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[[File:facepalm.jpg|link=Azumanga Daioh|thumb|350px|They're all Japanese. Even the redhead. Yeah.]]
Some characters have hair colors that are possible, but very uncommon for the setting, like blond and orange in feudal Japan. The show is otherwise realistic, but the writers don't want all the characters to have the same hair colors.
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When hair colors become humanly impossible, we have [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]. See also [[Delinquent Hair]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' has Hitomi Kanzaki, who has light brown hair and green eyes.
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', the redheaded ronin from 19th century Japan. Though redheads ''are'' known to exist naturally in Japan, they're still incredibly rare.
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** Given Chiyo's [[Mega Neko|mysterious parentage]]...
** Natural Japanese red-heads ''do'' exist, but they are extremely rare, and no one brings attention to Chiyo's hair color even though it's something the cast should notice as outlandish, even if it is plausible. Then again, she's also a child prodigy, which is also extremely rare.
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess|Ah, My Goddess!]]'' would fit into plausible hair, except that one of [[Those Two Guys]] is blond. Aside from him, all characters in ''Ah My Goddess'' either have black hair or are goddesses or, in a few cases, both. Considering that one guy is the one human who has blond hair, it's pretty close to actual Japanese demographics. (He's also a leather-and-shades-wearing punk biker with spark plugs for earrings; it's likely that he bleaches
* ''[[Digimon]]'' generally has hair colors that naturally occur on humans (except for a few, like purple-haired [[Digimon Adventure 02|Miyako]]), but for a nearly all-Japanese cast, we're talking an inordinately high amount of blond, red, and brown hair.
** The blonds of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', Yamato and Takeru, are [[But Not Too Foreign|part-French]], and [[Digimon Savers|Touma]] is part-Austrian, so that, at least, is reasonable. The same explanation doesn't seem to be the case for the other blonds present in the series, [[Digimon Tamers|Yamaki]], [[Digimon Frontier|Izumi]], [[Digimon Xros Wars|Kiriha, and Yuu]] (the latter of whom has a brunette sister).
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** Let's not forget the Digimon Emperor and his spiked hair, which is not one but TWO shades of blue! It's somewhat justified as it's the result of his costume in the Digital World which disintegrates upon his [[Villainous Breakdown]], but his real hair is still an obvious indigo, so...
* Allen Walker of ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' has naturally white hair. However, this is justified as it's the result of intense psychological trauma, his original hair color being brown.
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* Tamaki, Renge, and Hani from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' all have blond hair, and the Hitachiin twins are both redheads.
** Tamaki is half-French and Renge is full French. They, at least, have a reasonable explanation.
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* There are a surprising number of auburn-haired Japanese in ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', but it's otherwise realistic if you consider blue or purple hair to be stylized black, and you remember that Ryoko and Inez are both dye-jobs (and Inez's nationality is pretty vague anyway). [[Heroic Albino|Ruri]] gets a pass for being a Rei [[Expy]] (see below).
* Akagi Shigeru of ''[[Akagi]]'' and his body-double Hirayama Yukio both have silvery gray hair, despite being fairly young. No one in the series thinks it's strange at all.
* ''[[Baccano!]]!'' has all but ''one'' character that keeps it away from probable hair colors (very few have black hair, but most of the cast is either American or European) -- [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|Sylvie Lumiere]]. She's mentioned to be silver-haired [[All There in the Manual|in the books too]], so we can't even claim that she's a stylized blond.
* Some versions of [[Area 88]] give the lead character blonde hair for no readily apparent reason, though it could be quasi-justified by him being a [[Heroic Bastard]].
* The Medicine Seller in ''[[Mononoke]]'' has very pale blond hair in feudal Japan, which, like his [[Facial Markings]] and [[Pointy Ears]], goes [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|inexplicably unnoticed]] by those around him.
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== Western Animation ==
* On ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]],'' Suki has red/auburn hair despite practically the entire [[The Verse|Avaverse]] being an Asian [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]].
** It's definitely not
* Chris Griffin of ''[[Family Guy]]'' has blond hair, despite the fact that his father's hair is brown and his mother's a redhead. None of his grandparents have blond hair either. His hair probably stems from the original design for his mother Lois, who was a blonde until they changed it.
* Violet from [[The Incredibles]] has long raven black hair while both her father and younger brother have yellow hair and her mother has brown hair. It's possible that her parents carried a black recessive gene.
* [[Coraline]]'s parents both have dark brown hair while her own hair is blue.
== Real Life ==
* With
▲* With current Japanese culture being quite Western-inspired, it's not uncommon for Asian girls to dye their hair. Also, Asians (especially Koreans) can have light brown/dark blonde hair, although it's very rare. South Asian people, like the Kalash, Nuritani and Tajik, can have light blond hair. [http://pastmist.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/blond-mongol-girl.jpg Hell, even blond Mongols exist.]
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