20 Best Anime Characters With Blue Hair
Blue-haired characters are known for their composed demeanor and tranquil presence. They rarely intrude or pester, but instead, merely make themselves known. Blue-haired characters will often represent patient and understanding characters, hence why so many characters feel comfortable around them.
As natural peacemakers, blue-haired characters rarely stir the pot and extremely loathe the idea of creating conflict. Since they don’t like being in the spotlight, blue-haired characters will keep to themselves and come across as reserved characters. Though they may lack a strong personality like red-haired characters, they possess a unique spirit.
Furthermore, these characters thrive on being organized and don’t like to upset the status quo. As a result, they are very predictable. However, due to their love for order, they can come off as rather controlling.
In this list, I will detail the best blue-haired characters in anime. Beware of spoilers.
20. Eri
Anime Name: My Hero Academia
The granddaughter of the boss of the Yakuza organization Shie Hassaikai, Eri possesses a magnificent Quirk named Rewind that allows her to reverse a living person’s body back to a previous state. This means she can make her target younger, heal any injuries, and undo any mutations they may have.
Overhaul, the central antagonist of the Shie Hassaikai arc, taps into her power to create a Quirk-Destroying drug that he uses on his opponents. However, he holds Eri hostage and physically abuses her for his gain until protagonist Izuku Midoriya rescues her and defeats Overhaul.
19. Jellal Fernandes
Anime Name: Fairy Tail
Jellal Fernandes is a childhood friend of Erza Scarlet and is initially introduced under the alias of Siegrain, a young member of the Magic Council and one of the major antagonists of the series. Though he is revealed to have some history with Erza at the beginning of the series, the nature of their relationship is not made clear until much later. When he was young, Jellal was a kind, empathetic boy who cared deeply for his friends and was always cheerful and optimistic, despite his disposition as a slave.
As a child, Jellal was forced to help build the Tower of Paradise. While there, he was possessed by what he believed was Dark Mage Zeref, supplanting his former kind personality with a more violent one. After a failed escape attempt, he readily accepted punishment in Erza’s stead, and never once lost his faith in the thought of being free. Jellal’s remorse towards his sins has caused him to feel the need to atone for them, which he does by creating Crime Sorcière, an Independent Guild dedicated to the destruction of Dark Guilds.
18. Tenya Iida
Anime Name: My Hero Academia
Tenya Iida is one of the main protagonists of My Hero Academia and the class president of Class 1-A at U. A High School. His hero name is Turbo Hero: Ingenium, and is training to become a professional hero. Depicted as a very studious boy who seems serious and scary at first glance, he is just being honest and strict regarding qualifications to become a hero.
Tenya becomes the class president after the main protagonist, Izuku Midoriya, who won by one vote but was too nervous to hold the position, forfeits it to him. Tenya’s Quirk is Engine, which gives him super-speed via jet engines in his legs. He comes from a well-known family, who have been professional heroes for generations, and his older brother Ingenium inspired him to become a hero that will make his family proud.
17. Ciel Phantomhive
Anime Name: Black Butler
Ciel Phantomhive is the head of the Phantomhive house and chairman of the prosperous Funtom Corporation. Despite being a twelve-year-old child, he has a sophisticated butler demon, Sebastian Michaelis, who he made a contract with to serve him, so he could avenge his parents who were murdered.
Willing to sacrifice his soul for vengeance, Ciel is a wealthy, intelligent boy whose skill in chess shows how he thinks of the world as a chess game, using Sebastian as his pawn in the ultimate game of revenge. As the Earl of the Phantomhive house, he is shown to be an outstanding head who inspires devotion from his servants and, in return, shows sensitive attention to their needs.
16. Inosuke Hashibira
Anime Name: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Inosuke Hashibira is one of the main protagonists of the anime, a member of the Demon Slayer Corps, and a traveling companion of the main protagonist Kamado Tanjiro, Zenitsu Agatsuma, and Kamado Nezuko. Often seen wearing the head of a boar, Inosuke is an extremely irritable and proud demon slayer, who always likes to think he is the strongest fighter in a situation, constantly challenging most people he comes across and wanting others to respect and praise him for his skill.
He is very talented, having been able to learn Total Concentration Breathing and creating his own Breathing Style, Beast Breathing Technique, without any formal training. Having grown up as an orphan in the mountains, he is capable of tracking and killing demons by himself and through teaching himself to fight by imitating the habits of boars, his fighting style is unnatural and vicious, making him a very unpredictable opponent.
15. Kisame Hoshigaki
Anime Name: Naruto
Kisame Hoshigaki was a shinobi of the Hoshigaki Clan from the Hidden Mist Village and a major antagonist in the series. Kisame’s experience with treachery and deceit from his own villager Shinobi caused him to become skeptical and cynical of Shinobi, and became a treacherous person himself.
Formerly a member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, he was approached by Obito Uchiha who was then an impostor of Madara Uchiha, and convinced him to join the Akatsuki after he told him of his Project Tsuki no Mi plan. Having a history of betraying his comrades, he was paired with Itachi Uchiha in the Akatsuki, so the latter could watch him. Initially hostile to each other, the two partners came to a mutual understanding and formed a close bond of respect.
Despite his actions of betrayal, Kisame was an extremely loyal ninja when it came to safeguarding secrets. When he was captured by Might Guy and held for interrogation, he chose to kill himself using his own sharks rather than unwillingly divulge the Akatsuki secrets the Konoha ninjas were after.
14. Rem
Anime Name: Re: Zero – Starting Life in Another World
Rem is a central supporting character in Re: Zero, originally introduced as a secondary antagonist in the story. She works as a maid with her sister Ram in the service of Roswaal Mathers. Rem often speaks in an outwardly courteous way and occasionally acts without thinking.
After the central protagonist Subaru saves her, she falls deeply in love with him, becoming one of his most devoted supporters. Rem will stick with him no matter what transpires, even if Subaru denies himself.
13. Wendy Marvell
Anime Name: Fairy Tail
Wendy Marvell is the youngest Dragon Slayer and member of the Fairy Tail guild and often seems like a mascot for the guild. This results in most of her opponents underestimating her, much to their peril. Despite her small stature, Wendy is a wind elemental Sky Dragon Slayer and possesses healing magic.
Wendy is a timid, compassionate, warm mage who cares deeply for her guild and friends. She seems to have an inferiority complex about herself and her abilities, but when her companions are in danger, she gains confidence in her powers and goes as far as placing herself in harm’s way to protect them.
12. Black Star
Anime Name: Soul Eater
One of the trio of protagonists in Soul Eater, Black Star is an assassin, shadow weapon meister, and the last surviving member of the Star Clan. Taken in by the Death Weapon Meister Academy and raised by Sid Barrett, Black Star is one of the top-ranking students in the academy. His weapon partner is Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, a demon weapon from the Nakatsukasa clan who joined the academy to stop her brother from becoming a kishin.
11. Aomine Daiki
Anime Name: Kuroko no Basuke
Aomine Daiki formerly played for the Generation of Miracles for Teiko Junior High and was the team’s ace and the ‘Light’ of the main protagonist, Tetsuya Kuroko before Kagami Taiga. He currently plays as the ace and power forward of Too Academy. Incredibly fast and versatile, Aomine’s strength lies in his unpredictability, as well as an uncanny ability to shoot from virtually any position.
Though he loves basketball, he has grown caustic and unenthusiastic toward the sport, skipping practice and even arriving late for important matches. This is due to his frustration in not being able to find an opponent capable of matching his skill, thus making him conclude that the only one that can defeat him is himself.
10. Esdeath
Anime Name: Akame Ga Kill
Esdeath was a high-ranking general of the Empire. Eventually, due to Night Raid’s effectiveness as an assassination unit, she became the leader of the Jaegers under the orders of the Prime Minister. She enjoys torturing her enemies slowly, as seen when she used her Teigu to put large blocks of ice in a cauldron so that the people inside would die slower and suffer more.
Despite her sadistic actions, she is actually shown to have a compassionate heart when it comes to the lives of her men and others close to her. She was deeply in love and obsessed with the main protagonist and her enemy, Tatsumi.
9. Princess Nefertari Vivi
Anime Name: One Piece
Nefertari Vivi is the daughter of Nefertari Cobra and Titi and the princess of the Alabasta Kingdom. Introduced initially as one of the antagonists of the Reverse Mountain Arc, she is later revealed to be a spy plotting against the criminal syndicate Baroque Works.
She joined the Strawhat Pirates for most of the Alabasta Arc and left the crew after they defeated the primary antagonist of the arc, Crocodile. Furthermore, she is considered by most fans of the anime to be an honorary member of the Strawhat Pirates.
8. Rin Okumura
Anime Name: Ao no Exorcist
Rin is the son of Satan and the elder, fraternal twin brother of Yukio Okumura. Studying as an Exwire at True Cross Academy, Rin desires to become a Knight Meister and defeat his biological father. Rin can tap into the power he has inherited from Satan through the use of a demon-slaying katana, called Kurikara or Koumaken. The sheath acts as a portal to the demon world, Gehenna, which when drawn returns Rin to his demon form.
As a demon, Rin gains two blue flames that float above his head, long, elf-like ears, and his eyes turn bright blue. In both forms, Rin can almost control his destructive bright blue flames, the trademark sign of Satan. However, when he draws Kurikara, the magnitude of the flames dramatically increases and often leads to Rin being consumed by his own flames and losing his mind.
7. Ban
Anime Name: The Seven Deadly Sins
Ban is the husband of Elaine, father of Lancelot, and the Fox’s Sin of Greed. Formally a bandit, Ban gained immortality after receiving the water from the Fountain of Youth through Elaine. Having spent some time in Purgatory, Ban is extremely resilient and can endure a great deal of pain.
His Sacred Treasure is the Holy Rod Courechouse. Being a member of the Seven Deadly Sins, Ban’s power is Snatch, an ability that enables him to essentially rob physical objects and the abilities of other beings, without making any real or direct contact, because it is an ethereal attack.
6. Mayuri Kurotsuchi
Anime Name: Bleach
Mayuri Kurotsuchi is Captain of the 12th Division in the Gotei 13 and 2nd president of the Shinigami Research Institute. He gained his position after Kisuke Urahara, the former captain and president, was sentenced to exile by Soul Society.
Mayuri Kurotsuchi is a researcher and personifies the stereotype of the mad scientist. Through his early actions during the Ryoka Invasion, he is displayed as one of the most sadistic and cruel Shinigami. He sees everyone and everything not as a living being, but as an object to be researched, including himself.
5. Franky
Anime Name: One Piece
Franky is the shipwright and eighth member of the Strawhat Pirates. His birth name is Cutty Flam but abandoned this name to conceal his identity. Abandoned by his family and taken in by Tom, a shipwright at Water 7, he was involved in a terrible accident that damaged his body, resulting in his body being augmented with mechanical parts and essentially turning him into a cyborg.
A free-spirited, strong-willed pirate and self-proclaimed pervert who holds a strong disdain for rules, Franky is an eccentric pirate who does whatever he wants whenever he wants. His dream is to circumnavigate the world and is the builder of Thousand Sunny, the ship of the Strawhat Pirates. Due to his modifications into a cyborg, Franky is immensely strong and intelligent, capable of taking on multiple foes with his unconventional inventions.
4. Jonathan Joestar
Anime Name: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Jonathan Joestar is the original JoJo and the one who started it all. The biological father to Giorno Giovanna, he is the central protagonist of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Blood. He is depicted as a thoughtful, sincere, optimistic man whose life becomes laden with catastrophe after meeting his adopted brother and main antagonist, Dio Brando.
Unlike his descendants that are Stand users, Jonathan Joestar does not use a Stand. Instead, he learns to use The Ripple, an ancient form of martial arts that produces energy similar to that of the sun.
3. Tetsuya Kuroko
Anime Name: Kuroko no Basuke
Tetsuya Kuroko is the central protagonist in Kuroko no Basuke. He formerly played for the Generation of Miracles as the Phantom Sixth Player and currently plays for Seirin High. Kuroko is an industrious, direct person who always tries to meet the needs of the team above his own.
After joining Seirin and meeting Kagami Taiga, he forms a partnership with him, with him as the shadow and Kagami as the light, with the goal of being the best team in Japan. Despite his fairly weak physique, Kuroko is exceptionally skilled at being able to observe the gameplay and making the perfect pass distribution while remaining essentially invisible to his team and opponents.
2. Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez
Anime Name: Bleach
Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez is an Arrancar and was the 6th Espada in Aizen Sosuke’s Espada army, and the first Espada to be revealed in the series. A crooked number 6 is tattooed on his back, just above and to the right of his hollow hole.
Grimmjow appears to be a laid-back and irreverent individual, but this scruffy appearance hides an impulsive, overly violent personality and a fiery short temper. He is straightforward, terse, and quite sadistic, revealing an insane grin in battle, much like Kenpachi Zaraki. Grimmjow has little respect for authority and says whatever is on his mind, regardless of whether it is appropriate.
1. Konan
Anime Name: Naruto Shippuden
Konan was a shinobi from the Hidden Rain village and a founding member of the Akatsuki. After Yahiko’s death, she was partnered with Nagato, who had since taken control of Akatsuki, and was the only member to call him by his name. After Nagato’s death, Konan defected from Akatsuki and became the de facto leader of the Hidden Rain Village.
She was orphaned as a child during war together with Nagato and Yahiko, forcing her to fend for herself until being found by Jiraiya. Jiraiya trained Konan to take advantage of her natural talent with origami, and as a result, paper is a key component in her battle style. Konan can divide her body into countless numbers of paper sheets, which she controls and reshapes remotely to scout out an area or form weapons for attack.