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== Anime and Manga ==

* Many characters of [[MAR]], on both sides of the good/evil divide. [http://img05.nj.us.mangafox.com/store/manga/50/15-161.0/compressed/mar15_161.jpg Alvis]{{Dead link}} and [http://img05.nj.us.mangafox.com/store/manga/50/15-161.0/compressed/mar15_165.jpg Nanashi]{{Dead link}} are this, combined with the headband of eyecovering. Every once-in-a-while, they even comment on it in-universe.

* 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.

* ''[[Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru]]'' has the pretty boy protagonist, Minoru.

* ''[[Saint Seiya]]''. From [https://web.archive.org/web/20111112124500/http://www.mythcloth.ch/catalog/images/Saint%20Seiya_DVD_BOX_ANDROMEDA.JPG Shun] to [https://web.archive.org/web/20140922223245/http://www.gadgetspirit.com/pic/hkkk/virgo%201.jpg Virgo] to [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Hades_pisces_face.jpg Pisces]{{Dead link}}, the place is a bishounen gold mine. See [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] for more details.

* ''[[Mamotte Shugogetten]]'': Izumo and Tasuke. Arguably Takashi as well.

* How about the five male leads from ''[[Hiiro no Kakera]]''?

 

== 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 ''[[The Tale of Genji|Tale of Genji]]''.

* ''[[Eclipse Hunter]]'' gives us Daren Solaris, who is so pretty that the series' resident [[Tsundere]] bishoujo [[Action Girl]] goes into a mad rage when she sees that he normally wears glasses that disguise his prettiness, going as far as to ''tear his glasses off of his face and grind them into dust.'' '''LITERALLY.'''

 

== Manhwa and Manhua ==

* ''[[Magical JxR]]'' has a lot of these.

* Junho from ''[[The Three Times]]''.

 

== Music ==

* The record label Johnny's entertainment is famous in Japan and the rest of Asia for its many all bishonen/biseinen boy bands

 

== Theatre ==

* 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, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spFt2yf8D7U Wao Youka] as the [[Phantom of the Opera]], or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfkbABgyVzk Shizuka Asato (Zunko)] as Der Tod from [[Elisabeth]].

 

== Video Games ==

* The ''[[Suikoden]]'' series of games have, quite literally, ''dozens'' of bishonen among the ranks of the Stars of Destiny ([[108|108 per game!]]). Notable ones include and are not limited to: every main protagonist, Flik, Luc and Sasarai, and Yuber.

 

* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'''s Keiichi is noticeably pretty, and even [[Bishie Sparkle|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 no Naku Koro ni]]'' has the absolutely adorable Kanon, not to mention Battler and George.

* Heinz Heger in ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth]]''.

* In ''[[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'' Touma is the most notable contender, but Cap also fits, both of them with fan clubs.

 

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-17 this] comic. "Get out of here, you blonde androgynous interloper! Go play Final Fantasy X or something!" Or, in Noah's own words, "makes straight guys see rainbows". Of course, he probably [[Justified Trope|have a good reason to be like this]], given that he isn't too different from his [[Alternate Universe]] counterpart - {{spoiler|a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] (or rather 2/4) who happens to be "nonsexual", i.e. while his anatomy (except antennae) resembles that of a male human, his psychophysiology is inherited from sexless alien species, thus hormonal status is likely to have little in common with any human baseline}}.

* ''[[Manly Guys Doing Manly Things]]'' has [http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/im-sure-people-are-going-to-complain-at-me-about-this this interview]. And then, of course, [[It Got Worse]]. It's a [[The Virus|debilitating disease]] called "[[Tetsuya Nomura|Nomura]] Syndrome" (the outbreak starts [http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/thank-you-for-100-strips here]).

 

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[[Category:Always Male]]

[[Category:Tropes of Legend]]

[[Category:Boys Love Tropes]]

[[Category:Turn-On Tropes]]

[[Category:A Pretty Boy Index]]