:[[SchoolgirlLesbians Hanabi and Sanae]] start sleeping together, causing both of them intense guilt for a variety of [[ItMakesSenseInContext complicated reasons]]]].
* ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'':
** In the light novels Guren recalls the love story 500 years ago that led the Hiragi Clan to scorn the Ichinose Clan. Apparently, two Hiragi brothers were in love with a beautiful Ichinose girl. They both competed for her love with the younger brother winning her affections. The older brother responded by raping and impregnating the girl and castrating his younger brother. He then banished them from the clan which led to them having to create the Order Of Imperial Moon for themselves. The scorned brother could have defeated them but chose to let them live so they, their children, and their children's children would forever be looked down upon and humiliated by others as the lowly Ichinose clan. Also, since the younger brother was castrated by the older brother he couldn't even impregnate his wife and she would end up giving birth to the older brother's child.
** Mahiru and Guren fit the StarCrossedLovers scenario, in that since Mahiru is becoming a demon and is dangerous Guren has been ordered to kill her unless he can get her to stay with him. Given how far gone she is though...
** The fact that Mika has been with vampires for FOUR years all alone, with the same vampire who killed his beloved family in front of him, AND with an undeniable thirst for blood shows just how sad his circumstances are...not to mention learning that his entire family were experimented on and that his remaining family Yuu (whom he [[HoYay is implied to have feelings for]]) is exposed to the organization currently leading the experiment. There's also the StarCrossedLovers implications with circumstances threatening to keep them apart. Also, if Yuu becomes a complete demon imagine how Mika who cares greatly for Yuu would feel. Vampires can only retain humanity so long as they have human connections after all. If, for argument’s sake, Mika had his way right now and the two of them managed to run away, he would be able to save his precious Yuu-chan and maintain what’s left of his humanity for the time being, but at the same time, Yuu wouldn’t be able to retain his, knowing that he had betrayed and abandoned his comrades. They’re pulling in the opposite directions, so first they need to find a compromise. Luckily, Yuu is charismatic enough to possess a potent power of persuasion, and Mika is sensible enough to be willing to believe in Yuu and compromise, so they quickly found the common ground in the beginning of the chapter. But if, say, Yuu becomes a full demon, Mika might be be even worse off than Crowley, because not only would he lose his precious person, he would probably have to kill demon!Yuu-chan with his own hands, and it’s obvious that it would destroy him emotionally.
* Here's an example of a non-romantic love that hurts so much. In ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', young Thouzer was a loving boy that got no mean bone in his body and grew up adoring and loving his master Ougai like his own father. Cue the age where he had to succeed Ougai's branch of Nanto Seiken, but of course Thouzer would take it! Anything for his beloved father figure, right? Well, for the test to succeed the school, he has to fight a certain opponent blindfolded... Thouzer succeeded and to his shock, he learned that his opponent was Ougai, who set up the whole fight and knowing that he would not walk out alive because that's what the rules stated and he knew Thouzer was a worthy successor. Because of his immense love to his master, Thouzer was hurt ''so much'' that he started believing that love leads only to pain and weakness and he had no need of those and thus, a merciless tyrant that would enslave many children to death was born...
* Prior to Maki becoming an AscendedExtra in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', her primary role was to appear in the background crying whenever Kashiwagi and her boyfriend were having an intimate moment. Even afterwards, she often [[MadeMyselfSad upsets herself]] whenever it was brough up that she was trapped in a LoveTriangle with her best friend.
** [[PlayedForDrama A more serious example]] comes via the development of [[spoiler: Miko Iino's feelings for Yu Ishigami. Unfortunately for Iino, Ishigami was paying way more attention to a third-year that treated him so nicely. Unlike characters like Kaguya Shinomiya, who would use underhanded threats and glares to ward off competition, Iino just... [[BreakTheCutie sat alone with a depressed look on her face.]] She even broke into tears when Miyuki Shirogane confronted her about those feelings.]]
* ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'': Played especially painfully with Faust's Saber Dolls, who are all {{Love Martyr}}s. No matter how much he abuses them [[YouHaveFailedMe for their failures]], they still love him. It's especially painful in the case of Tiger, [[UsedToBeASweetKid who knew him from when he was younger]] and hopes that his buried kindness will surface one day again. This exchange [[spoiler: in the episode where she gets impaled and dies]] sums it all up:
-->'''Tiger''': Being gentle doesn't always mean love. When somebody hugs you it doesn't always means they love you. I will fight for Mister Faust, even if that means I have to die.
-->'''Lime''': But why? Why die for somebody when you could ''live'' for that person?
-->'''Tiger''': Because I have a heart...
* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'': Spacytchi had to learn that the hard way. Twice.
** When he first met Agetchi, [[LoveAtFirstSight he was instantly smitten]]. In fact, she was all he could think about to the point where he ended up ignoring his own brothers! But at the very end, it turns out [[spoiler:Agetchi already had a boyfriend, much to Spacytchi's dismay]].
** There was also [[spoiler:Himespetchi]], who ended up forgetting all about him [[spoiler:even though they were together for a long time]] and fell in love with [[spoiler:Mametchi]].
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': This is pretty much the central theme during the Sisters' War arc. As the Nakano quintuplets' feelings for Fuutarou continue to grow, so does their inner conflict about whether pursuing him or giving the others a chance. [[spoiler:It comes to a head when Ichika, in a desperate move, decides to intentionally sabotage Miku's attempt to confess to Fuutarou. This visibly enrages Nino, who admits that despite wanting Fuutarou for herself too, she's not willing to sacrifice the bond with her sisters to try and hook up with him, and she later gets caught by Fuutarou and called out for her lies and deceptions, killing any chances she could have had with him. At the end, when she apologizes to Miku, the latter admits that "falling in love is painful"]].

** In the latter half of the series, it becomes increasingly Shinji and Asuka harbors feelings for each other. But due to their respective psychological issues (which turns out to make them NotSoDifferent from each other), neither of them can fully understand these feelings nor figure out how to express them to each other in any kind of constructive manner. The end result that their mutual misunderstandings of each other breeds resentment and bitterness between them.

* In chapter 40 of ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:succubi can die from heartbreak, which seems to be happening to poor Kurumu]].

* All over the place in ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'':

* Ako Izumi of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''. She has a ton of self-esteem issues, and is described as something of a doormat. Then she meets Nagi, he reassures her of her importance, and she falls in love with him. Even after getting TrappedInAnotherWorld and sold into slavery, she's able to hang on because she knows that he's there for her. Too bad that [[spoiler:"Nagi" is her ten-year-old teacher Negi magically aged-up]]. Naturally, she's utterly crushed when she finds out. And then, she gets better, sort of; she still has a thing for 'Nagi'. Which may be transferring to Negi now.

* ''Manga/GEGoodEnding'' has this all over the place with all the girls, but specially [[DoggedNiceGuy Ut]][[NiceGuy su]][[UnluckyEverydude mi]], the main male protagonist.

* In ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' Tsuna has an unreturned crush on Kyouko and Gokudera is implied to have [[HoYay feelings for Tsuna]]. His soft spot for Tsuna results in many, many touching woobie moments for him. The fact that he's willing to (and many times does) go through hell and high water for Tsuna who just thinks of him as a friend makes many people just want to give him a big hug.

* Rick Hunter/Hikaru Ichijyo has it pretty bad in ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'' and the original ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross.'' For most of the series, he's in love with [[{{Kawaiiko}} Lynn]] [[IdolSinger Minmei]]/Minmay. She, on the other hand, has her own issues with her IdolSinger career ''and'' is very ObliviousToLove. Of course, Rick/Hikaru himself isn't blameless, as he pretty much ignores the feelings of the much more mature CO Lisa Hayes/Misa Hayase until it's almost too late. And Lisa/Misa has her own DarkAndTroubledPast that includes a lost fiancé among other very complicated issues.

* Lithuania in ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' gets all his fingers broken by his crush, the eccentric {{Yandere}} Belarus. [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter He doesn't seem to mind]]. Russia, who is both Lithuania's boss and Bela's older brother (and ''more'' of a {{Yandere}} than her), has a ''very'' twisted, rather one-sided relationship with Lithuania himself, showing his affections through [[StalkerWithACrush stalking]] and [[MadLove abuse]].

** ''Anime/GundamBuildDiversReRise'': As seen with Hiroto and Eve, not even the ''Build'' subseries are safe from this happening. Two years prior to the start of the series, Hiroto forms a close relationship with Eve where the latter teaches the former to love what GBN has to offer. This culminates in Hiroto giving Eve a custom earring out of sheer appreciation and love for her, but their happiness is cut short [[spoiler:when the bugs Eve absorbed from [[Anime/GundamBuildDivers her sister Sarah]] begin to overwhelm her. This leads to [[KillTheOnesYouLove Hiroto being forced to delete Eve at her request]], and the earring he gave her disintegrates just when it was falling into his hands.]]

** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans]]'': On Gjallarhorn's side, Carta had unrequited feelings for [[=McGillis=]] [[spoiler:except the latter just sent her to her death]]. On Tekkadan-Turbines' side, Lafter slowly had feelings for Akihiro who is completely oblivious about it. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she got shot to death by an assassin under Jasley who just want to get even with Tekkadan]]. Shino is also unable to recognize Yamagi's feeling for him [[spoiler:and then, he gets killed]]. Even the happy couple, Naze and Amida, are not spared from this particularly in Episode 40 [[spoiler:where after Amida's Mobile Suit got shot down, Naze pulls a kamikaze run on the enemy's ship so he can be with her in death]]. In the finale, [[spoiler:Mikazuki dies and doesn't live to see his son with Atra Kudelia]].

** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans]]'': On Gjallarhorn's side, Carta had unrequited feelings for [[=McGillis=]] [[spoiler:except the latter just sent her to her death]]. On Tekkadan-Turbines' side, Lafter slowly had feelings for Akihiro who is completely oblivious about it. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she got shot to death by an assassin under Jasley who just want to get even with Tekkadan]]. Shino is also unable to recognize Yamagi's feeling for him [[spoiler:and then, he gets killed]]. Even the happy couple, Naze and Amida, are not spared from this particularly in Episode 40 [[spoiler:where after Amida's Mobile Suit got shot down, Naze pulls a kamikaze run on the enemy's ship so he can be with her in death]]. In the finale, [[spoiler:Mikazuki dies and doesn't live to see his son with Atra]].

** [[HoYay Naruto's platonic love for Sasuke]] has torn him apart ever since he defected. [[LovingAShadow His one-sided shallow crush on Sakura]] didn't give him anything nicer either, and it led to their definitive ShipSinking in the Five Kage Summit arc, where he outright rejects her [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]] [[FalseConfession fake love confession]] in Chapter 469 and renews his promise to bring Sasuke back ''not'' for her anymore, but for [[TrueCompanions his own reasons]] in Chapter 470. The poor guy can't even be relaxed in a mutual romance when he confesses [[OneTrueLove his love]] to [[spoiler:Hinata]] in the {{canon}} movie ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie''--he gets coldly "[[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim rejected]]" and finds out she's getting married to [[BigBad Toneri]], which leads him to get a HeroicBSOD for four days--three of which he spends in an AngstComa--until his friends snap him out of it. Fortunately he gets to [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earn His Happy Ending]] with all of the listed above.
** Sakura herself hasn't had it easy either because of [[SingleTargetSexuality her unwavering love for Sasuke]], whom she decides to kill ''[[KillTheOnesYouLove with her own hands]]'' to spare him from more grief and betrayal. At the end of the manga she finally [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earns Her Happy Ending]] by [[spoiler:marrying and having a daughter with him]].
** This series is rife with this, whether romantic or not. There's Hinata, who takes a suicidal attack to protect Naruto, [[SingleTargetSexuality whom she sincerely loves]] because he gave her [[PluckyGirl the will to be strong]]; Gaara, who only wanted to be loved but was hated by everyone until he befriended Naruto, and later cries when facing Sasuke; Konan, whose LoveInterest is none other than Pain; Jiraiya, who was Tsunade's UnluckyChildhoodFriend; Kakashi, who learned what friendship and love were when he lost his best friend Obito and then was forced to kill Rin who loved him and which he promised Obito to protect; Obito who actually survived and witnessed all this; etc.

* ''Manga/ScumsWish'' is essentially Love Hurts: The Manga, as every romantic entanglement in the LoveDodecahedron is unhealthy and/or painful, mostly due to [[AllLoveIsUnrequited almost everyone's feelings going unreciprocated]]. Hanabi and Mugi are pretending to date to numb the pain of their respective objects of affection (their [[TeacherStudentRomance teachers]]) not feeling the same way, while [[IncompatibleOrientation Sanae]] and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Noriko]] are themselves devastated by those two, respectively, not returning ''their'' feelings. Then things go off the rails when [[spoiler:Hanabi and Mugi develop feelings for each other, just in time for Hanabi to get her heart broken twice in a row when Narumi turns her down, and Mugi stands her up to enter into an ill-conceived relationship with Akane, who is mostly using him for sex]]. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:Hanabi and Sanae start sleeping together, causing both of them intense guilt for a variety of [[ItMakesSenseInContext complicated reasons]]]].

* ''Manga/ScumsWish'' is essentially Love Hurts: The Manga, as every romantic entanglement in the LoveDodecahedron is unhealthy and/or painful, mostly due to [[AllLoveIsUnrequited almost everyone's feelings going unreciprocated]]. Hanabi and Mugi are pretending to date to numb the pain of their respective objects of affection (their [[TeacherStudentRomance teachers]]) not feeling the same way, while [[IncompatibleOrientation Sanae]] and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Norkio]] are themselves devastated by those two, respectively, not returning ''their'' feelings. Then things go off the rails when [[spoiler:Hanabi and Mugi develop feelings for each other, just in time for Hanabi to get her heart broken twice in a row when Narumi turns her down, and Mugi stands her up to enter into an ill-conceived relationship with Akane, who is mostly using him for sex]]. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:Hanabi and Sanae start sleeping together, causing both of them intense guilt for a variety of [[ItMakesSenseInContext complicated reasons]]]].

* ''Manga/ScumsWish'' is essentially Love Hurts: The Manga, as every romantic entanglement in the LoveDodecahedron is unhealthy and/or painful, mostly due to [[AllLoveIsUnrequited almost everyone's feelings going unreciprocated]]. Hanabi and Mugi are pretending to date to numb the pain of their respective objects of affects (their [[TeacherStudentRomance teachers]]) not feeling the same way, while [[IncompatibleOrientation Sanae]] and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Norkio]] are themselves devastated by those two, respectively, not returning ''their'' feelings. Then things go off the rails when [[spoiler:Hanabi and Mugi develop feelings for each other, just in time for Hanabi to get her heart broken twice in a row when Narumi turns her down, and Mugi stands her up to enter into an ill-conceived relationship with Akane, who is mostly using him for sex]]. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:Hanabi and Sanae start sleeping together, causing both of them intense guilt for a variety of [[ItMakesSenseInContext complicated reasons]]]].

* ''Manga/ScumsWish'' is essentially Love Hurts: The Manga, as every romantic entanglement in the LoveDodecahedron is unhealthy and/or painful, mostly due to [[AllLoveIsUnrequited almost everyone's feelings going unreciprocated]]. Hanabi and Mugi are pretending to date to numb the pain of their respective objects of affects (their [[TeacherStudentRomance teachers]]), while [[IncompatibleOrientation Sanae]] and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Norkio]] are themselves devastated by those two, respectively, not returning ''their'' feelings. Then things go off the rails when [[spoiler:Hanabi and Mugi develop feelings for each other, just in time for Hanabi to get her heart broken twice in a row when Narumi turns her down, and Mugi stands her up to enter into an ill-conceived relationship with Akane, who is mostly using him for sex]]. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:Hanabi and Sanae start sleeping together, causing both of them intense guilt for a variety of [[ItMakesSenseInContext complicated reasons]]]].