History Main / SailorFuku

" "WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends": Becky, from the episode "Lost and Foundling", wears one.

--->“You’d better be careful with the drag, kid,” Wilson warned. “You looked too good like that. It could get you in trouble.”\\

It's only Monday!\\
Already in a bad mood? What to do?\\

I really prefer the summer outfits←kya? wah! good (cute) v"''

I really prefer the summer outfits←cute"''

->''"Take it! I'm supposed to be the one who laughs last\\
Because of my sailor uniform, that's the conclusion\\
I'm in a bad mood, what to do?\\
Even though it's Monday! Summer clothes'll fix it -- Cuuute!"''

* ''Literature/DateALive'': Raizen High School uses blazers for both boys and girls, but Miku's girl-only academy uses serafuku, as does Kotori's middle school and [[spoiler:whatever school Mana was attending 30 years ago.]]

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': In the subplot of Season 7's "Team Cherokee", a young girl who was the victim of a pedophile whom Trent and Carlos eventually rescued (then the two had to recover Trent's stolen car from an auto-theft ring in order to recover the evidence needed to convict him) was seen wearing one of these.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': In the subplot of Season 7's "Team Cherokee", a young girl who was the victim of a pedophile whom Trent and Carlos eventually rescued (then had to recover Trent's stolen car from a carjacking ring in order to recover the evidence needed to convict him) was seen wearing one of these.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': In Season 7's "Team Cherokee", a young girl who was the victim of a pedophile whom Trent and Carlos eventually rescued (then had to recover Trent's stolen car from a carjacking ring in order to recover the evidence needed to convict him) was seen wearing one of these.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': A young girl who was the victim of a pedophile in Season 7's "Team Cherokee", whom Trent and Carlos eventually rescued (then had to recover Trent's stolen car from a carjacking ring in order to recover the evidence needed to convict him), was seen wearing one of these.

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* The ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'' series features a sailor fuku as a piece of equipment available in the [[VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy4 fourth]] and [[VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy fifth]] games, with its description in [=EBF5=] sarcastically calling it "An original outfit which has never appeared in video games or anime". Anna and Natalie give distinctly differing views on it as well in [=EBF5=]:
-->'''Anna:''' Ooooh, I'm so cute in this outfit, don'tcha think? (I bet Natalie can't even fit into it!)
-->'''Natalie:''' Have we collected every type of fetish outfit yet? I bet you guys are loving this, you perverts.
* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'':
** From ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' to ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', Sakura Kasugano wore her white and blue ''serafuku'' on the ring. In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', however, she starts wearing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WABWyJ45XCo an attire]] inspired by [[https://imgur.com/KuiAYbI pachinko parlour uniforms]].
** Sakura's FriendlyRival Karin Kanzuki wore a red ''serafuku'' with black ModestyShorts in the ''Alpha'' series, switching in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' to a red outfit with a cravat and ProperTightsWithASkirt.
** Some of the alternate costumes in ''V'' [[http://shoryuken.com/2017/04/02/capcom-announces-m-bisons-classic-thailand-stage-new-costumes-for-street-fighter-v-at-wondercon/ are inspired by]] [[http://shoryuken.com/2017/06/22/street-fighter-v-is-getting-more-school-costumes-for-ibuki-nash-r-mika-on-june-27th/ school uniforms]]: Rainbow Mika and Ibuki have modified ''serafuku'', Nash gets a white ''gakuran'' clearly inspired by the below-mentioned Kyousuke, Ryu has a black ''gakuran'' that ''screams'' JapaneseDelinquents, Chun-Li gets a variation where she wears a UsefulNotes/{{qipao}} blouse and a pleated skirt, and Juri wears a mix of Western uniform and punk clothing.
* ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'': Worn by men as part of the [[DressCodedForYourConvenience dress code]] of swords of the Yukihira school – body-hugging black suits with sailor collars. Jizō wears the top with shorts, but his brother Kokin wears it with a pleated, tapered and slit skirt over ModestyShorts.
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'':
** The girls from the Jellyfish Pirates wear customized versions of this as their uniform.
** Ramlethal Valentine wears {{stripperiffic}} clothes in battle, but she gets a green ''fuku'' in the Xrd story mode after she's been captured by the heroes. [[DoesNotLikeShoes Still sans shoes, though]]. [[spoiler:She keeps it as her everyday-wear once she joins "the team" in -REVELATOR-, and in -REVELATOR- 2 her "sister" Elphelt gets a red ''fuku'' after she's rescued as well]].
* ''VideoGame/RivalSchools'':
** Hinata Wakaba wears a Western-style uniform, while Kyousuke Kagami has a white ''gakuran''.
** Gedo High School is an all-boys school whose students, led by Daigo Kazama, wear ''gakuran''. Daigo' sister Akira had to disguise herself in a biker uniform complete with helmet to look for him when he was abducted.
** Subverted by the Seijyun High School in the second game, ''Project Justice''. Seijyun is an all-girls school whose students wear Western uniforms, which Akira wears in the Story Mode, but transfer student Yurika Kirishima [[spoiler:(who is actually TheMole)]] wears a different uniform inspired by the ''serafuku''. Even more: there's an [[JapaneseDelinquents all-girls delinquent gang]] led by the third member of the trio, Aoi "Zaki" Himezaki, and they all wear dark grey ''serafuku'' with long skirts.
* Athena Asamiya from ''VideoGame/PsychoSoldier''. Her ''King of Fighters'' incarnation was supposed to fight in a sailor fuku but the [[WordOFGod creators]] thought that it would be "too risqué", and limited the outfit to her pre-fight animations. Years later, she actually fought in such an outfit in ''VideoGame/SNKVsCapcomMatchOfTheMillennium''; and finally, in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XI'', ''XII'' and ''XIII'' she actually fights using a school uniform... [[NotAllowedToGrowUp as late as it may seem]]. She claims in-story that it's a [[ShoutOut "throw back to her origins"]].
** Rather cynically lampshaded by Kyo Kusanagi ([[HypocriticalHumor who was famous for fighting in a modified gakuran]]) in XIII:
--->'''Kyo:''' No one wears sailor uniforms at your age anymore!
** In the semi-canon continuity "The King of Fighters: KYO", many scenes take place in the Osakan highschool that Kyo, his girlfriend Yuki, Shingo and Athena attend. Said school has ''gakuran'' and ''serafuku'' as uniforms, the latter somewhat realistically depicted in the manga as having long skirts below the knees; however, said skirts tend to be shorter in the KOF: KYO games.
** [[VideoGame/SNKGalsFighters Miss X]] wears one. [[spoiler:It's [[DudeLooksLikeALady Iori Yagami]] wearing it, and [[PaperThinDisguise nobody buys it]]]].
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' has Yuriko Omega, a young woman with GirlishPigtails, PsychicPowers, and [[CreepyChild questionable mental health]] who fights for the [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Empire of the Rising Sun]] in a schoolgirl uniform.
* Kasumi and Ayane from ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' have, in some games, alternate outfits that are school outfits, all for {{Fanservice}} purposes, of course, but also note that [[AllThereInTheManual they're supposed to be that young]].
* ''VideoGame/TheNightWayHome'': [[PlayerCharacter Rina]] wears a Japanese schoolgirl outfit.
* Saki from the ''VideoGame/{{Onechanbara}}'' series has a sailor suit as her default outfit.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'':
** Ling Xiaoyu and her PaletteSwap Miharu Hirano have sailor fuku costumes in some games.
** In the games proper, Xiaoyu and Jin Kazama's highschool has blazer uniforms for both genders, though the girls' collars resemble fuku ones. Both of them can wear their uniforms into the ring if the player wishes so
* Downplayed in the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' series. Despite having an ImprobablyFemaleCast with hundreds of characters, the only actual schoolgirl in the cast doesn't wear a sailor fuku as her uniform. Only two characters have ever been depicted wearing one, and one of them was ''actually a sailor'' (and even then, it's difficult to tell if she's wearing shorts or a skirt).
* In ''VideoGame/RecettearAnItemShopsTale'', the strongest and most expensive clothes that can be purchased that playable (though the [=NPCs=] can be sold it as well, obviously) female characters can equip and be sold is a sailor uniform, whose description reads "Confers great power upon women of any age group." Though if male characters come in asking for clothes, you can sell them this also (though the playable male characters cannot equip it, which would make it funnier).
* In ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', a sailor uniform and gakuran can be found as special clothes.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Valis}}'', Yuko Ahso wears a sailor fuku for the first few stages before getting her ChainmailBikini. The blue skirt matches the color of her hair. It returns in ''Valis II'' as one of her selectable outfits (she can switch it for a blazer in the Japanese computer version).
* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' features high school-aged youngsters as the protagonists, so this trope commonly shows up:
** In the original ''VideoGame/{{Persona|1}}'', the male students of St. Hermelin High wear grey ''gakuran''. The female students avert this, although [[TeamMom Yukino Mayuzumi]] evokes the ''sukeban'' trend a little by wearing a skirt that's far longer than the uniform's standard.
** ''VideoGame/Persona2'': A variation of the sailor fuku (with a square-shaped collar) serves as the girls' uniform for Seven Sisters High, although the same school has a tie-and-jacket combo for boys. Kasugayama High's male uniform, meanwhile, is a light blue ''gakuran''.
** In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', old-fashioned and rural Yasogami High has both sailor fuku for girls ''and gakuran'' for boys The winter uniforms in particular are rather unique in their colors and look, both being black with visible white stitching.
** ''VideoGame/Persona5'': While none of the schools shown (Shujin, Kosei, and the unnamed school Goro Akechi attends) have sailor fuku or ''gakuran'' as their standard uniform, [[StarvingArtist Yusuke Kitagawa]], for reasons unexplained either in-game or [[AllInTheManual out of it]], wears a white ''gakuran'' with a ''fleur-de-lis'' on it. However, the player can evoke this through DLC, allows the party members to wear the uniforms of St. Hermelin, Seven Sisters, Kasugayama, and Yasogami.
* You can make your characters wear certain outfits in ''VideoGame/ArcRiseFantasia''. One set is supposed to be a series of military academy uniforms, except for Ryfia's, which is a sailor fuku. Even Cecille, the TokenMiniMoe, gets a smaller version of the uniform and not a fuku. The characters comment on this.
* ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf'' has a subversion. At some point, [[http://i.imgur.com/f2f9YLM.png a young man]] [[FaceFramedInShadow in a shadowed environment]] is seen dressed in what seems to be a ''gakuran''... but since this scene takes place in [[spoiler:Murakumo aka the BigBad]]'s prologue, it's rather obvious in-context that this "young man" is '''not''' a junior high/highschool student but an adult who's wearing an actual military uniform.[[note]](Then again, as said above the ''gakuran'' itself comes from Prussian military uniforms.)[[/note]]. In the game proper, [[spoiler:'''no one''']] wears school clothes to fight.
* In the ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' videogame ''Suzaku Ibun'', Miaka and Yui's {{Exp|y}}ies [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/fushigiyuugi/images/c/c5/Madoka.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140812053557 Madoka]] and [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/fushigiyuugi/images/9/95/Misaki-0.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141018024656 Misaki]] wear uniforms that at first sight look pretty Western, but have collars that look almost exactly like those seen in ''sailor fukus''.
* The Tokyo event character Harumi from ''VideoGame/SubwaySurfers'' wears a sailor fuku on default. Her more casual outfit is a catgirl-esque lolita costume.
* Two [=NPCs=] forming a TomboyAndGirlyGirl duo from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' sport one. The [[ElementalEmbodiment fire girl]] one became an EnsembleDarkhorse, and is [[{{Fanon}} often associated]] with another fiery EnsembleDarkhorse named Grillby.
* The default school uniform for female students in ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator''. Yan-chan, a female Sempai, Info-chan and non-rival students wear theirs normally, but the highschool-aged rivals have customized ones: Osana, Amai, Kizana and Megami wear ZettaiRyouiki (and Megami adds long gloves), Ouka has [[ProperTightsWithASkirt black tights]], Osoro adds a JapaneseDelinquents-like coat, etc.
* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'':
** Foiletta is a {{youkai}} who wears a sailor fuku. She is the older, evolved form of Toiletta (who looks like an elementary schooler). Foiletta has stringy, long hair and a blue tint under her eyes. Both Toiletta and Foiletta are based off a Japanese UrbanLegend "Hanako-san", which is similar to Bloody Mary.
** Sailornyan is a [[DistaffCounterpart female version]] of SeriesMascot Jibanyan. She's pink and wears a sailor suit, however in this case it's an actual sailor suit uniform as she works with sailors. She is a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' as well.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' usually averts this uniform. Despite having several trainer classes who are schoolgirls (Lasses and Teammates being the main two), each region has basically every uniform ''but'' a sailor fuku. It took until ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' for a sailor fuku to appear, and even then it's yellow instead of the normal white or black. Ironically, Unova is based on America, where sailor fuku-style uniforms are pretty much nonexistent in modern times.
* In ''VideoGame/TokyoJungle'', sailor uniforms can be equipped to characters, meaning you can play as anything from a dog to a ''Deinonychus'' wearing a school girl uniform.
* ''VideoGame/LoveNikkiDressUpQueen'':
** Nikki's friend Timi first appears wearing a white and blue ''fuku'' with black socks. She later shows up in a Western uniform.
** The Store has a ''fuku'' blouse that the player can purchase for Nikki. In fact, [[ChekhovsGun it will come handy at some point]]: the Chapter 5 sidequest featuring [[NonIdleRich Royce]] and [[BeleagueredAssistant Neva]] has a stage centered on navy-like stuff, so the player must assemble a whole ''fuku'' outfit (including said blouse) and have Nikki model it against Neva's Royce-designed own.
* The school uniform in ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' is not a sailor uniform, but the unit Ra*bits wears costumes that tend to be based around a male version, taking the distinctive white top with large flappy collar and bow but pairing it with knee-length shorts or pants. Naturally, the intent is to give off a cute, youthful look, since sailor suits in general have long been associated with youthfulness and cuteness.
* ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}'': The Sailor-Multi Medabot's design is clearly built around this trope.
* ''VideoGame/SailorZombie'': All the members of Music/{{AKB48}} wear these, zombified or not.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel IV'': [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn Duvalie]]]] wears this as her DLC costume.
* Raffina from ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' has the silhouette of one. ''Fever 2'' is a very textbook example, while her current ensemble from ''20th Anniversary'' onward has a more stylized take on it. Her orange cardigan has the sailor's collar and tie, with the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTetris'' version adding cuffs to it.
* ''VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel'': Hanna wears one as her DLC costume if you purchase the School Uniform set DLC.
* ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'': Nepgear wears a dress variant of this as her default outfit in most games. In addition to that, she, Uni, Dengekikko and Famitsu also wear them in ''VideoGame/MegaTagmensionBlancPlusNeptuneVsZombies'', due to the setting being a HighSchoolAu.
* ''VideoGame/{{SORA}}'': From stage 2 onwards, after deserting from the military, the titular protagonist swaps her uniform out for a noticeably sci-fi-ish variant of this as her default outfit, featuring what appears to be red TronLines on the collar and a dongle in place of a tie that, judging by the art for the Shield Counter card in ''VideoGame/OneHundredPercentOrangeJuice'', appears to be some sort of shield regulator.
* Speaking of ''VideoGame/OneHundredPercentOrangeJuice'', the School Crashers event has the School Uniform cosmetic as a reward for clearing the event. [[VideoGame/FlyingRedBarrel Marc]] (this includes her Pilot version), Aru, Alte, Ceoreparque, Miusaki, Yuuki and Alicianrone get the standard ''serafuku'' kind (though in Alicia's case, hers is black as opposed to white), while Peat, Mira and the Lone Rider get ''gakuran'' variants, with Rider's making him resemble a delinquent and Mira's carrying over their ScarfOfAsskicking. Islay meanwhile gets a ''sukeban'' variant while Arnelle gets a ''bancho'' one.
* In ''VideoGame/QPShooting - Dangerous!!'', QP wears a white version of this as her main outfit, as does her fellow classmate Syura. Kyousuke is also shown to wear a ''gakuran''... [[WalkingShirtlessScene most of the time]].
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* ''[[Franchise/DotHack .hack//]]'':
** In ''Manga/DotHackLegendOfTheTwilight'', one of the fetished-up outfits that Shugo discovers in a treasure chest is a sailor fuku.
** [[WordOfGod The character designer]] for the ''.hack//Another Birth'' novels has mentioned considering giving Akira a sailor fuku in the real world, but decided against it as they were overused, and gave her a less common blazer uniform.
* ''Manga/AkebisSailorUniform'' has ''serafuku'' right in the Japanese title (''Akebi-chan no Serafuku''). When main character Komichi Akebi is about to start at her mother's old [[OneGenderSchool girls' middle school]], she dreams of wearing the same sailor uniform her mother wore, and her mother even makes one for her...only to find out at the entrance ceremony that the school's uniform has changed to blazers and collared shirts. Despite the misunderstanding, the principal allows Komichi to keep wearing the sailor uniform, since it's technically an official school uniform even though it's no longer in use. Komichi still sets out to make friends despite how her sailor uniform makes her stand out from everyone else at school.
* In ''Manga/{{Amakusa 1637}}'', Natsuki Hayami and her female friends wore ''serafuku'' at school. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/230px-Amakusa_vol1_2068.jpg The first volume]] has a ''serafuku''-wearing Natsuki on its cover.
* Misaki of ''Manga/AngelicLayer'' wears her uniform to play Angelic Layer, as do a few other characters.
* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'':
** The high school where the series takes place uses sailor uniforms for the girls' uniform, though with elastic ties instead of the typical scarf or bow. The winter uniform is salmon pink with long sleeves, while the summer uniform is blue with short sleeves. In the manga, Yukari and Nyamo dress up in an older version of the school's uniforms during the third year's costume race, with the primary difference being that the collar is the same color as the top.
** [[DirtyOldMan Kimura]] suggests that the girls wear their sailor uniforms in gym class, and later goes after Yukari and Nyamo in the aforementioned costume race, implying that he might just have a sailor uniform fetish.
** When Chiyo's elementary school friends graduate to middle school, they wear the classic navy blue sailor uniforms with red scarves. Chiyo expresses jealousy that she'll never get to wear one like theirs because [[GradeSkipper she skipped ahead to high school]], but they note that they are not likely get into ''her'' school.
* Mitsuteru Yokoyama's ''Babel II'' genderflips the trope, with the protagonist Kouichi Yamano wearing a ''gakuran''. Understandable, he's in junior high ''and'' the series was created in TheSeventies.
* In the ''Fujiyama Gansta Paradise'' arc of ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', Yukio's highschool has gray fukus as uniforms. Yukio herself is seen wearing hers even after she leaves school completely, though when she's [[ShamefulStrip forcibly and humiliatingly]] [[FanDisservice stripped off it]], she switches to [[KimonoIsTraditional a kimono]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** The high school attended by the lead character has grey gakurans for the boys and blazer uniforms for the girls, and thus ''fukus'' were not seen for most of the early manga. This makes the appearance of Lisa Yadomaru, a woman likely in her twenties, wearing the fuku a little jarring.
** Following the TimeSkip, Ichigo's little sisters Karin and Yuzu wear fukus on entering middle school. Orihime and Tatsuki ''used'' to wear fukus when they attended middle school, presumably the same one Karin and Yuzu go to.
** In the flashback to the time when Ichigo and Chad met in middle school, both are wearing traditional black ''gakuran''.
** The ''Everything but the rain'' backstory mini-arc shows that Karakura High School ''used'' to have the ''serafuku'' as its girls' uniform around 20-25 years ago, though with shorter skirts than usual. The person shown wearing one was [[spoiler:the younger Masaki Kurosaki aka the woman who would later become Ichigo, Yuzu and Karin's mother]].
* Saya Kisaragi from ''Anime/BloodC'' wore a red and black blazer uniform in the TV series, but in ''Anime/BloodCTheLastDark'' she switched to a blue fuku.
* The middle school that most of the ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'' characters go to use gakuran and sailor fuku. Marika, who is UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}, hates the fact she has to wear the boys uniform and says it looks like she's going to a funeral. WholesomeCrossdresser Satoshi wears the girls uniform when he is a first year but hits a growth spurt and begins dressing more masculine in his second year. [[spoiler:Marika begins wearing a sailor fuku when she begins living as a girl]].
* In ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'', the boys at Toomi East High School wear gakuran, while the girls wear jumpers, blouses, neck ribbons and bolero jackets, though the jackets still have sailor-style collars. The "school for rich girls" that Sayaka used to attend had a more traditional sailor fuku as their uniform, as did Yuu and her friends' middle school. In the SchoolPlay, Maki's character wears a gakuran that's a lighter color than Toomi East's version.
* In ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', by Mohiro Kitou, the major part of the cast are in junior high so they tend to use ''serafuku'' and ''gakuran''. i.e, Mako/Nakama's school has white and black fukus, while Moji and Tsubasa's has black ''gakuran'' (and he wears his in the OP) and blue/gray ''serafuku''.
* In one episode of ''Anime/BottleFairy'', the fairies, while imagining going to school, are all in sailor fuku... except for {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Hororo, who dresses up in the equivalent iconic uniform for kindergarten and elementary school. The others get her straightened out by the time "class" starts, though.
* Naomi Tanizaki from ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'' wears her school uniform while working as a part-timer in the Armed Detective Agency.
* Takane Katsu in ''Anime/BurstAngel'' wears this, wields a sword, and drives a motorcycle. And she's a police officer who snags Jo's arm with a thrown cuff on a chain.
* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': The school attended by Kazuki and his younger sister Mahiro uses a variant on the concept that Creator/NobuhiroWatsuki said was inspired by GothicLolita styles, [[http://es.busorenkin.wikia.com/wiki/Archivo:Mahiro_design.jpg with puffed shoulders and a long, wide skirt on the girls' uniform]]. However, Tokiko wears a more conventional ''serafuku'' uniform from the school she attended previously while hunting homunculi, and continues to wear it out of practicality after enrolling in Kazuki and Mahiro's school. Though Watsuki drew her in the local uniform in a chapter cover, in the chapter proper she says it's too frilly and hard to move around in (plus, the long skirt would be shredded every time she activated her ''buso renkin'', four scythes on robot arms attached to her thighs).
* When Candace "Candy" White-Andree from ''Manga/CandyCandy'' went to a BoardingSchool in England, she and the other female students wore [[http://imgur.com/9DUpiMX one-piece white dresses]] (plus red scarves and blue linear) that, as mentioned above, were most likely inspired by both the fuku and the "rational dress" codes. There were two variations: the above linked white dresses for everyday wear, and [[https://imgur.com/a/GKx2J black ones with brown scarves]] for Sundays.
* In ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'', Nankatsu Junior High has ''gakuran'' and ''fuku'' as uniforms. (In contrast with the other schools either using blazer-type uniforms, or blazers for girls and ''gakuran'' for boys) In the manga and the ''Road to 2002'' anime, the ''fuku'' is in the traditional white and blue/all blue color; in the first anime, however, it's shown as being reddish-brown, almost burgundy.
* ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'':
** Sakura's elementary school follows the ''serafuku''-type uniform for ''boys'' as well as girls. The boys wear a uniform identical to the girls', except they wear 3/4-length black trousers instead of the girls' white skirts. A flashback reveals that the middle school Touya attended followed the standard ''serafuku'' for girls and ''gakuran'' for boys pattern (as he is shown wearing one). The high school switches to a shirt-tie-trousers/pleated skirt uniform.
** Sakura's mother Nadeshiko and her best friend Sonomi used to wear this type of uniform when they were in high school. In fact, Nadeshikp wore it when she met Fujitaka, and apparently when she married him too!
* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', Misa wears a sailor fuku as part of a disguise.
* ''Manga/CaseClosed'' zigzags this trope around:
** While Shinichi, Ran and Sonoko go to a highschool that prefers the blazer style, the junior high they ''used'' to go to had the gakuran and fuku. Akako, Aoko, Kaitou and Hakuba's own school still uses serafuku (a dark blue one) and gakuran.
** Kazuha and Heiji's school in Osaka also favors the ''serafuku'' (also a dark blue one) and the ''gakuran'', and they show up wearing them at the start of the ''Desperate Revival'' arc.
** In the ''Detective Koshien'' mini arc, the highschool aged {{amateur sleuth}}s are asked to wear their school uniforms. Hakuba wears normal clothes that do look a bit like a school outfit (since he's an exchange student he's not that bound to such rules), Tokitsu puts on a light blue blazer uniform, Heiji wears the aforementioned ''gakuran''... and seeing [[{{Bifauxnen}} Koshimizu]] in a blue ''serafuku'' with a white scarf reveals to Conan, Hakuba and Heiji that [[GenderReveal she isn't a boy]]. [[spoiler:It's a plot point: Koshimizu is actually 20 years old, but uses her old ''serafuku'' to make herself look younger and blend in better]].
** Youko, a one-time character who tried to pass herself as Shinichi's girlfriend [[spoiler:to rope him into helping her rescue a kidnapped boy whom she was babysitting]] wears a white and blue serafuku.
** Also used in a flashback within another case. [[spoiler:Many girls who wore ''serafuku'' with extremely long skirts (which, as said above, was a style associated with girl delinquents) were victims of hit-and-run incidents 20 years ago. A delinquent girl whose best friend was one of the madman's victims [[DecoyDamsel posed as bait to help the police catch the culprit]], deliberately wearing her skirt long despite the danger -- and succeeded in getting the man caught, though she and one of the policemen investigating the case were severely injured in the process. To see how the story itself ended and ''who'' the school girl actually is, see MayDecemberRomance]].
** The "Itinerant Drama Troupe" {{filler}} case has NewTransferStudent Tamanosuke Itou, who shows up at Teitan High School wearing a ''gakuran'' rather than the school's light blue blazer outfit.
** In the "Darkness of the Prefectural Police" case, a middle-school girl named Tsuyako is seen wearing a fuku. [[spoiler:She wears it in a flashback... and right when she's shot dead. Her older brother, who was standing next to her and wearing a blazer uniform, would become the case's SympatheticMurderer]].
** [[spoiler:Heiji Hattori]]'s SelfProclaimedLoveInterest, Momiji Ooka, is seen in a sailor fuku too. The 21th movie shows that it has a white blouse, light gray collar/skirt, dark blue scarf and dark grey lines on its collar and cuffs.
* ''Manga/CherryJuice'': Haruka Fukushima, author of the shojo manga, admits in the omake that one of the main reasons she decided to make a high-school romance series was so that she would have the opportunity to draw SailorFuku.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** The female uniforms of Ashford Academy are very obviously Western inspired, but a mere look at the ''boys''' uniforms will show that they're pretty much ''gakuran'' outfits -- just without the golden buttons. Considering the massive stigma against the Japanese or "Eleven" in the story, this may be a rather ironic ShoutOut.
** A picture from the first season's first OP has the teenaged Naoto Kouzuki and Kaname Ougi wearing ''gakuran'', which is justified as they ''are'' Japanese/"Eleven".
* In ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'', Shin's mother Misae finds her old white and black ''fuku'' and puts it on... and much to her joy, it ''still'' fits her. This being ''Shin-chan'', HilarityEnsues.
* Reversing matters, the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil Supernaturally Powerful Student Council]] in ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'' wear white and gold ''gakuran''. The other students have a Western-style uniform with a blazer and tie.
* In ''Anime/DevilHunterYohko'', whereas Yohko goes to a highschool with Western blazer uniforms, her apprentice Azusa wears a ''fuku'' since she's still in middle school.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** Sora wears a green one in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. Miyako gets hers in the third movie -- and wonders whether she can [[ModestyShorts wear her cargo pants]] under the skirt.
** Ruki from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' uses a blazer-like uniform instead (in fact, she's the only of the primary school-aged kids whose school uses an uniform), though she always changes out as soon as she gets home.
** In ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'', [[http://cdn01.animenewsnetwork.com/thumbnails/max1000x1500/cms/news/82117/digimon15key.jpg as the Digidestined go to either junior high or highschool,]] Hikari wears the traditional green serafuku while the now highschool-aged Sora and Mimi wear blue and grey blazer uniforms. On the other hand, [[http://wikimon.net/images/b/b9/Mochidsuki_meiko.jpg Meiko Mochizuki]] wears an uniform that looks mostly Western, but has a ''very'' sailor-like collar.
* In ''Manga/DokonjoGaeru'', Hiroshi's girlfriend Kyouko uses a blue ''fuku'' despite her being still in elementary school. Probably to higlight that [[TheOjou she's from a better-off family]] than [[PerpetualPoverty the rest of the cast]].
* In ''Manga/Eyeshield21'', Deimon High has blazer uniforms for boys and girls but Suzuna Taki, a student from another school, often shows up in a white and blue ''fuku'' plus ModestyShorts.
* Invoked in ''Manga/FrankenFran'', when a giantess washes ashore and, after Fran saves her life, the greedy owner of the private beach where this takes place dresses her up in a ''fuku'' [[MoneyDearBoy to attract visitors]]. [[spoiler:It doesn't work, since the giantess is almost immediately retrieved by her kin]].
* ''Anime/FromUpOnPoppyHill'' takes place during the sixties, so Umi's high school uses the classic sailor fuku for girls and the gakuran for boys.
* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Kaibara Municipal High School uses ''serafuku'' for the girls but no ''gakuran'' for the boys (instead, they wear a collared shirt with a short necktie). Momiji Sohma wears the girls' ''serafuku'' top with shorts since he likes it better than the boy's uniform (at least until [[IGotBigger he has a growth spurt]] and switches to the standard boys' uniform). Arisa Uotani wears a much longer skirt than everyone else -- it comes from having been a [[JapaneseDelinquents former sukeban]].
* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'':
** A delightful sequence occurs where Kaname Chidori, normally dressed in the school's fairly unusual outfit, agrees to become "manager" for a rugby club, and so puts on a more traditional sailor fuku (and carries a kettle).
** Commander Mardukas has just threatened Sousuke with terrible retribution should he do anything indecent to Tessa while she is staying in Japan, when the girl in question enters wearing a Jindai High School uniform. Cue open-mouthed response from both males, until Tessa [[InnocentFanserviceGirl asks what they're staring at]].
* In ''Manga/FullMoon'', a flashback includes a girl in a ''serafuku''. [[spoiler:The girl is Meroko's former self, Moe Rikyou, who [[DarkAndTroubledPast lived and died]] in the ''Showa'' era of Japanese history [[JustifiedTrope when serafuku were the main school uniforms for girls]]. Years later, after remembering her past life, Meroko appears as Moe in front of her best friend Fuzuki (Mitsuki's grandmother) to tell her [[MyGreatestFailure that she shouldn't grieve for her tragic death any longer]]]].
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' and its prequels (''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'', ''Manga/FushigiYuugiByakkoIbun'' and ''Manga/FushigiYuugiByakkoSenki'') toy around with the trope. The {{Miko}}s are Japanese girls in the right age bracket, but not all of them wear ''fuku'':
** Takiko Okuda aka the Genbu no Miko, who is from the Japan of TheRoaringTwenties, wears ''[[KimonoIsTraditional hakama]]'' to her new school in the countryside. According to WordOfGod, however, she ''used'' to wear the (very recently implemented) fuku when she lived in Tokyo.
** Suzuno Ohsugi aka the Byakko no Miko wears a dark blue ''fuku'' with a long skirt, a black scarf [[ProperTightsWithASkirt and black tights underneath]], a spitting image of the traditional one. She is from the [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japan of the late 20's/early 30's]], and as said above the ''fuku'' and ''gakuran'' had been implemented as uniforms few years ago; when Suzuno appears as a teenager in both the original series and the prequel ''Byakko Ibun'', she's in her fuku. [[note]](Warning: There are HUGE spoilers for ''Byakko Ibun'' and the original series behind the link)[[/note]] But in ''Byakko Senki'' proper, there's a subversion: [[spoiler:It begins when Suzuno is 8 years old, so she doesn't ''start'' wearing serafuku right off the bat -- yet the illustrations and the fact that this is a prequel state that she eventually will be old enough to put one on]].
** Miaka Yuuki and Yui Hongo, the Suzaku and Seiryuu no Miko respectively, wear Western-styled uniforms in ''both'' junior high and highschool.
* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', the girls of Oarai Academy, the only shown high school that does not have a national theme, wear sailor fuku as their school uniform.
* In ''Manga/GlassMask'', Maya Kitajima is seen wearing a blue ''fuku'' as her uniform.
* A variant of the standard sailor uniform as a one-piece dress somehow winds up in the thrift store in ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'', where Rakka buys it and wears it for the majority of the series.
* ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam La Verite'' episode 8. When Konoe doesn't have any civilian clothes to wear, her assistant Yashima Sana dresses her in one of these and then puts on one herself. They look like a cross between a normal JapaneseSchoolUniform and a Catholic school uniform.
* In ''Manga/TheHatingGirl'', Ryouji's ex-girlfriend from Osaka wears the typical sailor fuku, but the uniform for Asumi and the other girls at their school is a skirt, button-down shirt, and sleeveless overshirt.
* While the tops of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'''s Hakuou Academy have resemblance to the style, the skirts are ankle length and are actually dresses. Isumi still dislikes them for being 'breezy', though she wears kimonos.
* In ''Manga/HellGirl'', Enma Ai wears a [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver black sailor uniform with a red necktie]] whenever she's observing the human world. This, alongside the opulent kimono she wears when she's in the Twilight realm, seems to highlight her as an archetypical Japanee girl.
* In ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'', Nube works at a public elementary school that has no uniforms. However, when the high school-aged Izuna Hazuki joins the cast, she shows up in a blue and white sailor uniform.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
** The anthropomorphized Sealand always wears a male sailor suit. Italy occasionally wears a shirt that looks a lot like the top of one.
** In the notes for [[HighSchoolAU Gakuen Hetalia]], Taiwan is seen wearing a ''sailor fuku'' instead of the more Western-oriented uniforms worn by the other girl nations.
** In the pictures of the Japanese prefectures, several of the prefectures wear clothes resembling either ''serafuku'' (Akita, Fukui, Gunma, Kochi) or ''gakuran'' (Aomori, Saga, Kagoshima, Ehime, Fukushima), while others wear what looks like Western uniforms (Iwate, Miyagi, Tokushima, Hyougo, Kyoto, etc.)
* ''Anime/HighSchoolFleet'' has the crew of the ''Harekaze'' wear these as school uniforms, which is a [[JustifiedTrope justified case]] as nearly all of the characters are aspiring sailors as well as students. Their use of sailor fuku hearkens back to when they were originally navy uniforms instead of school uniforms.
* While the schools from ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' tend to favor the blazer design, the uniforms of Seitou High are white and light-blue fukus with yellow scarves. (With the exception of Chou'un, who uses a blazer).
* In ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'', Raimon Junior High has blue/green ''gakuran'' as its uniform for the boys, but girls wear blazer/pleated skirt combos that seem to change colors depending on the girls' class.
* Kagome Higurashi from ''Manga/InuYasha'' is a middle school girl who wears her green and white sailor uniform while hunting {{youkai}} in the ''[[JidaiGeki sengoku]]'' period, centuries before they were invented. She's a time traveler from the present day and WordOfGod says -- tongue planted firmly in cheek -- that she prefers it because it's [[MundaneUtility durable]]. [[spoiler:Near the end of the series, however, Kagome is shown as a high school student and she's wearing a blazer uniform instead of her iconic ''serafuku''. And in the ''very'' last chapter, Kagome's [[SheIsAllGrownUp now teenaged younger brother Shouta]] shows up in a ''gakuran'']].
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'':
** The third part of the manga (''Stardust Crusaders'') has two characters, TheHero Jotaro Kujo and his former-opponent-later-ally Noriaki Kakyoin, who wear either a {{custom uniform}} that resembles the ''gakuran'' (Jotaro, whose BadassLongcoat + nice hat ensemble looks like one) or a 100% genuine one (Kakyoin, who even ''sunbathes'' in it). [[note]]According to Araki himself, he came up with Jotaro's design ''gakuran''-like clothes as a ShoutOut to the above mentioned ''Babel II'' and its ''gakuran''-wearing protagonist, Kouichi.[[/note]] It's also shown that the girls who go to Jotaro's school wear sailor fuku.
** The fourth part (''Diamond is Unbreakable'') features Joseph Joestar's HeroicBastard Jousuke Higashikata, a highschool student who goes into battle wearing his ''gakuran''. Other highschool-aged characters also wear school uniforms when around, like his schoolmates Kouichi and Nishimura, the bully Hazamada, and Kouichi's StalkerWithACrush Yukako (who wears a noticeably [[CustomUniform customized]] sailor fuku).
* ''Manga/JoshiKausei'': Mayumi wears one, unlike her friends Shibumi and Momoko. Explained as her being a NewTransferStudent.
* Although Sakuragaoka High School in ''Manga/KOn'' uses blazer uniforms, several characters have been shown wearing sailor uniforms when they were in middle school.
** Yui and Nodoka have been shown wearing white and green ''serafuku'' with red scarves during flashbacks. Ui is also shown wearing the same uniform during Yui's first year in high school, since she's still in middle school at that point.
** Azusa's first appearance also shows her in a navy blue ''serafuku'' with a red scarf.
* In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', Senketsu is a ''sentient'' sailor fuku with an EyepatchOfPower who is often worn by the main character, Ryuko [[spoiler:(and at least once by [[http://i.imgur.com/HQm8C4V.jpg Satsuki]] and [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/b157805ebae6306ddacfdba8aa008b84/tumblr_n21o9t1b3g1sqi9jto1_500.gif Mako]])]]. It's worth noting that in this series, clothes are weaponized to the point of being PoweredArmor, and the show even gives a CallBack to the fact that sailor fuku were originally military uniforms.
* In ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'', the middle school attended by the cast has ''gakuran'' for the guys and gray and white ''serafuku'' for the girls.
* ''Manga/{{Kochikame}}'': Special Detectives Moonlight and Venus are male variants of SailorFuku who make their role in fighting crime using old fighter jets and made appearances in every TV special.
* In ''Manga/LoveHina'', the younger tenants are occasionally seen in sailor fuku (Kaolla in particular [[SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack wears hers constantly]]), and Kitsune and Naru are prominently seen wearing them in flashbacks...and, occasionally, ''[[AgeInappropriateDress not]]'' in flashbacks.
* Uranohoshi's school uniform in ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'' is a sailor fuku with a grey collar and skirt, and differently-colored ribbons/scarves [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience that indicate which grade students are in]]. Some of Aqours' costumes take inspiration from sailor fuku as well.
* ''Manga/LuckyStar'''s characters wear sailor fuku as their school uniforms, and the AnimeThemeSong is even titled "Motteke! Sailor Fuku". The CD has a B-side titled [[ZettaiRyouiki "Kaeshite! Knee Socks"]].
* ''[[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' also based her battle uniform on a sailor fuku, although her young incarnation has a considerably longer skirt than normal.
** This seems to be the uniform at the Mid-Childian school Harry Tribeccah goes to in ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid''.
* Parodied along with just about every other anime trope in ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico''. Impractically short-skirted sailor fuku feature prominently in the titular space battleship's "Early 21st Century High School" virtual reality entertainment program and one character trying to seduce another hacks the program to make her skirt even shorter.
* In ''Anime/MazingerZ'' Kouji, Sayaka, Boss and Boss's friends attend the same school. Though the first anime didn't include any uniforms, in the manga and in more modern Mazinger media (like ''Anime/MazinKaiser'' and ''Shin Mazinger Zero'', whether [[Anime/ShinMazingerZero anime]] or [[Manga/ShinMazingerZero manga]]) the boys wore ''gakurans'' while Sayaka and Minerva X from the ''Zero'' manga wore blazer uniforms with rather short skirts (plus Sayaka sometimes ads ZettaiRyouiki to it).
* ''Anime/MekakucityActors'': Ayano and Shintaro are shown wearing a ''fuku'' and ''gakuran'', respectively, as middle-schoolers while the high-school uniform is a formal shirt and tie with checker-pattern skirt/pants. The ''fuku'' has so often been associated with Ayano in the fanbase that she even wears it inside the Daze, [[spoiler:despite the fact that when she committed suicide, she was in her junior year of high-school, and wearing the appropriate uniform]].
* Toune in ''Anime/MelodyOfOblivion'', who goes around fighting Monsters wearing sailor fuku.
* In ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'', the school attended by Lucia and her friends has ''fuku'' for the girls and Western blazers for the boys (and [[BiFauxnen Rina]])
* In ''Anime/MillenniumActress'' Chiyoko is often shown wearing a sailor fuku in the scenes depicting her childhood: unlike modern versions it's a genuine 1930s-era winter uniform made out of heavy wool for durability and cut with "room to grow" bagginess.
* Nobel Gundam from ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' is a HumongousMecha dressed in a Sailor Fuku. As if that weren't nonsensical enough, it's from ''Sweden'' of all places. Presumably the scientists who designed it were a bunch of weeaboos (it does show its Scandinavian roots in [[TheBerserker another way, though...]]).
* In ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' the school the characters attend have blazer uniforms, but there are occasions where the serafuku shows up:
** Mamiko, the StockShoujoHeroine of Nozaki's [[ShowWithinAShow shoujo manga]] ''Let's Fall In Love!'', wears a green and white ''serafuku'' with a white scarf.
** Nozaki also tries to make Sakura model a ''serafuku'' for him, ends up wearing it himself, and fails miserably due to his muscular body. The same uniform made another appearance as a "change of clothes" when the two arriving in Nozaki's flat drenched in rainwater.
** Kashima's younger sister Rei goes to an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls' school]], and she wears a typical old-fashioned dark green ''serafuku'' with a long skirt.
* [[TerminatorImpersonator Lunar's]] ''[[TerminatorImpersonator dad]]'' wears one in ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'' as part of [[FanDisservice a very misguided attempt]] to get closer to and understand his daughter better. When Nagasumi accidentally sees him in the outfit through a window, he gasps and closes the curtains, shouting at Nagasumi [[NoPeekingRequest not to look]].
* ''Anime/MyHime'':
** The Fuuka Gakuen BoardingSchool offers blazer uniforms for the highschool students, but not for the junior high ones. For that reason Mikoto, Nao and Shiho wear white and blue ''fukus'' while Takumi and Akira use grey ''gakuran''.
** The members of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil can put on {{custom uniform}}s, so Reito chooses a black and red ''gakuran''. Shizuru and Haruka wear differently-colored blazer uniforms, though.
* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
** An omake series of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', inspired by one of the ED's of the series, featured the main characters [[HighSchoolAu attending a high school]] with these uniforms. The associated fetishism [[PlayedForLaughs was hilariously interrupted]] when said fukus were worn by ''[[FanDisservice Orochimaru and Kabuto]]''.
** The ClassRepresentative Sumire from ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'' wears a purple version, despite the fact the ninja academy doesn't even use uniforms.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** Mahora Academy girls used the ''serafuku'' as uniform at the time Sayo was a student, but now they use blazer uniforms. Sayo herself still wears the ''serafuku'' but that's because she's a CuteGhostGirl who died quite a while ago.
** Other 3-A students will dress like this from time to time, including the Narutaki twins (though Fuka will sometimes wear shorts in lieu of a skirt, as seen in Volume 2 of the manga).
** In one of Ayaka's {{imagine spot}}s before [[spoiler:she gets a Pactio with Negi]], she daydreams about Negi wearing a serafuku.
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'':
** Haruhi, the local wholesome female cross-dresser, infiltrates Ouran Academy's elementary school division with 17-year-old Honey. Honey, who has a huge case of OlderThanTheyLook, dresses in his old elementary school uniform while Haruhi puts on her dark blue middle school sailor fuku (in the manga, she wears Ouran's middle school uniform, which is also a sailor fuku but of a different color). The rest of the club admits that the two stick out anyway so the disguises are useless: they just wanted to see Haruhi in a schoolgirl's uniform.
** Haruhi's middle school uniform shows up again in the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' inspired AllJustADream episode.
** Ouran Academy's [[ElevatorSchool middle school division]] uses sailor fuku as the girls' uniform, but in the high school division (which the series mainly focuses on) the girls' uniform is a yellow dress with [[GiantPoofySleeves puffed sleeves]] instead. That doesn't stop Renge from occasionally cosplaying her favourite DatingSim's heroine while wearing a sailor fuku.
** Benio's [[OneGenderSchool all-girls school]], St. Lobelia, has SailorFuku, which actually resemble long skirts.
* ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'' has Ringo Oginome attend an all-girls private school that has white and green ''serafuku'' with also super-short {{magic skirt}}s. On the other hand, Shouma and Kanba's all-boys school has blazer uniforms.
* ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'', and ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' all have their respective heroines wear sailor suit-esque school uniforms (although the ones in ''Heartcatch'' and ''Doki-Doki'' are dress uniforms, they're still sailor suit-esque nonetheless). Miki's school uniform in ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' also has a sailor collar, though the other Cures' uniforms don't since they all attend different schools.
* In ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', some schools favor the ''fuku/gakuran'' combination (Seishun Gakuen aka Seigaku, Rokkaku, Fudomine) while others prefer the blazer designs for both genders (Hyotei, Saint Rudolph, Rikkaidai). Yamabuki is a rather curious case since the male students wear ''white'' gakurans, but the girls wear an odd all-white blouse/skirt combo that looks like a tennis outfit. [[http://imgur.com/5PJ57Gv Here is a summer female uniform comparison chart taken from the 'Gakuensai no Oujisama' game]]. [[note]]: Top row from left to right: Seishun Gakuen aka Seigaku, Rikkai Daigaku Fuzuku aka Rikkaidai, Rokkaku, Hyoutei. Bottom row from left to right: Fudomine, Saint Rudolph, Yamabuki.[[/note]]
* One of Chloe's outfits in ''Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries'' is a sailor fuku. Unlike most sailor fukus, it’s a dress with anchors on it. Goh also wears one when he goes to school for tests.
* ''Manga/PrivateActress'':
** Shiho Kobayakawa attends an all-girls high school that uses black ''fuku'' as its uniform. She often goes to work while wearing said ''fuku'', too. It's averted in the BoardingSchool case however, as said BoardingSchool uses blazer type uniforms instead.
** The child actress Konomi Yushirou wears a ''serafuku'' in her first appearance, too. She's most likely in elementary school, however.
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Asahiyama High averts this uniform style, but Kurobara, the female-only school the quintuplets attended prior to the start of the story, has it with a black blouse and white skirt combo. Itsuki is shown wearing it on the first chapter as a symbol of her being a NewTransferStudent, and it's occasionally seen during flashbacks.
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Kodachi's all-girls school uses a white and light brown serafuku.
* The manga version of ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' included this when parodying (but using) {{fanservice}} moments, with Yomiko donning one of the much younger Nenene's ''fuku''. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].
-->'''Yomiko:''' [[OldMaid Even though I'm 25]], it looks good, right?
* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Ohtori High has ''serafuku'' with GiantPoofySleeves and ''VERY'' short light blue {{magic skirt}}s for the girls, and light blue ''gakuran'' for the guys. The members of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil wear custom uniforms instead, though Juri and Nanami are seen in ''serafukus'' when not in reunions.
** Utena tends to use a CustomUniform, but when [[spoiler:Touga defeats her and Anthy goes with him as per the Duels rules]], she wears the normal ''serafuku'' too, much to [[{{Squee}} the surprise and squeals]] [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer of her fangirls]]. Once [[spoiler:she beats Touga and Anthy returns to her side]], she returns to using her CustomUniform since the ''serafuku'' was a symbol of her ultimately temporary slump.
* A oneshot in ''Robot: Super Color Comic'' takes place in TheFuture where SailorFuku are no longer used however the protagonists of the chapter wear them while going to a picnic. They try to cosplay as 21st century girls, eating food from that period (crepes) and going down to the long-since evacuated areas below ground.
* Subverted in ''Manga/TheRowsOfCherryTrees'': the cover has two girls wearing serafuku, the first pages feature girls in serafuku... but the Sakura Institute that Yukiko, Chikage and Ayako attend has Western-looking outfits for their students.
* Though the central female characters of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' are actually ''junior'' high-schoolers, not only do they all wear sailor uniforms in their "civilian" lives, their Senshi uniforms seem to be clearly based on them as well; indeed, this is where the "Sailor" in the name comes from. This is later [[JustifiedTrope justified]] when it is revealed that the sailor-suit concept comes from ancestral memories of the heroes' uniform, not vice-versa. The last season has the girls in highschool, and they keep wearing sailor uniforms as school clothes, only with a darker color scheme (the blue of the collar and the skirts in the HS uniforms is almost navy blue).
* The sailor uniforms in ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' appear to have quite some variation in skirt lengths, ranging from way below the knees to ultra-short, permanently flashy miniskirts -- the latter usually reserved for younger characters, sometimes combined with ZettaiRyouiki.
* ''Manga/SakuraGari'' features boys who wear either ''hakama'' or ''gakuran'':
** In the flashbacks, a 12-or-13-year-old Souma wears ''gakuran''. This is specially notorious in the scene [[spoiler:where his WickedStepmother's corpse is found in what looks like a BathSuicide]].
** Masataka is always seen in ''hakama'' since he's a highschool student/butler and the story is set in the Tokyo of 1920. Some of his classmates wear ''hakama'' too, while others prefer the recently implemented ''gakuran''.
* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', as seen above, uses the sailor fuku and the gakuran as the uniforms.
* ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'':
** The military uniforms in this series are very, ''very'' similar to the ones that inspired the ''fuku'' and the ''gakuran'', and it makes sense considering the setting and how it includes an ''Imperial Army'' probably inspired by the RealLife one.
** The only thing that [[https://65.media.tumblr.com/399d7b0ba2ca0fe85ba521a0cfdb058e/tumblr_o8apez7xBl1trf0iio1_1280.jpg Mahiru Hiragi]] is seen wearing is a white and gray fuku, complete with ZettaiRyouiki.
** The younger cast, including the protagonist Yuuichirou and [[http://seijuurous.tumblr.com/post/132818205202 Mahiru's younger]] [[http://seijuurous.tumblr.com/post/116233309715/ sister Shinoa]], initially go to a school that has gray/black fukus for the girls and gray ''gakuran'' for the boys.
* ''Manga/ShadowStar'', by the aforementioned Mohiro Kitou, has three cases of this:
** The prestigious all-girls school that Satomi attends (and [[spoiler:Shiina and Mamiko]] join in the manga) has a black ''serafuku'' with a white scarf and [[ProperTightsWithASkirt red tights]] as its uniform. The anime is CutShort, but its very last scene has [[spoiler:Shiina]] getting ready to go to class and wearing her own ''fuku''.
** In Akira's junior high, the boys use ''gakuran'' while the girls wear blazers.
** [[spoiler:Shiina's dead sister]] Mishou was shown wearing a serafuku as well. [[spoiler:And she had it on when she was found dead in ''very'' odd circumstances]].
* When Tiara from ''Anime/ShamanicPrincess'' transfers to a local school, she wears a sailor fuku. It's unusual because it's a college and doesn't have any sort of uniform policy.
* After Yuzuru in ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' decided to return to school, she was shown in a sailor uniform.
* Tomonaga Yoshiko in ''Sisterism'' wears one in a chapter.
* ''Manga/SlamDunk'':
** The main school, Shohoku High, has black ''gakuran'' for the boys and blue and gray blazer uniforms for the girls.
** Out of the other schools, the major part use blazer outfits for both genders. The closest exceptions are Ryonan High (with gakurans for the boys) and the anime-only Takezono (the girls use dark red and light brown fukus, the guys wear blazers with the same color schemes).
* The VF-1A "Angel Bird" variant Valkyrie from the first episode of ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''. Though it never transforms out of fighter mode on-screen, the paint scheme becomes [[http://www.macross2.net/m3/sdfmacross/variant-vf-1a-angel.htm oddly familiar]] in Battroid mode. One of the many such {{Easter Egg}}s thrown into the first few episodes of the series.
* ''Manga/SweetBlueFlowers'': The all-girl high school attended by Akira, Fujigaya, has relatively realistically depicted sailor fukus, with skirts way below the knee.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'':
** In the first movie, ''Tenchi Muyo in Love'', Ryoko and Ayeka wear a black version of the sailor fuku, blending in with the rest of Achika and Nobuyuki's class.
** The ''Tenchi Universe'' HighSchoolAU has the cast as highschoolers and averts the trope since Tenchi, Ayeka and Ryoko wear blazer uniforms.
** Averted in ''Anime/TenchiInTokyo'' too: when Tenchi transfers to a Tokyo highschool, the uniforms are blazers for both boys and girls.
* ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' has teens wearing Western uniforms more often than not, but one of the most important scenes has a boy wearing a ''gakuran''. [[spoiler:The boy is a teenaged Seishirou and the scene is the ForgottenFirstMeeting between him and a then-small Subaru]].
* In ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'', Youko and Yuuka's highschool uses a dark gray, long-skirted ''serafuku'' as its girls' uniform. The anime makes their originally all-girls school into a mixed gender one and Youko's childhood friend/Yuka's suitor Asano is shown using a normal blazer uniform.
* In ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'', the major part of the schools featured in the OAV's, the TV series and the manga have Western-styled uniforms. In the fourth OAV, however, Miyu wears a classy-looking dark gray ''fuku'' with a white collar and a red scarf when she attends an all-girls middle school in Nara [[spoiler:''before'' being made into a vampire]].
* In ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', Tomobiki High has black ''gakuran'' and dark blue ''serafuku'' as uniforms. Medou wears a [[CustomUniform customized]] white ''gakuran'' instead because of his ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney mentality, whereas Ryuunosuke uses a gakuran rather than a ''serafuku'' because of her [[ManlyMan stereotypically masculine]] [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood father]].
* Hitomi from ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' wears her school uniform for most of the series, even though she's been transported to another world where Japanese high schools are not present. In one episode, she's given a local dress to wear, only to rip off the skirt so that she can run freely later. Interestingly, the dress rips completely cleanly and evenly, leaving her with an outfit that looks amazingly similar to her school uniform. Also, Hitomi's uniform ''in itself'' is a mix of both styles: the collar of the Western-inspired school jacket looks a ''lot'' like the collar of a ''serafuku'' when you look at it close, and it also has a red scarf like a ''serafuku'' usually would.
* ''Manga/WanderingSon'':
** Trans girl Nitori starts wearing one in elementary to pass as a girl while out with her friends. She continues to wear it casually in middle school, despite her school not using them. [[spoiler:She is mistaken for a NewTransferStudent when she goes to her school as a girl in her sailor fuku one day. She is immediately sent off to the nurse while her parents are called]].
** When the TrueCompanions split off into various high schools Sasa, Momoko, and Chizuru got put into an all-girls schools that uses SailorFuku. In comparison Nitori, Makoto, Doi, Oka, Seya, and Maho go to schools that have the contemporary "blazer" style uniforms, while Takatsuki and Chiba got into a school that is uniform-free (which Nitori wanted to go to but failed enrollment for; Takatsuki is a trans boy and entered the school specifically to avoid wearing a skirt). Nitori doesn't buy a new sailor fuku in high school, and instead gets a new girls uniform that matches her male uniform.
** The incident that led Yuki to become a {{hikikomori}} and drop out of school involved her classmates forcing her to put on a ''fuku'', as a part of [[StockShoujoBullyingTactics the bullying]] they subjected her to for being UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}.
* In ''Anime/WhisperOfTheHeart'', Shizuku's middle school uses the classic sailor uniform for female students, with a grey collar and skirt.
* ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'':
** In both the original ''Wolf Guy'' manga and the remakes, the school where HotTeacher Ms. Aoshika works and which Inugami transfers into has ''gakuran'' for the guys and ''serafuku'' for the gals. In the ''Ookami no Monshou'' remake, while Inugami's ''gakuran'' is the traditional black one, his school's ones are actually ''white''.
** The local FilleFatale Ryuuko Kounuma wears a ''heavily'' [[CustomUniform modified]] serafuku with a skirt, a a midriff-baring top and ZettaiRyouiki [[FashionableAsymmetry on one leg]].
** When Ms. Aoshika was a student, she went to a school that also had ''serafuku'' for the girls. [[spoiler:Sadly, a flashback shows that she was wearing her ''fuku''... when [[RapeAsDrama she was raped]]]].
* ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'':
** The school attended by Kamui and the Monou siblings has ''gakuran'' for the boys and Western-looking blazers for the girls. Later, the junior high and highschool aged Dragons of the Heavens (Kamui, Yuzuriha, Sorata and Arashi) transfer to CLAMP Campus and switch to frilly Western school uniforms.
** Saiki attends a different school and wears a ''gakuran'', while Yuzuriha's old school had blazers for both genders.
** Arashi Kishuu wears a light brown and white ''serafuku'' almost all the time, until she transfers to CLAMP Campus with the others.
* In ''Anime/YokaiWatchJamTheMovieYokaiAcademyYCanACatBeAHero'' and Anime/YokaiWatchJamYokaiAcademyYCloseEncountersOfTheNKind, Y Academy uses gakuran for boys and sailor suits for girls.
* In ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'', Liebe Girls' Academy, a fictional school portrayed by the characters who work at the salon, has a sailor fuku as its uniform, and Mitsuki and Hime once re-enact the "tie-fixing" scene from ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs''. While Hime and Kanoko's middle school also has a sailor fuku, their high school has a blazer uniform, while Mitsuki's school has a sailor fuku and Hime and Mitsuki's elementary school apparently didn't have a uniform.
* More than once seen in the horror manga anthology ''Manga/ZekkyouGakkyuu''. The biggest example is the narrator, Yomi, [[spoiler:revealed to be a CuteGhostGirl who, as the much-abused junior high student Yumi Akimoto, died after [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds cracking from the pressure and other circumstances and blowing up a classroom]] [[MurderSuicide to kill herself and her bullies]]]].
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* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': The victim of a pedophile in Season 7's "Team Cherokee", whom Trent and Carlos eventually rescued, was seen wearing one of these.

* In the standard branch of the ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial'' series (aka ''Tokimeki Memorial 1'' to ''4''), only the first game has an actual sailor fuku as Kirameki High School's uniform, with the schools in the next two games using blazers. When ''Tokimeki Memorial 4'', set in the same high school as the first game fifteen years later, was announced, some fans cried "TheyChangedItNowItSucks" regarding the change of Kirameki High's iconic sailor fuku to a blazer-type uniform: the complaint fortunately died down quickly, thanks to Creator/{{Konami}}'s [[TakeAThirdOption clever move]] of making Kirameki High ''gradually'' change its uniform, so that the two [[SenpaiKohai senpai]] characters keep the sailor fuku as the last graduating class to wear it, while the main protagonist and the characters in the same year as him and below wear the new blazer uniforms.

* Mairu [[spoiler:Orihara]] from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' wears a standard black sailor fuku when in school. [[CustomUniform Even when that school uses blazer style uniforms]].

* In ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', Tomobiki High has black ''gakuran'' and dark blue ''serafuku'' as uniforms. Medou wears a [[CustomUniform customized]] white ''gakuran'' instead because of his ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney mentality, whereas Ryuunosuke uses a gakuran rather than a ''serafuku'' because of her RatedMForManly [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood father]].

* In ''VideoGame/QPShooting - Dangerous!!'', QP wears a white version of this as her main outfit, as does her fellow classmate Syura.

* In ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'', the boys at Toomi East High School wear gakuran, while the girls wear jumpers, blouses, neck ribbons and bolero jackets (though the jackets still have sailor-style collars). The "school for rich girls" that Sayaka used to attend had a serafuku as their uniform, as did Yuu and her friends' middle school. In the SchoolPlay, Maki's character wears a gakuran that's a lighter color than Toomi East's version.

* In ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' Saito spots a military sailor uniform being sold and knows what to do. With some modifications to the top and adding a skirt, he produces a sailor fuku replica and sets about convincing Siesta to wear it to her bemusement. It ends up making the rounds at the school as different girls try it out.

* ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'', and ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' all have their respective heroines wear sailor suit-esque school uniforms (although the ones in ''Heartcatch'' and ''Doki-Doki'' are dress uniforms, they're still sailor suit-esque nonetheless). Miki's school uniform in ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' can also be considered an example.

* ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' and ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'' all have their respective heroines wear sailor suit-esque school uniforms (although the ones in ''Heartcatch'' and ''Doki-Doki'' are dress uniforms, they're still sailor suit-esque nonetheless). Miki's school uniform in ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' can also be considered an example.

** The local FilleFatale Ryuuko Kounuma wears a ''heavily'' [[CustomUniform modified]] serafuku with a skirt, a [[BareYourMidriff a midriff-baring top]] and ZettaiRyouiki [[FashionableAsymmetry on one leg]].

-->'''Yomiko:''' [[ChristmasCake Even though I'm 25]], it looks good, right?

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Touma's unnamed high school has the standard gakuran for boys and serafuku for girls. Mikoto's prestigious girls-only middle school uses blazers, but her friends Saten and Uiharu wear serafuku at their more mundane middle school.

** Sakura's elementary school follows the ''fuku''-type uniform for ''boys'' as well as girls. The boys wear a uniform identical to the girl version, except they wear 3/4-length black trousers instead of the girls' white skirts. A flashback reveals that the middle school Touya attended followed the standard ''fuku'' for girls and ''gakuran'' for boys pattern (as he is shown wearing one). The high school switches to a shirt-tie-trousers/pleated skirt uniform.