This is a list of characters in animation that either self-identify as bisexual or have been identified by outside parties to be bisexual. Listed characters are either recurring characters, cameos, guest stars, or one-off characters. For the purpose of this article, anime are considered any animations created in Japan and does not include any anime-influenced animation in the United States, Europe, parts of Asia, and elsewhere in the world. Also see the corresponding lists of lesbian and gay characters.
For information about fictional characters in other parts of the LGBTQ community, see the lists of gay, trans, bisexual, non-binary, pansexual, asexual, and intersex characters.
The names are organized alphabeticallyby surname (i.e. last name), or by single name if the character does not have a surname. If more than two characters are in one entry, the last name of the first character is used.
Characters | Show title | Character debut date | Notes |
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Queen Marie Antoinette | The Rose of Versailles | October 10, 1979 | Marie enters a political marriage with King Louis XVI of France but falls in love with Count von Fersen. She is considered a love interest of Oscar, a genderqueer woman. [1] though their relationship never quite goes beyond master and servant. [2] [3] |
Rosalie Lamorlière | She is the adopted daughter of Nicole Lamorlière, [4] attempting prostitution at one point to get money, as shown in the episode "A Beautiful Devil" and swears to kill her mother's murderer in the episodes "The Secret of the Angel" and "Farewell, My Sister!" [5] She tries to kill Oscar's mother but Oscar stops her and soon takes her as an apprentice, earning Rosalie's admiration and love, as she opens his eyes. [4] [6] She later ends up marrying Oscar's friend, Bernard Chatelet in the episode "A Funeral Bell Tolls in the Twilight." |
Characters | Show title | Character debut date | Notes |
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Anthy Himemiya | Revolutionary Girl Utena | April 2, 1997 | The two leads of the series, Utena Tenjou and Anthy Himemiya, were confirmed to be in love by director Kunihiko Ikuhara. [7] [8] The characters are seen kissing both in the TV show credits and the movie. Utena is also in love with Akio Ohtori as shown in episodes like "The Barefoot Girl", where they also kiss. At the beginning of the series, Anthy is engaged to Kyouichi Saionji, a physically abusive man, who she does not resist and acts as a puppet to obey the current dueling champion, surprised when Utena manages to defeat Saionji, referring to him as a "classmate" after his defeat, as shown in episodes like "The Rose Bride". Later on in the series it is revealed that Akio has been sexually assaulting Anthy. [9] This differs from the manga where Anthy has a consensual relationship with Akio and a romantic relationship with Utena. |
Utena Tenjou | |||
Fukiko "Miya-sama" Ichinomiya | Dear Brother | July 14, 1991 | She appears to be calm and generous, even as she dresses conservatively, [10] but is cruel and manipulative, often psychologically and physically torturing Rei for several ambiguous reasons. [11] She desires that Rei only have eyes for her, no one else, as indicated in episodes 5 and 6. She also jealously tries to destroy their relationship by making Nanako love her instead. [12] It is then revealed that she and Rei are full sisters (proving their relationship to be incestual), daughters of the Ichinomiya leader and a maid of the family mansion, as shown in episodes 12 and 33. In the anime, her love for Takehiko is given a backstory: she met and fell in love with him when she was twelve and he spent several days with her in the Ichinomiya mansion, but he unknowingly broke her heart by not showing up to her birthday party, as indicated in episodes 36 and 37. |
Kozue Kaoru | Revolutionary Girl Utena | July 9, 1997 | Kozue Kaoru is obsessively in love with her twin brother, Miki. [13] In the 26th episode, "Miki's Nest Box: The Sunlit Garden", it is implied that Kozue kisses Anthy |
Touya Kinomoto | Cardcaptor Sakura | April 7, 1998 | The creators have confirmed that Yukito and Touya (both male) are a couple, which are stated to be in love within the series itself, [14] with Yukito rejecting Sakura's feelings because he is in love with Touya.[ citation needed ] Before meeting Yukito, Touya dated Kaho Mizuki when she was his junior high school teacher, and she broke up with him when she left to study in England.[ citation needed ] Some even argued that Touya was either bisexual or pansexual. [15] |
Nuriko | Fushigi Yûgi | April 20, 1995 | Nuriko initially dresses and acts as a woman named Kang-lin, [16] one of Hotohori's concubines because Kang-lin was his twin sister who died and he wanted to keep her memory alive as shown in the episode, "The Seven Stars of Suzaku." [17] He enjoys cross-dressing, as indicates in the episode "Even If I Die...", and is in love with Hotohori, but later also grows to love the main heroine Miaka as indicated in the episode "Brief Parting." [18] |
Akio Ohtori | Revolutionary Girl Utena | July 2, 1997 | Akio Ohtori and Touga Kiryuu were shown in bed together, and Miki described Akio as "seducing" Touga as indicated in the episode "Miki's Nest Box (The Sunlit Garden-Arranged)". Akio and Touga are playboys with a number of female conquests, [19] with Akio's conquests include Utena and Kozue, [20] while Anthy was formerly Touga's girlfriend before Utena came along, [21] which is even shown in the movie. [22] |
Touga Kiryuu | |||
Riki | Ai no Kusabi | August 1, 1992 | Riki was once the gang leader of the Bison gang. [23] However he was captured and kept as a pet for three years by Iason who grew obsessively in love with him. [24] [25] She found the characterization of Iason in the third novel to be realistic and compelling, [26] Prior to this, Riki was in a relationship with Guy. [27] He also once engaged in a one-night stand with a female slave named Mimea. |
Shinji Ikari | Neon Genesis Evangelion | October 4, 1995 | Shinji is shown to be both attracted to his female co-pilots, such as Asuka, as well as his male co-pilot Kaworu. In an interview with Evangelion's creator, Hideaki Anno, he states "To Shinji, Kaworu was the first friend he could open up to, and he could also be someone that could be a same-sex partner." [28] |
Shiori Takatsuki | Revolutionary Girl Utena | July 23, 1997 | Childhood friend of Juri Arisugawa who returns to Ohtori Academy. She idolized Juri in the past, but this caused her to question their friendship and she eventually became paranoid as indicated in the episode "Thorns of Death." When she finds out that Juri had feelings for her, she acts cruel but has been aware of these feelings toward her for a long period. [29] Even so, she cares enough about Juri to apologize to her in the episode "Azure Paler Than the Sky", although it is not clear if Juri returns her feelings. In the movie, Shiori sleeps with Touga Kiryuu. |
Characters | Show title | Character debut date | Notes |
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Clio Aquanaut | Tactical Roar | January 7, 2006 | She is the player of the crew and is a bisexual, as noted by her voice actress, Rio Natsuki, with many girls after her. [30] She likes to tease and flirt with Hyosuke as well as anyone else and is the Weapons Chief. |
Rin Asogi | Mnemosyne | February 3, 2008 | Rin is one of the main characters of the story, running a consulting business with Mimi, [31] known as Asogi Consulting and both are immortal. [32] Throughout the series they have an intimate relationship, kissing each other in the beginning of the first episode, for example. [33] Unlike Mimi, Rin had a relationship with two men: Ihika and the Tajimamori, making her bisexual. The latter she talks to throughout the series were in a relationship over a thousands years prior, but he distanced himself from her. Even so, he impregnates her in the last episode, "And Then, to the Door of the Kingdom..." |
Chōryō Bun'en | Koihime Musō | July 8, 2008 | She has an obsession and "friendly rivalry" with Kan'u, [34] [35] to the point of modeling her own weapon as a black version of the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, indicated in episodes like "Chōryō Faces Off with Kan'u". She also has a husband named Kazuto. |
Franz d'Épinay | Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo | October 5, 2004 | Franz, a friend of Albert, is engaged to a woman named Valentine for political reasons though he does not love her. He instead heavily implies throughout the series that he has strong feelings for someone else and it is later revealed his feelings are towards his best friend Albert, [36] who is traveling with him. [37] [1] However, he did show some attraction to women and did consider sleeping with a woman in episode 1, "At Journey's End, We Meet". |
Ryoji "Ranka" Fujioka | Ouran High School Host Club | June 10, 2006 | Ryoji is Haruhi Fujioka's father who works as a cross-dressing entertainer. In the series, he expresses undying love for his deceased wife, but often brings home male lovers while Haruhi is at school. [38] |
Chizu Hanashiro | Sweet Blue Flowers | July 2, 2009 | Fumi's cousin. Chizu and Fumi were very close as children and developed a more physically intimate relationship once they were older. Fumi was in love with Chizu, but Chizu chooses to get married instead, breaking Fumi's heart. [39] Chizu's first child looks a lot like Fumi did as a baby. |
Himeko Kurusugawa | Kannazuki no Miko [lower-alpha 1] | October 1, 2004 | Chikane has loved Himeko since they met, although (despite her jealousy of Himeko and Sōma's friendship) she does not admit it until much later, with Chikane's feelings for Himeko bordering on obsession. [40] She eventually turns evil upon joining the Orochi as the Eighth Head, vanquishing all but two of the Orochi heads, sexually assaulting Himeko in the 8th episode, and tormenting her during their final battle. During the last few episodes Himeko realizes and accepts her feelings for Chikane, with Himeko reunited with Chikane. In the show's final episode, "Priestesses of the Gofless Month", they kiss in the final episode after admitting their feelings for each other, and are reunited even after they are reincarnated after the defeat of the Orochi. |
Jōji "George" Koizumi | Paradise Kiss | October 3, 2005 | George is a designer at Parakiss. He is bisexual and sees himself as an "equal opportunity lover", including with the protagonist, Yukari "Caroline" Hayasaka as shown in episodes like "Atlier" and "Future", and Isabella previously had a relationship with Joji. [41] |
Anna Kurauchi | He Is My Master | April 21, 2005 | She is bisexual and constantly tries to do perverted acts with Izumi, who is mostly disgusted by her lesbianism. [42] She was originally attracted to Yoshitaka, but because of Izumi's relentless effort convincing her to stay away from Yoshitaka, [43] she mistook it as sign of interest, thus she fell in love with Izumi and became Yoshitaka's maid in order to follow Izumi, as shown in the 3rd and 4th episodes. She even dreams of traveling to the Netherlands to arrange a same-sex marriage, going far as to study the language. She is discouraged later in the episode, finding out that being under 16, they cannot be married (yet). |
Tomari Kurusu | Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl | January 18, 2006 | Tomari is Hazumu's childhood friend, so the two know a lot about each other and have many memories from the past. After Hazumu's initial transformation, Tomari does not know what to do. [44] Ayuki observes that Tomari liked Hazumu more as a boy, due to the fact that she has had affections for Hazumu for some time. At first, she is very annoyed that everyone around Hazumu is trying to make her more feminine, but ultimately realizes that while Hazumu has changed physically, her personality is still the same, and therefore still the same person inside, as shown "The Girl Realizes That She is a Girl." |
Lilith | Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito | October 2, 2003 | Lilith, the guardian of the Great Library, flirts relentlessly with Hazuki, beginning in the show's third episode, "Jill," although she is always turned down. Sometimes she goes to absurd lengths to show her love in various book worlds, sometimes even trying to sleep with her, as shown in episodes such as "Quill" and "Layla". [45] Lilith's previous lover was Adam, the library's previous protector, referred to as a male character in the third episode. While Lilith is close to her sister, Hitsumi, whose real name is Eve, she only loves her in a platonic way. |
Yukari Sendou | Rosario + Vampire | January 17, 2008 | Yukari (a witchling), has a crush on both Moka (a female vampire) and Tsukune (a male human). [46] [47] Yukari openly wants to have a three-way relationship with them, but Moka and Tsukune don't return her feelings. When Yukari is introduced in both the manga and the anime, she only likes Moka, not Tsukune. Once Moka saves Yukari from being bullied by their monster schoolmates, Yukari confesses her love to her in the second episode, "Witchling and Vampire". At this point, Yukari tries to drive Moka and Tsukune apart, out of jealousy. Only after Tsukune puts himself in harm's way to save Yukari from monsters too, Yukari starts to like him as well and confesses her love to him. [48] |
Hatsuharu Sohma | Fruits Basket | September 6, 2001 | Hatsuharu is part of the Sohma family, a family cursed into turning into members of the zodiac when under stress or hugged by members of the opposite sex as shown in the "Make It Clear If It's Black or White" episode. He was born in the year of the cow and was often annoyed by people's comments about the stupidity of the cow from the zodiac, and blamed his troubles on Yuki who was born the year of the rat. [49] However, Yuki helps him realize he needs to move past people's comments and enters an on/off relationship with Rin Sohma, who dumped him in Season 2, [50] he refers to Yuki as his first love. [51] [52] |
Kuroko Shirai | A Certain Magical Index | December 6, 2008 | Kuroko has an obsessive perverted lesbian crush on Mikoto as shown in the original show and in the A Certain Scientific Railgun spinoff show, where she continues to lust for Mikoto, occasionally leading to punishment. [53] It is revealed, in a light novel, that she liked men prior to Mikoto. |
A Certain Scientific Railgun | October 2, 2009 | ||
Yasuko Sugimoto | Sweet Blue Flowers | July 9, 2009 | After visiting Fujigaya Girls Academy and rejecting Kyōko's confession, Yasuko asks out Fumi, who accepts in the show's second episode. [54] Yasuko developed romantic feelings for a teacher, Masanori Kagami, when she was attending Fujigaya. After his rejection, she switched schools and changed focus from drama to basketball. |
Mitsuka Yoshimine | DearS | September 2004 | Mitsuka is an exhibitionist high school English teacher, who often strips down to her lingerie during classes, makes her students read erotic stories, openly asks about their sex lives and flirts with them from the first episode. [55] She is also a porn actress, who makes her own original videos, and constantly interprets everything around her in a sexual way, as indicates in the show's first and ninth episodes, for example. She is attracted to boys and girls, sometimes seen flirting with her male student Takeya, and her female "DearS" (human-like aliens) students Ren and Miu in the show's fifth and seventh episodes. |
Eiri Yuki | Gravitation | October 4, 2000 | Shuichi Shindo falls in love with Eiri Yuki beginning in the first episode. [56] Over the course of the series manages to melt the cold heart of Eiri and the two become a couple. In one episode, "Winding Road", it is revealed that Eiri has a fiancée named Ayaka Usami, but she backs away after seeing the love between Shuichi and Eiri. [57] |
Characters | Title | Character debut date | Notes |
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Mei Aihara | Citrus | January 6, 2018 | Yuzu is a self-proclaimed gyaru who becomes Mei Aihara's older stepsister, and had never dated. [58] Mei is the beautiful and serious Student Council President who is stern, cold and composed, but has a short temper, and appears deadpan. Mei was briefly the fiancé of her male homeroom teacher, until Episode 2. While the two of them have had very intimate moments with each other, for a time Yuzu thought it would be in Mei's best interests if she did not pursue her romantically, feeling that Mei needed a sister more than she needed a lover. However, she grows to love her, eventually admitting that she wanted to be with Mei. [58] After both confessing their true feelings for each other she starts dating Mei in the show's final episode. |
Maria Akizuki | From the New World | September 29, 2012 | She falls in love with and begins to date Saki but later enters a duty pact [59] with and marries Mamoru Itō. As she is one of the main characters, she appears "ambiguously bisexual." [60] |
Shun Aonuma | From the New World | September 29, 2012 | He dated Satoru Asahina for a time but was in love with Saki since childhood. [59] However, he stayed away from Saki for fear of his growing uncontrollable power. As he is one of the main characters, he appears "ambiguously bisexual." [60] |
Apollo | Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? | July 31, 2019 | Apollo is bisexual as he has many male members of his familia that he loves [61] and also shows sexual desire towards Bell Cranel, a male adventurer. [62] [63] In addition, when he was in heaven he was besotted with the female goddess Hestia, much to her disgust. [62] |
Satoru Asahina | From the New World | September 29, 2012 | Satoru dated Shun for a while but the two later broke up and he began to date another boy for a time, but that relationship also failed. He later falls in love with and marries Saki, shown in the episode "From the New World". [59] Since he is one of the main characters, he appears "ambiguously bisexual". [60] |
Astolfo (Rider) | Fate/Apocrypha | July 9, 2017 | Astolfo, while biologically male, likes to cross-dress, and has been described as androgynous. [64] They are willing to allow other characters to believe them to be either gender without objection, and has had relationships with women in the past, while also harbouring romantic feelings towards the series' male protagonist, Sieg, shown in the episode "Knight of Rebellion". |
Dio Brando | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | October 5, 2012 | Dio is canonically bisexual in both the anime and manga. In the 2007 Eureka interview with Araki (the author of the franchise), when asked about Dio's sexuality, Araki responded: "...Dio's sort of a composed character that could go either way. He could go with a man or a woman." [65] Dio's sexuality is incidental to his villainy. |
Reiner Braun | Attack on Titan | April 21, 2013 | In one episode, it is revealed Reiner "had no interest in women" while suggesting Ymir's shared homosexuality in episodes like "Soldier". [14] But despite that, Reiner has shown some interest in Krista, asking her to marry him on multiple occasions in his mind. |
Clarence | Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online | June 9, 2018 | In episode 9, Clarence, a fellow GGO player, is dying and Karen demands Clarence give up her remaining magazines. Clarence demands a kiss in exchange and reveals she is female (and chose an androgynous avatar) and that she is bisexual. [66] |
Kim Diehl | Soul Eater Not! | April 15, 2014 | Kim befriends Jacqueline, one of her bully victims who has a secret crush on her, and they become partners. [67] They break up in the show's seventh episode, "Nice Day For a Death Bazaar!", but may still have some feelings for each other after that point. Kim also has feelings toward Ox Ford at the same academy. |
Ertegun | Carole & Tuesday | April 10, 2019 | In episode 2, Ertegun states that he has love "only for capable dudes and great chicks". [62] |
Akira Fudo | Devilman Crybaby | January 5, 2018 | Akira has a girlfriend but he also has a complicated, homoerotic relationship with his childhood friend Ryo Asuka, who is gay. [68] |
Garterbelt | Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt | October 1, 2010 | He is a priest with an interest in young males, Brief in particular. [69] [70] In his youth however, he was a brutal thug who committed a wide array of crimes including robbery, prostitution, selling drugs and murder. |
Yoshiyuki Hatori | The World's Greatest First Love | May 7, 2011 | Yoshiyuki has been friends with Chiaki for a long time [71] and the two eventually start dating, as shown in the OVA, "The Case of Hatori Yoshiyuki". Hatori had a previous girlfriend in the past as shown in the episode "Delay in love is dangerous." |
Haru Kaido | Super Lovers | April 6, 2016 | Haru Kaido was formerly a player who dated numerous women, but eventually falls for his stepbrother Ren Kaido as shown in the episode "Forest Green". [72] Ren himself has been in love with Haru since he was young and has shown no interest in women. |
Akihiko Kaji | Given | July 11, 2019 | Akihiko has a romantic history with both men and women. He eventually falls in love with the leader of his band, Haruki Nakayama, himself a bisexual man, and starts to date him. [73] |
Momoko Kibitsu | Okami-san and Her Seven Companions | July 30, 2010 | A disciplinary committee student of Otogi High School, she was shown to have a crush on fellow student and main character Ryoko Okami and will sometimes make flirtatious passes on her while using her 'dumplings' to trick naive boys for her assistance. |
Yuzu Kichougasaki | Love Tyrant | April 6, 2017 | She has a crush on her half-sister, Akane Hiyama, [74] but later in the series she develops feelings for Seiji Aino, as indicated in the show's ninth episode. [75] [76] |
Lukkage | Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet | April 21, 2013 | She has two female sex slaves who also serve as her co-pilots for her mecha, as shown in the episode "The Villainous Empress" and other episodes. [77] Later she develops a romantic interest in Pinion, especially with his hair down. In the two OVAs for the show, "Far Beyond the Voyage" parts 1 and 2, Lukkage is a former pirate involved with salvaging and guarding Gargantia from threats, with her two companions still by her side, helping her run the ship and gather intel. |
Ash Lynx | Banana Fish | July 5, 2018 | Ash has slept with men and women during his time as a prostitute. He mainly has relationships with men such as Eiji, [78] while dealing with childhood trauma from molestation. [79] While has a close relationship with Eiji, he admitted in one episode that he had a relationship with a girl who was killed "under suspicion of being his girlfriend." [80] |
Honoka Maki | Kiznaiver | April 10, 2016 | Honoka is in love with a girl named Ruru and wants a romantic relationship with her, as shown in the show's sixth and seventh episodes. [81] [82] Maki later has feelings for a male friend named Yuta and their attractions toward each other are reciprocal. [83] [84] |
Yumi Mamiya | MM! | October 9, 2010 | She hates Taro and loves Tatsukichi, but does not know that Tatsukichi is a cross-dresser, and in other scenes, it is implied that she has lesbian tendencies when groping and fondling Arashiko and Mio. [85] |
Marie | Carole & Tuesday | May 1, 2019 | Marie used to date Gus, but now is in a relationship with Anne, and the two plan to get married soon, as shown in episode 4. [86] |
Anne | |||
Mari Maya | Samurai Flamenco | October 31, 2013 | Mari Maya, is a central member of the idol group, "Mineral Miracle Muse", writes and composes lyrics, [87] while having a fetish for men in uniforms, and enjoys stepping on the testicles of "molesters and other evildoers." [88] She also has an inferiority complex towards Moe, another member of the idol group, but the two later reconcile by kissing each other in the episode "The Wandering Hero". |
Yuma Okazaki | NTR: Netsuzou Trap | July 5, 2017 | The story centers around two high school girls named Yuma and Hotaru who each have a boyfriend but secretly cheat with each other. [89] Yuma cannot explain the feeling she gets around Hotaru, which eventually leads her to believe that their relationship may be more than just a friendship. In the final episode, "Why Did It Take Me This Long to Realize?", Yuma finally realizes that Hotaru has had feelings for her all along and confesses her love for her. [89] |
Hotaru Mizushina | |||
Princess Rona Pricipa O'Lapanesta | Endro! | February 9, 2019 | She is obsessed with the idea of becoming the wife of a hero and emphasizes this, even when it turns out that the hero is a girl. [90] Further in the series, she explicitly declares that gender is not a problem for her. |
Ritsu Onodera | The World's Greatest First Love: The Case of Ritsu Onodera | March 22, 2011 | Ritsu and Masamune dated in their high school years as indicated in the OVA ("No love's like to the first") but due to a misunderstanding broke up on bad terms, causing Ritsu to state he would never fall in love again. [91] He dated other women in the past to forget but he later meets Masamune once more, with the two eventually rebuilding their relationship as shown in the episode "Coming events cast their shadows before them." |
Pitohui "Pito" | Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online | April 22, 2018 | In episode 12, after revealing that she is Elsa Kanzaki, [92] she kisses the main character Karen on the lips and flirts with her. [93] M/Goshi Asogi, who is her manservant and in love with her, [94] warns Karen that Elsa goes through men and women relatively quickly. |
Aaya Saitō | Kuttsukiboshi | August 16, 2010 | Kiiko is in love with Aaya, but did not have the courage to tell her in the beginning of the summer vacation, [95] while Aaya likes to perform experiments with Kiiko's powers, although actual she is in love with her. She usually takes the lead when it comes to activities and has an outgoing personality. Aaya's older brother, Kōta Saitō had a terminal disease and manipulated Aaya into having sex with him before going in for his operation where he died, as shown in the second episode. |
Izumi Sena | Love Stage!! | July 9, 2014 | Ryoma is a 20-year-old popular actor and hard worker, [96] while Izumi is an 18-year-old geeky university student. [97] The two fall in love despite Izumi initially not being comfortable with the idea of being in a relationship with another man and Ryoma struggling to accept his feelings despite having previously only liked women as shown in the episode "The Door to My Dreams" and others. [98] |
Ryoma Ichijo | |||
Aoba Seragaki | Dramatical Murder | July 6, 2014 | As the anime is based on a BL game where Aoba is the main character and can end up with Ren, Koujaku, Noiz, Mink or Clear, it is safe to say all these characters have feelings for Aoba in the anime as well. [99] Koujaku is stated to be a womanizer but does have feelings for Aoba though the sexuality of the rest of the cast including Aoba is somewhat more varied and can be gay or bisexual depending on the game's route. |
Ren | |||
Koujaku | |||
Noiz | |||
Mink | |||
Clear | |||
Norba Shino | Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans | December 18, 2016 | A captain, he acts like a joker, [100] and is a slightly flamboyant eccentric who's suggested to reciprocate another boy's romantic affections, in episodes like "If This Is the End." In a radio broadcast, his voice actor, Murata Taishi, confirmed him as bisexual, having feelings for Yamagi and various women. [101] |
Anna Suehiro | Wandering Son | February 3, 2011 | She develops feelings for Shuichi as a boy, and disapproves of his crossdressing at first, but later declares that she does not mind if she is "considered a lesbian" if Shuichi comes out as a transgender woman as shown in episodes such as "Rosy Cheeks ~Growing pains~" and "10 + 11 ~Better half~". [102] She also is well-known and experienced as a teenage model, often being outspoken, while also liking to modify the clothes she buys. |
Suzuka | Akame ga Kill! | November 2, 2014 | She is bisexual, having shown enjoyment at being beaten by a group of spies and showing sexual interest in Esdeath and Tatsumi, indicated in episodes like "Kill the Fate". [103] [104] |
Kanade Suzutsuki | Mayo Chiki! | July 7, 2011 | She notes that Kinjirō is the first, and only, man who is willing to talk her down and she has fallen in love with him as a result. She is also implied to be a bisexual as she has claimed that Subaru was her first love. [105] |
The Nines | Darling in the Franxx | March 31, 2018 | Although their piloting system is also a "couple" of a boy and a girl, throughout the show their squad is positioned as an "alternative" to traditional heterosexual relationship, and the leader of the Nines even several times lectures on the meaninglessness of gender differences. [106] [107] Previously, he also openly notes his bisexuality, being attracted not only to Ichigo, but also to Hiro as a "cute boy". |
Masamune Usami | Mayo Chiki! | August 4, 2011 | Masamune has a crush on Suburu and blackmails Jiro into a date at the school festival in the episode "Go Out With Me". [105] By the end of the 6th episode, "Let the War Begin," Jiro and Masamune have become good friends. In later episodes, like "I'm Going on A Journey" and "Nyu!" she expresses feelings for Jiro and Suburu. |
Sayaka "Ayaka" Watanabe | The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior | April 3, 2014 | Ayaka is a college student who loves to lead men on [108] but reveals later on that she dates both men and women and loves reading BL in the episode "Thought So". She also is shown to have a sexual attraction to her fellow dormmate Mayumi, whom she often fondles despite the latter's resentment. [109] |
Saki Watanabe | From the New World | September 29, 2012 | She loved Shun [59] for a long time but dates Maria and later marries Satoru, shown in the episode "Omen". Since she is one of the main characters, she appears "ambiguously bisexual." [60] |
Charteux "Char" Westia | Boarding School Juliet | October 13, 2018 | The male protagonist, Romio, discovered that Char was in love with Juliet, the female protagonist, in the episode "Romio and Princess Char". [110] |
Takafumi Yokozawa | The World's Greatest First Love | May 21, 2011 | Takafumi claims to have liked women in the past, but fell in love with Masamune Takano who did not reciprocate his feelings. [71] He later enters a relationship with Zen Kirishima, who was once happily married until his wife tragically passed as shown in the episode "Actions Speak Louder Than Words", as shown in the movie connected to the franchise. [111] |
Zen Kirishima | |||
Kou Yukina | The World's Greatest First Love | March 22, 2011 | Shouta Kisa has a bad habit of falling for good looking men and falls for Kou, but is scared to pursue a relationship as he feels love does not really exist. [71] Kou dated women in the past but later falls in love with Shouta and the two develop a strong romantic relationship. |
Zess (Luka Corosszeira) | The Betrayal Knows My Name | April 11, 2010 | Yuzuki's previous incarnation was a woman named Yuki, who was in love with a man named Luka. [112] In the present, Yuki, now in a male form, is highly protective of Luka, and vice versa, with both highly protective of each other, with implied romantic ties between them. |
Himiko Toga | My Hero Academia | September 7, 2015 | Toga Himiko (also written/said Himiko Toga) is major antagonist and canon bisexual character in the manga/anime series 'My Hero Academia'. She has shown interest in and has developed crushes for a wide variety of the protagonists, such as Izuku Midoriya and Ochaco Uraraka. During chapter 348, Toga confesses love for not only Midoriya but Uraraka as well. |
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Sophia Ascart | My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! | April 18, 2020 | In the eighth episode, when inside the book world, Sophia pins Catarina against a wall, confesses her love, and proposes they move in together. [113] Although Catarina does not understand the ramifications of this confession, Maria and Mary, who also have crushes on Catarina, recognize it full well. In the ninth episode, "Things Got Crazy at a Slumber Party...," Anne Shelley observes that Sophia tries to get Catarina to realize that she has feelings for her, but to no avail. Sophia also has feelings for men as well, and her brother is Nicol. [114] |
Maria Campbell | My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! | April 25, 2020 | When Catarina saves Maria from bullies, in the episode "I Enrolled in the Magic Academy...," she steals a romantic event from Geordo, causing Maria to begin falling love with Catarina in the fourth episode of the series. [115] In the following episode, Catarina steals a major romantic scene from Keith unintentionally, and they grow closer together. In a later episode, "Things Got Crazy at a Slumber Party...," Anne Shelley says that Maria shows her love for Catarina by sharing her sweets with her. In the episode "The Moment of My Doom Arrived... Part 1," Maria defends Catarina from false charges and says that Catarina means a lot to her. In the show's season one finale, Catarina asks her who she likes, and she says "the only one I love, admire, and want to be with for all time is you, Lady Catarina. So please allow me to stay by your side from now on." [116] Maria likely has feelings for men as well, as her line she tells Catarina was supposed to be spoken to a man in the original game. |
Mary Hunt | My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! | April 11, 2020 | She develops romantic feelings toward the series protagonist, Catarina, differing from the script of the otome game, Fortune Lover, beginning in the second episode of the series, "A Prince Challenged Me To a Fight..." In the ninth episode, "Things Got Crazy at a Slumber Party...," Anne Shelley, Catarina's maid, observes that Mary loves Catarina so much that she concocted a "terrifying plan" of sorts to get them to stay together. [117] In the same episode, Mary, in a sleepover with Catarina, Sophia, and Maria, admits she likes Catarina, saying she and someone she loved would trade dresses. Her fiance is Alan. [118] |
Suletta Mercury | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury | October 2, 2022 | Initially showing attraction to men and not knowing about the idea of same-sex relationships, Suletta Mercury, the main character, gradually develops mutual romantic feelings for Miorine, the girl whose fiancé she accidentally becomes. Although the show mostly tries to keep it within the subtext, in the end, both girls in one way or another declare a clear desire to actually get married and are shown as spouses with rings on their ring fingers at the end of the story. [119] The status of the two girls as a married same-sex couple was also confirmed by their voice actresses on the final stream on the day of the show's final episode. Thus, Suletta becomes not only the official first female, but also the first LGBTQ protagonist in a franchise. |
Saki Saki | Girlfriend, Girlfriend | March 4, 2020 | She dates her childhood friend, Naoya before the manga started. She shows some attraction towards her friend, Shino and Naoya's 2nd girlfriend, Nagisa and even casually tells them that she loves them. Before Naoya proposed to have a polyamorous relationship with Nagisa, Saki found Nagisa cute upon meeting her, complimented her panties and stated she wanted to marry her after tasting her cooking. She tends to grope Shino and Rika's breasts. In the end of chapter 132, Saki reveals her bisexuality by revealing her desire to date Shino and Nagisa and her desire to have a harem of pretty girls. |
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