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Pages in category "Male characters in anime and manga" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 212 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Gackt, a Japanese singer-songwriter, is considered to be one of the living manifestations of the Bishōnen phenomenon. [1] [2]Bishōnen (美少年, IPA: [bʲiɕo̞ꜜːnẽ̞ɴ] ⓘ; also transliterated bishounen) is a Japanese term literally meaning "beautiful youth (boy)" and describes an aesthetic that can be found in disparate areas in East Asia: a young man of androgynous beauty.
A male 16-year-old bread artisan who dreams of making the perfect Japan. Initially, he doesn't seem very bright, but when it comes to bread he's a genius (He is knowledgeable about rice because of his grandfather, and Japanese food in general due to further learning and dealing with Japanese restaurants also it is found he is really good at math).
Tsukasa (司) is the protagonist of the .hack//Sign anime series. While his body is in a coma, his consciousness remains active in The World through his Wavemaster persona. His avatar is a young, silver-haired boy clad in gray robes. Morganna uses Tsukasa's negative emotions to poison Aura and prevent her awakening.
The cosplayer in yellow has a punch perm. A punch perm (パンチパーマ, panchi pāma) is a type of tightly permed male hairstyle in Japan. From the 1970s until the mid-1990s, it was popular among yakuza, chinpira (low-level criminals), bōsōzoku (motorcycle gang members), truck drivers, construction workers, and enka singers.
Japanese manga has developed a visual language or iconography for expressing emotion and other internal character states. This drawing style has also migrated into anime, as many manga are adapted into television shows and films and some of the well-known animation studios are founded by manga artists.
The chibi art style is part of the Japanese kawaii culture, [9] [10] [11] and is seen everywhere from advertising and subway signs to anime and manga. The style was popularized by franchises like Dragon Ball and SD Gundam in the 1980s. It is used as comic relief in anime and manga, giving additional emphasis to a character's emotional reaction.
Kiri Haimura is a seemingly ordinary boy with one slight problem: he is obsessed with cutting other people's hair. One day, he meets Iwai Mushanokōji, the "Hair Queen" (髪の女王, Kami no Joō) who cannot cut her hair because of an inherited curse. Kiri finds out that his scissors, "The Severing Crime Edge" is the only thing that can cut them.