When it's more than a feeling, more than a desire; when it's an all consuming drive that stems from the soul of your existence...

When love strikes, it doesn't ask questions.

Love Knows No Gender

"...[we] are joined by the bonds of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords."

"She loves you still and you love her, so think of that --- think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say..."
-William Goldman
The Princess Bride

No matter how hard I wish it to be so, anime is not real life. I cannot go super deformed or jump thirty feet into the air and hover, while doing martial arts. I can't even travel to different dimensions. But of all the things in anime that I wish for most, I'd be satisfied with only one: the complete, eternal, undying love. I believe in fate and beauty and the ability to overcome anything for the sake of another. These couples have fairy tale love, and I would never wish to take it away from them. Some stories are tragic, others are disputed as even existing, but all hold a single bond of true love. May that bond never break.

The Shrines of the Sacred Couples are listed alphabetically by show.

Kagetsuya and Chihaya (Earthian)

Shinji and Kaworu (Evangelion)

Tamahome and Miaka (Fushigi Yuugi)

Trowa and Quatre (Gundam Wing)

Heero and Duo (Gundam Wing)

Mitsuru and Shinobu (Here is Greenwood)

Arima and Yukino (Kareshi Kanojyo no Jijyo)

Enjoji and Ranmaru (Kizuna)

Masa and Kai (Kizuna)

Hayama and Sana (Kodomo no Omocha)

Ranma and Akane (Ranma½)

Mamoru and Usagi (Sailor Moon)

Haruka and Michiru (Sailor Moon)

*Malachite (Kunzite) and Zoisite (Sailor Moon)*

Hiei and Kurama (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Koji and Izumi (Zetsuai)