History Main / CuteOversizedSleeves

* Corneria, from the ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}} Mysterious'' Subseries, wears a kimono with very long sleeves. This, combined with her short stature and young appearance makes her very cute. Oddly enough, she never pulls them up whenever she needs to hold something and she also wears her weapons, large bracer-like gauntlets, over them as well.

* ''Manga/HetaliaAxisPowers'': Taiwan wears a variant of UsefulNotes/{{qipao}}, except instead of being a mostly form-fitting dress, hers is paired with a long white skirt and has large, loose sleeves that covers her hands. She is characterized as the plucky, girly "little sister" of the East Asian group.

* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'': JP wears an oversized jersey with sleeves that cover his hands, which emphasizes him being the most innocent and childlike of the Stump Trio.

* Miyako Hinano from ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'' sports an oversized labcoat in both her civilian clothes and magical girl form. emphasizes her short stature(145cm) which often results in her being mistaken for younger than she is (she's actually 18, one of the oldest girls in the game), much to her annoyance.

* Miyako Hinano from ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'' sports these, emphasizing her short stature(145cm) which often results in her being mistaken for younger than she is (she's actually 18, one of the oldest girls in the game), much to her annoyance.

* ''WebAnimation/{{hololive}}'': [[Characters/HololiveGawrGuraCh Gawr Gura]]'s signature appearance is an oversized hoodie with long sleeves. Many of the idols dote on her cuteness and have mentioned how her hands being hidden by her long sleeves adds to it. Gura embraces the trope. During the music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aetXqd9B8WE "Q"]], Gura is dressed in a BadassLongcoat intentionally evoking [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante and Vergil]], while DualWielding pistols effortlessly and still incorporating the cuteness of the long sleeves.

* In ''Manga/FourKnightsOfTheApocalypse'', Guinevere wears an adorable white dress with flaring sleeves, probably [[TheGadfly to fuck with people]] when she reveals that she [[OracularUrchin is not a normal kid]]. It also indicates a wealthy background where manual labor was not a concern.

* In the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series, Lidelle is in the same school class as Amitie and her friends, who are all teenagers. However, her hand-hiding sleeves -- combined with her short height, child-like voice and timid personality -- make her appear cute.

Among otaku, this trope is formally referred to as "moesode". (aka {{Moe}} sleeves)

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheGalaxySuperExpress'': The Super-Express' conductor is a short, cuddly midget alien (or robot, [[AmbiguousRobots it's not really clear]]) who wears a human-sized uniform. As such, his arms are tucked inside both sleeves in every scene, which flops around comically whenever he walks.
* ''Manga/FightingFoodons'': Cooking prodigy and toppings master Pie Tin has long sleeves covering up his hands without creasing. The sleeves are also where he seems to hide a whole arsenal of cooking based weaponry. The very long sleeves, combined with his panda hat, make him appear very cute.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Charlotte the Sweets Witch sports long hand-hiding sleeves in her 'doll' form. These sleeves are used to match with the cuteness aesthetic of her, alongside being an AdorableAbomination, as she is willing to attack others who threaten her or Mami.

* ''VideoGame/PunishingGrayRaven'': No.21's arms are completely enveloped in a pair of sleeves. It not only makes her emphasizes her childish nature, but is also reminiscent of the loose sleeves of a straitjacket, alluding to her past as a test subject.

* Miyako Hinano from ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'' sports these, emphasizing her short stature(145cm) which often results in her being mistaken for younger than she is(she's actually 18, one of the oldest girls in the game), much to her annoyance.

* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'': While Hsien Ko's oversize sleeves are cute, their exaggerated length hides an arsenal of weapons that she uses to fight. Also, she is based upon the Chinese zombie jiangshi (kyonsee in Japanese), that moves around by hopping on their long arms.
* ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'': [[EvilutionaryBiologist Mobius']] [[BenevolentAI sim]] in the Elysian Realm is assisted by Klein, an ELF modeled after the original Klein, who was Mobius' lab assistant in the Previous Era. Unlike the original Klein who was an adult woman, ELF Klein looks like a sleepy-eyed girl, has a childlike body, and wears a labcoat whose sleeves reach well past her hands, although this doesn't seem to hinder her work.
* Blanc from ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' has sleeves that cover up her hands and is ([[HairTriggerTemper normally]]) soft-spoken and friendly.
* ''VideoGame/PunishingGrayRaven'': No.21's arms are completely enveloped in a pair of sleeves. It not only makes her emphasizes her childish nature, but is also reminiscent of the loose sleeves of a straitjacket, alluding to her past as a test subject.

* WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines: Zilly wears a megaovercoat that makes him the cutest of Dick Dastardly's subordinates... and the DirtyCoward, too. Whenever the mission is too dangerous, he sinks into his coat to dig a hole in the ground and try to escape.

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* ''Manga/YuushaGojoKumiaiKouryuugataKeijiban'': The nine-year-old hero has long sleeves to emphasize her cuteness, wearing a copy of the ''Dragon Quest III'' hero outfit that is far too big for her (to the point that the tiara is around her neck, rather than on her head).

* In the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series, Lidelle is in the same school class as Amitie and her friends, who are all teenagers. However, her hand-hiding sleeves--combined with her short height, child-like voice and timid personality--make her appear cute.

* If you have the naïve and playful [[TagalongKid Cody]] with you by the fourth day of ''VideoGame/DontEscape: 4 Days to Survive'', by the time you reach [[spoiler:the Moon]], he'll be wearing an [[spoiler:astronaut suit]] with sleeves that flop far beyond his hands. {{Justified|Trope}} in that those are made for adults, not 12 year olds.

* If you have [[TagalongKid Cody]] with you by the fourth day of ''VideoGame/DontEscape: 4 Days to Survive'', by the time you reach [[spoiler:the Moon]], he'll be wearing an [[spoiler:astronaut suit]] with sleeves that flop far beyond his hands. {{Justified|Trope}} in that those are made for adults, not 12 year olds.

* ''Videogame/MetroLastLight'': The baby Dark One, a nonhuman, plucky TagAlongKid, telepathically disguises himself as a human child wearing a too-large raincoat when you enter the ?city? of Polis. Aside from being cute, the oversized sleeves cover for the disproportionately long arms of his true form.

* ''Anime/SuperDimensionalFortressMacross'' / ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' in the fourth episode, after an impromptu shower, Minmay dons some of Hikaru's/Rick's clothing, which is somewhat too large for her. She makes a point of posing cutely with the sleeves going over her hands.

* In ''Manga/LuckyStar'', Akira Kogami wears "cute" oversized sleeves as part of her DeliberatelyCuteChild persona, although she's really a total {{bitch|InSheepsClothing}}. Yutaka, a CheerfulChild, is a straighter example of the "cute" aspect of this trope, since [[OlderThanTheyLook she's so small for her age]] that her sleeves often go past her hands.

* ''Anime/ReimuAndRemilia'' is a frame-by-frame rebuild of the WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry cartoon "Safety Second." Jerry Mouse, Nibbles and Tom Cat are recast as waifus in elaborate dresses. Reimu is the Tom analog, and she wears detached sleeves that flare widely at the wrists, and are cinched in place with red ribbon just above the elbows. The remade cartoon is viewable on Website/YouTube here: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0ejr7-_rc]].
* ''Anime/SuperdimensionalFortressMacross'' / ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' in the fourth episode, after an impromptu shower, Minmay dons some of Hikaru's/Rick's clothing, which is somewhat too large for her. She makes a point of posing cutely with the sleeves going over her hands.