✨Anime with Brown, Tanned or Darker Skinned Women! ✨
Anime
For brown girls desperate for a lil representation… 🥲
TV, 2015,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:8
Alex is a kind and maternal character with a beautiful singing voice! She’s introduced as prostitute, a victim of sex trafficking, before working with the two protagonists. She has a cute relationship— especially with Nicolas 💕!
Michiko to Hatchin
Michiko & Hatchin
TV, 2008,
22 eps
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Author:8
Michiko is one of the most mesmerising characters I’ve ever seen— she’s a cool, independent and revenge-driven convict. She’s presumably Afro-Latina, as the story is set in South America.
Absolutely earth shattering series that made me cry. Amazing media at the cost of my sanity.
Absolutely earth shattering series that made me cry. Amazing media at the cost of my sanity.
Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san
Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro
TV, 2021,
12 eps
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Author:9
Nagatoro is a first-year high school student who is, frankly, just an ass. She teases and bullies some guy (Naoto) and he likes it…? And SHE likes it…?
Incredibly slay. Love the series.
Incredibly slay. Love the series.
Peach Girl
Peach Girl: Super Pop Love Hurricane
TV, 2005,
25 eps
Me:-
Author:8
Momo is a high school student with tan skin and bleached hair as a result of her swimming(?). This acts as the cornerstone of a lot of conflict in the series. This drama series has allowed me to experience unexplored heights of anger, but it’s fun and addictive!
TV, 2020,
23 eps
Me:-
Author:8
Abigail is an iraqi, beautiful and taciturn grifter. The second-in-command of Team Confidence (a group of con-artists).
This is a fun series that offers a plethora of diversity and heists!
This is a fun series that offers a plethora of diversity and heists!
TV, 2019,
24 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Carole is a talented black woman who forms a lovely friendship (or more… 😉) with her band partner, Tuesday. The two strive to make it big from nothing!
This series is set in the future- the cityscape they live in being on Mars itself. Despite this, the series is very familiar, relatable and touching.
This series is set in the future- the cityscape they live in being on Mars itself. Despite this, the series is very familiar, relatable and touching.
Kono Healer, Mendokusai
Don't Hurt Me, My Healer!
TV, 2022,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:6
Karla is an amazing healer(?) and bully! She is an eccentric and dead-pan dark elf with a penchant for being a menace.
This series feels like a fantasy, slice of life, comedy. It explores the adventures of Karla and Alvin in their ambitious quest to hone is (nonexistent) battle skills!
This series feels like a fantasy, slice of life, comedy. It explores the adventures of Karla and Alvin in their ambitious quest to hone is (nonexistent) battle skills!
Saikin Yatotta Maid ga Ayashii
The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious
TV, 2022,
11 eps
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Author:7
Lilith a beautiful maid who is suspiciously perfect. A mysterious master of charm, wit, cooking and cleaning. Weirdest of all, she works as a maid for free. The young protagonist, Yuuri, lives in his family mansion with the maid and tries to decipher her (probably evil) intentions.
This initially feels like an uncomfortable ‘romance’, but as I watched it I realised it was an adorable, pure and enjoyable slice of life.
This initially feels like an uncomfortable ‘romance’, but as I watched it I realised it was an adorable, pure and enjoyable slice of life.
Juuni Kokuki
The Twelve Kingdoms
TV, 2002,
45 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Youko is a high school honour student thrown into a strange new land, forced to fend for herself.
Ok so technically she TURNS brown when transported into a beautiful fantasy realm. Honestly a series that makes me quite nostalgic despite never watching it as a kid. It has lovely world building that I’m very fond of!
Ok so technically she TURNS brown when transported into a beautiful fantasy realm. Honestly a series that makes me quite nostalgic despite never watching it as a kid. It has lovely world building that I’m very fond of!
Deji Meets Girl
"Deji" Meets Girl
TV, 2021,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:9
Tells the story of Maise in her family’s hotel and some mysterious guests… Gruesomely short episodes, but the art is so cute!
TV, 2007,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:8
The lovely Kayo only appears from episode 3, but the art style is lovely and refreshingly unique!
Goukon ni Ittara Onna ga Inakatta Hanashi
How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer
TV, 2024,
12 eps
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Author:6
Kohaku is such a cute woman! She often cross-dresses alongside her two friends that work at a women-only-staff drag bar.
Fushigi no Umi no Nadia
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
TV, 1990,
39 eps
Me:-
Author:8
Absolutely feral with nostalgia over the plot.
Nadia- the main character- is (likely) from africa. She’s a lovely, albeit hot-headed and stubborn young girl with a growing love for a smitten boy, Jean.
The duo chart a heroic adventure around the world!
Nadia- the main character- is (likely) from africa. She’s a lovely, albeit hot-headed and stubborn young girl with a growing love for a smitten boy, Jean.
The duo chart a heroic adventure around the world!
TV, 2024,
13 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Sci-fi action isn’t my jam, but…
Quite a diverse group of characters- most notably the human Naomi who is a cute genius, often spying and communicating through her technological creations.
Quite a diverse group of characters- most notably the human Naomi who is a cute genius, often spying and communicating through her technological creations.
TV, 2009,
13 eps
Me:-
Author:7
Both the protagonist “Canaan” and antagonist “Alshaya” are sisters from the Middle East! Bonus points for Maria’s incredible gayness.
BNA
BNA: Brand New Animal
TV, 2020,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:9
This absolutely doesn’t count— I think she just has brown fur (when she was human she was white???), but it’s easy for me to delude myself into thinking she counts as a brown skinned girl.
Wonder Egg Priority: Watashi no Priority
Wonder Egg Priority: My Priority
TV Special, 2021,
1 ep
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Author:-
Neiru is some spooky lil science baby. She’s intelligent and reserved, but also incredibly loyal to what few friends she can make 🫡
Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru
Reign of the Seven Spellblades
TV, 2023,
15 eps
Me:-
Author:4
Kinda boring! Michela is one of the main characters that are more mature, apparently she has some romantic feelings for Oliver(?)
Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra
Armed Librarians: The Book of Bantorra
TV, 2009,
27 eps
Me:-
Author:5
Don’t have the brainpower to understand the exposition, but she’s pretty and that’s what matters. 👍🏽
Sirius
Sirius the Jaeger
TV, 2018,
12 eps
Me:-
Author:6
Dorothea is a beautiful brown woman, part of the main cast, and married to Fallon!
Dekoboko Majo no Oyako Jijou
The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch
TV, 2023,
12 eps
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Author:-
She’s so pretty! Also weird energy bordering on incestuous but I’ve decided to be incredibly ignorant of it, thanks.
Fumetsu no Anata e
To Your Eternity
TV, 2021,
20 eps
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Author:-
Tonari Dalton is a young girl encountered in the immortal, Fushi’s, life!
Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai!
The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!
TV, 2021,
20 eps
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Unsure how I feel about her depiction as a child—! But she is an interesting, hot headed and prideful woman(or girl)????
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
TV, 2007,
12 eps
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Tarou/Maria seems to be a wild young immigrant with an “impoverished appearance” that I’m praying to god isn’t the butt of a joke.
TV, 2014,
25 eps
Me:-
Author:4
Unfortunately too boring for me, but our brown FL is the main love interest of the bland ML!
OVA, 1994,
1 ep
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Author:-
Hilariously poor reviews, but several brown woman— so I’m willing to power through!
Kujira no Kora wa Sajou ni Utau
Children of the Whales
TV, 2017,
12 eps
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Author:-
There appear to be several dark/tanned characters which act integral to the plot!
Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hougen Sugite Tsurasugiru
Okitsura: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Know What She's Saying
TV, 2025,
12 eps
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