Great Mazinger -one of the Mazinger Z sequels- features one instance where incest is avoided due to them being adoptive siblings. Tetsuya Tsurugi and Jun Hono -the Official Couple- were two orphan kids Prof. Kenzo Kabuto took in. They grow up together and technically they are family, but they are not related by blood, so nobody seems to mind and the issue is never brought up, with the narrative simply treating them as having a mix of Childhood Friend Romance and Belligerent Sexual Tension. In an unusually negative scene, there is a pseudo-incestuous rape sequence in Ayashi no Ceres. It also contains a subversion and plot device of this trope, seeing as Shisou Mikage, who is still madly in love with his wife Ceres, is reincarnated as Aki Mikage, who does NOT share such a "feeling" at first, and feels absolutely horrible when he realises he is starting to. Aki's twin sister Aya is the reincarnation of Ceres, and she is eventually led to killing him to save both herself and Ceres and release Aki from Shisou's control. Because it had to start somewhere. And no, I'm not talking about flashing thighs in Busby Berkeley numbers, or Claudette Colbert's leg in It Happened One Night (1934) or Fay Wray almost topless in King Kong (1933). Instead, The Outlaw is the movie, more than any other, where the decadent and often leery subtext of Hollywood product (what is King Kong, other than an interracial sex fantasy?) comes spilling out over the surface, and encapsulates the entire project. Soon enough Hollywood would spawn an entirely new genre founded on the terrifying allure of this new archetype of American life: the empowered career woman. And if Fatal Attraction wasn’t necessarily the first ever erotic thriller, it was certainly the first one that truly saturated the public consciousness: it was a phenomenon, the second-highest grossing film of the year, and gave the term “bunny boiler” the place in the popular lexicon it holds to this day.

The Wachowskis would continue to explore and unsettle Hollywood's relationship with gender three years later with The Matrix, which turned Tinseltown's hunkiest hero into an androgynous goth, and then V for Vendetta, in which another sex symbol in Natalie Portman was recast as a revolutionary leader with a shaved head and ill-fitting vest. The anime-remade episode has this too, and is more outrageous, where Megumi goes to the length of clinging onto Keichii and fighting over him with Skuld, Urd and Peorth who also fell victim to the effect of the potion. Two examples of this, running in both directions, are present in Hatsukoi Limited. Ayumi's brother, Yuuji, is a definite siscon, and Koyoi Bessho is defined by her brother complex. Of course, they are but one small part of the Love Dodecahedron that permeates the series. The slasher film’s fixation with fornication is as old as the genre itself. Classically, the relationship is puritanical and punitive: a gang of randy, hedonistic teenagers get what’s coming to them thanks to a bloodthirsty killer – penetration of one sort begetting penetration of another – with a virginal final girl the only one to be spared. But while the film’s promotional material featured its stars in skimpy outfits and the picnic-scene kiss between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair became an early (and much-parodied) viral sensation, the film’s raunchiest moments were all verbal ones. It’s real turn-on was a screenplay that ran the full gamut from suggestive to risqué to laugh-out-loud outrageous.An example also occurs in Yuu Watase's pre- Fushigi Yuugi manga, Shishunki Miman Okotowari. A girl named Asuka Higuchi travels to Tokyo searching for her remaining relatives after her mother's death, finds her half siblings Manato and Kazusa Sudou early on in the story, moves in with them hoping that she'll meet the father they share someday, and she falls for Manato - and he eventually comes to reciprocate. And then they learn that they aren't blood-related after all--in a very mind-twisting way - Only Kazusa is Asuka's sister, and Manato's father is a... sort-of friend from the girls' parents. It's VERY complicated Roeg said he wanted to make grief “the sole thrust of the film" – and he certainly succeeded in doing so, “thrust” being very much the operative word. In Freezing, Satellizer was abused by her half brother. He molested her as well, and though it is unknown how far he went with it, it was enough to scar Satellizer to the point that she could no longer stand being touched by anybody. In Queen's Blade Elina seemed quite obsessed with her sister Reina, showing flat out disappointment that she couldn't spend the night in her room.

In Tsukihime, Shiki's sister Akiha has a very possessive crush on him. Parodied in numerous doujinshis and official omakes, including one where Ciel points out the hopelessness of the crush. Shiki's feelings are purely platonic... And a large part sheer terror—Akiha is tsuntsundere at best and Yandere at worst. Of course, they are Not Blood Siblings, and Akiha does have her own path in the Visual Novel. Though they never did anything incestuous, SHIKI hints many times that he has romantic interest in his sister aka the aforementioned Akiha. Too bad all she thinks about is her other "brother," making some really feel bad for SHIKI. One theory is that the observance of the taboo would lower the incidence of congenital birth defects caused by inbreeding. A society that had noticed this might tend to form an incest taboo.

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Kurei and Kurenai from Flame of Recca, anyone? Mori Kouran was already the adopted father of Kurei, then he was revealed to also have adopted Kurenai when she was about to be killed. Let's not forget that both Kurei and Kurenai were in love each each other and actually a couple in canon. Sure, they didn't share the same blood, but they both had the same adoptive father, so therefore legally it's incest. For example, Trobriand Islanders prohibit both sexual relations between a man and his mother, and between a woman and her father, but they describe these prohibitions in very different ways: relations between a man and his mother fall within the category of forbidden relations among members of the same clan; relations between a woman and her father do not. This is because the Trobrianders are matrilineal; children belong to the clan of their mother and not of their father. Thus, sexual relations between a man and his mother's sister (and mother's sister's daughter) are also considered incestuous, but relations between a man and his father's sister are not. Indeed, a man and his father's sister will often have a flirtatious relationship, and a man and the daughter of his father's sister may prefer to have sexual relations or marry.

This theory was debated intensely by anthropologists in the 1950s. It appealed to many because it used the study of incest taboos and marriage to answer more fundamental research interests of anthropologists at the time: how can an anthropologist map out the social relationships within a given community, and how do these relationships promote or endanger social solidarity? Nevertheless, anthropologists never reached a consensus, and with the Vietnam War and the process of de-colonization in Africa, Asia, and Oceania, anthropological interests shifted away from mapping local social relationships.It's a bold move and it is to the film's credit that it offers no simple answers to the question, and the coda, in which the two meet up some months later, remains one of the most quietly emotive scenes of recent decades. Renhou and his sister Miiru in Fushigi Yuugi. In fact, their incestuous relationship got them killed by their people, and they go to the Big Bad Tenkou in hopes he'll help them stay together. Magikano plays with the trope: The main character's oldest sister has a downright obsessive love for him (one that is definitely not simply sisterly) even to the point where she claims she will marry him and becomes ultra possessive whenever any other girl shows any interest. However he doesn't seem to have any interest in her. The arrival of the protagonist's Magical Girlfriend makes her intensely jealous and always vying for his attention. One day at school my friends and I were playing around with a bottle of Victoria's Secret perfume spray during recess. A few of my friends had the bright idea that I go up and spray the perfume on my crush. Well, I did, but it went right into his eyes. Oh no!!! I could not believe it. He doesn't hate me, but he hasn't been paying much attention to me either — just in case I have another bottle of spray!" Boogie Nights laid the groundwork for films and TV shows Lovelace or The Deuce, which both examined the porn industry of that era with an unsentimental eye. But it also helped inspire things like Mad Men and Halt and Catch Fire: ensemble portraits of a devoted, in-and-out-of-love workforce who are shooting for the stars while the industry changes under their feet. Porn, it turns out, is a business much like any other.