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** The second-biggest Weirdness Magnet in the series canonically is the {{miko}} Sakura; whilst Ataru attracts strangeness in general, she has been a beacon for {{youkai}} since she was a little girl, due to her strong spiritual powers. [[BlessedWithSuck Which left her subject to an endless parade of ever-changing disease symptoms]] as a side effect of their haunting presence, ranging from toothaches and migraines to full-blown ''heart attacks''. In her first story, Ataru proves his superior magnetic abilities by accidentally drawing off all the youkai haunting her, allowing her to exorcise them and permanently cure herself. In a later story, however, it's shown she still needs to keep her exorcist's wand to hand at all times, because otherwise youkai flock to her presence by the dozens and make a nuisance of themselves.
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* The protagonist of ''Manga/CaseClosed'' is a Bizarre Murder Magnet, at least in the early seasons. Everywhere he goes, someone gets murdered, kinda makes you think, eh? Often lampshaded by Inspector Megure and other police officers who upon arriving at the crime scene always wonders why Kogoro and later Conan always happened to be there whenever a murder takes place.
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has the Joestar bloodline. Hell, just look at the title. Though every part has its share of weirdness.
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has the Joestar bloodline. Hell, just look at the title. Though every part has its share of weirdness.
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* While nobody in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' can escape the chaos entirely, crazy tends to gravitate towards Firo the most. ChildhoodFriend? AxCrazy solipsist InsufferableGenius. Join a gang? It just happens to have a 250-year-old alchemist and an EldritchAbomination in the ranks. Promoted? Two loony thieves crash the party, spike the booze with the [[ImmortalityInducer Grand Panacea]]. First love? [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter The Mad Scientist's Beautiful]] [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent Homunculus Daughter]]. Picking up said loony thief friends at the train station? They brought you a 230-year-old child to be your new flatmate. Friend went missing? Well, that guy over there with the crazy blood eyes and shark teeth seems to want to help find them...
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* Kamijou Touma from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. This does not only include his streak of misfortune that is a side-effect of his [[AntiMagic powers]], but also he attracts weirdness in general because of other side-effects. When there's a girl holding the greatest secrets of magic hunted by her Coven, she will land on his balcony. When he takes vacation in Italy, the people keeping him will most definitely get attacked. When someone casts a spell that switches the body of every single human being, he is one of the select few unaffected. Considering how long the series and original novels went (not even counting the New Testament sequel where at one point, a giant flying fortress tracks him down because of the disturbance he causes in the earth's {{Ley Line}}s), this happens to him a lot. And then there are the moments when people are actively trying to recruit or use him in weird situations. It doesn't help that he lives in a city full of psychics and his roommate as well as his neighbor are mages.
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* Sousuke from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' (not that he isn't weird himself) has no less than six Whispereds personally connected to him -- including his {{Love Interest|s}} Kaname, commanding officer Tessa, and arch-enemy Leonard. He and Tessa both {{lampshade|Hanging}} this at different points in the story, with Tessa suggesting that maybe it's a sign Sousuke is special in his own way.
* More or less the entire premise of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. It's not that weirdness gravitates toward Haruhi, though, so much as that she generates it. Relating to the ''Monk'' example below, at one point two characters in the series have a conversation to the effect that fictional detectives cause bad things to happen by virtue of their very presence, and that Haruhi, at that point on a "detective" kick, might subconsciously will such a disaster into being. [[spoiler:Completely subverted when the expected murder actually happens -- Kyon immediately knows it's a hoax precisely because he trusts that Haruhi ''wouldn't'' really wish for someone to die just so she could play detective.]]
** The series doesn't portray this very well, but Kyon himself has some pretty weird acquaintances from middle school. There's Nakagawa, [[spoiler:who falls in love with Nagato at first sight because he just happens to be a semi-esper who can see her link to the Integrated Thought Entity]], and Sasaki, a very strange girl who's also [[spoiler:the center of attention for a collection of aliens, time travelers and espers who are rivals to the SOS Brigade's members' factions]].
*** Though there is some indication that the reason for this is that it is not Haruhi who is the weirdness magnet, but actually Kyon himself.
*** Whenever one of the goddesses gets Kyon to repeat their patterns (visual patterns for Haruhi, audio patterns for the other girl), strange things shall happen.
* More or less the entire premise of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. It's not that weirdness gravitates toward Haruhi, though, so much as that she generates it. Relating to the ''Monk'' example below, at one point two characters in the series have a conversation to the effect that fictional detectives cause bad things to happen by virtue of their very presence, and that Haruhi, at that point on a "detective" kick, might subconsciously will such a disaster into being. [[spoiler:Completely subverted when the expected murder actually happens -- Kyon immediately knows it's a hoax precisely because he trusts that Haruhi ''wouldn't'' really wish for someone to die just so she could play detective.]]
** The series doesn't portray this very well, but Kyon himself has some pretty weird acquaintances from middle school. There's Nakagawa, [[spoiler:who falls in love with Nagato at first sight because he just happens to be a semi-esper who can see her link to the Integrated Thought Entity]], and Sasaki, a very strange girl who's also [[spoiler:the center of attention for a collection of aliens, time travelers and espers who are rivals to the SOS Brigade's members' factions]].
*** Though there is some indication that the reason for this is that it is not Haruhi who is the weirdness magnet, but actually Kyon himself.
*** Whenever one of the goddesses gets Kyon to repeat their patterns (visual patterns for Haruhi, audio patterns for the other girl), strange things shall happen.
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* Mahiro Yasaka from ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent whose only special traits are a fondness for the works of Creator/HPLovecraft and [[ImprobableWeaponUser the ability to use forks as deadly weapons]]. Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos appearing in his life and [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu declaring her undying love for him]] is just the ''start'' of his troubles, which includes dealings with time-traveling MoralGuardians, alien {{Animal Wrongs Group}}s, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking being kidnapped so he can be auctioned off as the star of a]] BoysLove TV show. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode where Nyarko remarks that something about Mahiro makes him "strangely attractive" to aliens.
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* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', it seems that almost all of the main characters in high school get pulled into something related to the Crimson Realm.
* Lina seems to be this in the first third of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Next'', as she inexplicably keeps tripping on one Mazoku plot after the other. [[spoiler: As it turns out there's nothing accidental about this, as Xellos was leading her into these situations by order of the Hellmaster.]]
** Anytime Lina is around she'll have to gather up her TrueCompanions and defeat some sort of BigBad -- not just in ''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Slayers Next]]''.
* Lina seems to be this in the first third of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Next'', as she inexplicably keeps tripping on one Mazoku plot after the other. [[spoiler: As it turns out there's nothing accidental about this, as Xellos was leading her into these situations by order of the Hellmaster.]]
** Anytime Lina is around she'll have to gather up her TrueCompanions and defeat some sort of BigBad -- not just in ''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Slayers Next]]''.
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* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'', it seems that almost all of the main characters in high school get pulled into something related to the Crimson Realm.
* Lina seems to be this in the first third of''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Next'', ''Literature/{{Slayers}} NEXT'', as she inexplicably keeps tripping on one Mazoku plot after the other. [[spoiler: As it turns out there's nothing accidental about this, as Xellos was leading her into these situations by order of the Hellmaster.]]
** Anytime Lina is around she'll have to gather up her TrueCompanions and defeat some sort of BigBad -- not just in''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} ''[[Literature/{{Slayers}} Slayers Next]]''.NEXT]]''.
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* In ''LightNovel/TheZashikiWarashiOfIntellectualVillage'' each male member of the Jinnai family has a strange interaction with youkai.
** Shinobu naturally attracts youkai. Any that are capable of affection adore him and will happily become his friend, even those which are ordinarily deadly.
** Hayabusa is antagonized by youkai, who view him as something akin to a MetalSlime. It got so bad he moved to Tokyo as youkai can't stand urban areas.
** Shinobu's father terrifies youkai and can easily drive them off if angered.
** Shinobu naturally attracts youkai. Any that are capable of affection adore him and will happily become his friend, even those which are ordinarily deadly.
** Hayabusa is antagonized by youkai, who view him as something akin to a MetalSlime. It got so bad he moved to Tokyo as youkai can't stand urban areas.
** Shinobu's father terrifies youkai and can easily drive them off if angered.
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** Hayabusa is antagonized by youkai, who view him as something akin to a MetalSlime. It got so bad he moved to Tokyo as youkai can't stand urban areas.
** Shinobu's father terrifies youkai and can easily drive them off if angered.
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* Osaka Naru (or Molly, if you prefer) from ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was notorious for [[DesignatedVictim attracting almost every kind of supernatural creature in existence]] as the most frequent VictimOfTheWeek, earning the FanNickname "youma bait". Luna {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this early in the second season. However, her role in later seasons was downplayed until she was finally PutOnABus.
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* The protagonist of ''Manga/CaseClosed'' is a Bizarre Murder Magnet, at least in the early seasons. Everywhere he goes, someone gets murdered, kinda makes you think, eh? Often lampshaded by Inspector Megure and other police officers who upon arriving at the crime scene always wonders why Kogoro and later Conan always happened to be there whenever a murder takes place.
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* The protagonist of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' is a Bizarre Murder Magnet, at least in the early seasons. Everywhere he goes, someone gets murdered, kinda makes you think, eh? Often lampshaded by Inspector Megure and other police officers who upon arriving at the crime scene always wonders why Kogoro and later Conan always happened to be there whenever a murder takes place.
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* The system force in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' tends to cause strange things to happen for no apparent reason whenever someone tries to pull Belldandy and Keiichi apart.
* Akari of ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'' tends to stumble into all sorts of supernatural phenomena -- many of them involving the king of cats, Cait Sith. These include, but are not limited to: traveling back in time, visiting TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday, nearly taking a ride on the [[AfterlifeExpress soul train]], and an attempted abduction by a ghost.
* The 104 Trainee Squad in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' have ridiculous luck, lampshaded by Jean, considering all the things that has happened to them. Among their numbers are: the last half-Asian (Mikasa), [[spoiler:five Titan shifters (Eren, Annie, Reiner, Bertlolt, Ymir)]] (and from that number, there is [[spoiler:Eren as the Coordinate and Ymir as a WildCard with knowledge of the Titan's secrets]]) and a HeroicBastard from a noble house [[spoiler:(Krista/Historia)]].
* While nobody in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' can escape the chaos entirely, crazy tends to gravitate towards Firo the most. ChildhoodFriend? AxCrazy solipsist InsufferableGenius. Join a gang? It just happens to have a 250-year-old alchemist and an EldritchAbomination in the ranks. Promoted? Two loony thieves crash the party, spike the booze with the [[ImmortalityInducer Grand Panacea]]. First love? [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter The Mad Scientist's Beautiful]] [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent Homunculus Daughter]]. Picking up said loony thief friends at the train station? They brought you a 230-year-old child to be your new flatmate. Friend went missing? Well, that guy over there with the crazy blood eyes and shark teeth seems to want to help find them...
* PlayedForDrama with Ciel from ''Manga/BlackButler'', since it's implied all the weirdness he's been through [[SanitySlippage is slowly driving him off the deep end]].
* In the early chapters of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', characters with spiritual affinity were weirdness magnets. Ghosts appeared to such characters, and hollows hunted them. Ichigo's spiritual attunement spilled over to his classmates making them weirdness magnets as well.
** The entirety of Karakura Town, the hometown of the human protagonists, can be considered as one giant Weirdness Magnet, going back at least 15-20 years before it became relevant to the BigBad's plans.
* Kamijou Touma from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. This does not only include his streak of misfortune that is a side-effect of his [[AntiMagic powers]], but also he attracts weirdness in general because of other side-effects. When there's a girl holding the greatest secrets of magic hunted by her Coven, she will land on his balcony. When he takes vacation in Italy, the people keeping him will most definitely get attacked. When someone casts a spell that switches the body of every single human being, he is one of the select few unaffected. Considering how long the series and original novels went (not even counting the New Testament sequel where at one point, a giant flying fortress tracks him down because of the disturbance he causes in the earth's {{Ley Line}}s), this happens to him a lot. And then there are the moments when people are actively trying to recruit or use him in weird situations. It doesn't help that he lives in a city full of psychics and his roommate as well as his neighbor are mages.
* The protagonist of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' is a Bizarre Murder Magnet, at least in the early seasons. Everywhere he goes, someone gets murdered, kinda makes you think, eh? Often lampshaded by Inspector Megure and other police officers who upon arriving at the crime scene always wonders why Kogoro and later Conan always happened to be there whenever a murder takes place.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has Bulma. The first story arc alone gets her a group composed by a boy with a monkey tail who can turn into a giant berserker ape and is actually an alien (Goku), a perverted anthropomorphic pig with VoluntaryShapeshifting abilities (Oolong), a desert bandit who freaks out at the sight of women (Yamcha) and a flying animal with ''better'' VoluntaryShapeshifting than the pig (Puar). {{Lampshaded}} in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' when [[Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman Jaco]] (a weird-looking alien SuperCop) shows up and people wonder why all her friends are weirdos... And they don't even know that she first met Jaco ''before'' the others.
** Also, Bulma's older sister Tights. In the few days she spent in East City she met and befriended Jaco (indeed, it was her who made Bulma and Jaco meet) and Omori, a scientist who could stop time as a side effect of his research on TimeTravel, and later actually ''embraced'' it, getting Jaco to make her travel through space to meet weird people and things and write novels about them.
* Naota from ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'': A crazy woman riding a scooter hits him in the head with a guitar and then moves into his household as a live-in maid, and a horn grows out of his head that eventually turns out to be a robot with a TV for a head - which also moves in with his family. All that happens in the ''first episode'', and it only gets weirder from there. All the events of the first episode are underscored by Naota's constant comments about his town, how "everything is normal", "[[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere nothing amazing happens here]]", etc. Then at the end of the first episode, Kanti the robot and Haruko are making bread while Naota says, "and everything's back to normal .. nothing amazing."
* Sousuke from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' (not that he isn't weird himself) has no less than six Whispereds personally connected to him -- including his {{Love Interest|s}} Kaname, commanding officer Tessa, and arch-enemy Leonard. He and Tessa both {{lampshade|Hanging}} this at different points in the story, with Tessa suggesting that maybe it's a sign Sousuke is special in his own way.
* More or less the entire premise of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. It's not that weirdness gravitates toward Haruhi, though, so much as that she generates it. Relating to the ''Monk'' example below, at one point two characters in the series have a conversation to the effect that fictional detectives cause bad things to happen by virtue of their very presence, and that Haruhi, at that point on a "detective" kick, might subconsciously will such a disaster into being. [[spoiler:Completely subverted when the expected murder actually happens -- Kyon immediately knows it's a hoax precisely because he trusts that Haruhi ''wouldn't'' really wish for someone to die just so she could play detective.]]
** The series doesn't portray this very well, but Kyon himself has some pretty weird acquaintances from middle school. There's Nakagawa, [[spoiler:who falls in love with Nagato at first sight because he just happens to be a semi-esper who can see her link to the Integrated Thought Entity]], and Sasaki, a very strange girl who's also [[spoiler:the center of attention for a collection of aliens, time travelers and espers who are rivals to the SOS Brigade's members' factions]].
*** Though there is some indication that the reason for this is that it is not Haruhi who is the weirdness magnet, but actually Kyon himself.
*** Whenever one of the goddesses gets Kyon to repeat their patterns (visual patterns for Haruhi, audio patterns for the other girl), strange things shall happen.
* In ''Manga/HauntedJunction'', Saito High School was built at the center of a triangle formed by a Shinto shrine, a Buddhist temple, and a Christian church. The resultant flow of energy makes it a ''weird'' place that seems to attract more weird. And as if to throw fuel to the fire, the Holy Student Council comprises the son of a Christian minister, the daughter of a Shinto priest, and the son of a Bhuddist monk. This is not helped by the Chairman's habit of actively bringing ''more'' weird items and creatures onto school grounds. He's a deliberate weirdness magnet, to the chagrin of inadvertent magnet Haruto Hokujo (the Christian member of said Council).
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has the Joestar bloodline. Hell, just look at the title. Though every part has its share of weirdness.
** Joseph Joestar from Part 2 is the biggest weirdness magnet so far. Imagine godlike super vampires who eat vampires to live, warrior monks who turned into vampires, mafia, Nazis, the power of the sun, and Stroheim. Then getting a futuristic prosthetic hand like Stroheim. Then [[spoiler:dying, having his spirit ascend, and then being brought back thanks to a blood transfusion from the body of his grandfather which had been kept alive by a vampire's head]]. Joseph Joestar is the only [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure JoJo]] to have battled vampires, Pillar Men, ''and'' Stands (which means he's also the only hero to have used both hamon and a Stand), not to mention encountering ghosts and being around when there's a guy claiming to be an alien. Also, he managed to accidentally find an abandoned invisible baby that he ended up raising in his old age.
** ''Stroheim,'' the ultra-hammy, Nazi captain who got blown up in a grenade incident, got rebuilt as a Terminator-esque cyborg and fires a machine gun built into his chest while making hilariously campy poses. He kills vampires with '''NAAAAAZI SCIIIIIIIIIIENCE!!!'' Also he's actually a good guy. Kinda. Don't even ask how that happened.
** In Part 3 onwards, it's explicitly stated that Stand users tend to attract one another, resulting in this trope. This ends up sparking the main plot of part 4, as serial killer Yoshikage Kira acquiring a Stand gets him discovered by another Stand user by complete coincidence (he stole the second user's sandwich bag), ending his years of staying virtually undetected and throwing him against a bunch of supernatural people who don't appreciate him or his "line of work" too much.
* It was stated that early on in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' that Shirogane tended to attract girls who were unstable. Considering the three girls that are attracted to him are [[MoodSwinger Kaguya]], [[MsImagination Karen]] and [[spoiler:[[CuteAndPsycho Moeha]]]], this is pretty accurate.
* In ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'', Mutsumi has some... bizarre people drawn to her, from her [[KnightTemplarBigBrother oldest brother]] to [[PsychoLesbian Kiri]][[{{Yandere}} sa]][[MadLove ki]] to [[StalkerWithACrush Hatoda]]. This is on top of being a constant target as a LivingMacguffin.
-->'''Taiyo''': [[LampshadeHanging You really attract a lot of weirdos...]]\\
'''Mutsumi''': Yes. [[DeadpanSnarker Sometimes, I feel sorry for myself.]]
* Mizuki in ''Manga/{{Mokke}}'' has the talent to get haunted by lots of different kinds of ghosts. Her older sister Shizuru can see them, but is lucky not to be influenced by them directly.
* Tadayasu Sawaki from ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}''. In addition to being born with the power to see and communicate with microorganisms, he ends up hanging out with all sorts of weirdos, including a college professor seemingly obsessed with bio-remediation and [[ForeignQueasine weird fermented foods from around the world]], the professor's leather-wearing workaholic IceQueen grad assistant, a pair of slackers obsessed with sake brewing and insects, respectively, a girl who [[NeatFreak washes way too much]] and another girl who [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl drinks way too much]]. And to top it all off, his best friend since childhood [[spoiler: comes out as UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} and starts dressing up in ElegantGothicLolita outfits]].
* Being a magnet for mushi, the MetaOrigin for weirdness in ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' is apparently a common affliction for members of the title profession, including main character Ginko.
* Mai (and possibly the rest of Fuuka Academy) in ''Anime/MyHime'' appears to be a magnet for the surreal. Nagi specifically mentions in one episode that the Orphans are drawn to girls like her. However, it later turns out there are [[AncientConspiracy more sinister forces at work]]...
* The titular character of ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'' has spirits (Youkai) coming at him from every direction. It's a genetic thing.
* Mahiro Yasaka from ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent whose only special traits are a fondness for the works of Creator/HPLovecraft and [[ImprobableWeaponUser the ability to use forks as deadly weapons]]. Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos appearing in his life and [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu declaring her undying love for him]] is just the ''start'' of his troubles, which includes dealings with time-traveling MoralGuardians, alien {{Animal Wrongs Group}}s, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking being kidnapped so he can be auctioned off as the star of a]] BoysLove TV show. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode where Nyarko remarks that something about Mahiro makes him "strangely attractive" to aliens.
* The Straw Hat Pirates from ''Manga/OnePiece'' always gets in trouble wherever they go and will surely continue do so in the future. Nami actually {{lampshade|Hanging}}s a much more literal version of this trope when the eccentric [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot talking living musician fencing skeleton Brook]] joins the crew, by saying "Why do our crew always attract the weird ones?" - other weird members being the perverted cyborg Franky and the reindeer human Chopper. Plus there's Robin who can make body parts appear all over the place. And then there's Luffy: a ''living rubber band''. We later get an explanation when we see other pirate crews competing with the Straw Hat Pirates: It turns out that all of the other crews carefully choose their paths to avoid as much trouble as possible, whereas the Straw Hats' captain, Monkey D. Luffy, deliberately seeks out the most dangerous options because he finds them the most amusing. That is, Luffy makes himself a Weirdness Magnet on purpose and is fully aware of it.
* In ''Anime/ProjectAKo'', whenever C-ko is the DamselInDistress, it's usually because she's this.
* The title character of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has some of this going on. After she saves Kyubey from Homura, she starts coming across witch labyrinths on a regular basis, her friend Hitomi gets hypnotized by a witch and nearly commits suicide, and so on, and she isn't even a MagicalGirl yet. [[spoiler:Her insanely high potential magical power probably has something to do with it.]]
* Ranma from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', to the point that most fans suspect that Ranma's curse isn't [[GenderBender gender bending]] so much that it's his almost supernatural ability to attract weirdness wherever he goes.
** Others have theorized that it might actually be ''Akane Tendo'' who's the real weirdness magnet; Ranma, and the trouble associated with him, could be considered the weirdness that ''she'' attracts. Or perhaps they're both weirdness magnets, and their mutual presence is strengthening the effect, hence why more and more whacked out stuff happens as the anime/manga goes on.
** Though it's never outright stated that any character in ''Ranma ½'' is a weirdness magnet, it is a fairly easy conclusion to leap to. While the world itself clearly is full of weirdness -- the existence of the various MartialArtsAndCrafts practitioners, plus the cursed, easy-to-fall-into Jusenkyo ponds, prove it -- it does seem that Ranma, Akane and the other characters do have a particular knack for getting involved with the more bizarre parts of life. Kuno manages to be the 1 millionth customer to a "Pull the Wish-Granting Sword from the Stone" contest, which means he gets the three wishes. Shampoo brings back a supposedly haunted set of bells as a present for Ranma, and sure enough, out pops a ghost. In the first NonSerialMovie, a young woman who is the third generation of her family to have possession of a relic that will supposedly bring a prince or princess to marry the one who holds it has gone her entire life waiting to be swept off her feet. When she tracks down OldMaster [[DirtyOldMan Happosai]] to express her disgruntlement at its failure to work, guess who shows up the second the relic falls into Akane Tendo's hands? Ryoga just happens to stumble upon a creepy merchant selling [[LovePotion toy fishing rods that make the person you "catch" fall head-over-heels in love with you]] and, intending to use it on Akane, he winds up snagging Ranma instead. And these are just a ''few'' examples.
* Tsunayoshi Sawada from ''Manga/Reborn2004''. For the first sixty or so chapters he [[spoiler: meets: a baby in the mafia who shoots him in the head and causes him to come back to life in his underwear with a flame on his forehead, a high school student with a lot of dynamite, a five-year-old dressed as a cow who uses grenades trying to kill the mafia baby and can switch with his future self (by climbing into a bazooka pulled out of his large afro and firing), a person who is a klutz without anyone from his family near him, oh and he wakes up to find a corpse in his room, etc]].
* Osaka Naru (or Molly, if you prefer) from ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was notorious for [[DesignatedVictim attracting almost every kind of supernatural creature in existence]] as the most frequent VictimOfTheWeek, earning the FanNickname "youma bait". Luna {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this early in the second season. However, her role in later seasons was downplayed until she was finally PutOnABus.
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Fuyuki and Natsumi Hinata get entangled in all sorts of extraterrestrial weirdness as a result of the Keroro Platoon moving into their house. Fuyuki, a prodigy paranormalist, loves it while Natsumi, an average girl [[IJustWantToBeNormal who would rather have her average life back]], hates it.
* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', it seems that almost all of the main characters in high school get pulled into something related to the Crimson Realm.
* Lina seems to be this in the first third of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Next'', as she inexplicably keeps tripping on one Mazoku plot after the other. [[spoiler: As it turns out there's nothing accidental about this, as Xellos was leading her into these situations by order of the Hellmaster.]]
** Anytime Lina is around she'll have to gather up her TrueCompanions and defeat some sort of BigBad -- not just in ''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Slayers Next]]''.
* The title character of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' is a serious weirdness magnet. Sena in the spinoff ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'', who to begin bears an uncanny resemblance to the former, is even more so.
* Chiaki, the main character of ''Manga/TodaysCerberus'', attracts yokai to him because, as a child, a piece of his soul was accidentally stolen by the Cerberus head Roze. His magnet status is further enhanced by the fact he is a teenager, "neither child nor adult."
* The entire cast of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', but especially the lead character, [[PropheticNames Ataru Moroboshi]]. As a cultural note, the very first story has Ataru's mother reminiscing about all the bad omens that took place on the day that Ataru was born. It reads like a beginner's guide to superstitions with particular references to Japanese beliefs, starting with the fact that he was born on the anniversary of the Buddha's death. Also, his name can be translated to mean "Many stars will hit him on the head". And finally, the name of the series itself can be translated as "Those Annoying Aliens", suggesting that the galaxy and series' version of Earth is teeming with sentient species who are all irritating in their own ways. Ataru is therefore simply unlucky enough to catch the attention of ''all of them''.
* Played with in ''Manga/{{xxxHOLiC}}'', as Watanuki is fully aware that he is a weirdness magnet, and starts the story by making a DealWithTheDevil (Yuuko, actually, but Watanuki seems to consider them one and the same) to get rid of his unwanted ability.
** The cause of his weirdness magnetism is actually explained later on -- suicidal thoughts and desires that have been magically amnesia'd away. He may not ''remember'' that he wants to die nor the reason for why he does, but he still smells like it to spirits and stuff.
** A second reason, seemingly taken directly from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', is that [[spoiler:as a time travel duplicate, he's doomed, as reality itself tries to exorcise him. He just manages to hang on regardless]].
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': In Season 4, Judai almost drops out of [[WizardingSchool the Academy]] under the assumption that, as TheChosenOne, he is attracting all the evil, psychotic villains to the place. Two former said psychos clarify that it's ''Duel Academia'' that is the MagneticPlotDevice (Sameshima actually revealed it was ''built for that specific purpose''), and Judai can best protect it by staying, not leaving.
** At this point, we can probably classify [[Franchise/YuGiOh the Duel Monsters card game itself]] as a Weirdness Magnet, considering how many mystical forces have used it as a conduit (like [[Anime/YuGiOh Egyptian gods]], [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds Incan gods]], and [[Anime/YuGiOhGX some kind of outer space cosmic forces]], for starters).
* In ''LightNovel/TheZashikiWarashiOfIntellectualVillage'' each male member of the Jinnai family has a strange interaction with youkai.
** Shinobu naturally attracts youkai. Any that are capable of affection adore him and will happily become his friend, even those which are ordinarily deadly.
** Hayabusa is antagonized by youkai, who view him as something akin to a MetalSlime. It got so bad he moved to Tokyo as youkai can't stand urban areas.
** Shinobu's father terrifies youkai and can easily drive them off if angered.
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* Akari of ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'' tends to stumble into all sorts of supernatural phenomena -- many of them involving the king of cats, Cait Sith. These include, but are not limited to: traveling back in time, visiting TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday, nearly taking a ride on the [[AfterlifeExpress soul train]], and an attempted abduction by a ghost.
* The 104 Trainee Squad in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' have ridiculous luck, lampshaded by Jean, considering all the things that has happened to them. Among their numbers are: the last half-Asian (Mikasa), [[spoiler:five Titan shifters (Eren, Annie, Reiner, Bertlolt, Ymir)]] (and from that number, there is [[spoiler:Eren as the Coordinate and Ymir as a WildCard with knowledge of the Titan's secrets]]) and a HeroicBastard from a noble house [[spoiler:(Krista/Historia)]].
* While nobody in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' can escape the chaos entirely, crazy tends to gravitate towards Firo the most. ChildhoodFriend? AxCrazy solipsist InsufferableGenius. Join a gang? It just happens to have a 250-year-old alchemist and an EldritchAbomination in the ranks. Promoted? Two loony thieves crash the party, spike the booze with the [[ImmortalityInducer Grand Panacea]]. First love? [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter The Mad Scientist's Beautiful]] [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent Homunculus Daughter]]. Picking up said loony thief friends at the train station? They brought you a 230-year-old child to be your new flatmate. Friend went missing? Well, that guy over there with the crazy blood eyes and shark teeth seems to want to help find them...
* PlayedForDrama with Ciel from ''Manga/BlackButler'', since it's implied all the weirdness he's been through [[SanitySlippage is slowly driving him off the deep end]].
* In the early chapters of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', characters with spiritual affinity were weirdness magnets. Ghosts appeared to such characters, and hollows hunted them. Ichigo's spiritual attunement spilled over to his classmates making them weirdness magnets as well.
** The entirety of Karakura Town, the hometown of the human protagonists, can be considered as one giant Weirdness Magnet, going back at least 15-20 years before it became relevant to the BigBad's plans.
* Kamijou Touma from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. This does not only include his streak of misfortune that is a side-effect of his [[AntiMagic powers]], but also he attracts weirdness in general because of other side-effects. When there's a girl holding the greatest secrets of magic hunted by her Coven, she will land on his balcony. When he takes vacation in Italy, the people keeping him will most definitely get attacked. When someone casts a spell that switches the body of every single human being, he is one of the select few unaffected. Considering how long the series and original novels went (not even counting the New Testament sequel where at one point, a giant flying fortress tracks him down because of the disturbance he causes in the earth's {{Ley Line}}s), this happens to him a lot. And then there are the moments when people are actively trying to recruit or use him in weird situations. It doesn't help that he lives in a city full of psychics and his roommate as well as his neighbor are mages.
* The protagonist of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' is a Bizarre Murder Magnet, at least in the early seasons. Everywhere he goes, someone gets murdered, kinda makes you think, eh? Often lampshaded by Inspector Megure and other police officers who upon arriving at the crime scene always wonders why Kogoro and later Conan always happened to be there whenever a murder takes place.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has Bulma. The first story arc alone gets her a group composed by a boy with a monkey tail who can turn into a giant berserker ape and is actually an alien (Goku), a perverted anthropomorphic pig with VoluntaryShapeshifting abilities (Oolong), a desert bandit who freaks out at the sight of women (Yamcha) and a flying animal with ''better'' VoluntaryShapeshifting than the pig (Puar). {{Lampshaded}} in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' when [[Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman Jaco]] (a weird-looking alien SuperCop) shows up and people wonder why all her friends are weirdos... And they don't even know that she first met Jaco ''before'' the others.
** Also, Bulma's older sister Tights. In the few days she spent in East City she met and befriended Jaco (indeed, it was her who made Bulma and Jaco meet) and Omori, a scientist who could stop time as a side effect of his research on TimeTravel, and later actually ''embraced'' it, getting Jaco to make her travel through space to meet weird people and things and write novels about them.
* Naota from ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'': A crazy woman riding a scooter hits him in the head with a guitar and then moves into his household as a live-in maid, and a horn grows out of his head that eventually turns out to be a robot with a TV for a head - which also moves in with his family. All that happens in the ''first episode'', and it only gets weirder from there. All the events of the first episode are underscored by Naota's constant comments about his town, how "everything is normal", "[[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere nothing amazing happens here]]", etc. Then at the end of the first episode, Kanti the robot and Haruko are making bread while Naota says, "and everything's back to normal .. nothing amazing."
* Sousuke from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' (not that he isn't weird himself) has no less than six Whispereds personally connected to him -- including his {{Love Interest|s}} Kaname, commanding officer Tessa, and arch-enemy Leonard. He and Tessa both {{lampshade|Hanging}} this at different points in the story, with Tessa suggesting that maybe it's a sign Sousuke is special in his own way.
* More or less the entire premise of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. It's not that weirdness gravitates toward Haruhi, though, so much as that she generates it. Relating to the ''Monk'' example below, at one point two characters in the series have a conversation to the effect that fictional detectives cause bad things to happen by virtue of their very presence, and that Haruhi, at that point on a "detective" kick, might subconsciously will such a disaster into being. [[spoiler:Completely subverted when the expected murder actually happens -- Kyon immediately knows it's a hoax precisely because he trusts that Haruhi ''wouldn't'' really wish for someone to die just so she could play detective.]]
** The series doesn't portray this very well, but Kyon himself has some pretty weird acquaintances from middle school. There's Nakagawa, [[spoiler:who falls in love with Nagato at first sight because he just happens to be a semi-esper who can see her link to the Integrated Thought Entity]], and Sasaki, a very strange girl who's also [[spoiler:the center of attention for a collection of aliens, time travelers and espers who are rivals to the SOS Brigade's members' factions]].
*** Though there is some indication that the reason for this is that it is not Haruhi who is the weirdness magnet, but actually Kyon himself.
*** Whenever one of the goddesses gets Kyon to repeat their patterns (visual patterns for Haruhi, audio patterns for the other girl), strange things shall happen.
* In ''Manga/HauntedJunction'', Saito High School was built at the center of a triangle formed by a Shinto shrine, a Buddhist temple, and a Christian church. The resultant flow of energy makes it a ''weird'' place that seems to attract more weird. And as if to throw fuel to the fire, the Holy Student Council comprises the son of a Christian minister, the daughter of a Shinto priest, and the son of a Bhuddist monk. This is not helped by the Chairman's habit of actively bringing ''more'' weird items and creatures onto school grounds. He's a deliberate weirdness magnet, to the chagrin of inadvertent magnet Haruto Hokujo (the Christian member of said Council).
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has the Joestar bloodline. Hell, just look at the title. Though every part has its share of weirdness.
** Joseph Joestar from Part 2 is the biggest weirdness magnet so far. Imagine godlike super vampires who eat vampires to live, warrior monks who turned into vampires, mafia, Nazis, the power of the sun, and Stroheim. Then getting a futuristic prosthetic hand like Stroheim. Then [[spoiler:dying, having his spirit ascend, and then being brought back thanks to a blood transfusion from the body of his grandfather which had been kept alive by a vampire's head]]. Joseph Joestar is the only [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure JoJo]] to have battled vampires, Pillar Men, ''and'' Stands (which means he's also the only hero to have used both hamon and a Stand), not to mention encountering ghosts and being around when there's a guy claiming to be an alien. Also, he managed to accidentally find an abandoned invisible baby that he ended up raising in his old age.
** ''Stroheim,'' the ultra-hammy, Nazi captain who got blown up in a grenade incident, got rebuilt as a Terminator-esque cyborg and fires a machine gun built into his chest while making hilariously campy poses. He kills vampires with '''NAAAAAZI SCIIIIIIIIIIENCE!!!'' Also he's actually a good guy. Kinda. Don't even ask how that happened.
** In Part 3 onwards, it's explicitly stated that Stand users tend to attract one another, resulting in this trope. This ends up sparking the main plot of part 4, as serial killer Yoshikage Kira acquiring a Stand gets him discovered by another Stand user by complete coincidence (he stole the second user's sandwich bag), ending his years of staying virtually undetected and throwing him against a bunch of supernatural people who don't appreciate him or his "line of work" too much.
* It was stated that early on in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' that Shirogane tended to attract girls who were unstable. Considering the three girls that are attracted to him are [[MoodSwinger Kaguya]], [[MsImagination Karen]] and [[spoiler:[[CuteAndPsycho Moeha]]]], this is pretty accurate.
* In ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'', Mutsumi has some... bizarre people drawn to her, from her [[KnightTemplarBigBrother oldest brother]] to [[PsychoLesbian Kiri]][[{{Yandere}} sa]][[MadLove ki]] to [[StalkerWithACrush Hatoda]]. This is on top of being a constant target as a LivingMacguffin.
-->'''Taiyo''': [[LampshadeHanging You really attract a lot of weirdos...]]\\
'''Mutsumi''': Yes. [[DeadpanSnarker Sometimes, I feel sorry for myself.]]
* Mizuki in ''Manga/{{Mokke}}'' has the talent to get haunted by lots of different kinds of ghosts. Her older sister Shizuru can see them, but is lucky not to be influenced by them directly.
* Tadayasu Sawaki from ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}''. In addition to being born with the power to see and communicate with microorganisms, he ends up hanging out with all sorts of weirdos, including a college professor seemingly obsessed with bio-remediation and [[ForeignQueasine weird fermented foods from around the world]], the professor's leather-wearing workaholic IceQueen grad assistant, a pair of slackers obsessed with sake brewing and insects, respectively, a girl who [[NeatFreak washes way too much]] and another girl who [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl drinks way too much]]. And to top it all off, his best friend since childhood [[spoiler: comes out as UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} and starts dressing up in ElegantGothicLolita outfits]].
* Being a magnet for mushi, the MetaOrigin for weirdness in ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' is apparently a common affliction for members of the title profession, including main character Ginko.
* Mai (and possibly the rest of Fuuka Academy) in ''Anime/MyHime'' appears to be a magnet for the surreal. Nagi specifically mentions in one episode that the Orphans are drawn to girls like her. However, it later turns out there are [[AncientConspiracy more sinister forces at work]]...
* The titular character of ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'' has spirits (Youkai) coming at him from every direction. It's a genetic thing.
* Mahiro Yasaka from ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent whose only special traits are a fondness for the works of Creator/HPLovecraft and [[ImprobableWeaponUser the ability to use forks as deadly weapons]]. Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos appearing in his life and [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu declaring her undying love for him]] is just the ''start'' of his troubles, which includes dealings with time-traveling MoralGuardians, alien {{Animal Wrongs Group}}s, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking being kidnapped so he can be auctioned off as the star of a]] BoysLove TV show. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode where Nyarko remarks that something about Mahiro makes him "strangely attractive" to aliens.
* The Straw Hat Pirates from ''Manga/OnePiece'' always gets in trouble wherever they go and will surely continue do so in the future. Nami actually {{lampshade|Hanging}}s a much more literal version of this trope when the eccentric [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot talking living musician fencing skeleton Brook]] joins the crew, by saying "Why do our crew always attract the weird ones?" - other weird members being the perverted cyborg Franky and the reindeer human Chopper. Plus there's Robin who can make body parts appear all over the place. And then there's Luffy: a ''living rubber band''. We later get an explanation when we see other pirate crews competing with the Straw Hat Pirates: It turns out that all of the other crews carefully choose their paths to avoid as much trouble as possible, whereas the Straw Hats' captain, Monkey D. Luffy, deliberately seeks out the most dangerous options because he finds them the most amusing. That is, Luffy makes himself a Weirdness Magnet on purpose and is fully aware of it.
* In ''Anime/ProjectAKo'', whenever C-ko is the DamselInDistress, it's usually because she's this.
* The title character of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has some of this going on. After she saves Kyubey from Homura, she starts coming across witch labyrinths on a regular basis, her friend Hitomi gets hypnotized by a witch and nearly commits suicide, and so on, and she isn't even a MagicalGirl yet. [[spoiler:Her insanely high potential magical power probably has something to do with it.]]
* Ranma from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', to the point that most fans suspect that Ranma's curse isn't [[GenderBender gender bending]] so much that it's his almost supernatural ability to attract weirdness wherever he goes.
** Others have theorized that it might actually be ''Akane Tendo'' who's the real weirdness magnet; Ranma, and the trouble associated with him, could be considered the weirdness that ''she'' attracts. Or perhaps they're both weirdness magnets, and their mutual presence is strengthening the effect, hence why more and more whacked out stuff happens as the anime/manga goes on.
** Though it's never outright stated that any character in ''Ranma ½'' is a weirdness magnet, it is a fairly easy conclusion to leap to. While the world itself clearly is full of weirdness -- the existence of the various MartialArtsAndCrafts practitioners, plus the cursed, easy-to-fall-into Jusenkyo ponds, prove it -- it does seem that Ranma, Akane and the other characters do have a particular knack for getting involved with the more bizarre parts of life. Kuno manages to be the 1 millionth customer to a "Pull the Wish-Granting Sword from the Stone" contest, which means he gets the three wishes. Shampoo brings back a supposedly haunted set of bells as a present for Ranma, and sure enough, out pops a ghost. In the first NonSerialMovie, a young woman who is the third generation of her family to have possession of a relic that will supposedly bring a prince or princess to marry the one who holds it has gone her entire life waiting to be swept off her feet. When she tracks down OldMaster [[DirtyOldMan Happosai]] to express her disgruntlement at its failure to work, guess who shows up the second the relic falls into Akane Tendo's hands? Ryoga just happens to stumble upon a creepy merchant selling [[LovePotion toy fishing rods that make the person you "catch" fall head-over-heels in love with you]] and, intending to use it on Akane, he winds up snagging Ranma instead. And these are just a ''few'' examples.
* Tsunayoshi Sawada from ''Manga/Reborn2004''. For the first sixty or so chapters he [[spoiler: meets: a baby in the mafia who shoots him in the head and causes him to come back to life in his underwear with a flame on his forehead, a high school student with a lot of dynamite, a five-year-old dressed as a cow who uses grenades trying to kill the mafia baby and can switch with his future self (by climbing into a bazooka pulled out of his large afro and firing), a person who is a klutz without anyone from his family near him, oh and he wakes up to find a corpse in his room, etc]].
* Osaka Naru (or Molly, if you prefer) from ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was notorious for [[DesignatedVictim attracting almost every kind of supernatural creature in existence]] as the most frequent VictimOfTheWeek, earning the FanNickname "youma bait". Luna {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this early in the second season. However, her role in later seasons was downplayed until she was finally PutOnABus.
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Fuyuki and Natsumi Hinata get entangled in all sorts of extraterrestrial weirdness as a result of the Keroro Platoon moving into their house. Fuyuki, a prodigy paranormalist, loves it while Natsumi, an average girl [[IJustWantToBeNormal who would rather have her average life back]], hates it.
* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', it seems that almost all of the main characters in high school get pulled into something related to the Crimson Realm.
* Lina seems to be this in the first third of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Next'', as she inexplicably keeps tripping on one Mazoku plot after the other. [[spoiler: As it turns out there's nothing accidental about this, as Xellos was leading her into these situations by order of the Hellmaster.]]
** Anytime Lina is around she'll have to gather up her TrueCompanions and defeat some sort of BigBad -- not just in ''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Slayers Next]]''.
* The title character of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' is a serious weirdness magnet. Sena in the spinoff ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'', who to begin bears an uncanny resemblance to the former, is even more so.
* Chiaki, the main character of ''Manga/TodaysCerberus'', attracts yokai to him because, as a child, a piece of his soul was accidentally stolen by the Cerberus head Roze. His magnet status is further enhanced by the fact he is a teenager, "neither child nor adult."
* The entire cast of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', but especially the lead character, [[PropheticNames Ataru Moroboshi]]. As a cultural note, the very first story has Ataru's mother reminiscing about all the bad omens that took place on the day that Ataru was born. It reads like a beginner's guide to superstitions with particular references to Japanese beliefs, starting with the fact that he was born on the anniversary of the Buddha's death. Also, his name can be translated to mean "Many stars will hit him on the head". And finally, the name of the series itself can be translated as "Those Annoying Aliens", suggesting that the galaxy and series' version of Earth is teeming with sentient species who are all irritating in their own ways. Ataru is therefore simply unlucky enough to catch the attention of ''all of them''.
* Played with in ''Manga/{{xxxHOLiC}}'', as Watanuki is fully aware that he is a weirdness magnet, and starts the story by making a DealWithTheDevil (Yuuko, actually, but Watanuki seems to consider them one and the same) to get rid of his unwanted ability.
** The cause of his weirdness magnetism is actually explained later on -- suicidal thoughts and desires that have been magically amnesia'd away. He may not ''remember'' that he wants to die nor the reason for why he does, but he still smells like it to spirits and stuff.
** A second reason, seemingly taken directly from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', is that [[spoiler:as a time travel duplicate, he's doomed, as reality itself tries to exorcise him. He just manages to hang on regardless]].
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': In Season 4, Judai almost drops out of [[WizardingSchool the Academy]] under the assumption that, as TheChosenOne, he is attracting all the evil, psychotic villains to the place. Two former said psychos clarify that it's ''Duel Academia'' that is the MagneticPlotDevice (Sameshima actually revealed it was ''built for that specific purpose''), and Judai can best protect it by staying, not leaving.
** At this point, we can probably classify [[Franchise/YuGiOh the Duel Monsters card game itself]] as a Weirdness Magnet, considering how many mystical forces have used it as a conduit (like [[Anime/YuGiOh Egyptian gods]], [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds Incan gods]], and [[Anime/YuGiOhGX some kind of outer space cosmic forces]], for starters).
* In ''LightNovel/TheZashikiWarashiOfIntellectualVillage'' each male member of the Jinnai family has a strange interaction with youkai.
** Shinobu naturally attracts youkai. Any that are capable of affection adore him and will happily become his friend, even those which are ordinarily deadly.
** Hayabusa is antagonized by youkai, who view him as something akin to a MetalSlime. It got so bad he moved to Tokyo as youkai can't stand urban areas.
** Shinobu's father terrifies youkai and can easily drive them off if angered.
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