As I said the stable couples are ignorable by being features rather than the focus... I mean suprizingly few people realize that Goury is actually a quest reward from the OAV with Jockrock in it. You also have to remember that Gourry is a fighter in an Epic level campaign and a lot of the stuff he doesn't know is Knowledge (X) checks at DC 35 or so on a D20. Lets not even go into just how much SAN damage anyone listening in on their dinner talk would take. You can actually watch the Mazoku Lords and Xellos taking SAN damage at major plot point in series.
If I wanted a single pairing with subtileness that is in a show no one mentions... Skip Beat. Its actually using that some of the main cast are broken inside (like the primary couple) and the guy running the company they work for is actually made it a major part of their job to work on fixing that. Oddly its a shojo and the only think they apparrently changed from the manga is the last of a rose border and sparkles flittering around the male of the couple.
If I wanted a single pairing with subtileness that is in a show no one mentions... Skip Beat. Its actually using that some of the main cast are broken inside (like the primary couple) and the guy running the company they work for is actually made it a major part of their job to work on fixing that. Oddly its a shojo and the only think they apparrently changed from the manga is the last of a rose border and sparkles flittering around the male of the couple.