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Patient Childhood Love Interest

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This is a character type that shows up frequently in Harem Anime and Visual Novels. It is usually a girl, who grew up together with the main character, practically since infancy, and has been always in love with him, but instead of taking the initiative to become his girlfriend, she decided to take it slowly, developing a Like Brother and Sister relationship with him. In the most stereotypical examples, this trope is usually first demonstrated by a scene of her routinely visiting him in the morning, waking him up, walking to school with him, and giving him a box bento that she made just for him.
To the uninitiated observer, it'll seem like they're already dating, and even those who know better, like their parents or best friends, expect that they eventually will.
At this point, the Harem plot or Love Triangle starts, and in the face of the new rivals, she realizes that it's time to get serious. Hilarity Ensues, sometimes involving fights over her earlier "privileges" like feeding the protagonist, or as a trump card, bringing up some sort of Childhood Marriage Promise.
Often the Girl Next Door, even more literally than that trope describes, living close to the protagonist.
In terms of personality, she tends to be either a Yamato Nadeshiko in training, as evidenced by their cooking skills, serene patience, and the serving yet guiding the boy at the same time, or the long friendship turns her into One of the Boys, a Tsundere who seems to be Vitriolic Best Buds with the boy.
Truth in Television, but only to an extent. There's a theory (the evidence for which is quite shaky) known as the Westermarck Effect that claims that people who grew up together before the age of 6 are likely to become hardwired to think about each other Like Brother and Sister. So, the characters wouldn't be able to fall in love if they'd really known each other since infancy.
Subtrope of Childhood Friends. See also Childhood Friend Romance for the more generic trope about people who have known each other since childhood falling in love.
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Twilight Princess has characters treat Link and Ilia's relationship in this manner.
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In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sayaka quietly stood by Kyousuke's side through his Career-Ending Injury-induced depression, but he proved remarkably Oblivious to Love. Eventually, Sayaka makes a contract to become a Magical Girl in exchange for Kyousuke getting healed. However, Mami specifically asks if this is really a Selfless Wish, or if Sayaka just wants to feel like Kyousuke "owes" her now. Eventually, Kyousuke hooks up with Hitomi, who, unlike Sayaka, actually confessed her feelings. This, paired with Sayaka's huge and complex issues, goes very badly.
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Isana from Dream Eater Merry. Clearly has very strong feelings for Yumeji, and apparently has had them for some time.
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Brass Restoration has a rare twist on this where the childhood friend, Minori, is a Cloudcuckoo Lander. Much humor is milked from the way she seems to follow many of the traits in the trope description, in the worst ways possible, such as making lunch for Ryo...except it's all rice.
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Kotori from Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL has been in love with Yuma ever since they were kids, and loves to spend her time with him, making him food, getting jealous over Cathy and Anna, and being his Cloudcuckoolander's Minder. She never made a move until the end of the series where she was able to tell her Love Confession, although his reaction is somewhat ambiguous.
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Highschool of the Dead zigzags the trope with Takashi and Rei, who both fill the role at different points in the series:
They used to date back in middle school, but broke up after Rei was forced to repeat her junior year. During that time, Takashi began to ignore her since she wouldn't talk to him about it, causing her to think he had abandoned her. So she began dating Takashi's best friend, Hisashi, because he provided her with the emotional support she needed.
Despite the above, Rei still harbored feelings for Takashi, while Takashi tried to hide his resentment over Hisashi's relationship with her. But Hisashi was bitten during the outbreak and briefly became one of "them", which forced Takashi to kill him. Rei was left conflicted by her resentment towards Takashi over Hisashi's death and her lingering feelings for him. She soon decided on the latter and now hopes to rekindle what they once had.
However, the anime version complicates the issue with additional amounts of Ship Tease between Takashi and Saeko, which wasn't seen in the manga. Leaving Rei in the unenviable position of having to compete with Saeko for Takashi's affections. Though in episode 11, she and Takashi hook up again.
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Subverted with Otome Katou from School Days, who triples as none other than Alpha Bitch and Jerkass.
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Breath of the Wild has Mipha, with her planning to gift Link hand-crafted Zora Armor as part of a love declaration. She never got the chance to do so before her death, however.
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Chiyo of Despair's Last Resort fell in love with a boy from her childhood and decided to wait until they were older to confess. She never gets the chance. He dies of a terminal illness before she can.
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Much like in canon, Hinata from Son of the Sannin has had a crush on Naruto ever since the day they met when they were very young. Unlike in canon, Shizune catches her watching him from afar and encourages her to befriend him, leading to them growing up as Childhood Friends. The two would confess their feelings for each other and start dating during the afterparty for the Chunnin exams.
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Akari from To Heart, who contributed to the popularization of this archetype, especially the waking him up in the morning part.
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Tia from Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals shows that this does not work; Selan, Maxim's destined love interest, beats her into a confession. The man doesn't even notice her feeling for him.
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RWBY: Nora and Ren have been together since being orphaned at a very young age. Nora has loved Ren for years, but had no idea for a long time if he reciprocated; it also initially felt weird to her to fall for her best friend. Although they're mistaken for being a couple, they do start becoming much closer after Volume 4 helps Ren gain closure on how his parents died. After a Big Damn Kiss in Volume 7, they don't immediately get together because Ren first needs to come to terms with their enemy being an Invincible Villain. Nora begins realising she's been too invested in Ren to be her own person, so when they finally discuss their relationship in Volume 8, Ren is content to patiently wait for Nora to first figure out who she is before they upgrade their relationship.
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In Night World, Poppy is this to James. For years, she's remained his best friend and put up with him dating numerous other girls, biding her time until he notices her. She is convinced they will inevitably end up together and she just needs to wait. However, she's started to realize she may have to be more proactive about her feelings if she wants to win him over. She upgrades to being a Victorious Childhood Friend towards the end of Secret Vampire.
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There are two notable examples in Harry Potter:
Ginny Weasley is this for Harry himself. She has had a huge crush on him ever since she was ten years old, but she was so shy around him she could barely be in the same room as him, while Harry found this rather awkward and didn't know what to do with it. Harry finally starts to notice Ginny romantically in his sixth year, but by this point, she's dating other boys. However, it then turns out that Ginny never actually stopped loving Harry and they get together after she breaks up with her boyfriend; she explains to Harry that on Hermione's recommendation, she tried to loosen up and be herself more around Harry and also tried dating other people until he noticed her, and she was always very loyal and emotionally supportive to him. By the end, they're Happily Married with three kids.
Severus Snape is a Deconstruction example to Lily Evans. He loved her ever since they were children, but was never able to tell her how he really felt even though they were best friends for several years; it's unclear if she even knew he loved her as more than a friend. They eventually started to grow apart due to his fascination with Dark magic and closeness to future Death Eaters, which Lily greatly disapproved of (as they looked down on her). The final straw was when Lily attempted to defend him from bullies and in a fit of anger and humiliation he called a Mudblood, prompting her to break their friendship (he apologized, but continued to hang out with the same blood purist crowd). She ended up marrying James Potter instead but Snape never stopped loving Lily, to the point that he defected from the Death Eaters to try and protect her, then spent over a decade acting as a Double Agent and protecting her son in her memory. That being said, it's massively controversial as to whether he actually loved her or whether it was Loving a Shadow, not helped by the fact that in the films, Snape is much more sympathetic than he is in the books (where it's all but explicitly stated that he didn't give a damn about her son, only her).
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Yandere Simulator is set to feature one of these as Yandere-chan's first rival for Senpai's affections. For bonus points, her name is Osana Najimi.
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A variation in ½ Prince. Since Zhou moved away 8 years before the events of the story he found Lan in an online game and became her husband there, at least until she loses interest and goes on to a new game. When he finds her again in both the real world and the new MMORPG she switches to she's developed to the point of no longer wanting to hide behind a man, and he has to adopt a more aggressive strategy to win her over. He can't, and ends up losing her to Gui.
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Ringo Noyamane from Air Gear, where the protagonist Ikki actually lived for years in the same household with her and her sisters (the eldest of which, Rika, was promoted to parent), so they were almost literally Like Brother and Sister. She seems to have the upper hand now though, as Ikki's Link Tuner.
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Asuka is this in one of Shinji's dream sequences in the last episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion and the "Angelic Days" manga.
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Da Capo has Sakura Yoshino, who's actually the protagonist's cousin but often called such by him. His adopted sister Nemu has more of the stereotypical characteristics of this trope, though - waking him up in the morning, going to school, long-standing love, etc.
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Elements of this are played with both Cloud and Tifa from Final Fantasy VII. While the former's interest in Tifa isn't revealed until later in the game, the latter is the more obvious one being Cloud's staple childhood friend who has feelings for him, but it's subverted in that Tifa never really noticed him until he was right about to leave their village to join SOLDIER. Not to mention Tifa makes Cloud promise to rescue her when he become SOLDIER.
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Isabella had a crush on the protagonist of Melody when they were younger, and she finally tries to jump his bones when they both have breakups around the same time.
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Muv-Luv: Sumika to Takeru. She's content with their masochism tango until the very aggressive Meiya comes into the picture. Meiya herself may also count even though she wasn't with him for most of her life.
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Tsubaki from Your Lie in April has liked Kousei since childhood, but their relationship has always been sibling-like. She's fine with it until Kousei begins to become closer to Kaori.
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Hak from Yona of the Dawn resolved from very early on to stay on the sidelines to allow Yona to pursue Su-won. It...didn't work out well. After which he does actually attempt to pursue her in earnest for a while, but soon decides to give up when she asks him to stop "joking" with her. It takes about a hundred chapters, but she does eventually come to develop and realize she has feelings for him.
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Mikae Morikawa from True Love Junai Monogatari. Very cute, a tsundere, and the main guy's childhood friend. And she has never forgotten the Childhood Marriage Promise they made.
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Omamori Himari starts with Rinko in the role, but it turns out Yuuto had an Arranged Marriage and Childhood Marriage Promise with Kuesu before his memories were sealed and let's not forget Himari herself.
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RahXephon has Haruka Shitow... or at least had, until she and Ayato were separated when Tokyo Jupier was formed. When they met again, Ayato stayed young and Haruka had grown up, plus he lost his memories of her for very complicated reasons.
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Emily from Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, who's an Expy of Frau. She wins and marries Flit but at a very high price: knowing that she won mostly because the other girl in the "Love Triangle", Yurin, died.
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Philuffy in Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle is this to Lux. When they were children, she supported him when his family was thrown out of the palace and his mother died. In the present, she's the least aggressive out of all the girls — for example, when Lux has to go on a date with her and two other girls on the same day, her date consists of letting Lux sleep and recover from the day's work.
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Girls Bravo: Subverted in Kirie's case. While she does have feelings for Yukinari, she quickly decides to call it quits and just remain friends with him after the fourth episode, where her first and only real attempt to upgrade her relationship fails due to unforeseen circumstances and she realizes trying to compete with both Lisa and Miharu could prove to be an impossible battle. The manga even has a one-shot epilogue that touches upon her feelings after he and Miharu get together, trying to figure out what to do with herself now that she's officially lost her chance.
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Hetty Feather: Jem waited for Hetty to come home to her childhood cottage to reciprocate what he felt, despite being apart for at least 9 years and only trading letters. When Hetty tells him she doesn't feel the same way, he rationalizes her reluctance to inexperience and youth, telling her that he would wait for her, no matter how long it took.
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Sayaka Maizono from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc seems to be headed in this direction, even when she and Naegi knew each other mostly in passing. Subverted in that Sayaka had decided to frame him for murder in the Hope's Peak murderous atmosphere... but then she was killed instead.
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Kei Shindou in ef - a fairy tale of the two. is a classic Tsundere variation.
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The Legend of Zelda:
Ocarina of Time has a few characters that fit this trope. Those being Saria (Link's only friend in the Kokiri Forest, with Mido being jealous over their bond), Ruto (who made Link promise to marry her in exchange for the Zora Sapphire and still considers herself his fianceÌ�e after the seven-year Time Skip), and — to a lesser extent — Malon (whose romantic interest in Link is only implied via one of the Gossip Stone).
The Minish Cap has Zelda as Link's close childhood friend, right down to waking him up at the beginning of the game.
Twilight Princess has characters treat Link and Ilia's relationship in this manner.
Skyward Sword once again has Zelda herself, who, living on a tiny floating island, naturally has known Link all her life. The game starts with her sending a letter via her Loftwing to wake him up for his graduation ceremony, and the duo's Leitmotif when flying is outright called "Romance." Depending on how you go about a sidequest with another female character, Link will either return Zelda's affections or just see her as their best friend (in which case, your sword companion will strongly advise you to not mention your new girlfriend when reuniting).
Breath of the Wild has Mipha, with her planning to gift Link hand-crafted Zora Armor as part of a love declaration. She never got the chance to do so before her death, however.
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Oh Rhonda!: Rhonda doesn't try to pressure any relationship with Arnold; so far she's happy with them being just friends, and supporting each other whenever necessary, hoping that, eventually, he'll realize her feelings for him, or fall in love with her by his own, only giving the occasional hint of her feelings, and never being hostile towards any possible love rival, knowing there's always a backfiring risk.
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The Devil Judge: Soo-hyun, Ga-on's childhood friend, has confessed to him five times since kindergarten and even though he rejected her every time, she's still content just staying by his side till the day he reciprocates her feelings. They get a Relationship Upgrade in episode 13.
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The Flash (2014): Barry Allen has been in love with his best friend Iris West practically all his life before he even knew what love was. He waited years for her to notice his feelings, but after she got herself a steady boyfriend, decided that he couldn't keep lying to her and confessed. Unlike most examples, Barry did try to move on from Iris — but none of his attempts ever stuck (mostly due to his own hang-ups). It takes a while, but he and Iris finally get together in Season 3.
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Mashiro and Yuuri in Root Double: Before Crime * After Days, towards Natsuhiko. A young Yuuri even told Natsuhiko she wanted to be his bride. However, the two girls are close enough Childhood Friends that they can have a friendly rivalry once they both realise they have a chance.
Mashiro, while initially having a One of the Boys relationship with Natsuhiko, falls in love with him while watching over his delusional state after Yuuri's apparent death and even does his cooking. Yuuri sacrifices her ultimate freedom for Natsuhiko's and can only see him once a year while he is unconscious, preventing her from furthering her relationship with him.
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Yuzu from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V has had feelings for Yuya for some time, getting violently jealous when other girls hit on him despite never making a move herself.
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Infinite Stratos has, unusually for the Harem Genre, two Patient Childhood Love Interest characters. The protagonist even classifies them as "First Childhood Friend,"note Also Rare for a Harem Genre for she is literally the first girl introduced" and "Second Childhood Friend," based on the time they met with him. The first is a Tsundere, the second a Yandere.
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Skyward Sword once again has Zelda herself, who, living on a tiny floating island, naturally has known Link all her life. The game starts with her sending a letter via her Loftwing to wake him up for his graduation ceremony, and the duo's Leitmotif when flying is outright called "Romance." Depending on how you go about a sidequest with another female character, Link will either return Zelda's affections or just see her as their best friend (in which case, your sword companion will strongly advise you to not mention your new girlfriend when reuniting).
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Eva Luna: Eva Luna had strong feelings and slight whiffs of the trope for Huberto Naranjo, the local Street Urchin and Jerk with a Heart of Gold, ever since they met as kids no older than 10. As a pre-teen, she felt it strongly, and was frustrated because he told her "You're just a kid" many times which was an act since he always held a torch for Eva but didn't want to admit it. When they did get together, they only saw each other counted times yet she patiently waited for him. Unusually for the trope, Eva is criticised for it by her Cool Big Sis Mimi, who also knows Huberto from childhood and loudly wonders "What Does She See in Him?". In the end, they break up amiably and she gets together with Intrepid Reporter Rolf instead.
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In CROSS†CHANNEL, the Genre Savvy Taichi comments that Nanaka's personality fits this trope, so it must be a flaw in the plot that she isn't really his childhood friend. She's actually his mother.
On the other hand, Youko is this trope deconstructed, and Taichi sees her as more of a Yandere Stalker with a Crush than anything.
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Almost all of the main love interests in Case Closed, especially Shinichi and Ran, Kaito and Aoko and Heiji and Kazuha. Shinichi and Ran are already a couple now (sort of), but the other two are just too stubborn to admit they're in love. Though it looks like Kazuha and Heiji are surely going that way.
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Tommyand Tuppence: Initially, Tommy Beresford to Tuppence Cowley, who remained somewhat oblivious and insisted that she and Tommy were just good mates until the Love Epiphany hit. For his part, Tommy treats Tuppence as a friend and does not make the full extent of his feelings known even to the reader until she is believed dead and he launches into a "The Reason You Suck" Speech on a lesser suitor who claims to mourn her deeply despite having known her for a matter of days.
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The Search for the Sublime: For Chelsea, Raven, her best friend since toddlerhood, was her first love, but she never made her feelings known growing up. Eventually, Raven fell for Devon and Chelsea fell for Garret. As adults, both women divorced their husbands, moved in together with their kids, and eventually became a couple.
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In The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Norval and Trudy are childhood friends and at one point Norval confesses that he was always in love with her but couldn't spit it out all this time.
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Yu-Gi-Oh!:
Kotori from Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL has been in love with Yuma ever since they were kids, and loves to spend her time with him, making him food, getting jealous over Cathy and Anna, and being his Cloudcuckoolander's Minder. She never made a move until the end of the series where she was able to tell her Love Confession, although his reaction is somewhat ambiguous.
Yuzu from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V has had feelings for Yuya for some time, getting violently jealous when other girls hit on him despite never making a move herself.
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Ami Kurimoto is this to Junta Momonari in DNA², and it's actually a huge plot point: as his childhood friend, Ami has come to know Junta so well... that she is completely immune to his Mega Playboy side and, even more, is disgusted by that persona. This means she loves the real Junta, awkward and childish and all, rather than him as the super suave and seductive Mega Playboy.
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Ocarina of Time has a few characters that fit this trope. Those being Saria (Link's only friend in the Kokiri Forest, with Mido being jealous over their bond), Ruto (who made Link promise to marry her in exchange for the Zora Sapphire and still considers herself his fianceÌ�e after the seven-year Time Skip), and — to a lesser extent — Malon (whose romantic interest in Link is only implied via one of the Gossip Stone).
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Sakura Amamiya, from Sakura Wars (2019), made a promise to marry her childhood friend Seijuuro Kamiyama back when they were still kids. Whether they actually become an item depends on the player.
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Young Justice (2010) introduced Barbara as Dick's friend in season one, with a hint that she has a thing for him. Nothing really comes of this in the show, but the post-Time Skip issues of the tie-in comic have her this way. Dick even likes her back, but he's also a massive horndog, and she says that she's willing to wait until he matures a little more. (The end implies they may be Friends with Benefits, though.)
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In Earth's Children, Joplaya fell in love with Jondalar when he came to live with the Lanzadonii in his early teens and has been waiting for him to notice her for several years, even when he moved back to the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii and left to go on a long journey around Europe. In spite of the fact Jondalar never seems to notice her affections, she still clings to the hope that someday he will. It doesn't work out...though that's probably for the best given Joplaya and Jondalar are unwittingly paternal half-siblings.
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In Danny Phantom, Sam had been Danny's friend since they were little kids, and despite her obvious attraction to him, she Cannot Spit It Out until the finale.
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Anaru and Tsuruko from Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. They may have chances to get together with the guys they like, Jintan and Yukiatsu, by the end of the series. But only after an emotionally-exhausting journey for EVERYONE in their group.
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Mimi from Lovely★Complex intentionally assumes this personality when around Ootani.
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In Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia, Shurelia's cosmosphere has Aurica as this. At one point, she confesses her love to Lyner. He has to reject her in order to advance the plot of the cosmosphere. If he accepts, Shurelia will complain and force him to redo the level.
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During the run of the 11th Doctor on Doctor Who, we find out that Rory was essentially like patiently waiting for Amy Pond. They spent their childhood as friends, and as soon as they were old, enough Rory fell hard for her and never even showed interest in anyone else to the point that Amy thought he was gay. It was Amy who always had doubts and occasional longings for others until they actually got married.
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Kimi ni Todoke has a rare male version; Ryuu is this to Chizuru. Strangely enough, she is also an example of the trope herself...but towards Ryu's older brother.
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This is Shana's attitude towards her love for Dart in The Legend of Dragoon. It takes the rest of the party talking some sense into Dart before he finally reciprocates.
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So, I Can't Play H!: Mina has nursed an unrequited crush on her neighbor, Ryosuke, since they were kids. But she's so shy, that she was unable to work up the courage to tell him until they were in middle school. In episode 11, he explains that he doesn't reciprocate specifically because she's his friend. Were it not for that, he would've said "yes" and even married her.
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In Dubious Company, whether or not Sal can see Leeroy as this is a bit ambiguous, but he is clearly smitten with her. Unfortunately for Leeroy, his main love rival is their God.
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Pokémon the Series: XY: Serena knew Ash back when they were very young and it took a while to even bring up the first time they met (which Ash had forgotten), and is often patient and helpful towards her love interest, all while blushing and waiting for him to acknowledge her. Unfortunately for her, Ash is one of the most famous characters to ever be Oblivious to Love. Though at least she gets the chance to give him what looks suspiciously like a kiss.
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Fujioka and Kana from Minami-ke have been friends for a while and he has a longstanding crush on her. She's so Oblivious to Love though that one starts to wonder if he should just give up. Given how popular he is with the ladies though, he'll probably catch his break once she hits puberty.
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Mizuka Nagamori from One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e is probably as straight as an example as it gets, possibly even exaggerated, considering the extent to which she takes care of protagonist Kouhei Orihara, who is a troublesome combination of a Jerkass and Cloudcuckoo Lander.
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Kaoru Shimizu of Major meets Goro as early as the 4th grade of elementary school, and despite starting off on the wrong foot, she signs up for his baseball team just to be close to him. When he moves out of town without saying goodbye to her, she locks herself in her room to cry for days, and the first thing she does upon meeting him again when he comes back during junior high is to punch him. When they're about to graduate, she intends to follow him to Kaido Academy despite it not having a softball team, and he convinces her otherwise because, while she started playing just to be with him, she came to love playing the sport, and she reluctantly complies, until he ends up coming to Seisshu High to start his own baseball team after he left Kaido halfway through the second year. They get separated again after he leaves for the U.S.A. to go pro, but she promises she'll be waiting for his return. Once he does, it's not until Goro accidentally stands her up for a date that her younger brother Taiga berates him for not noticing her feelings for him, and he realizes that he never saw her as a woman. The two eventually get married during the final season, and the series ends with her giving birth to their first child.
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The Minish Cap has Zelda as Link's close childhood friend, right down to waking him up at the beginning of the game.
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Willow is this to Xander in the first seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They have been friends since they were at least five years old, but Xander never seems to notice that Willow likes him romantically while Willow herself is too shy to tell him, despite Buffy recommending she should speak up if she wants him. It ends up being Played for Drama in Season 2, as Xander finally figures out how Willow feels when she catches him making out with Cordelia and sobs that he'd rather be with someone he supposedly hates than with her. Luckily, they make up and eventually move on with other people while remaining best friends.
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A possible interpretation of Koyuki's feelings for Ginta in MÄR. This attitude is carried over into Snow as well, even though she didn't grow up with Ginta. The anime ends with Koyuki and Snow merging into one person to be with Ginta followed by a rather touching moment as they walk home together, their arms locked.
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In Preacher's Kid, Wynton has been patiently waiting on Angie for years, but she sees him as nothing more than a friend, and her father refused to grant permission to date her because she's too busy with the Lord's work.
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Sohara in Heaven's Lost Property. She's Tomoki's childhood friend, lives next door to him, often goes to his house in the morning to wake him up and despite regularly beating him up for his lecherous behavior, she very obviously loves him and is always looking after him.
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Frau Bow from Mobile Suit Gundam, whose name actually translates to "wife". There's a lot of focus on how much she cares for and supports the protagonist, her best friend Amuro. He seems like an Ungrateful Bastard a lot of the time, but he does finally call her "boku no suki na Frau" = "my sweet Frau" at the end. No, their relationship isn't any less complicated in the sequel.
Emily from Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, who's an Expy of Frau. She wins and marries Flit but at a very high price: knowing that she won mostly because the other girl in the "Love Triangle", Yurin, died.
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Both Yayoi Aoba and Sanae Nakazawa are this to Tsubasa in Captain Tsubasa. Yayoi moves on and stays Just Friends with him and might end up with his friend Misugi instead, while Sanae eventually switches to Victorious Childhood Friend when she and Tsubasa are teenagers and they end up married.
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Kaede from SHUFFLE!. Sia and Nerine are childhood friends too, but Kaede's the one who fits the definition to a T.
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Subverted with Iroha from I Don’t Like You at All, Big Brother!!, for she is VERY Clingy.
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On the other hand, Youko is this trope deconstructed, and Taichi sees her as more of a Yandere Stalker with a Crush than anything.
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