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This Week in Anime - A Parade of Pink Anime Girls




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Jabootu



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 10:22 am Reply with quote
Per the column:

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I remember a Toonami bumper for Naruto calling out this trend in reference to Sakura, who was mine and a lot of people's introduction to pink-haired anime characters!


I mean...her name was Sakura.
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mdo7



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 10:37 am Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 10:47 am Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 11:23 am Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 11:35 am Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 12:34 pm Reply with quote
Three-four characters in the examples have purple hair; not pink hair
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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 12:58 pm Reply with quote
But I thought ya gotta have blue hair. Did Strong Bad lie to me? Laughing
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FilthyCasual



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 1:09 pm Reply with quote
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Pokémon is available to stream on various platforms. Naruto is available to stream on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, and Amazon. Gushing Over Magical Girls is available to stream on HIDIVE. Jujutsu Kaisen and Akudama Drive are available to stream on Crunchyroll and Hulu. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. and The Seven Deadly Sins are available to stream on Netflix. Future Diary, Soul Eater, SPY x FAMILY, Fairy Tail, and 100 GFs are available to stream on Crunchyroll. FLCL is available to stream on Amazon. The Jujutsu Kaisen manga is available to read on Viz/Shonen Jump App. Fire Emblem: Engage is available to play on Nintendo Switch.
How do these acknowledgements work? Do they only cover works that are available to stream?

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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