What an Anime Hairstyle Says About the Character

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[@alpguy4865]

The character hairstyle that I grew to hate is probably the Kirito hairstyle. It in itself isn't bad, but man does it became too many of them

[@hei7846]

Its the most generic NPC hairstyle you can think of which makes sense since most of the Isekai's are self inserts so they make the MC's as bland as possible.

[@janinebelleestrada7096]

Kirito looking characters tend to go stale after they get so OP and the only problem they have is how can they fit their massive harem in their house.

[@frierennacht]

it's cos most japanese teenage boys have that hairstyle too

[@SoaringLettuce]

The Visual Novel/Light Novel Protagonist hairstyle

[@Mikano_ñ]

Give his a fade

[@PetarSon]

What's crazy to me was they were talking about who has the most realistic hairstyle in YU-GI-OH, and they skip Seto Kaiba the guy has the most normal hairstyle of all characters there.

[@Stumbo99]

Most normal hair, but the rest of his design in peak Yu-Gi-Oh

[@PetarSon]

@@Stumbo99 He may have a normal hairstyle but he won't let you forget that he is one of the main characters. The guy is crazy rich, and even you would experiment with your styling if you were rich like him.

[@TheDattebay]

Kaiba's issue is that even if his hair is normal, literally everything else with him isn't and he makes active effort to remind everyone else about it, like that time he hacked in the after life so he could play a child's card game with the long deceased ghost of a pharaoh

[@PetarSon]

@@TheDattebay Well in that same movie at the beginning when he is putting together the millennium puzzle, in his satellite that he designed in the shape of his logo, and plus came with an elevator to the top, he programmed the AI who was putting the puzzle together, to also remind him that he made the whole system because of his genius. So time traveling to have a final duel with Atem is something that didn't even surprise me that much seeing his ego at the beginning of the movie.

[@Cynicalhamptur]

​@@PetarSon Amazing contrast to his personality I suppose. The man's pretty much insane and obsessed.

[@oomay1925]

Honestly, I think Death the Kid has the best character design in anime. The three stripes in his hair is really memorable and it goes ironically well with his character.

[@BEDCORN]

^

[@jeremysmith7176]

And the stripes eventually become a plot point.

[@7792pnaurfr]

How is it irony?

[@akumuryuu]

Even Yu-Gi-Oh hairstyles have nothing on Shiki. You immediately know it's a horror, because their fashion sense is terrifying.

[@yurikuki]

Bro 💀 💀

[@spiderdude2099]

Dude. The girl with the cyan hair....what the hell?

[@janinebelleestrada7096]

@@spiderdude2099 The flower hair girl has one of the coolest hairstyles in that anime. They call her mid but I think she's a kind hearted girl who is genuine but her vampire fake friend just made her hate everything in that town

[@theanxiousanddepressed6241]

Kiaba was was the only character in Yugioh to have normal hair😂

[@kaminoyami30]

💀💀💀💀

[@PetTheWhiteFox11]

Im surprised they didn't mention the 'death flag' hair style in anime moms

[@ktvindicare]

It's so funny how when they actually talk about anime, Garnt and Joey are the exact same and Connor feels like the third wheel. But get on any other topic and it wildly flips all over the place. But it's consistent when it's anime conversation time that Garnt and Joey turn into total bros.

[@coolcommcollect]

Saitama is laughing at us all

[@Ash_Wen-li]

Vinland Saga: Thorfinn changes his hairstyle a bunch of times

[@prof.person8853]

True

[@orsaz924]

There's also Kaneki Ken in a way

[@pixelpause3693]

@@orsaz924 ken/haise's hair was a stroke of genius.

[@egg.007]

Buzz,careless, tied

[@SownJevan]

@@pixelpause3693 That looked way to sexy. I don't know why

[@hydro3739]

No shit, when I watched horimiya for the first time, I wanted to grow out my hair like Miyamura's and get a lip piercing like his too

[@ZolDubs]

Yeah, he has the drip for real. Idk if u have seen Buddy Daddies but i got a mix of Rei's hairstyle and the new studio orange design for Vash Stampede.

[@hei7846]

@@ZolDubs I like the new Vash look. Also the animation is amazing in Trigun Stampede since the og Trigun was not blessed with the Bebop animation which is still great

[@yourashi9082]

That what I'm doing rn

[@tvtvtfan3767]

Bulma changes her hair a lot through the series. I think ever arch she has a different hair style

[@PichuElric]

YEAH! I'm surprised they didn't talk about her!

[@maraque16]

Same with post-timeskip Franky from One Piece

[@t.bryant6047]

Dragon Ball Z has plenty of Hair Changes, Yamcha switched it at least a couple times

[@Iyashikei-t4u]

Gohan and Trunks as well

[@marjeusw.9819]

in some shoujos you got them cutting their hair too like akatsuki no yona and shirayuki hime

[@takacssz]

I just watched FMAB after like watching hundreds of animes, the one thing i realized instantly is that the hair colors are grounded. There's no pink, green, blue etc hair colors. Only Blonde, which is the main characters hair color ( and some others obv).

[@dj_koen1265]

Rose had pink hair But im not sure if she shows up in brotherhood But yeah even in the original 99% of characters have normal hair colors

[@CrimsonCharan]

@@dj_koen1265 ​ Rosé is in Brotherhood. She has pink bangs in that show, but her hair is otherwise black.

[@HiddenKARD11]

Even the dog had brown hair 💀

[@MikeIsCannonFodder]

Something I've always wondered is if the wacky hair is supposed to be wacky in-world or just the art design? Said another way, is it supposed to be the characters are actually doing up their hair every day?

[@edwardfletcher7790]

I think crazy hair manifests as a minor super power 😂

[@slinkywhippet]

@@edwardfletcher7790 Bodes well for me then 😁

[@jasonjones3328]

Depends like going all the way back to DB, in the original series anyway, Goku is in universe meant to have weird hair

[@HerculePyro]

I mean joey was totally right about DBZ. Bulma changes her hair every arc, gohan, yamcha and krillin all get hair changes.

[@SavantPete]

Gigguk looks like he's about to wipe out 80% of the world

[@alhakim6617]

Seeing Franky hairstyles for each arc is one of my favorite thing in one piece

[@OneRandomVictory]

Honestly, Yu-Gi-Oh hair was for the most part pretty tame outside of Yugi's hair up until like the latter half of Yu-Gi-Oh 5ds where all the characters started getting 2-3 different colors and hair that would put dbz characters to shame. Zexel and Vrains was when the designs just went full apeshit.

[@DaakkuuYRS]

Zexal and onward era of yugioh.... their hair looks like it is made out of plastic. I actually love that TBH, it is crazy as fuck, but super creative. Still, I can understand people who hates that.

[@shushyshushy6762]

In terms of the characters with their eyes always closed, and then when they open shit just gets crazy, I'd like to see the reverse of that. Lets say a character closes their eyes and then they gain like 9,000x more strength and have a complete personality flip. Would be really funny to turn that trope upside down.

[@sigasana441]

bro... Demon Slayer already did that lol. zenitsu beat you

[@doomsling6978]

Its all the anime moms that close their eyes and smile

[@whenisdinner2137]

Yusuke from YuYu Hakusho changed his hairstyle mid-show and he went from Street Punk to W rizz instantly.

[@TenebrisTemporis]

If I recall correctly hairstyles in YuGiOh Arc V were non canon which is why the characters kept getting confused for each other despite looking completely different.

[@Auricerise]

I actually never noticed the lack of eyebrows for Super Saiyan 3 (when I was a kid watching Dragonball Z, I always thought he already had them just based off of his previous forms and the lack of colour contrast) until Garnt emphasised it combined with the duration of how long he stayed on the screen. Damn, I now will never unsee it. xD I'm surprised Pokemon hairstyles were not brought up, there are some wild ones out there (E.g. Colress). A notable hairstyle I'll mention is Senku (from Dr.Stone)'s, it looks like bok choy to me lol I think the AI generated questions are great and you guys did well with them! ^o^ You should continue working with AI here and there as long as you enjoy doing so.

[@requiemforameme1]

I remember weebs viciously arguing with each other over how many hair spikes constitutes SSJ vs. SSJ2 back in the day, or what color/shape ki bolts went with each SSJ grade or sub-grade in HS. Good times.

[@alesztra937]

SSJ3 is notoriously famous for the lack of eybrows. Very common meme

[@wacopaco2099]

2:21 Slam Dunk, MC goes from a pompadour to a buzz cut

[@ChrisDavidLo]

Shinichi from "Parasyte" has a hair change that reflects his character change.

[@XenosvonFaneli]

Hot take, Giorno's hairstyle would look great irl. It's just a pain to do, and the donuts need more hair than a person would have.

[@madbrosheo1514]

I saw someone do that hairstyle with his own hair. He made the donuts a bit smaller, but it looked really good.

[@alexandreberiault6425]

I don't know how any of these anime characters could look at these wackass haircuts and say "Yes, barber. I would like this haircut."

[@chikasnotmadjustdisappoint6266]

Joey: "Pegasus has the most normal hair in Yugioh." Odion: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@Elitus]

Jaiden.

[@thewanderer4781]

What about joey? Kaiba?

[@anyways6231]

After all the talks about hair colors all I saw was pictures of K-pop idols I know who have done the colors Connor said do not look good go through my brain. And like 9/10 of them in my opinion looked great in those colors.

[@saddocatto9245]

well you can put any color to a K-Pop idol and they still be charming af...

[@g100-w6j]

like my guys from bts have rocked every single hair color known to man and they have always slayed and were never caught slipping

[@kww10]

Im 100% Gdragon had rocked anime-ish hair styles lot of times in his career and every hair color too

[@anna.owo.]

Because it is fresh, after one shower it is horrible. Green become highlighter yellow.

[@kreeptonit2516]

Mainly because there is stylists behind idols backs who help a lot to maintain those colors as long as possible. But still it looks so good on them. Even green, (which I hate as hair colour) example RM during Fire era

[@SailorSetsuna7]

I think I saw an explaination somewhere that the sus characters have their eyes closed because it makes them resemble foxes, which explains a lot considering the image of kitsune in all Japanese myths.

[@GoldLight73]

One of the most memorable moments in all of Yu-Gi-Oh to me comes from the English dub of Zexal. Yuma is getting chased by cops and one of them actually just yells “Watch out for his hair!”

[@yosepheking4876]

If the main characters hair sticks up yk he’s gonna be the hardest character🦅

[@justice_007]

The one thing that's great about Blue Lock is that if you haven't seen the series you won't be able to tell right away who's the main character just based on the character designs since they all have good hair styles.

[@fakhruliqbal3550]

Ironically Jaden Yuki probably the most normal hair among other yugioh protag

[@goclbert]

The weird thing about his hair is that he has light brown roots. This implies that he's dying his hair from light brown to dark brown which is somehow weirder than dying to pink.

[@inkblotCrisis]

I can still hear Blumenkranz play in the back of my head whenever Ragyo is shown. THAT is very powerful design.

[@catswellthecat7855]

I freaking love that song 🔥

[@DaakkuuYRS]

Risa from Lovely Complex changes hairstyle every episode. Sometimes even more than once each episode.

[@redstrat5976]

Love that anime it’s so cute

[@DaakkuuYRS]

@@redstrat5976 One of my favorite Shojo ever.

[@Dr4wfox]

First hair change I'd seen, was Yusuke on Yuyu Hakusho. He had the "just woke up hair" and the "ready for battle" hair

[@novivianngo]

Connor: definitely not pink me watching this: 👁👄👁

[@slinkywhippet]

Not pink, not green, not blue...so that's half my head that Connor disapproves of 😆

[@StarStoneWolf]

The hair for the main family characters in Nurarihyon no Mago (Rikuo, Rihan, Nurarihyon) are my favorite. It's so loooong and floaty. XD

[@Rinoru]

I always thought everytime Rikuo transformed his head just got longer like his grandpa, so that's why his hair jut got like that

[@StarStoneWolf]

@rido damai Oh no, fan nerd warning alert!!!! Actuuusaally~ 🤓 As a short segment in both manga and anime, a character at the end of a episode or chapter, had asked Nurarihyon himself about his head. To which he said something like, "The moment I started balding, my head grew out to replace it." Which is arguably a bit more disturbing. Can you imagine what the slow process of that would look like? ...ew Their hair even moves around a lot too. And they even animate it sometime flapping around like fish in the wind... There's no way there's a big skull under that lmao XD

[@Rinoru]

@@StarStoneWolf yeah that's even more disturbing lmao

[@sirhellsing]

@@StarStoneWolf his grandpa looks more like what Nurarihyon actually looks like in drawings from a quick google search compared to the protagonist

[@StarStoneWolf]

@sirhellsing Yeah, that's kinda the point. Rikuo is Nurarihyon's grandchild. Why would a 12 year old look like an old man? Lmao I've seen other depictions of what a young Nurarihyon would look like, but Nurarihyon no mago is the only one that has the long floating gourd hair. The designs from other yokai series are even less acreate to the original yokai.

[@exilemorin04]

6:22 Garnt getting interrupted twice and looking Akward for a sec afterwards lol

[@AverageAwesomeDude]

I’m surprised these boys didn’t bring up the Schmentai protagonist haircut, you know the one with long ass bangs that keeping the eyes in shadow at all times.

[@elfi643]

Orange actually can look good! My hair faded from red and it looked like fire. I got so many compliments on my hair when it was that color

[@solo-mons]

Your hair was fire… 🔥 😮

[@p0ppysmic13]

If an mc character's hair becomes long you know sh8 is about to get real

[@cielinteri5673]

You know they badass if the hair is white or silver. Unfuckwithable as u will lol

[@GIN.356.A]

Sasakibe Chojuro from Bleach, literally got like half a second screen time and it was shared between 2 other vice captains who all got fucked by a rookie Ichigo

[@JingleJohngle]

True back when Kaneki first underwent his white hair transformation

[@slinkywhippet]

Ginoza in Psycho-pass changes his hair in each season and has a fourth hairstyle in the new film Providence 💚

[@martinchristensen6786]

He should’ve kept Goku’s eyebrows and given him the tail back

[@soleraprincessgongjunim3320]

the hair color irl debate is just. really funny to me as a kpop fan 🤣

[@kreeptonit2516]

Exactly, when they said orange doesn't look good on japanese people I was like "you didn't saw Sana from Twice during More & more era that's why"

[@requiemforameme1]

6:39 If it works for Sia’s wig, it could probably work as a haircut. Just needs a trim.

[@pparkeroni]

I have green hair right now and can confirm that it starts to look like ass when the dye starts fading

[@eskreskao]

Post-TS Franky changes his hairstyle every arc. Sometimes multiple times.

[@Jw87563]

Pre-skip was my favorite hairstyle.

[@blueberriesinmycoffee1234]

The second Brock opens his eyes Ash is doomed.

[@sunstar185]

1:27 Seto Kaiba crying in the corner. That dude literally just has short brown hair

[@seat0_294]

That's the one thing I like about Iruma-kun, specifically Iruma. If you live in that world for example as a spectator and the best tool given to you is like a glasses that tells you the stats of a person, you will have zero fucking clue who the main character is. Everything good about Iruma is his personality and everything that makes him a main character is not his capabilities or feats but his achievements. And his dynamic with everyone else is what I love about the manga. No need of that Gomu Gomu no or that Rasenshuriken for Iruma to talk no jutsu everyone into becoming his ally. He doesn't even talk no jutsu them he just achieves something insane and it's not even through power.

[@seat0_294]

And bonus that he is not a cocky highschooler with black hair and "ikemen" looks. If someone wants another of this type of manga altho lets just say the author does it in less taste, look up "Caught up in a Hero Summoning" manga.

[@D123-f9k]

Ryu from Shaman King has a pompadour that keeps getting cut off after a brief period of growth, resulting in what looks like a wedding cake with sever heart shaped tiers sticking out from his head with a little spike at the top

[@X3nophiliac]

you gotta hairspray it up as an anime cosplayer lol

[@purifya_aus5026]

Cut my hair for Draken from Tokyo Revengers for a cosplay 2 years ago and stuck with it ever since 👌

[@snowitz]

2:24 - miyamura

[@MewDenise]

Amu Hinamori from Shugo Chara changes her hair a lot. AND her clothes.

[@KegOfMeat]

I fucking LOVE Yoh Asakura’s hair. It’s so simple and normal looking and when he doesn’t have his headphones on it’s straight and makes him look a bit feminine. His hair would also work in real life as well. A ridiculous haircut is also from Shaman King with Tao Ren and his giant point hair.

[@_fendiman97]

Koichi is a character who changes his hair throughout part 4

[@makilife4502]

Spot the main character in anime: the kid in the back of the class by the window staring off into space and you hear his narration

[@syahidaalam7011]

I'm laughing my ass off hearing Garnt's answer 6:29

[@WalkInMyPawsteps]

4:24 garnt and joey synchronization

[@X2yt]

Everyone knows that longer hair means increased power level or increased importance. Goku, Ichigo, Aizen, Vegeta, Naruto, Sasuke etc all get longer hair when they either train to next level or use tranformation that increases power.

[@ninjaugal3832]

joey : the main character, garnt : rival of main character, connor : best friend of main character

[@ag9953]

Jojo's hat has actually been explained, the hat is torn in half and has holes through which the hair pokes through, it just all looks like a single piece because both the hair and the hat are the same color.

[@eya99]

when i was a kid i've always been werided out by the hair of Ran from detective conan, i had this habit of making up my own characters and i copyed hair styles from my favorite 'cartoon' (didn't know they were called anime when i was a kid lol) but the hair spike never did it for me lmao if you know what i'm talking about.

[@twary1911]

Sakuragi from Slam Dunk changed his haircut

[@musaheerkhokhar1829]

The won,t be able to identify the main character in blue lock by just looking up some pictures of the anime characters!

[@SWProductions100]

3:37 - I actually think Bleach's haircuts were somewhat toned down compared to other series.

[@yunonasumi7982]

The fact that my first thought was Yugioh and so was theirs makes me so happy.

[@Panda_Roll]

"Has a main character ever changed his hair?" My knee jerk response was no until I remembered one. Confessions of an MMO Junkie, the main character goes from super long and flowy hair to a bob because someone in her gaming group told her to. Another is Akane from ranma 1/2 & Sakura from naruto, both get accidental hair cuts.

[@ruriva4931]

Yona! From Yona of the Dawn. Also Kyoko from Skip Beat.

[@Panda_Roll]

@@ruriva4931 Oh yeah! Kyoko got a complete make over. Why is it that the hair change for women is always to cut it short?

[@ruriva4931]

@@Panda_Roll it’s easier to cut your hair than to grow it, but with kyoko because of her acting roles there were several times where she would wear a long wig

[@shyguy5473]

Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho. His drip in the dark tournament arc was insane.

[@emery324]

Anyone remember that one eyes always closed dude in cardcaptor sakura who only opens his eyes when people step on his feet lmao

[@isaacgleeth3609]

For only knowing what he knows, how could Joey forget Hanekawa Tsubasa? She got her dark hair cut short, then she got white streaks added

[@TrishaHeron]

show that changes their hair: Yona (Yona of the Dawn) T_T or Kyoko in Skip Beat! it's a right of passage when a helpless girl cuts off their long hair.

[@haley1217]

Uh.. Hello? Bulma! She changes her hair style like every arch! Haha

[@TrulyLoathsome]

An episode on hair and no mention of Shiki? Disgraceful. For shame. For. SHAME!

[@kaptainriflebeard5980]

Garnt at 0:41: "Ummm... Have you watched Vanguard Overdress?"

[@Belbecat]

Hair colours that work - look at k-pop. For the "cool guy" - the Levi/Trunks mid part, doable on real guys xD the is meant to be the nerd but is a hidden badass bowl cut hair.

[@ChimeraLotietheBunny]

Legit love this

[@7792pnaurfr]

Aizen from bleach. Supposed nice guy when it's messed up and he styles it back, removes his glasses and suddenly he's evil.

[@janevim11]

y'all joke about cosplaying Yu-Gi-Oh, but as a long-time magical girl fan, it's Precure hair that gives me the biggest headache. your safest bet is probably making a metal net in the shape of the hair and then glueing colorful strands of fake hair on it. also, characters that change their hair: Akari from Aikatsu and Yume from Aikatsu Stars. and probably other children's idol shows with time skips and new generations, like Pretty Rhythm.

[@KennyMcGavin]

Hayasaka, the maid from Kaguya sama changes her hairstyle a lot, granted she does it for her job but still

[@bug_gub]

Finral from Black Clover changes hairstyle at some point in the series

[@PlugInKali]

What the hell? They're talking about weird hairstyles and they only briefly mention Jotaro? What about Giorno, Polnareff, Josuke, Pesci, Cioccolata, Chiaccio, Shigechi,... Even Pucci, whose hair, let's not forget, merges with his eyebrows.

[@mystier3423]

So no one is gonna talk about the one hair style that covers both eyes that only one type of anime can be found on male protagonists?

[@subieasunayuuki]

2:20 Asuna changes her hairstyle a few times during a few scenes in SAO Ordinal Scale and SAO Alicization. Also, I'm just going to say this, SAO is one of the best amine ever. I also love Asuna so much. However, despite my love for SAO, it does have certain issues but other than that it's truly excellent! These issues are the love triangles which don't really make a difference to the story and Asuna becoming a damsel in distress against her will in the Fairy Dance arc. Sugou is a manical sadistic monster and this arc did show us that too well but they could've done it in a better and non-cliché way such as by having Kirito in Asuna's place. Some fanfictions were started because of this very reason but most of which I have come across haven't been completed as of yet. Another issue that SAO has is that Kirito takes up too much screen time. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike Kirito but I would prefer if Asuna and maybe other characters got more screen time than him for a change. This did get addressed in Mother's Rosario and maybe Alicization. Sorry for this weird venting session. Still one of the best amine alongside The Rising of The Shield Hero.

[@bloodlove93]

no joke,i had almost the exact hair as the cover picture, for a few years over a decade ago in my teens, really long and covering my face,only had to move part to the side so teachers could see one of my eyes to know im awake.

[@Brenilla]

Green and light blue works for like a week then it looks bad because of dye ineffectiveness DX otherwise it can look nice in some cases

[@gerdanbombales]

HAnime protagonist has the most recognizable hairstyle

[@catherinebutler4819]

Homura Akemi changes her hairstyle.

[@cierrahall4920]

7:20 me sitting with green hair like what i do man

[@SimpleSymonds]

It's a good day when Trash Taste mention Yugioh Now if only they have an episode where they watch all the series' of Yugioh. I wanna hear their opinions on 5D's, my favotire

[@martinchristensen6786]

Rock Lees hair that says Ninja 🤣 He’s such a great character..

[@yohanesgracial9529]

Now that i think about it vg overdress, even though a card game has no wierd anime hairstyle

[@tribopower]

Can't believe they forgot Kira from part 4.... wtf

[@TheCreepypro]

mob from mob psycho 100 has the best hairstyle

[@Lanai50]

"You gotta have blue hair"

[@leandrodiaz5433]

thorfinn from vinland saga changes hairstyle every arc

[@FaizalKuntz]

i can tell an NPC by their hair

[@josephdittrick4008]

I can attest that on some ppl ginger hair just looks fucking amazing

[@js100serch]

These guys seem to know a lot about anime, they should make a podcast about anime.

[@dramaking9559]

Now in days hair color mean he/she trying to very different or stand up for something and make it a big deal and feel oppress especially when someone has a different opinion