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He considers dresses girly and refuses to wear them. Akira just thinks of himself as being cute, and he likes cute stuff, nothing to do with gender. Everyone in his village looks the same, but he looks nothing like the villagers, and finally, he escapes to Tokyo. He grew up completely isolated from the rest of the world.

Anime trap meta meme series#

Akira Anime: Kemono JihenĪnother super popular trap is Akira, from the dark anime series Kemono Jihen.

But he’s consistently referred to as male by other characters who actually know him. It might suggest his gender is ambiguous. Chan is a Japanese honorific used for cute anime girls and boys. In the anime, Kalluto is called “Kalluto-Chan”. Combine that with his wearing more feminine attire, and it would be easy for someone to fall for the trap. Kalluto is a young kid, and he’s pretty androgynous. He hardly speaks and wears the traditional Japanese dress Furisode which further mystifies his trap. The youngest son of the famous family of assassins in the Hunter X Hunter universe. Still, when an LGBT crossdressing character sees Lin and asks if he wants to be introduced to some adult sites. He is quite vain and can’t get enough of how beautiful he is. He doesn’t understand what is wrong with men wearing skirts when women can wear pants. Lin doesn’t care for social norms and gender stereotypes. Lin wears women’s clothing so he can feel closer to his sister Qiaomei, from whom he has been separated for nine years. Xianming Lin Anime: Hakata Tonkotsu RamensĪ long, light-brown hair-trained assassin man. She voices the dark Hoshino in Nanana’s Buried Treasure, as well as Megumu in this anime. This is the second Trap that Kana Hanazawa has voiced for the Kanojo ga Flag w Oraretara series. His trap is pretty funny because the only reason it happened was an accident by calling his friend calling him a guy. “Everyone always treats me like a girl” Gee, I wonder why… She’s not a boy, Megumu is gender on its own, just like Kinoshita Hideyoshi. Megumu Touzokuyama Anime: If Her Flag Breaks (Kanojo ga Flag w Oraretara) It’s safe to say that Astolfo is pretty much the mother (and father) of all traps. He’s a male simply because he was born that way. Astolfo doesn’t have any interest in gender identity, so the reason he loves to cross-dress is that he’s into cute stuff. And it’s the same when referred to as female. He refers to himself as “Boku”, which is used to describe both male and female shy/meek characters. Astolfo occasionally likes to mess with people by playing up his gender ambiguity.

His popularity soared thanks to his attributed fabulous memes. Astolfo’s fan art always portrays him as very feminine and ridiculously attractive. He has the looks of a teenage anime girl with long pink hair.

“I never really paid attention to the pronouns he was referred to and just assumed he was a girl but then finding out he was a guy blew my mind.” (Fan comment) Astolfo is a member of the Twelve Paladins of Charlemagne, a group of knights similar to the Knights of the Round Table of King Arthur. Now that you know the basic meaning of traps in anime, young padawan, it is time to explore the list of the greatest 80 mind-blowing traps in anime history. The real gender and social issues of a male with a traditionally feminine appearance are never addressed in a serious matter. The viewers grow to like an anime girl, and then it turns out they grow fond of a guy and vice versa. They cross-dress and generally have a feminine appearance. It generally refers to male characters who behave and dress up as females. Those who adopt a culturally feminine gender expression, mainly through cross-dressing, are known as Otokonoko no Musume, meaning “male-girl” What Is The Actual Meaning Of Anime Traps?Ī “Trap” is a common characteristic term used in anime. In Japan’s traditional theatrical play, Kabuki, the actors were all men who played female roles.