What type of unnatural hair color do you like best?
| This topic along with this challenge from the AWC 2017 "Watch an anime with a main character that doesn't have a natural hair color - state the character; excludes black, brown, blonde, red, white and gray" got me thinking if there is any special charms of characters with unnatural hair. Looking at my favorite ones I noticed that they are all have "natural hair" by that standard. Even irl I don't mind people with these types of hair color but they generally don't strike me as apealling or charming. tl;dr(lol) I was wondering if any of you guys had liked a character not only for their personalities but for the peculiarity of their hair color. EDIT: Added new poll options. |
NeonoiaApr 3, 2017 7:44 AM
 "... Because when you live in this world of my closed eyes... ... Being alone is very lonely...". |
Lufwa said: tl;dr(lol) I was wondering if any of you guys had liked a character not only for their personalities but for the peculiarity of their hair color. NO. |
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| Hair color is a bonus; it will add to the appeal for the character, nothing more than that. |
Lufwa said: if by "liked" you mean "fapped to", then i discovered many touhou characters through hair color tags on tha boorutl;dr(lol) I was wondering if any of you guys had liked a character not only for their personalities but for the peculiarity of their hair color. |
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romagia said: Lufwa said: if by "liked" you mean "fapped to", then i discovered many touhou characters through hair color tags on tha boorutl;dr(lol) I was wondering if any of you guys had liked a character not only for their personalities but for the peculiarity of their hair color. I did not know this type of exploit was possible. Thank you for the insight. |
"... Because when you live in this world of my closed eyes... ... Being alone is very lonely...". |
| I like Harutora's differently coloured sideburns, if that counts. |
| Ehh purple maybe? Dunno, don't really care much tbh |
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| Hair color of a character doesn´t mean anything to me. I generally don´t care what type of hair color have people irl so yeah. |
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Brb said: I like Harutora's differently coloured sideburns, if that counts. I was considering adding multi-colored hair on the poll but I guess the "others" option should cover it. I do find differently colored hair quite unique as well. |
"... Because when you live in this world of my closed eyes... ... Being alone is very lonely...". |
| Well, I really, really like white/silver hair on younger characters, which white and silver is only really natural for elderly people. If that doesn't count then I'd probably say Pink is my favorite unnatural hair color Overall it's just kind of pretty and eye-catching, I guess. Stands out a lot more than a blond or black haired character, but I also feel like they're harder to pull off well and can be kind of meh if not done right. I guess to illustrate my point, I think Shiro's bluish-silver locks look absolutely stunning. In that same vein, Mine's hair, eyes, and clothes are all so overwhelmingly pink that it just doesn't work very well for me. Albeit I'm not as picky as to find her unattractive, she was the most attractive girl in that whole series ._. I think in her case its more of an issue of eye color I guess, but in turn that kind of makes the hair look less appealing So idk, I can't really put into words why I think this is the case, but it seems like it'd be harder for a character to pull off but when they pull it off well it's an incredibly appealing design |
ManabanApr 3, 2017 7:38 AM
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I don't really care for hair colour but Ive been told I must have a thing for pink because of my favourites list     |
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| Don't care about hair color, but for the sake of the thread, I prefer light blue and purple. Purple should definitely be up there. |
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No dual hair colors in the poll? Please~ |
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Yes, I understand your point that unnaturally colored hair designs are harder to pull off since from the start they don't seem to fit in in certain scenes unlike blonde/black which is common place. Shirou's hair is pretty cool. Yeah I did notice that the next seemingly common color from the natural ones are pink. Might be a coincidence but pink is pretty common in anime. My bad, I considered that there may be too many possible colors so I thought violet would be enough(well obviously violet!=purple), nevertheless, the "others" option is available. Edit: Okay, I added new options. |
"... Because when you live in this world of my closed eyes... ... Being alone is very lonely...". |
| Pink because of Madoka Kaname although I also like blue. |
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I have now added multi-colored hair options. |
"... Because when you live in this world of my closed eyes... ... Being alone is very lonely...". |
Hair color doesn't contribute to the likability and quality of a character for me, but speaking from an aesthetic perspective only I guess I'd have to say pink. Though natural hair colors are generally preferred, I really like the look of Utena's hair... I've seen some concept art where they play around with her hair color a bit, even messing around with a more natural blonde color (probably heralding back to the Rose of Versailles), but the pink really does look best! Also some JJBA characters like Trish, Hot Pants, Reimi, etc.  I do wish more character designers would use it with males though, it can look pretty cool.   |
ichiban_alexApr 3, 2017 7:53 AM
| Looking at my favorites, I prefer characters with natural hair colors. The only character I really adorable with an unnatural hair color is Senjougahara. I suppose if I had to pick a color, I would pick dark blue. It looks the closest to black, which is a natural color. |
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| this made me look at my faves list and i noticed most of them have either white hair or normal hair colors, i didnt notice that before. hm |
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| It all boils down to the shade and how the show is animated. Like, Rei doesn't really stand out as a "blue haired anime girl" because they went with a pale, "natural-looking" (somehow) shade of blue. Contrast to the blue haired girl in this:  which looks generic and stands out in a bad way. |
| My favorite hair colors in anime are pink and blue of course. |
KeiApr 3, 2017 8:23 AM
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| I don't really have any hair color preference towards a character, tbh. |
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| I choose "other" because my favorite unnatural colored hair is excluded Lol XD |
 I'm starting to get embarrassed by my own forum signature line.. XD |
| So you see this specific topic being made but you dont include white/grey/silver in the poll? Thats my answer btw, but I like many characters with other hair colors, the white haired ones just seem to be the best on average. |
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HamburgerSpike said: So you see this specific topic being made but you dont include white/grey/silver in the poll? Thats my answer btw, but I like many characters with other hair colors, the white haired ones just seem to be the best on average. I didn't include white/grey/silver due to my initial idea for this topic coming from a spceific statement but as @Manaban said earlier it is only natural for elderly people/some people with certain ailments. Meira_Eve said: I choose "other" because my favorite unnatural colored hair is excluded Lol XD Might I ask what it is? |
"... Because when you live in this world of my closed eyes... ... Being alone is very lonely...". |
| I don't find color only special to be honest. Hair length (or style) is more important than it's color. Though if I should choose, I will choose green over the other in the list. |
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| blue why? some great waifus have blue hair Rem megumi hinata miuna ... |
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(Dark) blue is the coolest unnatural hair colour for anime characters. |
pink because momo though in reality i hate dyed hair (unnatural colors). ugly and most of the time means that the person has some kind of mental disorder |
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| I don't care about the hair color, at least on a conscious level. Looking at my favorites, all but Motoko (purple) and Revy ("maroon") have/had normal hair colors. If I was to choose a hair color though....I dunno. I guess purple |
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| I have a thing for anime redhead girls, mostly because of the hair colors. (Not unnatural, but look at the shades.) Blue-haird girls and green-haired girls are also pleasant to look at. White looks good, black and brown can look good depending how well they fit on the overall character design, blondes are good. Pink is just pink. There are rare pink-haired girls why I like the hair color on the design. |
| Pink & Green for me, but I picked green because I like it overall for the design more. |
| Hair color makes anime characters visually appealing. I've also read somewhere that the hair color of an anime character can also have something to do with their personality at times |
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| Unnatural hair colors are great, and even before I started watching anime, weird hair colors was always something I associated with the genre. My favorites would have to be blue and pink, but natural hair colors aren't bad at all either. |
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| I do tend to find orange haired girls attractive for some reason. Dark Blue too sometimes (If my avatar counts as dark blue). The other haircolors from the poll I'm mostly indifferent about, but Pink is probably my least favorite. If I had to rank them it'd be Orange > Dark Blue > Green > Light Blue > Violet > Purple > Pink |
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Pullman said: Same here man.I do tend to find orange haired girls attractive for some reason. Dark Blue too sometimes (If my avatar counts as dark blue). The other haircolors from the poll I'm mostly indifferent about, but Pink is probably my least favorite. If I had to rank them it'd be Orange > Dark Blue > Green > Light Blue > Violet > Purple > Pink Orange is just beauty incarnate. But is Orange not a natural haircolor? |
dickteautwins said: It all boils down to the shade and how the show is animated. Like, Rei doesn't really stand out as a "blue haired anime girl" because they went with a pale, "natural-looking" (somehow) shade of blue. Contrast to the blue haired girl in this: which looks generic and stands out in a bad way. Really you pick Nadesico to say blue hair stands out? |
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| Blue cause it's my favorite color <----- And purple cause i found my Touka and mini-Touka |
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| Pink hair is so nice. I like purple too |
| ...I've had a thing for green hair ever since I created one of my original characters. XD One day I managed to find his exact doppelganger in Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 4 (which surprised me, tbh, I'd never seen him before)... and green hair looks so good on eyepatched boys. FFFF- http://www.zerochan.net/263555 I like normal hair colors a lot, too. XD Black and blond the most, white thanks to a single pair of brothers (Tomomori and Shirogane from Haruka 3). |
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| I don't mind characters having unnatural hair colors, it makes them stand out more. Though if I had to pick a favorite, it'd be dark blue or purple |
| Why didn't you include yellow? I mean, blonde isn't exactly yellow |
| Long black hair is still and will always be the best. |
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| Green > Blue > Pink > Brown > Purple > Black = Red > White > Blonde |
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Lufwa said: it's white XDMeira_Eve said: I choose "other" because my favorite unnatural colored hair is excluded Lol XD Might I ask what it is? My favorite is white, second is blue or red XD |
I'm starting to get embarrassed by my own forum signature line.. XD |
| I love green hair, and most of the green haired girls are cute imo... But one of my fav characters has orange hair, so... Why not orange? |
| Cuteness > Everything else Cuteness is Love, Cuteness is Life |
| Did someone say HAIR COLORS? dodolalalalalalalala! |
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