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* The main lead of ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'' has his moments (it's more a combination of NiceGuy, TheKlutz, and SelectiveObliviousness actually), but then we have the most fearsome and brutal of the Shadowy seven: Hishida Haruka! Yep, she's The Ditz, and TheKlutz, and almost a {{Pollyanna}} ...she's also the living embodiment of ConfusionFu, and she's not ''even aware'' of all the destruction she's spreading around.
* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'':
** Several characters have bluntly called Mira dumb. For example, in response to her getting a cold, Mikage actually says she's "a genius in being stupid" to her face, due to her subverting IdiotsCannotCatchColds.
** And then when Sayuki "Eva" Ibe appears, Mikage decides she is ''even more stupid'' than Mira. How? Sayuri attempts to eavesdrop on the Earth Science Club to scoop on {{blackmail}}ing material, but she operated in such an obvious way, that every member sees it, and when brought into the Earth Science Club's room, she pretty much mentioned her intentions without any prodding.
* Rino Rando from ''Anime/BestStudentCouncil''. Most of the smarts seem to have been given to her snarky hand puppet Pucchan.
* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': [[StockShonenHero Kazuki Muto's]] younger sister Mahiro is a sweet girl, with GenkiGirl tendencies, who is such a scatterbrain that when her brother and [[ActionGirlFriend Tokiko]] invent the lie that they're siblings immediately believes them and is confused by the fact that nobody told her she had an older sister.
* ''Manga/CastleTownDandelion'':
** Hikari is the [[GenkiGirl most energetic]] among the siblings, but she seems extremely clueless about the consequences of her actions.
** While Akane's most important characteristics are JusticeWillPrevail and ShrinkingViolet, as the story goes on it's quite clear that despite her own self-consciousness, she's utterly clueless of what's happening around her -- like whether she's wearing anything on her lower body (Chapter 12/Episode 4A), or that [[PaperThinDisguise everyone knows she is Scarlet Bloom]] (Chapter 21/Episode 9A).
* ''Manga/CodeBreaker'': An extremely ditzy [[TerroristsWithoutACause Re-Coder]] shows up. When asked how many people she killed, she says "One, two, three... Ten, I guess, because I have ''ten fingers!'' But I'm not in a counting mood, so now [[AxCrazy I'll kill you painfully!]]" She never lapses into a SlasherSmile but remains cheerful and perky throughout.
* The characters of ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'' tend to pass the IdiotBall around quite a bit, but Hayashida is particularly stupid. [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] describes him as "dumber than a gorilla" -- which, considering a gorilla is actually part of the cast, is ''proven true'' in the show. In his defense, the gorilla is the smartest member of the class. Yeah. It's that kind of series.
* The frequent use of this trope as a CharmPoint was parodied in a {{stinger}} skit in ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys''.
** Yanagin gets her sempai to teach them how to be cuter, and the correct answer is...
--->'''Yanagin's Senpai:''' "[[ObfuscatingStupidity Pretending to be an idiot]] who doesn't even know common knowledge[[note]]Like not recognizing UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga[[/note]] is what makes high school girls cute! Listen up, their brains and eyes are directed [[ZettaiRyouiki right here]]..."
** Ringo-chan is a straight example; she's not the brightest bulb in town. In ''High School Boys and Panties'' it took her an hour to diagnose the reason for a network problem: ''the wire was never plugged on''. Then she unwittingly flaunts her panties to Motoharu, the President and the Vice-President; fortunately for her, she doesn't get to see them in the act, much less their [[HeelRealization horrified reaction]].
* Touta Matsuda from ''Manga/DeathNote''. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Most of the time, anyway]]. In his defense, he is not so much a could-not-function-in-normal-society Ditz. Most of the time, he acts like a fairly normal (if somewhat impulsive and over-enthusiastic) young man. It's just that in a situation where one false move (like revealing your face to the wrong person) could mean instant death, any false move starts to come off as TooDumbToLive. It also doesn't help that he's working with (or, as it turns out in one case, against) people like Light, L, Near, and Mello.
* The standout ditz of ''Manga/DontBecomeAnOtakuShinozakiSan'' would be Akina's childhood friend Chigusa. She almost always has a dreamy look on her face and her likes are listed as "stripes". When boys would ask if she would go out with them, she'd respond with "go out where?", {{Oblivious|ToLove}} to the fact they were hitting on her. Konatsu is also ditzy in the more GenkiGirl fashion.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'':
** {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed by Director Kurama's ditzy secretary, Kisaragi, who gets decapitated by Lucy in the first 7 minutes of the show because she's TooDumbToLive. This is made better in the German dub, where she tells her colleagues "[[HarsherInHindsight I just don't lose my head]]." moments before.
** Anna (after she returned to normal) is another example, being unable to solve basic mathematical problems.
* The title character (and arguably most of the cast) of ''Manga/ExcelSaga''.
* Kousaka from ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' isn't ''quite'' as dimwitted as some; his ditz qualifications comes mostly from his utter lack of a filter between his thoughts and his mouth.
* Tomoko from ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' is clumsy, BookDumb, and doesn't have any real friends when Onizuka meets her. In the manga, her classmates nickname her [[MaliciousMisnaming Toroko (Slo-mo-ko in English)]] since she's so "slow". She turns out to have HiddenDepths, though.
* Joshua Lundgren in ''Anime/GunXSword'' straddles the line between ditz and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. He once looked for Wendy by heading into every women's restroom in a train station, not understanding why the women were screaming until he got arrested for it.
* Satomi Ookuma of ''Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl'' is the "Sheltered Girl" in the title. She's completely oblivious to how her friend at college, Mizuki Kanda, is not a man but actually an androgynous-looking woman, and thus the "Handsome Girl." It's implied that Ookuma's overprotective parents may be part of the problem, especially since they have some rather strange ideas; her father wants any prospective boyfriend to submit a resume to him.
* Shizuka Marikawa from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead''. Her entire character is practically this and MsFanservice (though, to be fair, most of the girls in this series are that).
** [[LampshadeHanging Literally pointed out]] in episode twelve.
--->'''Shizuka:''' That's so cool!
--->'''Saya Takagi:''' Ugh! You're such a ditz!
--->'''Shizuka:''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall Well, that is my character, after all.]]
* [[MoeAnthropomorphism Italy]] from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': the name of the series is even a portmanteau of the Japanese words for "hopeless" and "Italy". Italy is such a DistressedDude that it's a wonder he survived until Germany formed an alliance with him. One notable example is when Germany tries to teach him how to throw a grenade. Italy throws the pin, leaving the grenade ''clenched in his mouth''. He then just sits there blankly, while Germany screams at him to throw the grenade before they both get blown up. The one time Italy manages to plant a grenade correctly he stands there cheering... as a Russian tank comes up behind him. Romano later does the same thing, suggesting that this trope runs in the family, which in the dub Germany immediately lampshades. America is more of the 'lovable/obnoxious oaf' kind.
* ''Manga/ImaizuminChiWaDouyaraGalNoTamaribaNiNatteruRashiiDeep'': Ruri often forgets the point she's trying to make. Reina calls her having 30 IQ.
* Subyss from ''Manga/{{Innocent}}'' is a darker example. He is a TortureTechnician with a sadistic streak a mile long, but he is kind of silly in an almost amusing way. He'll ask the wrong questions, get drunk at inopportune moments, is professionally unlucky, and is dumb enough to believe his job is something to be proud of.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Suzi Q isn't exactly that smart, something that's best shown when [[TheHero Joseph Joestar]] [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral arrives at his own funeral]], learning that the rest of the cast spent the last few weeks thinking he was dead because Suzi ''forgot to send the telegram telling them that he's alive'' (Then again, there have been several moments that have shown she's actually [[SmarterThanYouLook Smarter Than She Looks]], and it's implied that [[ObfuscatingStupidity she acts like this]] to {{Troll}} Joseph).
** Okuyasu Nijimura from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'' openly admits that he's not very smart. His ditz status is especially notable in a cast of intelligent, creative heroes, traits which are almost a requirement to make the most out of the more esoteric [[FightingSpirit Stand]] abilities. By contrast, Okuyasu's Stand, The Hand, has the ability to erase anything with its right hand, is incredibly powerful and would be an outright StoryBreakerPower if Okuyasu was smart enough to use it more creatively (in fact, his EstablishingCharacterMoment is managing to ''knock himself out'' with his own Stand).
** L.A. Boom Boom of the [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Boom Boom Family]] from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'' apparently inherited his not-so-great intellect from his mother, something his [[AbusiveParents father]] and even his brother mock him for.
** [[DumbBlonde Hato Higashikata]] from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'' is ''extremely'' air-headed. [[spoiler:[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Don't underestimate her in a fight, however]]]].
* Nai is a boy version of this from ''Manga/{{Karneval}},'' [[spoiler:although he's really a cute little animal]]. Yogi is more of the "lovable oaf" kind when he's not being serious, which is often.
* In ''Anime/KemonoFriends'', Hululu, the Humboldt Penguin member of the PPP, is both a ditz on and off the stage.
* Yayoi of ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' (the pink-haired one, not the one with the eyepatch.) When standing in the middle of a heated battle with [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy the shots missing her]], her only response is "Fireworks!"
* Shinobu of ''Manga/KiniroMosaic'' is hardly bright. One of the earliest strips showed her scoring zero in math, and despite her European ForeignCultureFetish, she doesn't know much English (and tried to read an English paper!) and may or may not even know that England and France are part of Europe at all!
* Nadeshiko from ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'' doesn't appear to be very bright; nearly the first thing we know about her is her ''not'' bringing a cell phone nor having any meaningful amounts of cash (just 100 yen) when she cycles in the countryside of a place she moved into a day ago.
* Tsukasa Hiiragi from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is a sweet girl who's also airheaded, forgetful and [[BookDumb regularly gets poor grades in school]], putting her [[PolarOppositeTwins in contrast with her smarter and more responsible twin sister]] Kagami. Even mundane tasks like following a study schedule, reading a newspaper or finding her own cellphone number prove to be very challenging for her.
* Kanako from ''Manga/MariaHolic'' is marvelously dumb. She flunked nearly all her exams and, when given notes that "even an idiot could understand" by Sachi, she fails to comprehend even that. She's so single-minded in her pursuit of finding girl-love that she's dim in everything else. Including the realization that liking girls makes her a lesbian.
* Papi of ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' and her [[AlternateUniverse fantasy]] [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] Aero of ''Manga/DeadlineSummoner'' are both [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]], [[{{Stripperiffic}} barely wear anything]] and [[InnocentFanserviceGirl have just as much upstairs]].
--> '''Kimihito Kurusu and Mamoru Onodera''': She's a birdbrain!
* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'': The '''entire point''' of the series is that it's a RomanticComedy driven by a cast full of characters who are "just a little dumb" (in the author's own words); however, they're all depicted as lovable goofs or space cases rather than simply idiots. Special mention goes to the female lead Youko Shiragami, whose goofiness has more often than not put [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire her secret]] at risk.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' Konoka can also act ditzy, but it's [[ObfuscatingStupidity almost certainly an act]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The toad Gamatatsu is rather childlike and obsessed with food.
** Naruto himself fits this in part 1, though it's really more a case of BookDumb. He outgrows it after the time skip.
* Aoba of ''Manga/NewGame'' can be pretty spacey and oblivious at times, like forgetting her ID card multiple times, or failing to recognize that Sophia was inspired by her own appearance. In fact, when designing Sophia, she started to do a search for reference material on twintails -- the style of hair that ''Aoba herself has''.
* Himeko from ''Anime/PaniPoniDash''. She's so dumb, she faints upon SEEING English letters, since her brain can't take it.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** [[TerribleTrio The Team Rocket trio]] seems to have become cursed to this position ever since encountering Ash, (with the exception of the ''Best Wishes'' series).
** Misty's Psyduck stumbled from place to place with a vacant look on its face. He was also shown to be unable to swim despite being a Water-type. He is somewhat more competent in his return in a ''Sun & Moon'' episode, though.
** May and Dawn when they first started as trainers -- May was a bit less competent because she didn't really want to train Pokemon, which was before the anime introduced Contests. This even passed on to her starter Torchic, who TookALevelInBadass and evolved into Combusken in the middle of Hoenn, eliminating this trait.
** Cameron from the Unova arc was ditzier than Ash was in almost the entire anime, as he practically had to be handheld as a Trainer through all of his appearances. In spite of all this, he beats Ash after bringing 5 Pokemon to a 6-on-6 Pokemon League battle.
** Ash's Rowlet is shown to be this when it isn't [[{{sleepyhead}} asleep]]. Its first appearance in the anime showed it mistaking a wind chime for food.
** Casey from the Johto saga is cute, but she's not the brightest kid. In her first appearance, she [[BullyingADragon insulted Ash as a trainer]] despite only just starting her journey and having about a few days of being a trainer, and insisted on battling him despite this, which [[CurbStompBattle predictably ends with her losing miserably to Ash's Charizard]]. Being [[FanGirl a huge fan of the Electabuzz baseball team]], she also tries to sing their fight songs... [[CuteButCacophonic and she really sucks at it]]. Misty once had to stop her because her singing was so terrible.
* In the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise, the pink-themed leaders might be the sweetest girls they can be, have nifty skills that set them apart and great leadership skills, they might not be the sharpest tools in the shed. Examples include [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Nozomi]], who infamously got kicked out of every school club possible due to her clumsiness, and [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Ichika]], who kept thinking the [[{{Bifauxnen}} boyish girl]] was a handsome boy ''even when she transformed into a Cure herself''.
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Despite being the most enthusiastic in being taught be Fuutarou, Yotsuba Nakano also gets the lowest grades out of her sisters; her test grade in Chapter 2? '''''Eight''''' out of one-hundred. Additionally in Chapter 20, not only she has the lowest overall grades out of her sisters again, her score in mathematics is '''''Nine''''' out of one-hundred.
* The main character of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', Usagi "Dumpling Head" Tsukino. Her ditzy personality is tied together with the rest of her character.
* Tenma Tsukamoto from ''Manga/SchoolRumble''. When you're the lead character of a LoveDodecahedron series, [[LoveMakesYouDumb it just sorta comes naturally.]]
* ''Manga/TeasingMasterTakagiSan'': Mina doesn't seem to be dumb or anything, but she tends to overreact to things, and once walked into the toilet, saw Takagi and asked if she and Nishikata were dating (Takagi said no), left the toilet, ran into Nishikata and his friends and mentioned her conversation with Takagi, and then remembers she went to the toilet because she needed to pee. She also apparently once got hypnotized while watching a hypnotist on TV.
* Mihoshi, in the various ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' television series ({{Flanderiz|ation}}ed from a BunnyEarsLawyer / GeniusDitz in the {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VAs). She is an endless source of frustration and despair for not only Kiyone, her long-suffering partner in the Galaxy Police, but also Washu, whose projects are always being [[SpannerInTheWorks ruined by her stupidity]].
* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' qualifies. Sure, she's five years old, but what kid that age doesn't even know how a swing works? She can also be led by the nose rather easily. Any moderately intelligent five-year-old would eventually figure out that Danbo is simply Miura in a cardboard box, for instance.
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* The main lead of ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'' has his moments (it's more a combination of NiceGuy, TheKlutz, and SelectiveObliviousness actually), but then we have the most fearsome and brutal of the Shadowy seven: Hishida Haruka! Yep, she's The Ditz, and TheKlutz, and almost a {{Pollyanna}} ...she's also the living embodiment of ConfusionFu, and she's not ''even aware'' of all the destruction she's spreading around.
* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'':
** Several characters have bluntly called Mira dumb. For example, in response to her getting a cold, Mikage actually says she's "a genius in being stupid" to her face, due to her subverting IdiotsCannotCatchColds.
** And then when Sayuki "Eva" Ibe appears, Mikage decides she is ''even more stupid'' than Mira. How? Sayuri attempts to eavesdrop on the Earth Science Club to scoop on {{blackmail}}ing material, but she operated in such an obvious way, that every member sees it, and when brought into the Earth Science Club's room, she pretty much mentioned her intentions without any prodding.
* Rino Rando from ''Anime/BestStudentCouncil''. Most of the smarts seem to have been given to her snarky hand puppet Pucchan.
* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': [[StockShonenHero Kazuki Muto's]] younger sister Mahiro is a sweet girl, with GenkiGirl tendencies, who is such a scatterbrain that when her brother and [[ActionGirlFriend Tokiko]] invent the lie that they're siblings immediately believes them and is confused by the fact that nobody told her she had an older sister.
* ''Manga/CastleTownDandelion'':
** Hikari is the [[GenkiGirl most energetic]] among the siblings, but she seems extremely clueless about the consequences of her actions.
** While Akane's most important characteristics are JusticeWillPrevail and ShrinkingViolet, as the story goes on it's quite clear that despite her own self-consciousness, she's utterly clueless of what's happening around her -- like whether she's wearing anything on her lower body (Chapter 12/Episode 4A), or that [[PaperThinDisguise everyone knows she is Scarlet Bloom]] (Chapter 21/Episode 9A).
* ''Manga/CodeBreaker'': An extremely ditzy [[TerroristsWithoutACause Re-Coder]] shows up. When asked how many people she killed, she says "One, two, three... Ten, I guess, because I have ''ten fingers!'' But I'm not in a counting mood, so now [[AxCrazy I'll kill you painfully!]]" She never lapses into a SlasherSmile but remains cheerful and perky throughout.
* The characters of ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'' tend to pass the IdiotBall around quite a bit, but Hayashida is particularly stupid. [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] describes him as "dumber than a gorilla" -- which, considering a gorilla is actually part of the cast, is ''proven true'' in the show. In his defense, the gorilla is the smartest member of the class. Yeah. It's that kind of series.
* The frequent use of this trope as a CharmPoint was parodied in a {{stinger}} skit in ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys''.
** Yanagin gets her sempai to teach them how to be cuter, and the correct answer is...
--->'''Yanagin's Senpai:''' "[[ObfuscatingStupidity Pretending to be an idiot]] who doesn't even know common knowledge[[note]]Like not recognizing UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga[[/note]] is what makes high school girls cute! Listen up, their brains and eyes are directed [[ZettaiRyouiki right here]]..."
** Ringo-chan is a straight example; she's not the brightest bulb in town. In ''High School Boys and Panties'' it took her an hour to diagnose the reason for a network problem: ''the wire was never plugged on''. Then she unwittingly flaunts her panties to Motoharu, the President and the Vice-President; fortunately for her, she doesn't get to see them in the act, much less their [[HeelRealization horrified reaction]].
* Touta Matsuda from ''Manga/DeathNote''. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Most of the time, anyway]]. In his defense, he is not so much a could-not-function-in-normal-society Ditz. Most of the time, he acts like a fairly normal (if somewhat impulsive and over-enthusiastic) young man. It's just that in a situation where one false move (like revealing your face to the wrong person) could mean instant death, any false move starts to come off as TooDumbToLive. It also doesn't help that he's working with (or, as it turns out in one case, against) people like Light, L, Near, and Mello.
* The standout ditz of ''Manga/DontBecomeAnOtakuShinozakiSan'' would be Akina's childhood friend Chigusa. She almost always has a dreamy look on her face and her likes are listed as "stripes". When boys would ask if she would go out with them, she'd respond with "go out where?", {{Oblivious|ToLove}} to the fact they were hitting on her. Konatsu is also ditzy in the more GenkiGirl fashion.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'':
** {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed by Director Kurama's ditzy secretary, Kisaragi, who gets decapitated by Lucy in the first 7 minutes of the show because she's TooDumbToLive. This is made better in the German dub, where she tells her colleagues "[[HarsherInHindsight I just don't lose my head]]." moments before.
** Anna (after she returned to normal) is another example, being unable to solve basic mathematical problems.
* The title character (and arguably most of the cast) of ''Manga/ExcelSaga''.
* Kousaka from ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' isn't ''quite'' as dimwitted as some; his ditz qualifications comes mostly from his utter lack of a filter between his thoughts and his mouth.
* Tomoko from ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' is clumsy, BookDumb, and doesn't have any real friends when Onizuka meets her. In the manga, her classmates nickname her [[MaliciousMisnaming Toroko (Slo-mo-ko in English)]] since she's so "slow". She turns out to have HiddenDepths, though.
* Joshua Lundgren in ''Anime/GunXSword'' straddles the line between ditz and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. He once looked for Wendy by heading into every women's restroom in a train station, not understanding why the women were screaming until he got arrested for it.
* Satomi Ookuma of ''Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl'' is the "Sheltered Girl" in the title. She's completely oblivious to how her friend at college, Mizuki Kanda, is not a man but actually an androgynous-looking woman, and thus the "Handsome Girl." It's implied that Ookuma's overprotective parents may be part of the problem, especially since they have some rather strange ideas; her father wants any prospective boyfriend to submit a resume to him.
* Shizuka Marikawa from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead''. Her entire character is practically this and MsFanservice (though, to be fair, most of the girls in this series are that).
** [[LampshadeHanging Literally pointed out]] in episode twelve.
--->'''Shizuka:''' That's so cool!
--->'''Saya Takagi:''' Ugh! You're such a ditz!
--->'''Shizuka:''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall Well, that is my character, after all.]]
* [[MoeAnthropomorphism Italy]] from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': the name of the series is even a portmanteau of the Japanese words for "hopeless" and "Italy". Italy is such a DistressedDude that it's a wonder he survived until Germany formed an alliance with him. One notable example is when Germany tries to teach him how to throw a grenade. Italy throws the pin, leaving the grenade ''clenched in his mouth''. He then just sits there blankly, while Germany screams at him to throw the grenade before they both get blown up. The one time Italy manages to plant a grenade correctly he stands there cheering... as a Russian tank comes up behind him. Romano later does the same thing, suggesting that this trope runs in the family, which in the dub Germany immediately lampshades. America is more of the 'lovable/obnoxious oaf' kind.
* ''Manga/ImaizuminChiWaDouyaraGalNoTamaribaNiNatteruRashiiDeep'': Ruri often forgets the point she's trying to make. Reina calls her having 30 IQ.
* Subyss from ''Manga/{{Innocent}}'' is a darker example. He is a TortureTechnician with a sadistic streak a mile long, but he is kind of silly in an almost amusing way. He'll ask the wrong questions, get drunk at inopportune moments, is professionally unlucky, and is dumb enough to believe his job is something to be proud of.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Suzi Q isn't exactly that smart, something that's best shown when [[TheHero Joseph Joestar]] [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral arrives at his own funeral]], learning that the rest of the cast spent the last few weeks thinking he was dead because Suzi ''forgot to send the telegram telling them that he's alive'' (Then again, there have been several moments that have shown she's actually [[SmarterThanYouLook Smarter Than She Looks]], and it's implied that [[ObfuscatingStupidity she acts like this]] to {{Troll}} Joseph).
** Okuyasu Nijimura from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'' openly admits that he's not very smart. His ditz status is especially notable in a cast of intelligent, creative heroes, traits which are almost a requirement to make the most out of the more esoteric [[FightingSpirit Stand]] abilities. By contrast, Okuyasu's Stand, The Hand, has the ability to erase anything with its right hand, is incredibly powerful and would be an outright StoryBreakerPower if Okuyasu was smart enough to use it more creatively (in fact, his EstablishingCharacterMoment is managing to ''knock himself out'' with his own Stand).
** L.A. Boom Boom of the [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Boom Boom Family]] from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'' apparently inherited his not-so-great intellect from his mother, something his [[AbusiveParents father]] and even his brother mock him for.
** [[DumbBlonde Hato Higashikata]] from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'' is ''extremely'' air-headed. [[spoiler:[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Don't underestimate her in a fight, however]]]].
* Nai is a boy version of this from ''Manga/{{Karneval}},'' [[spoiler:although he's really a cute little animal]]. Yogi is more of the "lovable oaf" kind when he's not being serious, which is often.
* In ''Anime/KemonoFriends'', Hululu, the Humboldt Penguin member of the PPP, is both a ditz on and off the stage.
* Yayoi of ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' (the pink-haired one, not the one with the eyepatch.) When standing in the middle of a heated battle with [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy the shots missing her]], her only response is "Fireworks!"
* Shinobu of ''Manga/KiniroMosaic'' is hardly bright. One of the earliest strips showed her scoring zero in math, and despite her European ForeignCultureFetish, she doesn't know much English (and tried to read an English paper!) and may or may not even know that England and France are part of Europe at all!
* Nadeshiko from ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'' doesn't appear to be very bright; nearly the first thing we know about her is her ''not'' bringing a cell phone nor having any meaningful amounts of cash (just 100 yen) when she cycles in the countryside of a place she moved into a day ago.
* Tsukasa Hiiragi from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is a sweet girl who's also airheaded, forgetful and [[BookDumb regularly gets poor grades in school]], putting her [[PolarOppositeTwins in contrast with her smarter and more responsible twin sister]] Kagami. Even mundane tasks like following a study schedule, reading a newspaper or finding her own cellphone number prove to be very challenging for her.
* Kanako from ''Manga/MariaHolic'' is marvelously dumb. She flunked nearly all her exams and, when given notes that "even an idiot could understand" by Sachi, she fails to comprehend even that. She's so single-minded in her pursuit of finding girl-love that she's dim in everything else. Including the realization that liking girls makes her a lesbian.
* Papi of ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' and her [[AlternateUniverse fantasy]] [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] Aero of ''Manga/DeadlineSummoner'' are both [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]], [[{{Stripperiffic}} barely wear anything]] and [[InnocentFanserviceGirl have just as much upstairs]].
--> '''Kimihito Kurusu and Mamoru Onodera''': She's a birdbrain!
* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'': The '''entire point''' of the series is that it's a RomanticComedy driven by a cast full of characters who are "just a little dumb" (in the author's own words); however, they're all depicted as lovable goofs or space cases rather than simply idiots. Special mention goes to the female lead Youko Shiragami, whose goofiness has more often than not put [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire her secret]] at risk.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' Konoka can also act ditzy, but it's [[ObfuscatingStupidity almost certainly an act]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The toad Gamatatsu is rather childlike and obsessed with food.
** Naruto himself fits this in part 1, though it's really more a case of BookDumb. He outgrows it after the time skip.
* Aoba of ''Manga/NewGame'' can be pretty spacey and oblivious at times, like forgetting her ID card multiple times, or failing to recognize that Sophia was inspired by her own appearance. In fact, when designing Sophia, she started to do a search for reference material on twintails -- the style of hair that ''Aoba herself has''.
* Himeko from ''Anime/PaniPoniDash''. She's so dumb, she faints upon SEEING English letters, since her brain can't take it.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** [[TerribleTrio The Team Rocket trio]] seems to have become cursed to this position ever since encountering Ash, (with the exception of the ''Best Wishes'' series).
** Misty's Psyduck stumbled from place to place with a vacant look on its face. He was also shown to be unable to swim despite being a Water-type. He is somewhat more competent in his return in a ''Sun & Moon'' episode, though.
** May and Dawn when they first started as trainers -- May was a bit less competent because she didn't really want to train Pokemon, which was before the anime introduced Contests. This even passed on to her starter Torchic, who TookALevelInBadass and evolved into Combusken in the middle of Hoenn, eliminating this trait.
** Cameron from the Unova arc was ditzier than Ash was in almost the entire anime, as he practically had to be handheld as a Trainer through all of his appearances. In spite of all this, he beats Ash after bringing 5 Pokemon to a 6-on-6 Pokemon League battle.
** Ash's Rowlet is shown to be this when it isn't [[{{sleepyhead}} asleep]]. Its first appearance in the anime showed it mistaking a wind chime for food.
** Casey from the Johto saga is cute, but she's not the brightest kid. In her first appearance, she [[BullyingADragon insulted Ash as a trainer]] despite only just starting her journey and having about a few days of being a trainer, and insisted on battling him despite this, which [[CurbStompBattle predictably ends with her losing miserably to Ash's Charizard]]. Being [[FanGirl a huge fan of the Electabuzz baseball team]], she also tries to sing their fight songs... [[CuteButCacophonic and she really sucks at it]]. Misty once had to stop her because her singing was so terrible.
* In the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise, the pink-themed leaders might be the sweetest girls they can be, have nifty skills that set them apart and great leadership skills, they might not be the sharpest tools in the shed. Examples include [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Nozomi]], who infamously got kicked out of every school club possible due to her clumsiness, and [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Ichika]], who kept thinking the [[{{Bifauxnen}} boyish girl]] was a handsome boy ''even when she transformed into a Cure herself''.
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Despite being the most enthusiastic in being taught be Fuutarou, Yotsuba Nakano also gets the lowest grades out of her sisters; her test grade in Chapter 2? '''''Eight''''' out of one-hundred. Additionally in Chapter 20, not only she has the lowest overall grades out of her sisters again, her score in mathematics is '''''Nine''''' out of one-hundred.
* The main character of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', Usagi "Dumpling Head" Tsukino. Her ditzy personality is tied together with the rest of her character.
* Tenma Tsukamoto from ''Manga/SchoolRumble''. When you're the lead character of a LoveDodecahedron series, [[LoveMakesYouDumb it just sorta comes naturally.]]
* ''Manga/TeasingMasterTakagiSan'': Mina doesn't seem to be dumb or anything, but she tends to overreact to things, and once walked into the toilet, saw Takagi and asked if she and Nishikata were dating (Takagi said no), left the toilet, ran into Nishikata and his friends and mentioned her conversation with Takagi, and then remembers she went to the toilet because she needed to pee. She also apparently once got hypnotized while watching a hypnotist on TV.
* Mihoshi, in the various ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' television series ({{Flanderiz|ation}}ed from a BunnyEarsLawyer / GeniusDitz in the {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VAs). She is an endless source of frustration and despair for not only Kiyone, her long-suffering partner in the Galaxy Police, but also Washu, whose projects are always being [[SpannerInTheWorks ruined by her stupidity]].
* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' qualifies. Sure, she's five years old, but what kid that age doesn't even know how a swing works? She can also be led by the nose rather easily. Any moderately intelligent five-year-old would eventually figure out that Danbo is simply Miura in a cardboard box, for instance.
