Americans Are Cowboys / Anime & Manga

And some are rodeo stars!

• Invoked in The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You. Girlfriend #13, the protagonist's teacher Nadeshiko Yamato, is a reverse Occidental Otaku (i.e. ethnically Japanese but pretending to be an American) who calls herself "Naddy" and wears cowboy getup almost all the time. Some English translations also give her a southern US accent.
• Fumio's grandfather in Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo was a Texan bounty-hunter who wears a cowboy hat and frilled buckskin vest.
• In Midori Days, when Lucy's friend Daniel shows up to try and bring her back to America, he's dressed in...well, typical cowboy attire.
• Melody Honey, a reoccuring character in both Arcade Gamer Fubuki and Sgt. Frog, is a busty blonde model/pop idol/pro gamer who usually dresses in a skimpy cow-girl outfit.
• Jack King and the Texas Mack from Getter Robo. Also his tribute in Gekiganger 3, Cowboy Johnny and the Texas Robo.
• Cathy in RahXephon.
• Reina Gorn in The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service is a scientist from the United States who is almost always seen wearing a cowboy hat.
• Terryman and Terry the Kid from Kinnikuman and Ultimate Muscle. They're also from Texas, and specialize in appropriately-flavored moves, like the Calf Branding.
  • Terryman himself is based on legendary professional wrestler (and Texan) Terry Funk,◊ who did actually dress in a cowboy hat and a poncho for years, making this a Justified Trope in his case.
  • Averted with Specialman (a gridiron football player) and Pentagon (a masked luchadore, but one with eagle wings).
• In Mobile Fighter G Gundam, America's Gundam Maxter is a Boxer Surfer Football Player Cowboy. In the reimagined Choukyuu! G Gundam manga, its Mid-Season Upgrade Max Revolver ditches all those motifs except for the Cowboy one.
• Jackie Gudelhian from Future GPX Cyber Formula. He wears a cowboy hat, likes rodeo riding and he's from Kentucky. He is even nicknamed the "High-tech Cowboy''.
• A character from Digimon Tamers who shows up only briefly via video link is a computer programmer and friend of the 'Monster Makers' who originally coded the Digimon is blond and wears a stetson. The dub even adds a Texan drawl to him.
• Averted with America in Hetalia: Axis Powers. The one time he does dress up as a cowboy, it's justified as other characters dress up in national costumes as well.
• The American Pretty Cure in HappinessCharge Pretty Cure! are cowgirls (except the one who is a Native American).
• Sega Genesis from the Sega Hard Girls franchise provides the trope image. As the Sega Mega Drive was released in the U.S. as the Sega Genesis and both consoles are represented by separate characters in the series, "Genny" (pronounced "Jennie") is a transfer student who comes to Japan after having studied in the U.S. Being the American console, naturally she wears cowboy attire from head-to-toe along with a bandana halter top with the design of the American flag on it, with shades of black from the console she's based off of. She also has a loud, rude but charismatic personality, based on the console's aggressive marketing campaign in the U.S.
• Usually averted in Case Closed. There are several types of Americans in that series, ranging from blondes to black-haired American or dark-skinned or black people. However, there was one time where Conan distinguishes the British James Black from a similar looking Texas-native American (portrayed with a cowboy hat) through their different accents. Said American had a strong Southern accent.
• Averted in Magic Knight Rayearth. Autozam represents the United States of America. Yet none of the characters from Autozam are cowboys. Some do wear green berets. And their leader is styled to resemble a bald eagle.
• Averted in Blue Exorcist. Lightning (a Texan no less!) is the first explicitly American character to appear, but he doesn't look or act like a cowboy. He does sometimes wear a poncho, but thats about it.
• Colt, one of the four principle characters in Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs is a hotshot pilot, and an American. You can tell he's American by his cowboy hat.
• JACK in Cat Planet Cuties is a character meant to be an American stereotype, that includes being a cowboy. She wears a cowboy hat, wears almost nothing, is often seen eating fast food, and drives a Corvette Stingray.
• In the Samurai Pizza Cats episode where they travel to New York City, Speedy's American counterpart is named "The Sundance Kid" and is dressed like Clint Eastwoods's famous "The Man With No Name" character, who wore a cowboy hat with a poncho. Although his combat uniform is a baseball player he still retains elements of this because he uses twin revolvers as his weapon of choice.
• Voltes V: When Ippei Mine was a young boy, his family immigrated from Japan to America. He spent most of his life in California where he became a famous rodeo star, winning several awards with his horse, Eiffel. It was because of this that Ippei was selected^note Forcibly kidnapped from California to Japan and forced to undergo rigorous training for a year to become one of the five pilots of Voltes V. Ippei also dons a cowboy hat and a whip in some episodes, and generally has a crude, abrasive, hot-blooded attitude in contrast to his Implied Love Interest, Megumi.
• In Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Alex the American exchange student is depicted with a cowboy-styled witch hat on the cover of volume 24 while the Japanese witches are always depicted with regular, black witch hats.