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** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|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 [[Loveless|Yun Koga]] would be designing ''00'''s cast.
** We also need to mention ''[[Turn A Gundam|Turn a Gundam]]'''s Loran, who was quite possibly one [[Executive Meddling|editorial mandate]] away from being a full-blown woman.
** While he's too old to count as a bishōnen, [[Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack|Char Aznable]] looks far more [https://web.archive.org/web/20160817103851/http://www.akadot.com/images_osc/4048529838.jpg prettyboy-ish] than he did in earlier series
** 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.
* Griffith from ''[[Berserk]]'' is explicitly labeled as "too beautiful to be a man" in about a dozen separate chapters by different characters! He even {{spoiler|wears lipstick after transforming into Femto.}}
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* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' provides plenty of bishounen fanservice. The fact that practically every day is a [[Beach Episode]] helps.
* Even [[Claymore]] manages to have one of these in the cast: Isley of the North.
* 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: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090922124544/http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/scans/Rurouni-Kenshin/item130521/
* A good amount of the male characters from ''[[Black Butler]]''. Except for [[Gonk|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.
* 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.
* Paragon of [[Hot-Blooded]] manliness he may be, but [[GaoGaiGar|Gai Shishio]] is still [https://web.archive.org/web/20071030192407/http://www.flavor-red.com/men/gai.jpg too pretty to be male].
* [[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]] has Christopher Eclair, a French Assassin. It's also revealed that Kensei Ma [[I Was Quite a Looker|used to be one.]]
* Tamamo from ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]'' gets away with lots of things that Nube is beaten up for just because he's a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]].
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* ''Every single male main character'' in post-[[Art Evolution]] [[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]], plus 99% of the villains and side cast. This is the most common trope on the [[Katekyo Hitman Reborn/Characters|character page]].
* Natsume, Tanuma, Natori, ''Nishimura'' - in fact, most of the male cast of [[Natsume Yuujinchou]] qualify as Bishonen.
* The human forms of the [[Weasel Mascot]]s in ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'' are this. [http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/yes_precure5/character/img/body_coco.jpg Coco] and [http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/yes_precure5/character/img/body_natts.jpg Nuts] [http://pics.livejournal.com/kokoda_koji/pic/00323pww take it] [http://blog-imgs-18.fc2.com/k/a/k/kakeru1/PRE511_08.jpg to truly] [http://pics.livejournal.com/kokoda_koji/pic/0031tbsd extraordinary] [http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512bchTJsbL.jpg levels.] [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|GoGo!]] also brings us cute little boy [http://blog-imgs-26.fc2.com/c/v/d/cvdb/20081101232433.jpg Syrup]{{Dead link}}.
* This is the ''entire point'' of [[Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge]].
* 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.
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* Every single male character in ''[[Papa to Kiss in the Dark]]''.
* ''[[Durarara]]'' gives us Kasuka, Shizuo, Izaya, and Shinra. And then Mikado, Kida, Aoba, Seiji, Tanaka Tom, Walker, Chikage and...[[Hot for Student|Nasujima-sensei]]. Unfortunately.
** There's also minor character Ryo Takigutchi. Seriously, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121018192520/http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/4/83092.jpg just] [https://web.archive.org/web/20121018192525/http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/8/83258.jpg look at him]!
* Every male character in ''[[Black Bird]]'', but especially Kyo, whom Misao mistakes for a pretty girl upon seeing him as an adult.
* ''[[Psyren]]'': Oboro, Haruhiko, Junas, Miroku, Shiner, and Shao as an adult.
* ''[[07-Ghost]]'': Teito, Castor, Frau, Labrador, Ayanami, Mikage...Maybe almost all of the male characters of the entire story.
* [[Badass Long Hair|Baskerville]] and [[Meganekko|Alternate]] in ''Et Cetera'' are quite pretty, helped by [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428041944/http://manga.animea.net/et-cetera-chapter-1-page-8.html Basky's long blond hair] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428041932/http://manga.animea.net/et-cetera-chapter-11-page-3.html Alternate's slim figure and monocle.]
* 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.
* ''[[Rosario Plus Vampire]]'' has Ginei, Hokuto, Kiria, Fong-Fong, and, after [[Art Evolution]], Tsukune.
* ''[[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 [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.
* Every main male character in ''[[Beauty Pop]]''.
* Every male character in Miki Aihara's mangas tend to be Bishonen.
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* Every male character in ''[[Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru]]''.
* Many of the male characters in [[Chibisan Date]].
* 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 [http://i.ytimg.com/vi/I3nTKu2Q-ik/0.jpg are] [http://www.nautiljon.com/images/ost/jyu_oh_sei.jpg exceptionally]{{Dead link}} [http://lh3.ggpht.com/_6d0JOED7Gto/Sd5oqODM68I/AAAAAAAAAxs/A1DhCQ__t5Q/Jyu+Oh+Sei+Teen.JPG pretty].
* 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.
* Aburatsubo from ''[[Magic Users 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.
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* ''[[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. 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 ([http://www.arcadeflyers.com/flyers_video/capcom/10025701.jpg some pieces of art]{{Dead link}} 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 [[Hair Flip|tosses his hair]].
* The main character of ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]''.
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