45 Cutest Loli Anime Characters (Ranked)

Lolicon is a wasei-eigo term and a portmanteau of “Lolita Complex” (from Lolita, the novel by Vladimir Nabokov), which designates the attraction towards young adolescent girls who do not have not yet completed their puberty (the lolitas), even the attraction towards little girls who have not yet reached it. “Loli” characterizes any representation of young girls or young girls, both photographic and drawn or filmed. “Lolicon” refers more specifically elsewhere than in Japan to artistic productions (manga, anime, video games, etc.) featuring females from a young age (around 7 years old) up to 17 years old. In this article, we are going to list the 45 cutest Loli anime characters of all time.

45. Rika Furude

Franchise: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

Friend of Satoko. She is revered as the heiress of the local shrine, and holds the role of a priestess in the annual festival of Watanagashi. Rika often appears to be nonchalant and childish, but is also sometimes surprisingly mature and possessing almost supernatural knowledge. Her father and mother died in strange ways.

44. Sayaka

Franchise: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Introduced as Madoka’s best friend, who, after helping her save Kyubey, is also given the option of becoming a Puella Magi. Being of a selfless and compassionate nature, she sees in the role of Puella Magi an opportunity to protect those she loves, having been inspired by Mami Tomoe. Now a Puella Magi, she fights with a sword. Her color is blue.

43. Saiko Yonebayashi

Franchise: Tokyo Ghoul

Third Class CCG Inspector Saiko Yonebayashi is part of the Quinques squad. She is the mascot of the team to whom she transmits her good humor. She spends most of her time in front of video games and manga, during her mission hours. After Uriah’s promotion, as a squad mentor following Sasaki’s departure, she becomes a squad leader.

42. Chino Kafu

Franchise: Is the Order a Rabbit?

Chino is the granddaughter of the owner of the Rabbit House. She is a calm and nice girl who slowly begins to accept and appreciate Cocoa, although she frequently gets annoyed with her for her insistence on being called “big sister”. Besides her father, she is the only one who knows the secret about Tippy and her grandfather. Her late mother was the one who created the Rabbit House uniforms.

41. Shinobu Oshino

Franchise: Monogatari

Shinobu is a girl who lives with Oshino in the abandoned building. She appears to be a ten-year-old girl, but was originally a beautiful and powerful vampire who had lived for over 500 years, named “Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade”. She would arrive in the city fleeing from some vampire hunters who wanted to kill her, being helped by Araragi whom she transformed for it and also by Meme who saw in the girl’s death an attack against the natural balance.

40. Goemon Hachisuka

Franchise: The Ambition of Oda Nobuna

Goemon Hachisuka is a young ninja girl. She was a student of Kinoshita Hideyoshi, and after his death, swore allegiance to Yoshiharu. She is the leader of a group of militia loyal to her and ready to die for her. She has a childish voice and occasionally stammers, which is why she doesn’t like long speeches.

Due to its small stature, it is a good spy and is able to quickly and quietly penetrate protected premises. She is able to stand up for herself in battle and has saved Yoshiharu’s life more than once due to her super-fast reflexes.

39. Yotsugi Ononoki

Franchise: Monogatari

Yotsugi is first introduced in Tsukihi Phoenix. She speaks in the first person always using the pronoun “boku” (which corresponds to the masculine “I”) and she treats Yozuru as a sister. She refers to the protagonist with “Oni-chan”, a pun between brother and demon.

38. Mayoi Hachikuji

Franchise: Monogatari

The protagonist of Caracol Mayoi. Mayoi is a fifth grade elementary school girl. She always carries a large backpack, a headband, and has her hair in ponytails. She died in a car accident while trying to get to her mother’s house, and since then she has become a spirit trying to get there, without success. She can only be seen by those who do not want to reach her destinations.

37. Takagi

Franchise: Teasing Master Takagi-san

Takagi is Nishikata’s friend and classmate, whom she frequently teases. Although Takagi is quite malicious towards Nishikata, she is also quite kind and caring towards other people, including him. She teases Nishikata on a daily basis by going one step ahead of him, thus demonstrating her cunning and resourcefulness.

However, everything is an excuse to get closer to him, since she is deeply in love, mixing jokes and indirect love phrases, and recognizing that she has a hard time being honest with what she feels. She also loves Nishikata’s reactions to these hints.

36. Komekko

Franchise: KonoSuba

Megumin’s energetic younger sister, the self-proclaimed “sweetest little sister of all the Scarlet Demons.” First fleetingly introduced into the story through the memories of her older sister, whom she seemed to frequently accompany, she still lives with their parents in their native village.

35. Alicia Rue

Franchise: Sword Art Online

She is the chief of the Cait Sith clan. Kirito saves her from an attack by the Salamanders during the negotiations between the Sylphs and the Cait Siths by facing and defeating their champion, Eugene, and funds their faction with all the money he raised in the game.

To thank him, she organizes a joint expedition with her friend Sakuya, the chief of the Sylph clan, to help her pass the “Great Quest” of ALfheim Online by reaching the inaccessible top of the World Tree, and save Asuna.

In the story of the movie Ordinal Scale, she is one of the players loyal to virtual reality games who appear in an online report on the decline in server traffic, and express their reluctance to play Ordinal Scale: she carries Eugene during her swagger. She participates with her friends and their allies in the final confrontation against the very powerful Boss of the 100^th Tier of New Aincrad.

34. Megumin

Franchise: KonoSuba

She is an Archmage who is a descendant of the Crimson Demon race; powerful humanoids who possess black hair and red eyes, in addition to bearing chūnibyō characteristics. A very dramatic 14-year-old girl who speaks the Japanese dialect in an old style and wears an eyepatch despite having two normal eyes. Like Darkness, despite being an Archmage, she can only use the “Explosion” spell.

33. Umaru Doma

Franchise: Himouto! Umaru-chan

She is the protagonist of the story, at school she is a perfect girl, kind, beautiful and very intelligent. However, she at her house completely changes into being a very annoying otaku slacker, mainly with her older brother Taihei, whom she always calls little brother. When she changes into this personality, her appearance becomes Chibi, usually wearing a hamster-patterned hooded coat, along with her red lycra shorts and white blouse. Due to her fanaticism for video games, she usually competes in Arcades.

32. Beatrice

Franchise: Re:Zero

A mysterious mage hired by Roswaal to keep her ancient magical books safe in her huge library. She is a short blonde woman and her pupils are light blue with pink butterflies and she is an expert in Yin Magic who teaches Subaru. She is an “Artificial Spirit” (something similar to an android or homunculus) created by Ekina in order to obey “that person” which turns out to be Subaru when he opens her heart to her, meanwhile she would remain loyal to Roswaal.

31. Izuna Hatsuse

Franchise: No Game No Life

Ambassador of the Warbeasts. She is 8 years old and possesses a rare ability for Warbeasts, Blood Destruction. Since she doesn’t know how to speak the Imanity language very well she says the particle of formality – desu – in all of her sentences. She faces Blank Space (『』) in a video game world, which is a reference to the video game Gal Gun.

30. Hakase Shinonome

Franchise: Nichijou

The Master girl, creator of Nano, is an 8-year-old genius girl who, despite her intellect, acts like a girl her age. She doesn’t attend school (apparently because she’s already graduated) so she spends the day playing games at home and pulling pranks on Sakamoto.

She continually makes “adjustments” to Nano when she is unaware of her, but she always refuses to take the key off her back on the grounds that she is cute. With light and long hair, her favorite animal is the shark and, although she never mentions it, it can be deduced that her last name is Shinonome.

29. Suika

Franchise: Dr.STONE

A village girl wearing a watermelon mask who ends up being one of Senku’s allies, since the boy is one of the few people who doesn’t consider it strange. The reason she wears her mask is because she focuses the light so that she can perceive it better, as she is very short-sighted. Knowing this, Senku makes glasses for her. She often offers her help to Senku by carrying out missions as a spy or explorer.

28. Chiyo Mihama

Franchise: Azumanga Daioh

A child prodigy, it is shown at the beginning of the series that Chiyo skipped five grades to get to tenth (first year of high school) and is still top of the class. Although she is extremely intelligent and responsible for her age (all the mornings she prepares her snack, or food and is in charge of waking up her parents in the morning), she still has the innocence, desires and fears of a girl.

But despite everything, she gets along with her classmates, who are older than her. In addition to being sweet, she is an extremely cute girl, and she is always the first to try to stop arguments between her friends. She is also very generous. Her only weakness is that she is bad at sports.

27. Kisa Soma

Franchise: Fruits Basket

Kisa is a withdrawn and really shy little girl. She sealed her voice one day, because she was tired of being insulted by the students in her class because of the color of her hair but also because of Akito, who hit her because Hiro, the sheep is in love with her and told Akito who took it badly. She was sent to the hospital for 2 weeks, which her relatives do not know.

26. Kawamoto Momo

Franchise: March Comes In like a Lion

The youngest of three sisters. A preschool student, she attends a daycare. Pure and innocent, she’s a little selfish at times. Her favorite anime character is Bodoro (based on Totoro from My Friend Totoro). She calls Rei “Rei-chan”.

25. Azusa Nakano

Franchise: K-On!

Azusa is a new student, one year below the others in high school, she is the second guitarist (support and cut guitarist) of the group and the last to join the club, a self-proclaimed rookie guitarist who has known how to play the guitar since fourth grade and whose parents work in a jazz band. Her instrument is a Fender Mustang MG69 / MH Color CAR which she calls ‘Muttan’.

She often finds herself baffled by tea and cosplay as well as other aspects and “customs” of the club, when she just wants to practice. She finds it curious that she can play so well despite the problems and little practice.

24. Kaede Kayano

Franchise: Assassination Classroom

She is a friend of Nagisa, one of the first he knew when entering the E class. are close to her heart (as in episode 2 of season 2 where she makes a huge trapped blank to try to assassinate Koro) She is very open and caring towards others but she hates women with big breasts and has a complex with hers.

Kaede will show great abilities throughout the story, including great perseverance regarding the assassination of the professor to whom she herself assigned the name “Koro-sensei”.

She hides a heavy secret, concerning her origins and her family, revealed three-quarters of the story: she is the little sister of Aguri Yukimura, the woman Koro loved when the latter was a prisoner in the laboratory. Akari Yukimura will believe (partly rightly) that her sister was killed by this tentacle monster named Koro.

23. Nagisa Shiota

Franchise: Assassination Classroom

Androgynous in appearance, Nagisa is a very intelligent student who tries to spot every weakness in Koro-sensei in order to find the best way to kill him. For this, he writes his observations in a notebook as the story progresses.

He is also one of the only students to have been close enough to kill him from the start of the series, using a “pseudo” suicide bombing and anti-sensei balls. During a mock assassination against Takaoka, his skills as an assassin come to the fore. Later, Koro-sensei, Lovro (Irina’s mentor), and Karasuma will find him a real gift for the assassination, which worries the latter.

22. Mirai Kuriyama

Franchise: Beyond the Boundary

She is a very shy girl who is educated in the same establishment as Akihito, she wants to end her life for some obscure reason. It turns out that, like Akihito, she also possesses a strange spiritual power.

Indeed, Mirai has the surprising ability to manipulate blood as he pleases, such as creating a blood sword, for example, a power that has been deemed particularly dangerous and harmful by the high authorities of the spirit world. Despite her ill will, she will gradually reject her decision for her feelings towards her friends and mainly Akihito.

21. Sugar

Franchise: One Piece

Sugar consumed the Hobi Hobi no Mi, a paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows her to transform people into toys, as well as erasing the victim’s memory from other people, as well as from the memory of other people who have been killed. transformed into toys. She used this ability to help Doflamingo take Dressrosa.

It is said that whoever eats this fruit stops growing once it acquires its abilities. She is also able to make a contract with her victims to control them, causing the victims to lose control over her body. This ability instantly transforms the victim into a toy, and combined with Sugar’s speed, it can transform a group of victims in a few seconds. She seems to be able to choose what kind of toy the target transforms into.

20. Sarada Uchiha

Franchise: Naruto

Sarada Uchiha is the daughter of Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno and is thus a member of the Uchiha clan. She was born in one of Orochimaru’s hideouts, as her mother accompanied her father on his journey for a while, with Karin helping with the delivery. For this reason, there is no birth certificate from Sarada, which caused doubts over and over again.

In the epilogue, she goes to the ninja academy. However, during the events of Boruto: Naruto the Movie, she is already a kunoichi. Unlike her teammate Boruto, she emulates Naruto and even wants to be Hokage one day. Sarada has inherited important traits from her parents: she is critical and disapproves of Boruto Uzumaki’s behavior, but is also discreet and withdrawn.

19. Ai Haibara (Child)

Franchise: Detective Conan

Her real name is Shiho Miyano, her code name is Sherry. She engineered the poison, APTX 4869, which Conan swallowed. When her sister Akemi Miyano died, she refused to continue her research and was imprisoned. She manages to escape by taking the poison and takes refuge with Professor Agasa, taking, with his help, the pseudonym of Ai Haibara. The organization was her only family with her sister, indeed, her parents died when she was little. Ai Haibara grew up in the United States with her sister.

18. Wendy Marvell

Franchise: Fairy Tail

Wendy Marvell was raised by Grandine, the sky dragon. However, her mentor dragon disappeared when Wendy was five years old. Wendy met a boy (Mystogan) who at the time called himself Jellal, who allowed her to travel with him for a month. For a while Mystogan heard about the Anima and decided that this mission would be too dangerous for Wendy, so he left her with the creator of Nirvana in an unconscious state.

When Wendy woke up, she asked the old man why she wasn’t in a guild like Jellal, so he decides to create the illusion of a guild called Cait Shelter. Wendy first appeared in the manga when the Fairy Tail, Blue Pegasus, Cait Sheilter, and Lamia Scale guilds gathered to defeat the dark guild Oracion Seis.

17. Konata Izumi

Franchise: Lucky☆Star

Konata, nicknamed by others as “Kona-Chan” or “Izumi-San”, is easily bored when something doesn’t interest her with blue hair and green eyes. She is cheerful, dramatic and energetic. She’s smart, but she hates studying even though she’s an expert at doing it “the night before the exam.” She hates being short but when she gets a chance she takes advantage of it. She mostly plays network role-playing games.

One of her main hobbies are Anime and Manga. She has been orphaned since she was a little girl. She has 2 cousins, who are Yui Narumi and Yutaka Kobayakawa; the first visits her often, and the second goes to live with her in the middle of the series.

16. Himawari Uzumaki

Franchise: Naruto

Himawari Uzumaki is a girl from Konohagakure and the daughter of Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuuga and the sister of Boruto Uzumaki. Like her older brother, she is equally a member of the Uzumaki clan and the Hyuuga clan. She does not attend Ninja Academy in the epilogue. Himawari is a kind-hearted and bright girl.

She is sensitive and curious, as she asks if Neji liked the sunflowers, and seems very fond of her older brother Boruto, wanting him by her side as she visits the cemetery with her mother. She seems mature and responsible for her age – helping her mother around the house and, unlike her brother, showing understanding and patience when her father is constantly absent.

Her loving side is shown when she gently nudges her father to wake him up on the day of his Hokage inauguration. However, she can also show other sides of herself, which testify to her temperament. She shows a rather intimidating, almost frightening side of herself if provoked enough. Here she resembles her paternal grandmother – even her older brother takes flight in such a situation and hides from her.

15. Kanna Kamui 

Franchise: Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid

Tohru’s friend from the dragon realm who was exiled from her world for playing too many pranks on other dragons and ended up living with Kobayashi as well. Although she is much older than she appears, she is very young by dragon standards, equivalent to an elementary school student at Oborozuka Elementary School, which she attends as a third grader with the last name of Kobayashi. She initially assumes that Kobayashi seduced Tohru into staying and wanted her to return to her original world.

14. Shiro

Franchise: No Game No Life

Sora’s younger sister. She is 11 years old, a born genius. Her name means white. Shiro is good at anything that involves calculation. You could say she specializes in in chess, since by means of calculations and the knowledge of all the possible moves she is able to choose the most appropriate moves to achieve her victory, although she usually feels frustrated when there is some difficulty. Besides, she is also good at tactical genre and FPS genre, unlike her brother, she is an orphan and was adopted by Sora’s parents (who are supposed to have passed away before the start of the story).

13. Eri

Franchise: My Hero Academia

Eri’s Quirk enables her to restore the body of a living individual to a previous state, allowing her to physically rejuvenate her target, heal wounds and reverse physical changes. It has even shown the ability to rewind a person’s body to a point before it exists.

The source of the power of their quirk is in the horn above her head, and the size of the horn determines the strength of her power. It’s also an accumulation-type Quirk, meaning that the energy it emits has to build up over a period of time before it can be used. Due to the mutation of her Quirk in her body, Eri’s blood is able to attack a person’s Quirk and stop its activation by reversing the target’s evolution before the point of the Quirk Phenomenon.

12. Misty

Franchise: Pokémon

She is part of the main group with Brock and Ash intermittently for the first five seasons. From season 6, she returns to the Cerulean Gym to lead it instead of her sisters, who cruise around the world. The young girl has decided to follow Ash until he reimburses her for his bicycle destroyed by Pikachu. But finally, she forgets this reason and decides to accompany Ash to Kanto, Johto, and the Orange Archipelago to perfect her learning to become a Master of Water-type Pokémon.

11. Hikari Yagami

Franchise: Digimon

She is Tai’s little sister, and will join the DigiDestined later in the series as she was unable to join the Digital World earlier, as she was ill when going to summer camp. She appreciates her brother very much and always worries about others. Kari received the symbol of Light; she seems to be the only one with psychic powers. She is 8 years old in the first season, and 11 years old in the second season.

10. Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck (Child Form)

Franchise: Bleach

Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck or Nell is the old Tercera Espada. She is a former Adjuchas. Her mask is at the level of her forehead and has a visible crack. Her hair is green and her eyes are brown. When she first appears, she has the appearance of a young child who becomes attached to Ichigo, whom she calls “Itsugo”.

In fact, Nell is a “young” woman with green hair, a big breast and red marks on her cheekbones on her face. Nell and his companions are exceptions among the Hollows: far from the image of ruthless bullies that most give, they appear loyal and sympathetic, with a rather childish personality and playful the majority of the time.

She was once the Espada no 3: two years earlier, Nnoitra (at the time no 8) ambushed her with the complicity of Szayelaporro Grantz, who broke her mask, forcing her to take her current form and striking. She was then thrown out of Las Noches with her Fracciónes, Pesche Gatiche and Dondochakka Willson, whom she takes for her brothers.

9. Yui

Franchise: Sword Art Online

Yui is not strictly speaking a player, but is actually an Aincrad control program intended for the psychological support of the players. At the launch of Sword Art Online however, the Cardinal Master Control program forbids her to come into contact with them, and she attends helplessly to the desperation of the players trapped in the game, to the point of collapsing herself.

However, after her attention shifts to two players who are different from the others, she eventually comes into contact with Kirito and Asuna while wandering in the forest near their 22^nd Landing home, having apparently lost her memory.

Due to her appearance and her little girl attitude, she designates herself Kirito and Asuna as her parents, which they accept by adopting her. She then steps in to aid Kirito in a deadly fight during a rescue mission, revealing his artificial intelligence nature that can intervene in the system and reviving his memory.

8. Emma

Franchise: The Promised Neverland

The central character of The Promised Neverland. She has extraordinary physical and learning abilities. She is one of three children achieving a perfect score (300 points) in the daily exams. Following the “adoption” of Conny, another child from the orphanage, Emma notices that the little girl has forgotten her stuffed bunny and decides to bring it to her before she leaves. Although it is forbidden, she will convince Norman to go to the place of his departure, beyond the portal of the orphanage. They then find out the truth.

7. Ram

Franchise: Re:Zero

A female oni with pink hair and eyes, and the older twin sister of Rem, she works with her as a servant at Roswaal mansion: however, she performs her chores and cooks less well than her sister, who is more competent and voluntary at work. She also has a colder and more distant personality than the latter.

Despite the prohibition of the existence of twins within their clan, the two sisters were exceptionally spared thanks to the talents of Ram, who revealed himself from an early age as a child prodigy: she, unfortunately, lost her powers after her horn had died. was cut off during an attack on their village by the Cult of the Witch, which weakened her and made her very dependent on her younger sister.

6. Mei Chang

Franchise: Fullmetal Alchemist

Mei Chang comes from Xing and is accompanied by Xiao Mei, a female panda, who has never been able to grow and has remained miniature, who seems to copy her every move. Just like Lin Yao, she is one of the heirs of the Emperor of Xing (seventeenth crown princess exactly). When she arrives in the town of Youswell, it is Kayal who finds her exhausted.

Mei Chang seems very young, but that does not prevent him from mastering elixirology (the alchemy of the country of Xing which is mainly specialized in medicine). She is in search of eternal youth and thinks that Edward, who has been described to her as a very “great” alchemist, can help her. So she goes looking for him, thinking that Ed is a kind of prince charming.

5. Rem

Franchise: Re:Zero

An oni with blue hair and eyes (an allusion to the famous Japanese tale), and the younger twin sister of Ram, she works with Ram as a servant at Roswaal Manor: she performs her chores and cooks much better than her sister, who is less competent and willing to work.

She also has a warmer and more friendly personality than the latter. Unlike her elder, she still has her horn, which allows her to retain all of her powers.

4. Anya Forger

Franchise: SPY×FAMILY

Anya is a very curious girl and she loves adventures. She is fascinated by the fact that Loid is a spy. Even so, since she is only a child, her long trips tire her quickly, she falls asleep after shopping and Loid has to carry her home. She is also very sensitive – when Loid considers trading her for another baby, she bursts into tears.

She is not extremely bright, for example she wants to buy a thing that costs one dal for ten pents, and she has poor results in exams, but her mind-reading ability sometimes makes her seem more intelligent than she really is. He also does not think about the consequences of his actions, for example, he does not realize that playing with Loid’s spy devices can be dangerous.

3. Victorique de Blois

Franchise: Gosick

Because she has blood from Seyrun or the people of the gray wolves, the Marquis of Blois, her father, decided to isolate her in the depths of his mansion so that one day he could use the brilliant minds that the people born there have. When she reached a certain age, she was allowed to stay at Academia Santa Margarita, on the condition that she does not leave the campus unless her father or brother allowed it.

She spends her days in the upper part of the library, which is also a greenhouse; there, Kazuya always finds her reading difficult books and/or in other languages. In addition to her sharp tongue, utter frankness, and eccentric attitude of hers; Victorique also possesses incredible detective skills. According to Grevil of Blois, Kazuya is the first person Victorique is willing to solve police cases for without expecting anything in return (or doing it just for candy).

2. Yachiru Kusajishi

Franchise: Bleach

Yachiru Kusajishi is a child with pink hair. She was taken in by Zaraki during one of his massacres. Like Kenpachi, she doesn’t seem to have had to take an exam to become a lieutenant. She does not carry her sword at the waist but on the shoulder so as not to be embarrassed when she runs.

Despite her age, Yachiru is very strong (she manages to lift Kenpachi) and runs fast, which does not prevent her from hanging onto Kenpachi’s shoulder very often. Kompeito, little star-shaped candies, are his favorite dish.

She has a habit of giving silly nicknames to those she meets: “Keni” for Kenpachi, “Ichi” for Ichigo, “Egg skull” for Ikkaku, “Makimaki” for Aramaki, “Grandpa” for the captain- General Yamamoto, the “Mummy” for Ganju when he was covered in bandages, “the Nunuche” and “Big boobs” for Orihime, “the Giant” for Chad and “Crayon Head” for Ishida.

1. Nezuko Kamado

Franchise: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

Nezuko was a very kind, caring older sister who thought of others first when she was still a human being. However, like the Demon, Nezuko seems to have forgotten much of her memories of man, other than those related to her family. She is still very caring and protective of the people she considers her family members. However, this is mainly due to Sakonji Urokodaki’s influence on her when she slept for two years.

Nezuko also retains some of her human emotions, as she cries when she is sad and smiles when she is happy, but overall she looks devoid of emotion compared to a human. She is still much calmer and less evil than most demons. Ever since she became a demon, Nezuko doesn’t seem to be afraid to fight: she fiercely supports her brother and allies in battle.