Top 40 Best Anime Girls With Brown Hair [2024]

Anime creates crazy and vibrant character designs with vivid and wacky hair designs and eye colors, but sometimes it’s the everyday-looking girls who are the main focus of the story, and brunettes steal the shows and the viewer’s hearts.

They might not have a crazy or complex character design, but all these girls’ personalities shine through, and one of the many reasons that these anime are beloved.

Best Anime Girls With Brown Hair

40. Yamada

Yamada is the main character of B-Gata H-Kei, who she a beautiful girl with a dramatic, eccentric, and larger-than-life girl. She is excited to start high school, but not for the reason you’re thinking.

She is a gorgeous girl…and a total pervert! Beginning high school, Yamada goal isn’t good grades—it’s sleeping with over a hundred boys!

Her first target: classmate Takashi Kosuda. He’s just some boringly average, wannabe photographer.

Trying to seduce Kosuda, Yamada spends more time with him and starts to enjoy being with the shy and kind-hearted boy. Oh no…

39. Yuki Cross

Yuki is the main female protagonist of Vampire Knight and is known for her cheerful, caring, and comedic-nature and radiant smile. She is a student at Cross Academy and a member of the disciplinary committee.

This school houses the Day Class and the Night Class, and Yuki is tasked with keeping balance between the two opposite classes.

The Day Class has no idea why they can’t interact with the Night Class, but Yuki does—but they are all bloodthirsty vampires!

38. Rei Miyamoto

One of the main characters from High School of the Dead, Rei, is the childhood best friend and ex-girlfriend of the main protagonist Takashi Kimuro. Rei is a stubborn, loyal, and strong-willed girl who will fight any zombie to protect her friends.

When the zombie apocalypse starts while Rei and Takashi are having a normal day at high school, their best friend and Rei’s boyfriend are the first zombie they fight.

Unfortunately, they don’t have time to morn before they find more survivors and make their way through the undead streets of Japan to find a safe haven.

37. Ryouko Ookami

Main female protagonist of Ookami-San and Her Seven Companions, Ryouko, is a tomboy and a massive tsundere through and through. Despite her aggressive behavior, Ryouko has a secret, kind and gentle girl.

Ryouko is known as the bruiser of her club and gets an unexpected love confession from fellow classmate Ryoushi Morino.

Of course, she dropped him like a pile of rocks. However, Ryoushi joins her club to win her over, and as far as Ryouko is considered, he can try, but he can never fight anyone, much less fight to win her heart.

36. Asuna Yuuki

The main female protagonist of Sword Art Online, Asuna, was once a well-mannered and kind girl of a wealthy family, but now she has to fight for her life when she and thousands of other players get trapped in a videogame!

Asuna has only one choice: adapt or die. Dropping her “good girl” act, Asuna will become a fierce player with a sword and team up with protagonist Kirito to save everyone from this videogame and their own future when they hopefully get back to the real world!

35. Haruna

From Is This a Zombie?, Haruna is one of the main female characters. Haruna was once a magical girl who was very stubborn, short-tempered, and thinks very highly of herself.

Haruna could make the argument that meeting Ayumu Aikawa was the worst day of her life. After meeting the zombie boy in her magical girl form, she tries to erase his memories but instead gets her powers absorbed by him!

Now, Ayumu has to take on her role of a magical girl by hunting monsters and protecting humanity. Ayumu also plans to use her abilities to find his murderer.

34. Mikoto Misaka

One of the main female characters from A Certain Magical Index, Mikoto, is a feisty, hotheaded, and violent tsundere who will do anything to protect her friends.

In Academy City, ¾ of the population become espers with psychic abilities, and Mikoto is one of them.

With the ability of electricity known as Railgun, Mikoto meets main protagonist Touma Kamijou who has the unique ability to cancel other espers’ abilities.

Together, they fight to protect a young girl who is being targeted by a dangerous organization with magicians ready to end her life!

33. Mei Tachibana

The main protagonist of Say “I Love You.”, being hurt in the past by her friends, Mei, is extremely cold and anti-social, commonly known as the “gloomy girl” in high school.

One day, a misunderstanding caught Mei crossing paths with the popular Yamato Kurosawa.

Somehow, to Mei’s surprise, Yamato finds himself intrigued by her and wants to be her friend.

Of course, Mei wants nothing to do with him. However, when Mei gets cornered by a stalker, Yamato resolves the situation by kissing her.

Mei finds herself with a new boyfriend, a new lifestyle in and out of school, and new feelings that overwhelm and confuse her!

32. Shizuku Mizutani

The main character of My Little Monster, Shizuku, is socially awkward and cold but very honest and compassionate and rocks those twin-tails!

At the beginning of the series, Shizuku only cares about herself and her school grades, paying no mind to her classmates.

All of this changes when Shizuku meets the violent delinquent Haru Yoshida! Haru declares that he will be her friend when they first meet and confesses his love for her!

Confused but happy, Shizuku and Haru’s friendship develops, and they both start to see the good sides of each other and all the good they’ve been missing in life.

31. Kosaki Onodera

One of the main protagonists in Nisekoi, Onodera, is a sweet yet shy girl with a crush on Raku Ichijo, the main protagonist, but is too shy to say anything.

Little does Onodera know that Raku secretly likes her back but is ashamed of his yakuza family to confess.

Things get a bit more complicated when Raku’s clan plans to make peace with a rival gang by making Raku, the leader’s son date the gang’s only daughter.

Unfortunately, it turns out the daughter is new transfer student Chitoge Kirisaki, the new girl that Raku hates with every fiber of his being!

How is Raku supposed to be with Onodera if he has to fake date his mortal enemy?!

30. Futaba Yoshioka

The main character of Blue Spring Ride, Futaba, was once an attractive and popular girl but is now a hurt and troubled girl who stops caring about herself.

When she was younger, she had eyes for Kou Tanaka, but Futaba never saw Kou again and lost all of her friends after a misunderstanding.

Now in high school, Futaba avoids everyone and stops trying to look cute and feminine. Finally, Futaba finds herself meeting Kou again—but she’s not the only one who’s changed.

29. Makoto Kino

From Sailor Moon, Makoto is Sailor Jupiter. The green Sailor Scout mistakenly thought to be a delinquent for her superhuman strength but is actually a gentle soul obsessed with cute things and romance.

She is one of Usagi Tsukino’s teammates after she becomes the destined Sailor Moon!

Usagi must find her missing teammates that are meant to be the guardians of the Earth, sworn to protect humanity from evil!

28. Shinka Nibutani

Shinka is one of the main female characters in Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! She acts as the big sister of her group friends.

She is friendly and mature in public, but alone or with her close-knit chunibyos, she shows her easily irritable and bitter personality.

Despite wanting to move on her from her past as a chunibyo, she gets pulled back into the delusional world through the “Wicked Eye” of Rikka Takanashi alongside the once “Dark Flame Master” Yuta Togashi, who also want to escape the chunibyo life.

27. Diane

Diane is one of the main protagonists. She is not only a Giant but a member of The Seven Deadly Sins as the Sin of Envy.

She is a kind, caring, and confident Giant who would do anything to protect the ones she loves.

Diane, along with the other Seven Deadly Sins, is brought together by third princess Elizabeth.

She needs their help to save her kingdom from the Holy Knights, the ones who once framed the Seven Deadly Sins for plotting a coup.

26. Yui Hirasawa

Starting her first year in high school, Yui is the clumsy and airheaded protagonist of K-On! Not wanting to be the odd one out, Yui finds herself desperately needing to get into a club to fit in.

Wanting to find something easy, Yui signs up for the Light Music Club, mistaking “light” for “easy.”

Soon, Yui finds out that the club is a band club and must learn how to play a musical instrument and write music. If Yui drops out, the club will be disbanded!

25. Sango

One of the main characters from InuYasha, Sango, is a demon slayer that joins Kagome and Inuyasha’s team in finding the missing fragments of the Shikon Jewel.

Sango is a loyal and fierce teammate who will do anything to protect her friends.

Sango meets Kagome Higurashi when she falls down her family’s shrine well and ends up 500 years into the past, where she awakens the half-demon Inuyasha.

The two are forced to work together with him when the powerful Shikon Jewel is broken and scattered across Japan that can destroy the world in the wrong hands.

24. Haruhi Suzumiya

The titled character of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Haruhi is a bizarre high school girl who is the definition of someone who marches to the beat of their own drum.

She is also a girl obsessed with the supernatural such as aliens, espers, and time travelers! So much as that, she creates her own club called the SOS Brigade, a club in search of the supernatural!

With her random assortment of classmates, Haruhi will throw her club into wacky adventures that might be more supernatural than even Haruhi realizes—especially since it revolves around her!

23. Ayumu “Osaka” Kasuga

Ayumu is one of the main characters in Azumanga Daioh! She is a daydreamer and very absent-minded and was given the nickname “Osaka” for being the complete opposite of an Osakan: loud, friendly, and talkative.

She is one of 10-year-old Chiyo Mihama’s new classmates. As a child prodigy, Chiyo skips grades all the way to high school.

She ends up in an all-girl class full of lovable weirdoes that fills the class with laughter and wacky adventures!

22. Hiyori Iki

Hiyori is the main female protagonist of Noragami, who starts the series off as a normal enough girl, but has a blunt personality, secret love for pro wrestling, and is bothered that she doesn’t have eyes for a single boy.

Everything in Hiyori’s life changes when she saves a boy from being hit by a truck and turns into a half-phantom.

It turns out the boy she saved was Yato, a minor deity who dreams of becoming an all-powerful god!

Demanding that Yato helps her turn back to normal, Hiyori gets rolled into the bizarre world of gods, spirits, and monsters!

21. Ochaco Uraraka

One of the main characters of My Hero Academia, Uraraka, is an energetic, bubbly, and determined girl who enrolls at U.A. Academy to become a Pro Hero with her Quirk powers: gravity.

In a world where Quirks or superpowers take up 80% of the world’s popularity and being a superpower and a full-time job, Uraraka works alongside her best friends to be the best Pro Heroes they can be.

Especially Izuku Midoriya, who dreams of becoming the #1 Pro Hero!

20. Chizuru Yoshida

Chizuru is one of the main characters from Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You and becomes one of Sawako Kuronuma’s friend friends alongside Ayane Yano.

She is a tomboy with a fearless, hotheaded, and brash personality with a strong sense of justice and loyalty to her friends.

Her friend Sawako never had any friends and was always extremely shy and socially awkward. She always wanted to be like her popular classmate Shouta Kazehaya.

To build courage and get closer to Kazehaya, Sawako finds herself becoming close friends with classmates Chizuru and Ayane.

19. Raphtalia

The main female protagonist from The Rising of the Shield Hero, Raphtalia, was a fearful, weak, and enslaved demi-human.

After being bought by Naofumi Iwatani, the banished Shield Hero, Raphtalia grows up to be a brave, fierce, and loyal warrior and fights alongside him as his “sword.”

When Naofumi gets magical teleported into Raphtalia’s world, he doesn’t expect to have to be the Shield Hero and save the world from the Waves of Catastrophe.

He also doesn’t expect to be falsely accused and exiled from the world he was sent there to save.

18. Nagisa Furukawa

A gentle and kind-hearted senior in high school, Nagisa is a pure-hearted and hardworking girl who hopes to make her final year her best year as she tries to revive the school’s drama club.

By chance, Nagisa meets Tomoya Okazaki, the main character of Clannad, the school’s delinquent to couldn’t care less about his life or his school’s life.

As the two of them become close, they might be able to better each other and their lives, changing them forever.

17. Nanami Momozono

Nanami is a true diamond in the rough, a hardworking, bighearted, and beautiful high school girl who has had a hard life.

She lost her mom at a very young age, and her dad is a bum who gambles away all of their money.

While in high school, she comes home to a note that her father has abandoned her and left her with the apartment’s debt, and ends up homeless.

By chance, Nanami saves a man from a dog, and he offers her a place to stay at his shrine before kissing her on the forehead and disappearing.

Nanami finds out that the shrine and greeted by spirits who welcome her as the shrine’s land god! What has Nanami gotten herself into?!

16. Mako Mankanshoku

Mako is the tritagonist of Kill la Kill and new best friend to transfer student and main protagonist Ryuko Matoi.

Mako is an eccentric, wacky, and loud girl who supports her friends and family no matter what and will stand up to anyone who badmouths them, despite her low standing.

Her best friend Ryuko transfers to her school, Honnouji Academya, with a broken pair of Scissor Blade in hand. She is determined to find the other half of the Scissor Blade that will lead to her father’s killer!

She will fight anyone to get the truth—even Student Council President Satsuki Kiryuuin!

15. Nanami Aoyama

One of the main female characters in The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, Aoyama, is a stern-looking girl but is very hardworking, diligent, and even has a shy side. She left home to become a voice actress and is determined to make her dream come true.

Aoyama is a part of Sakura Hall, a dormitory at Suimei High full of the school’s misfits—herself included.

Despite all being a bunch of weirdoes, they all push each other to reach their ambitions, and they all inspire the shy Sorata Kanda and art prodigy Mashiro Shiina to become out of their shell and find a dream!

14. Megumin

One of the main characters in KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World! She is a passionate and energetic wizard who is obsessed with Explosion magic!

She becomes a member of Kazuma Sato when he ends up in his world.

After dying an embarrassing death, Kazuma finds himself in front of a goddess named Aqua, who tells him he can go onto Heaven or get teleported to a magical world where he must defeat the Demon King.

Guess which one Kazuma picked.

13. Taiga Aisaka

The deuteragonist or “Tora” of Toradora! Taiga is the school’s infamous “Palmtop Tiger,” known for her petite stature but a fierce and violent personality that scares her classmates except for her best friend, Minori Kushieda.

In her final year of high school, Taiga finds her match in Ryuji Takasu, her new classmate who discovers her secret crush on his best friend, Yusaku Kitamura! It turns out, Ryuji has a crush on her best friend, Minori!

These enemies find themselves working together to help the other get together with their best friends!

12. Sakura Kinomoto

10-year-old Sakura is the main protagonist and title character of Cardcaptor Sakura. She is a bighearted, thoughtful, and caring girl who will drop everything to help and support her friends and family.

It was completely by chance that Sakura found a strange book full of cards.

It was a complete accident when a magical gust sent the cards flying all over the world, but now Sakura must get them back!

With each one of the cards containing immense powers, Sakura must protect her friends and recapture them all!

11. Haruhi Fujioka

Haruhi, the main protagonist of Ouran High School Host Club, is an intelligent, hardworking, and no-nonsense kind of girl.

Despite coming from an average family, she finds herself enrolled in the froufrou and wealthy Ouran Academy!

However, her first impression of the school ends in disaster when she accidentally breaks an $80,000 vase!

Haruhi joins the school’s Host Club to pay the damages, where everyone mistakes her for a boy!

10. Chihaya Ayase

The main character of Chihayafuru, despite being described as very pretty, Chihaya an outgoing and absent-minded tomboy that doesn’t match her appearance.

Chihaya has always been in the shadow of her older sister and never knew what she wanted out of life.

This all changes when she meets Arata Wataya, who introduces her to the competitive card game called karuta.

The two become quick friends along with Chihaya’s childhood friend Taichi Mashima until Arata suddenly moves away.

Now in high school, Chihaya hasn’t forgotten about Arata or karuta and plans to meet him again by getting into Naturals!

9. Kyouko Hori

Kyouko is the main female protagonist and the “hori” of Horimiya. She is a popular, friendly, and social girl who puts up a carefree and easygoing persona.

In reality, Hori is a hardworking girl who looks after her little brother and spends most of her days working at home instead of going out with friends.

By chance, Hori crosses paths with Izumi Miyamura, a tattoo boy covered in piercings.

Little does Hori know that Miyamura is her four-eyed otaku classmate who hides her real self too. Showing their true selves to each other begins a close friendship and maybe something more…

8. Kayo Hinazuki

Kayo is the 10-year-old female protagonist in Erased. She is bullied at school, Kayo has no friends, and being abused by her mother and her boyfriend at home, Kayo numbs her personality, staying muted and quiet.

However, after becoming friends with Satoru Fujinuma, Kayo is finally able to show her caring and sweet side.

In the future, Satoru knows Kayo’s fate: she was a victim of a serial killer. So when Satoru is teleported into the past, he will do everything he can to catch the killer and save Kayo’s life!

7. Akane Tsunemori

Akane is the main female protagonist of Psycho-Pass. She is a shy and naïve new recruit who doesn’t know what she’s getting herself into but is determined to prove her worth through her hard work, patience, and compassionate heart.

Akane is new to working for the Sibyl System, a way of determining a person’s mental state and criminal intent.

Akane will soon open a can of worms to the flawed and corrupt system she lives in!

6. Fuu Kasumi

Fuu is the main female protagonist of Samurai Champloo. She is troublesome yet bright, trusting, and acts like a little sister-type.

At the beginning of the series, she lived a simple life as a clumsy waitress.

One day, she spills tea all over a group of samurai! Asking for help, Fuu gets caught up in a fight between a ronin named Jin and Mugen, a samurai with a breakdancing style! The fight ends in the death of a magistrate’s son!

Both Mugen and Jin are sentenced to death but are saved by Fuu!

Despite trying to kill each other, she hires them as her bodyguards to search for a mysterious samurai that smells like sunflowers!

5. San

San is the main female protagonist of Princess Mononoke. Raised by wolves in the wild, San has the nature of a wild wolf, being a brave, fierce, and aggressive girl.

She hates humans who continue to burn and destroy her home. She especially hates the humans in Iron Town who plan to kill the god of the forest.

The only thing that holds San back is Ashitaka, a young man whose arm is corrupted by demons and who journeyed to the forest to heal himself.

But will his compassionate man be enough to save humanity, the forest, and quench San’s hatred?

4. Tsubaki Sawabe

From Your Lie in April, Tsubaki is one of the main characters.

She is piano prodigy Kousei Arima’s childhood best friend who has always been a bit of a tomboy, playing baseball, and always had an outgoing, adventurous, and headstrong girl who tries to always be kind and thoughtful to others.

After Kousei stops playing the piano, Tsubaki tries to support him but hopes that he will step back onto the stage one day.

That hope comes in the form of a blonde violinist named Kaori Miyazono, who has a big crush on Kousei and Tsubaki’s childhood best friend, Ryota Watari!

3. Chihiro Ogino

The main character of Spirited Away, Chihiro, is a bratty and scared 10-year-old girl who is upset with her parents for moving the family away from her friends.

However, on the way to their new home, the three of them take a shortcut that takes them to an abandoned amusement park.

Chihiro quickly discovers that she and her parents stepped into the spirit world and are now trapped! Losing her parents to the spirits, Chihiro has to live and walk along the spirits to try and find a way to save her parents and get them all home!

2. Shouko Nishimiya

The main female protagonist of A Silent Voice, Shouko, is a sweet, gentle, and thoughtful girl who was born deaf and was brutally bullied in elementary school and forced to change schools.

Now in high school, Shouko runs into one of her old bullies Shouya Ishida.

However, Ishida suffers from social anxiety when he becomes bullied after Nishimiya moves away and hopes to make amends with her.

To begin forming a friendship in hopes of rewriting their past with each other—but is it too late?

1. Tohru Honda

The main character from the long-beloved Fruits Basket, Tohru, takes the hardships in her life in strides and always moves forward in her life with a bright smile and hardworking attitude. Even after she loses her mother.

Despite living in a tent, Tohru is determined to create a life for herself, her mom’s wish for her.

Unbeknownst to Tohru, she’s set up her tent on the private property of the Sohma Family and accidentally discovers their family curse: twelve members turn into animals from the Chinese Zodiac if they hug someone of the opposite gender!