Romance Anime where the MC is a girl that falls in love with a guy but ends up in a love triangle with another girl

I am looking for a romance anime where there's a serious love triangle. Not a harem but serious love triangle with a lot of emotional moments and scenes where one girl is jealous of the other and such. A perfect example of this would be blue box. But I am open to other animes types like inseparable twins and I got married to the girl I hate the most in class.
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VoidEmbracedWitch2026-01-12 14:22

Feels like a good opportunity to recommend Scum's Wish. It's a much more interconnected love polygon than that, but you have two characters who are in situations like the one you describe.

ScrewySqrl2026-01-12 14:35

*Kimagure Orange Road* is the definitive love triangle anime. Made in 1987-88.

Its a slow burn love triangle:

The Love Triangle between the three main characters remains a classic to this day. At the center of it is Kyōsuke Kasuga, the apparently Ordinary High-School Student, whose family has just moved to another town due to the necessity of keeping their Psychic Powers a secret.

His first love interest is the beautiful Madoka Ayukawa, who seems to be a friendly and kind girl the first time their paths cross. When he meets her again at school, however, she acts icy and distant towards him, and school rumor insists that she is a delinquent. Which facet of Madoka is the real one?

The third corner of the love triangle comes in the form of Hikaru Hiyama. She's a bubbly, innocent tomboy who immediately falls for Kyōsuke after seeing him make an incredible hoop shot (not knowing that he used supernatural powers) and is fond of glomping him and calling him "Darling!"

the Manga ran 4 years in Weekly Shonen Jump, the anime runs 48 tv episodes covering Kasuga's 9th grade year, 8 OVAs covering snippets of High School, a TV movie set in the final weeks of university exam testing, and a second movie (generally disliked by fans) covering a 'where are they now' in the middle 1990s, when Kasuga is a war photographer in the Yugoslav Wars.

mihizawi2026-01-12 15:21

Absolutely! Kimagure Orange Road is the love triangle anime. First, because it shows some of the most realistic teenage emotional behaviour I've ever seen in anime, especially when it comes to want to do grown-up stuff but not being ready.

But also because there's a credible reason why the love triangle is kept for so long: the two girls are best friends, so when Hikaru starts dating Kyosuke, Madoka thinks it is for the best, and tries to back down, but she doesn't want to keep enough of a distance as to not loose the friendship between Hikaru and herself and also Kyosuke. But, of course, being so close to Kyosuke all the time, she can't deny her feelings for him. That tension between not wanting to hurt Hikaru by stealing her boyfriend and being unable to hide her feelings for Kyosuke is what makes Madoka's part of the triangle works so well. Kyosuke works mostly because of the simplest reason: he is cronically indecisive, but it is a bit more nuanced than that; I think Kyosuke deep down knows his feelings for Madoka are much stronger and he'd rather be with Madoka, but Madoka most of the time, doesn't show her feelings very clearly, so it's only natural for him to accept Hikaru's very clear advances, and after that he does care about Hikaru and finds it very hard to break up with her because he doesn't want to hurt her. And Hikaru works because she is the most immature and in a way selfish one (not being judgemental, just stating facts), she either pretends not to notice or truly blindsides herself into not noticing Kyosuke and Madoka's feelings for each other. In the end, the love triangle is believable to work for so long because all three settle into a status quo that remains quite comfortable for them: they are all good friends, and the discomfort of clearing up things between them weighs way more than the discomfort of being in the mess they are in. Until we get to the first movie, and it is a brilliant way of portraying a very dramatic, yet realistic break up between those characters who have been together for years. And while I find the second movie's change of art-style very distracting and the whole time travel plot a bit too convoluted, I appreciate one thing they did: they allowed the three to regain their friendship.

serralinda732026-01-12 14:40

A Sign of Affection had three separate love triangles, and they were all taken seriously. MC (girl) falls for ML (guy). There is another girl (A) in love with ML. There is another guy (B) in love with MC. And (A) has a guy (C) in love with her.

(A) is jealous of the MC. (B) is jealous of ML. And (C) is quietly, patiently hoping (A) will give up on the ML. No harem/poly even hinted at.

EnchantedDestroyer2026-01-12 14:59

Fucking hell that’s a headache

serralinda732026-01-12 15:23

It's handled well, though. The characters are college-aged, and a lot of these feelings are from before the show starts (we get some flashbacks), but now need to be confronted and dealt with so all these characters can move forward into good relationships rather than unrequited pining. MC and ML are very clearly endgame, and they know it (and we know it), so this is just messiness going on around them that needs to be cleaned up.

Critical_Progress4032026-01-12 16:17

It's a shitty anime, the couples are formed randomly, the protagonist is a person with no personality and the least she shows is selfishness, the protagonist has to be liked, a normal person ends up empathizing with the third wheel, the only character he deserves, but it's really a bad anime

Feeling-Fan44132026-01-12 17:24

What did I just read, it is more complicated than my algebra and trigonometry classes😂

Yaehae2026-01-12 14:43

White album 2?

notabear872026-01-12 14:49

The best one right here.

The_W00D2026-01-12 15:05

Id say that Nana fits this

Xx420EdgeLord69xX2026-01-12 15:14

Nearly all of them honestly.

Pancake_Tosser2026-01-12 15:58

If you want serious love-triangle romance (not harem) with jealousy and emotions, try........

* White Album 2 – peak heartbreak, very real triangle
* True Tears – quiet but emotionally heavy
* Scum’s Wish – messy feelings, jealousy, pain
* Nana – intense relationship drama
* Orange – emotional, soft, complicated love

Closest vibes to Blue Box: White Album 2 and True Tears.
If you want school + emotional tension, these will hit hard

mekerpan2026-01-12 16:14

And if triangles are insufficient -- Lull in the Sea.

True Tears made me into a huge fan of PA Works.

Plastic_Drummer92562026-01-14 05:17

man i am on nana ep 22 but i cant watch it further cuz no story is being formed in my mind..like does nana likes nana or rin or whats going on

No-Secret85762026-01-12 16:25

Ah, finally i find my fingers typing this recomendation to someone - "School Days"

Boovmanoid2026-01-12 17:36

Toradora

Mixer-30072026-01-12 19:55

{You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!} [&#128279;](https://youtu.be/sBiwQoKxqxs)

Plastic_Drummer92562026-01-14 05:16

blue box

Queue_Jumping_Quack2026-01-17 11:38

* Sign of Affection
* Kimi ni Todoke
* My Love Story with Yamada-kun lv999

The love triangle might not be a long term thing in some of the above, but there are intense feels on display