Line #40 CloseCallHaircut/AnimeAndManga


1	* Joe from ''Manga/{{ARAGO}}'' -- as he receives a pair of glasses that allow him to see demons, and sees Seth for what he really is, Seth responds with a [[EyeBeams glare]] that nicks Joe's cheek and cuts a few strands of his sideburns loose.
2	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
3	** Charlotte Cuuhlhourne goes [[BerserkButton berserk]] when Yumichika does this to him. It's implied that Yumichika did it deliberately to [[TheDandy irritate]] Charlotte into releasing his power [[spoiler:because ''that'' would allow '''him''' to [[LetsGetDangerous fight at full strength as well]]]].
4	** Hisagi does this to Findor, who's a little unsettled by it but doesn't go berserk.
5	** In the anime, Toushirou manages to slice off a chunk of Gin's hair during their fight. Gin just [[StepfordSmiler carries on smiling]]...
6	** It appears as though [[spoiler:Tsukishima]] had sliced off some of [[spoiler:Orihime]]'s hair when he cut her [[spoiler:until it turns out that [[BrainwashedAndCrazy he'd done something else]] instead. She fixes up the hair damage with her powers]]. He ''does'', however, slice off some of [[spoiler:Riruka]]'s hair when [[TakingTheBullet she blocks his attack]] on [[spoiler:Ichigo]] during his [[spoiler:VillainousBreakdown]] triggered by [[spoiler:Ginjou's death]]. In addition, this time, he also [[spoiler:cuts quite a bit of her shoulder off, and she has to be healed by Orihime]].
7	* Meg from ''Anime/BurstAngel'' finds herself with a hole through her hair after Jo shoots through it to hit an enemy behind her.
8	* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Yue, after a mid-air scuffle with Ruby Moon, gets a portion of his hair severed by Ruby's swift hands.
9	* Happens in almost every fight scene in ''Manga/Change123''. Everyone loses a few strands here and there, and yet it never adds up to a visible difference.
10	* Chrono in ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' has his braid cut off during a battle with [[spoiler:Remington]]. Another example of an ImportantHaircut.
11	* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'':
12	** During one of Teresa's fights, a few strands of her hair are seen blowing after her when Ilena attempts to attack her. However, this isn't so much a hint that she's losing her composure (quite the opposite) but to show that she's just that good and they can't even touch her.
13	** Another example occurs when Clare rescues [[spoiler:Galatea from Agatha's clutches--Clare's Windcutter nicks off a bit of Galatea's bangs, prompting Galatea to snark that her rescuer's technique needs refining.]]
14	* Lelouch's hair gets clipped in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' when [[spoiler:a completely broken Shirley]] shoots at him after being {{Mind Rape}}d by [[PsychopathicManchild Mao]].
15	* Played perfectly straight in ''Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries'' when Trish and Lady fight in the church. Trish fires on a temporarily helpless Lady, who feels no wound and pats herself down, to find strands of hair on her shoulder. "You ''bitch''! You shot my hair!" and the fight turns to fisticuffs.
16	* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', Lenalee Lee's formerly long GirlishPigtails are burned off in a close call during a life-threatening over-ocean battle with a level 3 Akuma, leaving her hair extremely short and unkempt in the process.
17	* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
18	** This happens to Goku a couple of times. One scene in particular, from the first movie, is even included in the credits of the English version. Of course, Goku being a [[HumanAliens Saiyan]], [[HairReboot it's back to normal by the next scene every time]]. Vegeta explains that "pure-blooded Saiyans have been spared from the grotesquary of hair growth", so it stays the same no matter what.
19	** In the special ''Anime/DragonBallZTheHistoryOfTrunks'', Trunks manages to cut off a small bit of Android 18's hair using his sword. She gets angry "My hair! It doesn't grow back!" then proceeds, with the help of Android 17 to beat Trunks to a pulp.
20	** During Vegeta's battle with Recoome, he tries to kill Recoome by blasting his head off with a ki-blast, but he survives the attack and it only burns off most of his hair.
21	** Dabura slashes at Gohan with a sword and takes off three strands of hair. Dabura is disappointed since he was aiming to kill.
22	* Occurs in ''Manga/ElfenLied'' to multiple characters (mainly Lucy and Nana). However, more often than not, people do get dismembered and sliced in half a lot.
23	* In ''Literature/FateZero'', Saber loses a few strands of hair when she limbos under Lancer's spear to dodge a swipe. It's a very minor example, though, since her hairstyle doesn't change at all from that.
24	* In ''[[Literature/FullMetalPanic Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid]]'', Kaname Chidori is targeted by assassin Xia Yu Lan. Fortunately her knees buckle at that precise moment and so the bullet just clips her hair.
25	* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', a few strands of Tamahome's hair are severed (in addition to him getting a slash across the cheek) while saving Miaka from thugs, just to show how badass he is. Note that this happened before [[spoiler:his fight with Suboshi, resulting in his ImportantHaircut.]]
26	* ''Manga/FutureDiary'' has a cop, Kurusu (4th), firing a shot at a terrorist, Minene (9th), during the Sakurami Middle School bombing.
27	* In ''Manga/GunsmithCats'', Rally gets a good portion of hair from the left side of her head cut off when Gray slashes at her with his prosthetic blade-arm.
28	* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'':
29	** Mikuru is subject to one of these during the baseball game when she ducks a fast-moving baseball headed straight for her head. Not too long after, Yuki experiences the same thing, excepts she does it while standing comfortably at attention and catches only the balls that head straight for her face and other vital spots on her body.
30	** Yuki gets another two from [[spoiler:Mikuru]] while filming the movie. Not by baseballs, not by BB pellets, [[spoiler:but by pressurized water balls, which promptly decimate the landscape behind her -- ''at point blank range'']].
31	* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', Biscuit gets one of her pigtails cut off in a fight shortly after she is introduced. She continues to sport one-and-a-half pigtails for a while afterwards, before switching to a single ponytail.
32	* In the second episode of ''Anime/{{Inuyasha}}'', a rampant Inuyasha takes a swipe at Kagome, but she trips and he only cuts off a small piece of her hair.
33	* In ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'', a lasting example occurs for Wilee: A bullet grazed his head during the First Gulf War, leaving a wound where hair didn't grow back in a distinctive rectangular patch. So, he buzzed the other side of his head to match.
34	* In ''Manga/KingOfThorn'', not long after Marco gives Kasumi a gun, she [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace fires it accidentally]] and parts his hair.
35	* ''Literature/KinosJourney'':
36	** The young Shishou's hair has a [[http://www.filespace.org/xyzzyka/shishou.png ragged, gunshot appearance]], as though this is the only way she cuts her hair. Given the way she's been known to cut down trees later in life, this is perhaps unsurprising.
37	** Also, in the first coliseum fight, Kino faces an assassin with a bladed boomerang that manages to give her a tiny shave on the way back. Later Kino does this deliberately, clipping the hair of a MasterSwordsman to test his resolve. He doesn't flinch.
38	* ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'':
39	** In one episode, Goemon has left Lupin's gang for another gang whom he thinks fits his lifestyle better, since he has betrayed them, Lupin feels that he should kill Goemon. So Lupin fires a shot at his head but Goemon ducks and the bullet grazes his cheek and cuts off a few locks of his hair.
40	** In [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E107 another]], Jigen gets this from Zenigata as he tries to flee the officer's gunfire.
41	* In ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'', Yako gets her hair clipped when Neuro uses her to demonstrate a "Slingshot Guillotine" (more visible in the manga).
42	* In the first episode of ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'', Nagasumi loses a few strands of hair when a dagger hits the wall close to his head. In a later episode, Akeno actually slices the top of his head off.
43	* ''Anime/MyHime'':
44	** Natsuki is angered to find that sword-wielding Mikoto has sheared off part of her hair with her [[{{BFS}} giant claymore]] during their fight in the first episode. In this case, the actual cut isn't shown, just the aftermath when Natsuki discovers it.
45	** In a later episode, she does this to Nagi when she attempts to shoot him, but the bullet misses and leaves a nasty mark on his hair.
46	* Shizuru Viola in ''Anime/MyOtome'' has a sniper's bullet shot through her hair that takes out a spy she's captured (see the main page's image), though the damage is not noticeable by her next appearance.
47	* A ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' villain seemed particularly ticked off every time her hair was damaged. [[spoiler:It turns out that it's because she's actually a body-snatching wig -- the hair is her real body.]]
48	* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Negi, Yue, Nodoka, Tsukuyomi, and even [[BigBad Fate]] have experienced this.
49	* Happens twice to Kirika in ''Anime/{{Noir}}'', once in the form of a bullet that grazes her head, apparently leaving her uninjured and undoing part of her LaserGuidedAmnesia, and again with a sword-wielding nun in the final episode. Mirielle also had one of these when she was a child, at the hands of [[spoiler:then-CreepyChild Silvana]]; that's the apparent reason for her "half-bang" hairstyle.
50	* It happens in ''Manga/OnePiece'' in the fight between Zoro and Hatchan. At one point during his fight with Hatchan, Zoro lops off one of the spikes of his hairdo. For a few seconds, the octopus man looks as if he's about to blow a gasket, but then he immediately calms down as he realizes [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "It's only hair, after all. It'll grow back."]]
51	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
52	** In one episode, a Scyther lops off part of Jessie's distinctive hairdo, and she becomes obsessed with getting even with the Pokémon. [[spoiler:Not only does she fail, but the Scyther ends up giving her, James, and Meowth ''mohawks'' in the end.]]
53	** In another episode, a Seviper that Team Rocket is trying to catch does the same thing. Jessie ''beats it into submission with her bare hands'', then captures it.
54	* Akane getting caught in the middle of Ranma's fight with Ryoga in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', and the subsequent haircut, is an example that overlaps with ImportantHaircut.
55	* Nanami of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' has this happen during her duel with Utena to emphasize the loss of her composure.
56	* This happens a couple of times to Kenshin of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''.
57	* One MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was a doll with razor-sharp, projectile appendages. Sailor Mars just barely misses losing her head, and instead loses a few strands.
58	* This is how Goku lost his long hair in ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' when Gojyo first activated the shakujo staff without knowing how to use it.
59	* ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'':
60	** PlayedForLaughs when Ban uses Jericho's attack to shave his beard off and then compliments her for being a good hairdresser.
61	** Played straight in King fight with Guila.
62	* ''Manga/ShamanKing'' uses this on Bokuto no Ryu as a running gag, as his Elvis-esque pompadour is cut repeatedly. Very rarely is his pompadour ever intact, though he will go to absurd ends to cover up his mangled hair. (In the manga, he claims to use the hair-care product "[[BlandNameProduct Wrongain]]", obviously a Rogaine-spoof, to quickly grow his pompadour back.)
63	* A RareMaleExample occurs in ''Anime/ShatteredAngels'', with Kazuya dodging a gunshot from his antagonistic sister Mika at the last instant. The bullet is seen tearing off a small section of his red hair.
64	* ''Literature/{{Shimoneta}}'': Kousuri's made a habit of [[ManipulativeBitch pushing other people's buttons]] for her own amusement -- but it nearly costs her when she deliberately provokes [[CuteAndPsycho Anna's jealousy]] over Tanukichi. Anna retaliates by throwing a carving knife, which narrowly misses Kousuri as it shreds a hole through the right side of her hair.
65	* In ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'', Lina gets a magic-suppressing tiara latched onto her head to prevent her from using magic or suffer a nasty shock. After she and Gourry escaped from their cell, Gourry finds their weapons, and without hesitation, tosses Lina up and ''slices'' at her face with his sword as she fell. It takes off a small strand of hair but ultimately sliced off the tiara from her head. Due to the pain, she repays him by bashing him over the head ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall with her own sweatdrop]]''.
66	* ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'': Tsuruba loses his ponytail when he's ambushed by assassins and one tries to decapitate him. It's only the first and least bloody of several [[IdenticalTwinIDTag Identical Twin ID Tags]] that he and Tariga pick up during the night that prove that if they both manage to survive they're going to be a lot easier to tell apart.
67	* ''Manga/{{Softenni}}'' has Kotone, in a fit of jealousy, manage to undo Coach Mishimagi's ponytail and cut off a part of his hair. With a ''soft tennis ball''.
68	* Death the Kid in ''Manga/SoulEater'' had some of his hair cut off during a fight. However, since he's ''very'' obsessed with balance and symmetry, it was sufficient to ''knock him out''.
69	* In ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', this happens to Kirito during the Phantom Bullet arc, from a sniper bullet. He knows it's coming, but [[DodgeTheBullet can afford to stand in the open as bait]] to reveal the attacker's position.
70	* In ''Manga/TalesOfWeddingRings'', Granart lunges at Satou and slashes at his face. He barely manages to dodge with some frantic backpedaling, though her sword still trims the tips of his bangs.
71	* Nia from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' cuts her hair short after it's riddled with bullets during a fight. It's also CharacterDevelopment since the one who helps her with that is CoolBigSis Yoko, showing that they're putting away their disagreements.
72	* In ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' both Starjun and Midora are subjected to that, due to having enormously long hair.
73	* Slicer cuts off Miyuki's braid in the ''VideoGame/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever'' OVA.
74	** This is later referenced in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' with Signum as a MythologyGag.
75	** Speaking of ''Nanoha'', you can barely see it (it's one of those "pause it and THEN you'll see it), but in Nanoha and Fate's climatic battle, some of Nanoha's hair ''is'' shot off by Fate's ProjectileSpell.
76	* In ''Manga/{{Upotte}}'', Sako shoots off Sig's hair bun. Sig soon returns the favor by shooting off Sako's side braid and letting her know that if she has to take a second shot, it'll be Sako's ''[[EarAche ear]]'' that comes off next.
77	* In ''Manga/UshioAndTora'', Ushio tries to take out an enemy by tossing the spear... but only shaves off a few hairs.
78	* Sakuya get hers lopped off by a spear in ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}''.
79	* In ''Manga/WildRock'', Emba just barely escapes from the alligator he's trying to save Yuuen from. His [[BraidsOfAction Braid Of Action]] gets snapped clean off in the alligator's jaws.
80	* A variation occurs in the second episode of ''Manga/ZombieLoan'': The cleaver that cuts off one of Michiru's braids actually does hit and fatally wound her, subverting the "close call" aspect. But she's later resurrected and cuts the second one off herself.

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