Bifauxnen / Anime & Manga

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• Mashiro Ichijo's gender identity is a key part of the plot of the manga After School Nightmare.
• Mizuki from Ai Ore! Love Me! looks very handsome in an androgynous way, and is considered the "prince" of her all-girls school. Her female bandmates are all similarly androgynous-looking. This puts her in contrast with her love interest Akira, a very feminine-looking boy.
• Natsuki Hayami from Amakusa 1637. It's actually VERY plot important since, when she's thrown into the past with her friends, she turns out to be the Identical Stranger of a certain local leader who looks like a girl...
• Kei from Akiko Morishima's Angelic Girl is an interesting Deconstruction. She definitely fits the archetype, but is insecure about the fact that girls seem to like her largely because they view her as "practice" for a boyfriend, or because they find the idea of sex with her less intimidating than sex with a real boy. Because of this, she's worried her current girlfriend is eventually gonna dump her for a guy , though thankfully, it turns out the girl genuinely loves her.
• The protagonist of the anime Aoharu × Machinegun, Tachibana Hotaru, is a high school girl who wears boy's uniform and often gets mistaken as a boy. For those who doesn't know her gender, she looks like a Bishōnen. In an omake, she receives a lot of chocolates from other girls who find her attractive. Her own female best friend (who knows that Hotaru is actually a girl) seems to have more than platonic feelings for her, and one of her fellow airsoft player, an older woman, ends up falling for her and confesses to her later in the manga. Hotaru has to reject her by revealing her gender to her and the other players.
• Mikusa from Arata: The Legend gets revealed to be a crossdressing girl a few chapters after her appearance. She was as a boy because the girls of the Hime clan were being slaughtered, and the artstyle retains in keeping her looking rather boyish for a long time. After some time, Mikusa wants to embrace her being a woman and begins to wear feminine clothes.
• In Asteroid in Love, Moe made her sister Megu dress like a butler, instead of a meido, when they work at their family bakery. Megu looks handsome in this uniform, something the customer agrees.
• Maya and Karen in Bamboo Blade look rather androgynous when wearing their kendo uniforms, though Maya looks more thuggish than Bishōnen.
• Chihiro from Battle Spirits Heroes. She seems like a Bishōnen boy but is revealed to be a girl in episode 31.
• Kei from The Beautiful Skies of Houou High looks like a boy. Her mom sent her to an all-boys school, full of Bishōnen boys, to make her more feminine.
• Black Jack: Kisaragi Kei is an early example. She began living entirely as a man after her (cancerous) ovaries and uterus were removed. Subverted in that he has since fully embraced the life of a man and even tells◊ Black Jack that he's happy he quit being a woman.
• Diva from Blood+ transforms herself to look like this after raping and killing her twin sister's adoptive little brother Riku in order to impregnate herself. To add insult to injury, it's his appearance she takes.
• In her first appearance in Case Closed Sera Masumi is mistaken as a Troubled, but Cute guy because of her short hair and style. Sonoko even comment on her good looks, and everyone keep referring to her as a guy until she shows up in Ran and Sonoko's class wearing the school's female uniform.
• Change 123 gives us Ginga who is easily mistaken for a boy, what with running around shirtless, and having a flat chest due to her muscle structure. It takes an accidental peek at her preparing for the bath (and later Kousukegawa getting his face pressed against her crotch after falling off the roof) for her to admit she's a girl.
• Megumi from Cheeky Angel is an unusual subversion as she was turned into a girl, and despite being unusually skilled at grooming herself, is mistaken for a one for her rough speech.
• In City Hunter, Kaori has a fairly androgynous look and is often mistaken for a young man (and she often receives avances by girls that believe her to be an attractive boy).
• During the Claymore episode "The Witch's Maw", Clare pulls this off by wearing a figure-concealing cape, pulling her already-short hair back, and lengthening her vocal cords to deepen her voice. The voice of her thoughts remains the same, however.
• Tsubasa of Comic Girls is extremely boyish (she even writes Shōnen manga!), and both Kaoruko and Koyume consider her extremely handsome, to Even the Girls Want Her levels.
• June from Coyote Ragtime Show. She's the knife-fighter.

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• Lampshaded in Dog Days, where Cinque is surprised that Eclair was a girl.
• Dororo (2019): Mutsu has Boyish Short Hair and dresses in masculine clothing, but she has delicate features and a deep voice in an androgynous manner. The audience learns her gender when Hyogo calls her aneue, an archaic word for older sister.
• Elfen Lied: The Agent was confused for a man for almost all of her appearances, but was revealed as female at the very end, where her shirt rips, and reveals her cleavage.
• Eureka looks almost like a male in her soccer attire in episode 39 of Eureka Seven thanks to her hair loss.
• In Family Complex, the eldest daughter Natsuru is a good-looking tomboy who has been crushed on by girls ever since grade school, and graduating into an outright School Idol in her all-girl high school and university. Her younger sister, Fuyuki, would eventually follow in her footsteps by cutting her long hair and trading her skirts and dresses into a more masculine clothing, eventually winning the heart of her former love rival.
• Akito Sohma from Fruits Basket actively fools people into thinking she's a man, and it helps that she has a very similar hair cut to Yuki's. This doesn't apply in the first anime where Akito is obviously male.^note  The character's true gender wasn't revealed in the manga until after the first anime finished production Akito being a Bifauxnen is actually a huge plot point in the manga and 2019 anime. She was actually forced to act, dress and make everyone believe she was a man, per orders of her horribly abusive mother Ren, who did it out of petty jealousy over how Akito's dad adored her and how she hated the idea of her daughter getting more attention from men than her. Out of the Zodiac members, only the eldest ones (Hatori, Ayame, Kureno and Shigure) know that she's a girl and identifies as such despite how she was raised — Kureno later reveals this to Tohru in what becomes a massive Wham Episode. The other cursed Sohmas don't learn this until almost at the end of the story, when the now reformed Akito appears in front of them in a female kimono.
• Kiri-chan from Ga-Rei -Zero-.
• Galaxy Angel: Due to the lack of men in the show, the tall, husky voiced gun-nut Forte ends up playing one whenever the team requires. Especially ironic given her generic costume shows off her assets very prominently.
• Gintama:
  • Yagyu Kyubei is an unusual example - she exemplifies this trope, but not on accident; she was raised as a male. Otae says Kyubei was "born with a woman's body, but a man's heart".
  • Mutsu is also an example. Doesn't help that she wears men's clothing.
• Shadow in Godannar manages to cross the line all the way to "are you sure she's not a man?" despite having an obviously female body. This is because she manages to be one of the few pilots to contract the Insania Virus, which is supposed to primarily affect men.
• Actually a plot point for the Yuri manga Gokujou Drops. Turns out a boy Komari made a childhood promise with years ago was her current squeeze Yukio.
• Kana, the Wrench Wench from Haibane Renmei. She dresses in a boy's uniform and her voice is low enough in tone to be passable for either gender, and every so often someone asks about "him". These aspects of her, however, are only lightly touched upon in the anime.
• In Hakodate Youjin Buraichou Himegami, there's several bifauxnen hiding almost in plain sight. The protagonist Hyou is one, though the women she protects all know. The primary villain, a French noble named Gawain, very surprisingly turns out to be one after everyone but her servants leave her home, and she undresses to be waited on hand and foot. That suit hides her bust very well.
• Hana-Kimi: Originally a pretty girl, Mizuki made a good Bifauxnen when she cross-dressed to go to an all-boy school. There, she is revered as a pretty boy. However, when she went back home for the holidays, her father mistook her for a boy upon seeing her with her short boyish hairstyle (not to mention, she was pretty flat too).
• Handsome Girl and Crossdressing Boy: Hazuki is tall, has Boyish Short Hair, and usually takes the "masculine" role in her relationship with Iori.
• Handsome Girl And Sheltered Girl is about a girl asking a Bifauxnen classmate out on a date. She accepts at first, thinking to pull an Unsettling Gender-Reveal afterwards, but finds herself unable to break the truth even after falling in love with her. Assorted comic misunderstandings ensue, culminating in the reveal that this Lady Looks Like a Dude has a Dude Looks Like a Lady brother (and it's implied the story starts up again with him and one of the sister's male friends).
• Hellsing: Sir Integra. Back when most people's exposure to Hellsing came through the TV series, some people were genuinely confused as to her gender, despite a flashback episode in which, as a young girl, she is clearly shown wearing female clothing. The manga and OVA actually begin with this flashback, making such confusion nigh-on impossible. The confusion is propped up by the English translations referring to her as "sir" for some reason.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • After cutting off her long braids, Lichtenstein can pull off a rather convincing Bifauxnen, despite being a Proper Lady personality-wise. She's not very pleased by such a prospect, though, since it outlines her lack of endowments.
  • Also Hungary, who once thought she was a boy and wasn't bad looking while dressed as a male. Brought up more directly in a sketch where Hungary dons a nice male outfit, ties her hair in a ponytail and strikes a Knight in Shining Armor pose for a Liechtenstein with long hair and a cute Pimped-Out Dress. It was again brought up in Hetaween 2011 when she dons a prince-like cosplay. And ropes her boyfriend Austria into wearing a dress and being her "princess".
  • Hetaween 2011 also has Ukraine as one, when she cosplays as the Mad Hatter in the Slavi/Baltic group. Liech dresses up in boyish clothes again, this time cosplaying as the son of Wilhelm Tell while her brother Switzerland is Wilhelm Tell himself.
  • In Hetalia Hetaween 2013, Ukraine does it again by dressing up as a ghost train conductor (but this time, her outfit has a Cleavage Window)
  • As well, both Hungary and Belgium wear rather masculine military uniforms. Vietnam's uniform has only been seen in a few sketches, but appears this way as well.
• Amai Mitsuki from Honey And Mustard. A tall Dark-aired woman, who often dress in a androgynous manner. She's a Chick Magnet and often act flirty with younger girls who are left blushing and flustered.
• Subverted with Alicia "Jeudi" Brandel in the Honoo no Alpen Rose manga. She only dons the look for a short time after having to get her hair cut short and donning boy's clothes to fool Count Germont and cross the Austrian/Swiss border without trouble, and though she can pull it off surprisingly well, after meeting Leonhardt and telling him she's a girl to gain his favor and then being tracked by the very persistent Count , she returns to wearing dresses almost immediately.
• The plot of I Girl is that a women has to disguise herself as her younger twin brother, who is a high school teacher. He cuts her hair and suddenly looks near identical to her, just with a rounder and shorter face. It turns out that a large number of the students have crushes on her brother...
• In the Clear Moonlit Dusk: Yoi's slim body, shortly cropped hair, and lower voice gives her a somewhat androgynous appearance, which has led to most people who just quickly meet her confusing her for a very beautiful young man. She is frequently approached by girls at her school who give her gifts to show their adoration and call her their "Prince". She is also naturally a polite and protective person. When the cashier at a convenience store is being hit on by a customer, she intervenes and even blocks a blow from the man, using karate. While holding the stance she is depicted with twinkling lights and roses to lampshade her princely behavior.
• Kei from IRIA: Zeiram the Animation is revealed to be a girl after everyone believed her to be a boy for most of the series.

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• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • In Steel Ball Run, Hot Pants is so masculine looking that she's able to convincingly disguise herself as a man, with most of the cast never figuring out her true gender.
• Kagerou Days: Kido.◊ During her first (very brief) appearance, Shintaro mistakes her for a guy. She's noted to have a pretty face by other characters, but it (and all aspects of her figure) is usually hidden by her hoodie and hair.
• Rei Batsubami in the anime adaptation of Kakegurui. She's female, but she wears pants with her uniform, has an androgynous appearance, and speaks with a deep voice as she acts like a butler to the rest of the clan due to her family's exile. She adopts a more feminine look when she reveals who she really is, as her clothes follow along after her final gamble with Yumeko.
• Sai from Kaze Hikaru passes for a cute teenage boy fairly easily as a Sweet Polly Oliver - and her forbidden love for her captain makes them almost seem like a gay couple. Even a few comically perverted guys in the manga fall for her to a degree- including one who goes past flirtation and outright into attempted rape, with rapidly disappearing 'comedy' aspects as it becomes clear what his intentions are and what this would mean for her prospects at continuing to pass for male.
• Shiratori, Kisara's servant from Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple. In her first appearance and in every appearance since, she's had a bishonen-esque face and always wore a heavy coat and shirt, showing no hint of her gender. In chapter 489, Shiratori's real gender is revealed for the first time, Takeda's reactions pretty much showing what the readers had thought this whole time.
• The eponymous Kurau from Kurau Phantom Memory often wears man's clothing that conceal her actual gender quite well, accentuated by her short hair and the fact that she's extremely bad-ass to boot. During one stint as a bodyguard the only thing that gives away she's a woman is her voice. Of course, her gender becomes quite obvious once she changes into one of her skintight outfits.
• There's a oneshot manga called Kuroneko Guardian where a young singer is given a bodyguard. She's dressed as a boy because "it'd be easier to work if people didn't know she was a girl".
• Love Gene XX: In an alternate future, all the males are wiped out by a virus. So all the females adopt the "Eden Project" where the females are divided into masculine "Adams" and feminine "Eves." Many of the Adams are bishonen-seque women filling out the male duties.
• Minami Iwasaki in Lucky Star, although this is played up by her Fangirl classmate.
• Lady Jo from Lupin III: Angel Tactics fits this trope exactly, with Fujiko even calling her "boy" when Jo tries to seduce her. Interestingly, she's explicitly described as bisexual, and seems to be somewhat fluid in her style. While she's introduced in a very masculine outfit and displays most of the other typical traits associated with this archetype, she eventually lets her hair down and dons a very fancy Pimped-Out Dress during the film's climax.
• The viewers weren't the only ones who were confused with the gender of the boyish Otto from Lyrical Nanoha. In the supplementary manga that featured the Numbers, it's revealed that most of the Numbers themselves were also unsure whether Otto's a man or a woman, and Quattro ordered the few who do know to keep a tight-lip about it. Also in the post-Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS Time Skip, she's now working as a butler for the Belkan Saint Church, complete with matching suit.
• Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier does this for some of her concerts as a costume while singing (and cleans up quite well). Is quite Hilarious in Hindsight considering her love interest "Princess" Alto.
• Ryo Kuromatsu in the manga The Magic Touch. She looks so much like a boy that even when she wears girl clothes, she looks like a guy wearing girl's clothes. Most characters in the manga know she's a girl, though.
• Shizu from Maria†Holic. She's Mariya's Half Identical Twin who's going to an all-boys school; a perfect parallel to Mariya who's a Villainous Crossdresser who goes to an all-girl school.
• In Martian Successor Nadesico, an escaping enemy once confused the athletic, short-haired Action Girl Ryoko for a guy when she tried to contact him via Holographic Terminal. She was not amused. Note this was a one-off occurrence, as this confusion would not be possible in person thanks to the magic of Latex Space Suits, and the character in question had a particularly narrow view of "proper" mecha pilots.
• Rina from Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch is more tall and pretty than anything, but she wears the male uniform, and upon her introduction in the anime, Lucia and Hanon wonder, "That was a girl... right?"
• Minami-ke: Touma Minami (no relation) is first persuaded to pose as a brother, then later insists on being called a boy, even though she's not, probably because all three of her elder siblings are Aloof Big Brothers (to varying degrees). This provides some nice contrast to Wholesome Crossdresser "Mako-chan".
• Rin Asougi from Mnemosyne seems to have this down pat - if it wasn't for her rather large breasts, she could quite often be mistaken for a effeminate man. This is in large part due to her choice of clothes - a man's business suit. It doesn't help that she is by far extremely badass.
• Hilling Care, Dark Action Girl and Ribbons' twin sister from Mobile Suit Gundam 00.
• Subverted in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. During her first appearance, Cagalli is dressed in rather boyish clothes but does not do anything specific to hide her gender. People just assume she's a boy, and Kira almost immediately identifies her as a girl.
• Mobile Suit Gundam Wing:
  • Lucrezia Noin believed that gender distinctions didn't matter in the battlefield, so she had rather boyish and elegant looks.
  • From Frozen Teardrop we have Katherine Oud Winner, one of Quatre's sisters. as seen here◊.
• A character in Monochrome Factor who is employed at Master's bar looks perfectly male as his shirt is always half open and you can see he (she) has a flat chest. However, after he goes a little crazy after telling Maya he (she) is actually a girl and Mayu rejects him, then is possessed by kokuchi she (he) seems to develop rather large breasts...
• Yuu Kashima from Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, with her short haircut and preference for men's clothes, is easily mistaken for a pretty guy. She also has a reputation as being the school's Prince, which she takes pride in. It's even used as a plot point in chapter 45, where Wakamatsu mistakes her for being Seo's boyfriend, never having seen Kashima in the school uniform where she wears a skirt. Kashima at one point parodies the cliche where boyish girls wish to get a Girliness Upgrade. When she gets a cold her voice deepens, leading another character to wonder if she'll get sad she now seems even more like a boy.. Kashima promptly flaunts her androgyny and masculinity around.
  • Although, this (like basically every other gender-based trope in the series) is Played With a bit. While Kashima's appearance is textbook Bifauxnen, the only time she fits any part of the personality profile is when she's doing it on purpose. Her real personality is competitive, energetic, needy, and possessed of stunningly bad social awareness and very strange thought processes.
• The title character from Musashi #9. The big reveal comes at the end of nearly every issue/story arc, especially early on.
• My-HiME: Chie had hints of this. Her My-Otome version turned this up even more with her husky voice, flirty manner, predilection to blue roses, and association with the much-more-girly Aoi. It's even more obvious in My-Otome Zwei, where her Robe is a suit with a top hat rather than the standard dress.

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• In Naruto, the epilogue shows us a very boyish teenage girl◊... She is Mirai Sarutobi, the very androgynous-looking daughter of Asuma and Kurenai.
• Jun Kamigamo from Natsu no Arashi! looks unquestionably like a male until the reveal of her true gender.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
  • Setsuna Sakurazaki fooled some into thinking she was a pretty guy while dressed as a Shinsengumi officer.
  • Both Setsuna and Kaede wear men's-style suits fairly often in the Magical World arc, even to a formal ball.
• Kiri from Never Give Up ended up with the looks of her father. Furthermore, to follow her love interest, she gets hired as a male model. Her masculine features are emphasized by her love interest, Tohya, being an effeminate-looking boy. This is often joked about by Kiri's friend, Natsu:
  Natsu: I do think you two look good together.
  Kiri: Huh?! Really?!
  Natsu: Prince Kiri and Princess Tohya. You'd be best couple in the yearbook, for sure!
• The protagonist of Nozomu Nozomi is a boy who looks androgynous. When he gets turned into a girl he still passes as a boy. His haircut is fairly neutral and he has an almost flat chest.
• Nyan Koi!: Nagi is tall and flat-chested, also a gangster (the daughter of a Yakuza family) and the captain of the track team. She used to love girlish clothes and things, but started dressing and acting like a man after her first love rejected her.
• Ouran High School Host Club:
  • Haruhi mostly doesn't care if she's taken for male or not and often dresses in feminine clothing when she's not at school... but since the rest of the Host Club is determined to keep her gender a secret, she wears a male school uniform. (Not helped by how she actually wore the male uniform before joining the club, since it was cheaper than the girl's one.) And she is considered to fill the "boy so pretty he could be a girl" demographic to the unknowing club customers.
  • Benio "Benibara" Amakusa of St. Lobelia Girls' Academy's Takarazuka Club, meanwhile, is a fully intentional example.
• Pretty Cure:
  • Itsuki Myoudouin from HeartCatch Pretty Cure!. Justified because she had to take over her family's business, and her older brother Satsuki (who looks like a girl, oddly enough) is sick, so she believes she has to dress like the opposite gender. And her disguise was so convincing, Even the Girls Want Her. She looks much more feminine as Cure Sunshine, however.
  • Briefly in Doki Doki! PreCure Episode 12, Jun has an Imagine Spot of Mana dressed up in a masculine 1800s uniform, giving her a boyish appearance not unlike Itsuki or Akira.
  • Akira Kenjou/Cure Chocolat from KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode. Unlike Itsuki/Cure Sunshine, she's this in both civilian and Cure form, with her outfit in Cure form having several elements of a typical "prince" outfit. In her debut episode, Ichika is convinced that she's a boy, even when Akira transforms into Cure Chocolat right in front of her, until her father corrects her.
• Ranma ½: Ukyou, specially around the time of her introduction. From the moment she puts aside her grudge with Ranma and Genma, she switches to a simple Bokukko. (Though she still invokes the looks when at school, as she wears a boy's uniform and does her hair in a boyish ponytail, save for a filler episode of the anime where she tries a more open Girliness Upgrade.
• Yuri Ishtar from Red River (1995) was mistaken to be an attractive young boy while she was pretending to be a dancer. She's also mistaken for a boy when one of Kail's brothers comes to visit. Hilarity Ensues. When a local queen is told that "a young boy" is conquering several territories for the Hittites. Said Queen's pre-teen daughter, in a well-intentioned by VERY misguided move, decides to sneak out and offer herself to "serve" said "boy", implicitly in a sexual manner, in exchange for the safety of her people. Yuri is shocked at this, then explains the deal to the princess and makes her one of her ladies-in-waiting instead. (Not to mention the girl's mother was not happy either when she found out.)
• Revolutionary Girl Utena:
  • Utena is a very downplayed example in the TV anime. She wants to embody her idea of a "prince", is generally tomboyish and athletic, and has a lot of female admirers, but she dislikes actually being identified as masculine. Thus her choice of attire is a mix between feminine and masculine, wearing a modified boy's uniform with red shorts and having long hair.
  • In Adolescence of Utena, Utena's appearance is significantly more masculine. She wears a more typical boy's uniform (a black and white suit with a matching hat) and appears to wear her hair really short (it's actually Compressed Hair, since official sketches show that she's hiding most of her hair under her hat - but then a few shots actually have it short without the hat on, so go figure). One of the major characters does not realize Utena is female until he's halfway into a fight scene. Her differing tastes in clothing in this continuity is not given any specific explanation.
• Maggie from R.O.D the TV is very tall with a husky voice, yet at the same time very shy and withdrawn.
• Oscar François de Jarjayes from The Rose of Versailles is the archetypal example, and her design was more or less cribbed from the otokoyaku (boytype) role of the real-life Takarazuka Revue performers (The Rose of Versailles would later become one of the Revue's most famous performances). Since she was raised to be her father's heir due to his desperation for a son after having six daughters, she wears male clothing and she's drawn with more masculine features than any other female character; as a result, she has a lot of female admirers, with Naïve Everygirl Rosalie being outright in love with her. While she's introduced with short hair, it gradually grows longer as the story goes on.
• Souseiseki from Rozen Maiden. She has Boyish Short Hair, wears masculine Victorian-style clothing, and uses the masculine pronoun "boku". This puts her in contrast with her twin sister Suiseiseki, who looks and acts much more feminine.
• Sailor Moon:
  • Haruka Tenou (Sailor Uranus) is modeled on a real-life Takarazuka character. While this is less emphasized after her introduction in the manga, it made her very distinctive in promotional materials by adding some variety, and eventually became her major character trait in the original anime.
  • The Sailor Starlights from the final arc also qualify under this trope, at least in the manga, where they're only disguised as boys and not transformed into boys like in the 90s anime.
• Jun of Saki. Short hair, dress shirt and tie, husky voice, usage of male first-person pronouns, and a tall, lean figure? Even some viewers were thrown off by this despite her presence in an all-girl tournament.
• Cera Eguchi of Saki Achiga-hen, who has short hair, and doesn't like wearing the Senriyama school uniform, instead going around with a gyakuran top, t-shirt and shorts, thus comes off as looking like a boy.
• From Sensual Phrase, we have Towa's girlfriend Miya. She's a beautician and clothes designer, and actually it's her who created Towa's really girly looks.
• Shikimori from Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie used to be one in middle school, having Boyish Short Hair and a more androgynous appearance, until she deliberately changed her image and appearance in high school in order to avoid this. When Risa first met her, she wasn't sure whether she was a boy or a girl. Nowadays, she looks more feminine while still being very athletic.
• Simoun: Paraietta, especially impressive given the premise of the show. Though the outfit and her physique don't fit the trope. It's more the attitude and facial features.
• Ryou from Strawberry Shake Sweet. A lesbian singer in a Visual Kei band, she cultivates an androgynous image.
• Even though the entire casts are underaged girls flying magical planes while not wearing pants, a few characters in Strike Witches can qualify, especially Waltrud Krupinski.
• Tomo from Tomo-chan Is a Girl! can easily be mistaken for a guy because she dresses and acts in a very boyish manner (in spite of having a notable chest), though she can look quite stunning when made up in more feminine clothing. In fact, her Childhood Friend Junichiro actually did think she was a guy until middle school when he saw her wearing a skirt...granted, before that he'd seen her going into girls' bathrooms and still didn't put it together, but in hindsight he fully admits that it was Selective Obliviousness.
• Melk the Second from Toriko. Done so she can become the successor of her adopted father, the first Melk, or so she thought. Because he'd already decided she was worthy to be his successor and told her so, except he speaks so quietly she couldn't hear him.
• Ryuunosuke Fujinami from Urusei Yatsura, Ukyou and Ranma's authorical ancestor. Ryuunosuke is a girl, but her father was completely dead-set on having a son that when he discovered he had a daughter, it still didn't stop him from giving her a boy's name and raising her as a boy. As a result, Ryuunosuke is very masculine-looking, behaves way more manly than most male characters, speaks in a very masculine fashion and even girls who are aware of her gender swoon. Ryuunosuke is not happy about this, but no matter how hard she tries to behave feminine, her father always thwarts her efforts.
• W Juliet: You would never know Miura Ito was a girl unless she told you, especially at the beginning of the manga. Likewise, her boyfriend Makoto makes a gorgeous woman, to the point where all of his male classmates are in denial when they find out the truth at the end of the manga. Ito is constantly given male roles in the school drama club (their teacher is apparently a huge Takarazuka fan), and the one time she was cast as the female lead it was supposed to be a comedy version of Swan Lake, with Makoto as the handsome prince.
• The Wallflower has Sunako-chan turning up at a 'boy/girl mixer' with her classmates, dressed as an extremely pretty boy, because it precludes the chance of any boys asking her out but still fulfills her promise to go out with them. She's,er... special. No, not that way.
• Chizuru from Wandering Son counts at times. She typically looks feminine when in casual wear, but whenever she decides to crossdress in a boy's uniform she does looks like a Bishōnen with long hair. She's gained the attention of a few girls too.
• Yui Goido becomes one in The World God Only Knows after her capture.
• Momoe from Wonder Egg Priority is a deconstruction; her androgynous looks result in her being a Chick Magnet, but she actually has a complex about how masculine she looks and feels that many girls tend to see her as a substitute for a boy rather than an actual girl.
• Miura of Yotsuba&! talks and dresses very much like a boy, so much so that Gentle Giant Jumbo gets confused over her gender when he first sees her.