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19	* Keiichi's father from ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''. He looks not unlike Andy Warhol. He shows up at Chihiro's shop and starts doing some work (having never met Chihiro before), speaks barely a word, and freaks out if a woman touches him or gets too close (the exceptions being his wife and Belldandy). When he freaks out, he silently runs to his motorcycle and races off -- he's a skilled racer, even when he's going to the local pastry shop. He also defeats Sigel and Banpei outside the temple in hand to hand combat, no small feat for a mere mortal, just so he can get past them to say hello.
20	* Shino Aizawa and her mother from ''Manga/AizawaSanMultiplies''. The former is regularly observed doing things like putting shoes on the wrong feet or completely spacing out, and her thoughts on developing a LiteralSplitPersonality is that it'll help her become a comedian. Meanwhile, her mother seems more interested in the fact that Shino brought a boy home than the fact that her daughter can apparently now clone herself.
21	* Hikari from ''Manga/{{Amanchu}}'' arguably qualifies. She blows on a pea whistle everywhere she goes (including ''during class'') and jumps from a big rock in a way divers jump from a boat -- even though there's no water. Whether her mild flirting with Futaba, another girl from her class, is simply part of her off-beat attitude or perhaps something else is up to interpretation.
22	* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'':
23	** During the Ishigaki arc, it can be hard to understand what Shiho Makita is thinking. For example, when she gets an understanding on Ao's being both a {{Determinator}} and a ShyBlueHairedGirl, she declares Ao's brain "must look interesting", freaking out Ao in the process. When Asuka asks her whether [[LampshadeHanging she is a tinfoil hatter]], she says despite she've been called that several times, she isn't.
24	** {{Downplayed}} in the case of Yuu. While she belongs to the more serious half of the Earth Sciences club together with [[{{Tsundere}} Mikage]] and [[TheQuietOne Ao]], unlike her two senpais her conclusions are as likely wrong as right. She has a problem of jumping to conclusions and letting her prejudice influence her judgment. As a result, she comes off as rather lacking in common sense.
25	* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', being a series that mixes SliceOfLife with occasional bits of SurrealHumor, features a number of such characters:
26	** Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga (see the page pic) is the most notable of them. She has a tendency to say and do strange things out of the blue, drifts off into daydreaming from which she is very hard to shake, and at several points apparently suspects that Chiyo's pigtails are detachable. Then there's the time she decided to wake up Yukari by banging on a frying pan with a wooden spoon. How she managed to grab a knife instead no one could explain, least of all Osaka (who wasn't fully awake at the time herself). She expressed mild astonishment. Yukari, well, ''didn't.''
27	** This may also be a generous part of why Mr. Kimura's wife is able to tolerate him -- she can get so focused on a discarded soda can that she runs directly into a lamppost.
28	** Not even taking into account the way he freely expresses his ComedicLolicon tendencies, Kimura himself has such moments. For example when he walks into his classroom to find all his students having lunch, he apologizes and walks away ''backwards'' to the faculty room where he proceeds to have lunch himself... only to find out then that it's only 11 o'clock.
29	** Fans of the series would doubtlessly recognize Chiyo-dad, the [[MindScrew cat... thing]]. Who sees him the most? I'll give you a second to guess. Have an idea? Yes? Okay, were you thinking [[HugeSchoolgirl Sakaki?]] No. You were thinking Osaka, weren't you? Well, Osaka only saw him once; Sakaki the sees him the rest of the time. Her tendency to bond with stuffed animals and the fact that she doesn't seem to notice that Chiyo-chichi was a dream makes some people think Sakaki is weirder than [[TropeCodifier Osaka]]. Even ''Osaka'' found the "daddy hats" weird. Put it like this: Sakaki is weirder than Osaka when it comes to cute things and stuffed animals, but Osaka is weirder at ''everything else'', and she's still pretty weird with stuffed animals too. Plush cities, anyone?
30	*** Another reason Sakaki doesn't have that kind of reputation is that most of the crazy stays in her head, only occasionally leaking out her mouth.
31	* Little Bear, of ''Anime/BeastSaga'', considering when he was challanged to battle, he ends up more concerned with introductions, and ends up ignoring the intro of his enemies to comment on something unrelated. However, he gets [[BewareTheNiceOnes dead serious when a restaurant he just found a coupon to gets destroyed]].
32	* Yuichiro Tajima in ''Manga/BigWindup'' is a baseball prodigy with expert peripheral vision and incredible accuracy when batting. When off field, he's borderline hyperactive, has the tendency to loudly discuss his masturbation habits and at least once almost stripped naked in public just to work on his tan.
33	* Edaniel from ''Manga/{{Bizenghast}}'' is as random as they get.
34	-->I almost choked to death on a Dick Tracy watch once. In retrospect, I should not have eaten it box and all. But the bottom line is that '''''communism is bad for your eyes'''''. [[BeatPanel beat]] I mean television. I get those confused.
35	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
36	** Orihime has an extremely overactive imagination which often sends her off on strange tangents that have nothing to do with the subject at hand. However, it also allows her to tell the truth about causing a fuss because people think it's just her imagination. She also combines ingredients in bizarrely inventive ways. As few people are brave enough to try her cooking, few know just how good a cook she really is. When she's asked to draw a picture of what she'd be like in the future, she draws herself as a giant, destructive robot in a futuristic, sci-fi world.
37	** Byakuya is a closet example. As TheStoic, he's viewed as serious, aloof and unimaginative. However, he has an obsession with his invention, the Seaweed Ambassador, and his artwork is even more kooky than Rukia's. On the few occasions he'll tell a joke, they tend to be off-the-wall and therefore don't go down too well. In the [[{{filler}} anime]], his [[LivingWeapon Zanpakutou spirit]] is HotBlooded, has a HairTriggerTemper and is as CuriousAsAMonkey. This comes from a combination of {{canon}} flashbacks to Byakuya's BrattyHalfPint youth and SliceOfLife omakes drawn by the manga artist.
38	* Carina Verritti of ''VisualNovel/BlessingOfTheCampanella'', every time she fantasizes romancing, or being romanced by, protagonist Leicester Maycraft. Interesting that he usually just lets her enjoy herself over it.
39	* Similarly, ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'', in the show of the same name, while supposedly using a martial art based around his nose hairs, usually wins his fights by [[ChewbaccaDefense confusing the enemy into surrender]]. Then again, everyone on that show but Beauty likely qualifies for this trope.
40	** You could argue that Beauty is the ''only'' character who qualifies. All the others are off in their own little reality, but she's normal and thus the exception. Beauty's the [[OnlySaneMan only sane girl]] of that anime. Gasser is fairly normal as well despite his [[{{Fartillery}} bizarre fighting style]], and Softon, while definitely weird in his own right, seems fairly sane. Bobobo, Don Patch, Jelly Jiggler, Dengaku Man, Torpedo Girl, and many of the villains all qualify, though.
41	* Though not a regular Cloudcuckoolander, Makino from the manga version of ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'' has at least one time when she does this. In Volume 33 [[spoiler: when she's given up on Tsukasa because of Umi]], she compares her situation to the plot in ''The Little Mermaid'' (the real story, without the {{Disneyfication}}) and ends up ranting about how she doesn't want to become bubbles (or something to that effect) in front of her little brother who's very confused.
42	* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': By the final arc, [[KidHero Sakura]] seems noticeably spacier and more excitable. Meiling even lampshades this when she meets her again.
43	* Ren Suzugamori from ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'' (before he was corrupted by [=PSYqualia=]). When introducing one of his long time friends to a new class mate, the friend asked to the classmate "What's your name?" and Ren answered with "It's Ren." The conversation continued with "No, his name points to classmate that guy." "I saw them write his name on the board and it was definitely longer than That Guy."
44	* Run from ''Manga/AChannel''. She even forgot to put on her panties to school. Her Panties!
45	* Tomozou from ''Manga/ChibiMarukoChan'', Maruko's doting grandfather. He can sometimes do weird things that nobody understands, like imitate Maruko or that one time when he wrote "Work hard Japan!" on the flag Maruko was making for the white team for her school's sports day. There are times like when Maruko's sister was saying she doesn't use her head in class, Tomozou responded saying that when he puts on a "hachimaki" (Japanese bandana), he uses his head. Maruko seems to have inherited it to a lesser extent, with her strong tendency to daydream or to even go into a daze. There was one episode about how Maruko could be absent-minded and showed that Maruko doesn't know what she thinks about when she goes into a daze. Also, her friend Noguchi and definitely Noguchi's grandfather.
46	* ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'':
47	** Kotomi is very awkward, lacking all but the basic social skills, despite (or perhaps ''because of'') the fact that she is a [[TeenGenius genius]]. She also tends to space out and come up with non sequitur responses, which she often combines with a deeply seated fear of bullies. Nevertheless Tomoya drafts her for the drama club, where her sweet and thoughtful demeanor makes her very popular with its members -- as long as she [[DreadfulMusician refrains from playing the violin]].
48	*** Perhaps {{justified\|Trope}} in that Kotomi was [[spoiler:traumatized by her parents' death, and she promised to do better and follow in their footsteps. She said that she'd read many books and that she'd become smart like them]]. With such motivation for Kotomi, it's no surprise that she lacks social skills when she's busy with what she promised her parents that she'd do. Various flashbacks in the anime show that she was already like this [[spoiler:(kids avoided her because of her intelligence and Tomoya was her first and only friend)]]. The [[spoiler:death of her parents (and the fact that Tomoya avoided her afterwards)]] definitely made things worse, though.
49	** Fuuko is also a total space-cadet. At one point she tells Tomoya she's warmed up to him, explaining that she likes him more than sea slugs (but not as much as starfish). Tomoya doesn't understand the rankings[[note]]Fuuko quite likes sea slugs, so this is actually a compliment in her mind[[/note]]. She tops this in the ''~After Story~'', where her behavior is very bizarre indeed, especially in response to Ushio's cuteness. She also tends to space trance out when thinking of cute things for long periods of time, only to snap out of it to finish whatever sentence she had started. She's in total denial about it, though.
50	*** Her never having any friends prior to Tomoya's involvement, being in a coma for years, and [[spoiler:astral-projecting her wacky self into the school for most of that time]] probably have something to do with it.
51	** Also [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Kappei]], who is apparently incapable of remembering names or faces. And tells a touching story about a person he think he may love whom he lent his handkerchief... while talking to that same person. Also expects to be served tea during a job interview.
52	* ''Manga/CodeBreaker'' has two: Nenene, who loves to randomly grope CuteBruiser Sakura's breasts (and names them) and Yuuki, another Code: Breaker. Not only is Nenene Sakura's sempai, she's somehow a member of the student council. [[spoiler: Her dad being the prime minister of Japan and head of Eden (the Code: Breakers' organization) probably had something to do with it]]. Yuuki, on the other hand is one of the most powerful of the Code: Breakers in [[OrganizationIndex The Organization]] due to his control of [[spoiler: sound]]. For some reason, his nonsensical behavior annoys the usually lackadaisical Toki [[spoiler:who happens to be Nenene's estranged brother. Naturally, Nenene is easily distracted as Sakura says "This is your brother!" while standing in front of a guy with the same hair and differently coloured eyes as her]]. To his (or his handlers') credit, Yuuki uses his nonsensical ideas ("He's a middle-aged mushroom suffering from depression") to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar toy empire, although all he really wants/needs are [[TheWoobie friends]].
53	* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has quite a few, including CovertPervert [[spoiler:NinjaMaid]] Sayoko, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesiac]] Anya, and AxCrazy PsychopathicManchild Mao.
54	** Kaguya has her moment of Cloud-Cuckoolandishness during her infamous [[{{Polyamory}} "Three Court Ladies" plan]]. Lloyd could also qualify.
55	* Ed from ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. Though as a hyperactive teenage super-hacker, she also qualifies as a GeniusDitz. This may be hereditary, given how her father acts. Among other things, the man is dedicated to the goal of mapping out the newly altered terrain of Earth, a task which is explicitly stated as impossible due to the vast amount of debris still in orbit -- any given map is only valid for two days, tops, before a new meteorite hits and rearranges things again. His favorite food is raw eggs sucked out of their shells, and he's such a skilled fighter that he effortlessly disarms Jet Black with a thrown egg, dodges Spike's kickboxing and knocks Spike head over heels with a single open-palmed punch. He instantly recognizes Ed when she makes an appearance, but is uncertain as to her gender and was the one who left her behind in the first place. While he rewards Spike and Jet with a big basket full of eggs as thanks for taking care of her, he immediately abandons her again to chase after a new meteorite crash-landing.
56	%%* Marjorie from ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns''. Big time.
57	* Shiro from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland''. Nobody except possibly her grandfather [[spoiler: (who she ends up killing anyways)]] understands what in the world she's saying.
58	* Jeri Katou from ''Anime/DigimonTamers''. This trope is depressingly subverted when it becomes less "Aww that girl's got a friend!" to her broken mind's only way to communicate in any functioning way... Yeah. And then she gets mind raped by an EldritchAbomination.
59	** A more straightforward example would be Mimi of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' who, unlike Jeri, never gets better, nor even once says anything that isn't noticeably, inappropriately casual or just plain out of place. By the end of Season 2, she still displays a sort of airheadedness that anyone on the planet would grow out of after so many near-death experiences.
60	** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' gives us Blastmon who is more concern with keeping himself shiny and forgets that he is suppose to be fighting. The real kicker is when Cyberdramon latches itself to him to stop his attack he thinks its love.
61	* In ''Manga/DrSlump'' the main protagonist Arale Norimaki is a robot without social programing. She's also hyperactive, extremely naive, enjoying the hobby of poking 'poop', has a complete lack of common sense, cause massive damage, want to have larger breasts (despite being a robot) and tends to lift her shirt with no regard; doing so on one occasion simply to gesture as she asks Senbei if she can launch rockets from her chest.
62	* ''Anime/ElCazadorDeLaBruja'':
63	** Ellis who does things like bringing a rope to help Nadie out of a well, and then ''going down said well to personally hand the rope to her''. Other examples including casually describing feeling the "incandescent flames of love" over a keychain and volunteering to help fend off a duo of gun-toting bounty hunters with a fork, and when she's turned down, [[DualWielding pulling out a second fork and trying again]].
64	** Although the fork incident was a reference back to Noir, where Kirika first picked up a little fork from her and Mirielle's 'Mad Hatter's teaparty' with Chloe to use as a weapon. Later on, she [[spoiler: kills Chloe with it]].
65	* ''Manga/ExcelSaga'': The main cast is an evil organization bent on city then [[TakeOverTheWorld World Domination]], but do not have a concrete plan on how to go about it. The title character Excel is oblivious to the destruction she causes, how ineffective the group is, and how little her boss likes her. Their enemies are a group of disinterested civil service employees who do not care that they are saving the day, when they do not destroy a place themselves.
66	* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
67	** Juvia is convinced that she is in a {{Love Dodecahedron}}. After all, since ''she's'' in love with Gray, [[InsaneTrollLogic surely every other woman must be too]]. Also, she celebrates the 413th day since she met Gray as their "anniversary" and doesn't understand why anybody would think this is odd. No, the number 413 doesn't hold any significance to either of them, she just woke up one day and decided it was their anniversary.
68	** Natsu lacks any sense of normalcy, frequently accuses the OnlySaneMan of being the weird one, and for a typical example of how his imagination works, his idea of Sagittarius is a combo of [[WeirdnessCoupon Nakajima]] from ''Manga/RaveMaster'' and a squid.
69	* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'''s Mamimi, who among many Cloudcuckooland moments, mistakes a television-headed robot for an angelic deity from her favorite video game, and continues to treat him as such throughout the series. It's implied that her cloudcuckoo perspective is a deliberate front, and that she eventually [[BoredWithInsanity gets better]].
70	* ''Manga/FrankenFran'', which shows what happens when you give a well-intentioned Cloud Cuckoolander the skill, mind, and reputation of a ''Manga/BlackJack'' level surgeon. Hint: [[BodyHorror It's not pretty]].
71	* Haruka Nanase in ''Anime/{{Free}}'' spends most of his free time in his bathtub and will strip to his swimsuit if he sees a body of water, including fish tanks.
72	* Hatsuharu Sohma from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' will say some of the most nonsensical things.
73	-->The teacher didn't like my hair, so now I have to get my ears pierced.
74	%%* Eri from ''Manga/FujimuraKunMates''. Actually, everyone except [[OnlySaneMan Fujimura]].
75	* Hohenheim from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has a way of looking and acting as if he came straight from another planet. A scene in the manga even shows him mumbling to himself while [[spoiler:Ed yells insults and accusations at him at Trisha's grave]], comparing Ed to "a little boy who has wet his bed and hidden the sheets" in a fairly threatening way. This might partly be a case of ObfuscatingStupidity though, as when he does get serious, he reveals that he's understood the situation way earlier and better than anybody else. Plus, some of his apparent non-sequiturs actually contain important hidden messages and information. Still, everybody notices how [[GeniusDitz ''weird'', socially awkward and absent-minded he is]].
76	** A scene in which he talks with Winry at Trisha's grave (and shocks her when he tells her non-ironically that "It's sad" that her parents were killed during the Ishbalan genocide) suggests that he has ''spent several entire days and nights in the graveyard''.
77	** In the manga, Al is disturbed by Hohenheim's body language and way of making terrifying or ridiculous confidences with an impenetrable face and ScaryShinyGlasses -- and Al himself is practically ''a suit of armor''.
78	** In a key scene of the manga, [[spoiler:"Father", the homunculi's boss]], starts acting like a caricature of Hohenheim, complete with non sequiturs, creepy staring, senile mumbling, suddenly standing uncomfortably close to people, and pensive beard-twisting. Ed proceeds to yell at him, "'''LISTEN TO ME, ALIEN!'''" An official {{Yonkoma}} even shows him [[spoiler:letting Ed persuade him to get a 200-years subscription to a Central City newspaper]]. In the last panel, [[spoiler:Bradley/Wrath]] calls him a "naive {{Hikikomori}} with no knowledge of the world."
79	** The central reason as to why he is a cuckoolander is revealed to be spending the last [[spoiler:450+ years getting to know all 500,000+ souls in his head on a first name basis. Hohenheim really does have a "world" in his head to be lost in]].
80	** Ed in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa the movie]] appears to be one to the people around him. He has good reasons for his bizarre non sequiturs and erratic behavior as [[spoiler:he came from another Earth in a parallel universe where the laws of physics work differently and already had numerous psychological issues beforehand]], but one can't help but think the people he interacts with must consider him a little bit crazy. At one point, during a pitched battle, he even suddenly moves uncomfortably close to Scar and politely asks him a question.
81	* Miki "Nodamiki" Noda from ''Manga/GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass'' is living in her own little world compared to her friends. She believes that she can remove mold from paint with her "aura" and has started impromptu mini theaters on at least two occasions (once with a collage, once with a can of paint). She is quite boy crazy to boot, to the point of believing random guys have a crush on ''her''. Still, she seems to be on top of things. The manga manages to deconstruct this on a DreamSequence where [[spoiler: the main cast finds out that the supplies on a lost-and-found box have reality breaking powers, with her using it inappropriately]].
82	%%** Both of the groups in the manga have at least one:
83	%%*** Just about everyone in the main group seems to be one to some extent.
84	%%*** The art club has Chikako Awara, the president. It says something that she has her own [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder minder]] in Mizubuchi.
85	%%* Almost every character from ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'' classifies as this in some manner, but Milfeulle Sakuraba is the biggest offender.
86	* Dolce in ''Anime/{{Geneshaft}}'' is also a genius, this time in computer programming. She keeps a calm and quiet appearance herself, but communicates loudly and obnoxiously through her puppet.
87	* Kohsaka from ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}''.
88	-->"Astronomy would be good for me. People are always saying I've got my head in the clouds... though I never remember what I see there."
89	* Katsura from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is apparently quite skilled in avoiding the authorities while carrying out his anti-government activities. Yet, he also seriously thought Gintoki was capable of hiding in a small metal can, and at one point, dressed up as a "yellow curry ninja" in order to rescue his equally bizarre friend, Elizabeth. Any time Katsura makes an appearance, bizarre behavior is sure follow.
90	* Ryou of ''Manga/GourmetGirlGraffiti'' has these tendencies from time to time for things unrelated to cooking. This seems to be an inherited trait; her mother once mailed ''Japanese'' UsefulNotes/{{Ramen\|asdehydratednoodles}} to Ryou just because the former saw in their local store the same stuff sold in Japan.
91	** When asked to sketch a bale of rice, bamboo shoots and carrots in Chapter 4/ Episode 3, she drew a bowl of [[http://japanesefood.about.com/od/rice/r/takenokogohan.htm Takeneko Gohan]], a dish that can be made from these ingredients.
92	** Fails a test because she studied the wrong subject.
93	** Barely passes the make-up exam for the above, because she fell asleep during the test.
94	* The just-barely-literate Ryuichi Sakuma from ''Manga/{{Gravitation}}'', and to a lesser extent Shuichi Shindou. They both combine this with GeniusDitz, which is probably the only reason anyone puts up with their glomps, shrieking, emotional extremes, bizarre ideas, and sheer mind-blowing stupidity.
95	* Hikari from ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'', who once used the halo mold for making donuts...which resulted in Rakka's halo being charged with static electricity for the first few days after she got it. Rakka was not exactly pleased.
96	%%* Marie from ''Anime/HareGuu'' can be kind of out it from sometimes.
97	* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'':
98	** Saginomiya Isumi has really impressive command over the non-sequitur and is generally ''completely'' spaced out, leading to such scenes as her asking a construction worker if the subway involved getting dinosaurs into bullet trains. As a result, Isumi's the only one capable of following Nagi's utterly nonsensical attempts at creating manga.
99	** Isumi's mother and grandmother. As an example, in her introductory scene, her mother couldn't remember which button to push on the intercom to the front gate of her own house, despite the fact that ''there was only one button''.
100	** That's not the worst of it. Isumi's mother is thought by her own mother (Isumi's grandmother) to be the Sanzenin family's new butler. And then once grandmother realizes who she's talking to, she wonders where the butler went. And Hayate is standing off to the side during this entire encounter.
101	* Several of the characters in ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'' could fall into this category, though its most prominent example is the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] Boma. The crazy things he does include inserting "Usagi/My bunny" randomly into conversation and randomly appearing and disappearing mid-fight. There are even times where he shows up to a battle -- only to ''sit out the entire time'' (which the people involved may or may not have told him to do). Interestingly, Clair Leonelli, who ''is'' legitimately, frighteningly insane, is ''not'' a Cloudcuckoolander at all.
102	* Finland from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' shows signs of this; he thinks that "Blood-smeared Flower Egg" is a perfectly acceptable name for a puppy. Italy combines elements of this with TheDitz.
103	** And Finland's ''first'' choice of names for the puppy was 'Go For It! Bomber!' Another suggestion was 'Sardine Picnic'. I wish I was making this up. In the ChristmasEpisode, the dog starts ''talking''. Finland acts pretty nonchalant about the whole matter.
104	** In fact almost every character can be one, like America trying to befriend whales ([[FriendToAllLivingThings and succeeding]]).
105	** Poland, hoo boy Poland. Lithuania even lampshades Poland's status: "I thought it was just one of your usual stories, that I can't keep up with, that takes place in your own special realm..." He could probably compete with [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Osaka]] in cuckoolander-ness at points.
106	** Even England, normally the OnlySaneMan, can get like this when it comes to the occult; he tries cursing America using a chair (at one point he nearly managed it, but when Russia sat in it he broke it by out-eviling it), and he makes friends with magical creatures like fairies and unicorns that only he can see.
107	** Seychelles can be pretty spacey, ignoring France while he's talking to her and rambling on about fish, trying to play in snow as if it were sand, and asking Finland how to describe having ants everywhere.
108	** Belarus is very much this; seeing [[TheUnfavorite everyone around her as competition for her brother's affection]], wanting to marry her older brother, and apparently talking to ghosts. On top of this, character notes describe her as having a tendency to space out and stare at things such as static on a television for hours.
109	** Since these are anthropomorphic countries, they could just as well be called [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} Cloudcuckoolands]].
110	* Referenced by name in ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead''; when Saya Takagi asks Shizuka Marikawa why she is dazing off, Shizuka replies that she is a CloudCuckoolander.
111	* Shinobu Morita from ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'', who also has the tendency to disappear for days in a row.
112	** Well, that is for work. He still qualifies, especially in the way he treats Hagumi.
113	* While most of the characters are weirdos at some point in this series, [[TheHero Noelle]] from ''Anime/ImGonnaBeAnAngel'' still stands out the most. [[spoiler: So much that in the last episodes she manages to come off as one of the saner characters]].
114	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
115	** While it's somewhat [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]], [[BigBad Dio Brando]] can be seen as this, given his incredibly dramatic nature, the much stranger actions he performs in his downtime, his tendency to create long-winded [[TalksLikeASimile similes]], his wardrobe including [[FashionVictimVillain pointy elf shoes and heart kneepads]] and the fact that he sleeps in a coffin despite [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires in JoJo having no reason to]]; that's got to be worth ''some'' dork points.
116	** Noriaki Kakyoin from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' sunbathes with his school uniform on and has a habit of rolling [[TrademarkFavoriteFood cherries]] around on his tongue, and sees nothing odd about either of those things.
117	** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond Is Unbreakable]]'':
118	*** Yoshikage Kira is a SerialKiller who murders women, takes their severed hands... and then proceed to go on dates with them. He also meticulously collects his own nail clippings.
119	*** [[AmbiguouslyHuman Mikitaka Hazekura]], that is, if he actually ''isn't'' an alien like he claims to be.
120	** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'':
121	*** Guido Mista is one of the stranger members of Team Bucciarati, a lot of which stems from his [[FourIsDeath Tetraphobia]].
122	*** Ghiaccio, combine this with his HairTriggerTemper, and the rants he goes on tend to end up getting pretty strange.
123	*** Vinegar Doppio at first seems like a normal guy, but whenever [[spoiler:[[SplitPersonality Diavolo]]]] attempts to call him, he suddenly falls into a trace where he does nothing but imitate the sound of a ringing phone. And that's not even getting into the things he'll end up using as a phone.
124	** Foo Fighters from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', being a [[TheWormThatWalks colony of plankton possessing the body of a dead girl]], lacks the worldly experience the other characters have. As a result, a lot of what she does tends to come off as strange.
125	** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'':
126	*** Gyro Zeppeli is this, as can be seen in the many NonSequitur moments he ends up causing.
127	*** Funny Valentine apparently can play the mandolin... ''with his feet''.
128	** Most of the cast from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'' is this, the most notable of them being [[AmnesiacsAreInnocent Josuke Higashikata]], [[RoseHairedSweetie Yasuho Hirose]], ''[[QuirkyHousehold the entire Higashikata household]]'', [[ObfuscatingStupidity Holy Joestar]] ([[spoiler:though this one's mostly due to the missing pieces of her brain]]), and [[HopelessSuitor Tooru]].
129	* Andy Doumyouji from ''Anime/{{K}}''. It's not obvious in the anime due to him being a BitCharacter, but rather in the manga ''Days of Blue'' where he is a 19-year-old {{Manchild}}. When asked to describe his boss, the Blue King, this is his reply:
130	-->'''Andy:''' Whoosh! Ping ping! Pow pow! That's what his head's like!
131	* Yui Hirasawa from ''Manga/KOn'' tends to get very easily distracted and possesses a childlike demeanor. Also, she can sometimes forget almost everything else each time she focuses on something new: she once temporarily forgot how to play the guitar after she was forced to study for a make-up test. She also has a [[CompanionCube very strong love for Giita]], her Gibson Les Paul.
132	* Kaizo from ''Manga/KatteniKaizo'' '''lives''' this trope, the first thing we ever see him doing is accusing old people of being aliens and trying to take over earth. Although some of his wild imaginings [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight turn out to be correct]].
133	* ''Anime/KillLaKill'''s Mako Mankanshoku is this. Almost OnceAnEpisode she breaks out in to a speech which mixes ChewbaccaDefense with InsaneTrollLogic. Some of the stuff she says [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight does make sense, however]]. In the first episode, she's more worried about a panty shot than the fact that she's hung upside down on a cross waiting to be executed. Moments later, when she's going to be boiled alive in oil, she's worried about her clothes getting wet and becoming see-through.
134	-->'''Sanageyama:''' This chick is either really brave or ''really'' stupid.
135	* Murasakibara from ''Manga/KurokosBasketball'' fits this trope to a T. His appearance alone, would make him an oddball, seeing how he's described as being impossibly tall, with extremely long arms and legs to top it off. The fact that he behaves as a huge manchild doesn't help. It is almost impossible to understand what's going through his head, nor can you guess his motives. Most of the time he just talks in this very slow, almost slurred speech about random topics, usually food. His movements are lumpish and he seems to show interest in very little things and people. Not even in basketball. When Kuroko was asked what Murasakibara was like, the latter responded by saying the guy had a few screws loose.
136	-->'''Kuroko:''' Whenever he is not playing basketball, he's basically just a kid with some screws loose... Sometimes you meet people like him. A genius in one area, yet totally incapable in anything else.
137	* Mutsumi Otohime from ''Manga/LoveHina'' is rather spacey a lot of the time. When she moves to Tokyo, she brings no luggage with her besides a kotatsu and some watermelons. She kisses people she likes on the lips regardless of gender, or whether this is the first time they've met. She's also perhaps the only person in history to score a negative score and a near-perfect score on the same test on consecutive tries. Still, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight she's apparently the only person who remembers what went on between Keitaro, Naru, and her at the Hina house all those years ago]].
138	* ''Manga/LuckyStar'':
139	** Konata is a huge {{Otaku}} who's also rather eccentric, and her connection to reality outside of anime and games is tenuous at best. She's played so many dating sims [[WrongGenreSavvy that she sometimes thinks she's in one]].
140	** Downplayed with Tsukasa, who can come off as odd at times (like when she remarks that strawberries smell like strawberry shortcake, forgetting that this is because strawberry shortcake is ''made'' from strawberries), but this is more out of innocence and [[TheDitz ditziness]] than actually being weird, and she's often weirded out herself by Konata's eccentricities. She also has a minor fixation on the word "balsamic vinegar", which she seems to think is an {{Inherently Funny Word\|s}}.
141	* Sora and Hajime in ''Manga/{{Magikano}}'' come off as completely nuts, but they may be the only ones who have any idea that something really strange is going on: [[spoiler: that everyone is caught in a time loop, living the same year over and over again, and can't escape]].
142	* Yotsuya from ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'' continuously annoys the main male protagonist with his outlandish behavior, including but not limited to extortion, theft and housebreaking. He is very polite about it, though.
143	%%* Koyuki in ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously''. The reason why is expanded upon only in the VisualNovel, in the Ryuuzetsuran route.
144	* ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'': Izumi, one of the Nadesico's Aestivalis pilots, is notable for her bad poetry and her even worse puns (though she laughs uncontrollably at them), and often seems to be off in a world of her own. This doesn't stop her from being a competent pilot.
145	** Takes a turn for the tragic when it's discovered that [[spoiler: Izumi had not one, but TWO boyfriends die on her]]. No wonder she's so loopy.
146	* ''Manga/MinamiKe's'' Hosaka is so caught up in his own little world he ends up acting his fantasies out in real life. People tend to think he's off his rocker as a result. Further, being a master of the ImagineSpot, we the viewers tend to actually see what's going through his head at the time.
147	* In her first few appearances, Lacus Clyne ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' was one. She seemed utterly unaware of the fact that she was on an enemy warship, and condemns [[TheHero Kira]] to an AccidentalPervert moment when he takes off her dress right in front of him. Gradually, she shifts and shows that she wasn't nearly as dumb as she looked, or really even dumb at all, and often appears very jaded (her father getting murdered by a paranoid nut probably contributed to that).
148	* In ''Anime/MiniMoniTheMovieOkashiNaDaiboken'', the yellow fairy child tends to jump in with random phrases and thinks the fairy queen's chibi form is a horrible monster.
149	* Both Yokoi and Seki himself from ''Manga/MyNeighborSeki'' are both examples of that: Seki from Yokoi’s perspective as she notices his constantly playing games she doesn’t understand instead of paying attention in class, and Yokoi from the rest of the class’s point of view since there’s no other way to explain her weird behaviour as she tries to cover for Seki.
150	* The entire security team from ''Manga/MysteriousJoker'' had this bad in their initial appearance. They got better. Policewoman Momo seems to have shades of this.
151	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
152	** Killer Bee. Let's put it this way: If you have an extremely powerful demonic entity inside of you, and it is significantly more rational and sane than ''you'' are, you qualify for this trope.
153	** Naruto himself has been known to be one as well, as illustrated when he showed no problem trying to destroy a wall with a Rasengan while on a stealth mission and was confused on why he shouldn't do it. He also has a tendency to go on about [[TrademarkFavoriteFood ramen]] at times when it has absolutely nothing to do with the subject. He was also shown to get distracted easily during his training for the Rasen-shuriken.
154	** {{Filler}} character Yuukimaru seems to be one of these. He appears rambling about flowers while Sasuke simply stares.
155	** Although not a Cloudcuckoolander at all, [[BrilliantButLazy Shikamaru]] had a couple of scenes. First when he, in the midst of his Chuunin exam battle against [[{{Tsundere}} Temari]], sits down and stays looking at the clouds while he thinks he would like to be as free as them. Not much later, he got surrounded by Sound Ninjas during the invasion and the only thing he is capable to do is thinking about [[IJustWantToBeNormal what did he want to do with his life]].
156	** Omoi is a borderline case, in that he's not completely out of it, but his minds tends to wander of into insane tangents like how doing too much paperwork can lead him to getting killed in battle or throwing a rock could destroy a village.
157	* Combine a hefty helping of this with a StoicSpectacles {{Bishounen}} and you get Kairi from ''Manga/NightmareInspector''. He's the owner of a building called the "Delirium," a literal {{Cloudcuckooland}} -- getting locked in a room there means you get to live all your wildest fantasies until you die (or until you realize that it's just a hyped-up daydream, whichever comes first). Kairi himself is always sitting behind the desk, staring off into space, and daydreaming about all manner of weird things. The reader actually gets to see some of his trips to Cloudcuckooland...
158	* Noda Megumi "Nodame" from ''Manga/NodameCantabile'', who is a brilliant pianist, but often has strange notions about things.
159	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
160	** Gedatsu is a villainous example; he often forgets that his mouth needs to be open to talk, or to unreverse his eyes to see, and apparently isn't even able to cross his arms properly without advice. He kills his own {{Mooks}} by accident. The main character who faces him doesn't get it and finds his behavior utterly terrifying, though.
161	** Don't forget that during one of the post-Skypeia side stories, Gedatsu [[AchievementsInIgnorance forgets to obey gravity and stands on a wall]].
162	** Monkey D. Luffy. He seems incapable of giving his actions a second thought (and rarely gives his actions a FIRST thought), and seems intent on asking every non-human being he meets (Brook, mermaids) if they poop, and generally forces the rest of his crew to follow him on his 'adventures' to act as [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder Cloudcuckoolander's Minders]] so he doesn't do something stupid (they rarely succeed).
163	** Despite his exterior, Zoro has his moments as well, [[TheComicallySerious all completely seriously]]. Like doing a Tarzan yell while swinging on a vine. Or irrationally accusing [[IdenticalStranger mysterious girls of intentionally copying his dead childhood friend]]. Or believing that when threatened with death by being encased in wax, it's important to strike a cool pose. Or thinking the best way to get out of a trap and to win against the opponent is to cut your own feet off. And his [[NoSenseOfDirection hilariously bad sense of direction]]... forget TheStoic label, he does this all the freaking time. It's almost sad he NeverGetsDrunk; there have to be several people who want to see what he can say and do when all his faculties go bye-bye. Please, please Oda, make Zoro have a MushroomSamba episode and bring joy and brightness to the Earth.
164	** Franky. With his eccentricity and his tendency to shout "SUPER!" whenever he can, it's easy to see why.
165	** Brook isn't all there, either, constantly cracking "[[{{Pun}} skull jokes]]" and occasionally asking the female crew members (or even random women he meets) for their panties. This is justified, though, by [[GoMadFromTheIsolation him spending 50 years alone on a ship full of his dead crewmates]].
166	** Kizaru from the same series counts -- he mistakes his wiretap for a phone, as well as asking enemies where his subordinate is.
167	** Not to forget Vice Admiral Vergo, who forgets that he has half a hamburger stuck to his cheek, and before going to battle, asks if anyone has seen his sword -- before getting reminded that he is not a swordsman. And when he accepts the corrections of his mistakes, [[ComicallySerious he'll reply in his usual deadpan tone]].
168	*** Vergo is an odd example. If he weren't so absentminded, he could easily be TheStoic. He has a no-nonsense, imposing demeanor and performs his duties with great efficiency. Nothing about this guy says "quirky" at first glance, but then, he'll walk around with french fries or even a ''spoon'' stuck to his cheek without even noticing. [[spoiler:And after he's defeated by Law, the latter non-lethally cuts Vergo's body into pieces and sticks said pieces on rails. Completely defenseless, what's the first thing that comes to mind despite his situation?]]
169	--->'''Vergo:''' "How will I eat breakfast tomorrow?"
170	** Then there's Baby 5, who accepts requests far too easily because she is "needed." This includes borrowing (culminating into a hundred million beri debt) and marriage proposals, in which her eight fiances have ended up dead with their residing island burned to the ground because of Doflamingo's protectiveness. She immediately tries to kill him in revenge, and then accepts a ''mission'' from him.
171	** Let's not forget Kumadori's kabuki theatrics even in the most serious situations, Zeo having so much pride that he can't admit something that isn't in his favor (even though it's so '''blatantly''' true), and Fukuro will tell you "my lips are sealed" and claims that he won't reveal information about a specific subject. Immediately after, ''he'll spill everything on said subject''! After realizing his mistake, he claims that ''he gave it away willingly''. It's easier to list the characters that ''aren't'' Cuckoolanders in the world of ''One Piece''.
172	* Ichijou, the ClassRepresentative from ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'', is weird even for a thoroughly QuirkyWork. She also appears to have inexplicable (and unexplained) powers that ignore the laws of physics, reality, and sanity.
173	** For example, she once cut a conversation with Miyako short by ''rocketing into the stratosphere''. When Miyako caught up with her again and mentioned it, she went "What are you talking about?"
174	** Himeko also seems particularly unconcerned with anything remotely approaching reality, though in a much more [[GenkiGirl energetic way]] than Ichijou.
175	* Yuu Narukami (Protagonist) of ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'' is shaping up to be quite the Cloudcuckoolander. While Yosuke and Chie are freaking out over things like being inside a TV, a bear mascot talking to them, said bear mascot ''being hollow inside'', and Yosuke needing the bathroom, he's completely deadpan. When bitten by Teddie, he says that it's making him cry in a ''completely deadpan voice''.
176	* Commander Mars of Team Galactic in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', who skips, smiles, and giggles her way through all of her [[WellIntentionedExtremist well intentioned]] villainy.
177	* Nene Mori of ''Anime/PrincessNine'' always dreamed of being the manager (gofer/janitor, not coach) of a high school baseball team, just like in all the manga she read. Since she was sent to a private all-girls school, this just wasn't going to happen. Once a girls' baseball team is formed, Nene sees it as her destiny. Unfortunately, while she is very smart, she only knows ''what'' a manager does, not how to do it (her family's filthy rich, she's never even done laundry), so she mostly exists to [[LampshadeHanging Hang A Lampshade]] on the more obvious cliches the writers embrace, by suggesting them. Fortunately, she has a good heart, and a butler (and access to ''lots'' of resources).
178	* Several characters from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' have tendencies this way, notably the Kunos.
179	** One of the biggest is figure skater Azusa Shiratori; she's a teenage girl who acts like a five year old, and will steal anything she considers cute and will give it a pet name -- often a fancy sounding female name even if the person or animal she takes is a male. She will also take strange things like cooked fish, rice balls, bicycles, police sirens, and steel girders and give them names.
180	* Elie from ''Manga/RaveMaster''. As a child, she told her father she wanted to grow up to be a bug. Perhaps because that is impossible, she settles for being the greatest dancer in all the land. To avoid spoilers, let's just say there's a long and very complicated story hidden in all this.
181	* [[TheStoic Fran]] of ''Manga/Reborn2004'' seems to be this [[NotSoStoic as a child]]. Lampshaded by an indignant [[NoIndoorVoice Squalo]]. "First faeries, now cavity imps!? [[LampshadeHanging WHAT THE HELL!?]]"
182	* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'': Mari Illustrious Makinami is an excellent example of this trope -- when not fighting, that is. Inside an Eva however, she's AxCrazy incarnate.
183	* In ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventurerInAnotherWorld'', Red's {{toku}} hero sensibilities and unwavering belief in ThePowerOfFriendship to the point of being a LoveFreak makes him come across as airheaded and bizarre to the denizens of Idola's world. He's easily sidetracked by his desire to bond with others, sometimes struggles to read the room, and approaches everything with HotBlooded candor.
184	* Nanami Kiryuu from ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''. Among other things she parades around wearing a cowbell as fashion accessory and later starts acting like a cow, thinks she laid an egg that she tries to nurture and raise as a child, and becomes convinced that her brother is trying to kill her. Most of the cast thinks she's crazy.
185	* You'd think Usagi of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is a clear candidate, but the Cloudcuckoolander, at least in the anime, is definitely Minako with her infamous malapropisms.
186	-->'''Minako:''' ''Mi o sutete koso, ukabu setomono mo are!'' (Along with throwing your life away, you throw away floating pottery.)
187	-->The real quote is "''Mi o sutete koso, ukabu se mo are!''" (Along with throwing your life away, you may get your chance to survive.)
188	* Kaoruko Odagiri from ''Manga/SaitamaChainsawShoujo''. Upon seeing the results of [[AxeCrazy Fumio's]] heartbreak driven chainsaw massacre in the school hallway, she gives her friend a stern lecture... about how she should really be more careful, since ''blood can be so hard to wash out of your hair''.
189	* Hotaru of ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' can't remember his own mentor's name and so calls him Yun Yun, [[RunningGag insists on moving caterpillars out of the way before fights]], asks directions from MauveShirt villain Kubira, and is off in his own world when he's not fighting. And that's just a short list.
190	* Emperor Fred from ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'', the eccentric ruler of Little Tokyo who largely communicates by saying his name ("Fuh-red!") and scat-singing ("Doo-wah!"). In one episode he caught a bad cold, and instead of becoming delirious with fever, he became ''sane'' with fever:
191	-->'''Princess Violet:''' "He's speaking aloud back there, as if he had a mind of his own!"\
192	'''Al Dente:''' "Oh no, then he's ''very'' sick!"
193	* Umino Mokuzu from ''Manga/SatouKashiNoDanganWaUchinukenai'' (''A Lollipop or a Bullet''), who claims to (among other things:) Be a mermaid who has been granted human form, need the true friendship of the protagonist or she will turn into sea-foam in one month's time, and to have been sent by her father to buy a machete so that he could chop up a body in his bath-tub. Throughout the early part of the series, it is a major question for the protagonist of the series as to whether or not anything Umino says is [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight true]]. The part about [[spoiler:the corpse was true. Her dad beat their dog and accidentally killed him, so he dismembered him and buried him in the mountains. It's also implied Umino's odd personality is related to her being [[AbusiveParents abused by her father]]. She also may be subverting this trope as she doesn't seem to ''honestly'' believe she is a mermaid and is just either speaking in metaphors or is speaking nonsense]].
194	* Fuura Kafuka from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' combines this trope with being a big-time [[ThePollyanna pollyanna]] to incredibly creepy extents; for example, she believes that nobody could ever want to hang themselves, and those who do are simply trying to "make themselves taller". She then cheerfully goes on to describe how her father went and tried to make himself taller... Repeatedly. No-one is sure if she's deeply disturbed, in heavy denial, or both.
195	** Her forced cheerfulness extends to every aspect of life, even inanimate objects. When she sees a garbage can, for example, she refuses to accept that something as unpleasant as garbage could possibly exist. Thus, she decides that a garbage can is actually "a treasure chest for the homeless."
196	** Taro Maria Sekiutsu can be considered one too, especially considering she comes from a country where apparently massacres happen regularly. She's upbeat, cheerful, and makes little to no sense usually. Unsurprisingly, she gets along great with Kafuka.
197	** Oora Kanako walked into a newly thrashed, blood sprayed classroom, sat down by her desk, which their homeroom teacher, the victim of the recent assault, was lying on nonetheless, and then stared off into the distant nothingness with a vacant smile on her face... The next episode, she's still sitting like that and her classmates [[LampshadeHanging comment]] on that she's been sitting like that for [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall a whole week]].
198	* Masaru Hananakajima from ''Sexy Commando Gaiden'' definitely qualifies; he practices a martial art based on the idea that [[ConfusionFu confused, unsettled enemies cannot defend themselves]]. His usual technique to produce that state involves groaning "Ahhhhh" while reaching to unzip his pants.
199	* Angol Mois, a.k.a. the Lord of Terror, from ''Manga/SgtFrog'' has more than her fair share of spacey moments.
200	* Ryou and Fuu from ''Manga/{{Sketchbook}}'' are always together, seemingly living in their own world which only slightly touches upon reality. They do appear to understand ''each other'' perfectly though, which is already the case in the manga and which gets [[CharacterExaggeration exaggerated]] in the anime so they seem to have some sort of two-person {{hive mind}}. They love to play pranks on the other students and often function as some sort of off-beat [[GreekChorus narrators to the show's events]]. Still, they will help out their friends in times of need -- albeit in their own fashion.
201	** In fact, a lot of the characters could qualify -- starting with Sora. Just ask her little brother...
202	* ''Manga/SoulEater'' has several, most prominently Patty.
203	** Turning her ''exam'' papers into a freakin' '''GIRAFFE''' and then freaking out and ''breaking its neck'' as she goes pro wrestler on it. Nothing else needs to be said. The Giraffe was still worth 2 points, though.
204	** Excalibur certainly qualifies, what with his [[TalkativeLoon rambling, completely disjointed stories]] and propensity to break into song for no reason. That he is the most powerful weapon in existence, yet cannot find anyone willing to put up with him, is a testament to just how out there he is. [[spoiler:You'd probably be this way, too, if you were really an AnthropomorphicPersonification of ''madness''. Might also explain why Shinigami and his "Kid" are not all there, either.]]
205	* Okabe Rintaro, the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'', likes talking to himself on the phone, rambling about weird conspiracies, pretending to be a MadScientist despite barely being able to create random, useless junk... he even calls himself Hououin Kyouma, as it's a much more impressive name than his actual one. [[spoiler: He was [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight right all the time -- or at least most of it]], and he even calls his future self out for not having changed in 15 years]].
206	* Miu Matsuoka from ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow''. She frequently enters the Itou house through Chika's window, yelling one thing or another; remembers a day is Nobue's birthday through [[WikiWalk stream-of-consciousness]]; claimed that Santa doesn't bring her presents because she kept asking for things like traffic lights, forcing him to hand off the duty of giving her gifts to her parents; and so on.
207	-->'''Nobue:''' "I've known her all these years, but I still have no idea how her mind works."
208	* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'': Kuchipatchi is definitely this due to being {{The Ditz}} of the tiro and being obsessed with food.
209	* Shiro from ''Manga/{{Tekkonkinkreet}}'' has a tendency to lapse into daydreams or delusions at random. He also tends to use nonsensical metaphors and gibberish in his regular speech.
210	* Mihoshi from the various ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' series seems like a complete airhead, but manages to save the day on several occasions. This is usually the result of her [[TheFool outrageous luck]], but it's also indicated that Mihoshi is much smarter than she seems... at least in the {{OVA}} continuity. And while she can be incredibly observant, Mihoshi doesn't always consciously ''realize'' what she's observed.
211	* Nia Teppelin from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''; at first due to her sheltered up-bringing, but it's quite clear she isn't all there in the head when, even after 7 years in the outside world, she still surprises everyone with her quirky misunderstandings. Simon even remarks that he has a hard time understanding what she says.
212	* Bu-Ling from ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' is... strange. She once suggested that Zakuro was going to America to play baseball, and on another occasion thought that spinning plates wile balancing on a ball was a form of ballet.
213	* Milly Thompson from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' is an almost stereotypical example. She once nearly threatened a shopkeeper with her HandCannon when in search of pudding... and ''got'' it. Only to drop her grocery bags a few moments later to emphasize a point mid conversation.
214	* Dita from ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' is the resident Cloudcuckoolander for the show. Despite having deep feelings for the main character Hibiki, she seems to forget his name, calling him Mr. Alien instead.
215	** Its more like she's just fond of calling him Mr. Alien, its his nickname for him.
216	* In ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches'':
217	** Being a keen believer in the supernatural, Itou has many spacy moments, like when she and Yamada visited the "sealed" classroom, and she blamed anything she saw on a ghost she was sure resided there.
218	** Tsubaki isn't exactly normal, either; the guy's standard way of comforting himself is frying tempura, and it actually works because "it's Japanese". The fact that he fell in love with Shiraishi just because she gave him a rude answer to a question also suggests that he isn't quite right in the head.
219	** Himekawa's eccentricities are lampshaded by the narration ''and'' in-universe -- she has [[SkewedPriorities weird priorities]] (getting Yamada help even though he was barely injured), can be very absent-minded and fails to notice absurd things.
220	** Arisugawa is usually good for a weird idea or a silly comment.
221	* Katsuya Jounouchi/Joey Wheeler of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' is yet another shonen BigEater of a space case, prone to many bouts of goofy behavior and painfully awkward moments. He's just, ahem, lucky that he's also street smart, a decent out-of-the-box thinker, and...oh, yes, TheLancer. He may not be able to beat [[TheHero Yugi]] or [[TheRival Kaiba]], but nobody else has ever beaten him more than once.
222	** Ryou Bakura is this as well when his evil side isn't trying to take over, particularly in [[Manga/YuGiOh the manga]].
223	* Yuzuko and Yukari in ''Manga/{{Yuyushiki}}'' falls into this trope, but in different ways -- Yuzuko is closer to a GenkiGirl[=/=]DitzyGenius, while Yukari is literally slow, with {{sleepyhead}} traits.
224	* Many of the fodder villains in ''Manga/ZatchBell'' fall under this trope. Victoream will drop everything for a melon, and usually sing a song about it afterwards. Koral Q will drop everything if you missed his awesome transformation, and usually sing a song about it afterwards. Kiees will drop everything if you ignore his brilliant [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] mishmash, and... well you get the idea.
225	** Gash also acts this way in the better half of the first season, especially when he's unaware of his powers. (He loses consciousness when Kiyomaro reads spells and at first thinks lightning came from the sky when he uses them.)
226	** Suzume. The fact that she easily forgets what she is doing if she gets distracted by one little thing and that she thinks that Umagon is a sheep while he actually resembles a small horse are just ones of the many traits that classify her as an authentic Cloud Cuckoo Lander.
227	*** Though, to be fair, the sound Umagon makes is meant to be the Japanese onomatopoeia of a sheep's bleating.
228	** It's practically required to break into song and dance while fighting in this series. The first probably being Parco Folgore and his partner Kanchome. Their first act onscreen is to duct tape Kiyo to his ceiling and have Kanchome (unconvincingly) impersonate him to fool Zatch (which somehow works). Then upon learning that they're going to be fighting, Folgore breaks the entire situation into a musical production of his Italian pop songs. Kiyo broke into this by believing that Folgore's dance was somehow magically hypnotizing Zatch.
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