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  • Tendonman from Anpanman. He's the youngest, most traditionally cute-designed, and loudest member of the Donburiman Trio, and was the first Keet of the series, being introduced in the first episode before the other members of the trio.
  • Baccano!:
    • Isaac Dian is quite the Keet. And since his partner Miria Harvent is a Genki Girl, well...
    • Ladd Russo, Graham Spector, and Claire Stanfield appear to be evil versions of this trope.
  • Toru Nanamine of Bakuman。 is constantly enthusiastic, even when his one-shot, "Classroom of Truth" doesn't get an award. It turns out to be an act, as he is actually quite smug and manipulative.
  • Asta from Black Clover is hyperactive and enthusiastic about anything and everything pertaining to becoming Wizard King. He's also one of the only people who try to put a positive spin on things with his overwhelming optimism and he also rarely stops moving, especially when training as he feels the need to constantly be active and do something productive.
  • Bleach:
    • Yuushirou's very talkative and hyperactive, and rushes thoughtlessly around the place whenever he wants to try and catch up to Yoruichi (which is often). He is eager to please and highly emotional, becoming tearful when Yoruichi leaves him behind or extremely excited whenever he sees her or feels he's done something to please her.
    • The Sogyo no Kotowari twins from the Unknown Tales arc are small, cute children who engage in playfully dangerous behaviour such as playing fan games with fans that turn out to be energy-firing weapons. Even when they're trying to kill their Soul Reaper master (Ukitake), they never stop being cute. In fact, they even weaponise their cuteness to disarm Ukitake; they almost take his head off with the fan-game before he realises they really are the spirits of his weapons and starts taking them seriously.
  • A somewhat more mild version is Alistair Cornwell alias Stear from Candy♡Candy. He's very cheerful, energetic and a teenaged Absent-Minded Professor, but he can also be serious when needed and ultimately falls victim to a truly tragic death in World War I.
  • Classi9's Haydn is one. He cannot stay still even when performing or leading musicians.
  • Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!: Yumoto, the shortest, youngest, most talkative, In Touch with His Feminine Side member of the Defense Club who'll jump into a hot spring fully clothed just because a fluffy wombat appeared out of nowhere.
    • Ryuu, to a milder extent, also applies, as he is the second most energetic of the Defense Club overall, as well as being quite extroverted.
  • JJ Adams in FAKE, who spends most of his on-panel time gleefully flinging himself at Dee.
  • Momiji Sohma from Fruits Basket is the embodiment of this trope, even wearing the girls' uniform with shorts instead of a skirt, and seems to be in love with Tohru. He grows up at the end and stops being as much of a Keet, though he's still rather genki.
  • Shoyo Hinata from Haikyuu!! never runs out of energy.
  • Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • Shiro of K has this personality and this look... when he's in Tooru Hieda's body. But he's actually a 6-foot-tall silver-haired German adult, and he still has this personality in that body, which is somehow even cuter.
  • Micchi of Kamichama Karin takes this to whole new levels. His interaction with the rest of the main cast comes dangerously close to flirting (both with Karin and Kazune). This is even though he's a year older and One Head Taller than either of them.
  • Mizuki from Kamisama Kiss. He's a little older than most examples here but otherwise fits the trope perfectly.
  • Yogi from Karneval can be overdramatic and flamboyant one moment, then more serious than his "rival" First Ship's female fighter the next. He's not small and cute, though; just loud and cheery. It annoys the heck outta Ineffectual Loner Gareki when his sunshiny personality is directed at him.
  • Kuranosuke of Princess Jellyfish, while not as small or shrill as your average Keet, still fits the bill.
  • As the second tallest character in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, 6-foot tall Wakamatsu is noticeably larger than the usual example, but still a little too meek to be considered a Boisterous Bruiser. Watamatsu can be very happy-go-lucky and exuberant, especially when among friends. It's even lampshaded by Hori in Episode 11 of the anime.
    Hori: You're so energetic.
    • A strange example from the same series: Yu Kashima is a woman, which would normally make her a Genki Girl... except that she's also a massive Bifauxnen with the personality of an archetypal Otome Game hero, including fitting this trope better. She's talkative, extroverted, competitive, somewhat immature, and younger than the main cast, even getting protective of her status as "the beloved kohai", while lacking the physical over-exaggeration and exhausting presence of a standard Genki Girl.
  • Nabari no Ou: Gau, who is hyperactive, passionate and regularly loud. Yukimi's nickname for him is "Tenpa-kun", which is derived from the slang term "tenparu" (lit. "about to blow a fuse").
  • Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
    • A good portion of the male student body falls under this (and the girls aren't any better). The final event in the previous year's Mahorafest was a campus-wide game of tag. Which they aren't repeating this year because there were too many injuries. They were down to a game of hide-and-seek when an army of robots shows up with clothes-stripping lasers. So the teachers simply armed them with anti-robot magic guns and let them loose.
    • Negi also qualifies when he's able to get away from his Training from Hell and responsibilities as a teacher. When he acquires a time machine during the festival arc and realizes he has enough time to do everything, he goes right into adorable-kid mode. His first impulse was to use the time machine to go back and see the dinosaurs.
  • One Piece:
  • A good 25% of the cast of Ouran High School Host Club, but especially Honey, who looks like a 10-year-old despite being a high school senior, and the Camp Straight Large Ham Tamaki. Tamaki was especially energetic in middle school, much to Kyoya's annoyance.
  • Eiji Kikumaru from The Prince of Tennis, though he evolves more into a Bunny-Ears Lawyer as his character develops through the series. Boys like Jiroh Akutagawa and Gakuto Mukahi from Hyoutei Gakuen and Kintarou Tooyama from Shitenhouji fit more into the archetype.
  • Hanagata from Saber Marionette J is also Camp Gay.
  • Son Goku (no, not that Son Goku) from Saiyuki. He's this...OH. SO. MUCH! He's always enthusiastic about exploring new places, especially if it means trying out new foods. In the manga, he slowly grows more mature.
  • Umino from Sailor Moon is pretty excitable in telling his buddies about stuff he's experienced, much to their annoyance. Even after he gets a Relationship Upgrade with Naru, he still doesn't give up his excitable ways.
  • Mikogami from Sekirei is a villainous example, and tends to react to anything exciting happening with squealing and comical expressions of joy.
  • Ushijima in Corpse Princess is another hetero example.
  • Mizushiro Hizumi from Spiral is "the Devil"... a very, very cheerful and cute one. When he isn't being murderous and/or unbearably angsty, that is — he'll switch between all three moods in a matter of seconds.
  • Trigun: Vash the Stampede falls into this mode as a part of his Obfuscating Stupidity, but he also seems to take some comfort in the act, especially while enjoying his donuts, which is a sure trigger for it.
  • Haru from Tsuritama. Cute, eccentric, and least a third of his dialogue is yelled.
  • Uta No Prince-sama heroine Haruka Nanami's singing idol Hayato is this. Or rather being keet is his image for the fans.
  • Q-vier of Valvrave the Liberator (cv: Yūki Kaji) — a super-assassin Blood Knight with this personality. He's lived most of his life in a secret assassin-training facility and doesn't seem to realize that it's not normal to kill as frequently as you brush your teeth (to quote a similar character from the same writer). The result is unsettling, to say the least, and very sad.
  • Nava of Wild Rock as he gets older.
  • Kimihiro Watanuki in ×××HOLiC is so Keet that eventually Doumeki stops bothering to tell him to quit being so loud and simply covers his ears when Watanuki inevitably gets overexcited. Or annoyed, which happens more often in Doumeki's vicinity. He steadily starts growing out of it due to Character Development, and then abruptly ceases to be this completely when a certain major character dies.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!: Yugi, particularly after finding friends.
  • YuYu Hakusho:
    • Jin. This is not helped by the fact that he has the same Japanese voice actor as Ryuichi Sakuma.
    • The concept itself is horribly, horribly deconstructed by Kiyoshi Mitarai, though, since he has the looks of a keet and the voice for it but all it gets him is to be horribly bullied, which later makes him lose his faith in people and join Sensui in his quest...


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