History Main / CastFullOfPrettyBoys

** That said, there tends to be a wide variety of character types with only a handful of bishonen among them, and sometimes [[DudeLooksLikeALady it's really hard]] [[AmbiguousGender to tell]] [[VeiwerGenderConfusion which characters are which gender.]]

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'''[[CampStraight Pegasus]]''': ''[[HaveIMentionedIAmGay Keep telling yourself that.]]

** That said, there tends to be a wide variety of character types with only a handful of bishonen among them, and sometimes [[DudeLooksLikeALady it's really hard]] [[AmbiguousGender to tell] [[VeiwerGenderConfusion which characters are which gender.]]

* ''{{Series/Heroes}}'' has about ten main characters, all but two of whom are male. And they're so pretty...

* ''{{Gattaca}}'', thanks to, of course, GattacaBabies.

* The [[MrFanservice ridiculously good-looking, fanservicey-as-hell]] (almost entirely) male cast of ''{{Supernatural}}'', especially since the show likes to kill off any supporting female character. Combined with the unavoidable HoYay the guys make any fangirl's dream come true.

-->-- ''{{WebOriginal/Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}''

-->-- ''[[{{WebOriginal/Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}} Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series]]''

-->-- ''[[{{WebOriginal/Yu-Gi-OhTheAbridgedSeries}} Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series]]''

->'''[[TransparentCloset Marik]]''': ''There are no women in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' [[DudeLooksLikeALady There are only extremely girly men!]] [[LargeHam And]] ''[[LargeHam I]]'' [[LargeHam am the girliest of them all!]]''\\
'''[[CampStraight Pegasus]]''': ''[[HaveIMentionedIAmGay Keep telling yourself that.]]''
-->-- ''[[{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}} Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series]]''

* Many rock bands undoubtedly fit this trope.
* VisualKei

* Boy bands.

* ''{{Saiyuki}}'': The basic series premise is not 'A loose retelling of ''Journey to the West''.' It's 'Throw three hot guys and their cute surrogate little brother in a small jeep and [[HilarityEnsues watch the fireworks]].'
** The only significant female characters are Lirin and Yaone (and perhaps Gyokumen Koushou, but I don't think she shows up quite as much). Yaone was added in to increase the number of girls and in one volume a note from Minekura at the end states: "There are no women in this volume, I looked back and found a couple of pages with Kannon." As for Kanzeon? [[{{Hermaphrodite}} Close but no cigar.]]

* The entire ''{{Angelique}}'' series. Ditto ''[=~La Corda d'Oro~=]'' and ''{{Harukanaru Toki no Naka de}}''. This is the ''[[DatingSim point]]'' of the [=NeoRomance=] series.

** The all-star fighting game ''[=~Dissidia: Final Fantasy~=]'' includes the main hero and villain out of the first ten games in the franchise. This leads to 21 out of 24 male leads. [[TheSmurfettePrinciple The heroes only have one girl on their side]] (leaving out Shanttoto, who's a bonus character). By default, the game qualifies for this trope just for including Cecil and Kuja in the same cast. The female headcount goes down by one when you realize that Cloud of Darkness [[spoiler: is actually genderless and only takes the form of a beautiful woman]].

* Although ''ChronoCrusade'' has quite a bit of fanservice based around its mostly female {{nakama}}, it's not hard to notice that every single important male character is ''very'' good looking, and these characters probably have as many {{Shirtless Scene}}s as the girls have ClothingDamage scenes, if not more. Obviously, the manga-ka knew how to widen his demographic.

* ''YuYuHakusho'' might be the best here: while the central {{Nakama}}'s gender ratio is almost 50/50, the focus is overwhelmingly on guys, many of whom are quite {{Bishounen}}. The big exception is Kuwabara, but ''damn'' if he doesn't make up for that with his great physique! This was not at all the case back when the premise was 'dead delinquent having heart-warming yet hilarious ghostly adventures,' when the main characters were Yusuke and Botan, with Keiko and then Kuwabara becoming increasingly important, and also Shota who appeared twice and Sayaka the ghost girl who joined up for a while.

* ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'' lives and breathes this trope with its main male cast, with some exceptions like Lope.

* ''[[Series/Heroes Heroes]]'' has about ten main characters, all but two of whom are male. And they're so pretty...

* ''MobileSuitGundamWing,'' is considered a BlueBishonenGhetto among its female audience, despite the fact that it is not only a shounen series, but has a deliberate 1:1 ratio of male to female main characters and more or less assigns one female to each male.

* MarvelComics has made several attempts to court {{manga}} readers, both Japanese and Western. Their latest attempt is {{OEL|Manga}} X-Men {{Shojo}} manga entitled ''X-Men: Misfits''. In this manga, Kitty Pryde, the AudienceSurrogate character, is the first female to enroll at Xavier's for a very long time and thus surrounded by an UnwantedHarem [[BlueBishonenGhetto composed entirely of bishonen]]. [[SarcasmMode Poor Kitty]]. Submitted for your horror and/or {{squee}}; the [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1570 Hellfire Club]]. Other exhibits include [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1573 Bishie Iceman]], [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1587 Bishie Nightcrawler]] and [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1574 Not-So-Bishie Bishie Wolverine]] ([[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed who looks like]] [[TokioHotel Bill Kaulitz!]]). Also included is [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1560 Bishie Gambit]] (at least somewhat {{justified|Trope}} given Gambit has always been [[MrFanservice fangirl bait]]), who apparently is the resident {{Goth}}/{{Industrial}} fan. Kurt is unusually human-looking in this title.

* MarvelComics has made several attempts to court {{manga}} readers, both Japanese and Western. Their latest attempt is {{OEL|Manga}} X-Men {{Shojo}} manga entitled ''X-Men: Misfits''. In this manga, Kitty Pryde, the AudienceSurrogate character, is the first female to enroll at Xavier's for a very long time and thus surrounded by an UnwantedHarem [[BlueBishonenGhetto composed entirely of bishonen]]. [[SarcasmMode Poor Kitty]]. Submitted for your horror and/or {{squee}}; the [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1570 Hellfire Club]]. Other exhibits include [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1573 Bishie Iceman]], [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1587 Bishie Nightcrawler]] and [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1574 Not-So-Bishie Bishie Wolverine]] ([[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed who looks like]] [[TokioHotel Bill Kaulitz!]]). Also included is [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1560 Bishie Gambit]] (at least somewhat {{justified|Trope}} given Gambit has always been [[EstrogenBrigadeBait fangirl bait]]), who apparently is the resident {{Goth}}/{{Industrial}} fan. Kurt is unusually human-looking in this title.

* The [[EstrogenBrigadeBait ridiculously good-looking]] (almost entirely) male cast of ''{{Supernatural}}'', especially since the show likes to kill off any supporting female character. Combined with the unavoidable HoYay the guys make any fangirl's dream come true.

[[caption-width-right:347:Even the ''girl''[[hottip:*:the one in the chair]] is a Bishōnen.]]

An array of [[{{Bishonen}} pretty people]] as eye candy isn't [[{{Bishoujo}} just for the guys]]. Girls get their BlueBishonenGhetto to ogle too in the name of {{fanservice}}. This gender-based "ghetto" is less noticeable than its female counterpart because exclusively (or [[TheSmurfettePrinciple near-exclusively]]) male casts are already common and expected in {{shonen}}, albeit not with the intentional appeal to females, and the fanservice tends to be along the lines of "he cooks" or "naked chest" and is never as sexual or objectifying as fanservice in normal shounen/seinen shows, unless there are YaoiGuys involved. The writers sometimes leave it to their audience to retrofit the standard [[{{nakama}} group of friends]] into the UnwantedHarem if they wish.

How to distinguish a BlueBishonenGhetto from a simple shonen cast: if ''all'' the main male characters, including the PluckyComicRelief, are {{bishonen}} with [[ShirtlessScene easily removable or unbuttonable shirts]], it's a BlueBishonenGhetto. The first Blue Bishonen Ghettos were in shonen magazines, particularly ''Weekly Shonen Jump'', seeking to court female readers (see BishonenJumpSyndrome), but the idea rapidly spread to {{shoujo}} magazines as well. However, as an increasing number of clearly {{shonen}} titles prettify their males, the line between "all males to relate to the male audience" and "all males because the female audience likes it" is becoming blurred, which is all the better for artists seeking to attract readers of [[MultipleDemographicAppeal both genders]]. A series can scream "shonen" in action and plot and still garner an [[EstrogenBrigade intense female following]] for bishonen characters alone.

Some series of this flavor go the [[TheUnwantedHarem reverse harem]] route and have an ordinary female lead among the bishonen as an audience surrogate, although the girly {{keet}} type can be used this way too.

Despite the name, it isn't a counterpart of PinkBishoujoGhetto, which is about unrealistic hiring in heroic and/or villainous organizations to conform to {{bishoujo}} series standards. That being said, many of the below series ''do'' gender-reverse that trope too.

'''This is an Anime specific trope. No non-anime examples, please.'''