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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.
This trope shows up mostly in Asian works, since hair colors other than black or dark brown are still quite rare there, but is by no means limited to that part of the world. A [[Dark
Usually, this is at least a little [[Justified Trope|justified]]. The character might have foreign parents, or dye their hair, or something more interesting. Other times, the reasons are left to the viewer's imaginations.
When hair colors become humanly impossible, we have [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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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 (Manga)|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 it -- see the notes for ''Midori no Hibi'' below.)
* ''[[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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* 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 (Light Novel)|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
* 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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* ''[[Bleach]]'':
** Orange hair: [[The Hero|Ichigo]], [[Barrier Warrior|Orihime]] (actually orange-chestnut in the manga, but orange in the anime)
** Blond hair: [[Dark
** Brown hair: [[Big Bad|Aizen]], [[Plucky Comic Relief|Keigo]], [[Brilliant but Lazy|Starrk]], [[The Big Guy|Sado]] (he's part Mexican).
* [[Soul Eater]] has a variety of hair colours ranging from the implausible to the [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|impossible]]. An example of the former would be Maka's hair, in that her mother is suggested to be Japanese and her father has bright red hair (worth noting that the other Japanese women do have black hair). Maka's own hair is more a light brown.
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* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]'' is full of examples, especially for a cast that's (supposedly) pure-bred Japanese.
** There seems to be a trend with red hair: both Battler and Ange share the same dark red hair color, but their parents have different hair colors (might be disputed, since Battler's mother isn't ever described in detail {{spoiler|and isn't even his real mother}}). Eva is a [[Fiery Redhead]], and Maria shares the brown-red hair color.
** Kyrie has white hair, which [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|no one questions]]. Note that her skin tone is the same as the other women, so she's probably only a [[White
** Natsuhi has [[Multicolored Hair]] that starts out as light brown, goes to brown, and ends with (you guessed it!) red.
** Krauss and Rosa both have really light brown hair.
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