Lillie & Alexander

Aroace Anime Concept: a guy and a girl, both closeted aroaces, get pushed into a blind date with each other by their friends. During the “date,” they figure out what’s going on and explain their true feelings to each other. They then decide to start fake-dating to stop their friends from trying to set them up with other people.

Fast-forward a few years, however, and suddenly, the same friends are now coming to “The Golden Couple” (that has miraculously lasted years, and nobody can figure out wonder how) for dating advice. Not willing to give up their secret and figuring they have nothing to lose, the girl and guy decide to tell the troubled couples what they should do if they were nothing more than friends. Much to their surprise, it seems that their advice actually works, and despite their best efforts, their popularity as the all-around perfect couple keeps growing. Every episode, a new romance problem is presented to the “couple,” and every time, they give back a platonically-based solution that somehow works perfectly, gee I wonder if treating people like other people is actually the key to any healthy relationship.

The title of the anime? Un-Dating Dating Counselors.