4/18/2023 0 Comments Tvtropes catch a lover![]() ![]() Once Eikichi wins, Ryuji races there on a borrowed motorcycle, catching the police's attention for speeding and supposedly driving a stolen bike. A variant in Chapter 66 of GTO: The Early Years: Ryuji is supposed to meet Ayumi's parents in Yokohama (about 45 km from Shonan), but he hears about Eikichi getting lynched by Ookubo's gang and can't stand by.He doesn't make it in time, but don't worry after three years spent Walking the Earth, Yuuki comes back. ![]() A platonic version occurs in Game×Rush, where instead of the other person (Yuuki) leaving, he's supposedly just going down to his hospital room Memori, however, has his Spidey Sense go off, and something tells him that Yuuki is going to leave again, so naturally he rushes downstairs (from the roof) for the intercept.Played with more in the manga, as Sakura had realized her feelings beforehand, but Syaoran's unannounced departure forced her to run after him, and possibly subverted as Syaoran was leaving in order to sort out residency issues in Hong Kong so he could live in Japan with Sakura permanently. Done in both the Cardcaptor Sakura anime and manga, with Sakura racing to give Syaoran a homemade teddy bear before he leaves for Hong Kong.She runs after him just when he's just boarded his bus to leave Okinawa, but when he sees her, he hops off the bus so she can properly say goodbye to him. A lesser version happens in the World Youth arc between Kojiro Hyuga and Maki Akamine.What actually follows is a mutual Anguished Declaration of Love and the promise to keep a Long-Distance Relationship instead. (Since she's leaving with her mother and her dad is waiting for them in the USA, it's not like he can do anything). Subverted in Captain Tsubasa, as Matsuyama does pull a race to talk to Yoshiko before she has to leave to the USA, but he doesn't try to tell her to stay with him.except it turns out she had no plans on doing that, and Maeda ends up accidentally flying to England himself! Parodied in the penultimate chapter of Ai Kora, when Maeda rushes to the airport to beg Sakurako to forgive him and plead with her not to move to England.Needless to say, due to the nature of this trope, spoilers below. Compare the Big Heroic Run, where there is usually much more than just a relationship at stake. If the race is really lost, may result in Air Voyance. Or maybe just because he got stuck in traffic and missed his flight.Ī low-impact way to Earn Your Happy Ending. Or because he hoped or knew she'd come around. Or is he? He's standing right behind her, because he couldn't leave. Occasionally there's a twist where she gets there, all out of breath and ready to confess how she feels - but he's already gone, his plane already taken off. So she gets out and runs, because love compels her to. She will, she must get to the train or plane or other conveyance that's about to take Bob out of her life forever, before it's too late! There's bad weather or bad traffic or some other impediment that makes it impossible for her to get all the way there in one smooth cab ride. So, newly inspired, Alice hops into a cab or some other mode of transportation to get her back to Bob's arms as quickly as possible.īut as Drama would have it, the road back to romantic bliss is full of obstacles. ![]() he's about to leave because she shot him down! If she doesn't turn around and get back to him right this minute he'll be gone, she'll have missed her chance, and she'll have what might have been haunting her forever. ![]() She loves him more than her job, or whatever other situation had cropped up that made her think she had to choose it over Bob. Then Alice suddenly has an epiphany: she really does love Bob too much to not be with him! She loves him more than Steve, who she was going to marry instead. Fortunately, there's usually some job opportunity in another city, or he was only visiting this one temporarily anyway. But because it's too painful for one or both of them for him to stay around and remind them both of what might have been, he must leave. Sometimes there's another person in the picture, and Alice feels honor bound to go through with the lesser romance.īob, also being honorable, straightens his shoulders and prepares to deal with losing Alice to the circumstances or bad luck leading to this situation. Sometimes it's because she's convinced "we're too different" or "we come from different worlds" or some other rationalization that it'll never work out. But, for whatever reason, Alice has turned her back on this budding romance. Most commonly found in Romantic Comedies, Race For Your Love usually occurs five minutes or so before the credits roll.Īlice and Bob have become involved. ![]()
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