History Main / AnimeHair

** The Marquise Spinneret Mindfang. You see that[[note]]completely black[[/note]] hat? That's... not a hat.

** The Marquise Spinneret Mindfang. You see that \[[note]]completely black hat[[/note]]? That's... not a hat.

* [[IrishMythology Cú Chulainn]] in his ''[[UnstoppableRage ríastrad]]'' as described in the ''TainBoCuailnge'' -- "The hair of his head twisted like the tange of a red thornbush stuck in a gap; if a royal apple tree with all its kingly fruit were shaken above him, scarce an apple would reach the ground but each would be spiked on a bristle of his hair as it stood up on his scalp with rage."

* ''Film/RurouniKenshin'' both plays this trope straight and averts it. Kenshin has his iconic red hair (which would be quite improbable in the period the film takes place in), while Sanosuke loses his anime spikes in favor of a more messy, disheveled look. * ''SuckerPunch ''has Rocket, and quite possibly the best rendition of Anime hair spikes in a live-action work to date. [[http://mindtrickdmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Rocket.jpg Just look at it.]]

* ''SuckerPunch ''has Rocket, and quite possibly the best rendition of Anime hair spikes in a live-action work to date. [[http://mindtrickdmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Rocket.jpg Just look at it.]]

* ''Film/RurouniKenshin'' both plays this trope straight and averts it. Kenshin has his iconic red hair (which would be quite improbable in the period the film takes place in), while Sanosuke loses his anime spikes in favor of a more messy, disheveled look.

** Yuuma from ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'' must be seen to be believed. He has possibly the weirdest hair the series has yet, and that really says something.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': John's hair has been described as Bed Hair 2: [[ElectricBoogaloo Bed]] [[Film/DieHard Harder.]] His {{Troll}} counterpart, Karkat takes that style UpToEleven with some impressive ShonenHair. Yet both of their hair styles are downright tame in comparasion to [[TheStoner Gamzee]], whose hair easily makes up a third of his body and bends and sticks in impossible ways. Dave and Dirk, on the other hand, both have hairstyles that look like birds.

** [[http://maritova.tumblr.com/post/3192667787/daves-hair-is-a-bird-your-argument-is-invalid Dave's hair is a bird]].

* Sheamus has spiky red hair that only adds to his unique look.
* The Miz also tends to sport a very strange hairstyle--especially in his early days in WWE--that looks not unlike a rooster's comb.

** The dub has a moment in the Virtual World filler arc where a villain hoping to defeat and possess Yugi talks about how he'll be happy to walk free, but he'll have to shave his (Yugi's) head first. This is the [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight only mention anywhere]] of that hair, and it wasn't in the original.

** WhiteHairedPrettyGirl

** Yugi's friends have weird hair, too. Otogi has standard black spikes, but Honda's hair is a giant brown horn. Anzu and Jounochi both have very poofy hair that sticks out at least several inches from their head.
** Kimo, Pegasus's henchman from the Duelist Kingdom arc, has a hairstyle like Honda's, except it points ''straight'' upward.

* Ryu from ''ShamanKing'' starts off with a [http://pompfiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/screenshotshamanking.png pompadour] that sticks out a good two-and-a-half feet from his face. Oddly enough, when roughly half of it gets cut off early in the series, [http://moe.animecharactersdatabase.com/uploads/thumbs/156561932.jpg it stays off.]
** This becomes a running gag through the series. The tip gets cut off, and a [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qdmCaVWJfhE/TOktZLLGljI/AAAAAAAAAtk/XxpvyQOkjsk/s1600/ryu.jpg ''smaller pompadour'' grows out of the tip.] The tip of this gets cut off. Repeat. [http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9925/skryu0015wz7.th.jpg And then the whole thing gets SPLIT DOWN THE CENTER.] [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090118214756/shamanking/en/images/5/54/Umemiya_Rynosuke.jpg It continues the process.]

* Ryu from ''ShamanKing'' starts off with a pompadour that sticks out a good two-and-a-half feet from his face. Oddly enough, when roughly half of it gets cut off early in the series, it stays off.
** This becomes a running gag through the series. The tip gets cut off, and a ''smaller pompadour'' grows out of the tip. The tip of this gets cut off. Repeat. And then the whole thing gets SPLIT DOWN THE CENTER. It continues the process.

AnimeHair is very common among protagonists of anime/manga for the ShonenDemographic, although the trend seems to be headed to more plausible styles: compare [[{{Dragonball}} Son Goku]]'s hair to [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Ichigo's]].

* Pick any Saiyan character from ''Manga/DragonBall''. It gets even weirder once they go up to Super Saiyan levels. When Goku reaches Super Saiyan ''level three'', he [[PowerMakesYourHairGrow grows golden hair]] all the way down to his ''feet''.

** Gets a nod in [[DragonBallEvolution the movie]] when Goku tries to slick back his hair for a party - only for it to spring back up. [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Bulma]] only has a few blue streaks in her hair, though.

** That's probably because the original character designer was [[DragonBall Akira Toriyama]]

* Pretty much everyone in ''TenchiMuyo!'', although Tenchi and Seina themselves are a little reasonable in the spikiness level. Washu, on the other hand, has the part around her face deliberately styled to look like a crab, and ''then'' you get to the ponytail....

* Most of the female ''Anime/{{Mai-HiME}}'' cast has relatively normal hair styles, although in a small rainbow of colors (including Natsuki, whose hair is blue). There are three major exceptions, though:

* In ''{{Mai-Otome}}'', secondary villain Tomoe has her hair done long on her right side, but cut short on her left. The aforementioned Shiho has [[OjouRinglets double drill-hair]] in this universe... not surprising, given that spirals are [[PluckyComicRelief part of her whole schtick]].

** She probably got it from her dad...

* Implausibly, Garnier started marketing a hair-styling range called "manga hair" around 2005 or so, complete with commercials full of bounding Goku-coiffured gents and ladies. Inconceivable! It does deliver nigh-on-indestructible results and is practically water-proof. Said spikes have [[EyeScream caused injuries to huggers]].