25 Incredible Japanese Anime Characters in Origami Form

Last Updated September 13, 2016

When I started following a lot of origami artists on sites like Flickr I was quite surprised to see that so many people had developed origami models that were based on characters from Japanese anime.

This post is a pretty diverse selection of origami anime characters from a really big selection of different origami artists.

Our first photo is of a character from the anime Rozen Maiden designed and folded by Kaede Nakamura.

真紅, Designed and Folded by Kaede Nakamura

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Here’s a great Den Den Mushi design from the anime One Piece.

Den Den Mushi, Designed and Folded by Tong Liu

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Here is an amazing anime origami design. The character’s name is Chiyoura Ayame and she’s from a Japanese social game called “Girlfriend”.

Chiyoura Ayame, Designed and Folded by Naoto Horiguchi

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Here is an origami version of the character Yui Hirasawa from the anime K-On!

Yui Hirasawa, Designed by Naoki Takeda and Folded by Timothy Chang

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Here is an incredible model of Kurumi Tokisaki from a series called Date Alive.

Kurumi, Designed and Folded by 晓 陈

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This is a bit of a simpler design but it’s got a lot of charm and isn’t really any specific anime character. It’s certainly perfect for Christmas though.

Designed and Folded by Seth Friedman

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Here’s a very detailed anime maid.

Housemaid, Designed by Ryo Kamiya and Folded by sea crab

Crease pattern available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #102

This next model is the anime character Yuyuko Saigyouji from the series Touhou.

Yuyuko, Designed and Folded by 晓 陈

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Hoàng Trung Thành has designed an incredible origami version of the character Yakushiji Tenzen from the anime Basilisk.

Yakushiji Tenzen, Designed by Hoàng Trung Thành and Folded by Paul

Diagrams available in #5 VOG: 50 Hours of Origami+

This is an incredible design. I’m not sure if it’s a specific anime character from a specific series or just a general anime-style character. This model is from one sheet of paper!

Fight! Designed and Folded by 晓 陈

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Here’s an incredible Black Magician Girl from the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh.

Black Magician Girl, Designed and Folded by 晓 陈

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This is an incredible origami design of a “Witch Girl” who is definitely not the character from Kiki’s Delivery Service for copyright reasons. I’m pretty sure that the entire model is from one sheet of paper.

Witch Girl, Designed by Otani Mitsugu and Folded by NGUYỄN QUANG ANH

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This next model is the character Kinomoto Sakura from the anime series Cardcaptor Sakura.

Kinomoto Sakura, Designed by Obelisk and Folded by sakuryu(╯3╰)

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Shuki Kato designed this incredible Guyver model. It’s from one square of paper and took around 10 hours to fold.

Guyver, Designed and Folded by Shuki Kato

Crease pattern available from Shuki Kato’s Flickr

This is an incredible manga-style ice skating girl design that’s entirely folded from one sheet of paper!

Ice Skating Girl, Designed and Folded by sakuryu(╯3╰)

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This next model is the character Ika Musume (squid girl) from the manga series Shinryaku! Ika Musume.

Ika Musume, Designed and Folded by Naoto Horiguchi

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This is the character Syaro Kirima from the manga series “Is the Order a Rabbit”. It’s folded from 9 sheets of paper.

Syaro Kirima, Designed and Folded by Jhon Doe

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This next image is of an origami Metal Greymon from the anime series Digimon. sakuryu(╯3╰) received this model as a gift.

Metal Greymon

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Here is an incredible origami Madara Uchiha from the popular series Naruto. This is folded from a single sheet of 60cm x 60cm tracing paper.

Madara Uchiha, Designed and Folded by Neelesh K

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Next is an origami version of Kyon’s sister from the anime and manga series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Kyon’s Sister, Designed by Horiguchi Naoto and Folded by sakuryu(╯3╰)

Crease pattern available from Naoto Horiguchi’s Flickr

This is a great model from the anime series Dragonball Z. It’s folded from one uncut sheet of paper.

Super Saiyan, Designed by Hansen Yang and Folded by Han-Sheng Yang

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Here’s another great anime style maid.

Housemaid, Designed and Folded by 晓 陈

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This is a really cute “chibi” version of the character Hatsune Miku who is a made up character for a computer program called Vocaloid that can be used to create music with different synthetic voices.

Chibi Miku, Designed and Folded by Timothy Chang

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This is an origami version of Kirisame Marisa from an anime-style videogame series called Project Shrine Maiden.

Kirisame Marisa, Designed and Folded by Kaede Nakamura

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Our final model this post is this incredible origami Saber Alter. Saber Alter is a villian in the visual novel series Fate/stay night.

Saber Alter, Designed and Folded by 晓 陈

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That’s it for another post. Be sure to check out all these incredible origami artists on their Flickr pages if you like their work.

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