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* The manga / anime ''Manga/CatsEye'': The main characters are barmaids and part-time SpyCatsuit thieves. One of them has a boyfriend, who happens to be a police officer, and who cannot make up his mind if he likes his girlfriend or her SecretIdentity more. (This, obviously, is the cause of much frustration on the main character's part.)
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* The manga / anime ''Manga/CatsEye'': The In ''Manga/CatsEye'', the main characters are barmaids and part-time SpyCatsuit thieves. One of them has a boyfriend, who happens to be a police officer, and who cannot make up his mind if he likes his girlfriend or her SecretIdentity more. (This, obviously, is the cause of much frustration on the main character's part.)
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid. The anime plays it as a straight TwoPersonLoveTriangle, but the manga version is a little more complicated in that Kaito ''does'' actually suspect that she's the mermaid; it's just that as long as he's not completely certain about it, he's torn between "committing to the girl in front of him" and "fulfilling ThePromise he made to the mermaid to find her", and he's going to have to pick one or the other as long as Lucia's [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife still hiding things from him]] as part of TheMasquerade. Even after they get together about halfway into the first arc, Kaito confirming that they're the same person after all is an ''immense'' relief to both of them.
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid. The anime plays it as a straight TwoPersonLoveTriangle, but the manga version is a little more complicated in that contrary to Lucia's belief, Kaito ''does'' actually suspect that she's the mermaid; it's just that as long as he's not completely certain about it, he's torn between "committing to the girl in front of him" and "fulfilling ThePromise he made to the mermaid to find her", and he's going to have to pick one or the other as long as Lucia's [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife still hiding things from him]] as part of TheMasquerade. Even after they get together about halfway into the first arc, Kaito confirming that they're the same person after all is an ''immense'' relief to both of them.
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Headcanon, it was never stated that CC had any kind of different feelings for any Lelouch persona since she knew the man behind the mask.
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** C.C. loves Lelouch vi Britannia but frequently mocks Zero for being a fraud. The difference is that C.C knows they're the same person from the very start.
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** ''[[Manga/KaitouSaintTail Saint Tail]]'''s version involves Meimi believing that Asuka Jr. only cares about her PhantomThief Saint Tail persona due to the [[FoeRomanceSubtext open passion]] he has when physically pursuing her (even if not romantically, at least as a subject of interest for him), but it eventually turns out that he ''can't'' understand anything Saint Tail does as long as he doesn't know who she is or what she's thinking, meaning that all of Meimi's attempts at channeling her affection into the Saint Tail persona bounce off of him. On top of that, it's actually ''Meimi'' whom he's [[SingleTargetSexuality singlemindedly]] [[DevotedToYou devoted to]], but he still feels like he can't truly understand her because she's hiding such a huge part of her life and personal feelings from him; [[spoiler:in fact, once he starts having suspicions of her being Saint Tail, he comes to terms with his LoveEpiphany and starts dating her in the hopes of getting her to open up about it]]. Ultimately, the point made is that in order to understand her ''actual'' "true self" and properly accept her feelings, he needs to be able to reconcile everything about her under ''both'' personas, [[spoiler:which he eventually accomplishes in the finale]].
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** ''[[Manga/KaitouSaintTail Saint Tail]]'''s version involves Meimi believing that Asuka Jr. only cares about her PhantomThief Saint Tail persona due to the [[FoeRomanceSubtext open passion]] he has when physically pursuing her (even if not romantically, at least as a subject of interest for him), but it eventually turns out that he ''can't'' understand anything Saint Tail does as long as he doesn't know who she is or what she's thinking, meaning that all of Meimi's attempts at channeling her affection into the Saint Tail persona bounce off of him. On top of that, it's actually ''Meimi'' whom he's [[SingleTargetSexuality singlemindedly]] [[DevotedToYou singlemindedly devoted to]], but he still feels like he can't truly understand her because she's hiding such a huge part of her life and personal feelings from him; [[spoiler:in fact, once he starts having suspicions of her being Saint Tail, he comes to terms with his LoveEpiphany and starts dating her in the hopes of getting her to open up about it]]. Ultimately, the point made is that in order to understand her ''actual'' "true self" and properly accept her feelings, he needs to be able to reconcile everything about her under ''both'' personas, [[spoiler:which he eventually accomplishes in the finale]].
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* In ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'', Natsuru loves Kaede and Kaede loves Natsuru. The catch? Kaede loves [[SexShifter THE FEMALE NATSURU!]] To make things even more ridiculous, Kaede is under the impression that the male Natsuru is her love rival. [[spoiler:It turns out she knew it all along because she's the BigBad. And she really wants only the female Natsuru.]]
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* In ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'', ''Literature/{{Kampfer}}'', Natsuru loves Kaede and Kaede loves Natsuru. The catch? Kaede loves [[SexShifter THE FEMALE NATSURU!]] To make things even more ridiculous, Kaede is under the impression that the male Natsuru is her love rival. [[spoiler:It turns out she knew it all along because she's the BigBad. And she really wants only the female Natsuru.]]
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* Suguha in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' begins to fall in love with her brother Kazuto ([[KissingCousins who is actually her cousin]]) whom she knows is in love with another girl. In order to forget about those feelings for him, she tries to fall in love with an online person she met called Kirito. Kirito is Kazuto's online persona. When she figures this out, it breaks her heart since she's fallen in love with the same person twice.
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* Suguha in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' begins to fall in love with her brother Kazuto ([[KissingCousins who is actually her cousin]]) whom she knows is in love with another girl. In order to forget about those feelings for him, she tries to fall in love with an online person she met called Kirito. Kirito is Kazuto's online persona. When she figures this out, it breaks her heart since she's fallen in love with the same person twice.
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** ''[[Manga/KaitouSaintTail Saint Tail]]'''s version involves Meimi believing that Asuka Jr. only cares about her PhantomThief Saint Tail persona due to the [[FoeRomanceSubtext open passion]] he has when physically pursuing her, but it eventually turns out that he ''can't'' understand anything Saint Tail does as long as he doesn't know who she is or what she's thinking, meaning that all of Meimi's attempts at channeling her affection into the Saint Tail persona bounce off of him. On top of that, it's actually ''Meimi'' whom he's [[SingleTargetSexuality singlemindedly]] [[DevotedToYou devoted to]], but he still feels like he can't truly understand her because she's hiding such a huge part of her life and personal feelings from him; [[spoiler:in fact, once he starts having suspicions of her being Saint Tail, he comes to terms with his LoveEpiphany and starts dating her in the hopes of getting her to open up about it]]. Ultimately, the point made is that in order to understand her ''actual'' "true self" and properly accept her feelings, he needs to be able to reconcile everything about her under ''both'' personas, [[spoiler:which he eventually accomplishes in the finale]].
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** ''[[Manga/KaitouSaintTail Saint Tail]]'''s version involves Meimi believing that Asuka Jr. only cares about her PhantomThief Saint Tail persona due to the [[FoeRomanceSubtext open passion]] he has when physically pursuing her, her (even if not romantically, at least as a subject of interest for him), but it eventually turns out that he ''can't'' understand anything Saint Tail does as long as he doesn't know who she is or what she's thinking, meaning that all of Meimi's attempts at channeling her affection into the Saint Tail persona bounce off of him. On top of that, it's actually ''Meimi'' whom he's [[SingleTargetSexuality singlemindedly]] [[DevotedToYou devoted to]], but he still feels like he can't truly understand her because she's hiding such a huge part of her life and personal feelings from him; [[spoiler:in fact, once he starts having suspicions of her being Saint Tail, he comes to terms with his LoveEpiphany and starts dating her in the hopes of getting her to open up about it]]. Ultimately, the point made is that in order to understand her ''actual'' "true self" and properly accept her feelings, he needs to be able to reconcile everything about her under ''both'' personas, [[spoiler:which he eventually accomplishes in the finale]].
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** ''[[Manga/KaitouSaintTail Saint Tail]]'''s version involves Meimi believing that Asuka Jr. only cares about her PhantomThief Saint Tail persona due to the [[FoeRomanceSubtext open passion]] he has when physically pursuing her, but it eventually turns out that he ''can't'' understand anything Saint Tail does as long as he doesn't know who she is or what she's thinking, meaning that all of Meimi's attempts at channeling her affection into the Saint Tail persona bounce off of him. On top of that, it's actually ''Meimi'' whom he's [[SingleTargetSexuality singlemindedly]] [[DevotedToYou devoted to]], but he still feels like he can't truly understand her because she's hiding such a huge part of her life and personal feelings from him, [[spoiler:to the point that once he starts having suspicions of her being Saint Tail, he comes to terms with his LoveEpiphany and starts dating her in the hopes of getting her to open up about it]]. Ultimately, the point made is that in order to understand her ''actual'' "true self" and properly accept her feelings, he needs to be able to reconcile everything about her under ''both'' personas, [[spoiler:which he eventually accomplishes in the finale]].
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** ''[[Manga/KaitouSaintTail Saint Tail]]'''s version involves Meimi believing that Asuka Jr. only cares about her PhantomThief Saint Tail persona due to the [[FoeRomanceSubtext open passion]] he has when physically pursuing her, but it eventually turns out that he ''can't'' understand anything Saint Tail does as long as he doesn't know who she is or what she's thinking, meaning that all of Meimi's attempts at channeling her affection into the Saint Tail persona bounce off of him. On top of that, it's actually ''Meimi'' whom he's [[SingleTargetSexuality singlemindedly]] [[DevotedToYou devoted to]], but he still feels like he can't truly understand her because she's hiding such a huge part of her life and personal feelings from him, [[spoiler:to the point that him; [[spoiler:in fact, once he starts having suspicions of her being Saint Tail, he comes to terms with his LoveEpiphany and starts dating her in the hopes of getting her to open up about it]]. Ultimately, the point made is that in order to understand her ''actual'' "true self" and properly accept her feelings, he needs to be able to reconcile everything about her under ''both'' personas, [[spoiler:which he eventually accomplishes in the finale]].
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: as the PhantomThief Saint Tail, Meimi starts falling in love with SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr., but believes that he'd never have interest in her outside their FoeRomanceSubtext and would even get angry if he learned her identity. Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. is falling in love with ''Meimi'', but because he's started suspecting she might actually be Saint Tail and is worried about whether she's okay in there, this manifests in him getting even more obsessed with catching Saint Tail to confirm his suspicions, further convincing Meimi that he only has interest in Saint Tail and nothing else (with the anime taking it a step further by laying on thicker ShipTease between him and Saint Tail). [[spoiler:Eventually, the fact he's so hung up about this sends him into a LoveEpiphany, shocking Meimi when he goes up to her and abruptly drops a LoveConfession on her, but she's still convinced he must have preferred Saint Tail well into their relationship until he finally manages to get the truth through her head.]]
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: as and its CreatorDrivenSuccessor ''Manga/{{Mink}}'' both play with this trope in that their protagonists Meimi and Mink are ''[[InsecureLoveInterest convinced]]'' that this is the case with their respective alter egos, only for it to turn out that their [[LoveInterest Love Interests]] are all too aware that [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome an intimate relationship with a superficial alter ego isn't actually possible]]:
** ''[[Manga/KaitouSaintTail Saint Tail]]'''s version involves Meimi believing that Asuka Jr. only cares about her PhantomThief SaintTail, Meimi starts falling in love with SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr., Tail persona due to the [[FoeRomanceSubtext open passion]] he has when physically pursuing her, but believes it eventually turns out that he'd never have interest in her outside their FoeRomanceSubtext and would even get angry if he learned her identity. Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. is falling in love with ''Meimi'', but because he's started suspecting she might actually be ''can't'' understand anything Saint Tail and does as long as he doesn't know who she is worried about whether or what she's okay in there, this manifests in him getting even more obsessed with catching thinking, meaning that all of Meimi's attempts at channeling her affection into the Saint Tail to confirm his suspicions, further convincing Meimi that he only has interest in Saint Tail and nothing else (with the anime taking it a step further by laying on thicker ShipTease between him and Saint Tail). [[spoiler:Eventually, the fact persona bounce off of him. On top of that, it's actually ''Meimi'' whom he's so hung [[SingleTargetSexuality singlemindedly]] [[DevotedToYou devoted to]], but he still feels like he can't truly understand her because she's hiding such a huge part of her life and personal feelings from him, [[spoiler:to the point that once he starts having suspicions of her being Saint Tail, he comes to terms with his LoveEpiphany and starts dating her in the hopes of getting her to open up about this sends it]]. Ultimately, the point made is that in order to understand her ''actual'' "true self" and properly accept her feelings, he needs to be able to reconcile everything about her under ''both'' personas, [[spoiler:which he eventually accomplishes in the finale]].
** ''Manga/{{Mink}}'''s version has ShrinkingViolet Mink taking up a [[MaskOfConfidence more confident and assertive]] idol persona in order to help her LoveInterest Motoharu, who runs a talent agency and is clearly entranced by her idol persona's potential. The need for Mink to uphold a {{Masquerade}} means she can't tell Motoharu about her identity even if she wants to, resulting in himinto a LoveEpiphany, shocking Meimi when he goes up to only knowing her civilian self as "his younger sister's friend" whom he's mildly acquainted with, but Mink is still convinced that she wouldn't be useful or interesting to him as a civilian and abruptly drops that she ''needs'' to use her "[[DateMyAvatar false self]]" to be able to keep working with him. Unfortunately, Mink's inability to open up about her personal life to him (plus the fact she's an idol under ContractualPurity standards) means they still can't take it much further beyond what amounts to a ''really'' dedicated work relationship. [[spoiler:Once the need for the {{Masquerade}} is lifted, Mink decides that she would rather give him a LoveConfession on her, but she's still convinced as her civilian self even knowing that he must have preferred only knows her as an acquaintance, only for a PowerIncontinence-fueled accident to expose her identity to him anyway; much like in ''[[Manga/KaitouSaintTail Saint Tail well into their relationship until Tail]]'', Motoharu is only able to properly understand Mink's feelings for him when he's able to put together context from how she behaved towards him in both personas, and he finally manages outright tells her that he was dissatisfied with how little he truly knew about her and is happy to get the truth through to know her head.BeneathTheMask.]]
** ''[[Manga/KaitouSaintTail Saint Tail]]'''s version involves Meimi believing that Asuka Jr. only cares about her PhantomThief Saint
** ''Manga/{{Mink}}'''s version has ShrinkingViolet Mink taking up a [[MaskOfConfidence more confident and assertive]] idol persona in order to help her LoveInterest Motoharu, who runs a talent agency and is clearly entranced by her idol persona's potential. The need for Mink to uphold a {{Masquerade}} means she can't tell Motoharu about her identity even if she wants to, resulting in him
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: as the PhantomThief Saint Tail, Meimi starts falling in love with SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr., but believes that he'd never have interest in her outside their FoeRomanceSubtext and would even get angry if he learned her identity. Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. is falling in love with ''Meimi'', but because he's started suspecting she might actually be Saint Tail and is worried about whether she's okay in there, this manifests in him getting even more obsessed with catching Saint Tail to confirm his suspicions, further convincing everyone at school, Meimi included, that he only has interest in Saint Tail and nothing else (with the anime taking it a step further by laying on thicker ShipTease between him and Saint Tail). [[spoiler:Eventually, the fact he's so hung up about this sends him into a LoveEpiphany, shocking Meimi when he goes up to her and abruptly drops a LoveConfession on her, but she's still convinced he must have preferred Saint Tail well into their relationship until he finally manages to get the truth through her head.]]
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: as the PhantomThief Saint Tail, Meimi starts falling in love with SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr., but believes that he'd never have interest in her outside their FoeRomanceSubtext and would even get angry if he learned her identity. Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. is falling in love with ''Meimi'', but because he's started suspecting she might actually be Saint Tail and is worried about whether she's okay in there, this manifests in him getting even more obsessed with catching Saint Tail to confirm his suspicions, further convincing everyone at school, Meimi included, that he only has interest in Saint Tail and nothing else (with the anime taking it a step further by laying on thicker ShipTease between him and Saint Tail). [[spoiler:Eventually, the fact he's so hung up about this sends him into a LoveEpiphany, shocking Meimi when he goes up to her and abruptly drops a LoveConfession on her, but she's still convinced he must have preferred Saint Tail well into their relationship until he finally manages to get the truth through her head.]]
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: as the PhantomThief Saint Tail, Meimi starts falling in love with SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr., but believes that he'd never have interest in her outside their FoeRomanceSubtext and would even get angry if he learned her identity. Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. is falling in love with ''Meimi'', but because he's started suspecting she might actually be Saint Tail, this manifests in him getting even more obsessed with catching Saint Tail to confirm his suspicions, further convincing everyone at school, Meimi included, that he only has interest in Saint Tail and nothing else (with the anime taking it a step further by laying on thicker ShipTease between him and Saint Tail). [[spoiler:Eventually, the fact he's so hung up about this sends him into a LoveEpiphany, shocking Meimi when he goes up to her and abruptly drops a LoveConfession on her, but she's still convinced he must have preferred Saint Tail well into their relationship until he finally manages to get the truth through her head.]]
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: as the PhantomThief Saint Tail, Meimi starts falling in love with SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr., but believes that he'd never have interest in her outside their FoeRomanceSubtext and would even get angry if he learned her identity. Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. is falling in love with ''Meimi'', but because he's started suspecting she might actually be Saint Tail, Tail and is worried about whether she's okay in there, this manifests in him getting even more obsessed with catching Saint Tail to confirm his suspicions, further convincing everyone at school, Meimi included, that he only has interest in Saint Tail and nothing else (with the anime taking it a step further by laying on thicker ShipTease between him and Saint Tail). [[spoiler:Eventually, the fact he's so hung up about this sends him into a LoveEpiphany, shocking Meimi when he goes up to her and abruptly drops a LoveConfession on her, but she's still convinced he must have preferred Saint Tail well into their relationship until he finally manages to get the truth through her head.]]
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: as the PhantomThief Saint Tail, Meimi starts falling in love with SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr., but believes that he'd never have interest in her outside their FoeRomanceSubtext and would even get angry if he learned her identity. Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. is falling in love with ''Meimi'', but because he's started suspecting she might actually be Saint Tail, this manifests in him getting even more obsessed with catching Saint Tail to confirm his suspicions, further convincing everyone at school, Meimi included, that he only has interest in Saint Tail and nothing else (with the anime even taking it a step further by laying on thicker ShipTease between him and Saint Tail). [[spoiler:Eventually, the fact he's so hung up about this sends him into a LoveEpiphany, shocking Meimi when he goes up to her and abruptly drops a LoveConfession on her, but she's still convinced he must have preferred Saint Tail well into their relationship until he finally manages to get the truth through her head.]]
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: as the PhantomThief Saint Tail, Meimi starts falling in love with SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr., but believes that he'd never have interest in her outside their FoeRomanceSubtext and would even get angry if he learned her identity. Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. is falling in love with ''Meimi'', but because he's started suspecting she might actually be Saint Tail, this manifests in him getting even more obsessed with catching Saint Tail to confirm his suspicions, further convincing everyone at school, Meimi included, that he only has interest in Saint Tail and nothing else (with the anime even taking it a step further by laying on thicker ShipTease between him and Saint Tail). [[spoiler:Eventually, the fact he's so hung up about this sends him into a LoveEpiphany, shocking Meimi when he goes up to her and abruptly drops a LoveConfession on her, but she's still convinced he must have preferred Saint Tail well into their relationship until he finally manages to get the truth through her head.]]
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: as the PhantomThief Saint Tail, Meimi starts falling in love with SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr., but believes that he'd never have interest in her outside their FoeRomanceSubtext and would even get angry if he learned her identity. Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. is falling in love with ''Meimi'', but because he's started suspecting she might actually be Saint Tail, this manifests in him getting even more obsessed with catching Saint Tail to confirm his suspicions, further convincing everyone at school, Meimi included, that he only has interest in Saint Tail and nothing else. [[spoiler:Eventually, the fact he's so hung up about this sends him into a LoveEpiphany, shocking Meimi when he goes up to her and abruptly drops a LoveConfession on her, but she's still convinced he must have preferred Saint Tail well into their relationship until he finally manages to get the truth through her head.]]
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: as the PhantomThief Saint Tail, Meimi starts falling in love with SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr., but believes that he'd never have interest in her outside their FoeRomanceSubtext and would even get angry if he learned her identity. Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. is falling in love with ''Meimi'', but because he's started suspecting she might actually be Saint Tail, this manifests in him getting even more obsessed with catching Saint Tail to confirm his suspicions, further convincing everyone at school, Meimi included, that he only has interest in Saint Tail and nothing else.else (with the anime even taking it a step further by laying on thicker ShipTease between him and Saint Tail). [[spoiler:Eventually, the fact he's so hung up about this sends him into a LoveEpiphany, shocking Meimi when he goes up to her and abruptly drops a LoveConfession on her, but she's still convinced he must have preferred Saint Tail well into their relationship until he finally manages to get the truth through her head.]]
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.]] is obsessed with Saint Tail, who has a thing for him both as Saint Tail and her SecretIdentity Meimi... Except that: [[SecretIdentityIdentity Meimi has a sharp personality change as Saint Tail]], and CannotSpitItOut in her civilian persona while Saint Tail couldn't be more obvious; [[ObliviousToLove Asuka Jr. is somehow unable to figure out his own romantic feelings, let alone those of Meimi-as-Meimi, Meimi-as-Saint Tail, the ones of an underclassgirl and those of the local]] ClingyJealousGirl; near the end of the series Asuka Jr. admits was obsessed with Saint Tail because ''she looked like the girl she liked'', said girl being ''Meimi''... And ''[[ObliviousToLove had not realized his feelings until after he thought for days about what he had blurted out]]''.
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist as the PhantomThief Saint Tail, Meimi starts falling in love with SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.]] , but believes that he'd never have interest in her outside their FoeRomanceSubtext and would even get angry if he learned her identity. Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. is falling in love with ''Meimi'', but because he's started suspecting she might actually be Saint Tail, this manifests in him getting even more obsessed with catching Saint Tail, who Tail to confirm his suspicions, further convincing everyone at school, Meimi included, that he only has a thing for him both as interest in Saint Tail and her SecretIdentity Meimi... Except that: [[SecretIdentityIdentity nothing else. [[spoiler:Eventually, the fact he's so hung up about this sends him into a LoveEpiphany, shocking Meimi has a sharp personality change as Saint Tail]], when he goes up to her and CannotSpitItOut in her civilian persona while abruptly drops a LoveConfession on her, but she's still convinced he must have preferred Saint Tail couldn't be more obvious; [[ObliviousToLove Asuka Jr. is somehow unable to figure out his own romantic feelings, let alone those of Meimi-as-Meimi, Meimi-as-Saint Tail, the ones of an underclassgirl and those of the local]] ClingyJealousGirl; near the end of the series Asuka Jr. admits was obsessed with Saint Tail because ''she looked like the girl she liked'', said girl being ''Meimi''... And ''[[ObliviousToLove had not realized his feelings well into their relationship until after he thought for days about what he had blurted out]]''.finally manages to get the truth through her head.]]
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* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' is something of a subversion of this trope. Tsukune falls in LoveAtFirstSight with [[NaiveEverygirl Outer Moka]], but he's at least quite fond of [[{{Tsundere}} Inner Moka]], and has recently said that "he'd like the two of them to become one". Take that as you will.
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* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' is something of a subversion of this trope. Tsukune falls in LoveAtFirstSight with [[NaiveEverygirl Outer Moka]], but he's at least quite fond of [[{{Tsundere}} Inner Moka]], and has recently said that "he'd like the two of them to become one". Take that as you will. [[spoiler:Ultimately [[SplitPersonalityMerge that's exactly what happens]], though both Tsukune and Inner Moka ''think'' that Outer Moka died when the Rosario was destroyed.]]
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid. The anime plays it as a straight TwoPersonLoveTriangle, but the manga version is a little more complicated in that Kaito ''does'' actually suspect that she's the mermaid; it's just that as long as he's not completely certain about it, he's torn between "committing to the girl in front of him" and "fulfilling ThePromise he made to the mermaid to find her", and he's going to have to pick one or the other as long as Lucia's still hiding things from him as part of TheMasquerade. Even after they get together about halfway into the first arc, Kaito confirming that they're the same person after all is an ''immense'' relief to both of them.
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid. The anime plays it as a straight TwoPersonLoveTriangle, but the manga version is a little more complicated in that Kaito ''does'' actually suspect that she's the mermaid; it's just that as long as he's not completely certain about it, he's torn between "committing to the girl in front of him" and "fulfilling ThePromise he made to the mermaid to find her", and he's going to have to pick one or the other as long as Lucia's [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife still hiding things from him him]] as part of TheMasquerade. Even after they get together about halfway into the first arc, Kaito confirming that they're the same person after all is an ''immense'' relief to both of them.them.
** The manga also adds a potential variation in backstory with Rina's boyfriend Hamasaki, whose family tends to a shrine made to honor a mermaid who saved the life of one of his ancestors. After meeting Rina, he starts to suspect that his ancestor may have ''married'' that mermaid... and, due to the {{Geas}} forbidding mermaids from revealing their identity to humans, said ancestor was likely none the wiser, meaning Hamasaki has no way of knowing if this is actually the truth or not.
** The manga also adds a potential variation in backstory with Rina's boyfriend Hamasaki, whose family tends to a shrine made to honor a mermaid who saved the life of one of his ancestors. After meeting Rina, he starts to suspect that his ancestor may have ''married'' that mermaid... and, due to the {{Geas}} forbidding mermaids from revealing their identity to humans, said ancestor was likely none the wiser, meaning Hamasaki has no way of knowing if this is actually the truth or not.
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid. The anime plays it as a straight TwoPersonLoveTriangle, but the manga version is a little more complicated in that Kaito ''does'' actually suspect that she's the mermaid; it's just that as long as he's not completely certain about it, he's torn between "committing to the girl in front of him" and "fulfilling ThePromise he made to the mermaid to find her", both of which he can't do at once as long as Lucia's still hiding things from him as part of TheMasquerade. Even after they get together about halfway into the first arc, Kaito confirming that they're the same person after all is an ''immense'' relief to both of them.
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid. The anime plays it as a straight TwoPersonLoveTriangle, but the manga version is a little more complicated in that Kaito ''does'' actually suspect that she's the mermaid; it's just that as long as he's not completely certain about it, he's torn between "committing to the girl in front of him" and "fulfilling ThePromise he made to the mermaid to find her", both of which he can't do at once and he's going to have to pick one or the other as long as Lucia's still hiding things from him as part of TheMasquerade. Even after they get together about halfway into the first arc, Kaito confirming that they're the same person after all is an ''immense'' relief to both of them.
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid. The anime plays it as a straight TwoPersonLoveTriangle, but the manga version is a little more complicated in that Kaito ''does'' actually suspect that she's the mermaid; it's just that as long as he's not completely certain about it, he's torn between "committing to the girl in front of him" and "fulfilling ThePromise he made to the mermaid to find her", especially when Lucia upholding TheMasquerade means she can't be fully honest with him about everything. Even after they get together about halfway into the first arc, Kaito confirming that they're the same person after all is an ''immense'' relief to both of them.
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid. The anime plays it as a straight TwoPersonLoveTriangle, but the manga version is a little more complicated in that Kaito ''does'' actually suspect that she's the mermaid; it's just that as long as he's not completely certain about it, he's torn between "committing to the girl in front of him" and "fulfilling ThePromise he made to the mermaid to find her", especially when Lucia upholding TheMasquerade means she both of which he can't be fully honest with do at once as long as Lucia's still hiding things from him about everything.as part of TheMasquerade. Even after they get together about halfway into the first arc, Kaito confirming that they're the same person after all is an ''immense'' relief to both of them.
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid. The anime plays it as a straight TwoPersonLoveTriangle, but the manga version is a little more complicated in that Kaito ''does'' actually like Lucia and even suspects that she's the mermaid; it's just that as long as he's not completely certain about it, he's torn between "committing to the girl in front of him" and "fulfilling ThePromise he made to the mermaid to find her", especially when Lucia upholding TheMasquerade means she can't be fully honest with him about everything. Even after they get together about halfway into the first arc, Kaito confirming that they're the same person after all is an ''immense'' relief to both of them.
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid. The anime plays it as a straight TwoPersonLoveTriangle, but the manga version is a little more complicated in that Kaito ''does'' actually like Lucia and even suspects suspect that she's the mermaid; it's just that as long as he's not completely certain about it, he's torn between "committing to the girl in front of him" and "fulfilling ThePromise he made to the mermaid to find her", especially when Lucia upholding TheMasquerade means she can't be fully honest with him about everything. Even after they get together about halfway into the first arc, Kaito confirming that they're the same person after all is an ''immense'' relief to both of them.
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid.
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* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid. The anime plays it as a straight TwoPersonLoveTriangle, but the manga version is a little more complicated in that Kaito ''does'' actually like Lucia and even suspects that she's the mermaid; it's just that as long as he's not completely certain about it, he's torn between "committing to the girl in front of him" and "fulfilling ThePromise he made to the mermaid to find her", especially when Lucia upholding TheMasquerade means she can't be fully honest with him about everything. Even after they get together about halfway into the first arc, Kaito confirming that they're the same person after all is an ''immense'' relief to both of them.
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** ActionGirl Kallen has a BodyguardCrush on Lelouch's masked identity, [[DarkMessiah Zero]], but has a very low opinion of Lelouch, mostly because he cultivates a reputation for being an [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob apathetic jerk]]. When Kallen dramatically learns Zero's true identity, she gets a HeroicBSOD because she wonders [[WasItAllALie if the whole Black Knight rebellion was a big farce]]. In season 2, after still going through a "you're Lelouch when I hate you and Zero when I love you" kind of relationship for some time, she comes to love both of them.
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** ActionGirl Kallen has a BodyguardCrush on Lelouch's masked identity, [[DarkMessiah Zero]], but has a very low opinion of Lelouch, mostly because he cultivates a reputation for being an [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob [[UpperClassTwit apathetic jerk]]. When Kallen dramatically learns Zero's true identity, she gets a HeroicBSOD because she wonders [[WasItAllALie if the whole Black Knight rebellion was a big farce]]. In season 2, after still going through a "you're Lelouch when I hate you and Zero when I love you" kind of relationship for some time, she comes to love both of them.
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* In the initial anime PV for ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', we've got it twice over. GenkiGirl Marinette is in love with the brooding intellectual Felix, but he can't stand her. However, when he transforms into Black Cat, he's swooning over Ladybug, who snubs him. Ladybug, of course, is Marinette. (Compare in Western Animation below.)
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* In the initial anime PV for ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', we've got it twice over. GenkiGirl Marinette is in love with the brooding intellectual Felix, but he can't stand her. However, when he transforms into Black Cat, he's swooning over Ladybug, who snubs him. Ladybug, of course, is Marinette. (Compare in Western Animation below.LovesMyAlterEgo/WesternAnimation.)
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* ''Manga/DragonBallSuper'': In the Super Hero saga, Trunks keeps trying to ask Mai out, but she keeps blowing him off and dismissing him as an idiot. When he later rescues her in his Saiyaman X-1 persona, she gets a crush on him, not recognizing him but comparing him to her first crush, Future Trunks.
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* PlayedWith in ''Manga/ChainsawMan''. [[spoiler:[[BigBad Makima]] knows from the start that Denji is Chainsaw Man and [[TheVamp feigns affection towards him]], but in reality she is [[{{yandere}} much more interested]] in the old "hero of Hell" than this new one and wants to get him out of the way to get to Pochita. [[TheChessmaster Everything she did]] was for the sole purpose of sending Denji over the DespairEventHorizon so Pochita could pull a GrandTheftMe after their DealWithTheDevil was broken, but [[EvilCannotComprehendGood she fails to realize that the two had a genuine bond]].]]
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* In each of Creator/StudioPierrot's MagicalGirl series (''Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami'', ''Anime/MagicalEmiTheMagicStar'', ''Anime/PersiaTheMagicFairy''), the heroine is in love with an older boy, who prefers her metamorphosed alter ego, leading the poor magical girls to be jealous of themselves.
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* In each of Creator/StudioPierrot's MagicalGirl series (''Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami'', (''Anime/CreamyMamiTheMagicAngel'', ''Anime/MagicalEmiTheMagicStar'', ''Anime/PersiaTheMagicFairy''), the heroine is in love with an older boy, who prefers her metamorphosed alter ego, leading the poor magical girls to be jealous of themselves.
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* In each of Creator/StudioPierrot's MagicalGirl series (''Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami'', ''Anime/MagicalStarMagicalEmi'', ''Anime/PersiaTheMagicFairy''), the heroine is in love with an older boy, who prefers her metamorphosed alter ego, leading the poor magical girls to be jealous of themselves.
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* In each of Creator/StudioPierrot's MagicalGirl series (''Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami'', ''Anime/MagicalStarMagicalEmi'', ''Anime/MagicalEmiTheMagicStar'', ''Anime/PersiaTheMagicFairy''), the heroine is in love with an older boy, who prefers her metamorphosed alter ego, leading the poor magical girls to be jealous of themselves.
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* ''Manga/TheGuySheWasInterestedInWasntAGuyAtAll'' stars Aya Oosawa, a girl who gets a crush on the clerk at a record store she goes to, a seemingly handsome man a few years older than her. However, not only is the "man" actually a girl, but she's none other than Aya's classmate Mitsuki Koga; the two get along but aren't exactly close. When Aya finds out that Mitsuki has the same playlist she sent "Onii-san," she's crushed.
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* Suguha in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' begins to fall in love with her brother Kazuto ([[KissingCousins who is actually her cousin]]) whom she knows is in love with another girl. In order to forget about those feelings for him, she tries to fall in love with an online person she met called Kirito. Kirito is Kazuto's online persona. When she figures this out, it breaks her heart since she's fallen in love with the same person twice [[FridgeLogic (which to be quite frank is rather shocking considering the fact that Kirito's avatar shares his face with only minor differences).]]
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* Suguha in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' begins to fall in love with her brother Kazuto ([[KissingCousins who is actually her cousin]]) whom she knows is in love with another girl. In order to forget about those feelings for him, she tries to fall in love with an online person she met called Kirito. Kirito is Kazuto's online persona. When she figures this out, it breaks her heart since she's fallen in love with the same person twice [[FridgeLogic (which to be quite frank is rather shocking considering the fact that Kirito's avatar shares his face with only minor differences).]]twice.
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Somebody who [[LovesMyAlterEgo loves another's alter ego]] while disliking their civilian identity in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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* Lu of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' knows of Matsuri as her girl friend and Shirogane as a stray cat that hangs around school. In both a straight example and an inversion, she ends up falling in love with "Shiromatsu", who's actually Shirogane [[ShapeshiftingTrickster shapeshifted]] into [[GenderBender Matsuri original, male form]].
* In ''Anime/BattleSpiritsShonenToppaBashin'', both Striker and Bashin love [[IdolSinger My Sunshine]] but have no interest in her alter ego, Suiren. Despite indication that Suiren is interested in both of them.
* The manga / anime ''Manga/CatsEye'': The main characters are barmaids and part-time SpyCatsuit thieves. One of them has a boyfriend, who happens to be a police officer, and who cannot make up his mind if he likes his girlfriend or her SecretIdentity more. (This, obviously, is the cause of much frustration on the main character's part.)
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'' almost all of Lelouch's love interests have this.
** ActionGirl Kallen has a BodyguardCrush on Lelouch's masked identity, [[DarkMessiah Zero]], but has a very low opinion of Lelouch, mostly because he cultivates a reputation for being an [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob apathetic jerk]]. When Kallen dramatically learns Zero's true identity, she gets a HeroicBSOD because she wonders [[WasItAllALie if the whole Black Knight rebellion was a big farce]]. In season 2, after still going through a "you're Lelouch when I hate you and Zero when I love you" kind of relationship for some time, she comes to love both of them.
** Shirley loves Lelouch Lamperouge but hates Zero [[spoiler:for killing her father]].
** C.C. loves Lelouch vi Britannia but frequently mocks Zero for being a fraud. The difference is that C.C knows they're the same person from the very start.
* ''Manga/CrossplayLoveOtakuXPunk'': ''Both'' main characters are {{Crossdresser}}s who are attracted to each other's fem alter egos, without knowing they're not actually a girl. In their normal lives, they don't like each other's male identities at all.
* ''Manga/DNAngel'' has a love triangle revolving around this trope. Daisuke has a crush on Risa, but she rejects him because she wants to date someone "cool". Enter [[PhantomThief Dark]]--who is actually Daisuke's alter-ego. Just to make things more complicated, Dark actually has a separate personality and is a big flirt to boot, so Daisuke and Dark sometimes end up in a fight over Risa. Later on in the manga, the situation [[LikesClarkKentHatesSuperman reverses]] as [[spoiler:Daisuke realizes that the one he ''really'' loves is actually Risa's twin sister, Riku. Riku cares for him in return, but in a twist, she ''hates'' Dark and thinks he's a pervert.]] This causes all sorts of complications, since Daisuke's [[CursedWithAwesome family curse]] won't leave him until he's completely loved for who he is--which includes the part of him that's like Dark. It's still complicated because [[spoiler:Dark is in love with Riku, who's in love with Daisuke. Eventually--in the manga--he begins to reciprocate ''Risa's'' feelings, although knowing that they could never be together because he'll disappear once Riku accepts that Dark is a part of Daisuke.]]
* In ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'', Ganta was unaware that [[spoiler: his beloved Shiro was the true identity of his arch-nemesis, The Red Man]]. When he finds out, it's not pretty.
* Kouta quotes this to Lucy about her and IdentityAmnesia personality, Nyu, in the end of ''Manga/ElfenLied''.
* A strange case in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', Luca appears to have started to fall for Hayate's alterego, but shows no signs of being a lesbian. She'll probably be relieved to find out that Hayate is actually a guy, though probably unhappy about having to deal with his UnwantedHarem.
* Umaru has this issue with her friends in ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan''. Umaru presents a persona of TheAce at school, but at home she is a LazyBum {{Otaku}}. Her best friend Ebina is friends with "Outside-Umaru", but has never seen "Inside-Umaru." Kirie has befriended both, wrongly believing that "Inside-Umaru" is actually Umaru's little sister Komaru. The straightest example is Sylphin, who met Umaru while the latter was in her "masked gamer" identity of U.M.R.; they become so close that Slyphin recruits her to help her in her FriendlyRivalry against Umaru.
* ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}'':
** ''Anime/JewelpetHappiness'': Mouri has a crush on a punk girl who once entered the Rock Cafe. That girl was actually ProperLady Nene, who took on that disguise to analyse what made the Cafe so successful. Mouri eventually starts crushing on her too, but doesn't learn the truth until much later in the series.
** ''Anime/JewelpetKiraDeco'': Io has a crush on his teacher Coarumi, who is actually Coal in disguise and drag. Io hates Coal for taking up Opal's time.
** ''Anime/JewelpetMagicalChange'': A boy named Souya falls in love with Larimar in her human form. When Larimar turns back into a Jewelpet after having to use magic to save him, he thinks she has gone away and leaves in disappointment. He learns the truth in a later episode and is fine with it.
* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.]] is obsessed with Saint Tail, who has a thing for him both as Saint Tail and her SecretIdentity Meimi... Except that: [[SecretIdentityIdentity Meimi has a sharp personality change as Saint Tail]], and CannotSpitItOut in her civilian persona while Saint Tail couldn't be more obvious; [[ObliviousToLove Asuka Jr. is somehow unable to figure out his own romantic feelings, let alone those of Meimi-as-Meimi, Meimi-as-Saint Tail, the ones of an underclassgirl and those of the local]] ClingyJealousGirl; near the end of the series Asuka Jr. admits was obsessed with Saint Tail because ''she looked like the girl she liked'', said girl being ''Meimi''... And ''[[ObliviousToLove had not realized his feelings until after he thought for days about what he had blurted out]]''.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'', Natsuru loves Kaede and Kaede loves Natsuru. The catch? Kaede loves [[SexShifter THE FEMALE NATSURU!]] To make things even more ridiculous, Kaede is under the impression that the male Natsuru is her love rival. [[spoiler:It turns out she knew it all along because she's the BigBad. And she really wants only the female Natsuru.]]
* ''Anime/MagicalProjectS'': In one episode, Konoha uses Sasami's baton. She puts Hiroto under a love spell, but he only falls for her transformed self, Funky Connie.
* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid.
* Noel in ''Manga/MintNaBokura'' [[DisguisedInDrag pretends to be a girl]] to attend the same boarding school as his sister. When he runs into his crush on a day he's not wearing a dress and wig, he tells her that he is "Noel's cousin Tohru". "Tohru" begins dating her. [[spoiler: She dumps him when the truth comes out.]]
* In the initial anime PV for ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', we've got it twice over. GenkiGirl Marinette is in love with the brooding intellectual Felix, but he can't stand her. However, when he transforms into Black Cat, he's swooning over Ladybug, who snubs him. Ladybug, of course, is Marinette. (Compare in Western Animation below.)
* In ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', many guys can't stand [[{{Jerkass}} Seo]], but are in love with 'Lorelei' from the music club... who is Seo, or at least her singing voice; the chief victim of this is Nozaki's junior Wakamatsu. In an inversion, Seo doesn't particularly seem to care either way, and if anything enjoys destroying people's fantasies by revealing who she is.
* Yuuki in ''Mugen Densetsu Takamagahara: Dream Saga'' is actually the ''main'' character, and all over both Takaomi and "that other guy named Takaomi with the same mark on his head but a totally different personality".
* Natsumi from ''Manga/{{Nicoichi}}'' initially fell for the [[WholesomeCrossdresser female persona]] of the protagonist Makoto, not knowing his true identity, which [[StupidSexyFlanders greatly confused her]]. To complicate matters, Natsumi actually disliked Makoto in his normal self, which created lots of problems for Makoto when he was trying to reciprocate the love.
* Ako Izumi from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' falls in love with Negi's aged up alter ego "Nagi".
* In ''Manga/{{Onidere}}'', the female protagonist uses an alter ego called Angie to get close to her boyfriend without ruining her reputation as the school's top delinquent and is afraid of losing him to her alter ego, unaware that he figured it out the moment he met her alternate persona. And then another boy named Souta develops a crush on Angie.
* In ''Manga/PhantomThiefPokemon7'', Nazuna is in love with Pokemon 7. She's not quite so fond of Hiori.
* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'', Professor Burnet is [[HappilyMarried certainly in love]] with Professor Kukui, but also has a serious celebrity crush on the Masked wrestler/trainer Royal Mask. She doesn't find out the truth until ''after'' they got married, but suddenly discovering she's ''married her crush'' completely blows her mind.
* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
** In one episode of ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', a boy asked Nagisa out, only to eventually dump her because he'd decided he preferred Cure Black. An unusual case in that Nagisa never actually liked him back, but the same idea.
** Daisuke from ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' plays with this. He admires Cure Peach and thinks that Love should strive to be more like her, not knowing that they're one and the same. However, his admiration for Cure Peach is just that - admiration - and he instead has feelings for Love, whom he's a {{Tsundere}} for.
** In ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', Tsubomi falls head over heels for a mysterious handsome young man who, later on, resembles her late grandfather when he was younger. Sadly, she's crushed when she comes to find out that he's [[spoiler:her grandmother's fairy partner, Coupe.]]
* In ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', Mytho is enamored with the eponymous MagicalGirl, but only considers Ahiru a good friend. (One that he can "tell everything to", but a friend nonetheless.)
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Due to a series of misunderstandings, Nino falls in LoveAtFirstSight with Fuutarou's "cousin" Kintarou (who was actually Fuutarou himself wearing a blonde wig). Given the fact that she took to hate Fuutarou from the beginning, she struggles to accept her feelings once she learns the truth.
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' is something of a subversion of this trope. Tsukune falls in LoveAtFirstSight with [[NaiveEverygirl Outer Moka]], but he's at least quite fond of [[{{Tsundere}} Inner Moka]], and has recently said that "he'd like the two of them to become one". Take that as you will.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon''. In the first anime, Usagi[=/=]Sailor Moon loves Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask, while he has a mysterious need to protect Moon. Usagi can't stand Mamoru, who also seems to dislike "Odango Atama". At the same time, he's in love with the mysterious princess of his dreams [[spoiler:who is actually Usagi's past self.]] In the second season, there's also the Tsukikage no Knight, whom Usagi loves while she also loves Mamoru/Mask, though he turns out to be [[spoiler:the astral-projected manifestation of Mamoru's love for Usagi when his memories are sealed.]] The [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] is even worse, because Usagi and Mamoru actually like each other there before learning each other's identities.
** And Usagi/Serena's little brother Shingo/Sammy idolizes Sailor Moon but can't stand his sister.
* Tadase in ''Manga/ShugoChara'' likes Amulet Heart, Amu's heroic form. His feelings toward the normal Amu are "just friends". This one is especially weird because he knows from the start that the two are the same person and even tells Amu herself about his confused feelings. [[spoiler: Later he confesses that he actually loves Amu for who she is, not her alter ego.]]
* In ''Manga/SonicTheHedgehog'', Amy was the girlfriend of Nikki, but not of his superhero alter ego, Sonic the Hedgehog. Amy would eventually become part of the main franchise, along with another friend called Charmy.
* ''Manga/StoryOfADumbPrefectAndHighSchoolGirlWithInappropriateSkirtLength'': Kogori sees StudentCouncilPresident [[MsFanservice Yamato]] as a childhood friend, but he's head over heels for her "[[GyaruGirl gal]] [[SheCleansUpNicely version]]" which he doesn't recognize as the same person. It's only an alter ego to him, though, as everyone else knows it's still her.
* In each of Creator/StudioPierrot's MagicalGirl series (''Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami'', ''Anime/MagicalStarMagicalEmi'', ''Anime/PersiaTheMagicFairy''), the heroine is in love with an older boy, who prefers her metamorphosed alter ego, leading the poor magical girls to be jealous of themselves.
* A rather peculiar take on this appears in ''Manga/SuperPig''. The main character Karin has a crush on her Junior High School soccer captain Kouichi Mizuno. He is in love with her secret identity Buurin. [[InterspeciesRomance But she is a pig in that form]]! Add in the issue of Karin being stuck as Buurin if anyone finds out about her secret identity, then you have yourself a very peculiar conundrum. [[spoiler:When Kouichi, along with Karin's classmates, finds out that Karin is Buurin, he is upset by this revelation. After fighting his own DemonicPossession, he comes to love her again]].
* Suguha in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' begins to fall in love with her brother Kazuto ([[KissingCousins who is actually her cousin]]) whom she knows is in love with another girl. In order to forget about those feelings for him, she tries to fall in love with an online person she met called Kirito. Kirito is Kazuto's online persona. When she figures this out, it breaks her heart since she's fallen in love with the same person twice [[FridgeLogic (which to be quite frank is rather shocking considering the fact that Kirito's avatar shares his face with only minor differences).]]
* Played for laughs in ''Manga/ToLoveRu'', when [[BromanticFoil Saruyama]] falls in love with "Riko" (Rito's [[GenderBender genderbent]] persona).
* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' complicates things. Ichigo loves Masaya, who loves Ichigo but also Mew Ichigo, and then in comes Ao no Kishi, and ''he'' loves Mew Ichigo, and she's stuck between not only this guy but also her UnwantedHarem. ''Then'' comes the traditional [[BrainwashedAndCrazy trial]] of every MagicalGirl's MysteriousProtector, and we know ''that'' can't be good.
* A couple cases of this in ''Anime/TomicaHyperRescueDriveHeadKidouKyuukyuuKeisatsu'':
** [[TheHero Gou]] is in love with his classmate, SchoolIdol Kasumi. She finds him to just be childish and annoying (at least at first), and instead loves the driver of Sonic/Cyclone Interceptor. Who is Gou, of course.
** Sala is in love with the driver of White Crystal Hope. White Crystal Hope is driven by the twins Jin and Mikoto, both of whom are implied to have crushes on her.
* For a few episodes of ''Manga/WeddingPeach'', [[spoiler: Yuri/Angel Lily is confused about her feelings for both Yanagiba and Limone.]] Guess what the next [[TheReveal reveal]] is.
* Subverted in ''Manga/WildRock''. Yuuen thinks he's doing a much better job at [[DisguisedInDrag being a woman]] than he actually is and assumes Emba's in love with that side of him. He's not.
* Anzu/Téa in the ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' [[Manga/YuGiOh manga]] and [[Anime/YuGiOh anime]] is frequently confused about whether she's in love with Yugi or "the other (Yami) Yugi."
** Zig-zagged - the fact that Yami is Yugi's alter-ego isn't a secret for that long, so she knows that they're the same person. However, initially both Anzu and the gang thought that the Other Yugi was just a split personality brought out by the Puzzle, and Anzu in particular thought that the 'true Yugi' was a mixture of both. After learning the Other Yugi is actually another person, she focuses her attentions on the Pharaoh until the end of the manga. The anime adds more ShipTease between Anzu and Yugi as well, but the situation is [[MaybeEverAfter resolved ambiguously in both versions]].
* ''Manga/YubisakiMilkTea'' first play it straight when Wataru fall in love with [[WholesomeCrossdresser Yuki]], the alter ego of his best friend Yoshinori, the main protagonist. Later an odd example comes to when Yoshinori realise that ''he'' is in love with his OWN alter ego. Both causes a few issues.
* Played with in the anime adaptation of ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'': Lolita loves Zorro and barely tolerates the cowardly Diego, but it's implied she actually loves Diego and is infatuated with Zorro [[LovingAShadow because he's like Diego was before his voyage to Spain]].
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Somebody who [[LovesMyAlterEgo loves another's alter ego]] while disliking their civilian identity in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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* Lu of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' knows of Matsuri as her girl friend and Shirogane as a stray cat that hangs around school. In both a straight example and an inversion, she ends up falling in love with "Shiromatsu", who's actually Shirogane [[ShapeshiftingTrickster shapeshifted]] into [[GenderBender Matsuri original, male form]].
* In ''Anime/BattleSpiritsShonenToppaBashin'', both Striker and Bashin love [[IdolSinger My Sunshine]] but have no interest in her alter ego, Suiren. Despite indication that Suiren is interested in both of them.
* The manga / anime ''Manga/CatsEye'': The main characters are barmaids and part-time SpyCatsuit thieves. One of them has a boyfriend, who happens to be a police officer, and who cannot make up his mind if he likes his girlfriend or her SecretIdentity more. (This, obviously, is the cause of much frustration on the main character's part.)
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'' almost all of Lelouch's love interests have this.
** ActionGirl Kallen has a BodyguardCrush on Lelouch's masked identity, [[DarkMessiah Zero]], but has a very low opinion of Lelouch, mostly because he cultivates a reputation for being an [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob apathetic jerk]]. When Kallen dramatically learns Zero's true identity, she gets a HeroicBSOD because she wonders [[WasItAllALie if the whole Black Knight rebellion was a big farce]]. In season 2, after still going through a "you're Lelouch when I hate you and Zero when I love you" kind of relationship for some time, she comes to love both of them.
** Shirley loves Lelouch Lamperouge but hates Zero [[spoiler:for killing her father]].
** C.C. loves Lelouch vi Britannia but frequently mocks Zero for being a fraud. The difference is that C.C knows they're the same person from the very start.
* ''Manga/CrossplayLoveOtakuXPunk'': ''Both'' main characters are {{Crossdresser}}s who are attracted to each other's fem alter egos, without knowing they're not actually a girl. In their normal lives, they don't like each other's male identities at all.
* ''Manga/DNAngel'' has a love triangle revolving around this trope. Daisuke has a crush on Risa, but she rejects him because she wants to date someone "cool". Enter [[PhantomThief Dark]]--who is actually Daisuke's alter-ego. Just to make things more complicated, Dark actually has a separate personality and is a big flirt to boot, so Daisuke and Dark sometimes end up in a fight over Risa. Later on in the manga, the situation [[LikesClarkKentHatesSuperman reverses]] as [[spoiler:Daisuke realizes that the one he ''really'' loves is actually Risa's twin sister, Riku. Riku cares for him in return, but in a twist, she ''hates'' Dark and thinks he's a pervert.]] This causes all sorts of complications, since Daisuke's [[CursedWithAwesome family curse]] won't leave him until he's completely loved for who he is--which includes the part of him that's like Dark. It's still complicated because [[spoiler:Dark is in love with Riku, who's in love with Daisuke. Eventually--in the manga--he begins to reciprocate ''Risa's'' feelings, although knowing that they could never be together because he'll disappear once Riku accepts that Dark is a part of Daisuke.]]
* In ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'', Ganta was unaware that [[spoiler: his beloved Shiro was the true identity of his arch-nemesis, The Red Man]]. When he finds out, it's not pretty.
* Kouta quotes this to Lucy about her and IdentityAmnesia personality, Nyu, in the end of ''Manga/ElfenLied''.
* A strange case in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', Luca appears to have started to fall for Hayate's alterego, but shows no signs of being a lesbian. She'll probably be relieved to find out that Hayate is actually a guy, though probably unhappy about having to deal with his UnwantedHarem.
* Umaru has this issue with her friends in ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan''. Umaru presents a persona of TheAce at school, but at home she is a LazyBum {{Otaku}}. Her best friend Ebina is friends with "Outside-Umaru", but has never seen "Inside-Umaru." Kirie has befriended both, wrongly believing that "Inside-Umaru" is actually Umaru's little sister Komaru. The straightest example is Sylphin, who met Umaru while the latter was in her "masked gamer" identity of U.M.R.; they become so close that Slyphin recruits her to help her in her FriendlyRivalry against Umaru.
* ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}'':
** ''Anime/JewelpetHappiness'': Mouri has a crush on a punk girl who once entered the Rock Cafe. That girl was actually ProperLady Nene, who took on that disguise to analyse what made the Cafe so successful. Mouri eventually starts crushing on her too, but doesn't learn the truth until much later in the series.
** ''Anime/JewelpetKiraDeco'': Io has a crush on his teacher Coarumi, who is actually Coal in disguise and drag. Io hates Coal for taking up Opal's time.
** ''Anime/JewelpetMagicalChange'': A boy named Souya falls in love with Larimar in her human form. When Larimar turns back into a Jewelpet after having to use magic to save him, he thinks she has gone away and leaves in disappointment. He learns the truth in a later episode and is fine with it.
* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' offers us a rather complicated example: [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.]] is obsessed with Saint Tail, who has a thing for him both as Saint Tail and her SecretIdentity Meimi... Except that: [[SecretIdentityIdentity Meimi has a sharp personality change as Saint Tail]], and CannotSpitItOut in her civilian persona while Saint Tail couldn't be more obvious; [[ObliviousToLove Asuka Jr. is somehow unable to figure out his own romantic feelings, let alone those of Meimi-as-Meimi, Meimi-as-Saint Tail, the ones of an underclassgirl and those of the local]] ClingyJealousGirl; near the end of the series Asuka Jr. admits was obsessed with Saint Tail because ''she looked like the girl she liked'', said girl being ''Meimi''... And ''[[ObliviousToLove had not realized his feelings until after he thought for days about what he had blurted out]]''.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'', Natsuru loves Kaede and Kaede loves Natsuru. The catch? Kaede loves [[SexShifter THE FEMALE NATSURU!]] To make things even more ridiculous, Kaede is under the impression that the male Natsuru is her love rival. [[spoiler:It turns out she knew it all along because she's the BigBad. And she really wants only the female Natsuru.]]
* ''Anime/MagicalProjectS'': In one episode, Konoha uses Sasami's baton. She puts Hiroto under a love spell, but he only falls for her transformed self, Funky Connie.
* Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is confused between Lucia and the pink mermaid.
* Noel in ''Manga/MintNaBokura'' [[DisguisedInDrag pretends to be a girl]] to attend the same boarding school as his sister. When he runs into his crush on a day he's not wearing a dress and wig, he tells her that he is "Noel's cousin Tohru". "Tohru" begins dating her. [[spoiler: She dumps him when the truth comes out.]]
* In the initial anime PV for ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', we've got it twice over. GenkiGirl Marinette is in love with the brooding intellectual Felix, but he can't stand her. However, when he transforms into Black Cat, he's swooning over Ladybug, who snubs him. Ladybug, of course, is Marinette. (Compare in Western Animation below.)
* In ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', many guys can't stand [[{{Jerkass}} Seo]], but are in love with 'Lorelei' from the music club... who is Seo, or at least her singing voice; the chief victim of this is Nozaki's junior Wakamatsu. In an inversion, Seo doesn't particularly seem to care either way, and if anything enjoys destroying people's fantasies by revealing who she is.
* Yuuki in ''Mugen Densetsu Takamagahara: Dream Saga'' is actually the ''main'' character, and all over both Takaomi and "that other guy named Takaomi with the same mark on his head but a totally different personality".
* Natsumi from ''Manga/{{Nicoichi}}'' initially fell for the [[WholesomeCrossdresser female persona]] of the protagonist Makoto, not knowing his true identity, which [[StupidSexyFlanders greatly confused her]]. To complicate matters, Natsumi actually disliked Makoto in his normal self, which created lots of problems for Makoto when he was trying to reciprocate the love.
* Ako Izumi from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' falls in love with Negi's aged up alter ego "Nagi".
* In ''Manga/{{Onidere}}'', the female protagonist uses an alter ego called Angie to get close to her boyfriend without ruining her reputation as the school's top delinquent and is afraid of losing him to her alter ego, unaware that he figured it out the moment he met her alternate persona. And then another boy named Souta develops a crush on Angie.
* In ''Manga/PhantomThiefPokemon7'', Nazuna is in love with Pokemon 7. She's not quite so fond of Hiori.
* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'', Professor Burnet is [[HappilyMarried certainly in love]] with Professor Kukui, but also has a serious celebrity crush on the Masked wrestler/trainer Royal Mask. She doesn't find out the truth until ''after'' they got married, but suddenly discovering she's ''married her crush'' completely blows her mind.
* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
** In one episode of ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', a boy asked Nagisa out, only to eventually dump her because he'd decided he preferred Cure Black. An unusual case in that Nagisa never actually liked him back, but the same idea.
** Daisuke from ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' plays with this. He admires Cure Peach and thinks that Love should strive to be more like her, not knowing that they're one and the same. However, his admiration for Cure Peach is just that - admiration - and he instead has feelings for Love, whom he's a {{Tsundere}} for.
** In ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', Tsubomi falls head over heels for a mysterious handsome young man who, later on, resembles her late grandfather when he was younger. Sadly, she's crushed when she comes to find out that he's [[spoiler:her grandmother's fairy partner, Coupe.]]
* In ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', Mytho is enamored with the eponymous MagicalGirl, but only considers Ahiru a good friend. (One that he can "tell everything to", but a friend nonetheless.)
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Due to a series of misunderstandings, Nino falls in LoveAtFirstSight with Fuutarou's "cousin" Kintarou (who was actually Fuutarou himself wearing a blonde wig). Given the fact that she took to hate Fuutarou from the beginning, she struggles to accept her feelings once she learns the truth.
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' is something of a subversion of this trope. Tsukune falls in LoveAtFirstSight with [[NaiveEverygirl Outer Moka]], but he's at least quite fond of [[{{Tsundere}} Inner Moka]], and has recently said that "he'd like the two of them to become one". Take that as you will.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon''. In the first anime, Usagi[=/=]Sailor Moon loves Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask, while he has a mysterious need to protect Moon. Usagi can't stand Mamoru, who also seems to dislike "Odango Atama". At the same time, he's in love with the mysterious princess of his dreams [[spoiler:who is actually Usagi's past self.]] In the second season, there's also the Tsukikage no Knight, whom Usagi loves while she also loves Mamoru/Mask, though he turns out to be [[spoiler:the astral-projected manifestation of Mamoru's love for Usagi when his memories are sealed.]] The [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] is even worse, because Usagi and Mamoru actually like each other there before learning each other's identities.
** And Usagi/Serena's little brother Shingo/Sammy idolizes Sailor Moon but can't stand his sister.
* Tadase in ''Manga/ShugoChara'' likes Amulet Heart, Amu's heroic form. His feelings toward the normal Amu are "just friends". This one is especially weird because he knows from the start that the two are the same person and even tells Amu herself about his confused feelings. [[spoiler: Later he confesses that he actually loves Amu for who she is, not her alter ego.]]
* In ''Manga/SonicTheHedgehog'', Amy was the girlfriend of Nikki, but not of his superhero alter ego, Sonic the Hedgehog. Amy would eventually become part of the main franchise, along with another friend called Charmy.
* ''Manga/StoryOfADumbPrefectAndHighSchoolGirlWithInappropriateSkirtLength'': Kogori sees StudentCouncilPresident [[MsFanservice Yamato]] as a childhood friend, but he's head over heels for her "[[GyaruGirl gal]] [[SheCleansUpNicely version]]" which he doesn't recognize as the same person. It's only an alter ego to him, though, as everyone else knows it's still her.
* In each of Creator/StudioPierrot's MagicalGirl series (''Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami'', ''Anime/MagicalStarMagicalEmi'', ''Anime/PersiaTheMagicFairy''), the heroine is in love with an older boy, who prefers her metamorphosed alter ego, leading the poor magical girls to be jealous of themselves.
* A rather peculiar take on this appears in ''Manga/SuperPig''. The main character Karin has a crush on her Junior High School soccer captain Kouichi Mizuno. He is in love with her secret identity Buurin. [[InterspeciesRomance But she is a pig in that form]]! Add in the issue of Karin being stuck as Buurin if anyone finds out about her secret identity, then you have yourself a very peculiar conundrum. [[spoiler:When Kouichi, along with Karin's classmates, finds out that Karin is Buurin, he is upset by this revelation. After fighting his own DemonicPossession, he comes to love her again]].
* Suguha in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' begins to fall in love with her brother Kazuto ([[KissingCousins who is actually her cousin]]) whom she knows is in love with another girl. In order to forget about those feelings for him, she tries to fall in love with an online person she met called Kirito. Kirito is Kazuto's online persona. When she figures this out, it breaks her heart since she's fallen in love with the same person twice [[FridgeLogic (which to be quite frank is rather shocking considering the fact that Kirito's avatar shares his face with only minor differences).]]
* Played for laughs in ''Manga/ToLoveRu'', when [[BromanticFoil Saruyama]] falls in love with "Riko" (Rito's [[GenderBender genderbent]] persona).
* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' complicates things. Ichigo loves Masaya, who loves Ichigo but also Mew Ichigo, and then in comes Ao no Kishi, and ''he'' loves Mew Ichigo, and she's stuck between not only this guy but also her UnwantedHarem. ''Then'' comes the traditional [[BrainwashedAndCrazy trial]] of every MagicalGirl's MysteriousProtector, and we know ''that'' can't be good.
* A couple cases of this in ''Anime/TomicaHyperRescueDriveHeadKidouKyuukyuuKeisatsu'':
** [[TheHero Gou]] is in love with his classmate, SchoolIdol Kasumi. She finds him to just be childish and annoying (at least at first), and instead loves the driver of Sonic/Cyclone Interceptor. Who is Gou, of course.
** Sala is in love with the driver of White Crystal Hope. White Crystal Hope is driven by the twins Jin and Mikoto, both of whom are implied to have crushes on her.
* For a few episodes of ''Manga/WeddingPeach'', [[spoiler: Yuri/Angel Lily is confused about her feelings for both Yanagiba and Limone.]] Guess what the next [[TheReveal reveal]] is.
* Subverted in ''Manga/WildRock''. Yuuen thinks he's doing a much better job at [[DisguisedInDrag being a woman]] than he actually is and assumes Emba's in love with that side of him. He's not.
* Anzu/Téa in the ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' [[Manga/YuGiOh manga]] and [[Anime/YuGiOh anime]] is frequently confused about whether she's in love with Yugi or "the other (Yami) Yugi."
** Zig-zagged - the fact that Yami is Yugi's alter-ego isn't a secret for that long, so she knows that they're the same person. However, initially both Anzu and the gang thought that the Other Yugi was just a split personality brought out by the Puzzle, and Anzu in particular thought that the 'true Yugi' was a mixture of both. After learning the Other Yugi is actually another person, she focuses her attentions on the Pharaoh until the end of the manga. The anime adds more ShipTease between Anzu and Yugi as well, but the situation is [[MaybeEverAfter resolved ambiguously in both versions]].
* ''Manga/YubisakiMilkTea'' first play it straight when Wataru fall in love with [[WholesomeCrossdresser Yuki]], the alter ego of his best friend Yoshinori, the main protagonist. Later an odd example comes to when Yoshinori realise that ''he'' is in love with his OWN alter ego. Both causes a few issues.
* Played with in the anime adaptation of ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'': Lolita loves Zorro and barely tolerates the cowardly Diego, but it's implied she actually loves Diego and is infatuated with Zorro [[LovingAShadow because he's like Diego was before his voyage to Spain]].
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