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This is a male character who is simply a better domestic than his (usually female) significant other. He is better organized when it comes to homemaking, knows how to cook, clean, and is good with kids. Such a character is often [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy|contrasted with a less-than-feminine female character]], or [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man|another male character who is a "real man"]], and thus useless around the house.

 

 

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* Yuki from ''[[No Bra]]''. Then again...[[Wholesome Crossdresser|considering other traits of this character...]]

** Cilan is taking over this role in ''Best Wishes'', although Iris is at least savvy enough to fend for herself.

* ''[[UFO Princess Valkyrie]].'' Kazuto. In one episode, he participates in a "bridal training game" along with several other cast-members, including the eponymous Valkyrie (albeit in her childlike [[Sleep Mode Size]]). At the end, the game crowns the finest "bride"...him. Responsible, skilled at cooking and cleaning, kind, and even knows flower-arrangement somehow. He's basically a male [[Yamato Nadeshiko]].

* Lelouch Lamperouge from ''[[Code Geass]]'' is an excellent cook, knows how to sew, and is a consummate neat freak, all as a result of looking after his [[Ill Girl]] sister for years. This especially contrasts with his partner C.C., a total slob who leaves trash all over the place and would gleefully eat [[Product Placement|Pizza Hut]] each and every meal if she could.

* Tanda from ''[[Seirei no Moribito]]'', a rather feminine healer-in-training, in contrast to his tomboy love interest/childhood friend Balsa, a bodyguard-for-hire.

* Shinji Ikari from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is definitely a House Husband in training. His roommate/commander is a total slob and [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]], so he takes care of just about all the cooking and cleaning duties once he moves in.

** In particular his cooking is good enough to prompt a [[Running Gag]] of people fighting over food he made and/or jealously guarding it from potential thieves.

* In ''[[Happy Yarou Wedding]]'', Yuuhi takes a job as a nanny/housekeeper for a professor from school. When he becomes part of the family he naturally ends up being this trope.

* The King of Devils (Forbesii) in ''[[SHUFFLE!]]'' cooks all of Nerine's food much to the surprise of all her friends. In the original [[Visual Novel]] he's even seen in an apron from time to time. People comment that his cooking is quite good.

* In ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', in spite of his temper, Kyo is shown to be a good cook and able to at least take care of himself. He generally doesn't do it often because he doesn't like the people he currently lives with (except for Tohru), but did have to help out with the housekeeping when he was raised by his [[Men Can't Keep House|less able]] former guardian. In an aside note in the last volume of the series, [[Word of God|the author]] also notes that Kyo will be "a kind father".

 

== Comic Books ==

* Ben Grimm in ''[[Fantastic Four]]: The End'' is one of these, spending most of his time at home with the kids.

 

== Film ==

* In ''[[Daddy Day Care]]'', Eddie Murphy has to learn how to be a house husband, and eventually turns it into a successful business watching other people's kids.

* Felix from ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' was this; it was part of the reason that his wife left him and he ended up rooming with Oscar.

 

== Literature ==

* The entire plot of Dorothy Canfield's ''The Home-Maker'' revolves around this trope. When the husband loses the use of his legs in an accident, the housewife is forced to enter the workplace, while he takes over the job of raising the children...and each is far happier and more skilled in their new role.

* Spenser, the eponymous detective of Robert B. Parker's ''[[Spenser]]'' series of novels, is admittedly a better housekeeper, cook, and general domestic than his live-in girlfriend Susan Silverman, as she is the first to admit. But then, he is a [[Cultured Badass]].