# List of animated series with LGBTQ characters: 2020–present

The depiction of LGBT characters in animated series in the 2020s changed from the 2010s, accelerating. This included series such as Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, and Adachi and Shimamura (2020), in 2020, Otherside Picnic. and High Guardian Spice in 2021, Dead End: Paranormal Park in 2022, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, and I'm in Love with the Villainess, in 2023, Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! in 2024, and others across multiple years, such as The Owl House (2020–2023), Helluva Boss (2020–present), Adventure Time: Distant Lands (2020–2021), and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022–2023).
This list only includes recurring characters, otherwise known as supporting characters, which appear frequently from time to time during the series' run, often playing major roles in more than one episode, and those in the main cast are listed below. LGBTQ characters which are guest stars or one-off characters are listed on the pages focusing exclusively on gay (in animation and anime), lesbian (in animation and anime), bisexual (in animation and anime), trans, pansexual, asexual, non-binary, and intersex characters.
The entries on this page are organized alphanumerically by duration dates and then alphabetically by the first letter of a specific series.

## 2025

| Duration | Show title | Character debut date | Characters | Identity | Notes | Country |
| 2025–present | Baban Baban Ban Vampire | January 11, 2025 | Ranmaru Mori | Gay | A 450-year-old vampire who works part-time at an old public bath, desires the blood of an 18-year-old virgin, and watches over the growth of 15-year-old Rihito Tatsun, son of the bathhouse owners, and attempts to prevent Rihito from losing his virginity. | Japan |
| 2025–present | Common Side Effects | February 2, 2025 | Agent Harrington | Lesbian | Agent Harrington is a DEA agent. In the second episode, Agent Harrington is revealed to be a lesbian as she falls in love with mycologist Amelia. | United States |
| 2025–present | Common Side Effects | February 2, 2025 | Amelia "Mushroom" | Queer | Amelia is a mycologist and Agent Harrington's love interest. She has a son from a prior relationship named Wyatt. Amelia is voiced by queer actress Shannon Woodward. | United States |
| 2025–present | Lil Kev | March 6, 2025 | Darnell | Gay | Darnell and Omar are Uncle Richard Jr.'s friends from prison. They have been in a same-sex relationship ever since they were in prison. Richard is unaware of them being a gay couple. | United States |
| 2025–present | Lil Kev | March 6, 2025 | Omar | Gay | Darnell and Omar are Uncle Richard Jr.'s friends from prison. They have been in a same-sex relationship ever since they were in prison. Richard is unaware of them being a gay couple. | United States |
| 2025–present | Oh My God…Yes!: A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances | March 9, 2025 | Tulip | Bisexual | In the second episode, a robot girl named Strawberry breaks up with her after she slept with a man named Silken Tofu boy, and because she is overprotective, saying she loves her, but she doesn't feel safe around her, causing Tulip to lose it. She becomes briefly involved with a male spider, which she calls "Rutherford", afterward. He dies after biting Tulip. She is also friends with Ladi and Sunny. | United States |
| 2025–present | Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man | January 29, 2025 | Nico Minoru | Bisexual | In this series, Nico Minoru is portrayed as Peter Parker's best friend. As in the comics, like Runaways, she is bisexual, teasing Peter that she will ask out his crush, Pearl Pangan, if he doesn't do so, and she is, also, a love interest for Peter. | United States |
| 2025 | There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... | July 2025 | Renako Amaori | Lesbian | She meets Mai Oduka, a popular school girl and joins her group of friends, but she pretends to be popular while she is usually a loner and socially awkward. She meets Mai on the rootftop of the school one day and Mai thinks she is going to take her own life, with Renako thinking Mai is her best friend. The following day, Mai confesses that she loves Renako and she suggests that they play a game to see which relationship is more suitable for them, either "best friend" or "lover". | Japan |
| 2025 | There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... | July 2025 | Mai Oduka | Lesbian | A popular school girl who confesses her love to Renako Amaori, after believing she saved Renako from taking her own life, and challenges Renako to a game whether they are lovers or best friends. Mai is committed to the former, while Renako is committed to the latter. | Japan |
| 2025 | Go for It, Nakamura! | TBA | Okuto Nakamura | Gay | A closeted sixteen-year-old high school student who has a crush on his classmate Aiki Hirose. However, he is acutely introverted and has never spoken to him, only fantasizes about speaking to him. He eventually builds his confidence and grows closer to Hirose, who becomes his good friend. | Japan |
| 2025 | This Monster Wants to Eat Me | TBA | Hinako Yaotose | Lesbian | She has a wish to end her own life, after her family dies in an accident, but can't go through with it, and she meets a mermaid, Shiori Oumi, who tells her that her flesh and blood are especially delicious to yōkai. Shiori further declares that she will protect her from other yōkai until she is at her most delicious, at which point she will eat her, a fate which Hinako accepts. | Japan |
| 2025 | This Monster Wants to Eat Me | TBA | Shiori Oumi | Lesbian | A mermaid who says she will eat Hinako Yaotose when she's at her "most delicious" and is determined to ensure that Hinako won't die, or kill herself, yet. | Japan |