I'm sure we've all seen an anime or two where a cousin/stepsibling had feelings for another kin. So, what I'm wondering is, does anybody here like any of those types of pairings?

Personally, I think the sibling thing actually allows for better storytelling and a lot more emotions, especially between the two. I'll post my thoughts later, but I'd like to know if anybody here had any pairings they liked.


A few are..

Kanako x Keitarou in Love Hina
Setsuna x Sarah in Angel Sanctuary
Akiha x Shiki in Tsukihime
Kouta x Yuka in Elfen Lied

Some others I forget. There are quite a bit

I think the cousin thing is cute. Like with Syaoran and Sakura in CCS... or so many in Furuba XD.

But I saw an ep of one of those animes where muliple girls are obsessed with one guy (not my type of genre :P),
anyway all these sisters were in love with their one brother. It was a bit odd :S

But for the most part I dont mind.

Usually I don't mind, but i sometimes think it's sorta weird. :P

Hmm, lets see. I don't mind it at all. I think its pretty cute when I think about it. Every time I see that, I just say something cute from out of nowhere. Other than that, I don't mind.

Sibling pairings, you say? Personally, I can never see the whole 'love your cousing, or sister/brother, or step-sibling' thing as sexually arousing. I think a lot of people love the whole concept because of its whole taboo nature, but there is too much angst in the concept to really hold much merit -___-

Sure, it's a better storyline, and it has a cooler conflict level, but I know that if I were in that situation, I'd never want to destroy my relationship with my whole family over someone that I had a romantic link to elsewhere in the family. It just seems too illogical to me, the whole 'family love thing'. Why only settle for one person in the family to love you and destroy everybody's relationship with yourself in the process? :\

And, no, I'm not old-fashioned---I'm actually a yaoi-lover, and get off on boyxboy smex, but anything incestuous-like just doesn't bode well for me T___T

arcane

Sibling pairings, you say? Personally, I can never see the whole 'love your cousing, or sister/brother, or step-sibling' thing as sexually arousing. I think a lot of people love the whole concept because of its whole taboo nature, but there is too much angst in the concept to really hold much merit -___-

Sure, it's a better storyline, and it has a cooler conflict level, but I know that if I were in that situation, I'd never want to destroy my relationship with my whole family over someone that I had a romantic link to elsewhere in the family. It just seems too illogical to me, the whole 'family love thing'. Why only settle for one person in the family to love you and destroy everybody's relationship with yourself in the process? :\

And, no, I'm not old-fashioned---I'm actually a yaoi-lover, and get off on boyxboy smex, but anything incestuous-like just doesn't bode well for me T___T

Tsk, tsk. Well, to each their own. Personally, I think what makes anime unique is that it can actually get away with it. There are times where it's possible to actually root for the two together, through the sheer emotion flowing between the two.

I dunno why, but I think I've developed a preference towards that type of story. Not saying that I'd ever do something like that irl, but just because it's anime, I'm willing to keep an open mind on such things. Much like yaoi and other not-so-accepted loves, it lets my imagination indulge outside of the norm.

Oh, and I love the Akiha and Shiki pairing in Tsukihime. How she treasures Shiki and looks after him is so darling. Espcially when in the times they bond, instead of her lecturing him.

I think that in some cases it ruins the anime (for me anyway). Cause when a relative stands in a way of normal relationship of another, it just kinda makes me frustrated and angry, amd thats not talking about the "weird" animes like anime sanctuary ands so on. In Elfen Lied though it did annoy me and not just a little bit.

For me, I actually don't mind it too. I've watched several anime's with these themes and some have turned disgusting and some just fine. (Koi Kaze, Angel Sanctuary, Boku wa Imoto ni Koi ni Suru, Elfen Lied... etc)

But still, it's unacceptable in the society I grew up in.

My top 5 hatest genres when watching anime...
a. YAOI
b. YURI
c SHOtACOM
d. LOLICOM
e. INCEST

So, watching incest is something I already accepted. Unlike the top 1 and 2 which up to now, I can't tolerate...

...something like that always ends up with some crazy wrongness...or there heart gets broken..it always looks hopeless to me...

The relationship between Ed and Al in Full Metal Alchemist is what I like watching. Something of that.

Kuro

Oh, and I love the Akiha and Shiki pairing in Tsukihime. How she treasures Shiki and looks after him is so darling. Espcially when in the times they bond, instead of her lecturing him.

That's a little different though, isn't it?

SPOILER (click to view)

Since they're not real siblings, and Akiha at least knows it.

Errrh wait, i am not sure if i did understand the topic, it is about relationship, particularly love relationship ( girl and boy ) between 2 relatives in animes, right? well my point on view on that, hmmm i never asked myself, so far i did not really cross animes with that kind of ... wait i think it was the same in tenjou tenge, maya and his brother, is it that kind of relation you are talking? if so, then let me think, i did read most of the replies and i agree a little with this one,

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...something like that always ends up with some crazy wrongness...or there heart gets broken..it always looks hopeless to me...

well i did not see lot of animes like this, but in tenjou tenge, it was what i did feel, that it was hopeless from the start, and in the end, it was just like i did forecast, but well in real life, my point of view on this, i do not know, if they really love each other i guess it cannot be help, society though has set an image that makes such relationship sound weird, i guess you will agree, like i said, it is us human, who makes or decide of things to be right or wrong, so for my concern, these kind of relationships are not right nor wrong as long as the people concern are concious that this is not a game, even if life is a game afterall, and i do agree with one other reply,

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But I saw an ep of one of those animes where muliple girls are obsessed with one guy (not my type of genre :P),
anyway all these sisters were in love with their one brother. It was a bit odd :S

even if i did see this situation happen with a boy in real life, it is kind weird in animes, but i guess that animes are a reflection of real life afterall

ninja-kasumi-ryumizu

But still, it's unacceptable in the society I grew up in.

My top 5 hatest genres when watching anime...
a. YAOI
b. YURI
c SHOtACOM
d. LOLICOM
e. INCEST

So, watching incest is something I already accepted. Unlike the top 1 and 2 which up to now, I can't tolerate...

hehehe my~my you hate those? My fave is Incest! next to yuri~! I hate yaoi to death..loli is ok but no much on shota

I don't mind those sibling relationships... I love some of them.. I don't hate any..

I don't mind either, since the story goes naturally.

Pelianth

Kuro

Oh, and I love the Akiha and Shiki pairing in Tsukihime. How she treasures Shiki and looks after him is so darling. Espcially when in the times they bond, instead of her lecturing him.

That's a little different though, isn't it?

SPOILER (click to view)

Since they're not real siblings, and Akiha at least knows it.

Of course I know. But they still more or less have that relationship. Step-siblings still count as part of the family, haha. I guess.