20 Most Popular Pink-Haired Anime Characters (Ranked)
As far as anime is concerned, pink-haired anime characters are usually female and pink hair is almost exclusive to them, although things have been changing in recent years. Pink-haired characters were either the female protagonists of a show, or the love interests of the male protagonist, but that role has since evolved to become more complex.
In this article, we are going to bring a list of the 20 best pink-haired anime characters that we know of. We’ll be using different sources to rank them based on their popularity and the general level of awesomeness they represent. The list is going to be pretty diverse, including various characters from various franchises and genres.
Best Pink-Haired Anime Characters
20. Szayelaporro Granz
Franchise: Bleach
Szayelaporro Grantz is the Octava Espada. He is a former Adjuchas. It owns numerous fractions. His Espada theme is madness. Szayelaporro is the Espada scientist. He has the same mentality as the captain of the 12th division: a deep contempt for his Fracciónes, proven sadism, unfair fighting techniques, a certain arrogance, all his objectives justified by a scientific goal.
Also, he thinks that his goal as a scientist is to create perfection, this will clashes with that of Mayuri who affirms that perfection is not a good thing for science. Their duel will prove that. Physically, Szayelaporro is a man of average height with short, pink hair.
His mask seems to be his pair of glasses, which disappear during his Resureccion and it seems that his characteristic hole of the hollows is at the level of his genitals.
19. Hisoka Morow
Franchise: Hunter × Hunter
Hisoka Morrow is one of the heroes’ antagonists, especially Killua and Gon, and a staple character in Hunter X Hunter. Mysterious, liar, cunning, and provocative. Considering himself a “hunter”, he is as good at fighting as he is at deception. Always in search of his interests and pleasures, he knows how to be daring and tenacious to the point of endangering his life.
Hisoka constantly monitors Killua and Gon and threatens the death of Netero, the leader of the Hunters. His relationship with the other characters is difficult to pin down, apart from links of common interest (with the Phantom Squad or Irumi Zoldik). He bonds with Killua and Gon, allying regularly with them, knowing that he will have to assassinate them someday.
18. Rika Shinozaki / Lisbeth
Franchise: Sword Art Online
Rika, also known as Lisbeth in Sword Art Online, is a great blacksmith who makes extremely rare weapons. She is also a fairly skilled player who fights with the help of the masses and gets very close to Silica.
Asuna is one of her friends. Unknowingly recommended by the latter, she meets Kirito when he decides to go to his shop on the 48th level, in order to have a new sword forged: their first meeting makes a bad impression on him when he questions the solidity of the weapon she offers him, and which he involuntarily breaks while trying to test it with his own.
Feeling challenged, she accompanies him in order to obtain very rare metal, essential for the creation of this new weapon, in a snowy and particularly cold place of the 55th level: by her own inconsistency, they all meet two temporarily trapped in the nest of a Dungeon Boss (X’rphan the White Wyrm) and spend the night there together, until Kirito (who has found what they were looking for in the nest) pulls them out using the Dragon Boss.
17. Nonon Jakuzure
Franchise: Kill la Kill
One of the members of the Council of Four and the President of the Cultural Section of the Honnōji Academy. Jakuzure takes care of the school’s non-sports clubs, such as gardening or biology.
She has known Satsuki since kindergarten and boasts that she knows everything about him better than anyone among the Council of Four. His three-star Goku uniform is the Symphony Regalia which takes the form of a giant PA that produces powerful sound waves and can transform into an airship.
16. Gilthunder
Franchise: Seven Deadly Sins
A Holy Knight whose power makes him capable of manipulating thunder and lightning. He is the son of the former Holy High Knight Zaratras, who was killed during the alleged revolt of the Seven Deadly Sins.
He is a childhood friend of Elizabeth and Meliodas, and has always been in love with Princess Margaret, for whom he does everything he can to protect her. When he was younger, he admired the Seven deadly sins and wanted to be just like them, but after believing that the Seven Deadly Sins were responsible for his father’s death, he decided to take revenge, becoming an emotionless man who doesn’t care who he does. of evil.
In reality, he is the victim of a curse inflicted on him by one of Merlin’s disciples but still manages to have enough self-control to make Meliodas understand that he is being manipulated.
15. Nurse Joy
Franchise: Pokémon
Joy is the first name of all the nurses, who also look identical, of the Pokémon Centers. They generally have a Chansey (sometimes a Blissey), a Wigglytuff, or a an Audino in Kalos in order to heal Pokémon. Brock generally falls in love with them.
14. Inori Yuzuriha
Franchise: Guilty Crown
Singer of the EGOIST group, she is in fact a member of another group. Wounded during an operation to deliver the Void Genome to Gai, she donated it to Ouma. We find out later that she spends the night 2 or 3 times a month with Gai.
Its Void is a sword, which allows its user to create protective barriers against any attack targeting it and platforms by using it as a staircase. We later discover that she is a receptacle created for the purpose of receiving Eve’s soul (Mana Ouma) and resuscitating her during the said Fourth Apocalypse.
She would then bind to the Adam of her choice and spread the Apocalypse virus around the world to create a new human species. But this project fails because Gai and Shū prevent the programming of the Apocalypse Virus. While Shū will be the new president of the quorum, she will support and support him, believing in him despite everything.
13. Melascula
Franchise: Seven Deadly Sins
The commandment of Faith and original member of the clan before being sealed and the betrayal of Meliodas. She specializes in all kinds of dark spells, her most characteristic ability being that of bringing back the souls of all individuals who have passed away using the repentance of the deceased as her motivation.
She, in appearance, is similar to a young girl surrounded by a strange dark aura but her true appearance is that of a viper that shrinks in physical size as she loses magical miasma.
She participated in the first holy war where she was mentally manipulated by Gowther to free her creator from the prison of the underworld, years later she would be sealed along with the rest of her companions by the clan of goddesses for more than 3000 years.
12. Mei Hatsume
Franchise: My Hero Academia
A weird 1-H student from the support department. She loves creating gadgets of all kinds and takes part in the Festival for the sole purpose of attracting the attention of companies to her creations.
Under Powerloader’s supervision, she spends a lot of time in Yuei’s workshop inventing ever-new gadgets, some also designed to perfect the Quirks of the guys on the Hero course. Her Quirk Zoom allows her to see up to 5 kilometers away.
11. Moka Akashiya
Franchise: Rosario + Vampire
She is a vampire but her powers and her other personality are only revealed when Tsukune takes away his rosary. The two remained very good friends even when Moka found out he was a human. Indeed, Moka hates humans because she was forced to go to human schools (until college) where she was sidelined.
Plus, she felt weird that humans didn’t believe vampires existed. She is allergic to pure water (like all vampires in the manga) so she mixes herbs with the water she drinks. By force of circumstance, she cannot swim in a swimming pool either.
10. Mina Ashido
Franchise: My Hero Academia
She is a girl who is characterized by having pink skin and hair, horns, and black eyeballs with yellow irises. She is very cheerful and festive. She can secrete corrosive acid from her body. Apart from being very cheerful, she is also obsessed with dancing.
9. Yuri Nakamura
Franchise: Angel Beats!
Yuri has a determined personality and invites Otonashi to join the SSS, an organization she founded fighting against God. She directs operations on the battlefront with an iron fist. She uses a Beretta 92, but also does well in melee.
We later learn that her two sisters and her younger brother were killed in a burglary that went wrong and that she feels guilty. While her parents were away, burglars reportedly entered her house as she lived with a wealthy family and asked her to bring her something of value every 10 minutes or else they would kill a member of her family.
Yuri finds a vase but she accidentally breaks it. 30 minutes later, the police arrive but Yuri is the only survivor.
8. Uranai Baba
Franchise: Dragon Ball
Uranai Baba is the sister of Master Roshi. She is an old witch who acts as a relay between King Enma and Earth, and who is able to read into the future using her crystal ball. His real name and age are unknown but we can estimate the latter to be over 500 years old.
Endowed with a bad temper, especially at the beginning of the series, she moves by levitating on her crystal ball. She asks astronomical sums of those who need her help (for example to find a lost object), and forces those who cannot pay to face her minions to have access to her services for free.
The young Son Goku, helped by his friends, manages to beat them which allows him to find the Dragon Ball that he lacked.
7. Gowther
Franchise: Seven Deadly Sins
Gowther is the Sin of Lust of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gowther was revealed to be a puppet created by Gowther of Selflessness, serving as his “father” intermediary to other members of the Ten Commandments. His Sacred Treasure is the Herritt Double Arc, which he uses in conjunction with his Magic, Invasion, and Lost World Abilities.
6. Yuno Gasai
Franchise: Future Diary
Yuno Gasai, known as “the Second” is Yukiteru’s classmate; an excellent pupil, and supposedly fiancée of Yukiteru, she does everything to protect him, even at the cost of her life, following him throughout the game. She wishes Yukiteru to win, but does not know how to control his reactions and hides heavy secrets.
Her Mirai Nikki, the “Diary of Love” is a cell phone that provides her with information about Yukiteru’s future ten minutes in advance.
5. 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.
4. Natsu Dragneel
Franchise: Fairy Tail
Natsu Dragneel, also called “The Salamander” is a member of the Fairy Tail guild, he is a fire mage suffering from motion sickness. He uses a forgotten magic that makes him a dragon slayer (or Dragon Slayer). As a teenager, it is an orphan in search of his adopted father, a then extinct dragon named Ignir, who taught Natsu the magic of the fire dragon hunter.
Magic that allows him to fight against evil in the company of his friends and some of his former enemies who have become his allies such as Sting Youclif or Jellal Fernandez. Carefree and fiery in character, he is shown to be fiery and constantly ready to get into a fight with someone.
3. 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.
2. Sakura Haruno
Franchise: Naruto
Sakura Haruno, whose current name is Sakura Uchiha, is a Jōnin from Konohagakure, she was the female member of Team 7. Kishimoto created her as the heroine of the series, although she admitted that little perception of what an ideal heroine should be.
As a child, Sakura was teased by other children due to her long forehead, a characteristic that Kishimoto has tried to emphasize in Sakura’s appearances. She was comforted and defended by Ino Yamanaka for teasing, as the two grew older, however, they became distant due to the affection they felt for Sasuke.
For most of the first part, Sakura has a crush on Sasuke, and despises Naruto Uzumaki.
1. Lucy
Franchise: Elfen Lied
Kaede / Lucy / Nyu is a young diclonius of around 17 with dark pink hair and dark pink eyes who is tall and thin who was abandoned in an orphanage when she was born. During these first years of life, she did not exhibit the homicidal tendency characteristic of her species.
But, after being subjected to various traumas during her childhood, her murderous instinct was unleashed and she became sadistic and cruel. She was captured and then locked up in research facilities located near the coast of Kamakura.
Several years later, she managed to escape, but during her flight, she suffered a head injury and developed a split personality, Nyu. Nyu is childish, innocent, gentle, and harmless. At first, she doesn’t know what to say “Nyu”, but she gradually acquires the language and manages to say Kōta’s name.
