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{{quote|'''[[Transparent Closet|Marik]]:''' There are no women in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|There are only extremely girly men!]] [[Large Ham|And I am the girliest of them all!]]

 

A popular Japanese (and Korean) character type, the ''Bishōnen'', or "beautiful boy", is a male character that possesses [[Ambiguous Gender|androgynous]] or 'feminine' physical traits. He is usually tall, slender with almost no fat, usually little to no muscle, and [[Perma-Shave|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, although those that don't get startlingly [[Audio Erotica|deep, sexy voices]] instead. 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.

** Ed's always been Bishonen, and even has [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy|long hair]].

** One of Father's transformations turns him into one of these.

* ''[[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.

** 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 Longcoat]], but his long, [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|white]] hair does a lot to give him an edge of androgynous beauty. He's maybe a bit more of a biseinen.