Mega Twintails

Basically a pair of huge pigtails on a girl, that are much larger than possible in Real Life, at least not without loads of hair gel. The minimum hair size is both tails combined must be at least the size of the girl's head.

There can be many reasons for this, although the most common are either to make the pigtails clear even in long shots, or just plain Rule of Cute.

Quite often these pigtails have the hair in a spiral, which overlaps with Regal Ringlets. However, girls with Mega Twintails are not necessarily of high station. It is more of a compromise halfway between the "girlyness" of Regal Ringlets and "tomboyishness" of Girlish Pigtails, both in looks and in personality.

Not to be confused with just having long hair in pigtails (like Hatsune Miku, Ruri, or Cure Melody).

A Sub-Trope of Anime Hair, and Bigger Is Better.

Compare Girlish Pigtails, Eighties Hair, Giant Poofy Sleeves, Princess Curls.

Examples of Mega Twintails include:

Anime & Manga

• Miki, and her android double in Sailor Victory.
• Leenalee Lee of D.Gray-man when she is kidnapped by Road in the Rewindiwn Town arc. It's a part of a Go-Go Enslavement moment, as her captor also puts an Elegant Gothic Lolita gown on her just for the heck of it.
• Chibi-Usa of Sailor Moon.
• In Ladies versus Butlers!, Sernia has these.
  • They even spin when she gets angry.
• Kodomo No Jikan has some characters with it, like Rin. It's too thick to just be long pigtails. I'ts even lampshaded in some Omakes.
• Sayaka Suzuki "No.6" in Pani Poni Dash!. Sometimes she is referred as "big ribbon" or "over-sized" due to her hairstyle - giant pigtails tied with two large white ribbons.
• Mami in Madoka Magica. She does straddle the line between The Ojou and Tomboy.
• The Flower Card in Cardcaptor Sakura.
• Tiara from Shamanic Princess.
• Elizabeth "Lizzie" Middleford from Black Butler. Look at those things!
• A couple of the girls in xxxHolic.
• Mileina Vashti from Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Until she lets her hair down in The Movie.
• Ursula in Pokémon
• Guilt-Na in Vampire Doll.
• Princess Fine in Fushigiboshi no Futagohime.
• Bleach: In the anime, when Kyouraku's zanpakutou Katen Kyoukatsu takes human form, his tachi's human form includes Mega Twintails.
• Miyako/Bubbles from Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z.
• Miharu Shimizu of Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu.
• Shiho gains these in the My-HiME spinoff, Mai-Otome.
• When the members of the Ouran High School Host Club try cross-dressing, the twins wear wigs with these.
• When young, Rosemarie from Claudine had huge pigtails that were bigger than her own head.
• Mirai Nikki: 9th's first appearance in Episode 2.

New Media

• Kasane Teto, an UTAUloid, has the same hairstyle as the character in the above picture, except in pink. That style was called, just for her, "Twin-Drills."

Video Games

• Pictured above: Amy Sorel in the Soul Calibur games.
• Cecille of Arc Rise Fantasia.
• Maria in Skies of Arcadia Legends
• The eponymous Catherine.
• Luna Platz/Shirogane from Mega Man Star Force. Her boss form, Ophiucus Queen/Queen Ophiuca even uses them as weapons.
• Yuna from Mega Man Legends 2 has pigtails that are not only long, but also unfeasibly wide and flat.
• Teeny from the Fire Emblem Jugdral game. Look at these!
• The archers from Disgaea and other Nippon Ichi Strategy RPGs, at least from Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories onward. Their hair was different in the first game.
• Yurika Kirishima from Project Justice
• Natsuki Venefskuja from Lux-Pain.
• The female Ace Trainers in Pokémon Black and White.
  • As does Gothitelle (they resemble four large black discs stuck to either side of its head).

Visual Novels

• The second Tokimeki Memorial gives us Miyuki; they're also a pretty shade of purple.
• Misha in Katawa Shoujo is known for her huge purple twintails. In Shizune's route, it is revealed that she colors her hair, and she cuts her twintails off after Hisao and Shizune hook up. She took up this hairstyle after being rejected by Shizune.