The 17 of the Most Disturbing Relationships in Anime

Kiss x Sis

Unlike other series like Myself;Yourself or Oreimo where romantic feelings between siblings remain in the realms of the less creepy “Implied Only,” Kiss x Sis takes it to the next level. However, the relationship between Keita and his older twin sisters is somewhat better as they are not related by blood, but no less unhealthy. Not only is it really quite strange to fall in love with someone you have treated as a sibling, but two women vying for one man will never end well.  Twins may be the dream, but polyamoury typically ends in hurt feelings.

Junjo Romantica

Junjo Romantica tells the tale of a budding romance between young college student Masaki Takahashi and his brother’s erotica author friend Akihiko Usami whom he moves in with. The show also goes on to tell the side story romances of two other couples, but it is the main one that is the problem. Let’s be perfectly clear here first, though. Their relationship isn’t unhealthy because they are two men, but because Akihiko is basically a molester.

Upon first moving in, Masaki is quite noticeably uncomfortable, not just because Akihiko writes erotica about homosexual relationships, but because he is very touchy. As things go on, his unwanted touching keeps getting rejected, but gets worse until the point that it is basically molestation. Even though Masaki initially tells him to stop, Akihiko also starts in with the rape-y phrases like “You know you like it”.

Super Lovers

Again, another anime series featuring a relationship with two men, but that’s not what makes it unhealthy. Super Lovers tells the love story between Haru and his much younger adoptive brother Ren. The love that grows between them is mutual, but at no point is Ren, a previously abused child and one not even out of school, an appropriate partner for a man some 10 years his senior. It would be better if Haru were somehow reluctant to the relationship, but he initiates it with his downright predatory behavior.

This disturbing relationship, much like the one in Junjo Romoantica, is pretty much par for the course in the shounen ai/yaoi genre though. The genre loves its manipulative, dominating, or older/younger tropes and they pretty much stick to their guns.

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