Long Haired Pretty Boy / Anime & Manga

Long Haired Pretty Boys in Anime & Manga

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• Anri and Shiro of Adekan used to have much longer hair when they were younger and were mistaken as girls because of their hair, feminine facial features and lithe forms typically dressed in female clothing. Shiro has since cut his hair to be free of a guy who held him captive as a slave due to his beauty and it remains past shoulder length. Anri once gained his long curly hair back after he degenerated to his child form.
• Amatsuki: Bonten, a suave, vain demon who Word of God calls the best looking guy in the series, is unique for his long blond hair which he ties in a ponytail, but sometimes lets down for alluring effect.
• In Aruosumente, Moeran stands out even among a Cast Full of Pretty Boys thanks to his long hair and loose robes.
• Nagisa from Assassination Classroom has long hair tied into pigtails, which makes him look like a girl. Turns out his mother won't allow him to cut his hair, because his mother, who wanted a daughter instead of a son, wants him to look like a girl.
• By the time Eren is 16 in Attack on Titan he has grown his hair out in contrast to his short hairstyle he had when younger. This, coupled with his handsome looks, makes him a definite long haired pretty boy.
• A non-human example comes from Long-haired Bananya in Bananya, as seen here.
• Beelzebub: When Himekawa loses the pompadour and sunglasses, his hair is revealed to be very long and beautiful, and he's so handsome his classmates are left speechless. From then on whenever he appears in this state he's nicknamed "Sexykawa".
• Griffith, the resident Bishōnen from Berserk who hordes of male and female characters have a fallen for and obsessed over during the course of the series, has waist-length white waves that the fandom has affectionately dubbed "cloud hair".
• Bleach:
  • Byakuya has long black hair that falls just past his shoulders. As a stoic nobleman with raven black hair and pale skin, he tends to be very popular with the women. The Shinigami Women's Institute keeps voting him the sexiest male shinigami in their annual polls.
  • Ukitake has waist length white hair and is considered gentle, kind, and attractive. His Heterosexual Life-Partner, Kyoraku, keeps referring to him as a ladykiller because female shinigami can be reduced to blushing jelly if he so much as smiles at them. His female third seat, Kiyone, is hopelessly in love with him.
  • Yumichika, notorious for his beauty and his obsession with beauty, used to have long hair that was fashionably styled until he joined the shinigami, whereupon he cut his hair to chin-length.
  • Jugram Haschwalth of the Wandereich is a long haired, slender and pretty Bishonen. He's also The Dragon to Big Bad Yhwach.
• Bokura no Hentai:
  • Ryousuke wears his hair long and has androgynous qualities. When he was younger he was noted for looking like a short haired version of his sister. When she died he grew his hair out and began dressing as her in private for his mother, who preferred her and has mental health issues due to her death. Ryousuke cuts his hair when he enters high school due to no longer needing to crossdress.
  • Satoshi is introduced as a boy with long hair who usually wears girls clothes. A few appearances later and he cut his hair short and ditched the sailor fuku because he was hitting a growth spurt. In later chapters he grows his hair out long which makes him stand out as the most Bishōnen male character. He often wears his hair in a ponytail.
• Cardcaptor Sakura: Yue's braid of silver hair trails 2 feet behind him on the floor (or more, if it's a CLAMP illustration). Makes sense since he represents Yin and, through that, the Feminine aspect.
• Classi9 has two of them: There is Beethoven, who's long violet hair and delicate features had him mistaken for a girl In-Universe. There's also Liszt, who despite thinking he isn't that good looking, has numerous fangirls for his looks and musical talent. As for the long-haired part, his hair goes below his knees.
• Claudine: Claude and Louis are both stunningly pretty men with long blond hair.
• Corsair: The brothers Jean-Hughes D'Aubigne and Canale Delacroix both have long hair and aristocratic good looks, with Canale in particular being seen as extraordinarily beautiful.
• Akoya of Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! whose long pink hair is his defining physical trait.
• Jin Kazama from DAYS has long, blond hair that stands out amongst most the cast (who mostly have black or brown hair). He's the most Bishōnen character and is a Chick Magnet. Kazama's hair gets commented on when people on another team say they expect him to get beat up for his looks.
• Death Note: Mikami is a Sharp-Dressed Man with shoulder-length hair and some would argue he's even more Bishōnen than Light and (although he wasn't intended to be one) L. At least until the Yellow Box scene in the Grand Finale.
• Yukki of Destroy and Revolution has long hair to spite his father.
• Kouji Minamoto of Digimon Frontier technically falls under this trope since his hair is long enough to be worn in a near-waist-length ponytail. Amusingly his long-lost twin brother Kouichi is a Short-Haired Pretty Boy due to having similar features but an overall more feminine appearance.
• Hakuoh from Duel Masters has very long blue hair, and he's a very pretty boy.
• In Endride, the very pretty Eljuia has flowing white long hair which unquestionably contributes to the Dude Looks Like a Lady effect that occurs in-universe. He stands out as most men in the series keep their hair shoulder length or higher.
• Daimos: Richter, the Alien Prince of the Baam-Seijin, has hair that goes past his chest and nearly reaches the floor. See here◊.
• The Elusive Samurai: Tokiyuki is a cute young boy with fabulously long and silky black hair. Even when he cuts it off before the Time Skip, it's still fairly long.
• Excel♡Saga: Il Palazzo has long silver hair and is rather pretty for an older man.
• Fullmetal Alchemist (2003): Envy's true form is an attractive smooth-skinned male with shoulder-length blonde hair and golden eyes, whilst having a bitter smile across his face.
• Honoo no Alpen Rose:
  • Leonhardt Aschenbach◊ has long, cymotrichous, purple hair that reaches past his back, long eyelashes and a feminine face. He's so pretty that he can pass as a woman, and he does so that his fans don't recognize him in public as "the secondcoming of Mozart".
  • Count Georges crosses this over with Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon, being a pedophile Nazi with long, thin, straight hair that volominously covers his back and a refined face with striking eyes.
• Fruits Basket:
  • Ayame Sohma has very long silver hair and is famous for his beauty, not to mention he's incredibly camp.
  • Ritsu Sohma has long brown hair and is pretty enough that he can wear a kimono and pass for a woman. His timid demeanor also helps.
• Igano Kabamaru: The Token Evil Teammate, Shizune Meijiro, is a Pretty Boy who wears dark eyeshadow and has long, black-as-night thin hair that goes to his back, with two hairs parted at the front and laid in front of his shoulders.
• Get Backers: Kazuki has floor length brown hair and is so pretty he's been mistaken as female a number of times.
• Ginga Teikoku Kouboushi: Volume 1: Foundation: Anselm haut Rodric is drawn as the tallest character during the "The Mayors" storyline, with long pale hair that goes down to his shoulder-blades. Narrow eyes and a smirk indicate his arrogant personality before he even says word one.
• Gintama:
  • Katsura has long black hair that enhances his feminine good looks.
  • Kamui wears his long orange hair in a braid. He also happens to look just like his cute sister.
• Guilty Crown: Gai Tsutsugami is tall, has a well built physique, has long blonde hair that goes passed his shoulders and has attracted a number of female characters.
• Miyamura from Horimiya had long hair to hide his piercings while at school. He ended up cutting it after him dating Hori was made public knowledge, and it was considered an Unnecessary Makeover by both the fanbase and Hori. She leaves a bite mark on the back of his neck the first time they have sex to encourage him to grow it back out.
• Hoshin Engi:
  • Yozen has the appearance of an elegant young man with long blue hair, and his good looks occasionally get noticed.
  • Kouyuuken of the shisei of Kuryuu islands is a lean man with hair long enough to reach his feet and is drawn with the long eyelashes the mangaka usually use for pretty female characters.
• Inazuma Eleven: Terumi "Aphrodi" Afuro is named after the goddess of beauty, so naturally he is drawn with blonde hair that goes down to his hips and a very feminine appearance.
• Guy of Innocents Shounen Juujigun has upper back length, immensely floofy black hair. While he's not the prettiest member of the cast, he's certainly an attractive young man.
• Inuyasha:
  • Inuyasha has long white hair reminiscent of the lion-dog figure in kabuki plays. For all his abrasive personality, he's considered rather cute, and the dog ears half hidden in his hair tend to be irresistible for women to try and touch. Even Kagome's mother gave in to the urge. He's particularly popular with Jakotsu… much to his chagrin.
  • Sesshoumaru is a tall, slim, beautiful youkai of very high aristocratic rank with long, flowing white hair that falls to his waist. The anime takes this to extremes, however, by lengthening his hair down to his knees. Kagura, who had commented upon first seeing Inuyasha and Kouga that they weren't her type, fell for Sesshoumaru the moment she laid eyes on him. Jakotsu thought he was very attractive as well, but by then had his heart set on Inuyasha. The anime also gave him his very own Stalker with a Crush who fell for him the moment she saw him.
  • Naraku took over the body of a handsome young human lord to create the shell of the half-youkai that he became. As a result, he has long black hair styled as a young lord would wear it. Unusually in the series, his hair is actually wavy rather than dead straight.
• Narciso Anasui from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean. Upon meeting him, F.F. even questions his gender. To be fair, he was initially depicted as a woman before switching to male, leading to Fanon that he is Transgender.
  • Three of the series' main villains are also these.
    • Kars is this compared to the other Pillar Men, with Barbarian Longhair, finer features, and eye makeup.
    • Diavolo is much slimmer than most of his predecessors, and has long magenta hair.
    • Funny Valentine was initially depicted as an overweight man but after obtaining the rib cage of the saint, he transforms into a slim looking gentleman with long blonde hair that curls into rings at the neck.
  • Gyro Zeppeli, even with his strange segmented beard.
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  • Kuroh, with his Samurai Ponytail. In the first episode, when he rescues Shiro, the latter blushes at Kuroh's beauty and tries to flirt with him quite a bit, even when Kuroh is trying to kill him. When Kuroh goes to Shiro's school to find him, passing groups of students notice how hot he is, even though he seems a little strange.
  • Shiro in his original body also qualifies - even after he cuts his hair in the end, it's still shoulder-length, and the students in the school are shown in a post-series side story to be very into both him and Kuroh for their looks.
• Kaoru from Kids on the Slope is stated to have effeminate facial features once and certainly looks prettier than the other more 'average' looking boys. As an adult he is shown to have grown his hair out and become a doctor.
• Lady!!: Charles has long, blonde hair that hangs over his head and reaches past his back, and looks like a proper Bishōnen.
• Macross Frontier: Alto Saotome a.k.a. Hime-sama is a beautiful boy with long blue hair tied in a ponytail. Often leads to him getting mistaken for a girl, much to his displeasure.
• Aburatsubo from Magic User's Club. He's tall, has long red hair, and is gorgeous enough to have his fanclub.
• Tsubasa Otori of Metal Fight Beyblade takes this trope and then inserts◊ a healthy dosage of bishie sparkling◊. If it weren't for his muscles, he could almost certainly be mistaken for a girl. There are even jokes referring to Tsubasa as being a style stealer, specifically of Inuyasha's hair.
• Teruki Hanazawa's Adaptational Hairstyle Change in the anime of Mob Psycho 100 has him grow his hair out into a shoulder-length mullet-esque manner at the end of the half-year Time Skip following being (once again) accidentally nearly scalped during the Confession Arc.
• Mononoke: Kusuriuri is known for capturing the hearts of all the women he meets just by standing still and letting the Dramatic Wind blow through his long, wavy ash blond hair.
• Moriarty the Patriot: During the time-skip after The Final Problem, Sherlock grew his already-past-the-shoulder hair close to halfway down his back, a key member of the Cast Full of Pretty Boys.
• Naruto:
  • Haku's long hair is the main factor in his androgyny. He had long hair even as a child. According to Naruto in Chapter 21, he thought that Haku was even girlier than Sakura.
  • Neji, Dan, Deidara, Itachi, and Kabuto all have hair that goes past their shoulders, and are all quite pretty.
  • Inoichi Yamanaka is an older example.
  • Sasuke in Curse Seal Level 2 form.
  • Shikamaru when we get to see his hair down while bathing.
• Night Walker: The protagonist Shido and his foe/stalker Cain both have chin-length hair in the first set of character designs, and Cain isn't even a pretty boy. But both are firmly within the scope of this trope in the second set of character designs. Shido's new 'do is waist length at least, and Cain has new blond tresses, to say nothing of his new (seme-appropriate) face.
• Ryuunosuke of The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, being a genius hikikomori, barely has time cutting his hair, which has now grown to feminine lengths. He's also so pretty that he's once forced to wear a maid outfit.
• One-Punch Man gives us Flashy Flash, one of the S-Class Heroes affiliated with the Hero Association. There's also Devil Long Hair from the Monster Association Arc.
• Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl: Nando has long, glossy hair that fits well with his minstrel garb and harp, and he is one of the rare male Pokémon Coordinators in the series, with his main Pokémon parter being the feminine Roserade.
• Ranma ½: Mousse' hair is longer than Shampoo's and he is quite pretty without his glasses.
• Rurouni Kenshin: Kenshin, referred to in the first chapter as "Handsome Swordsman of Legend", has long red hair. His impossibly youthful looks are lampshaded when two of the cast are surprised to learn he's actually 28.
• Sailor Moon: Fisheye, Zoisite, Nephrite and Kunzite all have long hair. The first two were portrayed as female in the dub. Also, Ali (his alien form) in the anime only Doom Tree arc. And Fiore (his alien form) in the R movie. And Artemis (his human form) in the manga.
• Saint Beast: Quite a few: Shin, Luca, and Lucifer all have long hair, and being angels, angelic beauty to accompany it. Rey is by far the worst offender with his long, flowing purple hair, and features bordering on Dude Looks Like a Lady.
• Sakura Gari: Souma has long hair that he wears in a ponytail (before his Important Haircut) and Youya aka Sakurako.
• The Secret Agreement: Iori has long locks and is commented on for his world-class beauty, even more so than his short-haired sister.
• Seraph of the End
  • Ferid and Crowley are both effeminate looking vampires with Ferid keeping his long silver hair in a ponytail and Crowley keeping his long red hair in a braid.
  • Asuramaru is a demon with a feminine looking face and long dark hair. The dress doesn't help either.
• Shimoneta: Oboro takes the "pretty" boy aspect to extremes, due to his soft facial features, the length of his hair, and the fact that he has a woman's figure. This is further emphasized during episode 12, by having him strip down in the women's changing room while a girl was present without her realizing Oboro was a guy.
• Shugo Chara!: Nagihiko Fujisaki has long, flowing indigo hair. Justified because he's a crossdresser.
• Star Driver: Shingo generally has some of the longest hair among the male cast, but after about sixteen years of coma it has grown to very long dimensions and he has soft facial features to match.
• Tokyo Mew Mew has Keiichiro Asaka and Masaya's first Blue Knight form with their waist-length hair tied back into a ponytail. The latter's second Blue Knight form briefly grows back down to the aforementioned length before quickly returning to its' regular chin level in the second manga sequel Tokyo Mew Mew 2020 Return.
• Tsukigasa: Azuma has very long, beautiful hair and a delicate appearance such that he resembles his mother strongly.
• Kiri from Wild Rose and Olgrius and Shui from Wild Wind, all have long hair that is drawn in great detail, and beautiful appearances courtesy of their supernatural being status.
• Kyubi from Yo-kai Watch is portrayed as a long-haired, somewhat androgynous-looking boy in human form. He's a Chick Magnet who (literally) steals hearts. Despite this, Katie is oblivious to his flirting. His human counterpart in the Middle School AU Spin-Off of the series, Yo-kai Watch Jam The Movie: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat be a Hero? and Yo-kai Watch Jam - Yo-kai Academy Y: Close Encounters of the N Kind, Ryuusuke Kyuubi, has even longer hair, and is even pretty to the female gaze. Too bad for them, he only has eyes for the for school nurse, Natsuki Enra.
• Yona of the Dawn:
  • Jae-ha never misses an opportunity to bestow his beauty on anyone male or female. Since he is also The Charmer and a Chick Magnet, most of his targets really don't mind (except Hak). Jae-ha is also the only one of the Cast Full of Pretty Boys who seems to know just how pretty he is and will try to use it to get what he wants (with varying success, his companions are completely immune). His waist-length green hair is tied beautifully back with a long yellow ribbon.
  • While Kija's hair is shorter, it's still long enough to be tied back. And he's just as pretty as Jae-ha, just a lot more innocent...and slightly traumatized by infatuated women throwing themselves at him.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • The first series is guilty of this trope. You've got Bakura, Pegasus, Otogi, Espa Roba, Marik, Dartz and Sigfried. Like much of the male characters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series, they are attractive too. Even the cards aren't immune to this, as Yugi's Dark Magician is just as handsome as most of the cast (though much of his hair is concealed by his hat and outfit).
  • Continuing with Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Ryo, Daitokuji-sensei, Fubuki. In-Universe, the girls go crazy for them, especially the latter.
  • Christopher "Chris" Arclight—V—from Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL is definitely this. Women would be jealous with how long his hair is. He also happens to be quite handsome. Also, Barian Emperor Mizael has hair that reaches down his back, both in human and alien form.
• Yuri!!! on Ice: Victor Nikiforov had long, waist-length hair as a teenager. As an adult his hair is much shorter, though he hasn't lost his pretty looks. It helps that he's a Living Legend of a figure skater who's been highly skilled since his junior days and has male and female fans.
• YuYu Hakusho:
  • Kurama (normally red, but turns white when he transforms into his Youko form), to the extent he suffers from a bad case of Even the Guys Want Him amoung the villians.
  • Karasu has long black hair (which turns blond when he powers up). Considering his sadistic nature, this leads to a really creepy Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon effect.
  • Shishiwakamaru is this in universe as well as out. He has a whole entourage of fangirls cheering for him and Yusuke jokes he should start a boy band because he "already has the looks for it" when he taunts him and his team.
  • Sakyou, meanwhile, has more of a mullet, leads to the same Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon effect as Karasu.
• Voltes V: Prince Heinel has unkempt, tousled blonde hair that goes past his shoulders. Concept art by Yuki Hijiri depicts him with wispier, curlier hair that resembles Griffith's.

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