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Generally speaking, hairstyle in anime represent the character personality,
like short hair girl should become tomboyish or ponytail make a girl seems
sporty, etc. But what about the others? Like long straight hair, or idiot
hair, twintail, etc.

What is common hair style for girls and guys in anime and what are the
character represent?

**ADD** There's a really fine blog about [anime hair
colors](http://annesanimeblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/anime-hair-colors-what-
do-they-mean-an-all-in-one-personality-guide/) here thanks to @user1306322
comment below, I want an answer like that, but it's about hair style


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Is there any relation between hair style and character's personalities?


Absolutely there is, when speaking generally, though this is not utilized in
every single anime. The easiest way to familiarize yourself with the standard
hair/personality types is to look at unapologetically harem (bishoujo) and
reverse-harem (bishounen) anime and video games, because they heighten the
main stereotypes with the aim of every viewer/player finding at least one type
that is their ideal girl/guy. However, older anime from the 80s and earlier
have a fairly different (though not completely different) set of standard
types than more modern anime do.

For bishoujo, check out: ToHeart, Ai Yori Aoshi, Love Hina‎, Tokimeki
Memorial, Kakyuusei, Debut, etc. For bishounen, check out: Fruits Basket,
Fushigi Yuugi, Haruka naru Toki no Naka de, Hakuouki ~Shinsengumi Kitan ~,
Ouran Koukou Hosuto-bu, La Corda D'oro, Uta no Prince-sama: Maji Love 1000%,
Starry Sky, Brothers Conflict, Free!!, Kamigami no Asobi, etc. You will
recognize the same basic character/hair types repeated amongst these series.
For 80s and older anime, check out: anything by Tezuka Osamu, Versailles no
Bara, Glass no Kamen, Ace wo Nerae, Attack No. 1!, Ashita no Joe, Kagaku
Ninjatai Gatchaman, Ginga Tetsudou 999, Candy Candy, early Gundam and Macross,
etc. Recent moe series have recurring types as well.


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Yes, there can be some common traits that similarly haired characters share.
Of course this is not a definitive guide to a character's personality and
there will be many counterexamples.

Here are a couple of hairstyles and their common personalities:

**Short hair** is often seen on tomboys or alternativly 'average' characters.
This is presumably so that they seem boyish or have a hairstyle that is not
very exciting.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vDdgqs.jpg) ![enter
image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OgH7Ts.jpg) ![enter image
description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fbGZls.png) ![enter image
description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zlihos.jpg)

  * Kanbaru Sugura , Monogatari Series - a sporty fujioshi who is perhaps more boyish than the main , male, lead

  * Ranmaru Rindou, Binbougami ga! - a female delinquent who was brought up in a dojo like a male

  * Yuki Nagato , The Melancholy off Haruhi Suzimiya - emotionless

  * Kumin Tsuyuri - Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! - a member of the club who naps a lot.. And not much else

**Twintails** are often childlike or are childhood friends, this is because
twintails are uncommon among older women, but more popular with young girls
and society has associated the two:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ndmRCs.jpg) ![enter
image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/V2jQqs.jpg) ![enter image
description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bJqWZs.jpg)

  * Lingyin Huang - Infinite Stratos, a childish childhood friend

  * Azusa Nakano - K-on! , a new (childish) member of the light music club

  * Yuno Gasai, Future diary, a childhood friend of the main character with simple motivations.

**Drill hair** is usually a sign that a character is either wealthy or
refined. This is probably because rich characters tend to be braggarts.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t5om2s.png) ![enter
image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wQNTas.jpg) ![enter image
description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7wb9Xs.jpg) ![enter image
description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kR1Vds.jpg)

  * Selnia Iori Flameheart - ladies vs butlers - from a rich family

  * Mami Tomoe - Puella Madoka Magi Magicka - an experienced magical girl with refined taste

  * Akira Kogami - Lucky Star - drills?

  * Celestia Ludenberg - Dangan Ronpa - from a prestigious family

And let's not forget the dudes. If you see this delinquent hairstyle, you can
almost certainly categorise that character:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2c5zWs.png) ![enter
image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XIuXps.jpg) ![enter image
description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/D5MqNs.jpg)

  * Mondo Owada - Dangan Ronpa, Member of a biker gang

  * Kazu, Redline - a rebel race driver

  * Eikichi Onizuka, Shonan Junai Gumi 

I could go on and on, There are quite a number of examples [including the
somewhat well-known hair antennae linked
earlier](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5650/what-is-this-
hairstyle-called)

But I think this should answer your question - Yes there can be a relationship
between a character and their hairstyle, but its not a solid rule.

Also you should bear in mind that hairstyle trends will have changed
throughout time - what was once _in_ is now _out_ and visa versa.

You don't see many girls like this in anime today:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1n4Mcm.jpg)

Amano Ai - Video Girl Ai -


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