Hey, not everyone can be six-foot kings, and anyone who has a height restriction isn’t really worth spending any time with. While anime lives in the realms of fantasy, there are times when it, despite the fictional story, can show you a positive dose of real human connection.
Sometimes girls like short guys for who they are and not how tall they are. And the opposite can be just as true, a tall girl might be insecure about towering over people, but a guy secure in his own skin won’t care about the size difference.
If you are looking for anime series that feature tall girls in a relationship with a short guy, then head on down below.
Tall Girl, Short Boy Anime Couples
Risa and Atsushi in Lovely Complex
Height difference insecurity in romance is such a common, long-standing thing that Lovely Complex is a romance story centered all around it. The series follows two people that become friends after their crushes end up dating each other.
Risa is an above average tall girl and Atsushi is a below average short boy. Despite the height difference, they actually get along great and become fast friends. It isn’t long before Risa realizes she likes Atsushi, but the major road block to romance is Atsushi’s insecurity in dating a girl that is so much taller than him.
Kyoutarou and Anna in The Dangers in My Heart
While Lovely Complex centered its entire romantic plot around the insecurities between their height, The Dangers in My Heart shows it off, but never really acknowledges it. The cute relationship between Kyoutarou and Anna happens in late middle school – a time in which girls generally are taller than boys, but boys still have plenty of time to grow. As such, there is no reason to be insecure yet since most boys grow later than girls.
Interestingly enough, while Kyoutarou isn’t really bothered by how much taller Anna is than him, Anna is sometimes shown to be a bit insecure over how tall she is compared to everyone else.
Honoka and Ayaka in Witch Craft Works
Witch Craft Works tells the story of a boy who discovers that the school princess is actually a witch that has been acting as his covert bodyguard all this time.
Not only is Ayaka a very diligent bodyguard to Honoka, but she is also has what some might call “big mommy energy,” that is to say, she is quite noticeably taller than him and also often princess carries him.
The height here is used for comedy. In truth, they seemed to be going for “big mommy energy” when Ayaka was designed, but their romantic relationship is actually quite cute even if they are probably the least interesting characters among Witch Craft Works’ bloated cast.
Tomoki and Ikaros in Heaven’s Lost Property
Heaven’s Lost Property will always be remembered more as an ecchi harem than a romance, but you can’t really have an ecchi harem anime without romance either.
While Ikaros is “the main girl” of this harem romance, pretty much every girl in the series is taller than Tomoki, and this is due to multiple reasons. You could say Tomoki is short for a boy, but in actuality, he is probably pretty average height.
Tomoki looks small because:
- He frequently adapts his chibi form for horny comedy
- Several members of his harem aren’t actually human, thus designed taller and more voluptuous
- His height puts him right in prime “face into boobs when hugged” range, a must for an ecchi anime
Kaito and Ichika in Waiting in Summer
Perhaps the height difference between Kaito and Ichika isn’t that dramatic. They are rather close in height, but the series is presented with the usual dynamic that you see in relationships between taller girls and shorter boys.
In Waiting in Summer, Ichika is introduced as a girl a year older than Kaito and his friends, but new to town. They later find out that she is an alien as well. While she and Kaito grow closer, she is presented as just a little more mature, but the pair share a shy and reserved attitude and slowly bond.
Haruyuki and Kuroyukihime in Accel World
Not unlike Tomoki from Heaven’s Lost Property, Haruyuki in Accel World adapts a more rotund chibi-looking form. Unlike Heaven’s Lost Property, that is just how he looks all the time. In Accel World, they were going for chubby nerd who is frequently bullied.
However, Haruyuki showed all his haters. Not just with the powers granted to him by the plot of Accel World either. He showed them by landing the beautiful and popular Kuroyukihime who grew to love him as a person despite his height or looks.
Ed and Winry in Full Metal Alchemist
There is probably no more quintessential tall girl, short guy anime couple than Ed and Winry, even if romance was a relatively small part in Full Metal Alchemist.
While Full Metal Alchemist focuses more on its legendary action adventure story, throughout the experience you watch Ed be particularly sensitive about his height. It is used frequently for comedy.
However, this tale of late puberty does indeed have a happy ending – when it comes to the romance, anyway – in which Ed does eventually grow taller. Taller than Winry, even. So while applicable throughout the series, the pair is not applicable by the end of Full Metal Alchemist as Ed is indeed taller than Winry as an adult.
Rokudo and Ranna in Rokudo’s Bad Girls
While Rokudo’s Bad Girls is a harem about the main character getting the magic power to make delinquent girls fall in love with him immediately, it is trying to be wholesome about it.
He uses the power, not for lewdness, but to help them have a happy school life which he believes is better than delinquency.
Primary among his harem is Ranna – indomitable, possessive, and quite tall.
Meliodas and Elizabeth & King and Diane in Seven Deadly Sins
One quick glance at Seven Deadly Sins and you may think that the very compact Meliodas will have the same sort of height insecurity that Ed has in Full Metal Alchemist. However, against all odds, Meliodas is, in fact, very secure in his short stature. He has more dire things to be concerned about when it comes to his body.
That said, the difference in height isn’t really a factor in the romance of Seven Deadly Sins. In fact, the tall girl, short guy dynamic is presented even more glaringly in Seven Deadly Sins in the romance between Diane, a female Giant, and King, a fairy. Though she can technically shrink down to human size, she is still taller than him even in that form.
Unlike Meliodas and Elizabeth where they never really acknowledge height, part of Diane’s character arc is her gradually accepting her large size and leaning less and less on the magic that makes her human-sized.
Livius and Nike in The World is Still Beautiful
You would think “age difference” would be a more common reason to explain height difference in romance anime, but The World is Still Beautiful is actually really the only romance series that takes advantage of it.
This series follows the new relationship between the recent conqueror of the world, who is still just a boy, and his new fiancee that was sent over from a neighboring principality to maintain peace with his empire.
Nike is just a few years older than Livius and it shows in both her emotional maturity and height. However, Livius is right at that age where he hasn’t quite hit that growth spurt.
Despite the age difference, the series actually does a great job at their slow romance. They take things slow and allow the pair to grow closer without trying to force too much romantic progression in there.
Teiichi and Yuuko in Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
The interesting thing about the relationship between Teiichi and Yuuko, I mean other than its a relationship between a human student and a female ghost that haunts his school, is that I can’t actually say for certain that Yuuko is taller than him.
She’s a ghost. She could be floating. However, for the most part, since she is a ghost, the series portrays her as being the older partner in the relationship. She is often portrayed as a bit taller when they are interacting with each other.
Still, just like some find romantic relationships between taller woman and shorter men a bit uncanny, I think a romantic relationship between a teen boy and a ghost 60 years his senior is pretty uncanny too.
Koushi and Atena in Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory
Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory is, primarily, a harem anime where a twelve-year-old boy becomes homeless, but is invited to be the caretaker of a dorm full of busty college girls. Since he is a literal child, of course almost everyone there is much taller than him.
While this series could have been happy being just a lewd harem anime, it actually does develop a proper romantic element between him and Atena, a college girl.
Kei and Mizuho in Please Teacher
Please Teacher is a romance anime with many layers, and each layer is stranger than the last.
At a glance, this series follows the new romantic relationship between a teen boy and his teacher. While that is plenty creepy, it is tempered out by the fact that she is an alien and, at first, he is just keeping her secret.
Then it gets a bit strange when the principal discovers their romantic relationship and basically forces them to get married.
One final complexity is that Kei also has a unique disease that causes his body to shut down in times of stress, but his body continues to age. So he’s a fifteen-year-old boy in the body of an eighteen-year-old. You would think they would have used that to smooth out the height difference, but no. He’s still shorter than his alien teacher-wife.
Chrono and Rosette in Chrono Crusade
Much like Full Metal Alchemist and Seven Deadly Sins, Chrono Crusade is an action anime that just so happens to include a romantic element between the main characters. This time, the romance is between partners in demon slaying, Rosette and her contracted demon Chrono.
Chrono plays the resident short man, but as a very powerful demon, it sort of rules out his height insecurity. Plus, the form he is usually in is just a less powerful child form anyway.
While their relationship grows as the series goes on, this series isn’t particularly cheerful in how it all turns out.
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