7 Likely Asexual Anime Characters

Sexuality drives anime characters as it does many people in real life. You watch a romance show to watch characters fall in love. You watch a show like Naruto or My Hero Academia to ship different characters and hope those ships set sail. However, not everything is about those feelings of attraction. Sometimes, people can feel love, but they don’t feel an explicit sexual attraction to any gender. They are labeled as asexual and widely ignored in all media, anime included. However, whether they were created as asexual or not, there are many characters who exhibit signs of asexuality in anime.

Best Asexual Anime Characters

Sunakawa from My Love Story

Suna is actually a pretty interesting case for a boy in a romance anime. At one point, he is confronted with a love interest, and he lets her down as gently as someone can. Now does his lack of love for her make him asexual? Certainly not. Men can be just as not into women as women can be to men. However, what makes him likely asexual is he shows no romantic interest to anyone. Can you remember a time in your adolescence where you had no one you found remotely interesting? Not one even small crush? That is what makes him a likely culprit.

Anri from Durarara

Durarara actually has a few characters of likely asexuality, probably because the show isn’t really about love. While Izaya is a likely culprit, even stating that he is not interested in either gender in the actual novels, Anri is also likely one as well.

For watchers of the show, you will remember that she may or may not start to have feelings for a particular man later in the show. However, Anri’s asexuality is based more on need rather than the traditional “can’t” of true asexuality. Feelings of love in Anri make her more susceptible to possession by Saika, and that’s not a good thing.

Vampires from Seraph of the End

I enjoy shows that give interesting tidbits to tired old vampire lore. One interesting tidbit in Seraph of the End is that vampires lose all sexual longing when they lose their humanity. That is replaced simply with a lust for blood. This certainly turns Anne Rice novels or even other anime like Devil’s Line on their head, now doesn’t it?

Saiki from The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.

Even though it is a gag comedy show, still you would have some sort of romantic interests as a normal teenage boy. However, Saiki is not a normal teenage boy. In fact, he can even transform himself into a girl if he wants to. Due to his psychic powers, he goes to great lengths to avoid any relationships, though his opinion on friends has changed slightly. The only thing he is even remotely interested in is coffee jelly.

Nozaki from Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun

It is almost like Nozaki’s likely asexuality is part of the joke of the show. It centers around a girl desperately trying to get the attention of the shoujo manga artist Nozaki, and him being completely indifferent. Not just indifferent to her, indifferent to all his peers. Furthermore, you also watch him not seem to quite understand the meaning of the emotions he puts into his shoujo manga, an often emotionally-charged genre. While he can write the feelings well, it is demonstrated throughout the series that he has no understanding of them.

Handa from Barakamon

Throughout the show, you see Handa as a man obsessed only with his art. The only thing that can distract him from his art is the problems of the neighbor kids. Perhaps this innate asexuality is best for a show like Barakamon, a series about a grown man hanging out with a bunch of children.

Light from Death Note

Light uses women in Death Note the same as Light uses everyone. Sure, he has a focus, but no focus can overcome a need if there is one. Throughout Death Note, Light does things specifically because he knows that is what “normal” boys would do. However, he doesn’t actually do any of those things, including his girlfriend, because he is shown to enjoy it. Sure he might keep Misa happy with his body, but he never shows any inclination of sexual desire of any kind.

If you have any more asexual characters to add to the list, let us know in the comments section below.