* Silvana Greone, Shaoli, and Chloe from ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' all have purple hair, albeit in different shades. Silvana's hair is light purple, Shaoli's is dark purple, and Chloe's is in between.
** In addition to purple hair, each of these {{Femme Fatale}}s has a suited alias as well. Silvana's dubbed "The Brutal Princess" or "The Intoccabile", Shaoli's nicknamed "The Cold Blooded Killer", and Chloe is aliased "The True Noir".
* ''DragonBall'' has Bulma with blue hair. Trunks gets his purple hair from his grandfather and it turns gold when he's Super Saiyan.
** In the manga, her hair is also purple, as well as Bulla's. They could have also changed Trunks' for consistency, but noooo...
** Also, in the anime, as opposed to the manga, Launch (when not in her gun-toting form, where she's a blonde) doesn't have black hair with blue tones, but dark blue hair instead, almost like the print media example.
** The opposite applies to Chichi, whose hair is regular black in the anime and blue-black in the manga. It seems like Akira Toriyama probably planned her to have, indeed, dark blue hair, but colored it black in the manga to save reticulum patterns (since her hair would be so dark it would be unnecessary), not the other way around.
* ''GundamSeed'' very carefully and deliberately averted this trope by giving unusual hair and eye colors ONLY to Coordinators, genetically engineered humans, while Naturals, those without genetic modification, had only natural hair and eye colors. The sequel, ''GundamSeedDestiny'', almost immediately screwed this up with Sting and Auel, Naturals with green and blue hair respectively.
** Auel and Sting weren't the first Naturals to have unusual hair colours. Shani, one of the prototype [[{{Tykebomb}} Extended]] from Seed, had green hair. And there's nothing normal about he or Sting and Auel, what with their being drug-addicted SuperSoldiers raised from birth to be living weapons. The only non-Coordinator, non-Extended to have an odd hair colour is Yuna Roma Seiran. And given some of his other, [[FashionVictimVillain unusual style choices]], that's hardly surprising.
** Used as a plot point in the spinoff manga ''GundamSeedAstray'': the mercenary Kaite Madigan is a Coordinator whose parents abandoned him because, due to a genetic defect, his facial hair is a different color from the hair on his head.
** ''{{Gundam 00}}'' seems to also have done this, where the only people with oddly colored hair (light/dark purple, pastel green, blue) are genetically-engineered Innovators [[spoiler:and Ribbons' children, the Trinities]], or experimentally modified Super Soldiers, making them easy to spot from a mile away. Having rather odd names (by RealLife standards) also does a good job of spotlighting them.
*** Feldt, a normal human, has bubble-gum pink hair, but [[WordOfGod it turns out]] she dyes it out of a complex from having been raised in space unlike other people.
** Played completely straight in ''GundamAge''. Besides Flit Asuno having green hair, there are countless hair colors ranging from normal colors like brown and grey to unusual colors like purple and sky blue. Two characters, Ract, the leader of Euba, and Yark Dore, the DiscOneFinalBoss, even have ''two hair colors'' (blonde/red for Ract and blue/gold for Yark).
* ''Manga/SailorMoon'' has characters with huge amounts of weird hair colors.
** In one of the manga side stories (and the anime special based on it), Chibi-Usa's new classmates actually point out that she has pink hair, which is apparently unusual from the characters' point of view. Makes one wonder if everyone else's hair colors are ''real'', and if so, why nobody finds them odd. Is it only pink that is considered weird?
*** Pink is actually the closest to a real color you could get out of the series. Hasn't anyone ever heard of strawberry blonde?
** In the Sailor Moon manga, Sailor Jupiter has curly auburn hair. In chapter five, when one of the teachers confronts her about it, she insists that it's natural.
** The live-action version made their signature hair part of their costumes, which was the creator's original intention. She had wanted the girls to all have more natural hair and eye colors that would then turn into the fantastical rainbow hairstyles when they transformed. It was supposed to add to the disguise as well as accentuate the magic involved in their transformations.
** Zig-zagged with Chibiusa's friend Momoko, who has dark pink hair in the manga, brown hair in the R and S seasons, and deep purple hair in [=SuperS=].
** Naoko Takeuchi alternates between using pink or blue hair for Usagi's mother, although one color illustration for the first chapter also depicted her with light brown hair.
* The funny thing about ''ZeroNoTsukaima'' is that while everyone in Halkeginia has hair from some spectrum of the rainbow, no one except those of Japanese descent have black hair, like Saito and [[spoiler:Siesta.]]
* The eponymous character of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' has ''[[MulticoloredHair three-colored]]'' hair -- black, gold, and ''pink''. Aside from that, the show tends more toward weird hair styles then weird hair colors -- indeed, some of the odder hair colours from [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Season 0]] (such as Kaiba's bright radium-green hair) were recoloured to something more probable for the better known later seasons.
** Though Kaiba's green hair is an AdaptationDyeJob. Whenever he shows up somewhere on the cover of the first 7 manga season 0 was ''loosely'' based on, he clearly has brown hair.
** In ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'', blue hair apparently runs in Shark's family; both he and his sister have it.

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* ''{{Naruto}}'' has Sakura, who has pink hair (and ThemeNaming based upon her hair colour). And it's apparently ''natural'', unless she's going to the trouble of dying her ''eyebrows''. If not for her, it would fit possibly into plausible hair due to the show not being set in Japan (even though everyone ''is'' culturally Japanese). However, [[TheChick Konan]] in Akatsuki has blue/purple/periwinkle hair, and Pein has Orange hair.
** Blond hair is quite common in the ''Naruto'' universe (Naruto himself, Ino, Temari, Temari's mother and uncle, Tsunade, Deidara, the 4th Hokage), as are gray-haired young people (Kakashi [whose BackStory puts him in his late twenties, Kabuto).
** Many other character also have odd hair colors, such as Gaara, Sasori, and Kushina Uzumaki with red, Jiraiya with white (even as a kid), Zetsu and the only-seen-on-a-manga-cover seven tailed-host with green, Kisame Hoshigaki and Konan with dark blue, Suigetsu Hozuki, Sakon and Ukon, Kimimaro Kaguya, Hidan, ''everyone'' from the Cloud Village but Yugito (blonde), Karui (red), and the Head Ninja (black), the aforementioned Kakashi Hatake, and Kabuto Yakushi all with silver hair, and Juugo with orange hair.
*** On the cover of Volume 24, Sakon has purplish hair.
*** Madara mentions that Uzumakis (well, pure blooded ones anyway) all have red hair. Naruto's hair is blond because of his father, and [[spoiler:Nagato's changed color due to the effects of the Rinnengan.]]
** Sasuke's hair is black but, at times (especially in Part 1), his hair appears to be blue, probably to fit the rest of his clothes, but later on, his hair is black with blueish tints on it.
** Tayuya's hair is red or dark pink depending on who you ask.
** Before a certain manga cover was released, everyone assumed Karin's hair was black because of the completely solid black it was shown as in the regular pages, but it showed it was supposed to be bright red. Similarly, [[spoiler:True controller of the Six Paths of Pain]], Nagato seemed to have possibly black hair in the manga, but when colored, was shown to be blood red/crimson.
*** Kishimoto has done this, again, with the Mizukage, who looks blond (as in, left uncolored) in the manga but a new cover revealed her to have Chestnut Brownish Red hair.
*** Then her bodyguards, Ao and Chojuro, who had similarly uncolored hair in regular pages, was shown by [[http://mangastream.com/read/naruto/489-94/4 a cover]] to have light blue hair. In fact, Kisame is apparently the same color (though you can't see his hair very often).
** Hinata, aka the resident ShyBlueHairedGirl.
* The page picture comes from ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'', where, for the mermaids at least (except for the Pink ones), hair color also indicates race. Humans and other characters (and Pink mermaids) can have any color.
* ''TokyoMewMew''. Technically, at least Minto and Zakuro ''may'' have stylized black hair, and the anime version of Ichigo is a more or less plausible [[RedHeadedHero redhead]], but then there are the obviously blonde [[ChineseGirl Bu-ling]] and [[MissionControl Ryou]]...Additionally, in the anime, the Mew Mews' hair colour [[PowerDyesYourHair changes from normal to outrageous when they transform]], save for Zakuro and Retasu, whose hair remain purple and green (albeit different shades). In the manga, all five girls always have [[ColorCodedCharacters fancy hair colours]], transformed or not.
** Interestingly, in the manga, Zakuro is said to have black hair at one point, suggesting purple is, indeed, here just for convenience. [[MissionControl Ryou Shirogane]], on the other hand, is confirmed to have golden hair and blue eyes via the scene where Ichigo thinks he is [[MysteriousProtector the Blue Knight]], citing said features as a similarity. Slightly odd, since this is the typical appearance of a "gaijin", which Ryou doesn't seem to be (he did live in America, but it is implied that his parents were Japanese).
* ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'', ''GalaxyAngelRune'', and VideoGame/GalaxyAngel gameverse.
* ''MagicKnightRayearth'': Hikaru's hair is red and Umi's is blue. Various other odd hair colors pop up as well, but as Cephiro isn't Japan (or anywhere else on Earth), this is Justified.
* In ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'', secondary characters have realistic hair coloring, but most of the lead characters don't. Kaoru's is brown (a very non-Japanese brown), Aoi's is (appropriately) blue, Taeko's is a reddish-brown, Miyabi's is a plum color, and Mayu's is bright purple.

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* The anime series ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Future Captain Future]]'', based on SciFi novels by science fiction writer Edmond Hamilton, created in Japan in 1978 and famous in Europe during the 1980s, featured at least one main character with blue hair and blue moustache (an older male character).
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', the Japanese characters tend to have realistic brown or black hair, while the Brittanian characters have somewhat more outlandish hair colors and styles. C.C.'s green hair is apparently natural, too.
** There's also Mao and the Chinese Federation Empress Tianzi. Tianzi appears to be [[HeroicAlbino albino]], complete with red eyes. Mao may be another example of albinism, as well. Possible, when you consider that, whenever his eyes are shown, they are always "geassed".
** Also, HotScientist from India Rakshata Chala, who falls under the category of DarkSkinnedBlond.
* Most characters of ''LightNovel/ChuunibyouDemoKoiGaShitai'' have natural hair colours--Rikka's black can be seen as a stylized black. The lone exception is the light novel-exclusive Satone, who has ''bright pink'' hair.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' plays this weirdly: the cast runs the gamut of rainbow hair colors...except for Sunohara, whose blonde hair is dyed and is stated to be "an impossible color" (his actual hair color is gray-blue). So...why exactly is that ''one'' shade of color impossible when none of the others are?
** The other colors (except the Fujibayashi's lavender hair) are similar to black and brown, which are the main colors of Japanese hair. So it can be seen as an equivalent to that. Sunohara is full Japanese and can't have blond hair naturally. Not that it sounds any less weird.
* The main cast of ''La Corda d'Oro'' contains a ''rainbow'' of unnatural hair colors. Let's see...Kahoko Hino's bright red, Len Tsukimori's blue, Ryoutarou Tsuchiura and Kazuki Hihara's varying shades of green, Azuma Yunoki's purple, Shoko Fuyuumi's bluish-green, Kanazawa-sensei's reddish purple, Shinobu Ousaki's the ''other'' shade of red, and Keiichi Shimizu's blonde. Lili is a subversion, since he's a fairy and it seems that he came with Seisou Academy's founder from Europe anyway.

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* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'''s human characters have every possible natural hair color (except Genkai, who's graying now but originally had pink hair), while the more fantastic characters usually have more fantastic hair colors. Both Kurama and Kuwabara have red hair, for example, but they're very different shades. To be fair, however, Genkai originally was strawberry-blonde.
** Botan's is even lampshaded.
-->'''Koto:''' Why not focus on something you're good at, Honey? Like dying your hair unnatural colors?
** She still insists it's natural.
** Kurama's hair is black (or dark blue) in the manga.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has otherwise merely ImplausibleHairColor, until you get to Misa Kakizaki, the cheerleader with purple hair, and green-haired {{Ninja}}-girl Kaede. Not sure if Chachamaru, having light green hair, counts, as she's a RobotGirl. The animated adaptations, on the other hand, make it even worse, [[DyeJob/MahouSenseiNegima changing the hair colors of half the remaining cast]].
** In the manga, Kaede has sandy blonde hair, and Ayaka Yukihiro has golden blond hair.
*** Someone at one point says that Ayaka being good at English doesn't count, since she's only '[[ButNotTooForeign half]]', a claim which offends her and she denies.
** Evangeline speculates in the manga that [[HalfHumanHybrid Setsuna]] probably has white hair and red eyes, but dyes her hair and wears contacts. We have never actually seen this in any of the different versions of the series, though.
** Ako has bluish white hair, and Chisame has either green or bright orange hair, depending on if it's the anime or manga.
* ''SamuraiSeven'' has (mostly) plausible hair colors: browns and blacks. Then we get to redheaded Heihachi, blond Shichiroji and Kyuuzo, and Ukyo, who actually has blue hair.
* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' falls victim to this. Keiichi and Tomitake's hair is brown, unusual for a full Japanese person, while Satoko, her immediate family, and Takano are all blonds (more unusual). Rena and Irie has orange hair (very unlikely for Rena, considering neither of her parents do), Rika and Chie have blue hair for no adequately explored reason, and the Sonozaki family women have green hair. Naturally, no one ever comments on any of this.
** Rika's hair seems to change color after the first season (not entirely sure if it has to do with the lighting of the scene, or what). It looks like it switches from blue to aquamarine to purple throughout the series, as well as in artwork, figurines, etc.
** In ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', Rika's {{Expy}} Bernkastel's blue hair stands out when compared to the rest of the cast introduced up to that point, who had relatively reasonable hair colors, though it's justified since she is a magical being. It's blue in the visual novel sprites, but, in the anime, takes on a more purplish tint.
** "Expy"? Not really. [[spoiler:They're one and the same person.]]
** Except Bernkastel states herself that [[spoiler:she and Rika are ''not'' the same, and anyone who would think so is "silly".]]
*** "Reasonable" would be a matter of perspective, given that the cast already had the very [[RedHeadedHero redheaded]] Battler and WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Kyrie. Possible in real life, but highly implausible on a Japanese teenager and his stepmom.
** Actually, Rena's mom has red hair too.
* In ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'', most characters hover around the brown-black-auburn spectrum; however, Ryoko, Emiri, Yuki, and Tsuruya have varying colors of green, blue, and grey. [[spoiler:Tsuruya's hair colour may just be to throw us off as to her origin, since the other three are discovered to be HumanAliens before we learn Tsuruya's own secret.]]
** In the anime and novel color pictures, Yuki's hair is ''purple''.
** However, nobody appears to find this strange. Could be that others do have strange hair or that their hair is actually just a visual cue for the audience to recognize these characters are not exactly normal. [[{{WMG}} Perhaps, in 'reality', their hair color is something normal?]]
* ''OutlawStar'' falls somewhere between Impossible and Plausible hair colors. Most of the characters are white, and any characters of Asian ancestry have black or dark brown hair. On the other hand, we have Harry, who has blue-green hair, and Gene, whose hair is a shade of red that you're very unlikely to find in the real world.
** Harry's hair is explainable: he's a bio-android like Melfina, a genetically engineered lifeform created using DNA samples taken from a dead human. And in a setting where that sort of thing is possible, and modifications of all sorts are quite common (so much so that neither Gene nor Jim is surprised when their bounty in the first episode is a cyborg, and Jim has to look up a specific model to figure out his vulnerable spot), if not cheap, then the possibility of DNA tweaking for aesthetic purposes comes up.

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* Almost no one has normal colored hair in ''Anime/LuckyStar''. It's lampshaded when Miyuki ([[RoseHairedGirl who has pink hair]]) explains to Konata (blue), Tsukasa, and Kagami (both purple) why exposure to sunlight and seawater changes hair color. Most, if not all, characters with funky hair colors [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow also have that as their eye color]]. As such, one may pretend that their hair is perceived in their world as being black/dark brown.
** This is completely ignored and lampshaded further in the dub, where Konata comments that Miyuki is like her mother "down to the last pink hair."
** And, also in the dub, Misao (who actually has brown hair) calls Konata "Shorty [=McBlueHair=]" at one point when she asks if that's who wants to borrow the game Kagami is asking her to return.
* ''KeroroGunsou'' has Natsumi's pink hair, Momoka's (and her father's) light blue hair, and Saburou's silver hair for the human examples; the humanoid aliens seldom have "normal" hair colours. For the humans, though, this is implied to be the result of dye jobs.

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* ''SaintSeiya'' has a lot of characters with impossible hair colors, most prominently Andromeda Shun, who has green hair. Shun's hair was normal light brown in the manga; it was changed for the animation to make him more noticeable.
** In the manga, most of the Gold Saints have blonde hair, and the only exceptions are Dohko, who keeps his auburn hair from the anime, Deathmask, who has silver-grey hair in the manga, Camus, who has red hair, and Shura, who has black hair.
*** The blondes were eradicated in the anime (with the exception of Shaka) due to too much yellow when combined with the Gold Cloths. But a manga example would be Saga - his hair goes light purple at some points. Also, Shura's a brunette in the manga. As for the anime, a lot of hair get turned blue - Ikki, Deathmask, Aphrodite, Saga, Kanon, and Julian Solo got varying shades, Athena's hair turned lilac, Mu's became pink, Camus and Shura were given green hair, Milo's got turned purple, and Kiki went ginger. Miho got blue hair too. [[TheEighties You can tell it's an 8Os anime!]]
* Kenshin Himura from ''RurouniKenshin'' happens to have blood red hair.
* The ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' anime has Utena and Mikage (both pink), Anthy (purple), Akio, Mamiya, and Dios (all lilac), Touga (bright red), Saionji (green), Miki, Kozue, and Ruka (all blue), Juri (orange), and Shiori (wine, or perhaps raspberry). Everyone else's hair color is...possible, as most people have brown hair, some have black, and some (notably and implausibly Touga's sister, Nanami) are blonde.
** Miki, Kozue, and Ruka all have different ''shades'' of blue hair (Ruka himself has two!), with Kanae's mother adding in yet another. Kanae herself, on the other hand, sometimes appears to have very bright green hair. Chigusa and the unnamed main character from the Sega Saturn game have cyan and magenta hair, respectively.
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* In the ''Manga/{{Cyborg009}}'' movie ''Legend of the Super Galaxy,'' Albert Heinrich (Cyborg 004) has blue hair. In other adaptations, his hair is gray, brown, or [[HairColorDissonance bluish-grey]].

* In a cast consisting of characters that mostly have "normal" hair colors, ''Manga/DeathNote'''s Near happens to have stark white hair, while Matt sports unnaturally green hair, at least, in the anime adaptation and TCG (in the DS game adaptation, it became blue). Some images of L and Teru Mikami also have their jet-black hair mutated to more of a deep black-green, and the very first colored manga image featuring Mello depicted him with hair just as white as Near's.
* ''{{Diebuster}}'' has this in the form of protagonist Nono, whose hair starts out pink and turns into a glowing psychedelic swirl when [[spoiler:she regains her memories and recombines with the solar system's dormant defense robot network]]. Given that this series is from GAINAX, makers of such refined weirdness as ''Anime/AbenobashiMahouShoutengai'' and ''{{FLCL}}'', this is probably unsurprising.
* Arale in ''Dr. Slump'' gets away with this because she's an android.
* ''DragonBall'' has Bulma with blue hair. Trunks gets his purple hair from his grandfather and it turns gold when he's Super Saiyan.
** In the manga, her hair is also purple, as well as Bulla's. They could have also changed Trunks' for consistency, but noooo...
** Also, in the anime, as opposed to the manga, Launch (when not in her gun-toting form, where she's a blonde) doesn't have black hair with blue tones, but dark blue hair instead, almost like the print media example.
** The opposite applies to Chichi, whose hair is regular black in the anime and blue-black in the manga. It seems like Akira Toriyama probably planned her to have, indeed, dark blue hair, but colored it black in the manga to save reticulum patterns (since her hair would be so dark it would be unnecessary), not the other way around.

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* Only two of the major characters in '' Anime/{{Mai-HiME}}'' have anything resembling normal hair colors for a show set in [[MiddleOfNowhereStreet Middle of Nowhere Town]], Japan -- Yukino (brown) and Mikoto (black, with pigtails and gold eyes). Naturally, there's also a blue-haired character in the mix, Miyu -- but [[spoiler:she's an android]], so she [[JustifiedTrope has an excuse]].
** Natsuki may also qualify as having "normal" hair -- it's dark blue in the anime, but the supplemental materials describe it as being black, so she most likely simply falls under "stylized black hair".
*** On the cover of the manga's second volume, Natsuki is shown with black hair.
* Before the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime changed to digital animation, James' hair was blue. Now, it's lavender (the dub has made a joke about this). Jessie's hair went from fire engine red to magenta and Tracy's was green even before the switch (just a darker shade, almost black).
** Officer Jenny's hair changed from blue to blue-green.
** Come on, Nurse Joy's hair is PINK! (All of them.)
** Dawn has dark blue hair! That's what the page was named for!
** And now we have Cilan, with bright green hair. Then there's his brother, Cress,who plays this trope word for word with the blue hair. The third one, Chili, has bright red hair.
** Iris' hair is purple. And huge, [[AnimeHair but that's a different trope]].
** Cyrus's hair was blue in the games and the anime; this was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the latter.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' is mostly realistic, but Kaname has blue hair (often described as black), and the Testarossa siblings are white-haired (often described as ash-blonde). Apparently, no-one finds this strange.
** All the people that seem to have issues with this in ''FMP'' are Whispereds, and all sorts of nonsense can be attributed to this.
** In ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', unnatural hair colors are given out like candy on Halloween. As you may have guessed, it's not so serious.
** And then there are the manga covers, which give [[{{Badass}} Sousuke]] either lavender or light blue hair for some reason.

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* Yotsuba Koiwai from the manga ''Yotsuba&!'' has green hair in colour shots. Everyone else's is normal and absolutely no-one talks about it. (Then again, [[JustifiedTrope maybe they just figure she dyed it--Yotsuba isn't exactly all that normal, even for her age group]].)
** The hair may be why strangers assume she's a foreigner.
*** Well, her adopted father did say he picked up overseas...
* ''BannerOfTheStars'' has a race of blue-haired space elves. Considering that the Abh were genetically modified to be able to live in space, to the point of having crafted a sixth sense for flying spaceships, the hair colour is really the smallest oddity...
* Hair colors in ''WeissKreuz'' are mostly just implausible -- Aya, Manx, and Schuldig (justifiable as he is meant to be a white westerner) all have bright red hair, and Yoji and Omi are blond -- but some members of the supporting cast have outright impossible hair colors, such as Ouka's blue hair and, from the OddlyNamedSequel series ''WeissKreuz: Glühen'', Tsuji's green hair.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', oddly enough, the blue hair of main characters Vivi and Franky is never so much as mentioned, while longer-standing main character Zoro's green hair is ostensibly unusual enough to be cause for mockery. Maybe his detractors just hate him ''a lot''.
** Odd hair colours might be considered normal, seeing as there are also a large number of incredibly tall or oddly shaped people like Gecko Moria or Bartholomew Kuma.
** There are very few characters with green hair so it might be considered an oddity, whereas blue hair or otherwise is a lot more frequent.
*** As far as this troper can remember, Zoro, Keimi, Shojo (of the Saruyama Alliance), and Boa Sandersonia have green hair, and that's it.
*** There's also the Baroque Works navigator who took Bon Clay to Little Garden, but it's uncommon even on background characters. There are a few people with much darker shades of green too.
* Takedo, the boxer delinquent from ''KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', has blue hair.
** Odin has purple hair.
* In ''{{Pretear}}'', secondary characters have brown hair, except for Himeno's step-sisters, who have blueish-green and pink hair. The main cast got hair of different levels of plausibility: brown with some red mixed in (Goh), orange (Hajime), [[RedHeadedHero red]] (Himeno), blond (Shin), golden (Kei, who also has [[DarkSkinnedBlond dark skin]] in the anime), and white (Mannen). Sasame was blond in the manga, but became [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] in the anime ([[FaceHeelTurn for a reason, apparently]]). Hayate's hair went from perfectly normal black in the manga to [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair dark blue]] in the anime.
* Most of the ''{{Trigun}}'' characters have realistic hair colours, but Legato has blue hair ''and'' yellow eyes to underline his weirdness, and some of the "mutant" characters have green hair, among others.
* ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' falls somewhere within impossible and implausible. A lot of the characters have odd hair colors (Ahiru's hair is somewhere in between pink and orange, Fakir's is a dark, dark shade of green), but Ahiru could possibly be a stylized redhead and Fakir could have stylized black hair. Mytho's hair is white, but that could be justified, given his magical origins. But then there's Ahiru's friend Pique, who has BRIGHT purple hair -- so bright it's hard to think of as stylized black hair -- and Autor, whose hair seems to change between shades of blue or purple depending on the scene. And then there's Edel and Uzura's light green hair...[[spoiler:but since they're really puppets, that might be justified as well.]]
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', the Japanese characters tend to have realistic brown or black hair, while the Brittanian characters have somewhat more outlandish hair colors and styles.
** Theres also Mao and the Chinese Federation Empress Tianzi, who have gray/silverish hair.
*** Tianzi appears to be [[HeroicAlbino albino]], complete with red eyes. Mao may be another example of albinism, as well. Possible, when you consider that, whenever his eyes are shown, they are always "geassed".
** Also, HotScientist from India Rakshata Chala, who falls under the category of DarkSkinnedBlond.
** C.C. has green hair which is apparently natural.
* The anime series ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Future Captain Future]]'', based on SciFi novels by science fiction writer Edmond Hamilton, created in Japan in 1978 and famous in Europe during the 1980s, featured at least one main character with blue hair and blue moustache (an older male character).
* Rokudo Mukuro of ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' actually does have blue hair, in a sort of "pineapple" hairstyle that has been made fun of extensively by the fans and the author. Chrome Dokuro, the girl Mukuro saves/[[spoiler:gives organs to]]/possesses/protects/etc. has purple hair in the same hairstyle. Semi-minor antagonist Nosaru also has purple hair. And at least three perfectly healthy, youthful characters have white hair (and one has gray).
* Minami Juuji of ''NabarinoOu'' has inexplicable green-blue hair. Raikou's pink 'do is okay, since he obviously dyes it (though he, his sister, his mother, and Yukimi Kazuhiko and Kazuho are all natural Japanese blondes). Aizawa Kouichi and Kuro'okano Shijima both have pure white hair, but this is because [[spoiler:they're both immortal beings - humans fused with a snowy owl and a white cat, respectively.]]
* ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is rife with examples of AnimeHair, since it's an over-the-top, hot-blooded middle finger to science. Heroes Simon and Kamina both have blue hair (though Simon's looks kinda black), Yoko has [[HeroesWantRedheads brick red hair]] (as does Gimmy), Leeron's is aqua, Darry's is cotton-candy pink, Kittan's is blond ''and'' black, and Nia...just [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Nia.]] ''[[WingdingEyes Nia.]]''
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* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', the main hero, Natsu, has pink hair. One of his companions, Erza, is a red-head (not orange-red. cherry red). Erza's antagonist character (since every character has one big bad affiliated with them), Gerard, has blue hair.
** Erza's surname, "Scarlet", was actually given to her because of her hair color.
** Mirajane in all her white-haired beauty. And Happy, who is a BLUE ANTHROPOMORPHIC CAT with wings that can fly.
*** And her siblings, Rob, Brain[[spoiler:/Zero]], and Angel as well.
** A few other characters as well - Levy Juvia and Yuka Suzuki also have blue hair. The former Element 4 had odd hair colors: the aforementioned Juvia, Totomaru had [[MulticoloredHair white and black hair]], and Sol had green hair.
** Porlyusica, Sheryl, and Ikaruga have pink hair.
** Lyon has a pale blue hair.
** Bisca and Fried have green hair.
** Bixlow has black and blue hair.
** As well as the purple-haired Lucky.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' is mostly realistic, but Kaname has blue hair (often described as black), and the Testarossa siblings are white-haired (often described as ash-blonde). Apparently, no-one finds this strange.
** All the people that seem to have issues with this in ''FMP'' are Whispereds, and all sorts of nonsense can be attributed to this.
** In ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', unnatural hair colors are given out like candy on Halloween. As you may have guessed, it's not so serious.
** And then there are the manga covers, which give [[{{Badass}} Sousuke]] either lavender or light blue hair for some reason.
* Tamahome and Chichiri from ''FushigiYuugi'' have blue hair of different shades (but the former's hair is often mistaken for green), while Nuriko, [[spoiler:his deceased little sister Kourin]], and Empress Houki have purple hair. Chiriko's hair is a cross between brown and pink and the Nyan-Nyans have bubblegum blue hair. Tokaki, Subaru, and Tenkou have silver hair (this holds true for the former two even in youth), and Renhou and Miiru have silver-purple hair. Soi's hair is a shade of maroon, while Nakago is the only one who has blonde hair in the book world, and this is actually significant. The human forms of all the Beast Deities have hair in the [[ColourCodedCharacters color by which they are identified]].

* In ''GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass'', while some characters have acceptable hair colours--Professor is black and Kisaragi is deep brown), Tomokane is green, Nodamiki is pinkish-blond, and Namiko is a light brown. {{Lampshaded}} in one strip wondering why WesternAnimation uses AmazingTechnicolorPopulation and {{anime}} uses this. These are the characters' in-universe hair colours; Namiko and Nodamiki had to submit their child photos to the school to prove they had not dyed their hair.
* For the most part, the hair color choices in ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'' are normal. However, if the official color art is to be believed, Ryuuichi has dark-redish hair, Taka's is blue, and Usaida's is... magenta. Huh.
* ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'', ''GalaxyAngelRune'', and VideoGame/GalaxyAngel gameverse.
* Tazusa from ''Ginban Kaleidoscope'' has purple hair, her best friend's is green, and her rival's is dark red. Pete's dirty blonde hair is justified since he's Canadian.

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* ''GundamSeed'' very carefully and deliberately averted this trope by giving unusual hair and eye colors ONLY to Coordinators, genetically engineered humans, while Naturals, those without genetic modification, had only natural hair and eye colors. The sequel, ''GundamSeedDestiny'', almost immediately screwed this up with Sting and Auel, Naturals with green and blue hair respectively.
** Auel and Sting weren't the first Naturals to have unusual hair colours. Shani, one of the prototype [[{{Tykebomb}} Extended]] from Seed, had green hair. And there's nothing normal about he or Sting and Auel, what with their being drug-addicted SuperSoldiers raised from birth to be living weapons. The only non-Coordinator, non-Extended to have an odd hair colour is Yuna Roma Seiran. And given some of his other, [[FashionVictimVillain unusual style choices]], that's hardly surprising.
** Used as a plot point in the spinoff manga ''GundamSeedAstray'': the mercenary Kaite Madigan is a Coordinator whose parents abandoned him because, due to a genetic defect, his facial hair is a different color from the hair on his head.
** ''{{Gundam 00}}'' seems to also have done this, where the only people with oddly colored hair (light/dark purple, pastel green, blue) are genetically-engineered Innovators [[spoiler:and Ribbons' children, the Trinities]], or experimentally modified Super Soldiers, making them easy to spot from a mile away. Having rather odd names (by RealLife standards) also does a good job of spotlighting them.
*** Feldt, a normal human, has bubble-gum pink hair, but [[WordOfGod it turns out]] she dyes it out of a complex from having been raised in space unlike other people.
** Played completely straight in ''GundamAge''. Besides Flit Asuno having green hair, there are countless hair colors ranging from normal colors like brown and grey to unusual colors like purple and sky blue. Two characters, Ract, the leader of Euba, and Yark Dore, the DiscOneFinalBoss, even have ''two hair colors'' (blonde/red for Ract and blue/gold for Yark).
** ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' averts this trope a good deal, with the only notable exception being [[ActionGirl Allenby Beardsly]], who has sea-green hair. Apparently, in the future, the Swedish will all have this color of hair; one of her workers also has green hair.

* The ''HarukanaruTokiNoNakaDe'' franchise is fond of this. Normally, if a character is blond (and has blue eyes), you can tell that said character is ''really'' blond and blue-eyed, which indicates that he either belongs to the Oni Clan if he is from [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Kyou]] or is [[PhenotypeStereotype not entirely of Japanese origin]]. The fact that the rest of the central cast makes up a nice rainbow when standing together (the anime adaptations enjoy the effect) doesn't bother anyone, and if you ignore certain characters who aren't quite human, it won't help anyway.
** Specifically, among said non-human characters are two green-haired ArtificialHuman [[{{Onmyodo}} onmyoji]] and a boy with white hair who happens to be a depowered form of a white dragon-like deity, and none of them gets much commentary regarding their hair -- as opposed to blond characters.
* ''Manga/HekikaiNoAiON'':
** Seine has green hair.
** Yoshiyuki has purple hair.
** Sheila has blue hair.
* ''{{Hellsing}} Ultimate'': Rip Van Winkle has blue hair.
* In ''HidamariSketch'', Sae and her anime-only sister have cobalt blue hair. Natsume has green hair. Yoshinoya-sensei and ''new'' first-year Nori have green/blue hair. The remaining characters, even the important ones, have regular hair colors. (For the nurse, see WhiteHairedPrettyGirl.)
* Atori and Shinji from ''VisualNovel/HiiroNoKakera'' both have purple hair. Meanwhile, Oomi has green hair.
* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' falls victim to this. Keiichi and Tomitake's hair is brown, unusual for a full Japanese person, while Satoko, her immediate family, and Takano are all blonds (more unusual). Rena and Irie has orange hair (very unlikely for Rena, considering neither of her parents do), Rika and Chie have blue hair for no adequately explored reason, and the Sonozaki family women have green hair. Naturally, no one ever comments on any of this.
** Actually, Rena's mom has red hair too.
** Rika's hair seems to change color after the first season (not entirely sure if it has to do with the lighting of the scene, or what). It looks like it switches from blue to aquamarine to purple throughout the series, as well as in artwork, figurines, etc.
** In ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', Bernkastel's blue/[[AdaptationDyeJob purplish]] hair stands out when compared to the rest of the cast introduced up to that point (she ''is'' a magical being: [[spoiler:namely, an amalgamation of all the Higurashi's Rika who didn't survive the TimeLoop... wait, why was Rika's hair blue, anyway?]]). It stretches a bit on the very [[RedHeadedHero redheaded]] Battler and WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Kyrie (being Japanese), but at least they are natural hair colors.

* Rokudo Mukuro of ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' actually does have blue hair, in a sort of "pineapple" hairstyle that has been made fun of extensively by the fans and the author. Chrome Dokuro, the girl Mukuro saves/[[spoiler:gives organs to]]/possesses/protects/etc. has purple hair in the same hairstyle. Semi-minor antagonist Nosaru also has purple hair. And at least three perfectly healthy, youthful characters have white hair (and one has gray).
* Subverted/deconstructed in ''KemonoNoSoujaErin'', as while Erin and her mother both have (impossibly) naturally green hair, other people notice, and it marks them as part of a village associated with black magic and general creepiness.
* Takedo, the boxer delinquent from ''KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', has blue hair.
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* In a cast consisting of characters that mostly have "normal" hair colors, ''Manga/DeathNote'''s Near happens to have stark white hair, while Matt sports unnaturally green hair, at least, in the anime adaptation and TCG (in the DS game adaptation, it became blue). Some images of L and Teru Mikami also have their jet-black hair mutated to more of a deep black-green, and the very first colored manga image featuring Mello depicted him with hair just as white as Near's.
* Jun in the original ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' had deep green hair that occasionally appeared black or brown in episodes, to the point where fans theorized that her hair was meant to be so black it only SEEMED "green". The sequel series and artbook images threw this into doubt, though, when her hair became a more obvious, brighter shade of green.
* Many characters in ''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'' have blue hair, as Shizuma complains in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJgvqUh5iGQ this fanvid]]. Shizuma herself has silver hair; Nagisa's is bright red, Chiyo's is blue-green, Hikari's is very light blonde, and Tsubomi's is pink. In fact, the ''only'' major characters with reasonable colours are the raven-haired Yaya and Chikaru.
* No two Sibyllae in ''{{Simoun}}'' have exactly the same hair colour (including the two who are sisters). Among them, they've got the whole spectrum covered.

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* ''TheLegendOfSunKnight'': the Storm Knight ''must'' have blue hair, since the first one had blue hair. Every Storm Knight after him has had to apply blue hair dye every day as part of his role, and 8 out of every 10 has died from kidney failure due to too much hair dye.
* Shadow Link, from the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda: Four Swords manga]], is [[http://www.onemanga.com/The_Legend_of_Zelda_-_Four_Swords_Plus/7/00-cover2/ show to have purple hair]], likely because purple is the direct opposite of yellow, and all the other "Links" are blond.
* Almost no one has normal colored hair in ''Anime/LuckyStar''. It's lampshaded when Miyuki ([[RoseHairedGirl who has pink hair]]) explains to Konata (blue), Tsukasa, and Kagami (both purple) why exposure to sunlight and seawater changes hair color. Most, if not all, characters with funky hair colors [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow also have that as their eye color]]. As such, one may pretend that their hair is perceived in their world as being black/dark brown.
** This is completely ignored and lampshaded further in the dub, where Konata comments that Miyuki is like her mother "down to the last pink hair."
** And, also in the dub, Misao (who actually has brown hair) calls Konata "Shorty [=McBlueHair=]" at one point when she asks if that's who wants to borrow the game Kagami is asking her to return.

* Max Jenius from ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross''. Or Mylene Jenius (blue + green=''pink?'' Who knew?). And ''MacrossFrontier'' gives us Ranka Lee, with her green hair.
** In ''Robotech'', Max Sterling's blue hair is dyed.
** In the case of Ranka and Mylene, this is probably justified, as it seems to be the case that odd hair colors are a natural Zentradi trait, and both of them have partial Zentradi ancestry; in fact, Ranka has inherited a rare Zentradi trait of naturally ''[[ExpressiveHair empathetic]]'' hair, so imagining that green is her natural hair color is hardly a stretch. Milia from the original ''{{Macross}}'' (Mylene's mother) and Clan Clang from ''MacrossFrontier'', both fully Zentradi, have green and blue hair, respectively. The odd ones are Alto, Nanase, and Grace from ''MacrossFrontier''; the latter's hair is blue, and the former two have purple hair. Zentradi ancestry seems fairly unlikely in all three cases.
* Subverted because they're aliens, but the non-Earthlings from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' have some pretty wild hair colors, such as Signum and Caro's pink and the Nakajima family's blue. (Then again, you have to question how nobody picked up on the little girl in the wheel chair wandering around with a bunch of rainbow-haired foreigners in ''A's''.) On the other hand, Nanoha's friend Suzuka is pure-blooded Japanese, and her entire family has ''purple'' hair. (Interestingly, that includes the maids, who aren't related to them as far as I know.) Nanoha's friend Alisa's blonde hair is an aversion, though -- she's not Japanese.
* ''MagicKnightRayearth'': Hikaru's hair is red and Umi's is blue. Various other odd hair colors pop up as well, but as Cephiro isn't Japan (or anywhere else on Earth), this is Justified.

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* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has otherwise merely ImplausibleHairColor, until you get to Misa Kakizaki, the cheerleader with purple hair, and green-haired {{Ninja}}-girl Kaede. Not sure if Chachamaru, having light green hair, counts, as she's a RobotGirl. The animated adaptations, on the other hand, make it even worse, [[DyeJob/MahouSenseiNegima changing the hair colors of half the remaining cast]].
** In the manga, Kaede has sandy blonde hair, and Ayaka Yukihiro has golden blond hair.
*** Someone at one point says that Ayaka being good at English doesn't count, since she's only '[[ButNotTooForeign half]]', a claim which offends her and she denies.
** Evangeline speculates in the manga that [[HalfHumanHybrid Setsuna]] probably has white hair and red eyes, but dyes her hair and wears contacts. We have never actually seen this in any of the different versions of the series, though.
** Ako has bluish white hair, and Chisame has either green or bright orange hair, depending on if it's the anime or manga.
* Only two of the major characters in '' Anime/MaiHiME'' have anything resembling normal hair colors for a show set in [[MiddleOfNowhereStreet Middle of Nowhere Town]], Japan -- Yukino (brown) and Mikoto (black, with pigtails and gold eyes). Naturally, there's also a blue-haired character in the mix, Miyu -- but [[spoiler:she's an android]], so she [[JustifiedTrope has an excuse]].
** Natsuki may also qualify as having "normal" hair -- it's dark blue in the anime, but the supplemental materials describe it as being black, so she most likely simply falls under "stylized black hair".
*** On the cover of the manga's second volume, Natsuki is shown with black hair.
* MarginalPrince features characters with every hair color one can imagine. For starters, the main character Joshua is green-haired and his friend Henri sports blue hair, while Sylvain's is bright pink. In fact, every character has a different, mostly really bright hair color, and with the exception of Mikhail and [[GenderblenderName Ivy]] (who are both blonde, but not related) none is seen twice among the group of important characters.
* The page picture comes from ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'', where, for the mermaids at least (except for the Pink ones), hair color also indicates race. Humans and other characters (and Pink mermaids) can have any color.

* Minami Juuji of ''NabarinoOu'' has inexplicable green-blue hair. Raikou's pink 'do is okay, since he obviously dyes it (though he, his sister, his mother, and Yukimi Kazuhiko and Kazuho are all natural Japanese blondes). Aizawa Kouichi and Kuro'okano Shijima both have pure white hair, but this is because [[spoiler:they're both immortal beings - humans fused with a snowy owl and a white cat, respectively.]]
* ''{{Naruto}}'' has Sakura, who has pink hair (and ThemeNaming based upon her hair colour). And it's apparently ''natural'', unless she's going to the trouble of dying her ''eyebrows''. If not for her, it would fit possibly into plausible hair due to the show not being set in Japan (even though everyone ''is'' culturally Japanese). However, [[TheChick Konan]] in Akatsuki has blue/purple/periwinkle hair, and Pein has Orange hair.
** Blond hair is quite common in the ''Naruto'' universe (Naruto himself, Ino, Temari, Temari's mother and uncle, Tsunade, Deidara, the 4th Hokage), as are gray-haired young people (Kakashi [whose BackStory puts him in his late twenties, Kabuto).
** Many other character also have odd hair colors, such as Gaara, Sasori, and Kushina Uzumaki with red, Jiraiya with white (even as a kid), Zetsu and the only-seen-on-a-manga-cover seven tailed-host with green, Kisame Hoshigaki and Konan with dark blue, Suigetsu Hozuki, Sakon and Ukon, Kimimaro Kaguya, Hidan, ''everyone'' from the Cloud Village but Yugito (blonde), Karui (red), and the Head Ninja (black), the aforementioned Kakashi Hatake, and Kabuto Yakushi all with silver hair, and Juugo with orange hair. 
*** On the cover of Volume 24, Sakon has purplish hair.
*** Madara mentions that Uzumakis (well, pure blooded ones anyway) all have red hair. Naruto's hair is blond because of his father, and [[spoiler:Nagato's changed color due to the effects of the Rinnengan.]]
** Sasuke's hair is black but, at times (especially in Part 1), his hair appears to be blue, probably to fit the rest of his clothes, but later on, his hair is black with blueish tints on it.
** Tayuya's hair is red or dark pink depending on who you ask.
** Before a certain manga cover was released, everyone assumed Karin's hair was black because of the completely solid black it was shown as in the regular pages, but it showed it was supposed to be bright red. Similarly, [[spoiler:True controller of the Six Paths of Pain]], Nagato seemed to have possibly black hair in the manga, but when colored, was shown to be blood red/crimson.
*** Kishimoto has done this, again, with the Mizukage, who looks blond (as in, left uncolored) in the manga but a new cover revealed her to have Chestnut Brownish Red hair.
*** Then her bodyguards, Ao and Chojuro, who had similarly uncolored hair in regular pages, was shown by [[http://mangastream.com/read/naruto/489-94/4 a cover]] to have light blue hair. In fact, Kisame is apparently the same color (though you can't see his hair very often).
** Hinata, aka the resident ShyBlueHairedGirl.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has more or less the normal range of hair colors, except for Rei's blue and Kaworu's gray. Then again, neither Rei nor Kaworu are fully human...
** It has been suggested by some fans that Rei and Kaworu may, as a result of genetic tampering, have albinism. It's a reasonable assumption (very pale skin, red eyes). HideakiAnno, however, insists that this was just to make them stand out against the other characters.
** Misato has dark purple hair, though that might be a case of HairColorDissonance.
* In ''Anime/NerimaDaikonBrothers'', we have Mako (pink) and Yukika (red velvet, it would seem).
* Silvana Greone, Shaoli, and Chloe from ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' all have purple hair, albeit in different shades. Silvana's hair is light purple, Shaoli's is dark purple, and Chloe's is in between.
** In addition to purple hair, each of these {{Femme Fatale}}s has a suited alias as well. Silvana's dubbed "The Brutal Princess" or "The Intoccabile", Shaoli's nicknamed "The Cold Blooded Killer", and Chloe is aliased "The True Noir".

* In ''Anime/OkusamaWaMahouShoujo'', people from [[MagicalLand Realm]] have various unrealistic hair colours. The rest of the characters have natural hair colours, though.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', oddly enough, the blue hair of main characters Vivi and Franky is never so much as mentioned, while longer-standing main character Zoro's green hair is ostensibly unusual enough to be cause for mockery. Maybe his detractors just hate him ''a lot''.
** Odd hair colours might be considered normal, seeing as there are also a large number of incredibly tall or oddly shaped people like Gecko Moria or Bartholomew Kuma.
** There are very few characters with green hair[[hottip:*:Zoro, Keimi, Shojo (of the Saruyama Alliance), Boa Sandersonia, the Baroque Works navigator who took Bon Clay to Little Garden... and some other random character in the background? There're LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.]] so it might be considered an oddity, whereas blue hair or otherwise is a lot more frequent.
* ''OutlawStar'' falls somewhere between Impossible and Plausible hair colors. Most of the characters are white, and any characters of Asian ancestry have black or dark brown hair. On the other hand, we have Harry, who has blue-green hair, and Gene, whose hair is a shade of red that you're very unlikely to find in the real world.
** Harry's hair is explainable: he's a bio-android like Melfina, a genetically engineered lifeform created using DNA samples taken from a dead human. And in a setting where that sort of thing is possible, and modifications of all sorts are quite common (so much so that neither Gene nor Jim is surprised when their bounty in the first episode is a cyborg, and Jim has to look up a specific model to figure out his vulnerable spot), if not cheap, then the possibility of DNA tweaking for aesthetic purposes comes up.

* In ''Please Twins'', this trope is even more jarring than normal - the three lead characters, two of which are siblings, have red, green, and purple hair. This is never mentioned, but their unusual (green) eye colour is several times.
* Before the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime changed to digital animation, James' hair was blue. Now, it's lavender (the dub has made a joke about this). Jessie's hair went from fire engine red to magenta and Tracy's was green even before the switch (just a darker shade, almost black).
** Officer Jenny's hair changed from blue to blue-green.
** Come on, Nurse Joy's hair is PINK! (All of them.)
** Dawn has dark blue hair! That's what the page was named for!
** And now we have Cilan, with bright green hair. Then there's his brother, Cress,who plays this trope word for word with the blue hair. The third one, Chili, has bright red hair.
** Iris' hair is purple. And huge, [[AnimeHair but that's a different trope]].
** Cyrus's hair was blue in the games and the anime; this was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the latter.
** Crystal from ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'' inverts this trope. She originally had [[http://netkun.com/pockemon/gallery/big_img/gallery01.html brown]] [[http://netkun.com/pockemon/gallery/big_img/gallery03.html hair]], but was [[http://netkun.com/pockemon/gallery/big_img/gallery05.html changed]] to [[http://netkun.com/pockemon/gallery/big_img/gallery07.html blue]] to match her game and anime counterparts. She changed back to brown recently though, which makes people wonder what will happen in the Heartgold/Soulsilver arc..
** On the cover of an Emerald volume, her hair was brown, but an image at the end of the saga shows her with dark blue hair. As of HGSS, it stayed dark blue again. But really, either the artist really can't make up his mind or he's trollin' us. Seriously, every time there's a colored shot of her, her hair color changes. Even her first outfit was like this; her jacket would go between white and pink.
** Other ''Manga/{{Pokemon}}'' manga have their fair-share of this. ''Manga/PokemonReburst'' has a green haired protagonist. ''Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure'' has a blue haired primary protagonist and a green haired secondary one. ''Manga/PokemonGoldenBoys'' version of Kris has teal hair.
* In ''{{Pretear}}'', secondary characters have brown hair, except for Himeno's step-sisters, who have blueish-green and pink hair. The main cast got hair of different levels of plausibility: brown with some red mixed in (Goh), orange (Hajime), [[RedHeadedHero red]] (Himeno), blond (Shin), golden (Kei, who also has [[DarkSkinnedBlond dark skin]] in the anime), and white (Mannen). Sasame was blond in the manga, but became [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] in the anime ([[FaceHeelTurn for a reason, apparently]]). Hayate's hair went from perfectly normal black in the manga to [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair dark blue]] in the anime.
* The ''PrettyCure'' series goes through this in ''spades''. While, with a few exceptions, those in ''FutariWaPrettyCure'' and ''FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' have natural (or close to it) colors, it isn't until ''YesPrecure5'' where the girls get widely colored hair, mostly in a wild case of color coordination. This doesn't even get into cases where their hairs ''change color''!
** In case you're wondering about those who follow the "blue hair" trope straight, it's [[YesPrecure5 Karen / Cure Aqua]], [[FreshPrettyCure Miki / Cure Berry]], [[HeartcatchPrecure Erika / Cure Marine]], [[SuitePrettyCure Ellen / Cure Beat]], and [[SmilePrettyCure Reika / Cure Beauty]].
* ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' falls somewhere within impossible and implausible. A lot of the characters have odd hair colors (Ahiru's hair is somewhere in between pink and orange, Fakir's is a dark, dark shade of green), but Ahiru could possibly be a stylized redhead and Fakir could have stylized black hair. Mytho's hair is white, but that could be justified, given his magical origins. But then there's Ahiru's friend Pique, who has BRIGHT purple hair -- so bright it's hard to think of as stylized black hair -- and Autor, whose hair seems to change between shades of blue or purple depending on the scene. And then there's Edel and Uzura's light green hair...[[spoiler:but since they're really puppets, that might be justified as well.]]
* ''Psyren''. While in black & white the hair colors seem normal enough, but for the occasional colored section...
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' features characters with pink (Madoka), blue (Sayaka), green (Hitomi), bright yellow (Mami), and red (Kyouko) hair, as well as a character with grey hair at a young age (Kyousuke, bonus points for his parents having normal (dark brown) hair). [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow Curtains Matching The Windows]] is the norm and characters that are [[MagicalGirl Puellae Magi]] usually have the same color for their outfits (e.g. Sayaka has blue hair, blue eyes, and a blue outfit).

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* ''Psyren''. While in black & white the hair colors seem normal enough, but for the occasional colored section...
* Tamahome and Chichiri from ''FushigiYuugi'' have blue hair of different shades (but the former's hair is often mistaken for green), while Nuriko, [[spoiler:his deceased little sister Kourin]], and Empress Houki have purple hair. Chiriko's hair is a cross between brown and pink and the Nyan-Nyans have bubblegum blue hair. Tokaki, Subaru, and Tenkou have silver hair (this holds true for the former two even in youth), and Renhou and Miiru have silver-purple hair. Soi's hair is a shade of maroon, while Nakago is the only one who has blonde hair in the book world, and this is actually significant. The human forms of all the Beast Deities have hair in the [[ColourCodedCharacters color by which they are identified]].
* ''ShamanicPrincess'': Lena's hair is green and Sara's is light purple.
* ''{{Hellsing}} Ultimate'': Rip Van Winkle has blue hair.
* The ''HarukanaruTokiNoNakaDe'' franchise is fond of this. Normally, if a character is blond (and has blue eyes), you can tell that said character is ''really'' blond and blue-eyed, which indicates that he either belongs to the Oni Clan if he is from [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Kyou]] or is [[PhenotypeStereotype not entirely of Japanese origin]]. The fact that the rest of the central cast makes up a nice rainbow when standing together (the anime adaptations enjoy the effect) doesn't bother anyone, and if you ignore certain characters who aren't quite human, it won't help anyway.
** Specifically, among said non-human characters are two green-haired ArtificialHuman [[{{Onmyodo}} onmyoji]] and a boy with white hair who happens to be a depowered form of a white dragon-like deity, and none of them gets much commentary regarding their hair -- as opposed to blond characters.
* In ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'', most everyone has normal colored hair, except for some of the main characters; Akari's hair is pink, Alice has green hair, and Athena's hair is lavender.
* ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' has quite a few, including the eponymous heroine.
* In ''Please Twins'', this trope is even more jarring than normal - the three lead characters, two of which are siblings, have red, green, and purple hair. This is never mentioned, but their unusual (green) eye colour is several times.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', the main hero, Natsu, has pink hair. One of his companions, Erza, is a red-head (not orange-red. cherry red). Erza's antagonist character (since every character has one big bad affiliated with them), Gerard, has blue hair.
** Erza's surname, "Scarlet", was actually given to her because of her hair color.
** Mirajane in all her white-haired beauty. And Happy, who is a BLUE ANTHROPOMORPHIC CAT with wings that can fly.
*** And her siblings, Rob, Brain[[spoiler:/Zero]], and Angel as well.
** A few other characters as well - Levy Juvia and Yuka Suzuki also have blue hair. The former Element 4 had odd hair colors: the aforementioned Juvia, Totomaru had [[MulticoloredHair white and black hair]], and Sol had green hair.
** Porlyusica, Sheryl, and Ikaruga have pink hair.
** Lyon has a pale blue hair.
** Bisca and Fried have green hair.
** Bixlow has black and blue hair.
** As well as the purple-haired Lucky
* Crystal from ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'' inverts this trope. She originally had [[http://netkun.com/pockemon/gallery/big_img/gallery01.html brown]] [[http://netkun.com/pockemon/gallery/big_img/gallery03.html hair]], but was [[http://netkun.com/pockemon/gallery/big_img/gallery05.html changed]] to [[http://netkun.com/pockemon/gallery/big_img/gallery07.html blue]] to match her game and anime counterparts. She changed back to brown recently though, which makes people wonder what will happen in the Heartgold/Soulsilver arc..
** On the cover of an Emerald volume, her hair was brown, but an image at the end of the saga shows her with dark blue hair. As of HGSS, it stayed dark blue again. But really, either the artist really can't make up his mind or he's trollin' us. Seriously, every time there's a colored shot of her, her hair color changes. Even her first outfit was like this; her jacket would go between white and pink.
** Other ''Manga/{{Pokemon}}'' manga have their fair-share of this. ''Manga/PokemonReburst'' has a green haired protagonist. ''Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure'' has a blue haired primary protagonist and a green haired secondary one. ''Manga/PokemonGoldenBoys'' version of Kris has teal hair.
* ''{{Diebuster}}'' has this in the form of protagonist Nono, whose hair starts out pink and turns into a glowing psychedelic swirl when [[spoiler:she regains her memories and recombines with the solar system's dormant defense robot network]]. Given that this series is from GAINAX, makers of such refined weirdness as ''Anime/AbenobashiMahouShoutengai'' and ''{{FLCL}}'', this is probably unsurprising.

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* Tazusa from ''Ginban Kaleidoscope'' has purple hair, her best friend's is green, and her rival's is dark red. Pete's dirty blonde hair is justified since he's Canadian.
* The main cast of ''La Corda d'Oro'' contains a ''rainbow'' of unnatural hair colors. Let's see...Kahoko Hino's bright red, Len Tsukimori's blue, Ryoutarou Tsuchiura and Kazuki Hihara's varying shades of green, Azuma Yunoki's purple, Shoko Fuyuumi's bluish-green, Kanazawa-sensei's reddish purple, Shinobu Ousaki's the ''other'' shade of red, and Keiichi Shimizu's blonde. Lili is a subversion, since he's a fairy and it seems that he came with Seisou Academy's founder from Europe anyway.
* Subverted because they're aliens, but the non-Earthlings from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' have some pretty wild hair colors, such as Signum and Caro's pink and the Nakajima family's blue. (Then again, you have to question how nobody picked up on the little girl in the wheel chair wandering around with a bunch of rainbow-haired foreigners in ''A's''.) On the other hand, Nanoha's friend Suzuka is pure-blooded Japanese, and her entire family has ''purple'' hair. (Interestingly, that includes the maids, who aren't related to them as far as I know.) Nanoha's friend Alisa's blonde hair is an aversion, though -- she's not Japanese.

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* ''RosarioToVampire'' has Kurumu as a straight example, while Mizore's hair is violet, sometimes close to blue (both of them inherited their hair colors from their mothers), and Moka is both the RoseHairedGirl and the WhiteHairedPrettyGirl.
* Kenshin Himura from ''RurouniKenshin'' happens to have blood red hair.

* ''Manga/SailorMoon'' has characters with huge amounts of weird hair colors.
** In one of the manga side stories (and the anime special based on it), Chibi-Usa's new classmates actually point out that she has pink hair, which is apparently unusual from the characters' point of view. Makes one wonder if everyone else's hair colors are ''real'', and if so, why nobody finds them odd. Is it only pink that is considered weird?
*** Pink is actually the closest to a real color you could get out of the series. Hasn't anyone ever heard of strawberry blonde?
** In the Sailor Moon manga, Sailor Jupiter has curly auburn hair. In chapter five, when one of the teachers confronts her about it, she insists that it's natural.
** The live-action version made their signature hair part of their costumes, which was the creator's original intention. She had wanted the girls to all have more natural hair and eye colors that would then turn into the fantastical rainbow hairstyles when they transformed. It was supposed to add to the disguise as well as accentuate the magic involved in their transformations.
** Zig-zagged with Chibiusa's friend Momoko, who has dark pink hair in the manga, brown hair in the R and S seasons, and deep purple hair in [=SuperS=].
** Naoko Takeuchi alternates between using pink or blue hair for Usagi's mother, although one color illustration for the first chapter also depicted her with light brown hair.
* Most of the characters in ''Manga/SaijouNoMeii'' have relatively normal hair colours except our HotBlooded protagonist Mikoto, who stands out by having purple, spiky unruly hair.
* In ''SaintBeast'', several characters have unusual haircolors or two-tone effects. These include scarlet, white, bright purple, dark purple, teal, blue, pink-- the entire bubblegum spectrum.
* ''SaintSeiya'' has a lot of characters with impossible hair colors, most prominently Andromeda Shun, who has green hair. Shun's hair was normal light brown in the manga; it was changed for the animation to make him more noticeable.
** In the manga, most of the Gold Saints have blonde hair, and the only exceptions are Dohko, who keeps his auburn hair from the anime, Deathmask, who has silver-grey hair in the manga, Camus, who has red hair, and Shura, who has black hair.
*** The blondes were eradicated in the anime (with the exception of Shaka) due to too much yellow when combined with the Gold Cloths. But a manga example would be Saga - his hair goes light purple at some points. Also, Shura's a brunette in the manga. As for the anime, a lot of hair get turned blue - Ikki, Deathmask, Aphrodite, Saga, Kanon, and Julian Solo got varying shades, Athena's hair turned lilac, Mu's became pink, Camus and Shura were given green hair, Milo's got turned purple, and Kiki went ginger. Miho got blue hair too. [[TheEighties You can tell it's an 8Os anime!]]
* ''SamuraiSeven'' has (mostly) plausible hair colors: browns and blacks. Then we get to redheaded Heihachi, blond Shichiroji and Kyuuzo, and Ukyo, who actually has blue hair.
* Mikoto and Nara on ''SchoolRumble'' both have blue hair. Tenma appears to have purple hair.
* With the exception of the LockedIntoStrangeness scientists, all humans in ''{{Sekirei}}'' have typical Japanese coloring. Most of the titular aliens also have normal colors (brown, blonde) but they're the only ones to have unusual colors such as [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl white]], [[RoseHairedGirl pink]], [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]], or green. This serves as something of a HairColorSpoiler, since [[spoiler: lilac-haired Miya is revealed to be a Sekirei]].
* Lampshaded in ''SeitokaiYakuindomo'': in the beach episode, a boy trying to get Suzu's attention explicitly calls her "kinpatsu" (blonde). No one else comments on her hair colour.
* ''SgtFrog'' has Natsumi's pink hair, Momoka's (and her father's) light blue hair, and Saburou's silver hair for the human examples; the humanoid aliens seldom have "normal" hair colours. For the humans, though, this is implied to be the result of dye jobs.
* ''ShamanicPrincess'': Lena's hair is green and Sara's is light purple.
* Considering that {{Shiki}} is a paranormal series, it's relatively realistic, and clearly set in Japan. [[http://s201.photobucket.com/user/the_ill-lustrious_one/media/ShikiHairstyles.jpg.html The hair colors and hairstyles are completely random, though.]]
* No two Sibyllae in ''{{Simoun}}'' have exactly the same hair colour (including the two who are sisters). Among them, they've got the whole spectrum covered.
* Many characters in ''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'' have blue hair, as Shizuma complains in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJgvqUh5iGQ this fanvid]]. Shizuma herself has silver hair; Nagisa's is bright red, Chiyo's is blue-green, Hikari's is very light blonde, and Tsubomi's is pink. In fact, the ''only'' major characters with reasonable colours are the raven-haired Yaya and Chikaru.
* In ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'', most characters hover around the brown-black-auburn spectrum; however, Ryoko, Emiri, Yuki, and Tsuruya have varying colors of green, blue, and grey. [[spoiler:Tsuruya's hair colour may just be to throw us off as to her origin, since the other three are discovered to be HumanAliens before we learn Tsuruya's own secret.]]
** In the anime and novel color pictures, Yuki's hair is ''purple''.
** However, nobody appears to find this strange. Could be that others do have strange hair or that their hair is actually just a visual cue for the audience to recognize these characters are not exactly normal. [[{{WMG}} Perhaps, in 'reality', their hair color is something normal?]]
* In ''ShinryakuIkaMusume'', Nagisa has cobalt blue hair, Chizuru's is more purple, and Takeru's is a dark teal. Ika herself ''may'' have hair, matching her blue tentacles, depending on whether or not that stuff over her apparent eyebrows is hair.
* ''{{Slayers}}'' follows this trope with purple hair instead: there's [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Amelia]] and her older sister [[UnknownRival Naga]], the trickster priest [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Xellos]], demonic general [[BigBad Hellmaster Phibrizo]], the shrine maiden [[TheMedic Sylphiel]], and the well-mannered priest [[AffablyEvil Rezo]]. Rezo's great-grandson, Zelgadis, has much lighter purple hair, as does [[TagalongKid Prince Pokota]].
* Quite a few characters in ''Manga/SoulEater'' have unusual hair colors, like Chrona (pink) and Black&#9734;Star (blue). And the titular character, Soul, has white hair.
* ''StarDriver'' appears to use impossible or ImplausibleHairColor to denote NominalImportance: the hair of background characters and extras are varying shades of brown or black, while main characters have red, blonde, green, blue, purple, or pink hair.

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* Shadow Link, from the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda: Four Swords manga]], is [[http://www.onemanga.com/The_Legend_of_Zelda_-_Four_Swords_Plus/7/00-cover2/ show to have purple hair]], likely because purple is the direct opposite of yellow, and all the other "Links" are blond.
* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' features Hitagi Senjogahara, a self-proclaimed {{Tsundere}} with purple hair. In the [[LightNovel source material]], she has brown hair, making this an AdaptationDyeJob. [[Creator/StudioShaft Given the animation studio's reputation]], this would be considered tame, reasonable change.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' plays this weirdly: the cast runs the gamut of rainbow hair colors...except for Sunohara, whose blonde hair is dyed and is stated to be "an impossible color" (his actual hair color is gray-blue). So...why exactly is that ''one'' shade of color impossible when none of the others are?
** The other colors (except the Fujibayashi's lavender hair) are similar to black and brown, which are the main colors of Japanese hair. So it can be seen as an equivalent to that. Sunohara is full Japanese and can't have blond hair naturally. Not that it sounds any less weird.
* Quite a few characters in ''Manga/SoulEater'' have unusual hair colors, like Chrona (pink) and Black&#9734;Star (blue). And the titular character, Soul, has white hair.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has more or less the normal range of hair colors, except for Rei's blue and Kaworu's gray. Then again, neither Rei nor Kaworu are fully human...
** It has been suggested by some fans that Rei and Kaworu may, as a result of genetic tampering, have albinism. It's a reasonable assumption (very pale skin, red eyes). HideakiAnno, however, insists that this was just to make them stand out against the other characters.
** Misato has dark purple hair, though that might be a case of HairColorDissonance.
* ''StarDriver'' appears to use impossible or ImplausibleHairColor to denote NominalImportance: the hair of background characters and extras are varying shades of brown or black, while main characters have red, blonde, green, blue, purple, or pink hair.
* In ''HidamariSketch'', Sae and her anime-only sister have cobalt blue hair. Natsume has green hair. Yoshinoya-sensei and ''new'' first-year Nori have green/blue hair. The remaining characters, even the important ones, have regular hair colors. (For the nurse, see WhiteHairedPrettyGirl.)
* ''TheLegendOfSunKnight'': the Storm Knight ''must'' have blue hair, since the first one had blue hair. Every Storm Knight after him has had to apply blue hair dye every day as part of his role, and 8 out of every 10 has died from kidney failure due to too much hair dye.
* ''Manga/BlackCat'' is pretty good about using normal hair colors for the most part, with a couple exceptions. Jenos' and Leon's dark green could be easily taken as stylized black, but Rinslet's bright purple and Sven's green stand out.
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' averts this trope a good deal, with the only notable exception being [[ActionGirl Allenby Beardsly]], who has sea-green hair. Apparently, in the future, the Swedish will all have this color of hair; one of her workers also has green hair.
* ''{{Slayers}}'' follows this trope with purple hair instead: there's [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Amelia]] and her older sister [[UnknownRival Naga]], the trickster priest [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Xellos]], demonic general [[BigBad Hellmaster Phibrizo]], the shrine maiden [[TheMedic Sylphiel]], and the well-mannered priest [[AffablyEvil Rezo]]. Rezo's great-grandson, Zelgadis, has much lighter purple hair, as does [[TagalongKid Prince Pokota]].
* Lampshaded in ''SeitokaiYakuindomo'': in the beach episode, a boy trying to get Suzu's attention explicitly calls her "kinpatsu" (blonde). No one else comments on her hair colour.

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* The girls in the ''TenchiMuyo'' series all have odd hair colors except for Mihoshi, who is blonde. Ryoko has what appears to be a very light shade of teal hair, Wash&#363; has pink hair, Ayeka has dark purple hair, Sasami has a teal-blue shade of hair with it's brightness depending on the series (sometimes it looks like light blue-green and sometimes it looks a bit sky blue), and Kiyone has dark green hair, though it can look black at times.
** They're all aliens anyway, though.
** Wash&#363; also has red hair, not pink, so she goes under barely normal in that area. Mihoshi is a [[DarkSkinnedBlond brown-skinned blonde]], and Wash&#363; is an age-bender...
** Subversion of the escape clause: Aeka's purple hair is revealed in the manga to be dyed... it's actually the same light blue as her sister and mother.
*** Why is an alien bluenette dying her hair purple, you ask? To match her second mother's [Jurai royals practice polygamy] naturally purple hair! Said second mother is a full-blooded human from 13th century Japan, a fact which takes the escape clause, rips it into small bits, incinerates the bits with a flamethrower, and then urinates on the ashes.
*** Allegedly, it was about tweaking her available genetics to resemble her second mother, Funaho (who has black hair), as much as possible, hence her father's purple-hair DNA traits were turned more dominant.
* ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is rife with examples of AnimeHair, since it's an over-the-top, hot-blooded middle finger to science. Heroes Simon and Kamina both have blue hair (though Simon's looks kinda black), Yoko has [[HeroesWantRedheads brick red hair]] (as does Gimmy), Leeron's is aqua, Darry's is cotton-candy pink, Kittan's is blond ''and'' black, and Nia...just [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Nia.]] ''[[WingdingEyes Nia.]]''
** Green-haired Dayakka and purple-haired Kiyah.
* ''TokyoMewMew''. Technically, at least Minto and Zakuro ''may'' have stylized black hair, and the anime version of Ichigo is a more or less plausible [[RedHeadedHero redhead]], but then there are the obviously blonde [[ChineseGirl Bu-ling]] and [[MissionControl Ryou]]...Additionally, in the anime, the Mew Mews' hair colour [[PowerDyesYourHair changes from normal to outrageous when they transform]], save for Zakuro and Retasu, whose hair remain purple and green (albeit different shades). In the manga, all five girls always have [[ColorCodedCharacters fancy hair colours]], transformed or not.
** Interestingly, in the manga, Zakuro is said to have black hair at one point, suggesting purple is, indeed, here just for convenience. [[MissionControl Ryou Shirogane]], on the other hand, is confirmed to have golden hair and blue eyes via the scene where Ichigo thinks he is [[MysteriousProtector the Blue Knight]], citing said features as a similarity. Slightly odd, since this is the typical appearance of a "gaijin", which Ryou doesn't seem to be (he did live in America, but it is implied that his parents were Japanese).
* ToraDora has a character who normally has green hair rebel by dying his hair blonde, and everyone is shocked by this. He eventually changes it back, though InUniverse it's actually black hair.
* The main character of ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' has light blue hair, but special mention has to be given to Sunny's white hair with pink, blue and green stripes.
* Most of the ''{{Trigun}}'' characters have realistic hair colours, but Legato has blue hair ''and'' yellow eyes to underline his weirdness, and some of the "mutant" characters have green hair, among others.
* Jun in the original ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' had deep green hair that occasionally appeared black or brown in episodes, to the point where fans theorized that her hair was meant to be so black it only SEEMED "green". The sequel series and artbook images threw this into doubt, though, when her hair became a more obvious, brighter shade of green.

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* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' features characters with pink (Madoka), blue (Sayaka), green (Hitomi), bright yellow (Mami), and red (Kyouko) hair, as well as a character with grey hair at a young age (Kyousuke, bonus points for his parents having normal (dark brown) hair). [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow Curtains Matching The Windows]] is the norm and characters that are [[MagicalGirl Puellae Magi]] usually have the same color for their outfits (e.g. Sayaka has blue hair, blue eyes, and a blue outfit).
* In ''Anime/NerimaDaikonBrothers'', we have Mako (pink) and Yukika (red velvet, it would seem).
* ''Manga/HekikaiNoAiON'':
** Seine has green hair.
** Yoshiyuki has purple hair.
** Sheila has blue hair.
* In ''[[ShinryakuIkaMusume Shinryaku! Ika Musume]]'', Nagisa has cobalt blue hair, Chizuru's is more purple, and Takeru's is a dark teal. Ika herself ''may'' have hair, matching her blue tentacles, depending on whether or not that stuff over her apparent eyebrows is hair.
* In ''Anime/OkusamaWaMahouShoujo'', people from [[MagicalLand Realm]] have various unrealistic hair colours. The rest of the characters have natural hair colours, though.
* The ''PrettyCure'' series goes through this in ''spades''. While, with a few exceptions, those in ''FutariWaPrettyCure'' and ''FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' have natural (or close to it) colors, it isn't until ''YesPrecure5'' where the girls get widely colored hair, mostly in a wild case of color coordination. This doesn't even get into cases where their hairs ''change color''!
** In case you're wondering about those who follow the "blue hair" trope straight, it's [[YesPrecure5 Karen / Cure Aqua]], [[FreshPrettyCure Miki / Cure Berry]], [[HeartcatchPrecure Erika / Cure Marine]], [[SuitePrettyCure Ellen / Cure Beat]], and [[SmilePrettyCure Reika / Cure Beauty]].
* In ''SaintBeast'', several characters have unusual haircolors or two-tone effects. These include scarlet, white, bright purple, dark purple, teal, blue, pink-- the entire bubblegum spectrum.
* In the ''Manga/{{Cyborg009}}'' movie ''Legend of the Super Galaxy,'' Albert Heinrich (Cyborg 004) has blue hair. In other adaptations, his hair is gray, brown, or [[HairColorDissonance bluish-grey]].
* Atori and Shinji from ''VisualNovel/HiiroNoKakera'' both have purple hair. Meanwhile, Oomi has green hair.
* ToraDora has a character who normally has green hair rebel by dying his hair blonde, and everyone is shocked by this. He eventually changes it back, though InUniverse it's actually black hair.
* MarginalPrince features characters with every hair color one can imagine. For starters, the main character Joshua is green-haired and his friend Henri sports blue hair, while Sylvain's is bright pink. In fact, every character has a different, mostly really bright hair color, and with the exception of Mikhail and [[GenderblenderName Ivy]] (who are both blonde, but not related) none is seen twice among the group of important characters.
* For the most part, the hair color choices in ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'' are normal. However, if the official color art is to be believed, Ryuuichi has dark-redish hair, Taka's is blue, and Usaida's is... magenta. Huh.
* The main character of ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' has light blue hair, but special mention has to be given to Sunny's white hair with pink, blue and green stripes.
* Most of the characters in ''Manga/SaijouNoMeii'' have relatively normal hair colours except our HotBlooded protagonist Mikoto, who stands out by having purple, spiky unruly hair.
* Most characters of ''LightNovel/ChuunibyouDemoKoiGaShitai'' have natural hair colours--Rikka's black can be seen as a stylized black. The lone exception is the light novel-exclusive Satone, who has ''bright pink'' hair.
* With the exception of the LockedIntoStrangeness scientists, all humans in ''{{Sekirei}}'' have typical Japanese coloring. Most of the titular aliens also have normal colors (brown, blonde) but they're the only ones to have unusual colors such as [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl white]], [[RoseHairedGirl pink]], [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]], or green. This serves as something of a HairColorSpoiler, since [[spoiler: lilac-haired Miya is revealed to be a Sekirei]].

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* ''UruseiYatsura'' has green-haired characters, though this is justified because they're aliens. The humans all seem to have natural hair colors.
** In the color-pages of the manga, [[AdaptationDyeJob unlike in the anime]], Lum's hair is actually ''rainbow-colored''.

* ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' has quite a few, including the eponymous heroine.
* Hair colors in ''WeissKreuz'' are mostly just implausible -- Aya, Manx, and Schuldig (justifiable as he is meant to be a white westerner) all have bright red hair, and Yoji and Omi are blond -- but some members of the supporting cast have outright impossible hair colors, such as Ouka's blue hair and, from the OddlyNamedSequel series ''WeissKreuz: Glühen'', Tsuji's green hair.
* Yotsuba Koiwai from the manga ''Yotsuba&!'' has green hair in colour shots. Everyone else's is normal and absolutely no-one talks about it. (Then again, [[JustifiedTrope maybe they just figure she dyed it--Yotsuba isn't exactly all that normal, even for her age group]].)
** The hair may be why strangers assume she's a foreigner.
*** Well, her adopted father did say he picked up overseas...

* The eponymous character of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' has ''[[MulticoloredHair three-colored]]'' hair -- black, gold, and ''pink''. Aside from that, the show tends more toward weird hair styles then weird hair colors -- indeed, some of the odder hair colours from [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Season 0]] (such as Kaiba's bright radium-green hair) were recoloured to something more probable for the better known later seasons.
** Though Kaiba's green hair is an AdaptationDyeJob. Whenever he shows up somewhere on the cover of the first 7 manga season 0 was ''loosely'' based on, he clearly has brown hair.
** In ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'', blue hair apparently runs in Shark's family; both he and his sister have it.
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'''s human characters have every possible natural hair color (except Genkai, who's graying now but originally had pink hair), while the more fantastic characters usually have more fantastic hair colors. Both Kurama and Kuwabara have red hair, for example, but they're very different shades. To be fair, however, Genkai originally was strawberry-blonde.
** Botan's is even lampshaded.
-->'''Koto:''' Why not focus on something you're good at, Honey? Like dying your hair unnatural colors?
** She still insists it's natural.
** Kurama's hair is black (or dark blue) in the manga.

* The funny thing about ''ZeroNoTsukaima'' is that while everyone in Halkeginia has hair from some spectrum of the rainbow, no one except those of Japanese descent have black hair, like Saito and [[spoiler:Siesta.]]

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