History Main / ImplausibleHairColor

** The blonds of ''DigimonAdventure'', Yamato and Takeru, are [[ButNotTooForeign part-French]], and [[DigimonSavers Touma]] is part-Austrian, so that, at least, is reasonable. The same explanation doesn't seem to be the case for the other blonds present in the series, [[DigimonTamers Yamaki]], [[DigimonFrontier Izumi]], [[DigimonXrosWars Kiriha, and Yuu]] (the latter of whom has a brunette sister).

* {{Coraline}}'s parents both have dark brown hair while her own hair is blue.

* Chris Griffin of ''FamilyGuy'' has blond hair, despite the fact that his father's hair is brown and his mother's a redhead. None of his grandparents have blond hair either.

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* ''AzumangaDaioh'' has Chiyo (pictured above with black-haired Osaka and Kagura), who is a redhead. Most of the other characters have black hair, though, which makes this at least at a little more plausible than the other examples.

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** Blond hair: [[DarkSkinnedBlond Harribel]], [[YamatoNadeshiko Yuzu]], [[EccentricMentor Urahara]], [[BadassAngster Kira]], [[BottleFairy Rangiku]] and [[SubordinateExcuse Kiyone]] (both are [[AdaptationDyeJob turned]] red-blond in the anime), [[SelfMadeOrphan Yukio]].

* Misa in {{Death Note}}, though it's possible she dyes it.

* ''{{Baccano}}!'' has all but ''one'' character that keeps it away from probable hair colors (very few have black hair, but most of the cast is either American or European) -- [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Sylvie Lumiere]]. She's mentioned to be silver-haired [[AllThereInTheManual in the books too]], so we can't even claim that she's a stylized blond.

* Revy from ''BlackLagoon'' has been accused of it. Shenhua seems to imply that she is not pure Chinese, which would make her red hair hypothetically possible but still extremely unlikely; red hair is a recessive gene that would required very specific genes on part of both of her parents to be possible.

* The Kanto region of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' had realistic hair colors, anime AdaptationDyeJob aside; the one blond was explicitly an American. Misty, however, is a red head with BlueEyes. She may not be Japanese by descent, but no series has made any mention of it.

* ''[[AhMyGoddess Ah, My Goddess!]]'' would fit into plausible hair, except that one of ThoseTwoGuys is blond. Aside from him, all characters in ''Ah My Goddess'' either have black hair or are goddesses or, in a few cases, both. Considering that one guy is the one human who has blond hair, it's pretty close to actual Japanese demographics. (He's also a leather-and-shades-wearing punk biker with spark plugs for earrings; it's likely that he bleaches it -- see the notes for ''Midori no Hibi'' below.)

* {{Coraline}}'s parents both have dark brown hair yet her hair is blue.

** Brown hair: [[BigBad Aizen]], [[PluckyComicRelief Keigo]], [[TheBigGuy Sado]], [[BrilliantButLazy Starrk]].

* Ichigo, the HotBlooded IdiotHero of {{Bleach}}, has bright orange-red hair. [[BerserkButton Don't tease him about it]].

* Every girl in the original arcade of ''TheIdolmaster'' has dark brown or black hair. Except Yayoi, whose hair is red with no explanation. Later, when the game was ported to the 360, some of the girls' hair became dark blue (like Chihaya) or dark purple (Azusa), but that can be considered stylized black, while the brown haired girl's hair lightened. Then, they introduced Miki, who has...blonde hair. Turns out, she dyes it. When Idolm@ster 2 came out, they added Takane, whose [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair silver hair]] remains unexplained.

* The Kanto region of ''{{Pokemon}}'' had realistic hair colors, anime AdaptationDyeJob aside; the one blond was explicitly an American. Misty, however, is a red head with BlueEyes. She may not be Japanese by descent, but no series has made any mention of it.

** Natural Japanese red-heads ''do'' exist. But they are extremely rare, and no one brings attention to Chiyo's hair color even though it's something the cast should notice as outlandish, even if it is plausible. Then again, she's also a child prodigy, which is also extremely rare.

* ''{{Digimon}}'' generally has hair colors that naturally occur on humans (except for a few, like purple-haired [[DigimonAdventure02 Miyako]]) but for a nearly all-Japanese cast we're talking an inordinately high amount of blond, red, and brown hair.
** The blonds of ''DigimonAdventure'', Yamato and Takeru, are [[ButNotTooForeign part-French]], and [[DigimonSavers Touma]] is part-Austrian, so that at least is reasonable. The same explanation doesn't seem to be the case for the other blonds present in the series, [[DigimonTamers Yamaki]], [[DigimonFrontier Izumi]], [[DigimonXrosWars Kiriha and Yuu]] (the latter of whom has a brunette sister).
** Do Jou, Ken and Jianliang have black hair stylized to [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair appear as blue]], or is it outright dark blue/indigo? We may never know.

* Tamaki, Renge and Hani from ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' all have blond hair, and the Hitachiin twins are both redheads.

* ''MidoriNoHibi'' has plausible brown or black for all characters except the leads, blonde Seiji and greenhead Midori. However, Seiji having brown hair in flashbacks implies that he dyes it, leaving Midori the only character with an impossible hair colour. Her real body has hair a darker shade of green. (By the way, the Japanese word for green is "[[MeaningfulName midori]]".)
** Seiji may be a [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18567_6-japanese-subcultures-that-are-insane-even-japan_p2.html yankii]]. Anyway in many anime having blond hair for a male japanese character would be a short cut to saying "This guy here is a delinquent!"

** This is lampshaded several times. The most hysterical lampshade would probably be when the student council president demanded that Hatsuharu show him physical proof that that was his natural hair color... and Hatsuharu complied. By dragging him into the nearby bathroom.

* ''UltraManiac'' has a few people with blonde hair. Nina is justified because [[ItWasHisSled she's a witch]] but on normal people, it's a bit jarring.

* ''{{Baccano}}!'' has all but ''one'' character that keeps it away from probable hair colors (Very few have black hair, but most of the cast is either American or European) -- [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Sylvie Lumiere]]. She's mentioned to be silver-haired [[AllThereInTheManual in the books too]], so we can't even claim that she's a stylized blond.

** There's also the blonde-haired blue-eyed woman from the Zashiki-Warashi arc.

* Revy from ''BlackLagoon'' has been accused of it. Shenhua seems to imply that she is not pure Chinese, which would make her red hair hypothetically possible but still extremely unlikely; red hair is a recessive gene that would have required very specific genes on part of both of her parents to make this possible.
* Almost every character in {{Saiyuki}} making the Chinese have rainbow hair and the Western foreigners have silver hair when they're only 19 years old.

* The Kanto region of ''{{Pokemon}}'' had realistic hair colors, anime AdaptationDyeJob aside; the one blond was explicitly an American. Misty however is a red head with BlueEyes. She may not be Japanese by descent, but no series has made any mention of it.

** There seems to be a trend with red hair: Both Battler and Ange share the same dark red hair color, but their parents have different hair colors (might be disputed, since Battler's mother isn't ever described in detail [[spoiler:and isn't even his real mother]]). Eva is a FieryRedhead, and Maria shares the brown-red hair color.

** Krauss and Natsuhi's daughter, Jessica, is the only (human) character in the cast to have blonde hair.

* In ''A Game of Thrones'', the three children of King Robert Baratheon all have blond hair, even though Robert is dark-haired and every other child ever born to a Baratheon and Lannister (all of the Lannisters are blond, including Robert's wife Cersei) has had dark hair. [[spoiler:The children are later revealed to actually be the offspring of the queen's brother Jaime. Cersei hated her husband and hardly ever slept with him, but had carried on a sexual relationship with her twin from childhood.)]]

* Every girl in the original arcade of ''TheIdolmaster'' has dark brown or black hair. Except Yayoi who's hair is red with no explanation. Later when the game was ported to the 360 some of the girls' hair became dark blue (like Chihaya) or dark purple (Azusa) but that can be considered stylized black while the brown haired girl's hair lightened. Then the introduced Miki who has ... blonde hair. Turns out she dyes it. When the Idolm@ster 2 came out they added Takane, who's [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair silver hair]] remains unexplained.

* Pretty much all the main characters of {{Megatokyo}}. This is tricky to spot because nearly all the strips are black-and-white, but you can see it in the rare coloured strips and book covers. Kimiko has a light-brown-blonde colour. Erika's hair is orange-red. Largo's hair is the same colour as Erika's (a bit darker in some illustrations). Ping's hair changes colour but is usually very pale. Miho's hair is purple, but given [[DarkMagicalGirl who]] [[MindScrew she]] [[IllGirl is]] that may not be natural.

** It's definitely not red--It's more of an auburn or even sienna (some kind of "warm" brown), and in some episodes, it looks like a darker, more ordinary brown.

* ''[[AhMyGoddess Ah, My Goddess!]]'' would fit into plausible hair, except that one of ThoseTwoGuys is blond. Aside from him, all characters in ''Ah My Goddess'' either have black hair or are goddesses or, in a few cases, both. Considering that one guy is the one human who has blond hair, it's pretty close to actual Japanese demographics. (He's also a leather-and-shades-wearing punk biker with spark plugs for earrings; it's incredibly likely that he bleaches his hair like many other disaffected Japanese youth do.)

* ''[[AhMyGoddess Ah, My Goddess!]]'' would fit into plausible hair, except that one of ThoseTwoGuys is blond. Aside from him, all characters in ''Ah My Goddess'' either have black hair or are goddesses or, in a few cases, both. Considering that one guy is the one human who has blond hair, it's pretty close to actual Japanese demographics.

* Every girl in the original ''TheIdolmaster'' has brown or stylized black hair like Chihaya and Azusa who have dark blue and dark purple. This is even more true in the arcade version where Azusa's hair was black with a purple tint. Then the Xbox360 port came out and introduced us to Miki ... a blonde. Though it turns out she was dying it. Takane, introduced in the PSP version and a main character in Idolmaster 2, however goes unexplained.

* Every girl in the original ''TheIdolmaster'' has brown or stylized black hair like Chihaya and Azusa who have dark blue and dark purple. This is even more true in the arcade version where Azusa's hair was black with a purple tint. Then the Xbox360 port came out and introduced us to Miki ... a blonde. Though it turns out she was dying it. Takane, introduced in the PSP version and a main character in Idolmaster 2, however goes unexplained.

* With current Japanese culture being quite Western-inspired, it's not uncommon for Asian girls to dye their hair. Also, Asians (especially Koreans) can have light brown/dark blonde hair, although it's very rare. South Asian people, like the Kalash, Nuritani and Tajik, can have light blond hair.