There are few more satisfying moments in fiction than when two enemies finally clash after a suspenseful story. But when those two enemies clash and then decide to fall into each other’s arms? Ooooooh , it goes to a completely new level. Sure, having best friends who progress into lovers is fun and all, and it’s led to some of the best romance anime and manga out there, but enemies to lovers is a popular trope for a reason. You get all the fun of unbridled hatred and loathing from some of your favorite anime characters, and the heartwarming embrace of two souls breaking through a shell to become intertwined. From romance to sci-fi, we’re gonna cover 10 of the best enemies to lovers anime stories that are available to watch on Crunchyroll now. Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World Enemies to Lovers: Iska and Alice On one side, you have Iska running a division of the technologically advanced Heavenly Empire. On the other side, you have “Alice,” a powerful witch and a member of the Nebulis Sovereignty. In Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World , these two groups have been locked in a violent war for as long as anyone can remember, even though, deep down, both of them wish that all the fighting would just stop. Well, more powerful than both technology and magic is LOVE, and when the two meet one another during battle, they realize that maybe they’re not so different after all. Maybe, one day, they won’t have to fight anymore and can, ya know, do what couples do, like cuddle and make waffles in your apartment. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Enemies to Lovers: Kaguya and Miyuki RELATED: Kaguya-sama: Love is War Turning Romance on Its Head Have you ever had feelings for someone but didn’t know how to tell them the right way? Probably. Especially in high school. Now, have you ever had feelings for someone and tried to trick them into a love confession in order to maintain your pride? Probably less likely, but far more dramatic. In the comedic romance anime Kaguya-sama: Love Is War , student council president Miyuki Shirogane and vice president Kaguya Shinomiya are pretty gaga over each other, but god forbid they say it outright. And so the games begin in the war to see who says, “Hey, I like you” first in one of anime’s best romantic comedies. Some may even say it’s one of the best romance anime of all time. Lovely Complex Enemies to Lovers: Otani and Koizumi RELATED: 6 Clueless Anime Crushes That Will Ignore Your Valentine Otani Atsushi is very short. Koizumi Lisa is very tall. Both have trouble getting romantic partners, and both begin the series with unrequited crushes on other people. And then? The ultimate defeat. Those crushes end up falling for each other, leaving Otani and Koizumi as two third wheels. Otani and Koizumi don’t know that romance is in their future, and so they begin Lovely Complex with a challenge: find love before the other one does. Sounds like the perfect recipe for the enemies to lovers trope. Who will win in the end? Spoiler: Both of them. Cardcaptor Sakura Enemies to Lovers: Syaoran Li and Sakura Kinomoto RELATED: How to Watch Cardcaptor Sakura in Order When Syaoran Li shows up in the shojo classic Cardcaptor Sakura , he’s kind of a handful. He doesn’t respect our main character, Sakura Kinomoto, and he believes that the Clow cards belong to him. For a little while, he even gets flustered over the same guy that Sakura swoons over. Come on, man, there’s a lot of fish in the sea! Eventually, Syaoran settles down a little bit (now that’s what I call character development!), and after spending a while as allies, he comes to realize that Sakura might just be cool enough to fall in love with. Luckily, she’s also warmed up to Syaroran, and they go together like two cards in a pack… or whatever Cardcaptor metaphor is appropriate here. Love After World Domination Enemies to Lovers: Desumi and Fudo RELATED: Anime to Watch When Your Partner Loves Rom-Coms and You Don’t Want something with a few more… heart eyes as enemies become lovers? Love After World Domination shows us what happens when a leader in the cartoonish Secret Society Gekko falls in love with her equally cartoonish nemesis Red Gelato, a member of the Power Rangers-esque Gelato 5. Can they still be bad guys/good guys even as they try to woo one another with a barrage of meet-cutes and flirty glances? The short answer is yes, absolutely. It’s basically the whole series and it’s great. Skip Beat! Enemies to Lovers: Ren and Kyoko When Kyoko Mogami is tossed away like, quote, "used Kleenix," by her crush, the wannabe celebrity Sho Fuwa, she dreams of vengeance after she spent so much time supporting him. Buuuuut he’s not the guy that she ends up falling for. Instead, it’s the actor Ren Tsuruga… who also doesn’t like her. That's quite the rough start for Kyoko in Skip Beat! . Though Ren initially dismisses Kyoko because he thinks she got into performing for, as a castmember of The Bachelorette would say, “the wrong reasons,” he eventually warms up to her and grows to like her a lot. Turns out, she’s pretty talented and has a good heart. And sometimes, that’s all you need to fall head over heels. Romeo x Juliet Enemies to Lovers: Romeo and Juliet In an adaptation that I’m sure William Shakespeare himself would binge-watch, Romeo x Juliet concerns two warring families: the Capulets and the Montagues. In Neo Verona, the Capulets fight to free themselves from the Montagues’ cruel dominance, and one of their most promising combatants is Juliet. It seems pretty clear-cut until she meets Romeo, who, unlike his father, is actually kind of nice. It’s an instant attraction, but this complication gains another helping of wrinkles when they both must deal with the plans the Capulets have for retaking the throne, and the plans the Montagues have to keep it. The Devil is a Part-Timer! Enemies to Lovers: Emi and Sadao RELATED: What Would You Order at MgRonald's in The Devil is a Part-Timer!? Imagine falling in love with the devil. And I’m not just talking about your ex. AYE! We like to have fun around here, folks. In The Devil is a Part-Timer! , a vicious demon lord finds himself in modern-day Japan trying to make ends meet at the fast food chain, MgRonald's. Meanwhile, the heroine who forced him to flee also shows up in modern-day Japan. The demon lord (Sadao) and the heroine (Emi) cross paths in their new lives, and over time, Emi falls for Sadao. As you can imagine, this is complicated by the fact that they're supposed to be enemies. Can they navigate their past lives, their current lives, workplace hijinks and a baby in season two? I’m in Love with the Villainess Enemies to Lovers: Rae and Claire RELATED: Why Did It Take Me So Long to Watch I'm in Love with the Villainess? There’s no shame about falling in love with a video game bad guy, a sentiment that I'm in Love with the Villainess' Ray Taylor lives by. If most of your crushes aren’t animated in some way, why are you even on this site? Gets a little trickier, though, when you’re in an isekai. Rae's an overworked woman who finds an escape in her favorite dating sim, Revolution . Literally. After finding herself in another world, she has a chance to be charmed by three princes, but she's much more interested in the game's main antagonist, Claire Francois. Unfortunately, Claire thinks that Rae's worse than slime, but that doesn't stop our heroine's feelings. In fact, Claire's attitude makes Rae love her even more, and she'll do anything to make her recognize that before the events of the game interfere. Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Enemies to Lovers: Yoshino and Kirishima RELATED: Why Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Should Be Your Next Watch if You Love Mess Want something a little spicy? How about the story of a girl from a yakuza family (Yoshino Somei) who discovers that her grandfather has arranged to have her married to the prodigal son of another yakuza family (Kirishima Miyama)? Oh, and she absolutely hates this guy. OH, and this guy makes it clear that he’s a masochist who wants Yoshino to hurt him in all manner of ways. Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii is for fans of messy love stories with even messier romances where, if this were real life, you’d tell the love interest to run the other way. If you missed out on it last year, there’s plenty of time to catch up. 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