History StrongFamilyResemblance / AnimeAndManga

Examples of StrongFamilyResemblance in anime and manga.

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', TheHero Eren Yeager looks almost identical to his mother Carla, the only actual differences being their eye colors and Carla's MotherlySidePlait. [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRvzDOAZtZDp_yqfCE-ouqhNtXdyOU5LUmqG7U_SElhB2HhsftY Just]] [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSTgMdaaEMXLbtUaZ9PXrrqaLxFuNkS9a9FP3TEgodfBlmglf7J look]].
**Levi and his mother [[https://pin.it/28NxhZ5 as well]]

* In ''Franchise/{{Doraemon}}'', physical traits seem to run very consistently in the family. Doraemon has a design similar to his little sister Dorami, although she's meant to be cuter, even though she doesn't have cat ears either for some reason like her brother (who's supposed to have lost his ears to mice; all of his friends in ''[[Characters/DoraemonTheDoraemons The Doraemons]]'' still have their ears). Nobita looks almost exactly like his mother (though she got the delicate female mouth later [[ArtEvolution as the author got better with his drawings]]), and also like his father as a child, and also like his future son with Shizuka, and also his grandson who sent (will have sent?) Doraemon back to the past to help him get his crap together. Shizuka looks exactly like her mother minus the two pigtails. Gian looks exactly like his mother and little sister; his father only appears a few times early on in the manga, more frequently in the anime, but he also shares the family physical traits. Suneo looks exactly like both of his parents who, oddly enough, look exactly like each other. Suneo's younger brother and older cousin also look like exactly like him. Gian and Suneo look like their future sons respectively.
* This is very common in ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** The most obvious example, as seen in the image at the trope's main page, is Goten, who looks (and acts) like Goku when he was a kid; this is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the video games where he and a younger version of Goku appear. Goten may have initially been created to fill the 'young Goku role' left as the real Goku was too aged and Gohan was evolving into his own character, but that didn't work out too well. Since not every child in the series has such a strong family resemblance, it also removes lingering doubts that the [[DeathIsCheap often absent]] Goku isn't his father...

* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'':

** In the finale family photo of [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist the manga]], [[spoiler:[[BabiesEverAfter Ed's and Winry's unnamed son]] looks uncannily like Daddy, down to the shit-eating grin. Baby Daughter looks to take after Winry, as she has Winry's eye and hair color]].

* In ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', [[spoiler:Tsubomi]] gets her baby sister Futaba in the final episode who looks like a baby version of her big sister.

** Isabelle and Geneviève also have one. When Victor is looking at a Wanted poster for Isabelle after she's suspected by Thiers of aiding LaRésistance, he suddenly gets the image of Geneviève in his head and throws the poster away.

* It's revealed about 4/5ths of the way through ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' that Alto Saotome is pretty much a clone of his MissingMom Miyo, HimeCut and all, in boy-drag. [[DudeLooksLikeALady That explains a LOT]].
** Sheryl Nome closely resembles [[Anime/MacrossZero her great aunt Sara Nome]].

* Mizuho from ''VisualNovel/OtobokuMaidensAreFallingForMe'' looks exactly like his late mother. [[DudeLooksLikeALady IT EXPLAINS SO, SO MUCH]].

* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'': This is likely why Y is Grace's daughter, despite X [[DecompositeCharacter otherwise being in the player's role]]. Y and Grace look ''a lot'' alike.
* The ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise usually features parents who do not resemble their children a lot. While the Cures have obviously AnimeHair, most of their parents look pretty normal, but not hot at all. However, later series feature parents who have also their children's odd hair colors. ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' is the only series who features ''two'' youthful mothers who actually resemble their daughters a lot. Yayoi's mother Chiharu and Miyuki's mother Ikuyo, the latter just look like her daughter to the extreme (in the franchise, of course). Later, [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Rikka's mother Ryoko]] looks also like the adult version of her.

** [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Rin, Karen]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Love, Inori]], [[Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure Tsubomi]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Hibiki]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Rikka]] and the complete ''[[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Smile! Team]]'' got their hair colors from their mothers, [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Honoka]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Urara]], [[Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure Erika]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Kanade]] and [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Mana]] from their fathers. And Mana's hair looks nearly identical to her ''father's''.

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':

* In ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', Komachi and her older sister Madoka look nearly identical (to the extent that, when several characters meet Madoka for the first time, they mistake her for Komachi). Their mother has never appeared, so whether she looks the same as well is unknown.

* Yugi Mutou of ''Manga/YuGiOh'' greatly resembles his grandfather, whose design can be described as essentially a grey-haired and wrinkled copy-paste of Yugi's own face.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has the lead character [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/tatsuorg/images/0/00/83515681.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140216160534&path-prefix=es Lelouch vi Britannia]] who might as well be a ''GenderFlip'' of [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/codegeass/images/c/c4/Marianne_Britannia.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111223105403 his mother]] down to skin complexion, hair color, eye color, and eye shape. This makes his insistence on his CoolMask and SecretIdentity Zero, not to mention staying out of the spotlight as Lelouch Lamperouge, make absolute sense; he even freaks in R1.07 at the thought of Cornelia seeing him as, even if she doesn't immediately connect him to Zero, there is ''absolutely no way'' she won't recognize him as the thought dead Prince Lelouch thanks to this trope. That said in [[OddlyNamedSequel R2]] this ends up useful as it gets a dangerous assassin sent after him to do a HeelFaceTurn ''because'' of how much he resembles his mother confirms he's her son and thus one said assassin has sworn UndyingLoyalty to.

* The protagonists of ''Manga/GingaNagareboshiGin'' and ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'' look near identical, but it's {{justified}} in that they're dogs.

* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Lynn Russell has her father's blonde hair and her grandfather's eyes. She also looks like the spitting image of her half-sister Sarah. However, her grandfather, Sarah and many other family members discriminate against her for being half-Japanese instead of being fully British like them.

* ''Anime/LaSeineNoHoshi'': Marie Antoinette has blonde hair, a smooth, ovalline face and beautiful eyes, [[spoiler: just like her little sister Simone]].

** Chapter 700 might take it up to eleven. [[DistantFinale 15 years after the end]] of the Fourth Shinobi World War, most of the main and supporting characters' [[BabiesEverAfter children look like them]]. [[spoiler:Naruto's son Boruto and daughter Himawari look very similar to him, with Himawari having Hinata's hair (Boruto had purple eyes like his mother in his first anime appearance but the manga and later appearances give him blue eyes), but Boruto has Hinata's face while Himawari has Naruto's face. Sarada has the face and hair color of Sasuke and the forehead and eyebrows of Sakura. Shikadai looks exactly like Shikamaru in his younger days, except with Temari's eyes. Inojin has Ino's hair and Sai's skin and his face is a combination of both. Chocho is fat like her father Choji and got his hair color, but her skin is black like Karui's. A boy who is training with Lee looks very similar to him, and later he's confirmed to be his son Metal. Asuma and Kurenai's daughter, Mirai, looks also similar to them, with her mom's features and her dad's hairstyle. Even Akamaru's puppy looks also similar to him, but with different ears.]]

** Averted with Luffy and his father Dragon. As Luffy himself points out when he sees his picture for the first time, they look nothing alike. This is played straight with Luffy and [[OldSoldier Garp]], who definitely have a resemblance. Even more so when Oda reveals a 60-year-old Luffy in an SBS who's [[https://i.redd.it/ucn4tr81g8111.png identical to his grandfather]]. The resemblance become up to eleven when Garp as a [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e1/bf/a0/e1bfa017df498a26dea19c66196970fd.png young marine looked as a buffed Luffy]].

* The eromanga ''Manga/SexWarriorPudding'' has an [[UpToEleven incredibly bizarre case of this]] where the mother of titular heroine Nishimura Pudding, Nishimura Miruku (Milk), looks and sounds the ''literal same'' as her daughter (voice inflection, hairstyle, body shape and height, '''everything''') where the only way to tell them apart is the [[IdenticalTwinIDTag small mole that Miruku has right under one of her eyes]] ([[WackyParentSeriousChild that is if their completely different personalities don't tip you off]])—which [[spoiler:Miruku takes full advantage of when the male protagonist visits her to set her daughter up to [[ShipperOnDeck finally tie the knot with him by]] [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext hiding that mole with makeup]] [[TwinSwitch and momentarily pretending to be her daughter while]] [[TheMatchmaker seducing him before handing him off to her unsuspecting daughter]] ([[MatchmakerFailure but failing in the process for various reasons]])]]. [[spoiler:She later pulls this again when her daughter ends up sick and impersonates her to cover for her at work for a day with no one the wiser save the male protagonist when she slips up once.]]

* The eromanga ''Manga/SexWarriorPudding'' has an [[UpToEleven incredibly bizarre case of this]] where the mother of titular protagonist Nishimura Pudding, Nishimura Miruku (Milk), looks and sounds the ''literal same'' as her daughter (voice inflection, hairstyle, body shape and height, '''everything''') where the only way to tell them apart is the [[IdenticalTwinIDTag small mole that Miruku has right under one of her eyes]] ([[WackyParentSeriousChild that is if their completely different personalities don't tip you off]])—which [[spoiler:Miruku takes full advantage of to set her daughter up to finally tie the knot with the male protagonist by [[TwinSwitch hiding that mole with makeup and momentarily pretending to be her daughter while seducing him before handing him off to her unsuspecting daughter]] (but failing in the process for various reasons)]]. [[spoiler:She later pulls this again when her daughter ends up sick and impersonates her to cover for her at work for a day with no one the wiser save the male protagonist when she slips up once.]]

** Ochako Uraraka Ochaco seems to have inherited most of her mother's looks — her skin complexion, hairstyle, and even the same [[BlushSticker blushed cheeks]], but she also has her father's spiky hair and bangs, brown eyes and [[UnusualEyebrows short and stubby eyebrows]]. She also shares her cheery personality with both of her parents.

** Taka and Kiba are brothers, but when they were children, Taka was taken away by a neighbouring tribe in exchange for food and water. Despite this, they have the same hair and facial structure and one can easily tell they are siblings.