Some people love anime, and others find it a bit too childish. But if you’re an anime fan, looking at these 50 purple-haired anime characters will put a smile on your face! We’ve included the name of each character and the show/manga they come from. So scroll down to see who tops our list!
1. Yuki Nagato (Suzumiya Haruhi)
The third member of the SOS Brigade is Yuki Nagato. She comes across as a reserved, quiet bibliophile at first. She subsequently admits to Kyon that she was an extraterrestrial produced by the Data Overmind with superhuman abilities. She was assigned to North High to keep an eye on Haruhi Suzumiya, and throughout her time there, she understood who she was as a person and her feelings (according to Kyon).
2. Sailor Saturn (Sailor Moon)
The fictitious Sailor Saturn appears in Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon manga series. Sailor Saturn is the alter ego of Hotaru Tomoe, a 12-year-old Japanese schoolgirl who is her lookalike reincarnation and is entirely distinct from the other nine reincarnated Sailor Guardians and their human identities.
3. Yukari Yuzuki (Hagane Orchestra)
Japanese VOCALOID Yuzuki Yukari was created by Vocalomakets and is available through AH-Software Co. Ltd. She was first made available for the VOCALOID3 engine in December 2011. She is furthermore offered a VOICEROID+. She received two more voicebanks and an upgrade to the VOCALOID4 engine in March 2015.
4. Nozomi Toujou (Bokura No Live Kimi To No Life)
One of the critical characters in Love Live! is Nozomi Toujou. Until she graduated in the anime series finale, she was a third-year student at Otonokizaka High School, but she kept her position in Love Live! The film, The School Idol. She belongs to Lily White. Purple characterizes her image.
5. Neptune (Choujigen Game Neptune The Animation)
Neptune is the primary character of Hyperdimension Neptunia and the human embodiment of Purple Heart, Planeptune’s CPU. She loses her memories after a tragic conflict and is exiled to Gamindustri. Neptune crashes lands and wakes up at Compa, a nurse-in-training house. She must now attempt to persuade the other Goddesses and party members to join her in taking down the goddess Arfoire.
6. Laki Olietta (Fairy Tail)
Laki Olietta is a tall, slender young woman with straight, light lavender hair styled in a bowl cut, leaving the right side of her forehead bare and the left side covered by her fringe. She has also been spotted with longer hair in other pictures, framing her face with two bangs and her fringe hiding her forehead. She has a vast, dark-colored ribbon decorating the top of her head and brown eyes.
7. Katakuri (One Piece)
The older triplet brother of Daifuku and Oven, The second son and third child of the Charlotte Family is Charlotte Katakuri. He oversees Komugi Island as the Minister of Flour for Totto Land and is one of the Three Sweet Commanders of the Big Mom Pirates.
8. Akatsuki (Log Horizon)
A Human Assassin-Tracker who was a founding member of Log Horizon is Akatsuki. Shizuka Hanekura was her true name, and she was a student at Yamazaki Gakuen University. It backfires on Akatsuki when the Catastrophe occurs and forces all gamers who are currently logged in into the world of Theldesia. She has always been naturally short and cutesy.
9. Nemu Kurotsuchi (Bleach)
Nemu Kurotsuchi, originally Nanag Nemuri, was a lieutenant in the Gotei 13’s 12th Division who worked for Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi. Nemu is a young, slender woman with emerald eyes who is well-endowed. Her bangs are slightly parted, and her black hair is tied back in a long braid.
10. Ultear Milkovich (Fairy Tail)
The daughter of Ur is a female mage named Ultear Milkovich. She was formerly a Magic Council member. Additionally, she had formerly belonged to Grimoire Heart, where she had served as the head of the Seven Kin of Purgatory. She co-founded Crime Sorcière after leaving the Dark Guild, became an Independent Mage, and remained there until the X791 Grand Magic Games were over.
11. Margaret Liones (Seven Deadly Sins)
The Seven Deadly Sins is an anime and manga fantasy series with Margaret Liones as a supporting character. She is one of the three princesses of the Kingdom of Liones; the elder adopted sister of Elizabeth Liones and the older sister of Veronica Liones. In both English and Japanese, she was voiced by Dorothy Elias-Fahn
12. Mizore Shirayuki (Heroes)
One of Rosario + Vampire’s primary characters is Mizore Shirayuki. She is a snow fairy or Yuki-Onna. Her mother, Tsurara Shirayuki, makes an appearance towards the beginning of the school festival under the impression that Tsukune is her daughter’s lover. In contrast, her father, who remains nameless, briefly appears in the second anime version. She is voiced in both the anime’s Japanese and English versions by Rie Kugimiya and Tia Ballard.
13. Rock (Nanbaka)
One of the primary characters in the Nanbaka Web Manga and anime series is Rock, prisoner number 69. He is a prisoner at Nanba Prison, housed in cell number 13 in building 13. He was a muscular man who loved fighting and was detained for inciting a gang war.
He lived with Sadao Maou and Ashiya after the Demon Lord vanquished him.
He lived with Sadao Maou and Ashiya after the Demon Lord vanquished him.
14. Shorter Wong (Banana Fish)
He lived with Sadao Maou and Ashiya after the Demon Lord vanquished him, yet he has demonstrated a bond with Ash’s crew. He regularly protects Ash, keeping an eye out for him and saving him when required. Later, when dangers loom around them, he assists him and learns more about Banana Fish.
15. Tsukasa Hiiragi (Lucky Star)
One of Lucky Star’s four central protagonists is Tsukasa Hiiragi. She is the only member of the Lucky Star cast to refer to Konata Izumi as “Kona-chan.” She belongs to the Hiiragi family and is Kagami Hiiragi’s younger twin sister.
16. Veronica Liones (Seven Deadly Sins)
The second princess of the Kingdom of Liones is Veronica Liones. Older than her adopted sister, the third princess Elizabeth, and younger than the first princess Margaret. Veronica is thin and has short, light violet hair. She has a tomboyish look. She is dressed in a breast binder, a chic pink fur coat, knightly-inspired armor, a belt, and tall boots.
17. Kagami (Lucky Star)
One of Lucky Star’s four central protagonists is Kagami Hiiragi. She gets along well with her pals, Konata Izumi and Miyuki Takara, and is Tsukasa Hiiragi’s elder twin sister. Kagami has a typical build. She wears her long, unkempt, pale purple hair in twin tails wrapped with dark purple ribbons
18. Ririchiyo Shirakiin (Blend S)
The story’s primary protagonist is Ririchiyo Shirakiin. She formerly lived in room #4 of Ayakashi Kan, who was Soushi Miketsukami’s customer. She often presents a cold front since it is the only way she can handle all she has been through. Ririchiyo decides to relocate to Ayakashi Kan to be alone since she is continuously upset over her inability to interact with others effectively.
19. Ryou Fujibayashi (Clannad)
Ryou Fujibayashi is a supporting protagonist. She is a classmate of Tomoya’s and his representative. She is the less well-known and younger twin of the Fujibayashis. However, there are a few discrepancies between Ryou and her sister Kyou’s appearance. Ryou has short, clipped hair and drooping blue eyes in contrast to Kyou, who has hip-length hair and piercing, purple eyes.
20. Anko Mitarashi (Naruto)
Anko Mitarashi is a tokubetsu jōnin who teaches at Konohagakure’s Academy. Anko was a member of a group led by Orochimaru when she was a genin. In the second round of the Chunin Exams, their squad faced off against a group that included Hayate Geek, Ibiki Morino, and Tokara.
21. Mephisto Pheles (Blue Exorcist)
The second-strongest of the Eight Demon Kings and an Exorcist named Samael, Mephisto Pheles, is known as The King of Time. He is the Principal of True Cross Academy and goes public by the name Johann Faust V.
22. Bulma (Dragon Ball)
As Goku’s first buddy, Bulma is a smart scientist who is also the second child of Dr. Brief, who founded Capsule Corporation, and his wife Bikini, Tights’ younger sister. She was Yamcha’s ex-girlfriend before she moved on and eventually married Vegeta and gave birth to Trunks and Bulla.
23. Kotomi Ichinose (Clannad)
Tomoya Okazaki’s childhood buddy Kotomi Ichinose is in the same year and a different class as Tomoya, similar to Kyou Fujibayashi. Kotomi is a brilliant young woman frequently spotted reading books or tearing up printed material at libraries. Étude Pour les Petites Supercordes is Kotomi’s theme.
24. Cornelia Li Britannia (Code Geass)
The second princess of the British Imperial Family and half-sister of Lelouch, Cornelia li Britannia, is a 27-year-old woman. She finished the creation of Area 18 just before arriving in Area 11 and is a master of Knightmare Frame fighting. In the first season, she plays one of the primary villains before switching to a neutral role in the second. Junko Minagawa (Japanese) and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn provide her voiceovers (English).
25. Yami Yugi (Yu Gi Oh)
The ghost of Pharaoh Atem imprisoned in the Millennium Puzzle is Yami Yugi, also known as the Nameless Pharaoh and Dark Yugi in the manga and Japanese adaptations. Along with Yugi Muto, he serves as the primary protagonist of both the first and second series.
26. Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost In The Shell)
Major Motoko Kusanagi is the lead character of Masamune Shirow’s anime and manga series. She is a cyborg who works as a squad leader for Public Security Section 9, a fictitious part of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission. She was a member of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and attained the rank of major.
27. Yoruichi Shihouin (Bleach)
Yoruichi Shihin served as the former commander of the Onmitsukid and the previous captain of the Gotei 13’s 2nd Division. She had Marenoshin Maeda as her Lieutenant. She no longer exercises leadership over either post and now collaborates with Tessai Tsukabishi and Kisuke Urahara at the Urahara Shop in the Human World.
28. Misato Katsuragi (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
One of the Neon Genesis Evangelion series’ primary characters is Misato Katsuragi. She held the position of operations director at NERV and began there with the rank of captain before being elevated to major. Misato’s original position in Rebuild of Evangelion is a lieutenant colonel.
29. Sheele (Akame Ga Kill)
Sheele was a Night Raid assassin squad member for the Revolutionary Army and a Teigu Extase user. Sheele was a curvy, long-haired young woman with purple eyes and long hair. She typically wore white boots with a revealing, sleeveless lilac cheongsam with detachable lilac arm sleeves. She frequently carried her Teigu.
30. Konan (Naruto)
Konan was a founding member of the first Akatsuki and a kunoichi from Amegakure. She was teamed with Nagato, the only member to call him by his name after Yahiko’s passing, who had since seized charge of Akatsuki. Konan left Akatsuki after Nagato’s passing, resulting in Amegakure’s de facto village chief.
31. Shuu Tsukiyama (Tokyo Ghoul)
The notorious Gourmet ghoul of the 20th ward was Shuu Tsukiyama. He was a fourth-year student majoring in social welfare at Seinan Gakuin University’s Department of Human Sciences. He is descended from the powerful and affluent Tsukiyama family, whose patriarch was Mirumo Tsukiyama.
32. Camui Gakupo (Maker Hikoushiki Hatsune Mix)
Internet Co., Ltd. created and published Camui Gackpo, a Japanese VOCALOID, under the name Gackpoid in July 2008 for the VOCALOID2 engine. In July 2012, There were new developments for the VOCALOID3 engine; GACKT, a male Japanese singer, songwriter, actor, and musician, lends his voice to the character.
33. Kagami Konoe (Lucky Star)
One of Lucky Star’s four major protagonists is Kagami Hiiragi. She gets along well with her pals, Konata Izumi and Miyuki Takara, and is Tsukasa Hiiragi’s elder twin sister. Kagami konoe has a typical build. She wears her long, unkempt, pale purple hair in twin tails wrapped with dark purple ribbons.
34. Touka Kirishima (Tokyo Ghoul)
Ghoul Touka Kirishima was formerly an Anteiku waitress. She is the older sister of Ayato Kirishima, the wife of Ken Kaneki and the mother of Ichika Kaneki, and the daughter of Arata Kirishima and Hikari Kirishima.
35. Saeko Busujima (High School Of The Dead)
Saeko Busujima, a student at Fujimi High School, is the daughter of Master Busujima and a survival group member and unofficial point man under the leadership of Takashi Komuro. She was in her third year at Fujimi High School when the end of the world occurred, and she served as the club’s captain.
36. Blair (Soul Eater)
Maka Albarn and Soul Eater originally believed Blair, a cat witch, to be a true witch. Later, she moved in with Maka and Soul and began working as a Chupa employee. While assisting the DWMA, Maka, and Soul on their numerous missions, she occasionally works with them.
37. Minene Uryuu (Mirai Nikki)
The “Escape Diary” is held by Ninth Diary Holder Minene Uryuu. She also serves as the lead character of the Future Diary spinoff Mosaic, focusing on Minene before and after she acquires her Future. In her twenties, Minene is a young woman with long purple hair and violet eyes.
38. Kae Serinuma (Watashi ga Motete Dousunda)
The series’ primary character is Kae Serinuma, subsequently known as Kae Mutsumi solely in the manga. She is a second-year student, a full-fledged otaku, and a fujoshi. She is Takur Serinuma’s younger sister and the daughter of Hideo and Mitsuko Serinuma.
39. Lucifer (The Devil Is A Part-timer)
One of the leaders of the Demon King’s army is the fallen angel Hanz Urushihara. Olba Meyer discreetly saved Lucifer after he was defeated by Hero Emilia and offered to return him to paradise, provided they worked together to defeat the Lord of Demons. After being defeated by the Demon Lord, he moved in with Sadao Maou and Ashiya.
40. Sinbad (Magi)
The former ruler of Sindria is named Sinbad, the Globe Innovator, the leader of the International Alliance, and the head of the Sindria Commercial Company, the most potent trading entity in the world. He is a King Vessel and a Dungeon Capturer. He also served as the alliance’s supreme commander.
41. Kyoka Jiro (My Hero Academia)
In Class 1-A at U.A. High School, Kyoka Jiro, popularly known as Hearing Hero: Earphone Jack, is a student pursuing his dream of becoming a Pro Hero. Kyoka is a young woman with a slim body and pale complexion. She has onyx eyes that are trapezoidal and lazy-looking, with noticeably long lower eyelashes and sparse eyebrows.
42. Ritsu (Assassination Classroom)
A.I. Ritsu is also called Autonomously Intelligent Fixed Artillery, and the first of the two admitted transfer pupils in Korosensei’s class 3-E at Kunugigaoka Junior High School. Ritsu’s primary body is an enormous rectangular robotic enclosure with a visual screen called the Autonomously Intelligent Fixed Artillery.
43. Ayato Kirishima (Tokyo Ghoul)
The pseudonym Black Rabbit is used by Ayato Kirishima, the younger brother of Touka Kirishima. He was raised in the 20th ward with his sister, but at some point, he moved out. Then, according to Kazuichi Banjou, Ayato started to roam around each of Tokyo’s wards, wreaking pure havoc and destruction upon them, until Tatara saw his special skills.
44. Rize Kamishiro (Tokyo Ghoul)
Ghoul Rize Kamishiro was Matasaka Kamishiro’s foster daughter. Rize was the illegitimate daughter of previous CCG chairman Tsuneyoshi Washuu and was born into the Washuu Clan. As a young kid, she fled the clan and organization V.
45. Atsushi Murasakibara (Kuroko No Basket)
The former center for the Generation of Miracles which currently represents Yen High, is Atsushi Murasakibara. For someone his age, Murasakibara’s height is rather unusual. He is one of the biggest players in the whole series, even taller than Papa Mbaye Siki. His violet eyes and purple, shoulder-length hair reach his back.
46. Hitagi Senjougahara (Monogatari)
The Monogatari Series’ primary character is Hitagi Senjougahara. She attended Naoetsu Private Academy and was rescued from the Weight Crab Aberration by Koyomi Araragi, who would become her lover. Later, she becomes a businesswoman and works for a firm rivaling her father’s.
47. Shinoa Hiiragi (Owari No Seraph)
A prominent member of the Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign manga series, Shinoa Hiiragi is a character in the novel Seraph of the End. She also appears in Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen, the manga adaptation of the precursor novel Seraph of the End. Shinoa, Mahiru Hragi’s younger sister, comes from the illustrious and wealthy Hragi family.
48. Faye Valentine (Cowboy Bebop)
Faye Valentine is a previously sought bounty head which eventually joined the Bebop’s band of bounty hunters. Faye appears to be no older than 23, yet her true age is closer to 77. This is because she spent 54 years in suspended animation before being put into a cryogenic freeze following a space shuttle mishap.
49. Shinobu Kocho (Demon Slayer)
In the 2019 anime television series Demon Slayer, an adaptation of the fantasy horror manga series: Kimetsu no Yaiba, which ran from 2016 to 2020, Shinobu Kocho had a significant supporting role. She is a supporting figure from the Demon Slayer series and the Insect Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps.
50. Trunks (Dragon Ball)
As the firstborn and only son of Vegeta and Bulma and the older brother of Bulla, Trunks is a Saiyan/Human hybrid. Trunks have the same blue eyes as his mother and either blue or lavender hair. He has the same eye shape, facial characteristics, and brown complexion as his father.