History PlayingWith / KimonoIsTraditional

* '''Zig Zagged''': Kimika acts traditional because she's worried about ruining her rental kimono, because it came from her traditonal minded family's rental shop, but the reason for that is because the dry cleaning would come out of her allowance.

* '''Parodied''': A 200-hundred-year-old cursed kimono turns its wearer into a mindless zombie and puppets them around in a distinct {{samurai}} era fashion.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Kimika acts traditional because she's worried about ruining her rental kimono, because it came from her tradional minded family's rental shop, but the reason for that is because the dry cleaning would come out of her allowance.

** Kimika's first appearence in a kimono [[BerserkButton does not leave a good impression]] on Xiao-Mei's family, whose older members suffered through the Second Sino-Japanese War. They despise her as a result.

** Kimika's insistence on wearing traditional clothing belies her adherence to traditional values — including the [[ValuesDissonance less savory ones]] that promote racism.

** Kimika's insistence on wearing traditional clothing belies her adherence to traditional values — including the [[ValuesDissonance less savory ones]] that promote racism and the more savory ones that promote SacredHospitality. Her only hostility to foreigners is crushing them in the Go parlor.

* '''Defied''': Kimika visits China, and to avoid provoking her hosts about the Japanese nationalism and the events during the Sino-Japanese wars, gets some neutral western style clothes to wear instead of her normal kimonos.

'''Basic Trope''': Japanese character wears kimono and appreciates the traditional values.

** Kimika's modern friends poke good natured fun at her 'old fashioned habits' and she returns the favor. She doesn't have as much in common with them as they do each other but they're fond of "[[AffectionateNickname Kimono Girl]]".

** Kimika's insistence on wearing traditional clothing belies her adherence to traditional values — including the [[ValuesDissonance less savory ones]] that promote racism and the more savy ones that promote SacredHospitality. Her only hostility to foreigners is crushing them in the Go parlor.

** Kimika's modern friends poke good natured fun at her 'old fashioned habits' and she returns the favor. She doesn't have as much in common with them as they do each other but they're fond of "Kimono Girl".

* '''Reconstructed''': Xiao-Mei realizes that Kimika did not mean to offend her family, and Kimika goes to great lengths to emphasize that she does not condone historical atrocities. They eventually focus more of their conversations on other areas where China and Japan share a more amicable history, such as architecture and philosophy.

* '''Deconstructed''': Kimika's first appearence in a kimono [[BerserkButton does not leave a good impression]] on Xiao-Mei's family, whose older members suffered through the Second Sino-Japanese War. They despise her as a result.

* '''Reconstructed''': Xiao-Mei realizes that Kimika did not mean to offend her family, and Kimika goes to great lengths to emphasize that she does not condone of historical atrocities. They eventually focus more of their conversations on other areas where China and Japan share a more amicable history, such as architecture and philosophy.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Averted''': everyone wears a kimono, or no one does.
* '''Enforced''': the show's biggest sponsor is a company selling designer kimono to upper-class traditional-values families, and wants to reinforce their campaign idea that wearing kimono is something that "proper Japanese" ''just do''.

* '''Invoked''': Kimika's parents talk her into wearing kimono to her marriage arrangement meeting, hoping she will appear as better brought up
* '''Exploited''': Kimika burrows her grandmother's kimono to impress her crush, a modern {{Samurai}} from a long family line of Samurai. He falls in LoveAtFirstSight.

%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

** A family believes in the GoodOldWays and wears the kimono as a sign and reminder of this.

* '''Double Subverted''': She's nervous because the kimono came from her family's rental shop, which has been in the family for generations, and was sewed together by her late grandmother.
* '''Parodied''': a 200-hundred-year-old cursed kimono turns its wearer into a mindless zombie and puppets them around in a distinct {{samurai}} era fashion.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Kimika acts traditional because she's worried about ruining her rental kimono, because it came from her tradional minded family's rental shop, but the reason for that is because the dry cleaning would come out of her allowance.

* '''Invoked''': Kimika's parents talk her into wearing kimono to her marriage arrangement meeting, hoping she will appear as better brought up

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* '''Double Subverted''': She's nervous because the kimono came her family's rental shop, which has been in the family for generations, and was sewed together by her late grandmother.

* '''Invoked''': Kimika's parents talk her into wearing kimono to her marriage arrangement meeting, hoping she will appear as better brought up and more submissive and gentle.

* '''Straight''': Kimika is a YamatoNadeshiko and often wears kimono.

* '''Exploited''': Kimika burrows her grandmother's kimono to impress her crush, a modern {{Samurai}} from an a long family line of Samurai. He falls in LoveAtFirstSight.

* '''Justified''': the story is set in imperial Neo Japan, and wearing anything else than a kimono is treated as treason and an act of anti-national agitation.

* '''Inverted''': Kimika wears kimono but is a die-hard yankee wannabe.
** Or, Kimika is noted for having very traditional values, but is never seen wearing kimono, even to weddings or funerals.

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* '''Double Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''': a 200-hundred-year-old cursed kimono turns its wearer into a mindless zombie and puppets them around in a distinct samurai era fashion.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Enforced''': the show's biggest sponsor is a company selling designer kimonos to upper-class traditional-values families, and wants to reinforce their campaign idea that wearing kimono is something that "proper Japanese" ''just do''.
* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Exploited''':