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* Konoha Akisato from ''Anime/SixteenBitSensationAnotherLayer'' is a zigzagged case of this. She's a huge fan of bishoujo games even though said games are typically aimed at men; however, the fact that she wants to be an illustrator for those games is TruthInTelevision, since plenty of bishoujo games have had female illustrators and character designers, including those by Creator/KeyVisual Arts.

* Umaru Doma from ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan'', who isn't just an otaku but also a LazyBum, who idles around her house every day gaming and snacking on junk food. Though she hides this side of herself from the public and maintains a good image to the outside world.

* ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' has two of them, the titular Nyarko being an {{Anime}} and {{Toku}} fangirl while Cuuko is a GamerGirl; distracting them is as easy as luring them through an anime shop and waiting for them to spot a limited edition figure to fight over.

* The titular Kobayashi from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' is the female lead of a [[{{Seinen}} male-oriented]] manga who's obsessed with maids (though she prefers real maids over [[{{Meido}} the kind typically seen in anime]], as she drunkenly derides the latter as "just cosplay"). She also has many traits you'd expect from a male protagonist ([[LadyLooksLikeADude masculine looks]], [[TheLadette stoic but hard-drinking personality]], high career status [[OneOfTheGuys in a male-dominated work environment]], [[OnlyHasSameSexAdmirers female admirers]]), likely to make her more relatable to male readers in general.

* Kobayashi from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' is an androgynous example, being a maid otaku and a GamerChick.

* Kaoruko "Kaos" Moeta from ''Manga/ComicGirls'' is a high school girl, her interests are more similar to that of adult male otaku. This is lampshaded when it's pointed out that her desk (which has anime figurines all over it) looks like it belongs to a 25-year-old man.

* Kimiko of ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' has been accused of fitting this trope by various critics, as an attractive female transhumanist and extreme technophile in a comic written by a man who has also written for various futurist publications. {{Mad Scientist}}s, {{otaku}} or otherwise, tend to be rather thin on the ground in real life.

* Naruko "Anaru" Anjo from ''Anime/AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay'' is this, more of a nerd as a child, but is trying to grow out of this and fit in with her other trendy friends as a teenager. She works at a shop that sells anime and games, and still kept a lot of games and manga in her room.

** And later on in the manga, we get [[spoiler: Izumi Wakase, a {{closet otaku}} who has Konata's sports and home economics skills (average), Kagami's studying skill (average), is a class representative (Kou Yosaka's also one) but not flat and has an older brother complex]].

* Noah Izumi from ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' is a borderline example. She loves Mecha--but in a very different way from most otaku. Polishing her Labor, naming it Alphonse, writing "This Labor is Mine" on its leg at one point, smiting an enemy mecha with her robot's severed arm as [[CallingYourAttacks yelling]] "[[RocketPunch ROCKETTO]] ''[[Anime/MazingerZ PAUNCH!!!]]''"...

* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' has two of them, the titular Nyarko being an {{Anime}} and {{Toku}} fangirl while Cuuko is a GamerGirl; distracting them is as easy as luring them through an anime shop and waiting for them to spot a limited edition figure to fight over.

* Kirino from ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'' is a closet middle-schooler otaku and a popular fashion model. Kuroneko and Saori are these, too--little wonder they met in an online community called "Otaku Girls Unite". However, though Kirino is mainly into H-games that are obviously aimed at a male demographic, she's also a big fan of ShowWithinAShow ''Stardust Witch Meruru'', which is a MagicalGirl anime [[PeripheryDemographic primarily]] aimed at young girls.

* Haruka of ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret''--beautiful, popular, and... an otaku (the eponymous secret).

Another bonus to this is that the character's "masculine" characteristics are technically arbitrary, and easily tweaked to specific situations. Fans are very willing to put up with a lot of old tropes they wouldn't normally tolerate [[DismissedGender if the character was actually male]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}'':
** Sena Kashiwazaki enjoys dating sims that are clearly aimed at straight men and is usually seen playing them in the club room, though she claims it's because she has no female friends in real life and gal games allow her to get close to female characters.
** Rika is a more extreme case with her love for mecha porn doujin...though by "mecha porn," we literally mean porn involving mecha having sex.
* Haruka of ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret''--beautiful, popular, and... an otaku (the eponymous secret).

* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' has two of them, the titular Nyarko being an {{Anime}} and {{Toku}} fangirl while Cuuko is a GamerGirl; distracting them is as easy as luring them through an anime shop and waiting for them to spot a limited edition figure to fight over.
* Kirino from ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'' is a closet middle-schooler otaku and a popular fashion model. Kuroneko and Saori are these, too--little wonder they met in an online community called "Otaku Girls Unite". However, though Kirino is mainly into H-games that are obviously aimed at a male demographic, she's also a big fan of ShowWithinAShow ''Stardust Witch Meruru'', which is a MagicalGirl anime [[PeripheryDemographic primarily]] aimed at young girls.

** Konata is a complete over-the-top {{otaku}}, obsessed with anime and video games, mostly to allow for [[ShoutOut mentions]] of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII'', ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'', [[ActorAllusion Haruhi Suzumiya]], ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''VisualNovel/ToHeart'', ''[[RuleOfThree Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', and so forth... but very little of what most [[{{Shoujo}} girls are expected to watch]], save for [[RuleOfFunny a notable brush with]] ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'' (and a brief reference to ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' while the other girls talk about wedding dresses). This is lampshaded when Konata explains them as habits picked up to be closer to her father, although her friends then have more questions about [[DirtyOldMan her father's choice of habits]]... She also plays eroges. Y'know, the sort of videogame for men that features naked young girls.

* In ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'', Nobue is jokingly described by fans as the Otaku Surrogate of manga author Barasui, due to her much mellower personality and tendency to hug little girls.
* Morinas in ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' is a total Simoun otaku, who makes plastic models in her spare time is even planning to be male after [[GenderBender going to the Spring]].

** Konata is a complete over-the-top {{otaku}}, obsessed with anime and video games, mostly to allow for [[ShoutOut mentions]] of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel II'', ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'', [[ActorAllusion Haruhi Suzumiya]], ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''VisualNovel/ToHeart'', ''[[RuleOfThree Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', and so forth... but very little of what most [[{{Shoujo}} girls are expected to watch]], save for [[RuleOfFunny a notable brush with]] ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'' (and a brief reference to ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' while the other girls talk about wedding dresses). This is lampshaded when Konata explains them as habits picked up to be closer to her father, although her friends then have more questions about [[DirtyOldMan her father's choice of habits]]... She also plays eroges. Y'know, the sort of videogame for men that features naked young girls.

* Hikaru Amano of ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'': as big a ''Gekiganger fan'' as Akito. The English dub is even more specific: she writes SelfInsertFic-type SlashFic.
* Haruka of ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret''--beautiful, popular, and... an otaku (the eponymous secret).

* Yukari Tsukino from ''Manga/AiKora'' turns out to be a member of a doujinshi circle, and is also into cosplay and video games.

* The title character of ''Ganota no Onna'', Ganota Utsuski, is a beautiful businesswoman and a major ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' otaku, with a particular obsession with Zeon and Char. There are a lot of other ''Gundam'' fans around and the manga has a lot of ''Gundam'' references, like her boss being Zabi Degwin.
* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' has two of them, the titular Nyarko being an {{Anime}} and {{Toku}} fangirl while Cuuko is a GamerGirl; distracting them is as easy as luring them through an anime shop and waiting for them to spot a limited edition figure to fight over.
* Basically the whole point of ''Mangirl!'': [[FourGirlEnsemble four girls]] are such hardcore manga fans that they create their own manga-zine.
* Naruko "Anaru" Anjo from ''Anime/AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay'' is this, more of a nerd as a child, but is trying to grow out of this and fit in with her other trendy friends as a teenager. She works at a shop that sells anime and games, and still kept a lot of games and manga in her room.
* Tomoko Kuroki from ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' is a downplayed example, since she likes anime and video games aimed at male otaku (though she has stated she detests {{Moe}}) but she also likes things aimed specifically at girls, like {{otome game}}s. However, at the same time she's also an example of this gone ''horribly wrong''; her knowledge of perverted media only makes her that much more unapproachable, and ''because'' she's so obsessed with that stuff she initially had no idea how to approach real life and real people. She's horribly antisocial and judgmental, and even her closest kin, her brother, is annoyed with her. Luckily over the course of the series, she starts to get better, but she's still the universe's ChewToy.

* Hajime of ''Manga/NewGame'' is a tomboy (who also falls into BoyishShortHair) that is a {{tokusatsu}} fan, and has a collection of model swords at her cubicle, including a ''lightsaber''.
* Gender-inverted in ''Manga/TheHighSchoolLifeOfAFudanshi'', where the whole point is to showcase the ''Fudanshi'' section of {{Yaoi Fan}}s, with each chapter showing how a guy like him deals with and reacts to Boys Love.
* Umaru Doma from ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan'', who isn't just an otaku but also a LazyBum, who idles around her house every day gaming and snacking on junk food. Though she hides this side of herself from the public and maintains a good image to the outside world.
* Gabriel White Tenma from ''Manga/GabrielDropout'', once a perfect overachiever angel before she get drawn into online gaming addiction and became a full-out [[TheSlacker slacker]] otaku obsessed with an MMORPG.

* ''Franchise/{{Degrassi}}'' teacher Mr. Simpson says, "Toby Isaacs, meet Kendra Mason, my biggest anime fanatics."

* ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'': Josephine "Jo" [=McCormick=] is one of the three typical average kids who love to read comic strips.

* Midori Komaki of ''[[VideoGame/DevilSurvivor Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor]]'' is an otaku who spends the entire game dressed in cosplay (she is stuck in the costume due to the lock down, but she states doesn't mind), and often acts as a MagicalGirl in a setting [[WrongGenreSavvy where society is breaking down and innocent people are being murdered by demons]].

* Xiaomu from ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' is this, to the point that she carries it over to ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'' and ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone''.

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** Konata is a complete over-the-top {{otaku}}, obsessed with anime and video games, mostly to allow for [[ShoutOut mentions]] of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel II'', ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'', [[ActorAllusion Haruhi Suzumiya]], ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''VisualNovel/ToHeart'', ''[[RuleOfThree Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', and so forth... but very little of what most [[{{Shoujo}} girls are expected to watch]], save for [[RuleOfFunny a notable brush with]] ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'' (and a brief reference to ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' while the other girls talk about wedding dresses). This is lampshaded when Konata explains them as habits picked up to be closer to her father, although her friends then have more questions about [[DirtyOldMan her father's choice of habits]]... She also plays eroges. Y'know, the sort of videogame for men that features naked young girls.

* ''Manga/YuruYuri'''s Kyouko Toshino is a doujin artist obsessed with the MagicalGirl anime ''Miraku-run''. She even has her own booth at Comiket.

* Hajime of ''Manga/NewGame'' is a tomboy (who also falls into BoyishShortHair and WhoWearsShortShorts) that is a {{tokusatsu}} fan, and has a collection of model swords at her cubicle, including a ''lightsaber''.

* Kaede Mizuno from ''Manga/NyanKoi'' loves anything yakuza related. A subversion on her part, since we're led to believe she's a {{Moe}} girl.

* The title character of ''Ganota no Onna'', Ganota Utsuski, is a beautiful business woman and a major ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' otaku, with a particular obsession with Zeon and Char. There are a lot of other ''Gundam'' fans around and the manga has a lot of ''Gundam'' references, like her boss being Zabi Degwin.

* Tomoko Kuroki from ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' is a downplayed example, since she likes anime and video games aimed at male otaku (though she has stated she detests {{Moe}}) but she also likes things aimed specifically at girls, like {{otome game}}s. However, at the same time she's also an example of this gone ''horribly wrong''; her knowledge of perverted media only makes her that much more unapproachable, and ''because'' she's so obsessed with that stuff she initially had no idea how to approach real life and real people. She's horribly antisocial and judgmental, and even her closet kin, her brother, is annoyed with her. Luckily over the course of the series she starts to get better, but she's still the universe's ChewToy.

* Umaru Doma from ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan'', who isn't just an otaku but also a LazyBum, who idles around her house everyday gaming and snacking on junk food. Though she hides this side of herself from public and maintains a good image to the outside world.
* Gabriel White Tenma from ''Manga/GabrielDropout'', once a perfect overachiever angel before she get drawn into online gaming addiction and became a fullout [[TheSlacker slacker]] otaku obsessed with an MMORPG.

* Mr. Simpson says, "Toby Isaacs, meet Kendra Mason, my biggest anime fanatics." Franchise/{{Degrassi}}'s biggest anime fanatics.