History Main / BishieSparkle

* [[TheDitz Kazahaya]] of ''Manga/LegalDrug'' pictures [[TricksterMentor Kakei]] with sparkles in his head.

* ''WebAnimation/BabushkaTheMovie'' is an animatic depiction of a well known round of ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' with the streamers who were playing the game depicted as the crew of the ship. Corpse Husband, [=BrookeAB=], and Sykkuno all get the sparkle effect at various times, usually when their animated counterparts are being particularly cute. That said, Sykkuno gets the most sparkle moments, but the usage is kind of ironic since it happens either just before or just after he's murdering his friends as an impostor.

** {{Parodied}} In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' episode "[[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS1E1WelcomeToRepublicCity Welcome to Republic City]]", where there are "bushie" sparkles on the resident ''bush'' of a park-dwelling {{Hobo|s}}.
---> '''Hobo''': Took me a while to procure a bush that beauteous. *bush sparkles*

Or maybe it's just the fact that GenericCuteness makes it hard to visually show the really beautiful people. Furthermore, this is usually shown when it's from the point of view of the person looking at said bishie, [[CrushFilter visually conveying their attraction]].

* ''Manga/GokinjoMonogatari'': Seiji Kisaragi sparkles so much, that he's instantly nicknamed "Sparkling Foreigner" when he appears for the first time.

* ''VisualNovel/AsagaoAcademyNormalBootsClub'' has Jared aka Creator/ProJared. To emphasis the fact that he's the most attrective person in the school.

* ''VisualNovel/AsagaoAcademyNormalBootsClub'' has Jared aka LetsPlay/ProJared. To emphasis the fact that he's the most attrective person in the school.

* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': [[AgentPeacock Choukoumei]] is surounded by sparkles everytime he moves, poses, or says something dramatic, which mean very often.

* Being the resident uber-{{bishonen}}, ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}'s'' Master Big Star uses the bishie sparkle on a near-constant basis. He even [[SuckMyRose throws in a rose or two]] for added effect.

-->-- ''Literature/[[Twilight2005 Twilight]]''

** There are quite a few episodes of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}} Diamond and Pearl'' in which [[CasanovaWannabe Brock]] will go into complete Bishonen mode, complete with sparkles and a drastically different look.

-->-- ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''

Most Western examples have been references to Japanese examples, but with the popularity of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', that might be beginning to change.

* The vampires in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' sparkle in direct sunlight, which they avoid by either being nocturnal or living in places with near-constant rainfall (such as Forks, WA). Prettiness is apparently a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire trait]]. This has been the subject of much {{Squee}}-ing from the Fandom and much ridicule from the Hatedom. Possibly justified, since ''Twilight'' vampires' skin is like a diamond, both in [[MadeOfIron toughness]] and in appearance.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'''s [[{{Tsundere}} Misaka Mikoto]] imagines Touma in an astonishingly honest moment in New Testament vol. 2.

* In ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'', Wolfram's sparkles can ''cure and heal the sick and dying''. Gunter tends to get sparkles a lot.

* Semi-averted in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', where Zelgadis tends to shimmer under the scarves, especially in his first two or three appearances -- but it's because he's made of shiny stone. But unaverted when he gets over some of his spazz, and the shimmer starts to combine with his graceful hand gestures and his personal bishie breeze.

* Chapter 77 of ''Manga/InsideMari'' features a flashback from Mari's point of view just before Isao became involved in events. We see Mari watching Isao, who is surrounded by sparkles throughout. This is in stark contrast to both the fact that [[spoiler:she was watching Isao as he did things like enjoy ADateWithRosiePalms and in relation to nearly everyone else in this sequence looking like creatures out of ''Attack on Titan'']].

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' gives a very brief flash of bishie sparkle to [[AxCrazy Ladd Russo]], of all people. He's not really {{bishonen}} or anything; he's just being ''very'' [[LargeHam hammy]] at the moment.