Slayers pokes fun at this trope - the standard fishman in Lina's world is basically a giant fish with stick-thin limbs.
However, they had depleted their homeworld's natural resources and were running out of food, so they crossed over to our dimension to find more prey. Their bodies were scaly and covered with fins. They showed up in the Gosaku Ota manga, and they were a race of gigantic, bipedal, humanoid maneating fishes from another dimension who raised herds of humans as if they were cattle.
Mazinger Z: The Chip Kamoy ("divine fishes" in Ainu idiom).
How he is able to hold things like the postcard from Makie and Yuuna without fingers, we may never know.
One of the many denizens found in the Magic World of Negima! Magister Negi Magi is a dolphin man.
Also Fishmen are 10x stronger than humans from birth and both types can use water as a weapon. The two species get along pretty well and can even interbreed, but the Fishmen tend to be more aggressive and angry towards humans while the Merfolk are light-hearted and naive. Their sister species are the Merfolk, traditional mermaids.
The mysterious, barely-glimpsed Water Folk from Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit.
Doraemon: Nobita's Drifts in the Universe: The council leader of the Milky Way Drifting Fleet, Councilman Mazoura, is a fish-headed alien and a benevolent example of this trope.
The more civilized variants may have Clothing Appendages formed from fins if they don't have actual clothes. Expect them to create breathtaking Underwater Cities. Since many Fish People appear somewhat reptilian, Lizard Folk and Reptiles Are Abhorrent are also related tropes. Merfolk can have a similar style, but they usually fail the critical "has legs" check although the key word here is usually, since Our Mermaids Are Different. This origin seems especially prevalent in Western Animation. While Fish People are most often a pre-existing race, sometimes they are former humans (or fish) who are the result of mutation. A Fish Person's Character Alignment and ability to survive on land vary depending on the character and the work. Neither are more human-like sea dwellers such as Aquaman or Namor the Sub-Mariner. This means that mermaids are not true Fish People, at least not the kind described here. While they're humanoids (one head, two arms, two legs), they don't look human at all their bodies, especially the faces, have a fish-like/reptilian appearance. Fish People are a specific category of (usually) intelligent, underwater fantasy species.
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