Anime Hair Color

[OtakuForLife]

But if I were an anime character, I'd probably want to have blue hair.

Luckily, I'm not though

the blue hair thing just sent me back into a strongbad email flashback

"I might be on-to something with that blue hair, very nice"

(Japanese cartoon)

[hopeful_monster]

Only question l have to ask is why is it always the girls that have the funky disco hair? Guys just seem to have either brown or black, maybve white if they are old or not quite human. Could only think of one guy with red hair, that Kenshin samuri guy.

[OtakuForLife]

What about the main-charcter from meloday of Obliviaion? Poor
guy has dark purple hair

[Kajino Rei]

hopeful_monster

Only question l have to ask is why is it always the girls that have the funky disco hair? Guys just seem to have either brown or black, maybve white if they are old or not quite human. Could only think of one guy with red hair, that Kenshin samuri guy.

What about Shindou Shuichi from Gravitation? His hair is PINK.

[Otohiko]

Nah, there's plenty of male characters with every sort of hair colour. You're just not looking hard enough.

Admittably though, as female hair design tends to be more bright and intricate (then again, take some long-haired guys...), it's more common for them to get the funkier hair colours

[TheKorovaMilkbar]

Gene Starwind, from Outlaw Star, has red hair. Also Harry McDougal (spelling ) has LIGHT BLUE hair.

[TheKorovaMilkbar]

This is a picture of Gene and Harry, in that order.




Harry's a guy even though he looks like a girl.

[pyro_256]

i always thought that the characters are very colorful because japanese people ALL have black hair and black eyes. i've never seen any symbolism in the characters' coloring.

[Arigatomina]

...i've never seen any symbolism in the characters' coloring.

What, never? You should watch shojo anime like Magic Knight Rayearth - the girls hair/eye color matches their individual powers (as well as their outfits) with the redhead being fire (having pink eyes), the blue-haired girl being water (having blue eyes) and the sandy haired girl (with bright green eyes) having wind/healing - her boyfriend is the opposite of her with green hair and gold eyes to make up for her hair not matching her outfit. ;p

That does work as symbolism, and I've seen it in lots of other places. Psychic Force has two main characters, one with blonde hair and odd red and black streaks in his hair - his 'talent' turns out to be fire (who'd have guessed with that red streak). The other boy's hair is pale blue and guess what - his 'talent' just so happens to be ice. Go figure. That seems to happen a lot if you look around. When it comes to 'elemental powers' having characters with matching hair color is typical. In games like Legend of Dragoon you get it to the max - the 'fire' guy's hair is orangy, the 'dark' girl's hair is black, the 'ice/water' girl's hair is pale blue, the 'light' girl's hair is blonde, the 'earth' guy's hair is brown - you just come to expect it since it's done so often.

[generalhs]

Green hair's a hard one to determine. Too many varied characters with green hair.

I don't think GREEN has any real symbolism behind it, though I've noticed a lot of green haired characters are either kind of down to earth or hotheaded.