List of bisexual characters in anime

This is a list of characters in animation that either self-identify as bisexual or have been identified by outside parties to be bisexual. Listed characters are either recurring characters, cameos, guest stars, or one-off characters. For the purpose of this article, anime are considered any animations created in Japan and does not include any anime-influenced animation in the United States, Europe, parts of Asia, and elsewhere in the world. For the corresponding list of lesbian anime characters, please read the list of lesbian characters in anime page.

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For the names of bisexual characters in fictional works, see List of fictional bisexual characters. For bisexual literary works, see Bisexual literature. For information about how the media portrays bisexual people, see Media portrayals of bisexuality. For the names of bisexual animation characters, see List of bisexual characters in animation. For information about erasure of bisexual narratives, see Bisexual erasure. For information about public acknowledgement of bisexuality, see Bisexual chic.

Please see the lists of trans, bisexual, non-binary, pansexual, asexual, and intersex characters for information about fictional characters in other parts of the LGBTQ community.

In the 1960s–1980s
Character debut date Title Characters Notes
October 10, 1979 The Rose of Versailles Queen Marie Antoinette Marie enters a political marriage with King Louis XVI of France but falls in love with Count von Fersen. She is considered a love interest of Oscar, a genderqueer woman.,[1][2] though their relationship never quite goes beyond master and servant.[3][4]
Rosalie Lamorlière She is the adopted daughter of Nicole Lamorlière, attempting prostitution at one point to get money,[5] and swears to kill her mother's murderer.[6][7] She tries to kill Oscar's mother but Oscar stops her and soon takes her as an apprentice, earning Rosalie's admiration and love. She later ends up marrying Oscar's friend, Bernard Chatelet.[8]

In the 1990s
Character debut date Title Characters Notes
July 14, 1991 Dear Brother Fukiko Ichinomiya She appears to be calm and generous, but is cruel and manipulative, often psychologically and physically torturing Rei for several ambiguous reasons, such as her desire that Rei should only have eyes for her, no one else.[9][10] She also jealously tries to destroy their relationship by making Nanako love her instead. It is then revealed that she and Rei are full sisters (proving their relationship to be incestual), daughters of the Ichinomiya leader and a maid of the family mansion.[11][12] In the anime, her love for Takehiko is given a backstory: she met and fell in love with him when she was twelve and he spent several days with her in the Ichinomiya mansion, but he unknowingly broke her heart by not showing up to her birthday party.[13][14]
August 1, 1992 Ai no Kusabi Riki Riki was once the gang leader of the Bison gang.[15] However he was captured and kept as a pet for three years by Iason who grew obsessively in love with him.[16][17] She found the characterization of Iason in the third novel to be realistic and compelling,[18] Prior to this, Riki was in a relationship with Guy.[19] He also once engaged in a one-night stand with a female slave named Mimea.
Norris Norris is a member of the Bison gang. He once held feelings towards Riki but now happily dates an older female mechanic named Maxi.[20]
April 20, 1995 Fushigi Yûgi Nuriko Nuriko initially dresses and acts as a woman named Kang-lin, one of Hotohori's concubines because Kang-lin was his twin sister who died and he wanted to keep her memory alive.[21] He enjoys cross-dressing[22] and is in love with Hotohori, but later also grows to love the main heroine Miaka.[23]
October 4, 1995 Neon Genesis Evangelion Shinji Ikari Shinji has expressed attraction towards girls, but also towards Kaworu Nagisa, a boy. He is shown blushing repeatedly when next to him, and after he is forced to kill him, he laments while telling Misato that he loved him.
April 2, 1997 Revolutionary Girl Utena Anthy Himemiya
Utena Tenjou		 The two leads of the series, Utena Tenjou and Anthy Himemiya, were confirmed to be in love by director Kunihiko Ikuhara.[24][25] The characters are seen kissing both in the TV show credits and the movie. Utena is also in love with Akio Ohtori.[26] At the beginning of the series, Anthy is engaged to Kyouichi Saionji, a physically abusive man, who she does not resist and acts as a puppet to obey the current dueling champion, surprised when Utena manages to defeat Saionji, referring to him as a "classmate" after his defeat.[27] Later on in the series it is revealed that Akio has been sexually assaulting Anthy.[28] This differs from the manga where Anthy has a consensual relationship with Akio and a romantic relationship with Utena.
July 2, 1997 Akio Ohtori
Touga Kiryuu		 Akio Ohtori and Touga Kiryuu were shown in bed together, and Miki described Akio as "seducing" Touga.[29] Akio and Touga are playboys with a number of female conquests. Akio's conquests include Utena and Kozue.
July 9, 1997 Kozue Kaoru Kozue Kaoru is obsessively in love with her twin brother, Miki.[30] In one episode, she was shown kissing Anthy.[31]
July 23, 1997 Shiori Takatsuki Childhood friend of Juri Arisugawa who returns to Ohtori Academy. She idolized Juri in the past, but this caused her to question their friendship and she eventually became paranoid.[32] When she finds out that Juri had feelings for her, she acts cruel but has been aware of these feelings toward her for a long period. Even so, she cares enough about Juri to apologize to her, although it is not clear if Juri returns her feelings.[33] In the movie, Shiori sleeps with Touga Kiryuu.

In the 2000s
Character debut date Title Characters Notes
October 2, 2000 Descendants of Darkness Hisoka Kurosaki Asato and Hisoka begin to fall in love with each other.[34] Hisoka showed some level of feelings for a girl named Tsubaki Kakyouin.
October 4, 2000 Gravitation Eiri Yuki Shuichi Shindo falls in love with Eiri Yuki.[35] Over the course of the series manages to melt the cold heart of Eiri and the two become a couple. In one episode, it is revealed that Eiri has a financee named Ayaka, but she backs away after seeing the love between Shuichi and Eiri.[36]
September 6, 2001 Fruits Basket Hatsuharu Sohma Hatsuharu is part of the Sohma family, a family cursed into turning into members of the zodiac when under stress or hugged by members of the opposite sex.[37] He was born in the year of the cow and was often annoyed by people's comments about the stupidity of the cow from the zodiac, and blamed his troubles on Yuki, born the year of the rat. However, Yuki helps him realize he needs to move past people's comments and enters an on/off relationship with Rin Sohma, he refers to Yuki as his first love.
October 24, 2001 X Kanoe The bisexual main antagonist of the series and Princess Hiroto's younger sister.[38] She is in a sexual relationship with Yūto but also flirts with Satsuki and Fūma.
May 23, 2003 Saint Beast Rey
Shin[39]		 Saint Beast is a spinoff franchise of the series Angel Tales. In Angel Tales, Rey loves Tsubasa but in the Saint Beast Franchise, Rey and Luca are lovers.[40] In Angel Tales, Shin loves Ayumi but in the Saint Beast Franchise, Shin and Judas are lovers.[41]
June 3, 2003 Air Master Kinjiro Kitaeda He claims to hate women yet he likes Maki because he thinks she's different.[42] He had his first kiss stolen by one of his male subordinates, Nagato the Long Fist, while Nagato was fighting Fukamichi.
August 16, 2003 Ikki Tousen Ryofu Housen Ryofu has had sexual relations with guys and girls, notably Saji and Chinkyuu. In the anime adaptation, Ryofu is a capable fighter, but more promiscuous than her manga counterpart, as shown when she molests Ryomou. She also sleeps with multiple guys and Chinkyuu on the girls side. She avenges Chinkyuu's death by trying to fight Hakufu at Toutaku's place, ending up committing murder suicide with Toutaku with a point-blank chi blast.[43]
October 2, 2003 Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito Lilith Lilith, the guardian of the Great Library, flirts relentlessly with Hazuki, beginning in the show's third episode, although she is always turned down.[44] Sometimes she goes to absurd lengths to show her love in various book worlds, sometimes even trying to sleep with her.[45][46] Lilith's previous lover was Adam, the library's previous protector, referred to as a male character.[44] While Lilith is close to her sister, Hitsumi, whose real name is Eve, she only loves her in a platonic way.
May 18, 2004 Gantz Masanobu Hojo Masanobu is one of the hunters, the people assigned by Gantz to kill aliens. He is outed by Gantz, who nicknames him "Homo". Kei Kurono, Masaru Kato and Tetsuo Nemoto treat Masanobu with hostility because of his sexuality. Masanobu repeatedly denies being gay, but otherwise says that he is not attracted to Tetsuo in particular. Unlike the others, Kei Kishimoto stands up for Masanobu.[47] In the Buddhist Temple mission, Masanobu dies together with Sadayo "Sadako" Suzumura, a fellow female hunter. In their last breath, after having their torsos severed in half by the sword of the Buddha statue, Sadako kisses Masanobu on the mouth.[48]
September 2004 DearS Mitsuka Yoshimine Mitsuka is an exhibitionist high school English teacher, who often strips down to her lingerie during classes, makes her students read erotic stories, openly asks about their sex lives and flirts with them.[49] She is also a porn actress, who makes her own original videos, and constantly interprets everything around her in a sexual way.[50][49] She is attracted to boys and girls, sometimes seen flirting with her male student Takeya, and her female "DearS" (human-like aliens) students Ren and Miu.[51][52]
October 1, 2004 Kannazuki no Miko Himeko Kurusugawa Chikane has loved Himeko since they met, although (despite her jealousy of Himeko and Sōma's friendship) she does not admit it until much later.[53][54]
October 5, 2004 Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo Franz d'Épinay Franz is engaged to a woman named Valentine for political reasons though he does not love her. He instead heavily implies throughout the series that he has strong feelings for someone else that can never be returned and that he can never marry that person but marriage is not the only way to make the person they love happy. It is later revealed his feelings are towards his best friend Albert. However, he did show some attraction to women and did consider sleeping with a woman in episode 1.[55]
November 6, 2004 Gakuen Alice Nonoko Ogasawara One of Mikan's classmates, possesses the Alice of chemistry, and thus likes to experiment with dangerous chemicals. This geeky side of her led her to become good friends with Hotaru, and later Mikan in the series. Like Anna, she also has a crush on her teacher Misaki.[56]
April 21, 2005 He Is My Master Anna Kurauchi She's bisexual and constantly tries to do perverted acts with Izumi, who is mostly disgusted by her lesbianism.[57] She was originally attracted to Yoshitaka, but because of Izumi's relentless effort convincing her to stay away from Yoshitaka, she mistook it as sign of interest, thus she fell in love with Izumi and became Yoshitaka's maid in order to follow Izumi.[58][59] She even dreams of traveling to the Netherlands to arrange a same-sex marriage, going far as to study the language. She is discouraged later in the episode, finding out that being under 16, they cannot be married (yet).
October 3, 2005 Paradise Kiss Jōji "George" Koizumi George is a designer at Parakiss. He is bisexual and sees himself as an "equal opportunity lover", including with the protagonist, Yukari "Caroline" Hayasaka.[60][61]
January 7, 2006 Tactical Roar Mitori Shimabara She is the ship's physician and is very kind and friendly to everyone and is a constant flirt.[62][63] Especially to Hyosuke, the captain's friend, even though she is married.
Clio Aquanaut She is the player of the crew and is a bisexual with many girls after her. She likes to tease and flirt with Hyosuke as well as anyone else and is the Weapons Chief.[62]
January 18, 2006 Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl Tomari Kurusu Tomari is Hazumu's childhood friend, so the two know a lot about each other and have many memories from the past. After Hazumu's initial transformation, Tomari does not know what to do. Ayuki observes that Tomari liked Hazumu more as a boy, due to the fact that she has had affections for Hazumu for some time. At first, she is very annoyed that everyone around Hazumu is trying to make her more feminine, but ultimately realizes that while Hazumu has changed physically, her personality is still the same, and therefore still the same person inside.[64]
April 5, 2006 Princess Princess The students The students at the all-boy school are routinely shown to admire beautiful boys, including the princesses even when they are dressed as regular male students, as opposed to cross-dressing as girls.[65][66] For example, when Toru Kouno arrives at the school (dressed as a regular male student), all the students look at him with a reddish face and smile in admiration, and he is chosen to become a princess because of his appearance and popularity.[65] Additionally, members of the student council often compliment council president Shuya Arisada on his looks.[66]
April 5, 2006 Ray the Animation Mami Mami is the fourth nurse and the quietest of the group.[67] It is implied that she may be a lesbian or bisexual.
July 1, 2006 Tsuyokiss Erika Kiriya She is the student council president who is nicknamed Hime (姫), meaning Princess, by her peers.[68] As the president, she has a lot of power within the school and is often seen as an intimidating figure to overcome.[69] While in any adaptations of the work she is inclined to flirt with other girls and even try to seduce Yoshimi, like in the anime's first episode, only accidentally interrupted by Sunao, Erika is one of the canonical love interests of the protagonist in the original visual novel.[68]
February 26, 2007 Ikki Tousen Chouhi Ekitoku Like Kanu, Chouhi is also in love with Ryuubi and is always protecting her.[70]
May 4, 2007 Kirarin Revolution Izumi Amakawa Izumi is Kazama Hiroto's childhood friend, who she kisses in one episode, and crossdresses.[71] In later episodes, she gains a mutual relationship with Tsukishima Kirari.[72]
July 3, 2007 Zombie-Loan Koyomi/Yomi Yoimachi Koyomi is a girl with a split personality, her normal shy female personality is usually dominant and has feelings for Shito, enough so that she sacrifices her soul to save his life. Her male persona, Yomi, shows up when Michiru is close or kisses her.[73] Yomi later takes over Koyomi's body and says they are male.
October 4, 2007 Gin Tama Yagyuu Kyuubei Kyuubei was born as a female but raised as a male,[74] later decides to not live as a woman or man but as herself.[75] She developed feelings for Tae and Gintoki. She later competes with Kotaro for the title of "best transgender person."[76]
January 17, 2008 Rosario + Vampire Yukari Sendou Yukari (a witchling) has a crush on both Moka (a female vampire) and Tsukune (a male human). Yukari openly wants to have a three-way relationship with them, but Moka and Tsukune don't return her feelings. When Yukari is introduced in both the manga and the anime, she only likes Moka, not Tsukune. Once Moka saves Yukari from being bullied by their monster schoolmates, Yukari confesses her love to her.[77] At this point, Yukari tries to drive Moka and Tsukune apart, out of jealousy. Only after Tsukune puts himself in harm's way to save Yukari from monsters too, Yukari starts to like him as well and confesses her love to him.[78]
February 3, 2008 Mnemosyne Rin Asogi Rin and Mimi are the main characters of the story, running a consulting business together, known as Asogi Consulting.[79] Throughout the series they have an intimate relationship. Unlike Mimi, Rin had a relationship with two men: Ihika and the Tajimamori, making her bisexual.[80] The latter she talks to throughout the series were in a relationship over a thousands years prior, but he distanced himself from her. Even so, he impregnates her in the last episode.[81]
April 26, 2008 Penguin Musume Cha Chi While Kujira was under the assumption she was a boy, she shared a promise with Cha Chi that if she could defeat her in a duel, she would become her husband.[82] Cha Chi however refuses to listen to Kujira's revelation that she is in fact a girl and continues to fight. Kujira eventually defeats her, but not giving up, Chi decides to enrol in the school to become closer to her. She even becomes jealous at Penguin's closeness with her, hinting that she is still attracted to Kujira regardless of her gender.
May 8, 2008 Junjou Romantica Yoh Miyagi Yoh Miyagi was deeply in love with his female teacher, making her deeply heartbroken when she died, and later married a woman named Risako but divorced her.[83] Her younger brother, Shinobu, goes to meet with Yoh, admitting he fell in love at first sight with him and after some persistent and questionable courting, becomes his lover.[84]
July 8, 2008 Koihime Musō Chōryō Bun'en She has an obsession with Kan'u to the point of modeling her own weapon as a black version of the Green Dragon Crescent Blade.[85]
December 6, 2008[86] A Certain Magical Index Kuroko Shirai Kuroko has an obsessive perverted lesbian crush on Mikoto.[87] It is revealed, in a light novel, that she likes men prior to Mikoto. In the A Certain Scientific Railgun spinoff show, Kuroko continues to lust for Mikoto, occasionally leading to punishment.[88]
January 4, 2009 Maria Holic Miki Miyamae In Season 2, we learn about Kanako's little sister, Miki who visits Ame no Kisaki in Episode 11.[89] She met Mariya when she was in elementary school, and has been in love with her since then. She wants to date Mariya when she enters high school, but Kanako tells her she's a boy.[90] Despite this, Miki promises to enter Ame no Kisaki when she's older and to date Mariya.
Kanako Miyamae Kanako, the main protagonist, is parodied as a stereotypical lesbian with a constant exaggerated demonstration of her attraction to other girls.[91] At the same time, the series likes to tease about chemistry between her and Mariya, although it is not known whether she likes him because of his disguises as a girl, or as a male himself. Arguably though, during the first episode, Kanako did originally fall for Mariya because of believing him at first, to be a "beautiful girl" and her "type".[92]
March 20, 2009 Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar Mexiah Flan (Doll) Doll/Mexiah was eventually unearthed and discovered as an infant with pink hair by Naua Flan, who adopted her with the name Mexiah Flan, and she was raised as Chiaia's older sister. As Mexiah, she is a martial arts instructor at the Holy Land Academy and, unlike her serious sister, is shockingly affectionate toward Kenshi;[93] however, she also has lesbian relationships with some of the female students, all of whom worship her.
July 2, 2009 Sweet Blue Flowers Chizu Hanashiro Fumi's cousin. Chizu and Fumi were very close as children and developed a more physically intimate relationship once they were older. Fumi was in love with Chizu, but Chizu chooses to get married instead, breaking Fumi's heart.[94] Chizu's first child looks a lot like Fumi did as a baby.
July 9, 2009 Yasuko Sugimoto After visiting Fujigaya Girls Academy and rejecting Kyōko's confession, Yasuko asks out Fumi, who accepts.[95] Yasuko developed romantic feelings for a teacher, Masanori Kagami, when she was attending Fujigaya. After his rejection, she switched schools and changed focus from drama to basketball.

In the 2010s
Character debut date Title Characters Notes
August 16, 2010 Kuttsukiboshi Aaya Saitō Kiiko is in love with Aaya, but didn't have the courage to tell her in the beginning.[96] Aaya likes to perform experiments with Kiiko's powers, but in reality she is in love with her. She usually takes the lead when it comes to activities and has an outgoing personality. Aaya's older brother, Kōta Saitō had a terminal disease and manipulated Aaya into having sex with him before going in for his operation where he died.[97]
August 16, 2010 Fairy Tail Freed Justine He has been shown in a side story to be staring happily at nude models and pictures of some of his male teammates including Eve, Hibiki, Ren and Laxus but also claimed to be shy around insufficiently dressed women.[98]
October 1, 2010 Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt Garterbelt He is a priest with an interest in young males, Brief in particular.[99] In his youth however, he was a brutal thug who committed a wide array of crimes including robbery, prostitution, selling drugs and murder.
October 9, 2010 MM! Yumi Mamiya She hates Taro and loves Tatsukichi, but does not know that Tatsukichi is a cross-dresser.[100] In certain scenes in the anime, it is implied that she has lesbian tendencies when groping and fondling Arashiko and Mio.
February 3, 2011 Wandering Son Anna Suehiro She develops feelings for Shuichi as a boy, and disapproves of his crossdressing at first, but later declares that she does not mind if she is "considered a lesbian" if Shuichi comes out as a transgender woman.[101][102] She also is well-known and experienced as a teenage model, often being outspoken, while also liking to modify the clothes she buys.
March 22, 2011 The World's Greatest First Love: The Case of Ritsu Onodera Ritsu Onodera Ritsu and Masamune dated in their high school years[103] but due to a misunderstanding broke up on bad terms, causing Ritsu to state he would never fall in love again. He dated other women in the past to forget but he later meets Masamune once more, with the two eventually rebuilding their relationship.[104]
Kou Yukina Shouta Kisa has a bad habit of falling for good looking men and falls for Kou,[105] but is scared to pursue a relationship as he feels love doesn't really exist. Kou dated women in the past but later falls in love with Shouta and the two develop a strong romantic relationship.[106]
May 7, 2011 Yoshiyuki Hatori Yoshiyuki has been friends with Chiaki for a long time and the two eventually start dating.[107] Hatori had a previous girlfriend in the past.[108]
May 21, 2011 Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Takafumi Yokozawa and Zen Kirishima Takafumi claims to have liked women in the past, but fell in love with Masamune Takano who did not reciprocate his feelings.[109] He later enters a relationship with Zen Kirishima, who was once happily married until his wife tragically passed.[110]
July 7, 2011 Mayo Chiki! Kanade Suzutsuki She notes that Kinjirō is the first, and only, man who is willing to talk her down and she has fallen in love with him as a result. She is also implied to be a bisexual as she has claimed that Subaru was her first love.[111][112][113]
July 29, 2011 Penguindrum Yuri Tokikago She is introduced as Tabuki's girlfriend and later becomes engaged to him.[114] Although she is regarded as beautiful and elegant by others, she considers herself and her body to be ugly. She became attracted to her childhood friend, Momoka because Momoka was the only person to ever call her beautiful and is willing to do anything to bring Momoka back to life.[115]
August 4, 2011 Mayo Chiki! Masamune Usami Masamune has a crush on Suburu and blackmails Jiro into a date at the school festival.[116][111] By the end of the 6th episode, Jiro and Masamune have become good friends.[117] In later episodes, she expresses feelings for Jiro and Suburu.[118][119]
December 17, 2011 Durarara!! Mairu Orihara
Kururi Orihara		 Mairu and Kururi, the sisters of the series' antagonist Izaya Orihara, are openly bisexual characters.[120]
April 10, 2012 Jormungand Sofia Velmer/Valmet She is a lesbian with a crush on Koko Hekmatyar.[121]
July 13, 2012 Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero Chikage Izumi She is a friendly, tomboyish girl with short brown hair and amber eyes. She becomes friends with Miu immediately. She is also a lesbian, and shamelessly admits it, though she develops a slight "liking" for Akatsuki.[122]
September 29, 2012 From the New World Saki Watanabe She loved Shun for a long time but dates Maria and later marries Satoru.[123]
Maria Akizuki She falls in love with and begins to date Saki but later enters a duty pact with and marries Mamoru Itō.[123]
Satoru Asahina Satoru dated Shun for a while but the two later broke up and he began to date another boy for a time, but that relationship also failed.[123] He later falls in love with and marries Saki.[124]
Shun Aonuma He dated Satoru Asahina for a time but was in love with Saki since childhood.[123] However, he stayed away from Saki for fear of his growing uncontrollable power.
October 5, 2012 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Dio Brando Dio is canonically bisexual in both the anime and manga.[125] In the 2007 Eureka interview with Araki (the author of the franchise), when asked about Dio's sexuality, Araki responded: "...women, men? Dio can go with either."[126] Dio's sexuality is incidental to his villainy, and his same-sex relationship with Enrico Pucci in Part 6 of the manga is actually one of his few humanizing moments.
November 16, 2012 Psycho-Pass Shion Karanomori Karanomori is Kunizuka's lover[127] and initiates their relationship when Kunizuka first joins Division 1, lasting through all three seasons. In Psycho-Pass: The Novel, by Makoto Fukami, one of the anime's scriptwriters, Karanomori frequently flirts with Kogami, while Kunizuka feels insecure about her relationship with Karanomori.[128]
January 12, 2013 Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East Genpachi Inukai Genpachi initially held deep feelings for his late fiancée Nui who died but learns she committed suicide because she slept with another man, believing Genpachi died during a war and upon learning he survived, committed suicide out of guilt.[129] Genpachi later falls in love with Shino Inuzuka.
April 21, 2013 Attack on Titan Reiner Braun In one episode, it is revealed Reiner "had no interest in women" while suggesting Ymir's shared homosexuality.[130] But despite that, Reiner has shown some interest in Krista. Asking her to marry him on multiple occasions in his mind.
April 21, 2013 Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet Lukkage She has two female sex slaves who also serve as her co-pilots for her mecha.[131] Later she develops a romantic interest in Pinion, especially with his hair down. In the two OVAs for the show, Lukkage is a former pirate involved with salvaging and guarding Gargantia from threats, with her two companions still by her side, helping her run the ship and gather intel.[132][133]
October 31, 2013 Samurai Flamenco Mari Maya Mari Maya has a fetish for men in uniforms. She also has an inferiority complex towards Moe but the two later reconcile by kissing each other.[134]
April 3, 2014 The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior Sayaka Watanabe A college student who loves to lead men on but reveals later on that she dates both men and women and loves reading BL.[135] She also is shown to have a sexual attraction to her fellow dormmate Mayumi, whom she often fondles despite the latter's resentment.
April 15, 2014[136] Soul Eater Not! Kim Diehl Kim befriends Jacqueline, one of her bully victims who has a secret crush on her, and they become partners.[137] They break up in the show's seventh episode, but may still have some feelings for each other after that point. Kim also has feelings toward Ox Ford at the same academy.[138]
May 9, 2014 Date A Live Miku Izayoi She is introduced as a student of Rindōji Girls' Academy who resents humankind, especially men.[139] She tries to date Shido, and hates humans, declaring that men are her slaves and women are her playthings.[140][141] She later changes her mind, changing back to a human and kissing Shido, saying she lives him.[142]
July 6, 2014 Dramatical Murder Aoba Seragaki, Ren, Koujaku, Noiz, Mink, Clear As the anime is based on a BL game where Aoba is the main character and can end up with Ren, Koujaku, Noiz, Mink or Clear, it is safe to say all these characters have feelings for Aoba in the anime as well.[143] Koujaku is stated to be a womanizer but does have feelings for Aoba though the sexuality of the rest of the cast including Aoba is somewhat more varied and can be gay or bisexual depending on the game's route.
July 9, 2014 Love Stage!! Izumi Sena
Ryoma Ichijo		 The two fall in love despite Izumi initially not being comfortable with the idea of being in a relationship with another man and Ryoma struggling to accept his feelings despite having previously only liked women.[144]
July 17, 2014 Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya Kuro / Chloe von Einzbern Kuro's existence is later revealed to be another side of Illya that was previously sealed away so that Illya could live an ordinary life, but to exist she must obtain mana from others by kissing them.[145] Chloe is almost openly bisexual who has affection for guys like Shirou and any girl she will met, especially Illya.[146][147]
November 2, 2014 Akame ga Kill! Suzuka She is bisexual, having shown enjoyment at being beaten by a group of spies and showing sexual interest in Esdeath and Tatsumi.[148]
July 18, 2015 Shimoneta Otome Saotome After inadvertently discovering Tanukichi changing out of a Blue Snow costume, she blackmails him into being her "pet" for a while, and later joins SOX in order to learn how to draw explicit artwork after being educated on the subject by Ayame.[149] She had an unrequited crush on Anna which slowly disappears after she joins SOX.
July 25, 2015 Gate Tuka Luna Marceau She has entertained a crush on Mari Kurokawa, however she has displayed hidden feelings for the protagonist, Itami often calling him "father" both out of habit and out of bashfulness about her true feelings for him.[150]
April 6, 2016 Super Lovers Haru Kaido Haru Kaido was formerly a player who dated numerous women, but eventually falls for his stepbrother Ren Kaido.[151] Ren himself has been in love with Haru since he was young and has shown no interest in women.
April 10, 2016 Kiznaiver Honoka Maki In love with Ruru, seeking a romantic relationship with her.[152]
October 6, 2016 Yuri on Ice Viktor Nikiforov
Yūri Katsuki		 Throughout the story, Yūri and Victor are shown to have a growing relationship, and in episode 7 they kiss.[153] In episode 10, Yūri buys them matching rings, which Viktor refers to as 'engagement rings'. Both characters' exact sexualities remain ambiguous throughout the series.[154]
December 18, 2016 Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Norba Shino A slightly flamboyant eccentric who's suggested to reciprocate another boy's romantic affections.[155] Outright confirmed bisexual by the series' director Tatsuyuki Nagai.
January 6, 2017 Fuuka Makoto Mikasa He is openly homosexual,[156] although towards the end of the manga he confesses his love for his female sempai.
April 6, 2017 Love Tyrant Yuzu Kichougasaki She has a crush on her half-sister, Akane Hiyama,[157] but later in the series she develops feelings for Seiji Aino.[158]
July 5, 2017 NTR: Netsuzou Trap Yuma Okazaki
Hotaru Mizushina		 The story centers around two high school girls named Yuma and Hotaru who each have a boyfriend but secretly cheat with each other. Yuma cannot explain the feeling she gets around Hotaru, which eventually leads her to believe that their relationship may be more than just a friendship. In the final episode, Yuma finally realizes that Hotaru has had feelings for her all along and confesses her love for her.[159]
July 8, 2017 Hitorijime My Hero Masahiro Setagawa, Kousuke Ooshiba Masahiro is Kosuke's student and "underling" and initially deeply respects him due to being an infamous street fighter who saved him from bullies.[160] The two both showed interest in women in the past, but end up falling in love with each other and end up in a romantic relationship, despite their status as teacher and student.
July 9, 2017 Fate/Apocrypha Astolfo (Rider) Astolfo, while genetically and biologically male, likes to cross-dress, and identifies in the official Fate/Grand Order bio as "gender: unknown" or "le secret". He is willing to allow other characters to believe him to be either gender without objection, and has had relationships with women in the past, while also harbouring romantic feelings towards the series' male protagonist, Sieg.[161]
January 6, 2018 Citrus Mei Aihara Yuzu is a self-proclaimed gyaru who becomes Mei Aihara's older stepsister, and had never dated.[162] Mei is the beautiful and serious Student Council President who is stern, cold and composed, but has a short temper, and appears deadpan. Mei was briefly the fiancé of her male homeroom teacher, until Episode 2.
March 31, 2018 Darling in the Franxx The Nines Although their piloting system is also a "couple" of a boy and a girl, throughout the show their squad is positioned as an "alternative" to traditional heterosexual relationship, and the leader of the Nines even several times lectures on the meaninglessness of gender differences.[163] Previously, he also openly notes his bisexuality, being attracted not only to Ichigo, but also to Hiro as a "cute boy".
April 15, 2018 'Cutie Honey Universe Pochi's Wife Principal Pochi's Wife and Alphonne are in a lesbian relationship.[164][165]
April 22, 2018 Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online Pitohui / Elsa Kanzaki In episode 12, she kisses the main character Karen on the lips and flirts with her.[166] M/Goshi Asogi, who is her manservant and in love with her, warns Karen that Elsa goes through men and women relatively quickly.
June 9, 2018 Clarence In episode 9, Clarence, a fellow GGO player, is dying and Karen demands Clarence give up her remaining magazines.[167] Clarence demands a kiss in exchange and reveals she is female (and chose an androgynous avatar) and that she is bisexual.
July 5, 2018 Banana Fish Ash Lynx Ash has slept with both men and women during his time as a prostitute.[168] Other characters compare him and Eiji to soulmates and chaste lovers and he used to have a crush on a girl when he was 14.[169][170]
July 5, 2018 Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou Sumire Yamanashi Although Sumire is portrayed as sexually attracted to Yuzu, she also has a few moments with the androgynous looking boy Aki.[171]
July 14, 2018 Happy Sugar Life Satō Matsuzaka Satō is depicted as a person who has no prejudices in sexual preferences, and her only canonical love interest is the girl Shio. And although the sexual part of their relationship is still questionable (including at the end of Episode 10 where Satō and Shio share an on-screen kiss after their wedding vows), the manga repeatedly emphasizes the romantic basis of Satō's feelings.[172] At the same time, the nature of Shio's feelings remains partially ambiguous, so the director of the show, in his own words, considered their relationship more family than romantic, although he didn't rule out the presence of both elements in their feelings. The anime ends with Shio implying she could adopt Satō's way of life and her view on love.
July 21, 2018 Daichi Kitaumekawa Satō's high school teacher. Underneath his handsome looks and friendly personality, he is revealed to be a pervert with sadomasochistic tendencies who is obsessed with Satō. Although not overly made clear in the anime, his manga interlude reveals to Satō he has dated several men and women.[173]
July 28, 2018 Grand Blue Azusa Hamaoka She admits in Episode 4 that she is bisexual and is attracted to both Tokita and Nanaka.[174]
August 5, 2018 Asobi Asobase Tsugumi Aozora Tsugumi is a feminine-presenting classmate who the Pastimers suspect of actually being male, especially when Olivia overheard Tsugumi confess they were a boy when breaking up with their boyfriend, leading them to go to great lengths to uncover Tsugumi's true identity.[175] In Episode 10, Tsugumi suddenly kisses Kasumi to which they later confirm that they take an interest in her.[176]
October 13, 2018 Boarding School Juliet Charteux Westia The male protagonist, Romio, discovered that Charteux was in love with Juliet, the female protagonist.[177]
January 25, 2019 Boogiepop and Others Shinjirō Anō Shinjirō Anō is a teenage boy who, in middle school, developed romantic feelings for a male transfer student Taniguchi Masaki as shown in episode 5 and is frustrated in Taniguchi's relationship with his girlfriend Aya Orihata, wondering what Taniguchi sees in her.[178] However, his memories of Taniguchi are erased when he spies on them and is caught and brainwashed by Spooky E, a synthetic human who makes him a human terminal and servant to the "Towa Organization". Boogiepop breaks him out of the mind control and he begins to date a girl. Despite this, Shinjirō feels as if he lost something important and cries when thinking of it, most likely referring to the feelings he had for Taniguchi.
February 9, 2019 Endro! Princess Rona Pricipa O'Lapanesta She is obsessed with the idea of becoming the wife of a hero and emphasizes this, even when it turns out that the hero is a girl.[179] Further in the series, she explicitly declares that gender is not a problem for her.
April 10, 2019[180] Carole & Tuesday Ertegun Ertegun states in the series that he has love "only for capable dudes and great chicks".[181]
Marie and Anne Marie used to date Gus, but now is in a relationship with Anne, and the two plan to get married soon.[182]
July 11, 2019 Given Haruki Nakayama, Akihiko Kaiji, Ugetsu Murata Haruki Nakayama is a 22-year-old graduate student and the band's bassist and bandleader. He has a longstanding crush on Akihiko.[183] Akihiko is a 20-year-old music student and band drummer who has had experiences with men and women. He lives with his ex-boyfriend Ugetsu, with whom he has a strictly physical relationship.[184]
July 31, 2019 Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Apollo Apollo is bisexual as he has many male members of his familia that he loves and also shows sexual desire towards Bell Cranel, a male adventurer. In addition, when he was in heaven he was besotted with the female goddess Hestia, much to her disgust.[185]

Background

For further information see the Summary of animated and anime characters

Bisexuality is a sexual orientation that refers to the romantic and/or sexual attraction towards people of more than one gender (historically towards men and women). Throughout history numerous bisexual characters have appeared in television series, including cartoons, anime and web series. Bisexual characters have been featured in animation and anime for years. Despite this representation, "not all queer presentation" is created equal as one scholar noted, with representation of bisexual and transgender characters lagging behind lesbians and gay men in some respects,[186] with this representation important in the U.S. political climate while GLAAD called for Hollywood to produce more characters with LGBTQ characters.[187][188]

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