History CloudCuckoolander / Anime

** Juvia has permanent ShippingGoggles and is convinced that she is in a {{Love Dodecahedron}}. After all, since ''she's'' in love with Grey, [[InsaneTrollLogic surely every other woman must be too]].

** Brook isn't all there, either, constantly cracking [[{{Pun}} "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.]]

** Juvia has permanent ShippingGoggles and is convinced that she is in a {{Love Dodecahedron}}.

* Nene Mori of ''Anime/PrincessNine'' always dreamed of being the manager (gofer/janitor, not coach) of a high school baseball team, just like in all the manga she read. Since she was sent to a private all-girls school, this just wasn't going to happen. Once a girls' baseball team is formed, Nene sees it as her destiny. Unfortunately, while she is very GenreSavvy, she only knows ''what'' a manager does, not how to do it (her family's filthy rich, she's never even done laundry), so she mostly exists to [[LampshadeHanging Hang A Lampshade]] on the more obvious cliches the writers embrace, by suggesting them. Fortunately, she has a good heart, and a butler (and access to ''lots'' of resources).

* Abel Nightroad of ''TrinityBlood'' has elements of this, particularily in the manga. It's espicially more prevalent in the earlier chapters, when he's traveling to the Vatican with heroine Esther and Terminator 2-esque Tres; at one point, he opens a window in a moving train because he wants to feel the breeze. A few chapters later, while on a cruise ship, he's immediately suspicious of how nice it is and insists that something bad will happen, citing the events of fiction such as Treasure Island and Titanic, which Esther immediately Lampshades. In this case, he's right, which may qualify him as being somewhat Genre Savvy.

* Yotsuya from ''MaisonIkkoku'' continuously annoys the main male protagonist with his outlandish behavior, including but not limited to extortion, theft and housebreaking. He is [[{{Keigo}} very polite]] about it, though.

* Shiro from ''DeadmanWonderland''. Nobody except possibly her grandfather [[spoiler: (who she ends up killing anyways)]] understands what in the world she's saying.

* Though not a regular Cloudcuckoolander, Makino from the manga version of ''HanaYoriDango'' has at least one time when she does this. In Volume 33 [[spoiler: when she's given up on Tsukasa because of Umi]] she compares her situation to the plot in ''The Little Mermaid'' (the real story, without the {{Disneyfication}}) and ends up ranting about how she doesn't want to become bubbles (or something to that effect) in front of her little brother who's very confused.

* Ryou of ''Manga/KoufukuGraffiti'' has these tendencies from time to time for things unrelated to cooking. This seems to be an inherited trait; her mother once mailed ''Japanese'' {{Ramen|asdehydratednoodles}} to Ryou just because the former saw in their local store the same stuff sold in Japan.

* Ryou and Fuu from ''{{Sketchbook}}'' are always together, seemingly living in their own world which only slightly touches upon reality. They do appear to understand ''each other'' perfectly though, which is already the case in the manga and which gets [[CharacterExaggeration exaggerated]] in the anime so they seem to have some sort of two-person {{hive mind}}. They love to play pranks on the other students and often function as some sort of off-beat [[GreekChorus narrators to the show's events]]. Still, they will help out their friends in times of need -- albeit in their own fashion.

* Hotaru of ''SamuraiDeeperKyo'' can't remember his own mentor's name and so calls him Yun Yun, [[RunningGag insists on moving caterpillars out of the way before fights]], asks directions from MauveShirt villain Kubira, and is off in his own world when he's not fighting. And that's just a short list.

* Shinobu Morita from ''HoneyAndClover'', who also has the tendency to disappear for days in a row.

* Milly Thompson from ''{{Trigun}}'' is an almost stereotypical example. She once nearly threatened a shopkeeper with her HandCannon when in search of pudding... and ''got'' it. Only to drop her grocery bags a few moments later to emphasize a point mid conversation.

* ''SoulEater'' has several, most prominently Patty.

** She may still qualify, though, as ''[[LockedOutOfTheLoop she never realizes]]'' she's attending UncannyValley [[SweetValleyHigh High]]. Even without the reality warping powers, she still does some pretty odd things -- believing that wearing a PlayboyBunny suit at school to advertise her new club is a-okay, among other things.

* Yuichiro Tajima in ''OokikuFurikabutte'' is a baseball prodigy with expert peripheral vision and incredible accuracy when batting. When off field, he's borderline hyperactive, has the tendency to loudly discuss his masturbation habits and at least once almost stripped naked in public just to work on his tan.

** Also [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrom Kappei]], who is apparently incapable of remembering names or faces. And tells a touching story about a person he think he may love whom he lent his handkerchief... while talking to that same person. Also expects to be served tea during a job interview.

** Also [[BrotherChuck Kappei]], who is apparently incapable of remembering names or faces. And tells a touching story about a person he think he may love whom he lent his handkerchief... while talking to that same person. Also expects to be served tea during a job interview.

* Elie from ''RaveMaster''. As a child, she told her father she wanted to grow up to be a bug. Perhaps because that is impossible, she settles for being the greatest dancer in all the land.

* Edaniel from {{Bizenghast}} is as random as they get.
-->"I almost choked to death on a Dick Tracy watch once. In retrospect, I should not have eaten it box and all. But the bottom line is that '''''communism is bad for your eyes.''''' [[BeatPanel *beat*]] I mean television. I get those confused."

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* Hikari from ''{{Amanchu}}'' arguably qualifies. She blows on a pea whistle everywhere she goes (including ''during class'') and jumps from a big rock in a way divers jump from a boat--even though there's no water. Whether her mild flirting with Futaba, another girl from her class, is simply part of her off-beat attitude or [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship perhaps something else]] is up to interpretation.

* Nene Mori of ''PrincessNine'' always dreamed of being the manager (gofer/janitor, not coach) of a high school baseball team, just like in all the manga she read. Since she was sent to a private all-girls school, this just wasn't going to happen. Once a girls' baseball team is formed, Nene sees it as her destiny. Unfortunately, while she is very GenreSavvy, she only knows ''what'' a manager does, not how to do it (her family's filthy rich, she's never even done laundry), so she mostly exists to [[LampshadeHanging Hang A Lampshade]] on the more obvious cliches the writers embrace, by suggesting them. Fortunately, she has a good heart, and a butler (and access to ''lots'' of resources).

** 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.

* Umino Mokuzu from ''Manga/SatouKashiNoDanganWaUchinukenai'' (''A Lollipop or a Bullet''), who claims to (among other things:) Be a mermaid who has been granted human form, need the true friendship of the protagonist or she will turn into sea-foam in one month's time, and to have been sent by her father to buy a machete so that he could chop up a body in his bath-tub. Throughout the early part of the series, it is a major question for the protagonist of the series as to whether or not anything Umino says is [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight true]]. The part about [[spoiler:the corpse was true. Her dad beat their dog and accidentally killed him, so he dismembered him and buried him in the mountains. It's also implied Umino's odd personality is related to her being [[AbusiveParents abused by her father]].]]

* Umino Mokuzu from ''SatouKashiNoDanganWaUchinukenai'' (''A Lollipop or a Bullet''), who claims to (among other things:) Be a mermaid who has been granted human form, need the true friendship of the protagonist or she will turn into sea-foam in one month's time, and to have been sent by her father to buy a machete so that he could chop up a body in his bath-tub. Throughout the early part of the series, it is a major question for the protagonist of the series as to whether or not anything Umino says is [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight true]].
** The part about [[spoiler:the corpse was true. Her dad beat their dog and accidentally killed him, so he dismembered him and buried him in the mountains.]]

* Commander Mars of Team Galactic in ''PokemonSpecial'', who skips, smiles, and giggles her way through all of her [[WellIntentionedExtremist well intentioned]] villainy.

* 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...

* Noda Megumi "Nodame" from ''NodameCantabile'', who is a brilliant pianist, but often has strange notions about things.

* Subverted in LightNovel/WatashitachiNoTamuraKun. Subverted. Matsuzawa doesn't actually believe what she says, her belief that she is an alien from the moon is an admitted coping mechanism for [[spoiler:the deaths of her family members, as she believes she will be able to meet up with them on the moon in the afterlife.]]

* Subverted in LightNovel/WatashitachiNoTamuraKun. Subverted. Matsuzawa doesn't actually believe what she says, her belief that she is an alien from the moon is [[spoiler:an admitted coping mechanism for the deaths of her family members, as she believes she will be able to meet up with them on the moon in the afterlife.]]

* Ichijou, the ClassRepresentative from ''PaniPoniDash'', is weird even for a thoroughly WidgetSeries. She also appears to have inexplicable (and unexplained) powers that ignore the laws of physics, reality, and sanity.

* Osaka from ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' (see the page pic). She has a tendency to say and do strange things out of the blue, drifts off into daydreaming from which she is very hard to shake, and at one point apparently suspected that Chiyo's pigtails were detachable. Then there's the time she decided to wake up Yukari by banging on a frying pan with a wooden spoon. How she managed to crab a knife instead no one could explain, least of all Osaka (who wasn't fully awake at the time herself). She expressed mild astonishment. Yukari, well, didn't; and don't forget [[http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=zL-fdimcMoA&NR=1b this creepy little moment]].

* Keiichi's father from ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''. He looks not unlike Andy Warhol. He shows up at Chihiro's shop and starts doing some work (having never met Chihiro before), speaks barely a word, and freaks out if a woman touches him or gets too close (the exceptions being his wife and Belldandy). When he freaks out, he silently runs to his motorcycle and races off -- he's a skilled racer, even when he's going to the local pastry shop. He also defeats Sigel and Banpei outside the temple in hand to hand combat, no mean feat for a mere mortal, just so he can get past them to say hello.

* ''[[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 differently coloured eyes 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]].

* Kaoruko Odagiri from ''SaitamaChainsawShoujo''. Upon seeing the results of [[AxeCrazy Fumio's]] heartbreak driven [[KillEmAll chainsaw massacre]] in the school hallway, she gives her friend a stern lecture... about how she should really be more careful, since ''blood can be so hard to wash out of your hair''.

* Anime/CodeGeass has quite a few, including CovertPervert [[spoiler:NinjaMaid]] Sayoko, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesiac]] Anya, and AxCrazy PsychopathicManchild Mao.

* Abel Nightroad of TrinityBlood has elements of this, particularily in the manga. It's espicially more prevalent in the earlier chapters, when he's traveling to the Vatican with heroine Esther and Terminator 2-esque Tres; at one point, he opens a window in a moving train because he wants to feel the breeze. A few chapters later, while on a cruise ship, he's immediately suspicious of how nice it is and insists that something bad will happen, citing the events of fiction such as Treasure Island and Titanic, which Esther immediately Lampshades. In this case, he's right, which may qualify him as being somewhat Genre Savvy.