Forum - View topicThis Week in Anime - A Parade of Pink Anime Girls
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Jabootu
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Per the column:
I mean...her name was Sakura. |
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mdo7
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OK, that's quite interesting. But speaking of pink, there was a time when pink was once associated with boys, and blue was associated with girls, and there's historical evidence of that. Both Vox and PBS have video on this. I just thought people maybe interested in some historical tangent.
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Hellsoldier
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The fact that I recognize all examples must mean that I have some sort of fixation on pink-haired anime girls, and even the boys, it turns out. Jirou is an awesome protagonist.
Also, Lanzhu? I mean, speaking about Love Live for a bit, Ayumu has salmon pink hair. |
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The Cutest
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The character designer for Fire Emblem Engage designs V Tuber avatars
I also want to mention that One Piece also had a lot of pink haired characters |
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Cho_Desu
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My favorite pink-hair character design would be (Talentless) Nana. The floofy pigtails, bubblegum-pink with white tips... Very cute, and I assume specifically done so to make herself appear more harmless to her classmates. Even has flowers in her hair.
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tinyirnfist0
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Three-four characters in the examples have purple hair; not pink hair
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Top Gun
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But I thought ya gotta have blue hair. Did Strong Bad lie to me?
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FilthyCasual
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In terms of pinkheads not mentioned by the article, the Deviluke sisters from To Love Ru come to mind. Pink's long been slang for eroticism in Japan. |
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Joe Mello
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I'm just over here pourin one out for Washu...
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MiniMarps
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I've always had a great appreciation for the rare characters like Kiui, whose anime hair is actually canonically a dye job instead of just "in this world hair can be pink lol." (Especially in stories set in the real world.)
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Nate148
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Was hoping anon would be here and was not disappointed.
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Dumas1
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What, no mention of Haman Karn from Zeta and Double Zeta Gundam? Not entirely sure what pink hair meant for her, but she's a far cry from the cute and fluffy types the colour usually invokes.
At what point does pink hair turn into red? I feel it's somewhere between Nene Romanova's neon hair in Bubblegum Crisis and Kei from Dirty Pair. |
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Fluwm
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I think blue's still the most common color. As for pink... I think the first pink-haired anime-girl I ever saw was... Lacus Clyne, maybe?
In many cases (basically, depending on how grounded the show is) in those "real-world" settings, I tend to interpret the wild colors more as shades: red and blue can be seen as varying shades of black; pink can work as a stand-in for blonde. And I just sort of accept the colorfully-hued-hairs as stand-ins for natural colors that enable greater differentiation between characters. Like... they anime style is such an abstracted interpretation of reality, I've kinda grown to take the *colors* as equally abstracted representations of reality. |
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Shay Guy
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You know, I don't know when the association of magical girls with pink hair started. Pretty Cure didn't do it until Yes! 5, and it looks like pink-haired leaders have been far from universal ever since -- a lot of them wear pink, but blonde hair in magic form (a la Lucia Nanami) seems nearly as common as pink. Sailor Moon, of course, only had Chibiusa. Of Sailor Moon's foremothers, Minky Momo's the only pink-haired one I can think of, unless you count Cutie Honey. Nanoha Takamachi, Sakura Kinomoto, Corrector Yui, and Saint Tail all had brown hair; Pretty Sammy had blue. I don't know Rayearth well enough to say whether Hikaru fits the trend.
Maybe it was Ojamajo Doremi that solidified it as a thing? After that you have Tokyo Mew Mew, or the parody Puni Puni Poemy. I'm not sure how much of Doremi's staff moved on to its successors in the Toei/TV Asahi Sunday morning shojo slot, Ashita no Nadja and then Precure. |
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Hi-Chan
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Everyone's Favourite tsundre Louise From Zeros Familiar;and Miyuki from Lucky Star deserve mention.
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