No Social Skills / Anime & Manga

Characters with No Social Skills in Anime and Manga.

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• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You:
  • Suu Hifumi loves two things, numbers and Rentarou, and is openly disdainful of anything else. This causes her to struggle when integrating with the rest of Rentarou's Family because she doesn't really care about the rest of the girls but knows Rentarou does, so she tries for his sake. Ahko helps Suu by helping her memorize the other girls' names using Goroawase Numbers to utilize her love of numbers. By the end of it, the only girl Suu doesn't need this mnemonic with is Ahko herself. Ahko is thrilled but, true to trope, Suu appears oblivious to the significance.
  • In chapter 128, Suu is one of six girlfriends competing in a Fall Guys parody. She constantly sees the others helping one another out to pass the rounds, even though it isn't a team event, meaning there's no incentive to work together or help anyone else. When she finally asks why they're doing this, Momiji explains that it's no more than they all feel they'd be happier for everyone to succeed together. Suu doesn’t understand why that matters but does grasp that it does matter, leading to her helping the others in a number game they would have otherwise failed and risking her own chance at victory to save Shizuka from taking a fall, ultimately resulting in all six winning the contest.
• Seiichirou Kitano from Angel Densetsu. He's got a kind personality but a terrifying face, which results in him being avoided by most people and thus lacking in social experience. His resulting bizarre behavior serves to freak people out even more in a vicious cycle. He always speaks extremely literally and without deceit, and assumes that everyone else around him does as well, is completely unaware of the Delinquent reputations of himself and his friends at school, and he's an Actual Pacifist whose reaction to physical attacks (which he usually interprets as something quite different) is to rapidly dodge and try to calm down the other person even if he has gotten noticeably injured during the attack. This has resulted in him having a reputation as an unusually resilient thug at best and as an unkillable Humanoid Abomination at worst.
• In Aruosumente, Legna has had a sheltered upbringing, with the Senate taking great measures to make sure he has as little contact with people as possible to keep the past events from him. This means that while he is quite competent at his job and organizational affairs, he has no clue about how to deal with people. He also lacks imagination, so his demeanor comes off as blunt and straightforward, however, as soon as those around him realise that he's honest and determined, they tend to warm up to him somewhat.
• While Misa from Asteroid in Love usually appears as a composed Cool Big Sis, she is also prone to Blunt "Yes", Brutal Honesty, Innocently Insensitive or Poor Communication Kills moments in the scenes she appears. And according to Moe, she's been always bad at communicating, implying her social skills are lacking.
• Guts of Berserk is horrible at talking to people and Hates Being Touched on account of being a loner mercenery with some serious trust issues. This is before everything goes to shit and he goes on his quest for vengeance.
• Creed Diskenth, the Big Bad of Black Cat, combines this trope with Lack of Empathy, No Sense of Humour, and Evil Cannot Comprehend Good for truly awe-inspiring results. He can't understand or relate to other people at all, is an utter failure as a Manipulative Bastard, is prone to Freak Outs when he doesn't get his way, and honestly doesn't understand why killing The Hero's Not Love Interest would cause him to hate his (Creed's) guts. He frequently misunderstands people, doesn't get why his Bad Boss tendencies are causing his underlings to flee, is oblivious to his right-hand woman's blatant crush on him, and is convinced that Train will realise how much Creed matters to him once all his friends are dead. Unlike many examples on this page, it is never played for laughs.
• Although Yuno from Black Clover seems cold and aloof, he's actually just quiet and has problems communicating with most people except Asta, his best friend and foster brother who he grew up with. He doesn't care about befriending any of his squadmates at first and his Brutal Honesty causes him to provoke some people. He does improve over time, becoming closer to his fellow Golden Dawn members like Klaus and Mimosa.
• Blood+ has this in the Schiff. Having been created to be and raised as Living Weapons, the very concept of just asking for help or for something they need rather than taking said something by force is completely alien to them.
• Blue Exorcist has two examples:
  • The lead Okumura Rin definitely has no clue how to interact with people, especially early on. He tends to miss social clues and be especially blunt about things, though honestly he's a very kind person. This makes sense; pre-series he had no friends and never interacted with his peer group outside of his brother Yukio (when he wasn't off being an exorcist) so it's more like his social skill level is that of an elementary school student despite being a teenager. And then there is the other issues he has on top of that.
  • Moriyama Shiemi is more shy than Rin, since she never really left her house due to having been sickly and then being manipulated by a demon. She's faster on the uptake than Rin at times though, being naturally extroverted underneath her shy nature and taking steps herself to move past her awkwardness.
  • Yukio is a downplayed example. He's good at faking things, but most normal interactions outside of exorcist business leaves him clueless. Like not understanding he should text ahead that he's going to be late or not knowing the correct response to a joke. Understandable really, since he's always been aloof from his peer group due to being a Child Soldier and previously a Shrinking Violet.
• Code Geass: Despite being The Strategist and The Social Expert, Lelouch Lamperouge tends to flounder in social situations (to the point Shirley asking him out on a date confused him). He also can be weirdly dramatic about the strangest things. This is more evident in early R1 and R2 where Ashford gets more attention (see the Cat Hunt in R1.06 and the chase scene in R2.05 or pretty much all of "Cupid Day") and in extras such as the Picture Dramas and Audio Dramas. It gets more attention in Lighter and Softer Alternate Universe spin-offs like Private Tutor which shows off his more awkward side more often.
• Chainsaw Man:
  • Denji is an Idiot Hero with terrible social skills as a result of his Dark and Troubled Past, though being next to Power constantly makes him look downright normal by comparison.
  • Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold Asa in Part 2 is a Loser Protagonist to an extent that even Denji looks socially well-adapted by comparison. Calling Denji "maladjusted" would perhaps be too generous, but given that he grew up in hideous squalor as a wageslave to the yakuza, it's 100% not his fault. Asa has no friends because she's an antisocial and cynical grouch who's just genuinely that godawful at talking to people, to an extent that even Denji has had enough when she tries taking him out on a date and not only bores the hell out of him with marine trivia but when he tries to change the plans she immediately manages to slam his Trauma Button hard.
• In Creo the Crimson Crises we have Kiki, who's never even worn shoes or underwear until she joins the main cast. Her idea of making friends is to grope the first pretty girl that walks by, announcing her intentions, and breaking off a store sign as a gift of friendship.
• The Dangers in My Heart: Kyotaro Ichikawa. While he's great at reading people from afar, he spends so much time by himself that he turns into a shy stuttering mess when he actually has to talk and gets anxious about approaching people. When he sees that Yamada crying in the hallway and running out of tissues, he spends time thinking of the right way to leave his own packs for her at the library tables instead of just giving them to her. This, along with his own low self-esteem, leads to him downplaying the signs that Yamada actually likes him and misinterpreting her attempts to get close to him.
• Death Note:
  • L. He's socially awkward, dresses like a bum, and is the greatest detectives on the planet. ^note Yes, plural. He's the 'three' greatest detectives, acting as himself and under the pseudonyms of two former detectives he bested.
  • Near is also quite awkward and seems unlikely to get by if he had to fend for himself in the normal world. Oddly, despite their practical problems, they both possess great theoretical knowledge of people. His rival Mello left the Wammy's House orphanage where they were both raised at the age of 14 and is quite street-savvy in comparison.
• Inosuke in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba lived most of his life alone in the mountains, with only a little human interaction when he was an infant. As such, he had little to no experience and knowledge of social interactions, which makes him seem quite insensitive in his early appearances. However, it is progressively shown that most of it isn't done out of real malice; he really had no idea on how to be sensible towards people. From there on Tanjiro, the protagonist, becomes quite the mentor on how Inosuke develops in his empathy towards others.
• Goku in Dragon Ball was raised by his grandfather in the wilderness until he was 12 and said grandfather died. He had been so sheltered that he never truly assimilated into society, and the division is very evident until he is an adult. The worst symptom, however, would have to be his complete inability to assess gender from sight, which leads to some Accidental Perversion. Bulma is the first girl he had ever seen in his life, so she gets the worst of it. His grandfather had told him to be nice to girls — but it was apparently up to himself to figure out how. The sequel Dragon Ball Z also revealed Goku is a Human Alien known as a Saiyan. Saiyans are revealed to be natural born fighters, are usually aggressive and are drawn to strength. (Goku's kind heart is the result of his mother Gine and his head trauma as a baby. The other Saiyans we see, while liking companionship, function a bit differently than humans do.)
• Nana from Elfen Lied is an innocent girl raised in a lab. She knows absolutely nothing about the world outside the complex where she used to live, to the point of burning a "bunch of papers" that turned out to be money. And being gullible enough to believe that the money when kept together would attack her in her sleep.
• The heroine Eureka from Eureka Seven. She doesn't have any friends and doesn't open her heart to anyone prior to meeting the protagonist Renton. In the first episode, she did an insensitive thing by burning Renton's house down and she does not seem to comprehend why Renton reacted so miserable about it. She does not even know what is "cool", what love is and how to be pregnant with a baby. It is this lack of social skills that she had a hard time being a mother to her 3 kids. She eventually become a more sociable person towards the end of the series, thanks to the influence of her lover Renton.
• Shin of Eyeshield 21 could pass as a football expy of FMP's Sousuke because of this trait. He was basically a complete loner until he joined the football team in middle school. It actually makes his dedication to football a rather unintentional heartwarming moment, it was through football that he was able to make friends.
• Fairy Tail:
  • Natsu was raised by the Fire Dragon Igneel. While Igneel taught him things like Fire Dragon Slayer magic and speech, he clearly wasn't able to teach Natsu typical human social customs. Then Igneel vanished when Natsu was still little. Natsu was then taken in and raised by the mages of Fairy Tail, and all of them are to some degree crazy (and awesome).
  • Gajeel (being the Vegeta to Natsu's Goku) plays the other side of the coin: he acts like a complete Jerkass on account of being raised by Metalicana (who is hinted to have been a lot more abrasive than Igneel) and ended up with Phantom Lord who put a lot more stock in just being horribly strong and powerful and didn't ever bother to fit in or learn the need for a family. From time to time though he shows that he cares about his new guild mates.
• Food Wars!: Erina Nakiri. At one point, while complaining to Soma about his narrow-minded view of cooking, he completely ignores everything she has to say just to point out that she is really hard to talk to despite his own ability to get along with others. She doesn't have any friends, only an assistant that worships her and a cousin that likes making fun of her. Her poor social skills are a result of her father Azami intentionally isolating her as a child to have more control over her, including destroying letters to and from Alice, the closest thing she had to a friend.
• Shou Tucker from Fullmetal Alchemist prefers to be engrossed in his work than socialize with others, and he turns out to be one of the more horrific examples of a character with no social skills. How bad are his social skills? He uses alchemy to transmute his wife and later his five-year-old daughter and her dog into chimeric abominations in constant agony in the name of science, completely fails to comprehend that he did anything wrong to the extent that he honestly thought his unethical experiments would be rewarded, and decides that the reason others are enraged at his actions, place him under house-arrest and charge him as a criminal is because "no-one is capable of understanding me".
• Tasuki of Fushigi Yuugi, the resident Jerk with a Heart of Gold, who was raised by a matriarchal family with a very meek father, a dominant mother and five sisters, then ran away from home as a teenager and continued to be raised by a gang of thieves. In pretty much any given situation, if there's an insensitive remark, indelicate observation or obnoxious joke to be made, it will come out of his mouth. Such blunt force honesty also makes him surprisingly credulous for someone who ostensibly rose to the leadership of a gang of thieves.
• Gundam:
  • Mobile Fighter G Gundam: Domon Kasshu spent the latter half of his twenty-year life being raised in the woods by ludicrously badass but eccentric Master Asia. As such he's good at being passionately Hot-Blooded, really good at beating things up and...well, not much else.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing's Heero Yuy. Anybody who rips up an invite to a girl's birthday party, wipes away the resulting tear, and then states that he will kill her hardly counts as normal.
• Kobayashi Sumisugu from Harlem Beat is a stoic Perpetual Frowner armed with Death Glare and Brutal Honesty. He either scared people with his aloofness or pissed them off until Imagawa and consequently Johnan team befriended him.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • Germany, to the point that he has to consult books repeatedly just to help him understand his "special pal" North Italy, his Foil who happens to be very physically affectionate, ditzy, and outgoing. Germany is very tightly wound, and his usual way to solve a problem involves either screaming at and/or threatening the person responsible until they back down, and it's clear that he's making exceptions for Italy.
  • Russia is outwardly sweet and kind, and as a child he was a clear case of I Just Want to Have Friends, but being bullied and rejected by those around him forced him to make friends in other ways ("All Will Become One With Russia" indeed...). It's clear even in the present that he doesn't know how to make friends in a non-forceful, non-threaten-people-into-complying manner. At one point, he writes anonymously to France's radio show for advice how to do so.
• Ruru from HuGtto! Pretty Cure doesn't understand normal social conventions and doesn't understand why people would do things inefficiently. She herself notes that due to this, people interacting with her decreased by 80% after a week.
• I Got My Wish and Reincarnated as the Villainess (Last Boss)!: Not her fault, but until Elizabeth enters school when she becomes 14 after the titular reincarnation, she's been in some form of The Shut-In for a total of 30 years—she was bedridden for the entirety of her first life (which she died at 16) and then getting the Madwoman in the Attic treatment after reincarnation due to Fantastic Racism. She is quite eager to make friends when she enters school, but she has no idea how to, due to a lack of experience.
• Inuyasha, as a defining trait. He was orphaned at a young age, his only remaining family is a full demon half-brother who hates his guts and because of his half-breed status is ostracized by both human and demonic society. Small surprise that his personality is coarse and he is known for speaking his mind no matter what the situation, not to mention a willingness to respond to any perceived slight with his fists.
• Sexy Mentor Shigure Kousaka of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple is a borderline example. She spent her formative years in the wilderness with her swordsmith father; though he did love her, he was so absent-minded that he never even bothered to give her a name. In the present, Shigure is shown to sometimes lack social graces and speaks very slowly, with a second or so passing between one word and the next, and she rarely ever reflects any emotion in her speaking habits outside of combat.
• Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi ni Todoke is so unaware of how much other people care about her, she spends the entire 2nd volume of the manga ignoring her friends to preserve their popularity.
• Shouko Komi, title character of Komi Can't Communicate, cannot talk directly to other people without extreme stuttering. If she's put in an unusual social situation, she freezes up and her mind becomes blank. The series is based on her wanting to make friends despite these issues.
• Make the Exorcist Fall in Love: As a Child Soldier and a Shell-Shocked Veteran, Father is clearly socially stunted and withdrawn. He addresses all questions with Brutal Honesty because the Bible frowns upon telling lies, struggles with how to speak to Imuri without offending her, and has no concept of what it means to be "cute". Leah and Barbara regularly lecture Father on his lack of tact and he sweats bullets when he accidentally commits social faux pas. It's later revealed that Father's abusive childhood renders him incapable of telling faces apart. Everyone appears as a cancerous, vaguely featured blob due to the enormity of his trauma. This is why he can't understand "cuteness", as everything and everyone looks like a twisted soul in Gehenna.
• Rei Kiriyama from March Comes in Like a Lion isn't particularly good at socializing with people, especially at school. He opts out of class events, and every lunch, he eats alone at either the roof or the stairwell leading to it. If it wasn't for his teacher dropping by every now and then, he wouldn't be talking to anyone.
• MARRIAGETOXIN: Gero was raised to be an assassin, and because of that, he did not do things like go to school or even to kindergarten and is very awkward around people. Trying to go to a match-making session after hearing that the income is one of the most attractive parts of a man just makes him blurt out his income randomly to people, which makes him come across as boastful. His smiles creep people out and his incapacity to eat in restaurants (because he was trained to not eat food served by other people) makes his date leave.
• Medaka Box: The titular character Kurokami Medaka is introduced from the get-go as a super-talented genius whose amazing abilities have rendered it nearly impossible for her to relate to other people, even though she desperately wants to. For example; when she tutored a class regarding national exams, what she ended up teaching was how to write "1" and "7" in a way that wouldn't confuse the examiners. She assumed from the start that people didn't get questions wrong, they just made mistakes in writing those answers, as she herself had always gotten full marks in every test she'd ever taken. Zenkichi remarks that Medaka just can't understand people who try and don't succeed, and so a lot of her attempts at interacting with or reforming people tend to be rather over-the-top and... well, generally strange.
• Lucia in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, is a mermaid in the human world. When she is in mermaid society she has No Social Skills there either! In the manga she was raised on the surface, but in the anime, she was just as clueless about the society that she had been retconned to grow up in. What's more, she's the princess.
• My Roommate is a Cat: Subaru, who tends to avoid people, shows a few signs of this. When buying cat food for his new cat, his mistakes a store employee asking him for his cat's name and age for asking about him. He also doesn't get around giving the cat a name until one of his acquaintances presses the issue.
• The title character from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water qualifies. Having spent thirteen years of mistreatment by a cruel ringmaster, she's suspicious of everybody, detests killing, and adamantly opposed to eating meat. As such, she doesn't know how to interact with other people. She either lashes out in a rage, misunderstands others' actions, and stubbornly refuses to see beyond her calls of judgment. Worse still, she is not able to admit what her problem is and expects her friends to just "read her mind." Nadia becomes a much more sociable and trusting character, however, as a result of starting to form close relationships with Jean, Marie, Grandis, and, to a lesser extent, the Nautilus crew.
• Naruto:
  • Naruto was always shunned and avoided like the plague because of the Kyuubi sealed within him, which left him with not too much social practice. He likes to shout and insult people who can blast him away without him as much as feeling it. He can't get obvious behavior signals such as Sakura punching him; to Naruto, this isn't a massive hint to back off, it means he should try harder. He doesn't understand Hinata's shy behavior or the reasons behind it. For him, it means "she's just weird".
  • When attempting to be sociable, Sai (who has been raised to suppress his emotions, and the Only Friend he had prior to meeting Team 7 died) usually winds up insulting someone. He eventually learns his lesson; people seem to like it when you tell them the opposite of what you think of them.
  • Gaara, thanks to having a similar childhood, is not much better than Naruto—in fact, he might be even worse. Gaara Hiden reveals he was completely unaware of Shikamaru and Temari's sexual tension (something that even Naruto noticed), and thus was the only one surprised when they got together. Further interactions with his fiancée reveal that as great a leader as he is, Gaara has little-to-no idea on how to interact with other people on a more familiar level (besides his family).
• Natsume from Natsume's Book of Friends initially finds it very hard to open up to people because of his ability to see youkai.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
  • Kotaro, a half wolf who was abandoned as a child who has little sense of being polite, or ever spent time doing anything normal besides training to fight.
  • Princess Arika spent her whole life confined in the royal palace of Ostia, the result being that her social development was somewhat stunted, turning her into The Stoic. She didn't even know what ice cream was until Nagi showed her.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • Shinji Ikari is a shy, lonely kid with awful social skills. A good part of the drama of the show would have simply not happened if he had realized when someone needed his help — when he was capable of giving it — or when someone cared about him. In fact, The End of the World as We Know It might had been averted had he realized that the Fiery Redhead Tsundere other half of his Battle Couple reciprocated his feelings.
  • Asuka Langley Soryu is a traumatized, insecure kid with no self-esteem who has no idea of how to interact with other people and is frightened of them, so she resorts to being loud so that nobody ignores her and intentionally acts obnoxious so that nobody wants to befriend her.
  • As the show progresses, it becomes increasingly obvious that Shinji's estranged father, Gendo, is ultimately not that different from his son. He clearly dislikes having to deal directly with other people for prolonged periods of time and never says a single word more than what he feels he absolutely has to. It is also ultimately revealed to be his reason for abandoning his son: after his wife's death, he didn't know how to take care of Shinji because he was afraid of Shinji. His self-hatred made him frightened of the idea that he could be loved by anyone, even his own son, so he foisted Shinji off on other people.
• In the beginning of New Game!, Kou appears to be quite funny and outgoing. But in Chapter 14/Episode 5, it's revealed that she was much less sociable when she started, having I Work Alone tendencies and an aversion to people, plus a side order of Brutal Honesty and (in Rin's case) Oblivious to Love.
• Tomoko Kuroki from No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! has this as the main plot. The girl's so socially awkward that she thinks emulating anime tropes would make her more popular.
• One Piece:
  • Luffy, due to his simple-minded and straightforward thinking. He has a habit of asking random strangers if they poop and calling people idiot to their face. However, he's incredibly charismatic and pure example of a Magnetic Hero. His lack of social skills is part of his charm.
  • Zoro. When he is not in combat, he is fairly shy and awkward in social situations, usually getting frustrated when things get out of his comfort zone. His relationships with Sanji and Tashigi exemplify this.
• PandoraHearts:
  • Oswald/Glen Baskerville was never much of a talker to begin with, but the first time he meets Jack really drives his antisocial nature home: He blatantly tells him that he is an unreadable and therefore untrustworthy person right to his face and then is genuinely surprised when Jack retaliates by splashing a glass full of water in his face. Somehow, the two end of being the best of friends. That is, until Jack betrays and murders Glen.
  • His successor Leo wasn't that much better, especially owing to a rather lonely childhood. The first time he met Elliot, he snapped at him for disturbing him while reading a book, starts comparing him to the self-centered protagonist of said book, and eventually calls him a bore. Elliot, of course, did not take this very well. As time went on, they became Vitriolic Best Friends and Leo got better from this.
• Pokémon: The Original Series: "The Kangaskhan Kid" is about a kid who was raised by the titular Pokémon. He was lost by his parents when they were on vacation. One of the first things he does when meeting Ash and the gang is asking Misty if he can nurse off her. This line didn't survive in the dub. It was changed to him asking whether they are Pokémon or people, but they left in the shot of him clearly staring at her chest and her hitting him in anger.
• Homura Akemi of Puella Magi Madoka Magica initially seems to be a stoic, antagonistic character. Certainly, her actions cause other characters to see her as creepy or hostile. It turns out Homura has difficulty expressing herself. Part of this is due to her belief that other people cannot understand her, and part of this is due to her Friendless Background (and possibly orphaned background). In fact, Homura is a very emotional character who can be visibly seen trying to contain her feelings at various points in the series. She was also a Shrinking Violet before becoming a magical girl.
• Ranma ½: Ranma is marked by his Hilariously Abusive Childhood and has trouble getting on with people, though he's better off then many other examples of this trope and, in the manga, is actually one of the most manipulative characters.
• In Rebuild World, Akira has spent so much time looking out for no one but himself that his social skills are nonexistent. His Brutal Honesty to people he doesn't know does nothing but piss them off and drive away potential allies, while his awkwardness and lack of candor around people he's more comfortable with prevent him from forming deeper relationships. His cynical train of thought also means that he has trouble reading anything other than ill-intent, assuming Reina wanted more of the reward money when she was actually surprised that he was splitting it equally between them.
• In Saki Shinohayu -dawn of age-, Kanna Ishitobi is this, largely as a result of being left at home by herself quite often. After angrily lashing out at her friends over losing a game of mahjong to them (she had been undefeated before), she overhears them complaining about her, and ends up having to look at a website to find out how to apologize.
• Serial Experiments Lain: Lain talks in a halted staccato, doesn't seem to understand basic social conventions, and spends most of her time on a cyberpunk version of the internet.
• Lonely Rich Kid Kagura Tennouzou from Speed Grapher is kept isolated from the world, so male lead Saiga has to teach her about it when he frees her from her evil family.
• Because she grew up in the ocean, Ika Musume from Squid Girl doesn't know anything about humans when she first comes to the surface.
  Ika: What's a military?
• In Tamayura, Fuu is supposedly very awkward around strangers, but aside from the occasional stuttering and blushing she manages just fine most of the time.
• Nia from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann falls between this and Sheltered Aristocrat, having been raised in isolation for her entire life until she was literally put in a box and left on a landfill. She's completely oblivious to any kind of negative mood... which isn't a good thing when one of the cast members has just died.
• Both Yuuto and Kotone from Tonari no Kashiwagi-san have trouble with interpersonal interactions, which makes their relationship all the more awkward. Yuuto is a little better at it if it doesn't involve Kotone, though.
• Vinland Saga: Thorfinn begins the saga as a violent, apathetic, antisocial Jerkass who can't even have a civil conversation with the man who knew him from before his time growing up in Viking band, although he gets better after the time skip.
• Saori Chiba from Wandering Son is both a realistic example and example not Played for Laughs or cuteness. She has no friends at the start of the manga, later chapters reveal that she Hates Everyone Equally, and even when she becomes more friendly her social skills are rather awkward. She Cannot Tell a Joke and when she's having friendship issues her first thought is to destroy her two-year friendship and ignore that person.
• Cheza in Wolf's Rain, a "flower maiden" created by blending human and plant DNA, has grown up in a laboratory, spending most of her time semi-comatose in a glass vessel. Ironically enough, or perhaps appropriately, when she is finally released from the lab she is mutually drawn toward real wolves (albeit intelligent talking wolves who can pass for human) and leads them on their quest to find Paradise.
• Keima from The World God Only Knows doesn't know certain social basics like how to make friends or cheer someone up, courtesy of a Friendless Background. His vast experience of dating sims lets him play the suitor, but when it comes to befriending someone, he's at a loss.
• Ya Boy Kongming!: Kabetaijin is shown to be extremely shy and socially awkward outside of rap battles. In fact, the whole reason he got into rap was because he found he could express himself that way when he couldn't in any other. When rapping, he's confident, cool, and popular. When not... he's barely able to start a conversation.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • In a small way, Yami Yugi fits this trope. While good at cheering up and supporting Yugi's friends when the occasion arises, he flounders when Yugi forces him into a "date" with Anzu. Justified in that he sees himself as Yugi's protector, is out of his time, and is sharing a life with someone else.
    Yami Yugi: Yugi! I'm not... you can't... this isn't a duel! [notices Anzu] ...Hello.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS:
    • Yusaku became this after his Dark and Troubled Past that turned him to a revengeful person that barely interacts with anyone and has no friends. Kusanagi even teases him that he can't talk to girls, the dub takes it further that he can't talk with anyone.
    • Earth too, it's practically his catchphrase. Considering his Origin is also someone who can't interact with people normally...
      Earth: I am socially awkward.
• In Yuri is My Job!, Mitsuki Yano(Ayanokouji in the salon) is a relatively understated and realistic case of this. In early chapters, and even during a flashback to how she met Hime in elementary school, she seems like she's merely a case of Brutal Honesty, but later chapters reveal that she struggles to read between the lines in social situations. As a result, she has a hard time gauging what people's real intentions are or when it's more appropriate to tell a lie, so she prefers to say what's on her mind.

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