10 Best Anime Romances Of All Time

Shonen manga can take many different forms with many different genres mixed into its tried and true formula, and Tokyo Ghoul is what you get when you mix shonen with horror. It's a shockingly perfect match, helped by the characters giving you more than enough reason to wade through the horrific events of the story to see what happens next.

Also helping it was its mature tone being used not just to shock and profane the audience with gory imagery (though make no mistake it definitely does that) but to craft much more believable character relationships.

The best of these was easily the whirlwind romance of Kaneki and Touka. What made their relationship so damn good is that, unlike 99% of shonen anime and manga, this story actually allowed their relationship to grow and change and most importantly COMMIT to those growths.

From Tokyo Ghoul and through Tokyo Ghoul: Re, they run the full gamut of a relationship.

These are two people who experience so much suffering throughout the course of the story, so having this relationship that grows and evolves and remains healthy and loving throughout makes you want to keep reading because it keeps the characters from getting too weighed down in the despair of their situation.

You can have all the big fights and emotional speeches about friendship in the universe, but it will never be as compelling or tell us as much about your protagonist as the scene where Touka and Kaneki talk about having a baby.

Kaneki and Touka were a much needed bright spot in an otherwise bleak as hell anime, and their romance helped make the journey all the more worth it.