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I'm toying with the idea of writing a story showing humans (more or less) pairing off with some sort of sentient nonhuman partners, so I'm looking for examples of this in novels and anime. Ones where the bond is actually talked about and preferably shown forming (bonus points if there is a magical/military school involved), not ones where it's just mentioned. Here are the ones I know of so far:
Novels:
Anne McCaffrey - Dragonriders of Pern series, bond between dragon and rider, arguably also The Ship Who... books with bond between brain and brawn.
Mercedes Lackey - Valdemar series, bonds between humans and animals, some of which are reincarnations of humans or avatars of a deity.
David Weber - Honor Harrington series, bond between human and treecat.
TV/Movies:
Farscape - bond between an organic spaceship and its pilot.
Mecha Anime:
Evangelion - typical of all mecha-pilot bonds in various animes, the mecha is usually incapable of speaking, and can only show it's preference for a particular pilot by refusing to operate for others and operating on its own to protect a pilot.
Idolmaster Xenoglossia (same as above)
Described this way but I haven't seen them myself: RahXephon, Mai HIME (rather than humans and nonhumans its male keys and female himes), Sousei no Aquarion
Other Anime:
Bleach - bond between zampaktou and shinigami, also between doll and bounto. Zampaktou seem to be a human soul's power solidified into a sword, their personality seems to be a facet of the wielder's personality. Dolls on the other hand seem to be elementals.
Soul Eater - bond between demon weapon and weapon technician (much like shinigami in Bleach). Demon weapons seem to be like therianthropes only instead of changing into a wolf or other animal they can shift to one or more weapon forms from their normal human form. They gain power by eating and digesting souls, but also seem to eat normal food.
Shamanic Princess - the 'partners' in this miniseries border on being summoned demons or witches' familiars.
Novels:
Anne McCaffrey - Dragonriders of Pern series, bond between dragon and rider, arguably also The Ship Who... books with bond between brain and brawn.
Mercedes Lackey - Valdemar series, bonds between humans and animals, some of which are reincarnations of humans or avatars of a deity.
David Weber - Honor Harrington series, bond between human and treecat.
TV/Movies:
Farscape - bond between an organic spaceship and its pilot.
Mecha Anime:
Evangelion - typical of all mecha-pilot bonds in various animes, the mecha is usually incapable of speaking, and can only show it's preference for a particular pilot by refusing to operate for others and operating on its own to protect a pilot.
Idolmaster Xenoglossia (same as above)
Described this way but I haven't seen them myself: RahXephon, Mai HIME (rather than humans and nonhumans its male keys and female himes), Sousei no Aquarion
Other Anime:
Bleach - bond between zampaktou and shinigami, also between doll and bounto. Zampaktou seem to be a human soul's power solidified into a sword, their personality seems to be a facet of the wielder's personality. Dolls on the other hand seem to be elementals.
Soul Eater - bond between demon weapon and weapon technician (much like shinigami in Bleach). Demon weapons seem to be like therianthropes only instead of changing into a wolf or other animal they can shift to one or more weapon forms from their normal human form. They gain power by eating and digesting souls, but also seem to eat normal food.
Shamanic Princess - the 'partners' in this miniseries border on being summoned demons or witches' familiars.
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