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SilverMaple
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:06 am

Ah, the contrasts of the young and innocent versus the tall and lusty... Eh, I'll take it however it is. blaugh

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:36 am

That makes alot of sense,
but in Lovless, Soubi as light hair and hes more alpha and Ritsuka has black hair

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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:38 pm

Anime & Manga characters always have different hair colors to better differentiate them from one another, otherwise they would all have the naturally Asian black hair. I have noticed, though, that many times seme & uke are drawn with different colored hair, but I think that just follows my previous point.

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:59 pm

Cute. True in lots of cases, but not most. I think it's really a way of seperating seme from uke. Few semes and ukes have similiar colored hair. Plus style does play in. I mean I'm not feeling like naming specifics, but it's normally easy to tell personality traits through hair in anime, since that's a big way of expression in anime.

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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:37 pm

Yup, I've noticed the frequent hair color combo. The dark/seme and light/uke is pretty common in yaoi and BL.

I guess it's used to symbolize the uke as the more innocent partner and the seme as the darker, more mature partner.

Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 3:09 am

Creide Idun

hmm, just thought of this, do most ukes and semes have opposing hair color?
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mostly yes, because its easier then to tell the difference between the characters, but sometimes you can find both seme and uke dark haired or light haired.