Anime traps are an essential part of any anime’s story, regardless of how good the anime is. Anime traps are a powerful plot device, making our protagonist struggle with their morals and convictions. They test the protagonist’s objective values and beliefs, challenging them in ways they don’t expect to make them question why they came into this world in the first place. This post will provide 50 of the best anime traps of all time
1. Ritsu Sohma
Ritsu Sohma, also referred to by his alias Ri-chan, is a supporting figure in the Fruits Basket franchise. He is the sole child of Okami Sohma, the onsen hostess for the Sohma Family, and he is preparing to succeed.
Ritsu is a fair-skinned, tall young man with a typical frame. He is noted as having a very feminine attractiveness and frequently dresses like a lady since he finds it helps him relax. He frequently appears donning classic kimonos with long sleeves. His peach-colored, straight hair reaches just below his shoulders.
2. Frieza
The primary adversary of the Dragon Ball series is Frieza. He rules over a portion of Universe 7 and commands his imperialist army. He is a terrible tyrant who incites dread throughout the universe with great strength. He is Kuriza’s father and a descendant of Chilled, King Cold’s youngest son, Cooler’s younger brother, and Chilled.
3. Hitoshi Sugoroku
Hitoshi Sugoroku is the name of a supporting character in the Nanbaka Web Manga and Anime. He works as a guard in Nanba Prison as a low-ranking guard in building 4. He is Hajime Sugoroku’s younger brother. Hitoshi is a short, fair-skinned man with light blond hair that falls beyond his waist and bangs that are swept to the left over his forehead. His eyes are dark red, but thanks to colored contacts, they appear light Blue.
4. Chihiro Fujisaki
Chihiro Fujisaki is a member of Hope’s Peak Academy’s 78th graduating class and participates in the Killing School Life depicted in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. The Ultimate Programmer is their title. Chihiro appears to be a high school student; He is two years older than he assumed due to memory loss. He has doll-like features, a petite, lean build, short, light brown layered hair, and hazel eyes.
5. Hideyoshi Kinoshita
The supporting character in the anime/light novels Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts is Hideyoshi Kinoshita, a student in Class 2-F. He is by two or three minutes Yuuko’s younger twin “brother.” Hideyoshi is more composed and mostly stoic than his twin sister Yuuko. But because of his feminine appearance, he can get upset when people, especially his friends, mistake him for a girl.
6. Ayumi Saitou
Ayumi is a masculine androgynous shogi player who is sixteen years old. He had to drop out of high school to care for his ailing mother. Since it takes two years to qualify for the male league, he plays shogi under the guise of a lady to be paid to compete.
7. Titus Alexius
One of the four Magi of the present time, Titus Alexius succeeds his creation Scheherazade as the Great Priest of the Reim Empire. Through his membership in the Magnostadt Academy, he is also a former High-Class Magician of Magnostadt. Young and of short size, Titus has fair skin, expressive blue eyes, and untamed light blond hair.
8. Ryoji Fujioka
Haruhi Fujioka’s father and Kotoko Fujioka’s husband are Ryouji Fujioka. Haruhi is a professional crossdresser who performs at an okama bar under the stage name “Ranka,” which is how he demands the Hosts refer to him. By canonical definition, he is a male who is openly bisexual. Ryouji has brown eyes and long maroon hair. Ten-year-old Ryouji is shown in flashbacks wearing mainly masculine clothing and having shorter hair.
9. Yuta Sasaki
Yuta Sasaki is a young boy who cross-dresses and works as Hiroshi Inaba’s secretary. He feels so strongly about injuring Kuniharu Ogino. Despite being a guy, Yuta’s appearance leads many to believe that he is a girl, which makes sense, given that he is a crossdresser. He has bangs that cover his neck and eyebrows in the back of his short blonde hair, a hairpin on the right side of his head, bright blue eyes, and an innocent-looking face.
10. Jakotsu
One of the Shichinintai’s strongest members and third in charge was Jakotsu. His main weapon, the snake sword or Jakotsuto, featured segmented retractable blades that curved out over a wide area, making it challenging for an opponent to predict his next move. Jakotsu is portrayed as a homophobic stereotype of a striking individual. Jakotsu exhibits a fairly obsessive mentality and has a single-minded focus on fighting and cruelly maiming Inuyasha.
11. Aura Bella Fiore
Dark elf Aura Bella Fiora is one of the twin Floor Guardians on the sixth floor of the Great Tomb of Nazarick. She was made by Bukubukuchagama and is Mare Bello Fiore’s older twin sister. She is an expert at guerrilla warfare and a skilled beast tamer and ranger. Aura is a young girl with a tomboyish appearance who has dark skin and the distinctively pointed ears of dark elves. Her left eye is blue, her right eye is green, and she has golden hair and heterochromia.
12. Katsuki Shima
The anime and visual novel Clannad have a minor character named Katsuki Shima. He only makes an appearance during Misae Sagara’s tale arc, which clarifies the circumstances around the things that happened to her before the Clannad storyline started. He once had a relationship with Misae. He is identified as a bishonen, and Saki and Yuki use this information to disguise him as a girl.
13. Armin Arlert
The fifteenth and current commander of the Survey Corps is Armin Arlert, who Hange Zo gave that title before they passed away. He is also one of the two deuteragonists of the story and a childhood friend of Mikasa Ackerman and Eren Yeager. He may be among the 104th Training Corps members with the least physical strength, but his brains and strategic brilliance make him a priceless asset, especially with Hange. Large brown eyes and a short, pointed nose, almost always red, give Armin a boyish appearance.
14. Hideri Kanzaki
Hideri Kanzaki is the fifth employee of Cafe Stile and was chosen for “his” cute appearance. The staff is generally taken aback, not just because Hideri plays an idol singer who never sings. Long silver hair with irregular bangs and teal eyes characterize Hidari. A little black headband with a ribbon (that might alternatively be lace bunny ears) on top of the headband is the only part of his attire.
15. Kalluto Zoldyck
The youngest child of Silva and Kikyo Zoldyck is Kalluto Zoldyck. He replaces Hisoka as member #4 of the Phantom Troupe. Kallisto has pink eyes and black hair that is cut to the shoulder.
16. Nyau
Nyau was a part of the Three Beasts, Esdeath’s elite bodyguards. Nyau was a slim young man with blonde hair and brilliant eyes. He appeared slightly feline; his slit pupils and exposed teeth gave him this appearance. Besides wearing shorts rather than pants, he wore the same outfit as the other Beasts. He also had a tail resembling a demon and hair ornaments resembling horns. He developed a huge, strong body after using Teigu’s Trump Card.
17. Aoi Hyoudou
Aoi Hyodo, the younger brother of Satsuki, the proprietor of the maid café where Misaki works, was a professional crossdresser and internet celebrity as a youngster. Big, blue eyes with long eyelashes and dark, bowl-cut hair give Aoi an extremely androgynous appearance. He is thought to be incredibly cute by both women and men.
18. Envy
Some of Father’s envy is represented by envy. Envy has the power to change forms. Even his voice may change to precisely mimic others’. Envy is a homunculus; hence she is not sexually active. He is referred to be a male even though he can assume the forms of both male and female people. A slender, muscular, androgynous teenage boy with a pale complexion typically represents envy. Envy has violet eyes with slit-like pupils and long, wispy hair.
19. Kurapika
The Kurta Clan’s lone surviving member is Kurapika. He is the current boss of the business enterprise established by Light Nostrade and a Blacklist Hunter. He is a Zodiac member going by the name “Rat.” He intends to get revenge on his tribe and get back the remaining Scarlet Eyes. With brown eyes that were blue in the 1999 anime adaption, Kurapika has medium blond hair. His eyes blaze a stunning and desired scarlet when he is feeling a strong emotion.
20. Astolfo
In the Fate/Great Apocrypha’s Holy Grail War, Astolfo is Celenike Icecolle Yggdmillennia’s Rider-class Servant. He is a member of the Black Faction. He strikes a deal with Sieg after Celenike’s passing. Astolfo is an eccentrically dressed androgynous boy. He claims that his hair ornaments, which resemble something a princess might wear and are beyond all comparison beautiful, are an “irresistible proof of friendship” that he uses to calm down his depressively insane boon partner, Roland.
21. Ruka Urushibara
Ruka Urushibara was born a man by birth. She exudes the demeanor of a gracious, presentable, and justifiable attractive girl. Her greatest wish is to have a female birth. Due to her extreme shyness, she frequently declines Mayuri’s invitations to cosplay.
22. Tetra
In the MMORPG Elder Tale, Tetra is one of the prisoners. She utilized a female Human Cleric character at the time of the Catastrophe even though she is a guy in real life. Despite being trapped in the female body, she seems to have become acclimated to it and hasn’t shown any signs of wanting to switch back to a manly one. With pink, medium-length hair styled in multiple ponytails, Tetra has a teenage girl’s appearance.
23. Saika Totsuka
Saika Totsuka is a member of Sobu High School’s Class 2F and serves as the club’s president. Saika occasionally gets mistaken for a woman due to her gentle, feminine features. Sometimes Hachiman “forgets” Totsuka is a boy. He has light skin, long, light grey/silver hair, and big, sparkling blue eyes.
24. Shirogane Naoto
In Persona 4, Naoto Shirogane is a playable character. Naoto, a member of the renowned Shirogane detective family’s fifth generation, enrolls in Yasogami High School as a first-year student and travels to Inaba to assist with the murder investigations. The Investigation Team’s shortest member is Naoto. She has gray eyes and short blue hair, giving her an androgynous appearance.
25. Kino
In Kino’s Journey, Kino is the primary character. A calm, stoic, and precocious adolescent named Kino sets off on a journey with his motorbike, Hermes, in quest of a nation with the particular qualities he is looking for. Traveler Kino is between the ages of fifteen and sixteen. Despite her initial lack of enthusiasm, she is compassionate and wise. To learn about the cultures and histories of the various nations he visits, Kino never stays for more than three days at a time.
26. Mare Bello Fiore
On the sixth floor of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Mare Bello Fiore, a dark elf, is one of the twin Floor Guardians. The elder of Aura Bella Fiora’s twin brothers is Mare. He is one of Bukubukuchagama’s creations, along with his sister. Mare is a little child with the dark elves’ characteristically black skin and erect ears. His right eye is blue, whereas his left is green. He is heterochromia, and his hair is golden.
27. Rui Ninomiya
One of the primary protagonists in Gatchaman Crowds is Rui Ninomiya, a prodigy who invented GALAX, and X. Berg Katse employed him in a complex scheme to destroy Earth. In the GALAX community and when out and about, he also goes by the alias LOAD. A young man named Rui has red glasses, short black hair, and green eyes. He typically dresses as Rui in a light blue coat, a white shirt with black accents, black slacks, and black shoes.
28. Yuri Lowell
The main character in Tales of Vesperia is Yuri Lowell. Yuri, a young man from Zaphias, the Imperial Capital, initially abandons his life in the lower quarter to hunt down the burglar who stole the blastia core necessary to control the region’s water supply. His travels bring him into contact with various new people, locations, and exhilarating adventures before growing into a quest to preserve the Earth. Yuri has gray eyes and long, waist-length black hair that appears purple in the game.
29. Hime Arikawa
Hime Arikawa, a second-year student at Shimoshina High School, is made to pose as a woman to settle his debts after being saved by the student council from Yakuza debt collectors. Hime is a young man with vibrant blue eyes and pink hair. He wears red ribbon pigtails tied together with extensions to make his hair longer and more noticeable at school.
30. Shiota Nagisa
Nagisa Shiota, the primary protagonist and narrator of Assassination Classroom is a pupil in Korosensei’s Class 3-E at Kunugigaoka Junior High School. Nagisa has a natural ability to kill despite being mostly passive. Nagisa is a young man with a little build, blue eyes, and hair. Because his mother made him keep it that way, his hair extends past his shoulders.
31. Shidou Mariya
Deuteragonist Mariya Shido plays a key role in the narrative. He is Shizu Shidou’s older twin who attends Ame no Kisaki as a girl to gain the chairwoman of both the all-male and all-female schools, where his late grandmother previously served as the chairperson for both while using her name and dressing in her style. In the center of his back, Mariya’s long golden hair reaches. His bangs reach the top of his chest and are worn in two pigtails.
32. Charlotte Dunois
Charles Dunois, introduced as the IS Representative Candidate for France, is a first-year transfer student in Class One at the IS Academy. She is the fourth heroine in the Infinite Stratos series to be presented. Her long, straight, blonde hair with spiky ends is tied back into a low ponytail, giving her the impression of a man who has been sent as a spy by her father.
33. Kuranosuke Koibuchi
Kuranosuke Koibuchi is the wealthy and prominent Koibuchi family’s transgender son. To conceal his gender from the other Amars, he goes under the codename “Kurako.” Kuranosuke is a crossdresser who frequently appears with women’s attire and cosmetics on. Throughout the series, he has featured in a wide range of stylish attire and several different wigs.
34. Kashima Yuu
At Roman Academy, Yuu Kashima is a senior in high school. She is the best friend and classmate of Mikoto Mikoshiba, and the Drama Club rates her as one of its top performers. With vivid green eyes and short, dark blue hair, Kashima is a charming androgynous girl. She has left-sweeping bangs.
35. Kikuchi Makoto
At 765 Production, Makoto Kikuchi is revered as a god. Her first and most recent appearances were in the arcade game THE IDOLM@STER STELLA STAGE. She is well aware of her dancing abilities and is regarded as one of 765 Production’s top dancers despite having learned it on her own.
36. Felix Argyle
A significant character in the 2014 Japanese dark fantasy light novel Re: Along with its anime television series and manga adaptations, Zero Starting Life in Another World, is Felix Argyle, also known as Ferris in casual contexts and as the Blue. Felix Argyle, a demi-human cat boy, was the personal knight and attendant to Duchess Crusch Karsten.
37. Makoto Kousaka
One of the main members of Genshiken is Makoto Kousaka. Video games are his area of expertise, and he is an expert player of fighters and pornographic titles. Kousaka is a bishounen (a handsome boy) with presumably dyed blonde hair. He can now cosplay as traps easily because of his hairless physique and hourglass shape. In contrast to Saki, Kousaka enjoys cosplay and does it frequently to help Genshiken promote products.
38. Chihaya Kisakinomiya
The primary character is Chihaya Kisakinomiya. He is a boy who transferred from an all-boys school to an all-girls school. He lost contact with his father and now has mistrust for everyone, especially men. He was the target of a cruel joke that another student at the all-boys institution pulled on him because of his kind nature and feminine appearance. After being disturbed by this, he stopped wanting to attend school. His mother gave him the go-ahead to enroll in the Seio Girls’ Academy.
39. Jun Watarase
One of the primary characters in Happiness is Jun Watarase. She is well-recognized for being a woman who defines herself as such. Jun is a pretty young woman with an alluring appearance. Her appearance belies the fact that she was born with a male physique. She also has two violet eyes with her long, violet hair. She is dressed in a female school uniform, which completely fits her.
40. Hotaru Tachibana
The primary character of the series is Hotaru Tachibana. She currently attends a high school and serves as its president. With short blonde hair and lime-green eyes, Hotaru is a fair-skinned adolescent. Her thin physique makes her taller than the typical Japanese, who stands at 5 “7 (1.70m).
41. Aoi Futaba
The character Aoi Futaba appears in Princess Connect Re: Dive. She belongs to the guild “Forestier.” Astrum’s representative of the elf race, Aoi, has bangs that obscure her right eye and short, light green hair. She also has green eyes. She has a brown elasticized green beret on her head with a white and blue feather.
42. Yukimura Kusunoki
One of the main characters in the light novel and anime series Haganai is Yukimura Kusunoki. She wants to study Kodaka and learn how to become a boy since she thinks she is a boy and because everyone is terrified of him. In the end, it is revealed to everyone, including Yukimura, that she is a girl, despite having been brought up by her parents to think she was a guy. Yukimura has light brown hair that falls to her shoulders and brown eyes.
43. Souta Takanashi
One of the key characters in Working!! Is Souta Takanashi, also known as Kotori, in his cross-dressing identity? At the beginning of the series, he is a 15-year-old high school student working as a recently hired server at Wagnaria Restaurant. Takanashi is a young man with sienna-brown eyes, circular glasses, dropped brown hair that has bangs that reach his eyebrows, and a slightly tanned complexion.
44. Honjo Kamatari
Honjo Kamatari belonged to the Juppongatana, a group that followed Shishio Makoto’s directives. When Kamatari confesses that he is a guy, Makimachi Misao is utterly shocked by how much Kamatari resembles a lady. He opens his kimono to show a massive penis in the manga.
45. Gasper Vladi
One of the male leads in High School DxD is Gasper Vladi. Gasper has platinum blond hair, pinkish-violet eyes, and an androgynous appearance. He has pointy ears and short, bobbed hair with several little fringes over his forehead. He resembles a stunning female, according to Kiba.
46. Kenjiro Hato
The final new Genshiken member and the lone guy to join Genshiken Nidaime is Kenjiro Hato. In reality, Hato looks like a young bishounen boy with short dark hair. He is praised for having a perfect complexion due to the numerous moisturizers he uses regularly.
47. Haku
The name Yubaba gives Nigihayami Kohakunushi, who appears in the majority of the movie: The deuteragonist of the 2001 animated film Spirited Away is named Haku. Physically, Haku appears to be roughly 12 years old. He has bobbed, dark green hair that is straight and green eyes that are slightly slanted.
48. Amane Nishiki
The leader of the dance group is Amane Nishiki. Since BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, he has been a selectable character. He is the world’s bystander at the moment. Amane Nishiki is an androgynous male character with blue eyes, violet hair pulled back into a bun, and dark pink eye shadow. He also wears red lipstick. He is dressed in a flowing pink and red kimono that reveals his shoulders, a black skintight turtleneck below, black shorts and legwarmers, and red platform sandals.
49. Neferpitou
Neferpitou, along with Shaiapouf and Menthuthuyoupi, is one of the three secondary antagonists of the Chimera Ant arc and a key adversary in the Hunter × Hunter anime and manga. The pronoun “they” will be used in this article because the character’s gender is unclear. Neferpitou is a chimera ant with cat and human characteristics. They resemble cats in some ways, such as having cat ears and a tail, but they largely have human traits. Neferpitou also has big, red eyes with yellow underneath and short, white, wavy hair that falls to her chin.
50. Emporio Ivankov
The “Queen” of the Kamabakka Kingdom, also known as the “Okama King” and a “Miracle Person,” Emporio Ivankov, or Iva for short, is the Revolutionary Army’s commander and in charge of the G Army, which guards the Grand Line. Ivankov is a tall, indigo-colored afro-haired man with long eyelashes. His chin has an arrowhead-like appearance and is disconcertingly formed.