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alt title(s): Genki Boy 
Pink-haired Shuichi knows how to lighten up the mood.
Direct male equivalent to the Genki Girl and the female audience's surrogate. Best described as the human equivalent of a parakeet: small, cute, colorful, hyperactive and regularly loud.
Pops up here and there, especially in shojo and shows with BL overtones; if he is the star, he is usually paired off in some form with his polar opposite. This character is born out of an enduring and surprisingly strict design plan for characters in Boys Love manga commonly called the uke.
Often subject to a cross-dressing escapade.
Not to be confused with Keef, despite how well he fits this trope.
Examples
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Anime & Manga
- Naruto in Part I. Not so much in Part II, where he matures. This is lampshaded in the Shippuden anime when Naruto and Sakura do an Omake beside their younger selves, and Naruto can't believe how hyper he used to be.
- Akatsuki member Tobi is also hyperactive, especially in the Anime version. When he reveals himself to be Madara Uchiha, though, he drops the act.
- Arguably, both Al and Edward at times in Fullmetal Alchemist. Though not nearly as much as the other examples.
- Yuri in Kyou Kara Maou. Most of the time.
- Shuichi in Gravitation (see above picture). Ryuichi
 ◊, however, is unarguably the show's biggest Keet. There's another side to him, however....
- A good 25% of the cast of Ouran High School Host Club, but especially Hunny.
- Nagisa Shiroi in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch.
- Tetsunosuke in Peacemaker Kurogane.
- The aptly-named Genki in Monster Rancher.
- Takeru Takaishi from Digimon Adventure.
- Veemon is a Genki, well, mon. His method of introduction was to jump around Davis and say "Hi! I'm Veemon, but you can just call me Veemon!"
- It's why Veemon's such a great match for Davis. While Takeru's busy being wangsty in Digimon Adventure 02, Davis takes Takeru's place as the Keet.
- Son Goten of Dragon Ball Z.
- Hanagata from Saber Marionette J is also a Camp Gay.
- Keigo Asano from Bleach, a rare straight example.
- Momiji Sohma from Fruits Basket is the embodiment of this trope and seems to be straight. He grows up at the end and stops being as much of a Keet, though he's still rather genki.
- Eiji Kikumaru from Prince of Tennis, though he evolves more into a Bunny Ears Lawyer as his character develops through the series. Arguably, people like Jiroh Akutagawa from Hyoutei Gakuen and Kintarou Tooyama from Shitenhouji fit more into the archetype.
- Gash Bell himself.
- Chico from the second Boku No Pico OVA. Even though he's a Cute Shotaro Boy, he's the most outgoing and cheerful in the third OVA. Pico even gets annoyed with him for a bit.
- Asato Tsuzuki from Yami No Matsuei waffles back and forth between being this and The Woobie.
- Feliciano/North Italy from Axis Powers Hetalia mixes this with The Ditz.
- Ushijima in Shikabane Hime is another hetero example.
- Tony Tony Chopper from One Piece to a certain extent.
- In Mahou Sensei Negima, a good portion of the male student body falls under this. The final event in the previous year's Mahorafest was a game of tag. Which they aren't repeating this year because there were too many injuries.
- Negi also qualifies when he's able to get away from his Training From Hell and responsibilities as a teacher. When he acquires a time machine during the festival arc and realizes he has enough time to do everything, he goes right into adorable-kid mode.
- His first impulse was to use the time machine to go back and see the dinosaurs.
- Kimihiro Watanuki in xxxHolic is so Keet that eventually Doumeki stops bothering to tell him to quit being so loud and simply covers his ears when Watanuki inevitably gets overexcited. Or annoyed, which happens more often in Doumeki's vicinity.
- Isaac from Baccano! is keet enough to give even his Genki Girlfriend Miria a run for her money in hyperactivity.
- Son Goku from Saiyuki is often described as this, especially by fans who have only watched the anime. In the manga, he slowly grows out of it.
- Jin from YuYuHakusho This is not helped by the fact that he has the same Japanese voice actor as Ryuichi Sakuma.
- The concept itself is horribly, horribly deconstructed by Kiyoshi Mitarai, though.
- Yogi from Karneval can be overdramatic and flamboyant one moment, then more serious than his "rival" First Ship's female fighter the next. He's not small and cute, though; just loud and cheery. It annoys the heck outta Ineffectual Loner Gareki when his sunshiny personality is directed at him.
- Cooro from plusAnima.
- Akito from AirGear.
- Micchi of Kamichama Karin takes this to whole new levels. His interaction with the rest of the main cast comes dangerously close to flirting (both with Karin and Kazune). This is even though he's a year older and One Head Taller than either of them.
- Mizushiro Hizumi from Spiral is "the Devil"... a very, very cheerful and cute one. When he isn't being murderous and/or unbearably angsty, that is - he'll switch between all three moods in a matter of seconds.
- Ryuk, a Death God of all possible characters in Death Note, is incredibly lighthearted and excitable in his own cynical way.
- Jun/Barry from the Pokemon anime.
Comics
- Bart Allen at least when he was Impulse and not Kid Flash.
Literature
- Tasslehoff Burrfoot from the Dragonlance series. In fact his entire race is pretty much this.
- Well, remember, the kender, as a race, never experience fear without massive magical power. Even dragons don't bother them.
- Jeko, from Douglas Hill's ColSec Trilogy, is a small, wiry, hyperactive young man who's always trying to rile the resident Tsundere. (On an off note, although it's not anime, it's mentioned at one point that he's Japanese-American.) Enough said.
- The Creevey brothers from Harry Potter.
Live Action TV
- Ban from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger takes the standard anime personality for The Hero to galactic proportions. He's ultra-loud and ultra-hyperactive 24/7. He doesn't appear to be shorter than his teammates, but it's hard to tell: he never stands still long enough for one to compare height.
- Ziggy from Power Rangers RPM fits this rather nicely, as well as Cloud Cuckoo Lander. Doesn't really count as "western" live action, since, as has been stated elsewhere, Power Rangers is essentially a live action Anime.
- Post-Flanderization, J.D. from Scrubs is probably the closest western, live-action example of this character-type.
- Another western, live-action example is Shawn from Psych. He's not short, but he is hyperactive and loud and VERY excitable. Also like a parakeet, he loves shiny things.
- Ky Lee from The Librarians.
- Boober Fraggle, Fraggle Rock's resident Eeyore, has an alter-ego named Sidebottom who is a textbook example of this trope.
- Adam Savage.
- Nobuta Wo Produce has the hyperactive touchy rich-boy Akira as its Keet.
- Jeremy from the Korean drama "You're Beautiful" fits this trope to the letter. Unfortunately, he's not always as happy as he seems.
Music
Video Games
- How dare you tropers forget Kieran on this page, thou lying cowards! I have marked you now and forevermore as my archrivals, tropers!
- Speaking of FE 10, Tormod also definitely qualifies.
- Sir! Officer Mike Meekins definitely qualifies, sir!!
- Charmy Bee fits perfectly into this trope, as he is often energetic, playful, and very scatterbrained. Of course, his constant buzzing can be annoying sometimes.
- Mao from Tales of Rebirth is a Cute Shotaro Boy who seems to be always ready to lighten up the mood.
- In Dissidia, Tidus feels like this. But it's a different play on this trope — he is not overly upbeat, but when you put him with the rest of the game's cast, he is a damn good machine of mood-lightening.
Web Comics
- T-Bob from Something Positive, described in an early bio as "the living embodiment of caffeine."
- Kazuki from Kenshiro no Tabi, who upon imbibing triple-sweetened strawberry-milk released enough energy to create a nuclear explosion.
- Order Of The Stick's Elan.
- Selby the spaniel from Woods For The Trees.
Web Original
- Keiji Tanaka of Survival of the Fittest, whilst not exactly small, fits the rest of the criteria for Keetness to an absolute "T".
- "OH MY GOD! THIS IS THE GREATEST MOVIE THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!!!!" -- Chester A. Bum
- KateModern's Lee is yet another Western example, particularly in season 2.
- Timmy from Gaia Online. Yeep!
- Our favorite "sexy French space lumberjack", Benzaie. His catchphrase is yelping "BUT WAIT!", he's known to get into compromising positions with Spoony and had a sweet, violent, and hilarious rivalry with That Dude in the Suede, and he's prone to randomly cross-dressing. He's also really, really pretty. Benzaie seems to be the French example of this trope. And we love him for it.
- The Mighty Morphin' Midget Gnomes.
- 1-Up in the 20X6 universe of Homestar Runner. This also applies a little bit to present-day counterpart Homestar Runner himself, although he is more of a Cloud Cuckoolander and most any behavior he exhibits that falls under this trope is as a result of it.
Western Animation
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