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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!]]<br />

'''[[Camp Straight|Pegasus]]:''' [[Sissy Villain|Keep]] [[You Keep Telling Yourself That|telling yourself that.]]|''[[Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''}}

 

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.