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Sankarea (TV).

Riddley wrote:

spoiler[Chihiro realizes he actually loves Ranko as he can't fully consummate his feelings for Rea because, you know...she's a freaking ZOMBIE. And while they love each other, Rea also realizes this inability and therefore they both agree to affection but not love.]

Except that such an ending would be a) out of character for Chihiro (who clearly doesn't see Ranko "that way") and b) cut off the more interesting pairing of the two possible ones and c) interfere with the whole reason why the series is called "Sankarea" instead of "Chihiro."

Now, that doesn't mean that I'm happy with the ending, but the option you suggest isn't any better.

He has a big interest in getting a zombie girlfriend, he sees nothing wrong with being in a relationship with one, and I fail to see how they can not have a relationship. If a shapeless and monstrous alien who's forms can cause madness can be in a relationship with a human, then what is wrong with an re-animated human being allowed to have a living person.

Don't know if you noticed, but he had an attraction Rea before she turned, it even looked like his only zombie girl rule would be stretched.

There are plenty of people in loving relationships (whether by choice or circumstance) who can't or won't have sex, reproduce or "live normal lives" in both real life and in entertainment. I'm glad you're just some obtuse guy on the internet and not a person in charge of defining a "normal life" or determining the legitimacy of a relationship based on the social norms handfed to you from birth.

So are you telling me that love requires being able to have kids, so that same sex couples, terminal illness patients, and infertile women or sterile men, can not have love. Years ago culture said that families had to fit a certain structure or ideal, we have made some progress, but some people still try to say that things are wrong based on what they have been brought up by.

Perhaps I have just become an optimist, but I think that all that is important is love. Ironically a series that really changed my opinion was one called Chobits, you should judge something based on what you think would be wrong. I will say here that I would accept things that many people would think is really wrong, that is as long as both sides consent in a way that they understand, and no one is being abused.

It is better to have loved and lost, then to never have loved at all.

As for that dream, spoiler[I think the point was that he found that it was not exactly that he was attracted to a zombie girl, but Rea became his new ideal. It did not matter if she was a zombie or not.

Actually, I think the biggest thing that bothers me though is that he's a better relationships, imho, with Ranko. And Rea is such a throw-away character imo.

No, I think my main point is what I mention above in my response to happymoose and the fact that Rea is dead. It's a little different to homosexuals, sterile individuals, or terminally ill people. You know, them being alive and all

I never once was talking about real-life or making judgments about people in real life.

I subscribe to a belief that stories should hold some elements of human truths.

It's a constant theme in anime, these impossible relationships, but I find it annoying that they aren't dealt with in an emotionally realistic, mature manner.

@Etrien
By yours and other's logic, it's equally healthy to have a romantic relationship with a building as it is a person.

I don't find offense in people not believing in the same thing as me.

That comparison stands only if said building is fully sentient on a level equivalent to humans. One that has thoughts, feelings, dreams, and aspirations. One that moves and smiles and laughs and cries. Oh, and being human-sized, human-shaped and having been born and raised as a human its whole life certainly would help give it qualification.