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Can be a type of Meet Cute and/or Samaritan Relationship Starter if this is their first real interaction or some equivalent icebreaker (say, one of them has been trying to work up the courage to do more than say "hi" to the other or something)
(Bonus points if the shorter one fell off the shelf or a ladder trying to climb up and get the book, and the taller one helps them up in the process of getting the book.)
Edited by Scorpion451
If not used for first encounters, this could go as a variant of Real Men Open Jars
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^ That draft has been rendered obsolete by Impossible Pickle Jar. Sadly, that trope is not what the OP is looking for.
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
I feel like I've seen this many times, but particularly in anime and manga and everytime I see it, I can't help but feel like it's quite common. One character (usually a shorter girl) is reaching for a book on a bookshelf but can't reach it so their love interest (usually a taller guy) comes behind/beside them and reaches it for her. I feel like it's common enough to be a trope itself but not sure if it is already here?