History CloudCuckoolander / Anime

* ''Manga/ExcelSaga'': The main cast is an evil organization bent on city then WorldDomination, but do not have a concrete plan on how to go about it. The title character Excel, who is oblivious to the destruction she causes, how ineffective the group is, and how little her boss likes her. Their enemies are a gourp os disinterested civil service employees who do not care that they are saving the day, when they do not destroy a place themselves.

** MainCharacter Monkey D. Luffy. He seems incapable of giving his actions a second thought (and rarely gives his actions a FIRST thought), and seems intent on asking every non-human being he meets (Brooke, Mermaids) if they poop, and generally forces the rest of his crew to follow him on his 'adventures' to act as [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder Cloudcuckoolander's Minders]] so he doesn't do something stupid (they rarely succeed).

* Katsuya Jounouchi/Joey Wheeler of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' is yet another shonen BigEater of a space case, prone to many bouts of goofy behavior and painfully awkward moments. He's just, ahem, [[IncrediblyLamePun lucky]] that he's also street smart, a decent out-of-the-box thinker, and...oh, yes, TheLancer. He may not be able to beat [[TheHero Yugi]] or [[TheRival Kaiba]], but nobody else has ever beaten him more than once.

** Belarus is already very much a StrangeGirl; seeing [[TheUnfavorite everyone around her as competition for her brother's affection]], wanting to marry her older brother, and apparently talking to ghosts. On top of this, character notes describe her as having a tendency to space out and stare at things such as static on a television for hours.

* Yui from ''KOn'' because... she's Yui.
* Tomozou, Noguchi, and Noguchi's grandfather from ''ChibiMarukoChan''; to a lesser extent, Maruko herself.

** Brook isn't all there, either, constantly cracking [[IncrediblyLamePun "skull jokes"]] and occasionally asking the female crew members for their panties. This is justified, though, by [[GoMadFromTheIsolation him spending 50 years alone on a ship full of his dead crewmates.]]

* Jeri Katou from ''Anime/DigimonTamers''.
** This trope is depressingly subverted when it becomes less "Aww that girl's got a friend!" to her broken mind's only way to communicate in any functioning way... Yeah.
** And then she gets mind raped by an EldritchAbomination. It's really a surprise JossWhedon didn't write that season.

* Marie from ''[[JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Haré+Guu]]'' can be kind of out it from sometimes.

** Turning her ''exam'' papers into a freakin' '''GIRAFFE''' and then freaking out and ''breaking its neck'' as she goes pro wrestler on it. Nothing else needs to be said.
*** The Giraffe was still worth 2 points, though.

** Though it has to be said, Izaya's got nothing on Walker & Erika, or Shingen.

** Shinra probably counts, too, despite not being quite as bad as his father.
* Almost every character from Anime/GalaxyAngel classifies as this in some manner, but Milfeulle Sakuraba is the biggest offender.

* Eri from {{Fujimura-kun Mates}}. Actually, everyone except [[OnlySaneMan Fujimura]].

* [[TheStoic Fran]] of ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' seems to be this [[NotSoStoic as a child]].
** Lampshaded by an indignant [[NoIndoorVoice Squalo]]. "First faeries, now cavity imps!? [[LampshadeHanging WHAT THE HELL!?]]"

* Koyuki in ''VisualNovel/MajiDeWatashiNiKoiShinasai''. The reason why is expanded upon only in the VisualNovel, in the Ryuuzetsuran route.

* Marjorie from ''{{A Cruel God Reigns}}''. Big time.

* Both of the groups in ''Manga/GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass'' have at least one:
** Just about everyone in the main group seems to be one to some extent.
** The art club has Chikako Awara, the president. It says something that she has her own [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder minder]] in Mizubuchi.

** Fuuko is also a total space-cadet. At one point she tells Tomoya she's warmed up to him, explaining that she likes him more than sea slugs (but not as much as starfish). Tomoya doesn't understand the rankings[[hottip:*:Fuuko quite likes sea slugs, so this is actually a compliment in her mind]]. She tops this in the ''~After Story~'', where her behavior is very bizarre indeed, especially in response to Ushio's cuteness. She also tends to space trance out when thinking of cute things for long periods of time, only to snap out of it to finish whatever sentence she had started. She's in total denial about it, though.

** This may also be a generous part of why Mr. Kimura's wife is able to tolerate him -- she can get so focused on a discarded soda can that she runs directly into a lamppost.

* Masaru Hananakajima from ''SexyCommandoGaiden'' definitely qualifies; he practices a martial art based on the idea that [[ConfusionFu confused, unsettled enemies cannot defend themselves]]. His usual technique to produce that state involves groaning "Ahhhhh" while reaching to unzip his pants.

-->'''Princess Violet:''' He's speaking aloud back there, as if he had a mind of his own!\\
'''Al Dente:''' Oh no, then he's ''very'' sick!

** In the manga, Al is disturbed by Hohenheim's body language and way of making terrifying or ridiculous confidences with an impenetrable face and ScaryShinyGlasses -- and Al himself is [[strike:practically]] ''a suit of armor''.

** That was a call-back to a comment several episodes earlier -- when his AS shrugs off an attack by the enemy he declares, mockingly "That might have hurt me, if my sideburns had been shorter!" But Gates really is disturbed -- he watches a nature film on squirrels while naked for recreation in one episode. It started out with footage of kittens, and while he was on the phone with one of his subordinates he was furiously tearing tissues out of a tissue box.

---> '''Sousuke:''' [[Chidori]] seems to be bothered by something. Either that or she's been abusing drugs.\\
'''Kyoko:''' Er... I don't know about that...

-->'''Nobue''': I've known her all these years, but I still have no idea how her mind works.

* Yuu Narukami (Protagonist) of ''Persona4 [[TheAnimeOfTheGame The Animation]]'' is shaping up to be quite the Cloudcuckoolander. While Yosuke and Chie are freaking out over things like being inside a TV, a bear mascot talking to them, said bear mascot ''being hollow inside'', and Yosuke needing the bathroom, he's completely deadpan. When bitten by Teddie, he says that it's making him cry in a ''completely deadpan voice''.

* Okabe Rintaro, the protagonist of ''SteinsGate'', likes talking to himself on the phone, rambling about weird conspiracies, pretending to be a MadScientist despite barely being able to create random, useless junk... he even calls himself Hououin Kyouma, as it's a much more impressive name than his actual one. [[spoiler: He was [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight right all the time--or at least most of it]], and he even calls his future self out for not having changed in 15 years]]

* Haruka Nanase in ''Anime/Free!'' spends most of his free time in his bathtub and will strip to his swimsuit if he sees a body of water, including fish tanks.

* ''[[CodeBreaker Code:Breaker]]'' has two: Nenene, who loves to randomly grope CuteBruiser Sakura's breasts (and names them) and Yuuki, another Code: Breaker. Not only is Nenene Sakura's sempai, she's somehow a member of the student council. [[spoiler: Her dad being the prime minister of Japan and head of Eden (the Code: Breakers' organization) probably had something to do with it.]] Yuuki, on the other hand is one of the most powerful of the Code: Breakers in [[OrganizationIndex The Organization]] due to his control of [[spoiler: sound]]. For some reason, his nonsensical behavior annoys the usually lackadaisical Toki [[spoiler:who happens to be Nenene's estranged brother. Naturally, Nenene is easily distracted as Sakura says "This is your brother!" while standing in front of a guy with the same hair and MismatchedEyes as her.]] To his (or his handlers') credit, Yuuki uses his nonsensical ideas ("He's a middle-aged mushroom suffering from depression") to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar toy empire, although all he really wants/needs are [[TheWoobie friends]].

** The central reason as to why he is a cuckoolander is revealed, he's spent the last [[spoiler:450+ years getting to know all 500,000+ souls in his head on a first name basis. Hohenheim really does have a "world" in his head to be lost in.]]

** In a key scene of the manga, [[spoiler:"Father", the homunculis' boss,]] starts acting like a caricature of Hohenheim, complete with non sequiturs, creepy staring, senile mumbling, suddenly standing uncomfortably close to people, and pensive beard-twisting. Ed proceeds to yell at him, "LISTEN TO ME, ALIEN!" An official {{Yonkoma}} even shows him [[spoiler:letting Ed persuade him to get a 200-years subscription to a Central City newspaper]]. In the last panel, [[spoiler:Bradley/Wrath]] calls him a "naive {{Hikikomori}} with no knowledge of the world."

* Killer B in ''{{Naruto}} Shippuuden''. Let's put it this way: If you have an extremely powerful demonic entity inside of you, and it is significantly more rational and sane than you are, you qualify for this trope.

** Although not a Cloudcuckoolander at all, [[{{Naruto}} Shikamaru]] had a couple of scenes. First when he, in the midst of his Chuunin exam battle against [[{{Tsundere}} Temari]], sits down and stays looking at the clouds while he thinks he would like to be as free as them. Not much later, he got surrounded by Sound Ninjas during the invasion and the only thing he is capable to do is thinking about [[IJustWantToBeNormal what did he want to do with his life.]]

* Papi of ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' and her [[AlternateUniverse fantasy]] [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] Aero are both [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies,]] [[{{Stripperific}} barely wear anything]] and [[InnocentFanserviceGirl have just as much upstairs.]]
--> '''Kimihito Kurusu and Mamoru Onodera''': She's a birdbrain!

* Tomozou, Noguchi, and Noguchi's grandfather from ''[[Chibi Maruko Chan]]''; to a lesser extent, Maruko herself.

** MainCharacter Monkey D. Luffy. He seems incapable of giving his actions a second thought (and rarely gives his actions a FIRST thought), and seems intent on asking every non-human being he meets (Brooke, Mermaids) if they poop, and generally forces the rest of his crew to follow him on his 'adventures' to act as {{Cloud Cuckoo Landers Minder}}s so he doesn't do something stupid (they rarely succeed).

* Kaizo from ''KatteniKaizo'' '''lives''' this trope, the first thing we ever see him doing is accusing old people of being aliens and trying to take over earth. Although some of his wild imaginings [[TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight turn out to be correct]].

* Combine a hefty helping of this with a StoicSpectacles {{Bishounen}} and you get Kairi from ''NightmareInspector''. He's the owner of a building called the "Delirium," a literal CloudCuckooland -- getting locked in a room there means you get to live all your wildest fantasies until you die (or until you realize that it's just a hyped-up daydream, whichever comes first). Kairi himself is always sitting behind the desk, staring off into space, and daydreaming about all manner of weird things. The reader actually gets to see some of his trips to CloudCuckooland...

* Yuu Narukami (Protagonist) of ''Persona4 [[TheAnimeOfTheGame The Animation]]'' is shaping up to be quite the CloudCuckoolander. While Yosuke and Chie are freaking out over things like being inside a TV, a bear mascot talking to them, said bear mascot ''being hollow inside'', and Yosuke needing the bathroom, he's completely deadpan. When bitten by Teddie, he says that it's making him cry in a ''completely deadpan voice''.

** Ed in the movie appears to be one to the people around him. He has good reasons for his bizarre non sequiturs and erratic behavior as [[spoiler:he came from another planet in a parallel universe where the laws of physics work differently and already had numerous psychological issues beforehand]], but one can't help but think the people he interacts with must consider him a little bit crazy. At one point, during a pitched battle, he even suddenly moves uncomfortably close to Scar and politely asks him a question. Returning to the subject of Hohenheim, the central reason as to why he is a cuckoolander is revealed, he's spent the last [[spoiler:450+ years getting to know all 500,000+ souls in his head on a first name basis. Hohenheim really does have a "world" in his head to be lost in.]]

* Both of the groups in ''Manga/GAGeijtsukaArtDesignClass'' have at least one:

* Tomozou, Noguchi, and Noguchi's grandfather from ''Chibi Maruko Chan''; to a lesser extent, Maruko herself.

* Tomozou, Noguchi, and Noguchi's grandfather from ''[[Chibi Maruko Chan]]''; to a lesser extent, Maruko herself.

** Brook isn't all there, either, constantly cracking [[IncrediblyLamePun "skull jokes"]] and occasionally asking the female crew members for their panties. This is justified, though, by [[GoMadFromTheIsolation him spending 10 years alone on a ship full of his dead crewmates.]]

** Brook isn't all there, either, constantly cracking [[IncrediblyLamePun "skull jokes"]] and occasionally asking the female crew members for their panties. This is justified, though, by [[AndIMustScream him spending 10 years alone on a ship full of his dead crewmates.]]