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Both the VN and the anime stress that Michiru is a fake blonde.

Makina and Yumiko have natural hair colors...

But what about Amane and Sachi? I don't think there are too many natural
redheads in the native japanese population of the Kyoto region (where Amane's
parents are from), but I am almost sure no human is born with pink hair.

Is this just a case of "[anime
hair](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimeHair)", and we are
supposed to overlook these two hair colors (MST3k style), or is there
something else abou these characters?

What about hair color as a recurring element(as @senshin pointed) in other
shows?


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Michiru is a fake blonde, ok. But what about Sachi and Amane's hair colors?


In general blonde hair is thought to be foreign in Japan, Most foreign
characters/exchange students usually have stereotypically bright blue eyes and
blonde hair.

Young people who dye their hair blonde are generally attempts to be
'cool'/rebelious, and are often delinquents. For this reason it is somewhat
meaningful that a character has dyed their hair blonde, as it is a thing that
happens occasionally in Japan, whereas other colours are not so
daring/meaningful.

See [Why are many anime characters
blond?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4962/why-are-many-anime-
characters-blond/18580#18580)

As for the more 'obscure' shades of hair, pink and other hair colours were
originally introduced into anime as an easy way to distinguish characters
without adding much more detail.

I haven't watched le fruit de la grisaia, but I imagine that it's probably a
result of these two occurrences. I have seen Clannad however , and I can
confirm Sunohara's hair is dyed blonde as an attempt to be cool (however
misguided that attempt may be :P)


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