In the anime world, characters often resemble each other across different series, sparking interesting discussions among fans. It’s funny encountering two characters who could pass as siblings despite belonging to separate anime universes, each having their unique personality and story.
While we explore these similar characters, we not only get to see the coincidences in their creation we also get to see the universal themes in anime character designs that cause similarities between characters. Furthermore, it is seen that many authors create characters inspired by characters from other anime. Without further ado, let’s spot the similarities in the following anime characters.
15Teruhashi Kokomi and Kawashima Ami
Teruhashi from The Disastrous Life of Saiki K And Kawashima Ami from Toradora! bear quite the resemblance, both their appearance and their attitude.
Both Teruhashi and Kawashima are considered to be beauties in their shows. Both of them have long blue hair, blueish eyes, and a nasty attitude, making them to appear strikingly similar from a mile away.
14Honda Tohru and Hiyori Iki
Honda Tohru from Fruits Basket and Hiyori from Noragami are really similar in many ways. Both of them are really good and kind-hearted girls who are dragged around by the mess created by the male characters around them.
Both of them have flowing black hair and round eyes and are petite. Also, both of them are normal high school girls. Well, Hiyori used to be normal until she met Yato but she is human none the least.
13Yuuri Plisetsky and Ash Lynx
Yuuri from Yuri on Ice! and Ash Banana fish, although from a very diverse genre, having really different personalities, have a somewhat similar appearance.
Both have slightly long blonde hair, greenish eyes, and really similar facial features. They both can also be caught with a grumpy face, making it seem as if they may be brothers in a parallel universe.
12Izumi Shinichi and Yuri Katsuki
Izumi Shinichi from Parasyte and Yuri Katsuki from Yuri on Ice look like the same person. From their hairstyle to their eyes to even their facial features, they all resemble each other. Both of them even wear specs.
While these two characters do end up having slightly different appearances towards the end of their anime, in the initial stages of the anime, when both of them were timid boys, they looked like the same people.
11Okumura Rin and Gray Fullbuster
Everyone knows what the hottie from Fairy Tail, Gray, looks like: jet-black hair, narrow eyes, and sharp facial features. Funnily enough, Okumura Rin from Blue exorcist bears a striking resemblance to Gray’s appearance.
While there are years of differences between their personalities, the only notable difference in their appearance would be Gray’s eye color, which is black.
10Kageyama and Shikamaru Nara
The genius prodigy from Naruto, Shikamaru, uses the shadow technique. This may be the most ironic duo in this list, but a certain villain mob character from Fairy Tail called Kageyama during the Lullaby arc bears the the most uncanny resemblance to Shikamaru.
From their hair, both long and tied up, to facial features and even the abilities they use. Both of them use shadow-based abilities. The resemblance is so striking that it’s apparent that Kageyama was inspired by Shikamaru.
9Lucy Heartfilia and Rebecca Bluegarden
Lucy Heartfilia from Fairy Tail and Rebecca Bluegarden from Eden’s Zero are both characters from manga made by Hiro Mashima. It’s popular knowledge that Hiro Mashima always carries over characters from his previous works to his next work in some way or the other. One look at the key visuals of Fairy Tail and Edens Zero would make this fact apparent.
Both Lucy and Rebecca have blonde hair, similar body figures, and facial structures with slight modifications here and there. One could also say Rebecca is Lucy from a parallel universe.
8Feitan Portor and Levi Ackerman
Levi Ackerman from Attack on Titan and Feitan Portor from Hunter x Hunter is also a duo with a hilariously similar face. This resemblance only exists so long as Feitan remains with half of his face covered.
Otherwise, both characters have the exact same hair: black and middle-parted. They also have the exact same narrow eyes and the same look of disgust on their faces.
7Kitagawa Marin and Shiina Mashiro
While on quick glance, Kitagawa Marin from My Dress-Up Darling and Shiina Mashiro from The Pet Girl of Sakurasou may not appear to look all that similar, on closer inspection, it is evident that they both bear quite a few similarities.
Both characters have long blonde hair, pinkish eyes, and a cute face. Their personalities are far, far apart, which may be reason for anyone to deny their similarity. However, they do have similar looks.
6Kurahara Kakeru and Kageyama Tobio
Kakeru from “Run with the Wind” and Kageyama from Haikyuu! are both characters from sports anime. They both are also really so similar that one could also mistake them for brothers.
For starters, both of them have really similar arrogant personalities. Besides this, they both have short black hair and the exact same black eyes, chiseled jawlines, and athletic bodies.
5Ryuuji Takasu and Hikigaya Hachiman
Takasu from Toradora! and Hachiman from Oregairu are really similar, based on their seemingly shy personality and their appearances.
Both Hachiman and Ryuuji have short hair that covers their foreheads, sharp eyes with black pupils, and, funnily enough, both of them have a default slouching posture. All of these make them have an uncanny resemblance.
4Takanashi Rikka and Misaki Mei
Rikka from “Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions” and Misaki from “Another” being similar is common knowledge in the anime community because of a certain meme that surfaced a few years ago.
Both of them wear an eyepatch, and have blackish hair, pretty round eyes, and a cute face. Both characters are middle school students and make an awkward girl-boy duo in their respective schools.
3Yumeko Jabami and Yor Forger
Yumeko Jabami from Kakegurui and Yor from Spy x Family, although really, really different personality-wise, share quite a few physical features.
They both have a pretty face, red eyes, long black hair, and a good figure. Their face shape does have a few differences, but they both are frighteningly overpowered characters in their respective anime.
2Loid Forger and Miyuki Shirogane
Loid from Spy x Family and Shirogane from Kaguya Sama Love is War are really different in many aspects, like their ages, professions, personalities, and even the genre of their anime. Despite all this, they have a strikingly similar appearance.
Miyuki Shirogane and Loid Forger both have blonde hair and narrow eyes(Shirogane has blue eyes, and Loid has greenish eyes). Both these characters are also really intellectual individuals in their respective anime, making the two appear to be similar.
1Gildarts Clive and Shanks
Gildarts from Fairy Tail and Shanks from One Piece are probably the most similar-looking characters in this entire list. Both of them are really powerful characters in the respective anime and are looked up to by the younger generation.
Both Gildarts and Shanks are tall, have the same beard and brownish hair, and both have a scar on their face. They both also have really muscular builds.
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