History Main / ImplausibleHairColor

* [[RefugeInAudacity Surprisingly]], most characters in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' have realistic brown or black hair, except for Kasuga and Sorin, who are blond, and Magoichi and Fuuma, who are redheads. No one draws attention to this and it's apparently natural. There're also no fewer than five (young) characters with white/silver hair, implying it's an even more common occurence than a blond or a redhead in the Basaraverse.

** Red hair (natural shades): [[SchoolgirlLesbian Chizuru]], although the anime [[AdaptationDyeJob makes her hair]] a more [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair unnatural]] shade of red.

** Brown hair: [[BigBad Aizen]], [[PluckyComicRelief Keigo]], [[BrilliantButLazy Starrk]], [[TheBigGuy Sado]] (he's part Mexican).

** Orange hair: [[TheHero Ichigo]], [[BarrierWarrior Orihime]] (Ichigo's hair is [[AllThereIntheManual 'honey']] and Orihime's is [[AllThereIntheManual 'caramel']]; in the anime, they both have a very similar shade of orange).

* Almost every character in ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'', making the Chinese have rainbow hair and the Western foreigners have silver hair when they're only 19 years old.

** White Hair (that's not a result of age): [[BestServedCold Gin]], [[ChildProdigy Hitsugaya]], [[ShrinkingViolet Isane]], [[KnifeNut Kensei]], [[IncurableCoughOfDeath Ukitake]] (whose hair turned white as a young child due to his illness), [[TheSnarkKnight Ryuuken]] [[ArcherArchetype Ishida]] (in the manga, his hair was white even in his youth, although the anime [[AdaptationDyeJob changes this to brown]])

* It's also not overly unusual for some South and Central Asian peoples, like the Kalash, Nuristanis, Tajiks, and Uyghurs, to have light blond hair. [[http://pastmist.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/blond-mongol-girl.jpg Hell, even blond Mongols exist]] ((GenghisKhan himself was said to have red hair and green eyes).

* The page image is of a Melanesian boy; some Oceanian populations, like the Australian Aborigines, have a high frequency of blondes among children, though their hair usually changes to dark brown as they become adults.

* It's also not overly unusual for some South and Central Asian peoples, like the Kalash, Nuristanis, Tajiks, and Uyghurs, to have light blond hair. [[http://pastmist.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/blond-mongol-girl.jpg Hell, even blond Mongols exist.]] Lighter hair colors can also appear in populations from the Middle East and North Africa, like the Kurds and Berbers. GenghisKhan himself was said to have red hair and green eyes.

* The page image is of a Melanesian boy; some Oceanian populations, like the Australian Aborigines, have a high frequency of blondes among children, though their hair usually changes to dark brown as they become adults.

* {{Toriko}} turns this trope up to eleven with Sunny, whose hair consists of blue, pink, green and white strands that more look like tentacles.

** Kyrie has white hair, which [[{{UnusuallyUninterestingSight}} no one questions]]. Note that her skin tone is the same as the other women, so she's probably only a WhiteHairedPrettyGirl, or her hair turned white ''really'' early. At the very end of the story, [[spoiler:Battler's hair also goes white, which symbolizes his acceptance of that fact that she was his real mother]].

* ''LightNovel/{{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.

* It's also not overly unusual for some South and Central Asian peoples, like the Kalash, Nuristanis, Tajiks, and Uyghurs, to have light blond hair. [[http://pastmist.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/blond-mongol-girl.jpg Hell, even blond Mongols exist.]] Lighter hair colors can also appear in populations from the Middle East and North Africa, like the Kurds and Berbers.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' generally has hair colors that naturally occur on humans (except for a few, like purple-haired [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Miyako]]), but for a nearly all-Japanese cast, we're talking an inordinately high amount of blond, red, and brown hairless.

* It's also not overly unusual for some South and Central Asian peoples, like the Kalash, Nuritanis, Tajiks, and Uyghurs, to have light blond hair. [[http://pastmist.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/blond-mongol-girl.jpg Hell, even blond Mongols exist.]] Lighter hair colors can also appear in populations from the Middle East and North Africa, like the Kurds and Berbers.

* The page image is of a Melanesian boy; some Oceanian populations, like the Australian aboriginals, have a high frequency of blondes among children, though their hair usually changes to dark brown as they become adults.

* 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. [[http://pastmist.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/blond-mongol-girl.jpg Hell, even blond Mongols exist.]]

* 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.

* Most of the ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' cast has either typical black/brown hair or blond/red hair. Some of the Zodiac members have more unusual hair colors, but this is [[{{Animorphism}} due to their curse]], and others will remark about the unusual color.
** 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.
** In the manga, Kyo's homeroom teacher prevents him from skipping class by threatening him with a box of black hair dye.

** Red hair (natural shades): [[SchoolgirlLesbian Chizuru]], although the anime [[AdaptationDyeJob makes her hair]] a more unnatural shade of red.

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

* Some versions of ''{{Area 88}}'' give the lead character blonde hair for no readily apparent reason, though it could be quasi-justified by him being a HeroicBastard.

* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' has Chiyo (pictured above with black-haired Osaka and Kagura and brown-haired Yomi), 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.
** Given Chiyo's [[MegaNeko mysterious parentage]]...
** 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.
* ''[[Manga/AhMyGoddess Ah, My Goddess!]]'' would fit into plausible hair, except that one of ThoseTwoGuys is blond. Aside from him, all characters in 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.)

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[[caption-width-right:339:They're all Japanese. Yeah, even the redhead.]]