white and silver hair in anime

[Ricky22]

Somethin I noticed is that when I watch anime and games and such, the characters with white or silver hair are usually beasts! like their usually really cunning and powerful, lol I couldn't help but notice, like for example Inuyasha, Sesshomaru from Inuyasha or Sephirtoh from Final Fanatasy 7.


Inuyasha:





Sesshomaru:






Sephiroth:

[spidermom]

I enjoyed seeing the pictures.

[wonderlywroughte]

Ah, good old Sephiroth. I'm playing Crisis Core now, and they re-did the scene from Final Fantasy 7 where Sephiroth walks through the fire. His hair was blowing all over the place! I was like "No way, his hair would definitely have caught on fire!" Haha, only me. I couldn't think of any more from anime, but how about Freya from FF9?

[HairColoredHair]

Vicious from cowboy Bebop, Kakashi from Naruto, Gin from Bleach, Near from Death Note, Lord Illapalazo (sp?) from Excel Saga, Urd from Oh! My Goddess.

[yldchyld]

I think Anime characters reflect what young Japanese Culture finds exotic and attractive.

Big wide eyes, Long light colored hair, legs that don't stop, humungous chests (oh wait...that's all adult comics)

[salamander]

Actually, white hair suggests that the character is supernatural. It's a Japanese tradition that supernatural creatures are sometimes marked by their light hair, like the Europeans think fairies sometimes have pointed ears or backwards feet. You'll see it in live action Japanese stuff, too; in Throne of Blood the spirit that does the witches' part from MacBeth has white hair.

[Hypnotica]

I have a crush on Sesshomaru.

[frizzinator]

Thank you for sharing your interesting observation!

[thankyousir74]

Vicious from cowboy Bebop, Kakashi from Naruto, Gin from Bleach, Near from Death Note, Lord Illapalazo (sp?) from Excel Saga, Urd from Oh! My Goddess.

ZOMG EXCEL SAGA IS TEH AWEZUMNESS!!

Yep sorry about that. I like seeing people on the boards that share common manga interests.

And silver hair and gray hair is so glamorized in my mind How I would love to be older and wiser and have the full head of long gray hair to show it. Too bad my hair retention genes are not that great D:

[socks]

Yes, it does seem to indicate a certain level of power. However, like wonderlywroughte's, my mind always jumps to the lack of practicality of hair like that, like how damaged and tangled it would get, how it would get it the way of fighting, and how the snow-white color would show dirt.