Bishōnen

Tamaki Suō: so pretty it hurts.

"What a pretty little girl! I do like 'em pretty! But look at this boy, he's even prettier!"

— Ultros (regarding Noel Kreiss), Final Fantasy XIII-2

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A popular Asian character type, the bishōnen, or "beautiful boy", is a male character that possesses androgynous or "feminine" physical traits. He is usually tall, slender with almost no fat and little to no muscle, and no body or facial hair. Large, expressive eyes are almost a given, though Tsurime Eyes are also common in more serious examples. In anime, many bishōnen have female voice actors (most comedically, Naruto Uzumaki), although those that don't will instead get startlingly deep, sexy voices. It is not uncommon for those at the more feminine end to be mistaken for women by other characters, or for savvier examples of the type to take advantage of such an assumption.

Bishōnen can be found equally distributed between heroes and villains; bishōnen villains often develop devoted followings among fans. Bishōnen with white hair are almost always villains, no matter how they initially seem.

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In the English fandom, the term bishōnen simply connotes "a really, really attractive male", but in its original usage, it refers to a specific type of attractiveness that is found in adolescents. The cutoff for bishōnen in the strict sense is around 20 years old. Beyond this age, the Japanese describe male attractiveness through terms like biseinen or bidanshi ("beautiful man") or ikemen (roughly "good-looking guy"). The affectionate English fandom shorthand "bishie" bypasses the lexical issues somewhat. Examples of both bishōnen and biseinen should be placed on this page. Likely to have drawn on a moe aesthetic when they were younger.

The comparable Korean concept is kkot-minam ("flower pretty boy"). The most similar Western type is Pretty Boy.

The appearance and behavior of the archetypal bishōnen is often used to explore sexuality and gender norms. Thus, Yaoi Guys have a tendency to be this.

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Originally, bishōnen characters were the province of shoujo and Boys Love Genres, but since the mid-90s, it has become the default style for teenage boys in pretty much any work looking for a cross-demographic audience. Since more modern anime and manga are overwhelming geared towards appealing to both men and women in this respect, a large majority of virtually all mainstream works will feature at least one bishōnen character, if not more. Also the farther bishōnen characters disseminate from their source genres, the less likely it becomes that there will be in-universe mention of their androgynous looks/attractiveness.

Older Than Print, since The Tale of Genji has it in spades. Often comes with the Bishie Sparkle. If all the guys are bishōnen without many women to balance them out, you've got yourself a Cast Full of Pretty Boys. Do not confuse with Dude Looks Like a Lady. While some Bishonen may be androgynous enough to look like ladies, not all Dude Looks Like a Lady count as Bishonen. If the boy in particular is more girly cute than androgynously handsome, they probably don't count as Bishonen.

Related to Rule of Glamorous. The Long-Haired Pretty Boy is a standard bishōnen design.

Contrast Gonk, The Grotesque, and Puni Plush. Also contrast Hunk which can nonetheless cross over with this trope, such as for Vega from Street Fighter. Pretty girls are known as Bishoujo ("beautiful girl"), but the esthetics of bishoujo are different, typically emphasizing cute, petite femininity rather than sleek androgyny. See Bifauxnen for ladies who conform a bit more closely to the bishōnen aesthetic. Not to be confused with the Bishōnen Line.

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Examples:

This is an East Asian media only trope. For pretty boys in other cultures see Pretty Boy.^note The difference is primarily cultural, and it is not at all uncommon for Animesque media to use this trope much in the same way as the examples here, but for convenience's sake, let's just put the Eastern ones here and the Western ones there.

Anime & Manga

There are so many examples in anime and manga that they're being put in their own section.

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• Ai no Kusabi: Everyone but a few minor characters, especially Riki.
• Akira from Ai Ore Love is so bishonen he can pass as a girl, and Even the Guys Want Him. A majority of the men in the series are bishonen.
• In AKIRA, there's Kai, aka Kaisuke, who's short, slim, well-dressed, girlishly faced, and can knock a guy through a window. Being relatively sensitive and apparently crushing on Kaneda in the manga and Yamagata in the anime, he's often perceived as a young homosexual.
• Seiya Kanie and Takaya Kurisu from Amagi Brilliant Park
• Anatolia Story (a.k.a Red River): there are about four male characters in the entire series that don't fit this trope. The artwork is Viewer Gender Confusion incarnate.
• A majority of the male cast from Angel Beats!.
• Just about every male character in the OVA for Angels Feather.
• Mei from Arashi no Yoru ni manages to be this even though he's a non-anthro goat.
• Even if Arata Kangatari is aimed at boys, it wouldn't be a Watase manga without a few of these. In particular, Yorunami's bishiness gets lampshaded by Hinohara.
• Ask Dr. Rin!: Tokiwa, Eddy, and Banri.
• Many characters in Axis Powers Hetalia are actually mislabeled as this (and the fanart doesn't help); the art style is very Puni Plush, thus the majority of the male designs are simply moe. The ones that aren't moe usually fall more into the hunk category (and even then, there's overlap) and there's even a few bara-type characters, such as Turkey. The purest bishounen in the series would be Austria.
• Huey Laforet from Baccano! takes this to the point of confusing people in-universe (you know you look girly when one of the prettiest woman in the series is your nigh-identical adult daughter, and you know you look really girly when you are not mistaken for beautiful women, but beautiful women are mistaken for you). Firo, while never being mistaken for a woman like Huey has, has been mocked by a detective in the Light Novels for skewing quite close to the Uke aesthetic. Claire Stanfield, aka. Rail Tracer, also fits. Jacuzzi also fits, although he has that giant tattoo on his face.
  • Graham Specter also definitely qualifies◊, even if he is a total psychopath.
  • Christopher Shouldered is noted in the books to be quite pretty — if you can get past the utterly terrifying eyes and teeth.
• Barajou no Kiss: most of the male characters.
• Every main male character in Beauty Pop.
• Griffith from Berserk is explicitly labeled as "too beautiful to be a man" in about a dozen separate chapters by different characters! He even wears lipstick after transforming into Femto.
  • Judeah is so pretty, some fans mistook him for a girl.
  • Ricket is very much one and just gets more androgynous as he gets older, especially compared to the more boyish Isidro.
  • Serpico is even prettier than his half-sister Farnese.
  • The Moonlight boy, (the potential reincarnation of Guts & Casca’s son) is a little Long-Haired Pretty Boy.
• Every male character in Betrayal Knows My Name.
• Every male character in Black Bird, but especially Kyo, whom Misao mistakes for a pretty girl upon seeing him as an adult.
• A good amount of the male characters from Black Butler. Except for Baron Kelvin, who realizes this and is obsessed with "becoming beautiful", Georg von Siemens, Jumbo, Lord Arthur Randall, Azzurro Vanel, Fred Aberline, Damian, and Doctor.
• Creed◊ from Black Cat. There is also Train◊, Lin Shaolee◊, and Jenos◊.
• Yuno from Black Clover. He's a handsome young man, with many noting his good looks. Charmy even calls him her "Meal Saving Prince" after he saves her meal from falling.
• Black Lagoon:
  • Rotton the Wizard, to an extent. He basically exists just to look cool and talk fancy. Revy even asks him if he's a man whore.
  • Though still a kid, Garcia's beginning to grow into a handsome young man.
  • Hansel also shows signs of this. Unfortunately, he didn't live long enough to grow into an adult.
  • And in an Omake, we see that Sgt. Boris used to look like this; he joined the Army to toughen up. All the "de-aged" girl characters wail that he should stay this way.
• Zen from the manga Blank Slate. He's so bishounen, even his blind love interest can tell he's handsome just from touching his face.
• Bleach:
  • Ayasegawa Yumichika is defined by his connection with beauty. Not only in looks but in lifestyle, too. He even accepted a lower rank in his squad than he had to because he thought that, in kanji, the number 5 was more "beautiful" than 4.
  • Byakuya Kuchiki is very bishonen and is often voted "Seireitei's Sexiest Male Shinigami" by the Shinigami Women's Institute.
  • Ukitake, a white-haired Long-Haired Pretty Boy, is almost as bishounen as Byakuya.
  • Ishida Uryuu has a very slender, delicate build and an exceptionally fair complexion for a male character. He takes after his father Ryuuken, who is a Silver Fox, and who was his school's heartthrob when he was Uryuu's age.
  • Ichigo is also a bishounen, especially when his hair starts growing.
  • Aizen is bishounen.
  • In chapter 409, Tensa Zangetsu reveals himself for the first time and he's as bishounen as it gets. Yes, even Zangetsu didn't escape.
  • Also, Szayel Aporro Granz.
  • Shukuro Tsukishima.
  • Gin. Yes, that Gin. Kubo's goal may have been to make him creepy, but a lot of girls viewed him as bishounen instead.
  • Muramasa, the Big Bad of the Zanpakuto Strange Tales Arc.
  • Ouko Yushima from the Invading Army Arc.
  • The end of chapter 670 gives us our young Toshiro Hitsugaya all grown up so he can use the full potential of his Bankai.
  • Jugram Haschwalth of Vandenreich is one HELL of a bishounen. He is tall, slim, pale and pretty. He is also a Long-Haired Pretty Boy since he is shown to have hip-length blond hair and long eyelashes. He looks delicate but he could stand within close proximity of Yamamoto's bankai without flinching
• Solomon Goldsmith from Blood+.
• Tamura, Ryousuke, and later Satoshi from Bokura no Hentai. Ryousuke is so pretty looking he could pass for a girl in elementary. Their androgyny helps them crossdress. Satoshi was originally a Wholesome Crossdresser but hit a growth spurt, started dressing masculinely, and became the biggest bishie in the series. He even has Bishie Sparkles.
• In Brave10, there are handsome guys galore. Saizo, Sasuke, Kamanosuke, Hanzo, young Seikai, and grown-up Benmaru are all very pretty, but the inarguable winner is Rokuro, who is so good-looking he gets called things like "the handsome page" "the beautiful lad" and just plain "bishonen" instead of his name at various points. Rokuro, of course, thinks his features are very manly.
• Ema's thirteen stepbrothers in Brothers Conflict. Wataru might not count yet, considering the fact that's he's only 10, but will likely grow into this trope when older.
• Many of the male characters in Chibisan Date.
• Chrono Crusade has a few examples.
  • Joshua Christopher is the most obvious example from the series—he's quite thin (even implied to look underweight at one point), has pale blond hair and blue eyes, and looks quite a bit like his sister.
  • Aion is a bit more borderline—he's actually quite muscular when he takes off his Badass Long Coat, but his long, white hair does a lot to give him an edge of androgynous beauty. He's maybe a bit more of a biseinen.
  • Chrono is a tricky one. In his true form, he's a bit rough around the edges and his outfit goes out of the way to highlight his muscular chest, but in his Sleep-Mode Size, he's got longer hair and looks much younger (and thus cuter). However, he still has moments of looking quite pretty in his true form, and a flashback in the manga shows him with long hair, which definitely qualifies him.
• Even Claymore manages to have one of these in the cast: Isley of the North.
  • Rigald his second-in-command as well.
• All the students in Cluster Edge.
• Code Geass has this prime example. But once you found out that the characters are designed by CLAMP, you'd be squealing your heads off.
• Corsair: all the men are very pretty, except Barbossa.
• Benten from Cyber City Oedo 808. Yes, he does wear lipstick and paint his nails. No, he isn't a Crossdresser.
• In Detective Conan, Hondou Eisuke gets an "You would have been a cute girl in a manga" from Sonoko, even if that might be mostly because of his behaviour rather than his very feminine appearance.
• Every character who isn't a Mentor Mascot in Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!. Goura, brother to The Hero, is an inversion. There's also a Bishonen monster but this is a zigzag because his original form looks like Takeo and his monster form looks like a 60s version of a bishonen.
• Death Note:
  • Light Yagami.
  • Mello, Near, Mikami, Matsuda, Gevanni, Matt, and Namikawa.
  • What with the odd mannerisms and dark bags under his eyes, L was intended to be an inversion or aversion of this trope. The legions of fangirls he has don't see it that way, though...
    • The contrast between Light and L (and their respective fangirls) are even lampshaded a bit in Episode 9, when they’re giving a university entrance speech together:
  Girl 1: I sure like the guy on the right [L].
  Girl 2: What–?! You’re weird. Most people would choose the one on the left [Light].
  • Owing to his status as L's evil lookalike, Beyond Birthday is regarded as this as well by fangirls. Interesting example in that it's not clear exactly what he looked like, or how much he did/did not resemble L, as BB wore makeup to look more like him.
  • Ryuk was this in his original design◊, before the creators decided that him looking more interesting than Light could cause fans to ignore Light's character.
  • Rem in the live-action films. Despite being a female Shinigami in the manga and anime, she was made a male in-voice-only for the live-action movies. The rest of her feminine looking design◊ is kept exactly the same.
• Most of the guys in Descendants of Darkness.
• Shoei and Hinata from Desire Climax are both very pretty.
• Allen from D.Gray-Man definitely fits here, seeing as he's prettier than a lot of the girls in the series. Lavi, Tyki, and Kanda fit as well.
• Digimon:
  • Both Ishida Yamato and Ichijouji Ken of Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 fall into this category. Their actual looks are never commented upon, but one figures that this is at least partially why they are fangirl bait, both in and out of the show. Also lampshaded in an Audio Drama. In the series themselves Yamato, notably, had a... considerably older woman try to pick him up when he was eleven, while in one episode of zero two, Gabumon lampshades this by saying "Yamato isn't the only heartthrob here", when Ken was hit on by a very young girl.
  • To a lesser extent, Takeru, Yamato's little brother, seems to gain some level of bishōnen in him when he turned eleven himself. An episode of Digimon Adventure 02 showed a fair number of girls—Hikari among them—practically swooning over him when he was showing off his basketball skills.
  • In Digimon Adventure tri., pretty much all of the boys have this aesthetic to them. Yamato/Matt and Takeru/TK (the latter is even shown to have invited a couple of female admirers to the former's concert) seem to be the ones who were drawn this way on purpose, but Taichi/Tai, Koushiro/Izzy and even Joe have also gotten quite pretty as well. Mimi lampshades this in regards to Tai and Matt, mentioning that they've grown to be quite attractive (with Sora blushing in response). Heck, even Tai's teacher is pretty!
  • Thoma H. Norstein, from Digimon Savers has this kind of look to him.
  • Several humanoid Digimon themselves have this as an aesthetic, appearing as young attractive human males. Examples are Angemon, his evolution HolyAngemon and Vamdemon from Digimon Adventure and Lucemon Falldown Mode from Digimon Frontier.
  • Mainly the main human characters from Digimon Universe Applimonsters have this trope.
• Dragon Ball Z:
  • Future Trunks, Zarbon, Android 17, and Jeice.
  • Non-canon Saucer from Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge actually had rivalry with Jeice over whose stronger and prettier.
  • Zarbon in particular is The Fighting Narcissist; his true form is not pretty at all, to the extent he dislikes to transform into it, handicapping himself in battle.
    • General Blue from original Dragon Ball is similar to Zarbon but takes a set further being a outright homosexual.
  • Angela from Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug is a pastiche of Zarbon, in Team Four Star parody he names himself the "pretty one" of the Quirky Mini Boss Squad.
  Piccolo: Ha, six out of ten.
  Angela: (in a effeminate voice) You sassy bitch.
  • Gohan was downplayed version in his high school days being more shy.
  • Caroni, one of Mr. Satan's two disciples during the Cell Fight, is a drop gorgeous man with long blonde hair. Heck, he even carries roses!
  • Jewel from the Buu saga is a classic Long-Haired Pretty Boy and narcissistic ladies man, who is effortlessly defeated by Android 18 after she reject his advances.
  • In the Ocean dub, Burter describes Goku to Jeice this way. "If it weren't for you being short and orange, I'd say he was the better-looking guy."
  • Played straight with a lot of Core People aka Supreme Kais e.g Shin, Anat, Kuru, Elder Kai (before he fused with a witch), Cae and especially Zamasu whose an omnicidal narcissist.
  • Some of the male Angels Attendants such as Sour, Korn, Whis and Grand Minister also play this straight being very androgynous. Even the other less effeminate Attendants have the same long eyelashes typically seen on female characters. Whis in particular takes this a step further being Ambiguously Gay.
• Most of the male characters in D.N.Angel.
• Hakuoh of Duel Masters has to be one of the bishiest, with his slender build and long, flowing, silvery-blue hair.
• Durarara!!:
  • Kasuka, Izaya (unfortunately), and Shinra. And then there's Mikado, Kida, Aoba, Seiji, Tanaka Tom, Walker, Shijima, Chikage and...Nasujima-sensei. Also Unfortunately.
  • Minor character Ryo Takigutchi. Seriously, just◊ look at him◊!
• Akira Takizawa from Eden of the East is a prime example of this trope, yet much more realistic than some others.
• Elfen Lied: Nousou. Kurama is a borderline example, but is an older man and later grows a Beard of Sorrow.
• Baskerville and Alternate in Et Cetera are quite pretty, helped by Basky's long blond hair and Alternate's slim figure and monocle.
• Il Palazzo of Excel Saga is very pretty and has long, silver hair.
• Although Eyeshield 21 has a good amount of beefcakes, there's also Kisaragi, Kakei, Mizumachi, Akaba, Sakuraba, Harao, and maybe even Taka.
• Zeref from Fairy Tail is revealed to be this after they spend 200 chapters building him up as some great ancient evil. Expecting Someone Taller, or at least older looking, is in full swing here.
  • We also have Freed of the Raijinshuu, Laxus' second-in-command.
• Bedivere from Fate/stay night. He looks and sounds so much like a woman in fact that in a series where King Arthur was revealed to actually be a woman in disguise, many fans at first believed him to simply have undergone the same fate. But, no. He's just pretty.
• Lancer of Fate/Zero (aka Diarmuid Ua Duibhne) takes prettiness up to the realm of being a superpower - literally. Unfortunately, supernatural levels of beauty does not mix well with jealous lords and their smitten fiances.
• Mikagami Tokiya from Flame of Recca. He doesn't like being mistaken for a girl, though.
• All the male characters introduced so far in Kyoto Animation's anime Free!. They are more muscular (which is due to their athletic activities) than the standard.
• Fruits Basket:
  • Yuki, and all of the male Sohmas.
  • Particularly Momiji, Ritsu, and Ayame. The first wears the girls' school uniform (albeit not with a skirt) because "it looks cuter on him", while the second presents himself as a woman because of an inferiority complex the size of Antarctica. Ayame, on the other hand, is...just special. Akito also qualifies in the anime, although manga Akito is a different story altogether.
  • The lead, Tohru Honda, remarks that the Sohmas are a family of "princes". And towards the end of the manga's run, even Momiji graduates to pure Bishōnen status with a growth spurt and switch to the boy's uniforms.
• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • The Bishōnen archetype in Shoujo is parodied quite a few times on cover flaps of Fullmetal Alchemist (more often than not with Roy as the target) and through Mei Chan's daydreams about Ed, and then Al, as knights in shiny armours.
  • Major Alex Armstrong also appears as a sort of parody, both meeting every bishonen archetype yet defying it too. Not only does he meet the quota of sparkling, hairlessness, beauty, deep voice, and vanity, he's also a muscular, oversized bodybuilder, who constantly flexes and lacks an indoor voice.
  • At the end of the manga and second anime, Alphonse is revealed to be a gorgeous bishonen. He's arguably even more of one in the movie of the first anime, since he shares his brother's long hair until the epilogue of the film.
  • Ed's always been Bishōnen, and even has long hair. He's more muscular than most, not that you can tell most of the time. In the 2003 anime he's more bishonen as his facial features were softened up.
  • One of Father's transformations turns him into one of these.
  • In the first anime, Roy actually sparkles during his "Flame vs. Fullmetal" duel with Ed - a trait usually reserved for Armstrong.
  • Scar in the 2003 anime is younger and more handsome than in the manga.
• Full Metal Panic! brings us Kurz, who was even a former model. Then, we've got Leonardo. And, of course, Sousuke, in an Unkempt Beauty sort of way.
• Just about every male character from Fushigi Yuugi. Most of their brothers from other Yuu Watase manga are bishies as well. It's Yuu Watase, what do you expect?
• Future Diary: Yuki and Akise.
• Game×Rush: Memori and Yuuki.
• Gankutsuou: Franz, Albert, and especially Andrea.
• GaoGaiGar. Paragon of Hot-Blooded manliness he may be, but Gai Shishio is still too pretty to be male◊.
• Kousaka from Genshiken. The most feminine-looking male club member, he is the only one with a girlfriend in the beginning, let alone a sex life.
• Most of the male characters in Get Backers, but Kazuki takes it to almost painful levels.
• Ghost Hound: the entire male cast for the most part, especially Tarou, who is downright Moe.
• Ghost Hunt: almost all of the male characters. Lin, Naru, Bou-san, even John are bishōnens, pretty boys, handsome, etc, etc...you watch a video of Ghost Hunt on YouTube, scroll through the comments, and you will find a lot of fangirling female users.
• Sougo Okita, Kotarou Katsura, and Kamui of Gintama.
• Every guy from Gravitation, especially Yuki and Shuichi.
• Gundam has its fair share of bishie boys.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, in particular, was full of them. And among the Gundam Wing bishie brigade, Quatre Winner deserves special mention. A slim, platinum-blond Berber. Needless to say, you can find a fairly large amount of fanart of him.
    • Protagonist Heero Yuy also deserves a mention, since Word of God admitted that his appearance was inspired by a Japanese actress, Yuki Uchida.
  • Mobile Fighter G Gundam has George DeSand from Neo France, operator of Gundam Rose.
  • Kamille Bidan, the main protagonist of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam.
  • Almost all of the male cast in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.
  • Gundam 00, oh ho ho. Apparently, every male under the age of 35 will be absolutely gorgeous in the 24th century, in addition to shrinking their shirts in the dryer to show off their buff figures. Then again, this was pretty well predicted the second they announced that Yun Koga would be designing 00's cast.
  • We also need to mention ∀ Gundam's Loran, who was quite possibly one editorial mandate away from being a full-blown woman.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack. While he's too old to count as a bishōnen, Char Aznable looks far more prettyboy-ish◊ than he did in earlier series, this makes him Biseinen.
  • Even in the original Mobile Suit Gundam, Char stands out as a pretty boy, notable because the art style of the time rendered almost every other character Gonk. The only character to rival his bishounen-ness is Garma.
• Hakuouki is full of effeminate pretty-boys. The entire series is basically a reverse harem, and is guaranteed to make anyone's inner Fangirl Squee! in joy.
• Numerous male characters in ½ Prince.
• Hana no Kishi: Ibara, Saiki, Houjou, and Midori.
• Itsuki Koizumi in Haruhi Suzumiya. That is, in a Brigade of crazy people, with a cynical Deadpan Snarker who constantly tells him that no one cares about him. He probably just appears to be one, but he sure seems to make most women blush. As Kyon puts it, 'A face I wouldn't introduce to my girlfriend'.
• Hellsing: appearance-wise, Luke is a sophisticated prettyboy. Also, Schrodinger and young Walter. Alucard is the Biseinen version of this trope, being able to swap gender at will.
  • Alucard is interesting example as he can go from bishie◊ to squicky◊ in seconds, warping his face from a fangirl’s dream to a fangirl’s nightmare.
• Tamamo from Hell Teacher Nube gets away with lots of things that Nube is beaten up for just because he's a Bishōnen
• Joey from Heroman... well, let's just say that just about everyone mistook him for a girl at first. Psy, too.
• Highschool DXD Gives us Yuuto Kiba◊
  • Taken even further by Gasper◊ Vladi◊ Yes... That is a boy. Warning, the first image linked may be considered NSFW
• Hunter × Hunter: Hisoka, despite also being a Monster Clown. Less unusually, Kurapika and Shaiapouf.
• Hyouka gives us Houtarou, Satoshi, Masashi, Jirou, and Muneyoshi.
• A rare non-human and animal example would be the adult rabbits Rambler and Luna from Happy Happy Clover manga series helps that Rambler is voiced by Takehito Koyasu. There is also one attractive looking teenager boy seen twice in the manga which is the first human Clover encounters and befriends with. However she keeps this a secret.

I to P

• Most of the male cast of Ikoku Irokoi Romantan.
• Many male characters from Inazuma Eleven are quite good-looking, especially Kazemaru, Aphrodi, Sakuma and Edgar.
• Inukami!: Keita and Hake, as well as most other male characters who isn't macho or Gonk.
• A number of male characters from InuYasha, including Sesshomaru, Naraku, etc.
• Inux Boku SS has a Cast Full of Pretty Boys - Miketsukami Soushi being in the spotlight.
• Katori, Dom, and the nameless terrorist from the second episode (who is mentioned because his prettiness is a plot point) from Irresponsible Captain Tylor.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure features Noriaki Kakyoin, who is only this compared to the rest of the main cast due to being the shortest and the least buff. Nevertheless, he is a VERY popular example on Pixiv and a target of Wimpification. Part 5 plays this more straight with its Cast Full of Pretty Boys, especially Narancia.
• There is a lot of focus on people's looks in Jyu-Oh-Sei, despite the action being set mostly on a jungle planet with vicious plants and a murderous climate that's used as a prison for criminals. All of the male characters are◊ exceptionally◊ pretty◊.
• K Project is full of it thanks to its Cast Full of Pretty Boys.
• Kaguya Hime: many, if not most of the male cast; in particular, Yui and movie star Brett Miller. Nobuo is a very notable aversion.
• Kamisama Kiss has quite a few. To start off you have Kurama along with Tomoe and Mizuki
• Kamisama Dolls has Aki Kuga, who also has a tendency to get kidnapped by crazy girls.
• Kämpfer: Natsuru Senou in his male form.
• Kare Kano: Hideaki Asaba and Soichiro Arima.
• Ren from Karin
• Leon Oswald and Yuri Killian in Kaleido Star.
• Karakuridouji Ultimo: most of the doji. Also, Murayama and Rune.
• Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru has the pretty boy protagonist, Minoru.
• Karneval: Most of the guys introduced, including 99% of the main male cast.
• Every single male main character in post-Art Evolution Katekyō Hitman Reborn!, plus 99% of the villains and side cast. This is the most common trope on the character page.
• Akiyoshi of Kawaii Akuma (and its sequels) is often told that he is "cute" or "pretty", and this caused him to develop an inferiority complex. Naruse is also incredibly Bishōnen, to the point of being a Dude Looks Like a Lady.
• A good portion of the cast of Kaze to Ki no Uta, but Gilbert and Rosemarine deserve special mention.
• Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple has Christopher Eclair, a French assassin. It's also revealed that Kensei Ma used to be one.
• On the off chance that the audience didn't realize Aikuro Mikisugi was the designated Bishōnen of Kill la Kill, Studio Trigger literally made the word beauty part of his name (美木杉).
• Kimi ni Todoke: Kazehaya, and the female side of the school is very aware of this. Ryu and Kento also count.
• Kimi to Boku: All the main boys in the cast◊ as well as Hot Teacher Koichi Azuma and his best friend, Akira.
• Reiji from Kodomo no Jikan, especially in the anime. Of course, he's a seriously fucked-up bishonen.
• Akito and Naozumi from Kodomo no Omocha.
• Kisaragi Shun in Koko wa Greenwood (aka This is Greenwood).
• K-On!: There are actually some◊ fairly◊ good◊ looking◊ male background characters◊, considering the cute art style.
• Kyo Kara Maoh!
  • Wolfram is very pretty (he looks almost exactly like his mother), a definite bishōnen. In fact, Yuuri's immediate reaction upon seeing him for the first time is simply to stare in awe and call him exactly that.
  • Also, Saralegui.
  • Then there's every guy in Yuuri's "harem", plus Yuuri himself.
• The Legend of Koizumi:
  • Pietro, the white knight serving under the pope. He comes complete with accompanying Bishie Sparkles when he first appears.
  • Also.. Hitler. He is so Bishounen that his Bishie Sparkles have the ability to hypnotize people into worshipping him◊ He can also (in a pinch) go Super Aryan◊
• Litchi Hikari Club has a Cast Full of Pretty Boys - with a strong lack of fanservice.
• A good amount of the male characters in Loveless. Ritsuka is even stated to be very pretty, like a girl.
• Otani, Kohori, Suzuki, Haruka, and, without a doubt, Maitake and Seiko from Lovely Complex.
• This is a defining characteristic of the darkly influential villain of the short horror manga Lovesick Dead, with his beauty being turned into part of his title.
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha may be directed toward a Seinen demographic, with an Improbably Female Cast, but even it has its share of bishies, such as Yuuno Scrya and Verossa Acous. Yuuno, in particular, was mistaken for a girl by many viewers when he first appeared.
  • In Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force, we can add former Cheerful Child Erio to that list. Seriously.
• Aburatsubo from Magic User's Club. He's tall, has long red hair, and is gorgeous...with the requisite legion of fan-girls expected for any bishonen. The only problem for said fangirls is that he's gay and in love with the main character, Takeo.
• Lampshaded in Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic: upon meeting Titus Alexius, Aladdin ignores his outstretched hand and instead starts to fondle his chest. He then calmly explains that, between his soft voice and butt, he assumed that Titus had to actually be a girl. Unfortunately, it turns out that Titus' feminine appearance is actually his Berserk Button, likely because it reminds him that's he's an Opposite-Sex Clone of Scheherazade.
• Mahou Sensei Negima! gives Negi some magic age-up pills, turning him into one of these. He's also a dead ringer for his father, who was also a bishonen. Albireo Imma probably counts too. Teenage Kotaro definitely counts as well.
  • Then there's teenage Fate...
  • And Dynamis Yes, really.
• Maid-Sama!:
  • Usui, when he makes the effort, and his half brother, Gerard Walker, who looks like an older and more polished version of him. One could also make a case for Tora Igarashi and Kuuga.
  • Soichiro Kanou, too, if he had any confidence in himself, could likely pull this off. Also: a number of fangirls consider The Idiot Trio to be this, on the rare occasions when they're drawn normally.
• Mamotte Shugogetten: Izumo and Tasuke. Arguably Takashi as well.
• Many characters of MÄR, on both sides of the good/evil divide. Alvis and Nanashi are this, combined with the headband of eyecovering. Every once-in-a-while, they even comment on it in-universe.
• Kei, Michael (anime-only characters), Yuu, Satoshi, and arguably Ginta in Marmalade Boy.
• Mawaru-Penguindrum: Most of the guys. Main character Shouma is even one of these despite being teased by others that he's plain looking.
• Adolf Hitler is drawn this way in the manga version of Mein Kampf. It's hard to tell which is the most absurd; Hitler being portrayed as a Bishōnen, or that there exists a Mein Kampf manga.
• Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch provides plenty of bishounen fanservice. The fact that practically every day is a Beach Episode helps.
• Metal Fight Beyblade: Being tanned doesn't stop Tsubasa Otori from being a Bishounen.
• Takaya Ohgi and Nobutsuna Naoe in Mirage of Blaze.
• Quite a few of Miyazaki's male characters, such as Haku in Spirited Away and Howl in Howl's Moving Castle.
• Most of the guys from Monochrome Factor, especially Shirogane, Akira, and Kou.
• Kusuriuri/the Medicine Seller from Mononoke. Even his manner of dress combines gender conventions, and characters in the series make note of how attractive he is.
• Johan from Monster. It's especially noticeable when you realize that the anime is one of the few that steers entirely out of the way of Generic Cuteness.
  • It's even more noticeable when Johan dresses up like his sister and nobody can tell the difference, to the extent of making a male, heterosexual policeman infatuated with him. If all it takes for you to go from a good-looking man to a beautiful woman is a wig and a dress, odds are good that you fit this trope very well.
  • He is even explicitly stated to be beautiful by a few people. Even Tenma comments on how he has beautiful eyes.
• Nearly every male character in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun to date, aside from Ken and Nozaki himself. Nozaki is a bit overly muscled by normal standards, to his despair (he can't use himself to model for his manga because he's not the right body type). For Ken, he's fat only when Maeno is in his life; at times he's away from Maeno he can fall into this trope as he becomes a lot skinnier.
• Kouichi Hayama, from Moonlight Lady, falls into this description perfectly. Lampshaded with Io Azuma, his wife-to-be's cousin; Suzuna was hoping that Io would grow to be this (partially because of an Arranged Marriage to him). Ultimately averted, as Io grew to be a limp-wristed, wide-eyed, Ambiguously Gay "pretty boy".
• Lint, Ricalna and even Zelik when we was younger from Mother Keeper all fit this.
• Michio in MW.
• Nabari no Ou: most of the guys under 30.
• Depending on who you ask, a good number of the male cast in Naruto could qualify as Bishonen. Notable examples include Haku (to Dude Looks Like a Lady levels), Benten (Filler Villain to Dude Looks Like a Lady levels), Yashamaru (Gaara's Viewer Gender Confusion uncle), Sasuke (Kushina mistakes him for a girl as baby), Itachi, Kakashi (with his mask off), Deidara, Sasori, Neji, Suigetsu, Kimimaro, Orochimaru (when he is not doing something gross), Kabuto, Sai, Gaara, Shikamaru, Kiba, Utakata, and the titular character himself. Naruto definitely counts, considering that he has his mom's AND his his dad's looks, though this trope is mostly appropriate only after the Time Skip. Also, the Fourth Hokage, aka Naruto's dad. Naruto and his peers' kids are quite good looking too.
  • Sakura especially finds Bishonens attractive, nose bleeding like crazy when she sees Sasuke and Sai making out.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • The character designer of wrote that he designed Shinji to be a delicate/vulnerable-looking bishonen.
  • Kaworu is a bishonen of legendary proportions.
• Natsume, Tanuma, Natori, Nishimura - in fact, most of the male cast of Natsume's Book of Friends qualify as Bishonen.
• Nezumi and Shion from No6, especially Nezumi, who even dresses up as a girl in episode 5 and is rather convincing, too.
• Noblesse: Rai, Franken, Shinwoo, M-21, and Takeo.
• General Rivan of Nora, and probably Kazuma to certain readers.
• Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan has lots of Bishonen. Night Rikuo, Young Nurarihyon, Rihan, Kurotabou, Kuromaru, Tosakamaru, Keikain Mamiru, Shoukera, Yanagida, Kubinashi, and revived Seimei.
• Nozomu and Dewey from Nurse Angel Ririka SOS both count. Nozomu is taller and more attractive than the boyish, "normal" looking Seiya and Dewey has long hair and soft features. Nozomu's bishonen looks get lampshaded when a jealous Seiya calls him "slightly effeminate".
• Okane Ga Nai: Yukiya Ayase.
• One Piece:
  • Sanji recently has been beating people pretty. His first victim, a hideous Wanze, was rapidly kicked across the face until he became (to his horror) this trope. Later, when fighting his bounty poster look-alike Duval, Sanji does this again much to his foe's joy.
  • Played for Laughs in Boa Hancock's romantic fantasies about the normal looking main character Luffy - she sees him as typical Bishonen with a full Bishie Sparkle and brown eyes, as well as speaking with a more mature voice than he actually speaks with.
  • The series now has its first definitive Bishonen. His name is Cavendish. Not only does he have the Bishie Sparkle, he also has large, glinting eyes, a trait commonly used only for female characters. His glinting eyes pretty much drive the point home, because the eyes of male characters in this series rarely glint, if at all.
  • In-Universe Carrot likes this trope given how she draws males like Luffy, Sanji, Pedro and even Brook.
• Otomen: the main male characters, especially Asuka, Juta, and Tonomine, whose looks are often commented on. Even Kurokawa can count, if his eyes showed up a lot more.
• Basically, all male characters from Ouran High School Host Club, and one of the females. Tamaki (see picture) slightly subverts the usual cool-headed bishie stereotype by being a blithering (but lovable) idiot, and manages to be both the male lead and comic relief.
• Harry from Outlaw Star. He even ties his hair with a big, pretty bow. Fred Luo, too.
• The Cast Full of Pretty Boys that is Pandora Hearts. Especially Jack, Vincent, Gilbert, and Break.
  • Most other young-ish male characters also count, like Oz, Elliot and Leo. And the latter even more so after an Important Haircut.
  • A notable example is Liam; the fact that no male or female pronouns were ever used to refer to him for some time didn't help. They fixed this in the anime, however, giving him less feminine features and a decidedly male voice.
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Brief is one of these, once his bangs are slicked back.
• George from Paradise Kiss, among many others.
• Peacemaker Kurogane: 99% of the characters are Bishōnen.
• Toji, Kairi, Jigoro, and Ryo from Peach Girl.
• Jeeves and Bertie Wooster get this treatment in the manga series Please, Jeeves; Bertie becomes a Princely Young Man with golden hair while Jeeves is Tall, Dark, and Handsome.
• +Anima: Husky. He's repeatedly mistaken for a girl.
• Pokémon
  • Cilan, who was being subject to Ouran comparisons before Hilarious in Hindsight kicked in.
  • Like in the games, N also fits on this trope.
    • Cilan and Chili, Cilan's brothers, as well as Cheren also appear, though their roles are much minor.
  • Though debatable, James from Team Rocket seems to be a comedic parody of Bishonen as well.
  • Without his cap, Ash can be seen as one.
• The four older knights in Prétear are examples of this trope, particularly Kei. Goh is borderline, but he makes up for it by baring his midriff in his knight outfit.
• A majority of the male cast of The Prince of Tennis, but especially Seiichi Yukimura, Rikkaidai's Knight Templar Magnificent Bastard once ill captain.
• All of the main characters in Princess Princess. Yuujirou, Mikoto, and Tooru being bishies is basically the whole point of the anime. They're princesses because they're bishies.
• Mytho in Princess Tutu has eyelashes thicker than his girlfriend's. Femio is also an over-the-top parody of this type. Ironic in that Vic Mignogna plays an only slightly toned-down version of Femio in Ouran High. Even better there because, no matter how cheesy he is, the girls there actually fall for it.
• The titular Yakumo from Psychic Detective Yakumo fits this trope to a T. Haruka even thinks he's a "beautiful person" when she first meets him. Also, a good amount of male college students who pop up.
• Psyren: Oboro, Haruhiko, Junas, Miroku, Shiner, Kabuto, and Shao as an adult.

Q to Z

• RahXephon:
  • Ayato Kamina from is pretty enough that he'd probably not look out of place in a dress.
  • There's also Dr. Itsuki (who bears a suspicious resemblance to the above-mentioned Rossiu) and Souichi Yagumo (who bears a suspicious resemblance to his own girlfriend, Kim).
• Loki, Caesar, Cain, and Adel of Reimei no Arcana.
• Henry is very much this in Requiem of the Rose King as well several other male characters.
• Miki Kaoru from Revolutionary Girl Utena is mentioned to be one by Utena in the preview of the episode of his first appeareance. Also, practically every guy in the cast.
• Rosario + Vampire has Ginei, Hokuto, Kiria, Fong-Fong, and, after Art Evolution, Tsukune.
• Many of the characters from Rurouni Kenshin, especially the titular character, Mr. Pretty Boy Swordsman himself. Depending on the quality of the animation in an episode of the anime, particularly in the later episodes of the series, and you know, just about all the time in the manga, Kenshin is very pretty despite the fact that he's a terrifyingly powerful swordsman who even the manliest of men are afraid of. It doesn't help that, towards the end of the manga and in most of the official artwork, his hair always looks extremely long and flows like a bunch of ribbons. Just look at these pictures: [1], [2], [3], [4]. I rest my case. And even more so in the Trust & Betrayal and Reflections OVAS. [5] And then, you know, there's Soujiro, Aoshi, Sanosuke, and, heck, even Hiko qualifies, although he's pretty manly. Observe: [6].
• The Shitennou in the first season of Sailor Moon, Mamoru Chiba, Ali of the Doom Tree arc, Prince Diamond and Sapphire in Sailor Moon R, the Amazon Trio in Super S, and the Sailor Starlights...sort of. In the manga, even one of the cats qualifies for this with his long haired, midriff exposing human form. The cat in question (Artemis) is even named for a goddess.
• Saint Seiya has a Cast Full of Pretty Boys. From Andromeda Shun◊ to Virgo Shaka◊ to Pisces Aphrodite◊ (yes, that's a guy), the place is a bishounen gold mine. See Viewer Gender Confusion for more details.
  • And in Saint Seiya Omega, Dragon Shiryu's son Ryuhou is often compared to Shun, and for good reason◊.
• Many characters from Samurai Deeper Kyo, including but not limited to Hotaru, Shinrei, Hishigi (technically a Biseinen, as he's physically about 30), and Akira.
• Masayoshi of Samurai Flamenco. Fittingly, he works as a model/Teen Idol because he has no other skills besides his good looks.
• Kyuzo in Samurai 7 is tall, slender, and androgynously beautiful; his voice, however, is very male. Shichiroji, too, and Katsushiro is close. Then there is when Gorobei, Heihachi, and Rikichi have to make it to Kanna village... in disguise.
• Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: Nozomu Itoshiki and his brother Mikoto. Also, four of his only known male students: Jun Kudou, Kuniya Kino, Aoyama, and Haga.
• Almost every male character in Saiyuki. The four main characters are these, of course, but also Kougaiji, Dokugakuji, Hazel, Koumyu, and Ni Jian-Yi/Ukoku.
• Though the artist's style is such all the male characters in The Secret Agreement look pretty good, in-story, Iori is singled out as being an incredible beauty for a man.
• Seitokai no Ichizon gives us Ken Sugisaki and especially Nakameguro.
• Numerous guys qualify in Seraph of the End but Yuuji, Ferid, Crowley, Lacus Welt, and especially Mika are particularly notable.
• Sgt. Frog: Saburo
• Most of the males in Shugo Chara! are known for their Bishieness.
  • Nagihiko Fujisaki takes the Bishie Ribbon in the world of Shugo Chara. When Hinamori first meets Nagihiko, he is actually posing as his female alter ego, Nadeshiko. Why is this boy posing as a girl? The Fujisaki family tradition is for the males to pose as females to learn the ways of Japanese Dancing.
  • During the series, Nadeshiko tells Amu that 'she' and Nagihiko are twins (the rest of the Guardians know about Nagi & Nade, but Amu Hinamori doesn't). It's not until late in the series that Nagi reveals the truth to Amu.
  • Nagihiko: [7]. Nadeshiko: [8].
  • Nagihiko even has a female Shugo Chara named Temari, which he can Character Transform into Yamato Maihime: [9].
  • Tall, Dark, and Snarky Tsukiyomi Ikuto.
• The entire male cast of Simoun. The younger men — who were girls until age 17 — even still have breasts that haven't been reabsorbed yet (especially the hunky chief mechanic Wapourif), and all of them are voiced by female voice actors.
• Skip Beat!: Shoutarou "Shou" Fuwa and Ren Tsuruga.
• Death the Kid, Gopher, and Kishin Asura from Soul Eater.
• Special A: you'd think a beauty contest was part of the Special A qualifying exam, looking at the male cast. The girls, too, unsurprisingly, since a beauty exam is almost mandatory to be part of most Shoujo casts.
• Eyes Rutherford in Spiral.
• Star Driver's Takuto Tsunashi. "Galactic Bishonen" isn't a nickname; it's his official title as the Chosen One
  • Oh, it's not just Takuto; technically from a certain point on every pilot is called "Galactic Pretty Boy", and it shows. You know you're there when even the main character's father is one.
• None of the main cast of Strawberry 100%, but Junpei's rivals definitely qualify:
  • Okusa, a classic pretty-boy, and Junpei's middle school friend. He attempts to steal Tsukasa away from Junpei via a double date with Yui, although his attempts to charm her go unacknowledged, much to his chagrin.
  • Higure, the tall, dark, handsome, world-famous pastry chef. His grandmother owns the shop where Tsukasa works. He is the main attraction whenever he returns to work from his travels abroad, and while he has fallen for Tsukasa, he understands that she would rather be with Junpei.
  • Surprisingly enough, Junpei has become one in the Distant Finale.
• Macross:
  • Maximilian Jenius in both Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Macross 7 (despite being old enough to have grown children in the latter).
  • Lynn Kaifun and Conda Bromco, also from SDF Macross.
  • Justified and repeatedly lampshaded in Macross Frontier with Alto Saotome, who is frequently remarked on for his resemblance to a woman (much to his annoyance). He and his father were Kabuki actors who specialised in female performances. A particularly obvious lampshade is his nickname of 'Hime' or 'princess' cause he is just so darn pretty.
  • Several of the Aerial Knights in Macross Delta are very much this.
• A good amount of the male characters in Sukisho, especially Sunao.
• Kantarou Ichinomiya from Tactics is a white/very light brown? haired bishie, who is annoying and greedy, but overall a good person. He is so young looking, nobody really knows his age. It is implied that he is much older than he appears. Many other guys in it also qualify.
• Mochizou Ooji from Tamako Market
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
  • While the series is generally remembered for its more MANLY characters, after the Time Skip, Rossiu and Simon are undeniably quite bishonen.
  • Cytomander is arguably a Bishonen as well, depending on who you talk to.
  • What about Viral◊?
  • Kamina is a more masculine version than the standard issue bishonen, but he is undeniably pretty.
• Most of the male characters in I'm Gonna Be an Angel!, but especially Mikael.
• Ichise and Touyama in Texhnolyze.
• Barnaby from Tiger & Bunny (regardless of what he is wearing, be it his battle suit with helmet off or his daily attire with glasses on)
  • Ivan Karelin, Nathan's opinion is final - his face is on par with Barnaby's.
• Tokyo Ghoul and it's sequel, Tokyo Ghoul:re, has quite a number of pretty male characters. Ken Kaneki himself is a prominent example, whose looks actually attract the (often unfortunate) attention of many other characters, both male and female. In fact, as Haise Sasaki in :re, he manages to pull off crossdressing surprisingly well during an undercover operation.
  • Shuu Tsukiyama is one of said admirers, being a vain, high-class ghoul who does his best to keep up appearances. Kaneki actually notes how attractive he is upon their first meeting.
  • Juuzou Suzuya is often mistaken for a girl, and even mocked in-universe for his feminine looks. Turns out, there's a disturbing reason for this. As a child, he was gruesomely castrated by his foster mother in order to keep him looking "pretty" and weak.
  • Kichimura Washuu has a very soft face, even sporting a Beauty Mark. This, however, serves to make him more eerie considering his actions.
  • Kanae von Rosewald and Tooru Mutsuki, although it's because they're actually women hiding that fact for their own reasons.
• Many a Tokyo Mew Mew character, covering types from Stalker with a Crush to Jerk with a Heart of Gold to Mysterious Protector (who wins).
• Ren, Rito, and Zastin of To Love-Ru.
• Trigun: Legato and Midvalley are the most straight examples. Vash also has a very feminine looking face with big eyes, long eyelashes, and a nose that could probably cut a brick, and Knives does too, to a lesser extent. Wolfwood has a somewhat androgynous, youthful face in the manga (which is justified), but is more Hunk in the anime. Livio looks a lot like a Long-Haired Pretty Boy when he debuts, but is more hunk after his Good Costume Switch.
• Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- gives us Fai D. Fluorite and Syaoran, especially when he's aged up a bit, and has quite a few famous bishonen from other CLAMP series pop up as cameos, such as Subaru, Kamui, Yasha, Yukito, and even Watanuki, to name a few.
• In Tsukigasa, Azuma is none too happy about being treated like a girl because of his looks, particularly because he was raped due to his resemblance to his mother.
• Keiki in The Twelve Kingdoms is a Bishonen with white hair, who acts as Youko's Mysterious Protector.
• Urusei Yatsura. Rei Lum's (former fiance) is a tall, stoic, green-haired space bishōnen who drives men to despair and women to squee. Mendou also qualifies, which is basically his most obvious difference from Ataru.
• D from Vampire Hunter D. Even the Guys Want Him.
• With the exception of the vampire hunter Toga Yagari, absolutely all the male cast of Vampire Knight are bishōnen.
• Canute from Vinland Saga, so Bishonen they needed a girl to be a convincing double.
• Dilandau in Vision of Escaflowne (who is later revealed to have been a magically disguised and brainwashed girl). Let's just say that most of the male cast is bishōnen, especially Allen and Van. Just look at the opening, for God's sakes!
• This is the entire point of The Wallflower.
• Weiß Kreuz gets points for admitting it. Youji calls Omi "bishounen" to his face in one episode, but he ain't the only one.
• Both Toboe and Kiba from Wolf's Rain look like Bishōnen most of the time, but are actually wolves in disguise. To go further, numerous viewers have mistaken both for girls. Even the mangaka for the manga adaptation originally thought Toboe was a girl.
• Yamada Taro Monogatari: Taro, which is a large reason why everyone thinks he's Prince Charming. Also, Suguira, who initially views Taro as a rival of beauty.
• The human forms of the Weasel Mascots in Yes! Pretty Cure 5 are this. Coco◊ and Nuts◊ take it to truly◊ extraordinary levels.◊ GoGo! also brings us cute little boy Syrup◊.
• Kyubi from Yo-Kai Watch is a long-haired, somewhat androgynous pretty boy in his human form. By youkai standards, he's handsome in his normal form, too.
• Yona of the Dawn is a Cast Full of Pretty Boys, and more than a few would count as bishounen, but Yun repeatedly refers to himself as one during the series. He's not wrong. When they needed someone who could pass as a beautiful girl to accompany Yona on an infiltration mission, Yun fit the bill perfectly.
• Several characters in Yu-Gi-Oh!, including at least Yami Yugi, Seto Kaiba, Malik Ishtar (and how!), Ryou Bakura, Yami Bakura, Pegasus, Ryuji Otogi, and a number of minor supporting characters.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! takes this trope to such ridiculous extents that, chances are, if you're a major villain, you're probably going to be very feminine in appearance! Not to mention, its successors both have this trope in spades as well.
  • The Abridged Series is loaded with jokes about this.
    Marik: Do I look like an ''[EFF]'ing fangirl to you?!
    Florence: You really don't want me to answer that.
  • The Obelisk Blue Three Geniuses for starters, as each of them represent a type of popular dere, starting from the Deredere Fubuki , the Kuudere Ryo, and the Yandere Yusuke in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. Most if not all of the male characters can be called bishies, really.
  • Plus most of the male cast from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
  • III◊ and V Arclight from Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL.
  • Yuya, Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V are all this.
  • Yusaku from Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS is this. Kogami Ryoken, Revolver's real form, is this as well. It doesn't hurt that he was one of the deepest voices in the franchise as well.
• Victor Nikiforov and Yuri "Yurio" Plisetski in Yuri!!! on Ice. Even Yuri Katsuki himself becomes one when he takes off his glasses and combs his hair, although he isn't ugly before, either.
• A good third of the male cast on YuYu Hakusho.
• Zofis from Zatch Bell!.
• 07-Ghost: Teito, Castor, Frau, Labrador, Ayanami, Mikage...Maybe almost all of the male characters of the entire story.

Other examples

Asian Animation

• The Korean film Leafie, a Hen into the Wild features bishonen ducks. Wanderer has a mysterious allure and long, messy head feathers. Leafie is smitten by him but it's unrequited.
• White Phoenix from Qin's Moon, doesn't help that he gets prettier each season due to Art Evolution. It was even lampshaded during a mini-documentary. Zhang Liang and younger Wei Zhuang qualify as well.

Literature

• Genji in Cloud of Sparrows, who is described as 'too pretty for a man' — as is the character's Older Than Print namesake, Hikaru Genji in the Tale of Genji.
• Lord Krishna, the Hindu deity, is depicted as a bishonen in his adulthood. He is painted as a beautiful 20-year-old with clear dark or blue skin, dressed in distinctive yellow silk, and with a peacock feather attached to his diadem. Despite his bishonen appearance, Krishna is The Ace - a superb intellectual, scholar, strategist, warrior, charioteer and Chick Magnet.
• Most of the cast in ½ Prince falls into this category. The game world requires your character resemble you, but lets people beautify themselves, and a lot of people look very lovely in game. Prince, who is actually a girl in real life and the only person playing an opposite gender in game, ends up being the single most bishie thing in existence. Only a few main characters don't take this route, with Wolf having a more mature look in real life and making himself uglier in the game, Gui turning out to be a bishie in real life and not altering his in game appearance. Nan Gong Zui, who makes himself look like a victim of Testosterone Poisoning in game, also turns out to have a very boyish appearance in the real world.
• The boys in Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note's starting cast◊ are good-looking, but not this trope. But the characters added later mostly falls in this trope, in this cover◊ we have Sunahara (lower right) and Mikado (upper left)—and the latter is officially recognized as "beautiful." The males spinoff series Genie Team G Jiken Note's starting cast◊ mostly falls into this trope.
• Alcuin from Kushiels Legacy has fine white hair and delicate features.
• Serph in Quantum Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner outright describes himself as androgynous. The narration mentions how pretty he is on a frequent basis.

Manhwa & Manhua

• A HUGE number of the characters in Ravages of Time fall under this category. Most of the Water Mirror Eight Geniuses, Sima Yi, and the young members of the Yuan clan are all delicate-looking and gorgeous. Xiao Meng is the extreme, but well, he's an eunuch, so that comes with the territory.

• Since the vast majority of the characters in ½ Prince are made in a video game they're all gorgeous (as players often make their characters so). The titular character is noted for being the most good-looking character, since they turned the pretty effect as high as it could possibly go.
• Let Dai: Jaehee is explicitly stated in-series to be very literally a "pretty boy", and the artwork makes that abundantly clear. It's one of the reasons that so many girls tend to go after him.
• Woojae from One has the nickname "Prince Charming" due to his good looks.
• Dong-whi from Nineteen, Twenty-One.

• Kyu Ra from Rure which fits with his "prince charming" image.
• Rai, Frank, Shinwoo, M-21 and Takeo from Noblesse.
• Id from Id is the very definition of this trope. Men and women alike fawn over his beauty. Though more often than not, every person he's met has initially thought him a woman.

• Yoonsung from Welcome To Room 305 is so pretty that rumors spread that he crossdresses sometimes. People mistook his Half Identical Twin sister for him.

Music

• Gackt is a living breathing example of this. Even he admits it. In nine* nine, Gackt is shown some pictures of himself when he was younger, to which he responds, "I was a total bishonen back then...But now I'm a biseinen." The difference being that bishonen technicality applies to only boys in their teens but biseinen applies to adults.
• Though most members of the kpop group NU'EST could qualify(excluding Baekho), Ren is the most obvious example, bordering on Dude Looks Like a Lady with his big eyes and long hair.
• SHINee as a group can be described as this just after their debut when they decided to make a mini-drama looking like girls.
• Dong Bang Shin Ki's Jaejoong can very well pass as one. Many people say he's an anime character come◊ to◊ life◊.
• Music/BORNS, aka Garrett Borns◊, has been mistaken for a girl before, what with the long hair, slim build and flowery jackets. Not that he minds.

Theater

• Since Takarazuka in Japan is composed entirely of female actors playing both male and female roles, it's no surprise that male roles often look a little Bishonen. Case in point, Wao Youka as The Phantom of the Opera, or Shizuka Asato (Zunko) as Der Tod from Elisabeth.

Video Games

• Final Fantasy series: any of the main male characters, at least once graphics became advanced enough to portray it; the official character art shows that the older ones actually were this, too, when not depicted with blocky, low-resolution sprites. Specifically:
  • Final Fantasy I: Warrior of Light, Final Fantasy II: Firion, Final Fantasy III: Luneth, Final Fantasy IV: Cecil, Final Fantasy V: Bartz, Final Fantasy VI: Locke, Final Fantasy VII: Cloud, Final Fantasy VIII: Squall, Final Fantasy IX: Zidane, Final Fantasy X: Tidus, Final Fantasy XII: Vaan, and Final Fantasy XV: Noctis. That is every leading male protagonist to date. And the Dissidia: Final Fantasy series includes all of them (except Luneth).
  Penelo: Personally? I don't believe that boys should be prettier than I am.

  • Speaking of Dissidia, Locke Cole, Kam'lanaut, and Ramza can be added to the bishie roster. Ramza even moreso due to his more porcelain looks.
  • Final Fantasy II: Emperor Palamecia, anyone?
  • Final Fantasy VII: Sephiroth. In the original cut of the scene with Sephiroth frozen in crystalized Mako, he was to have feminine curves to allude back to Jenova. Things were scaled back there for the same reason Squall in VIII was made to look more masculine.
  • Cloud Strife was handsome originally◊ but still clearly a dude. His redesign in Advent Children◊ however, sends him far into Bishonen territory. The VII Remake mans him◊ up again.
    • Zack Fair bounces back and forth between handsome but masculine◊, to being ridiculously pretty◊ (such as in Crisis Core).
    • Also Vincent Valentine in Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus:.
  • As for Kuja from Final Fantasy IX, he reaches truly Dude Looks Like a Lady proportions. This is even Lampshaded by Queen Brahne, who outright calls him a "girly-man". To be fair, though, he calls her "elephant-lady".
  • If you look past the non-human features, Seymour from Final Fantasy X can fit the bill as well.
  • Hope Estheim from the XIII-universe also counts, especially in the sequel.
  • The page-top quote refers to Noel Kreiss, one of two playable characters (outside of DLC) in Final Fantasy XIII-2. A popular theory is that his character design is based on early designs of Fang from Final Fantasy XIII when she was a male character. Whether or not it's true, his pretty boy looks fit the trope to a tee.
  • And then there's Vayne Solidor of Final Fantasy XII, who even in full armour is still a very slender guy with more hair than two out of the three women in the main party.
  • Regarding Noctis from Final Fantasy XV, he's normally Bishonen, but after the timeskip he starts sporting a Badass Beard and looks far more rugged, but once he's clean-shaven it's shown he's still as pretty as ever.
  • Type-0 has its fair share of bishies, but the special mention goes to Ace.
  • Tetsuya Nomura, the designer for many of these characters, is a real-life Bishonen (see his page picture). A 40-year old Bishonen.
• A surprisingly large number of The King of Fighters' main male characters are like this, with Ash Crimson pushing the androgyny to ridiculous levels.
• chaos (no capitalization) from Xenosaga
• Ōkami has Waka, who FLIES seemingly by virtue of sheer Bishie Sparkle and his improbable headdress.
• A lot of them show up in Onmyōji, but most notable is the protagonist Abe no Seimei who is a Long-Haired Pretty Boy and very much defies the White Hair, Black Heart trope, making it Mystical White Hair in his case.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Link, in his older incarnations starting with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Comedy Central did base Xandir on him, after all. One gay magazine voted him "hottest game character", to the endlessly amusing horror of the teenage males in the fanbase. His incarnation in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess also places him in Hunk territory at the same time by showing off his body and having him partake in various manlier feats than usual.
  • Kafei from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is a young version of this.
  • Shad from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
  • Demon Lord Ghirahim from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
  • Link becomes even prettier in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, to the point where characters of both sexes feel attraction to and openly flirt with Link. Sure, it's been implied in previous entries to the series, but it has never been this blatant. This actually helps Link in one main quest where he has to dress up like a Gerudo in order to get into the female-only town they reside in.
• Kristoph Gavin and his brother, Klavier Gavin, from the Ace Attorney series. Max Galactica and Matt Engarde in Justice For All, as well.
  • Most notably, the effeminate Max Galactica, with his flamboyance, camp, and pure fabulousness. (Because you, too, have stolen one of Max Galactica's many, many hearts.)
• Metal Gear:
  • Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2. He was designed as an androgynous alluring blank slate for the player to project themselves onto since Japanese fans wanted a pretty boy to play as. There's a scene where another character makes a grab for his groin, and is surprised to find he is male. And you have to play as him naked. No, we are not making that up. He was widely reviled for this by the Fan Dumb, among other reasons. Eventually, Raiden's own game, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, buffed him up◊ to the extreme.
  • Naturally, there's also Raiden's thinly-veiled parody in Metal Gear Solid 3, Raikov.
• Resident Evil
  • Leon S. Kennedy makes the cut, but barely. Even at his prettiest he was still quite solidly built and masculine, and his face becomes a little more chiselled and tough-looking in each new appearance. His haircut, though, remains top-shelf bishonen.
  • Steve Burnside from Resident Evil – Code: Veronica plays this trope straighter than Leon, not being masculine at all. But subverted as you won’t find many Steve fangirls since he’s considered The Scrappy of Code Veronica being incredibly annoying and whiny.
  • From the same game, there’s Albert Ashford whose so androgynous he can disguise himself as his twin sister Alexia, he’s even accused of being a transvestite.
    • Hell even Chris Redfield (thanks to the art style) is turned into a bishonen◊ contrasting to later games where he’s depicted as a rugged Hunk.
  • Interestingly William Birkin was originally convinced as one of these in Resident Evil 2 but later games retcon him into being more scraggly looking, which is more in line with his Mad Scientist character.
  • Played straight with Young Marcus◊ aka the Queen Leech in Resident Evil 0 whose Long-Haired Pretty Boy... until he dissolves into a gross mass of leaches.
• Because of its Final Fantasy influences, Kingdom Hearts not only features bishonen leads from that series, but its original characters effectively form a Cast Full of Pretty Boys.
• Magna Carta: Tears of Blood kicks the Bishonen up to 11, making its main lead, Calintz, and his apprentice, Azel, almost entirely unrecognizable as male. Chris Arcway manages to dodge the bullet with his open button-up shirt and cocky womanizing attitude, but even Raul, the tall, masculine, goateed swordsman who appears a few times in the game, gets a touch of Bishie thanks to the artstyle (no matter how impossible it seems to be Bishie with a goatee).
• Quite a few male characters in the Disgaea series, including (but not limited to) Mid-boss, Seraph Lamington, Fukubei, Master Big star, Adell, and Tink.
  • During the intro narration of Disgaea 4, a portrait of Tyrant Valvatorez drawn in a much more semi-realistic, shoujo-esque style than the simpler, more stylized art of the games is shown. This is the portrait in question◊.
• Mitsumoto and Abyss in Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns.
• Ramirez from Skies of Arcadia seems to rock the "pretty but misunderstood" vibe as hard as he possibly can. Enrique is pretty much his good counterpart. A number of recruitable crew members further the bishounen appeal, particularly Lawrence and Ilchymis.
• The Tales Series is ripe with these:
  • Although having more of a fairly (and by that, we mean in the smallest margin, as the game models differ slightly from the official art) masculine face than some other Tales Series Bishonen, Richard from Tales of Graces certainly fits the role, having traditional elements including medium-length blond hair, fancy frilly clothes, and immense popularity throughout the kingdom (in one skit, he mentions his "dilemma" with the sale of Richard-themed items). His seiyuu is even the same as a certain other Bishonen of Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-, and he even sports Zelos Wilder's costume as DLC. Doesn't help that his younger self can be seriously mistaken for a girl.
  • Zelos from Tales of Symphonia. Yggdrasil, too. Some fans would argue that Kratos is one as well. The game is ripe with bishies. Kratos is a good example of a biseinen, or 'beautiful man' - what a bishounen becomes when he grows up.
  • Several of the guys in Tales of Vesperia: particularly Yuri, who can be mistaken for a woman until he opens his mouth.
  • Guy, Luke and Asch from Tales of the Abyss If you count Jade as a verging-on Dude Looks Like a Lady biseinen that's the whole main male cast.
• Persona:
  • Teddie's human form from Persona 4 was clearly designed with this in mind. He makes extensive use of the Bishie Sparkle to manipulate women that he comes across. Not to mention, during the crossdressing scene, he was the only one able to pull off looking like a girl. One male commentator from the audience even exclaims "I'd hit that."
  • Akihiko Sanada from Persona 3 is a borderline example; he's a tall and lean Chick Magnet, but he's also a boxer with a noticeably masculine physique.
  • In a less obvious manner, 3's main character (Minato/Makoto/etc.) may also qualify, having a very slender figure, subtle facial features, and pretty eyes. He's also frequently described as a "pretty boy" or "handsome", to the point where a certain Corrupt Corporate Executive tries to exploit him.
  • From Persona 2: Innocent Sin, we have Jun, a character so pretty that many female characters look upon him in envy.
  • Boyishly handsome Naoto Shirogane of Persona 4 is beloved by the ladies...but in a rare subversion, he is actually a she.
  • Both Goro Akechi and Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5 are definitely this, both being attractive young men with slender, elegant features. Goro's Thief outfit is even that of a prince's.
  • The protagonist from Persona 5 is definitely a bishounen. Between his looks, outfit, voice, and attitude (bonus points for his evil panty-dropping smirk), he's definitely got a devoted female fanbase and more than a few fanboys. Joker's probably the prettiest Persona protagonist, and is by far the sexiest.
• It was an old joke in the fandom that those not familiar with the Mega Man X series would think that Zero was actually a girl, thanks to his Rapunzel Hair and what fans like to call the Booblights. This was even lampshaded by Bass of the original series, when, upon seeing Zero's blueprints, scoffs at Zero's appearance, thinking that he was "too girly" to be the strongest robot, like Dr. Wily, Zero's creator, claimed. And he seems to be quite a Chick Magnet, too; for both fellow Reploids and one human. What was Dr. Wily thinking when he created Zero and came up with that design, anyway? So much for being a threat to civilization...
  • Word of God has it that Zero original concept WAS that of being a female robot. The booblights are probably remnants of this concept.
  • The majority of Maverick bosses in the series have aggressive looking eyes with thin oval-shaped irises. However, the dragonfly Reploid named Commander Yammark from Mega Man X6 is the only one with big, bright eyes◊ with pronounced eyelashes◊. This is why people thought he was female.
• Harvest Moon:
  • Hospital Hottie Doctor from Harvest Moon: Back to Nature is one of the earliest examples in the series. He has inspired many equally attractive doctor characters such as Alex from Harvest Moon: Magical Melody, his Identical Grandchild Trent from Harvest Moon DS, and Jin from Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility.
  • Grumpy rival farmer Jamie from Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is a bishonen or a bifauxnen depending on what gender you play as. If you play as Amanda, he is a secret bachelor but the game ends if you marry him.
  • Skye is the "special" bachelor from Harvest Moon DS and is sometimes regarded as the turning point where the series began making more bishonen characters. He is a Gentleman Thief that is prone to Bishie Sparkles.
  • Will from Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands bears more than a passing resemblance to the above-pictured Tamaki.
  • Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility features an entire cast of marriageable bachelors. The most prettiest is Julian, who could pass for a woman and worries (in the Japanese version) if his love interest thinks he's a crossdresser.
  • The series has gotten an increasing amount of bishonen starting with Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness and Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility. It's likely easier to name bachelors who aren't bishonen.
  • Similarly, many of the young males in the spinoff series Rune Factory are bishonen. The protagonist of RF 4 barely looks male, which, what with the Hello, [Insert Name Here] nature of the game, can lead to some unintentionally hilarious moments:
  "Sophie? What a fine, manly name!"
• Time Crisis's newer protagonists.
• Sengoku Basara:
  • Uesugi Kenshin takes this far enough that fans seriously doubt he's really male. Granted, the games also have Motonari, Keiji, Mitsuhide, and Hanbe, but Kenshin is still the reigning king/queen.
  • Keiji is a strange case, as he has a muscular figure but a very pretty face and long, silky hair. And Yukimura also seems to become more feminine looking with each new installment.
• Dynasty Warriors has its fair share, with Jin (Sima Yi, Sima Shi, Sima Zhao, Zhong Hui, Xiahou Ba, Jia Chong, Wen Yang) being a certified Cast Full of Pretty Boys. The other kingdoms don't fail to deliver however with Shu (Zhao Yun, Jiang Wei, Guan Suo, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao), Wu (Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Ling Tong), and especially Wei (Zhang He, Cao Pi, Guo Jia) hosting some impressive examples.
• Samurai Warriors: we have Mitsuhide, Hanbei, Ranmaru, Kiyomasa, Motochika, and Kojiro.
• Testament of Guilty Gear, who, in addition to his long black hair and androgynous face, has an outfit consisting of a man-bra and a skirt that shows a decent amount of leg. And that's not going anywhere near Bridget.
  • Ky looks more effeminate than his own son Sin.
• Fire Emblem:
  • Lucius, the amazingly feminine featured pretty boy monk with long blond hair. Of course, he defends the fact that he is male when confronted by Serra.
  • A typical Fire Emblem game will have several bishonen, at least a couple of rugged manly men, a few good looking grandpas, and a Gonk or two. Few are as bafflingly pretty as Lucius, though.
  • When Super Smash Bros. first showed off Marth, most western players were initially quite confused as to whether Marth was a girl or not (hairband and girly name didn't help) . His voice actor cleared this up a bit, though.
  • Libra in Fire Emblem Awakening takes this to such ridiculous levels he invokes Stupid Sexy Flanders and Even the Guys Want Him in-universe. Oh, and he has a very feminine voice too.
  • Less so than Libra, but the default, Type 01 build for a male Robin is fairly bishonen, especially if you give him long hair.
  • Fire Emblem Fates: Kaze, Jakob, and especially Leo and Takumi all have soft, pretty features. Leo's son Forrest takes it to a whole other level. Azura's son, Shigure, qualifies as well, and his finer features are exaggerated further in his Cipher cards. The default male 1 build for Corrin as well.
  • Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia has several, some of which are due to the art having improved from the original. Tobin and Kliff both have soft, pretty faces in the remake, and are fairly slender to boot. Luthier and Leon are the long-haired variety; Leon is said to have a strict routine to keep himself looking nice, and it's accentuated by the fact that he appears to be wearing eyeshadow and lip gloss.
• Pit from Kid Icarus: Uprising and his dark counterpart likely qualify also.
• Taichi in CROSS†CHANNEL has a rather androgynous but attractive appearance. He, on the other hand, is convinced he is horribly ugly for reasons that are never really revealed.
• Pretty much any guy from the NeoRomance series (Angelique, Harukanaru Toki no Naka de, Kin'iro no Corda). Eisen of Haruka proved to be pretty enough to disguise himself as a girl on one occasion; even the Emperor is bishounen, though he has the excuse of being Eisen's half-brother. In the La Corda d'Oro anime, one character (Kenichi Shimizu) actually gets called a bishounen by the lead girl when she first meets him.
• Among the attractive male characters in Infinite Space, a few of them fall into bishonen/biseinen category. Lord Roth is arguably the best example, with his waist-length lavender hair and feminine face. Main character Yuri is quite pretty himself.
• Pokémon:
  • Pokémon Black and White has N, as well as Cilan, Chili, and Cress. Cheren and Hilbert qualify as well.
  • Bishonen characters in other games include Falkner, Bugsy, Morty, Will, Wallace, Steven, Roark, Volkner, Riley, Aaron, Lucian, and Marlon. Maxie may count as well, even though he's older than the others.
  • The male player characters have been trending toward this. Calem, the male player character for X and Y, is probably the most blatant example - especially when compared to Red's original game design. Or for previous gens, compare the remake design of Red to his to original one.
  • As of Pokémon Sun and Moon, Red no longer qualifies, instead showing signs of maturing into a Hunk. On the other hand, his rival Blue is edging much more into this now, though granted he had been showing signs of this since HeartGold/SoulSilver
• WarioWare has Young Cricket, who is popular among Japanese female players for being the only bishōnen in the series.
• Played with frequently in Devil May Cry.
  • Dante much like Leon from RE (who he was based on) just barely makes the list because while Dante is a very handsome dude (especially in DMC3 and DMC4) he's still very masculine and even a outright Hunk in his Shirtless Scene, plus he gets Perma-Stubble. At point in the third game Dante even admires himself in the reflection of his sword and both Nevan and Morrigan call him a "handsome devil". The anime plays this much straighter◊ with Dante compared to the games.
  • Vergil Dante's Evil Twin is pretty bishie since he's identical to his brother (especially with his hair down◊), though other games such as Project X Zone make this trope more pronounced. Other games and artwork downplay this like Dante making more masculine and dignified.
    • Ironically both Dante and Vergil subvert the Bishounen Line as their respective Devil Triggers make them far less pretty than their base forms... and while that might displease fangirls, it's awesome for fanboys.
  • Nero plays this straighter than Dante and Vergil being very androgynous◊ and even more so in the pachinko game◊. Averted in DMC5 where in line with the game realistic art style Nero is more masculine, though ironically Nero's Devil trigger in the game is closer being bishonen than Dante and Veril's DTs being a hybrid of Long Haired Prettyboy and Gorgeous Gorgon.
• Dragon Quest has two bishonen: Psaro the Manslayer (Human form) and Angelo.
• In Dragon Quest XI, the main playable character, the Luminary, has long hair and noticeably finer features than previous heroes in the series, and is frequently noted to be handsome and even beautiful by various characters throughout the game. More than one female NPC comments on wanting looks like his.
• Castlevania
  • Alucard is one of the quintessential examples. Though mistaking him for a girl is not likely to be a problem, though, given the loving attention put into his sprite and the fact that his VA has a very, very deep voice. Ironically Alucard from his debut game Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse was a far from Bishie you can get, it wasn't till the non-canon Castlevania Legends that Alucard got a prettier design◊ which likely served as the basis for his iconic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night bishonen look◊.
  • Ayami Kojima who did most of the later artwork for Castlevania really, really loves this trope to point where she’s responsible for turning every single male protagonist (and even Dracula) into a bishonen. The only exception being Julius Belmont whose older and rugged.
• Yuuto is the only male in Eien No Aselia that could really be described as pretty. On the other hand, he's also pretty muscular by the end, so despite the face, he isn't exactly girly.
• Joshua from The World Ends with You, complete with a girlish giggle to boot. Being something of a higher plane of existence probably helps.
• Street Fighter:
  • Vega, the Spanish ninja. It's even part of his character. Vega is a narcissist who believes his face to be extremely beautiful, and cannot stand the ugly. Part of it comes from traumatization as a child when his ugly father killed his beautiful mother. He also wears a mask, not to hide his identity, but to prevent his face from being scarred. Evil Makes You Ugly is often invoked for Vega, as several World Warriors point out in their win quotes.
  • Remy in Street Fighter III is even more of one (though he's not narcissistic like Vega).
  • In the Alpha series, Ken becomes one of these, with long, flowing hair in a ponytail and a younger face (some pieces of art◊ for the game even show him with pronounced lips, a rarity for Street Fighter characters). However, the other games show him looking older and more muscular, with Perma-Stubble.
• Prince Peasley from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, who makes the whole screen gleam - literally - when he tosses his hair.
• The main character of Shadow of the Colossus.
• Bushido Blade 1 and 2 have Katze.
  • Also, Kaun.
• The Suikoden series of games have, quite literally, dozens of bishonen among the ranks of the Stars of Destiny (108 per game!). Notable ones include and are not limited to: every main protagonist, Flik, Luc and Sasarai, and Yuber.
• Sergei from Asura's Wrath. Yasha is to an extent too, though not quite as much.
• Many of the characters of Eternal Sonata are well-noted for this, including the game's main character Frederic Chopin and the main on-screen avatar character, Allegretto.
• In Bayonetta 2, the Masked Lumen is one under his mask, with sharp, almost elven features and flowing, waist-length platinum-blonde hair. The impressive thing is you can tell he's one when just a sliver of his mask gets knocked off, revealing only one of his eyes and the general shape of his features around it.
• In the Japanese Super Smash Bros. games, characters of this nature (e.g. Pit, Shulk, Cloud) tend to have all-female crowd cheers.
• Odin Sphere gives us this in the form of Prince Cornelius of Titania, the Shadow Knight Oswald, and Prince Ingway of Valentine. All three young men's physical features ( well, in Cornelius and Ingway's human forms, anyway) fit the archetypes of handsome princes and brave knights with slender yet muscular builds. In Ingway's case, his outfit even runs into Mr. Fanservice territory.
• The Japanese iPhone/Android game うまのプリンスさま or "Princely Horse" is a Dating Sim about a young woman named Umako meeting the handsome Yuuma on a ranch. Seems like a normal enough game until you learn that Yuuma is a horse with a human head and the game still plays with some Dating Sim tropes despite it's weird love interest.

Visual Novels

• Yukito from Air. As well as a Silver-Haired Tall, Dark, and Snarky Ineffectual Loner, he later shares some traits with The Doctor himself!
• In Akatsuki no Goei Kaito claims his greatest skill is that he's really hot. He kind of has a point given that he can just sit down and read in public and girls will instantly come flirt with him.
• Asagao Academy Normal Boots Club has Jared, AKA Pro Jared, according to his character description he's the most attractive person in school. He even sparkles!
• Dev and Dominic from the Death Room. Evie flirts with Dev, while Dominic is very, very self-aware of his good looks.
  Dominic: I know I’m the best-looking guy you’ve ever seen in your entire life, but don't let that intimidate you because I can guarantee that you definitely still have a chance with me.
• Being a BL game, all of the main characters in DRAMAtical Murder are bishonen. However, most of the protagonists are over 20, so they would technically be considered biseinen.
• Fate/stay night features Gilgamesh, the ancient King of Mesopotania, who´s apparently a tall, white, red-eyed blonde who´s commented on by one of the main heroines as "he looked like a model". It seems that A+ Charisma skill is justified. Too bad he´s a giant douche with an ego the size of the Universe until Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, where he drinks a potion of youth and becomes an adorable well-mannered kid who wouldn´t hurt anyone. His child version is of course equally Bishonen.
• Pretty much the entire cast of Gakuen Heaven.
• The five male leads from Hiiro no Kakera.
• Takuma and Hamaji from H2O: Footprints in the Sand.
• Hatoful Boyfriend is the dating sim where almost all of the love interests are pigeons. The exceptions are a quail and a partridge. There is the option to see a pseudohuman alternate appearance at the introduction of each one, and these are all quite bishie even when that doesn't really fit the bird or the character (the middle-aged "fat bird" or "fluffy heretic" is just as svelte and pretty as the ones represented as teenaged boys). The only exception is Okosan, who's only portrayed as a bird in a school uniform.
• Kyousuke from Little Busters!!. Mio outright calls him a bishounen one time. And in the Mask the Saito OVA, at one point he dramatically tears off his mask at sunset and sparkles fly as his hair shakes. (The sparkles being his tears from when he was crying because he was so touched a moment before, but still...)
• In Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! Touma is the most notable contender, but Cap also fits, both of them with fan clubs.
• Monster Prom: The Interdimensional Prince is a parody of this. He has all the traits and even the Long-Haired Pretty Boy look, but he is so unfittingly sparkly to his surroundings that these traits make him seen hilarious.
• Heinz Heger in Shikkoku no Sharnoth.
• Mizuho in Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru. Of course. That being said, he is quite pretty even when not dressing as a girl.
• Many male characters are this in Starry☆Sky.
• Just about every male in Togainu no Chi, especially Rin and Akira.
• Pretty much the entire male cast of Uta No Princesama.
• All the boys qualify for this up to some extent in War: 13th Day but especially Arsenik and Night. In-universe, the former more so than the latter.
  Brooks: I’ve seen that tight blonde you’ve been eyeing. Now, he is fine.
• When They Cry:
  • Higurashi: When They Cry's Keiichi is noticeably pretty, and even sparkles a couple of times, as well as Satoshi, who is a more extreme example than Keiichi and is even voiced by a female.
  • Umineko: When They Cry has the absolutely adorable Kanon, not to mention Battler. George was made to be this in the anime and the Updated Re-release for the Playstation 3, but in the original sound novels he's rather plain in comparison to Kanon and Battler. Kanon is a complicated example. He is the same person as Shannon. Their true identity, Yasu, is female-identified but heavily implied to have been Raised as the Opposite Gender after she received injuries to her genitalia as a young child. This left her with complicated issues involving her gender.
• Yo-Jin-Bo is a Cast Full of Pretty Boys. Since it's a Romance Game, it's kind of expected. Bo is considered so pretty he's practically female by the other characters; he's annoyed when a crossdresser hits on him, but plays this to his advantage and says he should be allowed to guard the Princess during her bath because he "looks androgynous" with his long hair and wouldn't disturb her as much as the other guys.

Fan Works

• Axis Powers Hetalia fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: Both Italy and Japan are this. Germany noticed this even more when they both wore kimonos.
• Aesir: Cross Wars: Azrael, who wears Guyliner, has Tareme Eyes, and an overall feminine appearance. Azazel to a lesser extent as well, with his glaring Tsurime Eyes.
• Roulette Rampage Reloaded's Kiyoyuki Irino serves as a small deconstruction of the concept. He is portrayed as handsome and girls do find him attractive for his small frame and prettyboy looks, but Irino himself thinks that he's not in his ideal type of body. As an actor, he wants to get more masculine roles to play, but he can't do it with his type of body, so he dived head long into voice acting, which allowed him to play any type of role he wanted. Combine that with his insecurities about his more popular (and masculine looking) older brother and his in-game mentor figure Tetsuo Shingen, and you've got a boy who really needs to find some measure of inner peace.

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