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** Though Kaiba's green hair is an [[Adaptation Dye Job]]. Whenever he shows up somewhere on the cover of the first 7 manga season 0 was ''loosely'' based on, he clearly has brown hair.
* ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]'' runs the entire range from natural hair types, to implausible hair types to impossible hair types.
** Implausible hair types include [[Barrier Warrior|Orihime]] (a orange-chestnut in the manga, orange in the anime) and [[The Hero|Ichigo]] (the shade of orange that Asian hair turns when [[Title Drop|bleached]]). Both of them have been stigmatised in school because of their unusual hair colours. Blond examples include [[Dark
** Blue hair: [[Panthera Awesome|Grimmjow]], [[Mad Scientist|Mayuri]]
** Green hair: [[Martial Pacifist|Nel]], [[Genki Girl|Mashiro]]
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*** Kishimoto has done this, again, with the Mizukage, who looks blond (as in, left uncolored) in the manga but a new cover revealed her to have Chestnut Brownish Red hair.
*** Then her bodyguards, Ao and Chojuro, who had similarly uncolored hair in regular pages, was shown by [http://mangastream.com/read/naruto/489-94/4 a cover] to have light blue hair. In fact, Kisame is apparently the same color (though you can't see his hair very often).
** Hinata, aka the resident [[Shy Blue
* The page picture comes from ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'', where, for the mermaids at least (except for the Pink ones), hair color also indicates race. Humans and other characters (and Pink mermaids) can have any color.
* ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]''. Technically, at least Minto and Zakuro ''may'' have stylized black hair, and the anime version of Ichigo is a more or less plausible [[Redheaded Hero|redhead]], but then there are the obviously blonde [[Chinese Girl|Bu-ling]] and [[Mission Control|Ryou]]...Additionally, in the anime, the Mew Mews' hair colour [[Power Dyes Your Hair|changes from normal to outrageous when they transform]], save for Zakuro and Retasu, whose hair remain purple and green (albeit different shades). In the manga, all five girls always have [[Colour
** Interestingly, in the manga, Zakuro is said to have black hair at one point, suggesting purple is, indeed, here just for convenience. [[Mission Control|Ryou Shirogane]], on the other hand, is confirmed to have golden hair and blue eyes via the scene where Ichigo thinks he is [[Mysterious Protector|the Blue Knight]], citing said features as a similarity. Slightly odd, since this is the typical appearance of a "gaijin", which Ryou doesn't seem to be (he did live in America, but it is implied that his parents were Japanese).
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (Anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'', ''[[Galaxy Angel Rune]]'', and [[Galaxy Angel (Video Game)|Galaxy Angel]] gameverse.
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** In the manga, Kaede has sandy blonde hair, and Ayaka Yukihiro has golden blond hair.
*** Someone at one point says that Ayaka being good at English doesn't count, since she's only '[[But Not Too Foreign|half]]', a claim which offends her and she denies.
** Evangeline speculates in the manga that [[Half
** Ako has bluish white hair, and Chisame has either green or bright orange hair, depending on if it's the anime or manga.
* ''[[Samurai Seven]]'' has (mostly) plausible hair colors: browns and blacks. Then we get to redheaded Heihachi, blond Shichiroji and Kyuuzo, and Ukyo, who actually has blue hair.
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** "Expy"? Not really. {{spoiler|They're one and the same person.}}
** Except Bernkastel states herself that {{spoiler|she and Rika are ''not'' the same, and anyone who would think so is "silly".}}
*** "Reasonable" would be a matter of perspective, given that the cast already had the very [[Redheaded Hero|redheaded]] Battler and [[White
** Actually, Rena's mom has red hair too.
* In ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', most characters hover around the brown-black-auburn spectrum; however, Ryoko, Emiri, Yuki, and Tsuruya have varying colors of green, blue, and grey. {{spoiler|Tsuruya's hair colour may just be to throw us off as to her origin, since the other three are discovered to be [[Human Aliens]] before we learn Tsuruya's own secret.}}
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* ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' falls somewhere between Impossible and Plausible hair colors. Most of the characters are white, and any characters of Asian ancestry have black or dark brown hair. On the other hand, we have Harry, who has blue-green hair, and Gene, whose hair is a shade of red that you're very unlikely to find in the real world.
** Harry's hair is explainable: he's a bio-android like Melfina, a genetically engineered lifeform created using DNA samples taken from a dead human. And in a setting where that sort of thing is possible, and modifications of all sorts are quite common (so much so that neither Gene nor Jim is surprised when their bounty in the first episode is a cyborg, and Jim has to look up a specific model to figure out his vulnerable spot), if not cheap, then the possibility of DNA tweaking for aesthetic purposes comes up.
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' has realistic-looking characters, so the vast majority of them fall under plausible hair colors...except for green-haired Spike, purple-haired Faye, and [[White
** As far as Spike and Faye, they're more than likely black-haired with highlights/contrast shades added in.
* Almost no one has normal colored hair in ''[[Lucky Star (Anime)|Lucky Star]]''. It's lampshaded when Miyuki ([[Rose
** This is completely ignored and lampshaded further in the dub, where Konata comments that Miyuki is like her mother "down to the last pink hair."
** And, also in the dub, Misao (who actually has brown hair) calls Konata "Shorty McBlueHair" at one point when she asks if that's who wants to borrow the game Kagami is asking her to return.
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** Miki, Kozue, and Ruka all have different ''shades'' of blue hair (Ruka himself has two!), with Kanae's mother adding in yet another. Kanae herself, on the other hand, sometimes appears to have very bright green hair. Chigusa and the unnamed main character from the Sega Saturn game have cyan and magenta hair, respectively.
** The hair color is so they'll be properly color coordinated.
* ''[[Dirty Pair (Light Novel)|Dirty Pair]]'' fall into this: Kei is a [[Dark
* Only two of the major characters in '' [[Mai-HiME (Anime)|Mai-HiME]]'' have anything resembling normal hair colors for a show set in [[Middle of Nowhere Street|Middle of Nowhere Town]], Japan -- Yukino (brown) and Mikoto (black, with pigtails and [[Eyes of Gold]]). Naturally, there's also a blue-haired character in the mix, Miyu -- but {{spoiler|she's an android}}, so she [[Justified Trope|has an excuse]].
** Natsuki may also qualify as having "normal" hair -- it's dark blue in the anime, but the supplemental materials describe it as being black, so she most likely simply falls under "stylized black hair".
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*** There's also the Baroque Works navigator who took Bon Clay to Little Garden, but it's uncommon even on background characters. There are a few people with much darker shades of green too.
* Takedo, the boxer delinquent from ''[[Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple]]'', has blue hair.
* In ''[[Prétear]]'', secondary characters have brown hair, except for Himeno's step-sisters, who have blueish-green and pink hair. The main cast got hair of different levels of plausibility: brown with some red mixed in (Goh), orange (Hajime), [[Redheaded Hero|red]] (Himeno), blond (Shin), golden (Kei, who also has [[Dark
* Most of the ''[[Trigun]]'' characters have realistic hair colours, but Legato has blue hair ''and'' yellow eyes to underline his weirdness, and some of the "mutant" characters have green hair, among others.
* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' falls somewhere within impossible and implausible. A lot of the characters have odd hair colors (Ahiru's hair is somewhere in between pink and orange, Fakir's is a dark, dark shade of green), but Ahiru could possibly be a stylized redhead and Fakir could have stylized black hair. Mytho's hair is white, but that could be justified, given his magical origins. But then there's Ahiru's friend Pique, who has BRIGHT purple hair -- so bright it's hard to think of as stylized black hair -- and Autor, whose hair seems to change between shades of blue or purple depending on the scene. And then there's Edel and Uzura's light green hair...{{spoiler|but since they're really puppets, that might be justified as well.}}
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** Theres also Mao and the Chinese Federation Empress Tianzi, who have gray/silverish hair.
*** Tianzi appears to be [[Heroic Albino|albino]], complete with red eyes. Mao may be another example of albinism, as well. Possible, when you consider that, whenever his eyes are shown, they are always "geassed".
** Also, [[Hot Scientist]] from India Rakshata Chala, who falls under the category of [[Dark
** C.C. has green hair which is apparently natural.
* The anime series ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Future Captain Future]'', based on [[Sci Fi]] novels by science fiction writer Edmond Hamilton, created in Japan in 1978 and famous in Europe during the 1980s, featured at least one main character with blue hair and blue moustache (an older male character).
* Rokudo Mukuro of ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' actually does have blue hair, in a sort of "pineapple" hairstyle that has been made fun of extensively by the fans and the author. Chrome Dokuro, the girl Mukuro saves/{{spoiler|gives organs to}}/possesses/protects/etc. has purple hair in the same hairstyle. Semi-minor antagonist Nosaru also has purple hair. And at least three perfectly healthy, youthful characters have white hair (and one has gray).
* Minami Juuji of ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'' has inexplicable green-blue hair. Raikou's pink 'do is okay, since he obviously dyes it (though he, his sister, his mother, and Yukimi Kazuhiko and Kazuho are all natural Japanese blondes). Aizawa Kouichi and Kuro'okano Shijima both have pure white hair, but this is because {{spoiler|they're both immortal beings - humans fused with a snowy owl and a white cat, respectively.}}
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is rife with examples of [[Anime Hair]], since it's an over-the-top, hot-blooded middle finger to science. Heroes Simon and Kamina both have blue hair (though Simon's looks kinda black), Yoko has [[Heroes Want Redheads|brick red hair]] (as does Gimmy), Leeron's is aqua, Darry's is cotton-candy pink, Kittan's is blond ''and'' black, and Nia...just [[White
** Green-haired Dayakka and purple-haired Kiyah.
* Many of ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]'''s cast members have reasonably realistic hair colors, but Gintoki's silver hair (which somehow appears light blue) sticks out like a sore thumb; this is actually pointed out within the series itself. Then there's Sacchan and Otsuu's ''purple'' hair, and Kagura's bright red-orange 'do (though this may be slightly justified in that she's not human.)
* ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'' has Kurumu as a straight example, while Mizore's hair is violet, sometimes close to blue (both of them inherited their hair colors from their mothers), and Moka is both the [[Rose
* ''[[Gao Gai Gar]]'' is somewhat...inconsistent about this. A hair color is normal, or at least unworthy of comment, if it does not come from alien heritage. (Hyuuma ''could'' actually have green hair, but it's almost certainly dyed, if so. And Akane probably actually has black hair.) But, Kaidou with red hair apparently looks much stranger than Kaidou with mauve hair. And Kaidou with mauve hair and Hana with pink hair are just as plausible as nearly everybody else's normal hair.
* Max Jenius from ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]''. Or Mylene Jenius (blue + green=''pink?'' Who knew?). And ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' gives us Ranka Lee, with her green hair.
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* The girls in the ''[[Tenchi Muyo]]'' series all have odd hair colors except for Mihoshi, who is blonde. Ryoko has what appears to be a very light shade of teal hair, Washū has pink hair, Ayeka has dark purple hair, Sasami has a teal-blue shade of hair with it's brightness depending on the series (sometimes it looks like light blue-green and sometimes it looks a bit sky blue), and Kiyone has dark green hair, though it can look black at times.
** They're all aliens anyway, though.
** Washū also has red hair, not pink, so she goes under barely normal in that area. Mihoshi is a [[Dark
** Subversion of the escape clause: Aeka's purple hair is revealed in the manga to be dyed...it's actually the same light blue as her sister and mother.
*** Why is an alien bluenette dying her hair purple, you ask? To match her second mother's [Jurai royals practice polygamy] naturally purple hair! Said second mother is a full-blooded human from 13th century Japan, a fact which takes the escape clause, rips it into small bits, incinerates the bits with a flamethrower, and then urinates on the ashes.
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** Ranma-chan's hair is deep, black-highlighted [[Fiery Redhead|red]] in the [[Adaptation Dye Job|anime]], and has been portrayed in almost every color on the manga covers. It's noted in the anime that Kuno can't tell the difference between the red and black hair Ranma has in female and male forms, respectively.
* ''Psyren''. While in black & white the hair colors seem normal enough, but for the occasional colored section...
* Tamahome and Chichiri from ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' have blue hair of different shades (but the former's hair is often mistaken for green), while Nuriko, {{spoiler|his deceased little sister Kourin}}, and Empress Houki have purple hair. Chiriko's hair is a cross between brown and pink and the Nyan-Nyans have bubblegum blue hair. Tokaki, Subaru, and Tenkou have silver hair (this holds true for the former two even in youth), and Renhou and Miiru have silver-purple hair. Soi's hair is a shade of maroon, while Nakago is the only one who has blonde hair in the book world, and this is actually significant. The human forms of all the Beast Deities have hair in the [[Colour
* ''[[Shamanic Princess]]'': Lena's hair is green and Sara's is light purple.
* ''[[Hellsing]] Ultimate'': Rip Van Winkle has blue hair.
* The ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka De]]'' franchise is fond of this. Normally, if a character is blond (and has blue eyes), you can tell that said character is ''really'' blond and blue-eyed, which indicates that he either belongs to the Oni Clan if he is from [[Trapped in Another World|Kyou]] or is [[Phenotype Stereotype|not entirely of Japanese origin]]. The fact that the rest of the central cast makes up a nice rainbow when standing together (the anime adaptations enjoy the effect) doesn't bother anyone, and if you ignore certain characters who aren't quite human, it won't help anyway.
** Specifically, among said non-human characters are two green-haired [[Artificial Human]] [[Onmyodo|onmyoji]] and a [[White
* In ''[[Aria (Manga)|Aria]]'', most everyone has normal colored hair, except for some of the main characters; Akari's hair is pink, Alice has green hair, and Athena's hair is lavender.
* ''[[Wedding Peach (Manga)|Wedding Peach]]'' has quite a few, including the eponymous heroine.
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** Misato has dark purple hair, though that might be a case of [[Hair Color Dissonance]].
* ''[[Star Driver]]'' appears to use impossible or improbable hair colors to denote [[Nominal Importance]]: the hair of background characters and extras are varying shades of brown or black, while main characters have red, blonde, green, blue, purple, or pink hair.
* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', Sae and her anime-only sister have cobalt blue hair. Natsume has green hair. Yoshinoya-sensei and ''new'' first-year Nori have green/blue hair. The remaining characters, even the important ones, have regular hair colors. (For the nurse, see [[White
* ''[[The Legend of Sun Knight]]'': the Storm Knight ''must'' have blue hair, since the first one had blue hair. Every Storm Knight after him has had to apply blue hair dye every day as part of his role, and 8 out of every 10 has died from kidney failure due to too much hair dye.
* ''[[Black Cat (Manga)|Black Cat]]'' is pretty good about using normal hair colors for the most part, with a couple exceptions. Jenos' and Leon's dark green could be easily taken as stylized black, but Rinslet's bright purple and Sven's green stand out.
* ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]'' averts this trope a good deal, with the only notable exception being [[Action Girl|Allenby Beardsly]], who has sea-green hair. Apparently, in the future, the Swedish will all have this color of hair; one of her workers also has green hair.
* ''[[Slayers]]'' follows this trope with purple hair instead: there's [[
* Lampshaded in ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'': in the beach episode, a boy trying to get Suzu's attention explicitly calls her "kinpatsu" (blonde). No one else comments on her hair colour.
* The heroines of Studio Pierrot's [[Magical Girl]] series have these:
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