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7	Examples of TomboyAndGirlyGirl in anime and manga.
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9	* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Rentarou's first two girlfriends are Hakari, a sweet-natured and well-endowed CovertPervert who puts on an air of feminine charm to try and seduce Rentarou into letting her have her way with him, and Karane, a {{Tsundere}} who is StrongerThanTheyLook and is the most recurring butt of ACupAngst jokes in the manga.
10	* ''Manga/AhAndMmAreAllSheSays'' has an InUniverse case. One of [[SequentialArtist Toda]]'s {{hentai}} one-shots, ''Ashen Oil'', is a YuriGenre work whose main couple starts off like this, comprising the tomboyish JapaneseDelinquent Sumiko, and the girly model student Kayu. Of course, since their relationship eventually becomes sexual (or else this won't be hentai), they have moved into MasculineFeminineGayCouple.
11	* ''Manga/AkumaNoRiddle'': Tokaku is a stoic ProfessionalKiller and Haru is a cheerful OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent with a DarkAndTroubledPast.
12	* In ''Manga/AoharuXMachinegun'', the female protagonist [[TheHeroine Hotaru]] is a tomboy to her friend [[BestFriend Kanae's]] girly girl. Hotaru is a PassionateSportsGirl with [[BoyishShortHair short hair]] who plays airsoft and is very athletic. Kanae has [[LongHairIsFeminine long hair]] and cares more about her appearance; she's also trying to make Hotaru more feminine.
13	* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
14	** ButchLesbian Ymir and conventionally attractive Krista Lenz, who are seemingly polar opposites in every possible way. Both are highly-skilled soldiers, but Ymir uses masculine speech and dresses like a man out of uniform while Krista desperately attempts to be seen as TheIngenue and wears long skirts off-duty.
15	** Annie Leonhart and her roommate in the Military Police Brigade, Hitch. While Annie barely owns more than a few plain hoodies and spends her off-days working out, Hitch is noted to enjoy wearing makeup and dressing up in fashionable clothes on her days off.
16	* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'':
17	** [[PassionateSportsGirl Kagura]] and [[HugeSchoolgirl Sakaki]] are the junior version, with Kagura being a cross between a BoisterousBruiser and LovableJock, who initially befriends Sakaki in the spirit of competition. At least, until she discovers that Sakaki [[JapaneseDelinquents isn't what]] she and others ''[[AloofDarkhairedGirl thought.]]'' Instead, [[ShrinkingViolet she's painfully shy]] with a love for cute cuddly objects.
18	** Minamo Kurosawa and Yukari Tanizaki are the adult version of the trope. As the school's PE teacher/swim instructor, Minamo is easily recognizable by her short, dark-colored hair, while Yukari is the English teacher and has a more traditionally feminine appearance. Though her abrasive manner and [[AdultChild childlike behavior]] are a stark contrast from what you'd typically expect.
19	* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' has on the one hand Nice Holystone, who wears a vest and tight pants ([[AnachronismStew in 1930's America, no less...]]) and [[{{Pyromaniac}} enjoys blowing stuff up]], and on the other, Chane Laforet, who wears long, elegant dresses and [[DeviousDaggers fights gracefully with a knife]].
20	* ''Manga/{{Barakamon}}'':
21	** Naru is a little girl who dresses like a boy, is extremely energetic and outgoing, and loves to catch and collect bugs. Her best friend Hina is a little girl who is usually seen in skirts, is a cripplingly shy crybaby, and is afraid of bugs.
22	** Tama and Miwa form another pair. Miwa is energetic and athletic girl with [[BoyishShortHair short hair]], and play softball, while Tama is a bit of a [[CuteBookworm bookworm]], and a {{Meganekko}}.
23	* ''Manga/BeautyPop'', where Kiri Koshiba, a very boyish girl (to the point that she is often mistaken for a boy when not in school uniform), has a PseudoRomanticFriendship going on with girly and feminine Kanako. Kiri is also friends with a genki goth loli (sister of another main character) who has a big crush on her, but those feelings are not reciprocated by Kiri.
24	* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': Before it went FromBadToWorse for her and she became an Apostle, Rosine [[http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/File:Roshinu3.jpg was the tomboy to her best friend Jill's girly girl.]]
25	* ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'':
26	** Rukia and Orihime subvert the trope, initially appearing to have Rukia as the tomboy and Orihime as the girly-girl. Behind Rukia's [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak rough attitude]] is someone who loves rabbits, plushies, dresses, romance stories, and cutesy artwork. Behind Orihime's [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak nurturing personality]], pacifistic nature, and ability to [[HealingHands heal]] and [[BarrierMaiden shield]], is a black belt[[note]]The anime inexplicably changes this to yellow belt[[/note]] karate expert and a lover of robots, boys comics, and sci-fi. Played straight, however, with Orihime and her best friend Tatsuki, who is a {{Bifauxnen}} tomboy to the core.
27	** Karin and Yuzu's are PolarOppositeTwins. Karin is the DeadpanSnarker with an interest in sports and whose friends are all male. Yuzu is more taken with domestic duties around the house, such as cooking and cleaning, gentle, compassionate and loves dresses and plushies.
28	** Kiyone (3rd Seat of the 13th Squad) is boisterous, argumentative and will go out drinking, whereas her big sister, Isane, (Lieutenant of the 4th Division) is gentle, feminine and very timid.
29	** Subverted with Loly and Menoly. Loly wears short dresses and ties her hair in bunches, but is outspoken, argumentative and violent. Menoly is a short-haired, trouser-wearing girl who is thoughtful, passive and subdued. Both are still tomboyish, regardless, especially compared to Girly Girl Orihime.
30	* Marika and Akane from ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai''. Akane has short hair and is more boisterous while Marika has longer hair [[spoiler:once she begins living as a girl]], is more feminine, and is more subdued. It was even more noticeable when they met as kids, as Akane hated skirts (though she seems to like them now) while Marika hated shorts.
31	* The protagonists of the one-shot, ''Born This Way'', play up the LipstickLesbian and ButchLesbian version of this trope. The unnamed lead is conveniently feminine while her wife is [[{{bifauxnen}} androgynous]] and dresses in a masculine fashion.
32	* As Talas is travelling with Smith in ''Manga/ABridesStory'', she becomes either depending on the region they're in. In Persia, a much more religiously conservative country, Talas is practically a wild woman, who doesn't hide her face and acts like a man. In the area around the Aral Sea, Talas seems like a delicate princess who has beautiful clothing as her everyday wear. Smith himself sees her as a bit of a tomboy, being in awe of how easily she does the strenuous tasks of her day-to-day life without breaking much of a sweat.
33	* ''Butt-Attack Punisher Girl Gautaman'' -- a two-part OVA series. Played with by (girly) main character Mari and her [[GirlOnGirlIsHot affectionate]] (tomboy) roommate Saori. Toyed with in funny ways in that Mari is the [[MsFanservice scantily-clad]] [[TheHero heroine]] while Saori tends to be the DamselInDistress.
34	* ''Anime/TheBushBaby'': Kate is the girly girl to Jackie's tomboy. Kate likes wearing pink and reading, while Jackie plays in the mud and joins her father and brother in their safari adventures. In spite of being polar opposites the girls are best friends and Jackie often invites her to see the vast array of animals under the Rhodes' care.
35	* ''Anime/CandyBoy'': Yukino is more girlish in behavior than her sister Kanade, in perhaps one of the more subtle examples of this trope.
36	* ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'':
37	** The Furano managers fit the trope. Machiko Machida is an outspoken {{Meganekko}}, Yoshiko Fujisawa is a ShrinkingViolet.
38	* It's a minor stretch, but the two ActionGirl leading ladies of ''Anime/CarriedByTheWindTsukikageRan'' manage to fit in, though each also extends from the stereotypes. Ran fits as the Girly Girl. In spite of being a samurai (her clothes border on {{Bifauxnen}}, but she is not underendowed; her robes are simply loose), she prides herself on being a beautiful woman, and she always dresses neat and has good manners, and her fighting style is almost stereotypical samurai: graceful in motion. In contrast, Myao is the Tomboy. She ''definitely'' looks like a down-in-the-heels vagabond with her travel-worn outfit (she's definitely a woman, but she doesn't make as much a fuss of it as Ran), yet her wild sense of justice means she's usually the one to talk impulsively and jump headlong into mishaps. Plus as a martial artist, she moves like a blur when she's fighting with lots of punches, kicks, and throws.
39	* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': One may ''think'' Sonoko is Ran's girly girl and her older sister Ayako's tomboy but Ran thing is [[PlayingWithATrope more complex than that]]. Sonoko is less physically active and more boy-crazy/fashionista than Ran, but is also more outspoken and straightforward than her (Unless Ran's in tsuntsun more, yeah.) In fact, their friendship started when Sonoko protected Ran when they were children!
40	** Also difficult with Ran and Kazuha. Both of them have similar personalities and practice martial arts. However, Kazuha is a type A tsundere, who was introduced as a ClingyJealousGirl, while Ran is a type B tsundere. Ran is usually much calmer than Kazuha who has a HairTriggerTemper. So Ran can be considered as the less boyish girl.
41	** Miwako is the tomboy to Yumi's girly girl. Both are policewomen, but Sato is a short-haired ActionGirl and grown-up {{Shorttank}} while Yumi is a long-haired [[TheTease tease]] and traffic cop.
42	** Miwako is the tomboy to Kobayashi-sensei's girly girl. Both are {{Identical Stranger}}s to each other, however, and that's why Yumi was surprised when she met the soft-spoken and girlish Kobayashi-sensei, who she confused for being Miwako, for the first time.
43	** Of the Detective Boys, snarky LittleMissBadass Haibara is the Tomboy, while sweet and innocent Ayumi is the Girly Girl.
44	* This trope is played with in ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' and by extension its [[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex parent series]] too with Mikoto Misaka and Kuroko Shirai. The former is a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak that is more aggressive, keen on fighting and likes to wear shorts, however some of her interests are rather childish with an extreme obsession with cute things particularly a series of cartoon frogs. The latter however is something of a GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak, she looks far more physically frail than Mikoto and chides her on her childish interests, striving to be more like a fine lady with far more feminine interests, she is however in [[CopsAndDetectives the local law enforcement agency Judgment]] and doesn't think twice about taking on fully grown criminals with a combination of [[CuteBruiser kicks]] or [[KnifeOutline her array of sharp needles.]]
45	* Fiore (the quiet, submissive maid) and Shader (the loud techie that wears men's clothing) in ''Manga/ChronoCrusade''. In the manga version the two are friends (and are seen together at the end), in the anime Shader has a crush on Fiore and appears to be jealous of her relationship with Joshua.
46	%%* ''{{Manga/Claymore}}'' has minor characters Audrey and Rachel. Noticeable shades of [[HoYay/{{Claymore}} Les Yay]] with these two.
47	* In ''Anime/CrossAnge'', Ange is the tomboy who engages in lots of fights, while Momoka is the girly girl who takes care of Ange.
48	* The humor in ''Dekoboko Girlish'' revolves around this. Oriko is tall and masculine looking to the point where most people mistake her for a boy. Her friend Natsuo is cute and girly but [[OlderThanTheyLook looks far younger]] than twenty.
49	* ''Manga/DearBrother'' has Tomoko and Nanako, as well as Rei and Fukiko. [[BifauxnenAndLadette Rei and Kaoru, however, are another story.]] And so are [[LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine Mariko and Nanako]]. Mariko and Kaoru fit in here as well.
50	* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': Of the original two girls, Sora is a soccer player who appears to be OneOfTheBoys (though she also functions as the TeamMom) while Mimi is a lover of fashion, cute things and the color pink. The third female protagonist [[SixthRanger Kari]] is a mixture of the two, so it becomes TownGirls after she joins. Averted for the two main females in the sequel series ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' with both Yolei and Kari, both have a mixture of tomboy and girly traits.
51	* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': Rika is initially somewhat of a BloodKnight when it comes to Digimon and even after mellowing out on her more aggressive tendencies is still tomboyish, especially compared to Jeri, who has more feminine interests, though she has some shades of being a GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak. Later on, Suzie helps fulfill that role as well, being a CheerfulChild.
52	* ''Anime/DigimonFusion'': Angie is shown as somewhat of a GamerChick and has a more blunt attitude. Meanwhile, Nene, while having a bit of an ActionGirl streak, is more reserved and later becomes an idol singer.
53	* ''Literature/DirtyPair'': This is practically a given for ''any'' LovelyAngels teams. Kei and Yuri almost certainly [[SpiritualSuccessor inspired]] the ''Pretty Cure'' girls, right down to their very similar hairstyles.
54	* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
55	** The manga has some fun with this trope. Bulma and Lunch vary on which is the tomboy and which is the girly girl depending on which of Lunch's personalities is dominant. If Lunch is in her blonde form, she's a gun-crazy kleptomaniac and Bulma is a fashion-conscious non-combatant. If Lunch is in her blue-haired form, however, she's a naive [[TheIngenue ingenue]] and Bulma is the adventurous WrenchWench.
56	** In the Buu arc, {{Shorttank}} and {{Tsundere}} Videl and her MsFanservice friend Erasa.
57	** Bulma and Chi-Chi also play with this trope. In the middle of the series, after Lunch has been [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome chucked out]], Bulma is the adventurous wrench wench while Chi-Chi is mostly concerned with being a good wife and mother. However, later on in the series, Bulma settles down and doesn't change much otherwise, but Chi-Chi has relaxed a lot and is much more comfortable with reminding everyone that she's an extremely skilled martial artist in her own right. Videl is a straight out {{Tomboy}} to [[GirlyGirl both of them]]. She prefers a boyish appearance and training in martial arts. Android 18 would fall in the middle as she was initially a rebellious teenager who never wore dresses, yet shops and dresses nice. This makes Bulma a GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak and Chi-Chi a GirlyBruiser with Videl as the {{Tomboy}} who gets a GirlinessUpgrade and 18 as a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak.
58	** [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse6MajorCharacters Caulifla and Kale]], the local SmashSisters Saiyan delinquents of [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse6 Universe 6]], share this dynamic respectively. Caulifla is an overconfident, pragmatic tomboy who doesn't shy away from leading her gang or an itch to fight. Kale, on the other hand, is her passive StraightMan subordinate with a [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak tendency to get dirty]] when her confidence clings to the opportunity while wearing a crop-top and mini-skirt combo.
59	* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' plays with this in the form of Anezaki Mamori and Suzuna Taki. On the field Mamori is the sweatpants wearing, calculating team manager who makes calls alongside quarterback Hiruma, while Suzuna is a cheerleader. Off the field, however, Mamori is the girly-girl and TeamMom all dressed up in frilly clothing, while Suzuna is the DeadpanSnarker and rollerblading enthusiast who hangs out with [[BashBrothers Sena and Monta]].
60	%%* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
61	%%** Erza and Lucy. Averted while Erza is very tomboyish and Lucy is feminine, but not particularly girly.
62	%%** Badass Lucy or Erza to timid, supporting Wendy who is JUST TheHeart.
63	%%** Mirajane and Lisanna [[spoiler:[[StuffedInTheFridge before her trip to Edolas]]]].
64	* ''Anime/Figure17TsubasaAndHikaru'' has a mild version of this going on. Hikaru is somewhat tomboyish relative to Tsubasa, wearing more masculine clothes in the opening and being better at sports, but taken on her own she's still quite feminine. The main contrast here is that the ArtificialHuman Hikaru is outgoing and extraverted, and helps to bring out the shy introverted Tsubasa, who was an only child before her artificial twin Tsubasa was accidentally created.
65	* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'':
66	** Arisa Uotani and Saki Hanajima . Uo is a (mostly) reformed [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster Yankee]] who has been known to bring a lead pipe to school to threaten people who pick on her friends. Hana is a soft-spoken girl with ElegantGothicLolita leanings, and the ability to read people's auras. And [[MemeticMutation she can kill you]] [[{{Series/Firefly}} with her mind.]] Both scare the crap out of their classmates, except for Tohru.
67	** Kagura Sohma and Tohru Honda also have these dynamics, to a degree. Kagura isn't ''that'' tomboyish, though: she's more of a GenkiGirl.
68	* ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'':
69	** Misumi Nagisa and Yukishiro Honoka respectively. It goes as far as making the symbols on their mascots' foreheads cutesied-up versions of the Mars and Venus symbols. Interestingly enough (and perhaps not done often enough), the girly-girl Honoka is the smartest girl in school and into chemistry. The banner ads would love her.
70	** This is mostly a superficial example of the trope. Nagisa has short hair and plays lacrosse, but her room is pink and full of stuffed animals, while Honoka's is a fairly plain traditional Japanese style room. And while Honoka's clothes tend to be girlier, she doesn't seem to be noticeably more interested in fashion. Also, Honoka actually seems more gung-ho about [[MagicalGirlWarrior punching evil in the face]] than Nagisa. It's really more of a jock/nerd dichotomy than anything else.
71	** In ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', outgoing and energetic GenkiGirl Love is the tomboy, and her friend Setsuna, one of the most popular at her school and the occasional DamselOutOfDistress, is the girly girl.
72	** Averted in ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', with Tsubomi and Erika ''both'' being Girly Girls. And then played straight, as [[{{Bifauxnen}} Itsuki]] is Tomboyish enough to cover both.
73	** ''[[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Doki Doki Pretty Cure]]'' has the GenkiGirl Mana and the [[StraightMan Straight Girl]] Rikka. It helps, that Rikka (and a boy) describes her friend as a prince, while Rikka herself is described as Mana's ''wife''.
74	*** Mana is the girly girl to Makoto. Makoto is the least overtly feminine of the Cures outside her Idol Career, with a tomboyish dress-sense, short and butch page-boy haircut and attitude to match. Mana is an AmbiguouslyGay {{Fangirl}} for her and jokes that Makoto's is Ai-chan's father and she's the mother. That happens even in the same episode as Rikka was called Mana's wife.
75	*** Mana and Regina who is possibly the girliest girl in this series. There is even a scenario where [[spoiler:Mana rescues Regina from the latter's [[BigBad father]] and his henchmen, while Regina is [[DePower de-powered]].]]
76	** ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' is an oddity in that the roles are given not to individual Cures but to their Form Changes: upbeat and energetic Lollipop Hip Hop (who prefers bombing Choiarks with physical music notes) is the tomboy, and serene and peaceful Macadamia Hula Dance (whose dancing summons flowers and [[InvoluntaryDance gets most everyone in the vicinity doing it]]) is the girly girl. In TheMovie, the role of tomboy once again goes to Megumi, who ends up being a knight-in-shining-armor type to Tsumugi-chan, a ballerina princess, who is the girly girl.
77	** Downplayed in ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' between Haruka and Minami; Haruka may represent strength, but her being gung-ho about tennis stems from her belief that tennis is a sport fit for a princess, and Minami is decidedly a girly girl, representing grace.
78	* ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'':
79	** [[{{Shorttank}} Miki Jounouchi]] and [[GenkiGirl Asuka Sugo]] are tomboy and girly girl respectively in the series. Miki is the chief mechanic and Asuka is the acting owner who also serves as the mascot girl of their teams. In addition, Miki likes listening to rock music and Asuka likes shopping.
80	** Later, Clair Fortran serves as the girly girl (along with Asuka) to Miki's tomboy. She has hints of both of the tropes, as she is the machine designer of the Sugo team.
81	* In ''Anime/GreatPretender,'' the sweet and feminine TeamMom Cynthia contrasts with the violent and strong Abbie. They actually use this dichotomy to their advantage in the second arc, where they pose as a female racing pilot (Abbie) and her manager (Cynthia). They're well aware of the dynamic they have, and they know it will make them a hit with crowds precisely because it hits this trope.
82	* ''Manga/TheGuySheWasInterestedInWasntAGuyAtAll'': Mitsuki dresses boyishly when not in uniform, such as preferring pants over skirts, which results in her being mistaken for a guy. Aya, on the other hand, is a fashionable gyaru who dresses in a girly manner and wears makeup.
83	* ''Manga/HanjukuJoshi'' is a yuri manga about Chitose (tomboy) and Yae (girly); Yae is painfully aware that she fits the trope, and dislikes being called "girly" for this reason.
84	* Early on in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', Hinagiku is the tomboy to pretty much any girl she is paired up with (the possible exception being Nagi who seems to be even more of a tomboy and less self-conscious of it than Hina). With character development, Hinagiku has since become much girlier, but still tends to be the tomboy when compared to the other girls she hangs out with.
85	* ''Manga/HelenESP'' has this dynamic between schoolfriends Oguri (tomboy) and Helen (girly).
86	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
87	** Parodied/inverted with Russia's two sisters, Belarus and Ukraine. The [[ElegantGothicLolita girly]] Belarus is a frightening {{Yandere}}, whereas the [[{{Bokukko}} tomboyish]] Ukraine is motherly.
88	** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1229815456781.gif Vietnam]] (tomboy) and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gallery3-34.gif Taiwan]] (girly girl) certainly look the part. When they finally are seen interacting, the trope is subverted: Vietnam is tomboyish-looking but [[IAmNotPretty very shy and modest about]] her good looks, and Taiwan is [[TheCutie a dainty-looking]] but ''[[MotorMouth very]]'' [[MotorMouth energetic]] [[PluckyGirl and stubborn]] GenkiGirl.
89	** Fanwork usually gives these dynamics to two ladies who haven't met in canon, but still have the looks: Hungary (NinjaMaid) and Belgium (ActionGirl, CoolBigSis). Fanon also tends to peg [[OneOfTheBoys Belgium]] as the {{Tomboy}}, especially when drawn with [[ProperLady Liechtenstein]] or [[{{Ojou}} Monaco]]. Or [[{{Shorttank}} Seychelles]] as the {{Tomboy}} to Liechtenstein.
90	** In regards to gender flips, there's [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/koreajapan_genderflips_6460.jpg Girl!Korea as the tomboy to Girl!Japan's girly girl.]]
91	** The Manga/{{Hetaween 2011}} event has [[{{Shorttank}} Seychelles]] and [[{{Meganekko}} Monaco]].
92	** During an extra in the fourth volume, [[NinjaMaid Hungary]] plays this to both [[TeamMom Ukraine]] and [[ProperLady Liechtenstein]]. There was already a request sketch with Hungary and Liechtenstein, and there they fit the trope like a glove.
93	* ''Anime/HiSpeedJecy'': As of episode 4, Anita and Tiana have settled into these respective roles, with Anita being the ActionGirl and Tiana being the frequent DamselInDistress.
94	* ''Manga/HidamariSketch'':
95	** Yuno and Miyako qualify, with Miyako as the extroverted and boyish type and Yuno being much more introverted and soft-spoken.
96	** And Sae and Hiro. Hiro's description in the character sketch of the manga is "wife material," while Sae is her tomboyish friend who gets jealous when Hiro mentions getting love letters from guys...
97	* ''Literature/HighschoolDXD'' introduces two ChurchMilitant girls Xenovia and Irina. The former is pretty much a serious ActionGirl with a short hair and a deeper voice while the latter is a chirpy GenkiGirl sporting GirlishPigtails with the English dub outright giving her a valley girl accent. Ironically, Irina started out as a tomboy to the point where her ChildhoodFriend, and main protagonist, Issei thought she was a boy growing up, only to discover, to his delight and shock, that she was a girl upon reuniting. Xenovia for the most part stays tomboyish though she does loosen up and desires to become a mother as a goal both "feminine" and serving of God in a traditional woman's role.
98	* ''Manga/HimechansRibbon'':
99	** Himeko is an impulsive GenkiGirl who is good at sports and has BoyishShortHair. Her AlternateUniverse counterpart Erika is a near-mirror image of Himeko, except that she is a long-haired girly princess.
100	** Another foil to Himeko is her sister Aiko, a calm, soft-spoken, domesticated girl who is considered very beautiful. Himeko would like to be more feminine like her.
101	* ''House of the Witch'': A short horror manga story, used this trope. The tall, short-haired tomboy is in love with her basketball coach and suspects he fancies her back, but can't act on this because [[HotForTeacher a student/teacher relationship would be improper]]. Tomboy confides in her tiny, frilly girly-girl best friend, who professes to despise sweaty, muscular men. Come the graduation party, tomboy is thrilled to finally have the chance to make her feelings known, so goes over -- to have the coach interrupt the party to announce his engagement and almost immediate marriage to girly-girl, who had apparently been dating him all along. After that setup, well, it was a horror manga. It went FromBadToWorse.
102	* ''Manga/IceRevolution'': Uber-{{tomboy}} Masaki and her uber-girly-girl best friend Yui, as well as Masaki's rival Katakura. Ironically Yui was just as much a tomboy as Masaki, but that was before she was struck by ThePowerOfLove.
103	* ''Manga/InitialD'': Sayuki is the the sassy FemmeFatale GenkiGirl, while Mako is the CuteBruiser NiceGirl.
104	* ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}'':
105	** ''Anime/Jewelpet2009'': Protagonist Rinko's best friends Minami and Aoi. The former is a sporty girl who beats up bullies and criminals, and the latter is a cultured and shy girl.
106	** ''Anime/JewelpetSunshine'': Foils Hinata and Shouko. The former is motherly and sensible, while the latter is a motorcycle-riding delinquent.
107	** ''Anime/JewelpetHappiness'': Protagonist Chiari's best friends Nene and Ruruka. The former is a ProperLady, while the latter is a rough-talking jokester.
108	** ''Anime/LadyJewelpet'': The secondary pair of Petit Ladies, Mizuki and Charon. The former is a tough girl who loves the outdoors, while the latter is a meek bookworm who wants to write romances.
109	* ''Anime/KaleidoStar'':
110	** May Wong shared strong traits of both types, dressing and wearing her hair like a girly girl but acting ''very'' {{Tsundere}} -- so Sora would sometimes be the tomboy and later play the girly girl part.
111	** During the second part, girly girl Layla gained her very own tomboy when partnered with the playwright and CoolBigSis Cathy Taymor.
112	** Sora and Rosetta Passel also switched around the tomboy and girly girl roles.
113	* ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'': The love triangle variety gets a lesbian slant when [[GenderBender boy-turned-girl]] Hazumu has to choose between ultra-feminine Yasuna and tomboyish Tomari. Since Hazumu is very girlish him/herself, the outcome is pretty much a {{foregone conclusion}} -- at least in the manga.
114	* ''Anime/KazeNoShojoEmily'': Ilse is a brash {{Tomboy}} who loves to rough-and-tumble play and skate, while Emily is the sweet and joyous GirlyGirl who loves reading and writing books. Ilse also predominantly wears blue and has short hair, while Emily often wears pink and has long hair. This is lampshaded when Aunt Elizabeth tells Emily that Ilse isn't a good influence as she wants Emily to grow up to be a ProperLady.
115	* ''Anime/KillLaKill'':
116	** While Mako plays the role of the friendship-obsessed and good-natured character, Ryuko has a tougher image, doing lots of fighting, being of a gruffer nature and [[LadySwearsALot cursing frequently]]. The two are very close and spend a lot of time together and their contrasting views help them grow throughout the series, particularly with helping Ryuko let go of her anger in her quest for vengeance.
117	** There's also Ryuko being the [[JapaneseDelinquents Butch Tomboy]] to Satsuki's [[LadyOfWar Moderate Girly Girl]]. [[spoiler:Surprisingly, they turn out to be sisters.]]
118	* ''Manga/KanojoNiNaritaiKimiToBoku'': Hime purposefully invokes this by wearing the boys' uniform, to take attention way from Akira and make her appear more feminine by comparison.
119	* ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'':
120	** Kyōsuke's younger sisters Kurumi (tomboy) and Manami (girly girl). Kurumi is boisterous, irresponsible, and a LethalChef, Manami is reserved, domestic, motherly, and the TeamChef. Though in this case, it's [[YamatoNadeshiko Manami]] the one with a TomboyishPonytail.
121	** Madoka and Hikaru began as this as little girls, years before meeting Kyōsuke. In the current story, by the time he came into their lives they had switched to LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine, although both [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak with some tomboy tendencies]].
122	* Played with in ''Manga/KissAndWhiteLilyForMyDearestGirl'' with Mizuki and Moe, respectively runner and manager of a tracking team. Mizuki cut her hair [[InvokedTrope to give this effect when she is seen with the "cute" Moe]], but the latter is actually much more blunt and shameless, while Mizuki is quite shy and easily embarrassed.
123	* ''Manga/KOn'': ChildhoodFriends Ritsu and Mio. Especially in the flashback to elementary school, with brash, {{Shorttank}} Ritsu and shy, dress-wearing Mio.
124	* ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'': PassionateSportsGirl You Watanabe and ElegantClassicalMusician Riko Sakurauchi. You is boisterous, headstrong, an excellent high-diver, and aims to be a ship captain like her father ([[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak although she’s also one of the group’s costume designers and is perfectly fine with wearing dresses]]), while Riko is shy, modest, seems to like shoujo manga, and is [[PinkMeansFeminine associated with the color pink.]]
125	* In ''Anime/MacrossII'', there was Silvie Gena (AcePilot, BadassDriver), and Ishtar ({{Tsundere}}, IdolSinger).
126	* In ''Maetel Legend'', the twins [[Manga/GalaxyExpress999 Maetel]] and [[Manga/QueenEmeraldas Emeraldas]] have this dynamic going on: while both are decisively feminine in appearance, Emeraldas is taciturn and combative, while Maetel is compassionate and generally passive. In fact, despite the OVA being named after Maetel, it's Emeraldas who is the major plot-driving force between the two of them.
127	* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'':
128	** {{Those Two G\|uys}}irls outspoken {{Tsundere}} of a former bully Alisa and gentle, soft-spoken, former ShrinkingViolet Suzuka. After the TimeSkip, Alisa even cuts her hair short. Unless they're playing sports, whereupon Suzuka reveals a [[MundaneMadeAwesome enthusiasm and strength equivalent to Nanoha in battle]], as Fate found out. Suzuka [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_shoujo_lyrical_nanoha_a_s/v01/c004/15.html "blows Fate out of the sky"]] with a thrown dodgeball. Fate is a high speed, close combat specialist. Suzuka and Alisa seem to be slightly more than just close friends as well.
129	** The third season has [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nanoha-subaru-having-a-gay-old-time-with-teana.jpg Subaru and Teana]] (Teana's the redhead), the former being a GenkiGirl and the latter a {{Tsundere}}. Subaru and her older sister Ginga may work as well, as Ginga wears more conservative clothing than Subaru (who wears shorts and a white bow on her hair) during battle, wearing pants and a black ribbon on her long hair.
130	*** Subaru and Teana play with it a bit. Despite looking like the tomboy of the pair, Subaru tends to act girlier, being much more expressive, emotionally open, and prone to TenderTears. Teana, meanwhile, despite looking like the girly one of the pair (and sounding the part, too, with a higher and softer voice), shows more stereotypically boyish[=/=]tomboyish emotional responses - emoting less, reacting to hardships and annoyances with more overt anger and stubbornness while Subaru is more prone to go sad and quiet ([[BewareTheNiceOnes usually]]), and crying a lot less than her shorter-haired partner, as well as having more "boyish" interests like guns and motorcycles, compared to Subaru's affinity for rollerblading and cooking.
131	** [[LadyOfWar Signum]] sometimes plays tomboy to [[TeamMom Shamal]]'s girly girl; the former tends to wear shorter skirts or pants and teaches kendo in her spare time, and the latter wears long skirts or dresses (often with a pink apron), and enjoys spending time with neighborhood wives.
132	** While the two have similar [[EmotionlessGirl near-emotionless personalities]], Numbers cyborg twins Otto and Deed fall into this trope, with Deed having long brown hair and a somewhat feminine appearance and Otto having short hair and being androgynous to the point where viewers and even the other Numbers are unsure of her gender. [[spoiler:When the two join the Saint Church, Deed becomes a nun, wearing a typical habit, while Otto becomes a Deacon and wears a male uniform.]]
133	** Rio and Corona, Vivio's ThoseTwoGuys in ''[=ViVid=]'', and [[GenkiGirl Isis]] and [[TheWoobie Lily]] in ''Force''. Tsuzuki seems to have a [[AuthorAppeal thing for this trope]].
134	* In the fairytale-esq hentai ''Magical Twilight'', Chipple, despite her {{Moe}} appearance and GirlishPigtails, is the tomboy to slutty Irene's girly girl.
135	* ''Mahou Shounen Majorian'': Lori and Masaru are like this... but subvert it by both being boys. Except in their MagicalGirl forms. Yeah?
136	* ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs'' has a surprising subversion between two cousins. Hasekura Rei has short hair but is gentle, reads girly novels, loves sightseeing, cooking, and the word "sincerity" (though she ''is'' in the kendo club...). By contrast, after the longhaired Shimazu Yoshino's miraculous surgery allows her to recover from her SoapOperaDisease, she reveals more and more the aggressive, headstrong and {{Tsundere}}-ish personality that loves thriller stories and kendo.
137	* ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy'':
138	** Miki Koishikawa is a lively and outspoken PassionateSportsGirl (tomboy). Her best friend Meiko Akizuki is an {{Ojou}} and member of the literature club (girly).
139	** Miki is the tomboy to her romantic rival, the graceful and proper Arimi Suzuki.
140	** Miki is also the tomboy to another romantic rival, Anju Kitahara, a sweet and soft-spoken girl who plays the violin. Curiously, Anju ''used'' to be a {{Shorttank}} as a kid.
141	* ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' has several pairings like this:
142	** The most explicit such pairing is of boisterous, sporty and boyish GenkiGirl Haruhi Suzumiya (who actually leads a sports team at one point) and sweet, [[{{Moe}} shy Girly Girl]] Mikuru Asahina. Everyone else falls in between these two spectrums.
143	** Later on, Haruhi becomes part of two other pairings, once again on the tomboyish side of the spectrum with each; the girly girl in one of them is Sasaki, who [[spoiler:has no desire to take charge of the Anti-SOS Brigade and is in fact a supporting character in its downfall]], and in the other pairing, Haruhi is considerably more boisterous and less moe than her intended successor in the role of SOS Brigade leader, Yasumi Watahashi ([[spoiler:who turns out to be a product of the branching that takes place during the ''Dissociation''/''Surprise'' arc]]).
144	%%** [[JerkJock Haruhi]] and [[{{Bookworm}} Yuki]]
145	%%** [[BadassBookworm Yuki]] and [[{{TheHeart}} Mikuru]]
146	%%** Haruhi (suburbanite) and [[{{Ojou}} Tsuruya]]
147	%%** [[SpiritedYoungLady Tsuruya]] and [[ProperLady Mikuru]]
148	%%** [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Haruhi]] and Ryoko
149	%%** [[BoisterousBruiser Tsuruya]] and [[GirlyBruiser Ryoko]]
150	* ''Manga/MiracleGirls'': The main characters are PolarOppositeTwins Toni (a spunky PassionateSportsGirl with BoyishShortHair) and Mika (who is intellectual, unathletic, has [[LongHairIsFeminine long hair]], and wears frilly dresses which are often [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]]).
151	* ''Anime/MischievousTwinsTheTalesOfStClares'': Between the twins, Patricia is more tomboyish while Isabel is the girly-girl. Isabel is quieter, demure and assimilates to St. Clare's quicker, but Patricia is wilder and often gets in trouble for her behaviour.
152	* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': Kobayashi and Tohru. Kobayashi is the tomboyish salarywoman who is considered to be OneOfTheBoys by her coworkers and Tohru is the girlish bubbly maid.
153	* Seo and Chiyo in ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun''. Seo is sporty, not at all graceful and uses a rough manner of speech, while Sakura has TheCutie look, prefers cute feminine clothes (especially ribbons) and has an appreciation for romance (especially if it's related to [[SingleTargetSexuality Nozaki]]).
154	* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' has this with its two female leads. Atra is a poor girl who grew up in the slums of Mars and splits her time between working as a store clerk, farming and cooking food for the CGS boys. By contrast, Kudelia is an elegant young upper girls who's politically active in the Mars Independence movement. Despite this difference, the two get along quite well and develop a close bond as the series progresses.
155	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Kyoka Jiro is a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] rock musician with BoyishShortHair. Momo Yaoyorozu is a sweet YamatoNadeshiko with {{long hair\|IsFeminine}}.
156	* ''Manga/MyHime'' and ''Manga/MyOtome'' have three sets: Haruka (tomboy) and Yukino (girly girl), Natsuki and Shizuru, and Chie and Aoi. All three pairs are {{Official Couple}}s in the latter (anime version only; [[Manga/MyOtome the manga version]] only suggests it with the first two).
157	* ''Manga/{{Nana}}'': The two Nanas fit this trope, as one (Nana Osaki) is a punk rocker and the other (Nana "Hachi" Komatsu) an overly romantic young woman who likes to wear cute dresses. This doesn't prevent them from being extremely close, [[PseudoRomanticFriendship shy of being actually in love with each other]].
158	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
159	** While they haven't had many opportunities to interact until recently, [[{{Tsundere}} Sakura]] plays the tomboy to [[{{Ojou}} Hinata]]'s girly girl.
160	** Sakura used to be the girly girl to Ino's tomboy when they were children, however Ino eventually ended up the girly girl to Sakura's tomboy. This is accentuated in ''Shippuden'' by Ino being more into fashion than Sakura and having longer hair than her. As adults Ino is one of the few kunoichi to wear much-if-any makeup (pre-time skip Sakura wore eyeliner and nail polish in the manga but stopped post-time skip).
161	** Adult version: Princess Tsunade a.k.a. the Fifth Hokage and her apprentice Shizune.
162	** In the SpinOff SequelSeries ''Manga/NarutoGaiden'' and ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', the 'roles' go to the tiny-SassyBlackWoman Chouchou [[spoiler: Akimichi]] (Tomboy) and the quiet {{Meganekko}} Sarada [[spoiler: Uchiha]] (Girly Girl)
163	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has [[{{Ojou}} Konoka]] and [[{{Samurai}} Setsuna]] -- [[HoYay Les Yay]], with a twist that the girly girl (Konoka) is actually the ''extroverted'' romantic partner and tomboy (Setsuna) the ''shy'' one.
164	* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
165	** Sohryu Asuka Langley and Hikari Horaki, which is the most stable relationship Asuka has in the entire series. Though Asuka isn't ''[[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak that]]'' much of a Tomboy, being a HotBlooded {{Tsundere}}, she's still more masculine then Hikari Horaki.
166	** Misato and Ritsuko are the grown-up version of the trope.
167	** Ritsuko and her assistant Maya Ibuki.
168	* ''Anime/NieaUnder7'': Niea and Mayuko have some of this dynamic, although it's perhaps more "{{Jerkass}} And Kindhearted Girl".
169	* ''Oniyuri-san and Himeyuri-san'': A {{yuri\|Genre}} one-shot (?) manga is about a pair in a secret romantic relationship. [[RedOniBlueOni The title]] [[FlowerMotifs says]] [[HimeCut it]] all.
170	* ''Literature/OthersidePicnic'' has Toriko (the Girly Girl) and Sorawo (the Tomboy). Toriko is described as being unbelievably beautiful, with long blonde hair, indigo blue eyes, a stylish dresser, and a cheerful personality (at least when dealing with people she knows. She's hopelessly shy otherwise). Sorawo is an anti-social young woman with short cut black hair, glasses, and if it weren't for her interest in net-lore concerning "Real-life Ghost Stories" and her accidental discovery of the Otherside, she'd almost be a hikkikomori.
171	* ''Manga/OtomeNoTeikoku'' (known as ''Virgins' Empire'' in English) has two yuri versions of this:
172	** Ai is a tall, athletic member of the track club. Her girlfriend Chie is very curvy, girly, and feminine.
173	** Yuu is an elegant, feminine, tsundere ice princess. She is involved in a BDSM relationship (well, the "B" hasn't shown up yet, but the other letters are all there) with Mari, a dedicated submissive, who is also a member of the track club.
174	* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has Renge Houshakuji, the resident LargeHam (on par with Tamaki Suoh, if not more so) and CosplayOtakuGirl, as the tomboy, and Haruhi Fujioka, the gender-neutral and somewhat reluctant {{Bifauxnen}} undergoing a TwelfthNightAdventure, as the girly girl. However, they tend to switch roles with each other rather frequently and straddle the line more often than not. This particularly shows in one scene when Haruhi is showing Renge how to make cookies, and while Renge ends up [[LethalChef screwing her batch up]], Haruhi's batch is done just right. As a flip side example, Chapter 5 shows Renge acting more like a hopeless romantic in a cameo appearance, and at the end of the chapter it takes Haruhi putting her foot down hard for the twins to stop fighting.
175	* The title characters of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''.
176	* In ''Anime/PetitePrincessYucie'' there is some of this dynamic between rough-edged Beth and her [[{{moe}} overly cute]] fairy assistant Belbel.
177	* ''{{Anime/Piano}}'': Matsubara Yuuki is on her school's track team and is extremely outgoing. Her best friend and main character Nomura Miu is shy, introverted and prefers playing the piano.
178	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
179	** May was actually a girly girl in her own arc, compared to the tomboyish Misty, however when she appears in ''Diamond & Pearl'' she is this to Dawn. It's just that Dawn is girlier than May. The contrast in their designs - sporty shorts and short hair for May compared to a skirt and long hair for Dawn - emphasize it.
180	** Dawn is the girly girl to both her main rival Zoey and her eventual replacement Iris, although in Zoey's case they have the same goal.
181	** Serena is this way with her mother Grace. Grace is a spunky, short-haired woman who is a famous Ryhorn racer. While she wanted Serena to become a Ryhorn racer like her, Serena ended up leaning towards the IdolSinger-esque Pokemon Performer career instead. Serena has a more feminine look than her mom as well, though she did end up with an ImportantHaircut halfway through ''X&Y''.
182	* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'':
183	** Sakuno Ryuzaki and Tomoka Osakada. To some degree, Sakuno and An Tachibana too.
184	** In the sisters league, the twins Kurumi and Narumi Iijyuin also shared these dynamics.
185	** The lead girls in the ''Doki doki survival'' {{dating sim}}s are like this too. Ayaka from ''Umibe no secret'' is a {{Shorttank}} and the tomboy, whereas Tsugumi from ''Sanroku no Mystic'' is a CuteClumsyGirl and the girly girl (Ironically, the tomboyish Ayaka wears a skirt and sandals whereas the dainty Tsugumi wears jeans and sneakers). And in the story, they're childhood best friends like Tomoka and Sakuno.
186	* ''Anime/ProjectAKo'':
187	** A-ko Magami is the powerhouse daughter of [[spoiler: Superman and Wonder Woman]], while her rival, [[TheSmartGuy B-ko Daitokuji]] is a mega {{Rich\|Bitch}} AlphaBitch, who's just as strong, despite her feminine appearance and mannerism. In ''"Cinderella Rhapsody"'' she even [[spoiler: briefly fights A-ko, ''without'' [[ChainmailBikini Akagiyama-23]]]]!
188	** [[TheCutie C-ko Kotobuki]] is also girly when compared to A-ko, and shifts between being her constant companion, and DamselInDistress when the plot calls for it.
189	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
190	** Akane and Kasumi Tendō are the sister version, with Akane as the tomboy (who wants to be girly girl) and Kasumi as the girly girl. Curiously, Akane is the girly girl when it comes to rivals-in-love territory and Kasumi is replaced by Ukyō Kuonji, and is back to tomboy status when we go to her ''other'' rivals, Shampoo and Kodachi.
191	** Also, whenever Ranma spends any prolonged length of time [[GenderBender as a girl]], she and Akane naturally end up gravitating into these roles (despite [[{{Jerkass}} Ranma's accusations]] that Akane is unfeminine). The girls change which side of this trope they fall on at the drop of a hat, but they still gravitate to the extremes.
192	* ''Anime/RoninWarriors'': Lady Kayura was the DarkActionGirl, brandishing twin swords and rushing in to kick the boys' butts. Mia Koji is the TeamMom who enjoys shopping and [[FeminineWomenCanCook cooking]].
193	* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'':
194	** Inner Moka is a girly tomboy, compared to her Girly Girl counterpart who is sweet, polite, and bubbly which contrasts Inner Moka's cold, ActionGirl personality.
195	** Mizore isn't a tomboy, but plays the Tomboy to flirty Girly Girl Diva, Kurumu who prioritizes in finding a boyfriend.
196	** The two lolis are Moka's brash sister, Kokoa, a Tomboy, and the more sweeter Yukari as the Girly Girl.
197	* ''Manga/RozenMaiden'': Suiseiseki and Souseiseki, the twins. Interestingly, though, the combative {{tsundere}} is the girly one and the calm mediator is the {{bokukko}}. Revealed to be played straight later on, when it is revealed that Suiseiseki tries to avoid fighting in the Alice Game as much as possible, with Souseiseki being the combative one.
198	* ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'': Lime is the Girly Girl to Bloodberry's Tomboy, and the Tomboy to Cherry's Girly Girl.
199	* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
200	** Usagi has this with her best friend Naru early on in the series. [[GenkiGirl Usagi]] is an ActionGirl who fills her time spare with comic books and video games, [[BigEater eats a lot]] and [[LethalChef is a terrible cook]]. She thinks of [[TheCutie Naru]], who is often a DamselInDistress, as a more ideal woman, even referring to her as a "princess".
201	** [[{{Bifauxnen}} Haruka Tenou/Sailor Uranus]] and [[{{Ojou}} Michiru Kaiou/Sailor Neptune]]. Haruka has BoyishShortHair, is a gifted athlete and fights with a sword, while Michiru is a refined and elegant lady who plays the violin. They're also an OfficialCouple.
202	** In the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], Minako and Rei had this dynamic, with volleyball-playing battle expert Minako as the tomboyish one and elegant and graceful {{Miko}} Rei as the feminine one. Oddly, in [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon the live-action]], due to AdaptationPersonalityChange, it becomes more the other way around.
203	** While Makoto and Ami are generally close friends and foils, both are usually too much of a mix of boyish and girly traits to fit. In the live-action, though, Makoto [[TomboynessUpgrade is an outright tomboy who plays basketball and eschews girly things]], and Ami gets a GirlinessUpgrade, complete with more feminine hair, and is now [[ShrinkingViolet shyer]] than ever.
204	** With Usagi's SocialCircleFiller, [[BoyishShortHair Kuri]] was the tomboy to [[LongHairIsFeminine Yumiko]]'s girly girl. It even shows in how they dress out of school uniform.
205	* ''Manga/SallyTheWitch'': The first MagicalGirl show. Sally's best friends were {{Ojou}} Sumire Hasegawa and the {{Shorttank}} Yoshiko "Yocchan" Hanamura. Sally herself was the middle ground, being a GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak.
206	* ''Anime/SchoolDays'':
207	** The two main love interests has the brash, outgoing Sekai as the Tomboy and the shy, quiet Kotonoha as the Girly Girl. Tomboyish Sekai wasn't as hesitant with Makoto like Kotonoha was. She and Makoto were close friends while the shy Kotonoha couldn't approach him without Sekai's help.
208	** Sekai also plays Tomboy to her quiet and helpful best friend, Setsuna's Girly Girl.
209	** Sekai's two friends are sporty Nanami, a Tomboy, and bratty Hikari, a Girly Girl.
210	** The sporty Tsundere and Alpha Bitch, Otome plays the Tomboy to her gossipy trio's Girly Girls.
211	* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': Mikoto Suo is essentially [[OneOfTheBoys 'the guy']] among her group of friends. She's the most athletic girl at the school, given she's trained in Kenpo[[note]]alongside Hannai, who is her sparring partner[[/note]], since childhood. [[{{Ojou}} Eri Sawaichika]] comes from a distinguished and wealthy family, thus, is more concerned with appearances and dresses accordingly. Also, while generally kindhearted, she's {{tsundere}} (default mood, dere-dere); especially when it comes to Harima (where she usually switches to "tsun-tsun".
212	* ''Manga/ShamanKing'' actually inverts this somewhat, with Anna as the more feminine one appearance-wise but far more aggressive and assertive than ShrinkingViolet Tamao, who could easily be mistaken for a boy depending on what she's wearing.
213	* ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'': Kaori, who has plain brown hair and is never seen wearing any dresses besides her school uniform, plays the tomboy to RoseHairedSweetie Megumi, who's interested in fashion and boys. Of the adults, there's tomboy Kanami, a woman who lives alone except for her mother and generally wears pants, and girly girl Motoko, a housewife with several children who is always shown in dresses.
214	* ''Manga/{{Simoun}}'', unsurprisingly, has several such pairs. Rodoreamon and Mamiina embody this trope to a T, and Neviril is paired with not one but ''three'' different tomboyish partners (Amuria, Paraietta, and Aaeru), among others.
215	* In ''Manga/SlamDunk'' this is seen with the two main female characters. Ayako is a lot more assertive and tomboyish than other examples of a CuteSportsClubManager, contrasting a lot with the sweeter and more demure Haruko.
216	* ''Starlight Angel'': In the Anime/RobotCarnival sequence, a Tomboy and Girly Girl duet are seen enjoying a trip to a theme park.
217	* ''Manga/StrawberryShakeSweet'' plays with the trope: tall, slightly androgynous Ran has a sweet and gentle disposition: Julia is the energetic, aggressive one despite her long hair and overall feminine looks.
218	* ''Literaature/TelepathyShoujoRan'' has the sporty and short-haired Ran with the somewhat more elegant, long-haired Midori. They both like to wear dresses, though.
219	* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' has Ryoko and Ayeka, with the former being TheLadette, who used to be the Galaxy Police's "Most Wanted" {{Space Pirate\|s}}. While Ayeka is [[GratuitousPrincess the crown princess]] of Planet Jurai which is reflected [[RoyalBrat in her mannerism.]] Needless to say, their personalities often clash, [[LoveTriangle especially when it comes to Tenchi]] [[spoiler: though [[CharacterDevelopment they eventually set aside their differences and become close friends]]]].
220	* ''Literature/TsukimichiMoonlitFantasy'': In their human forms, Tomoe acts and dresses as a samurai who loves her name because it comes from a female samurai in Japanese folklore. Mio wears a more feminine kimono and is a YamatoNadeshiko. Mio also attempts to be a good housewife by learning to cook meals for Makoto, though this is hampered by her ExtremeOmnivore nature making it hard to tell what other people can actually eat.
221	* ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': [[TheHeart Eva]] is a gentle ProperLady in training and the TeamChef with long hair. Her friends, [[TheHero Arusu]] and [[TheLancer Sheila]], are brash and outspoken girls with BoyishShortHair, but the similarity stops there. While Arusu is a FieryRedhead, Sheila is [[RedOniBlueOni relatively calmer]] and has greyish purple hair. In terms of the UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns, Arusu uses the gender-neutral "watashi" instead of the assertive masculine "ore" used by Sheila. Unlike Sheila, who [[LimitedWardrobe almost always wears a black minidress]], Arusu wears a [[TankTopTomboy tank top]] and pants before her SignificantWardrobeShift as part of her GoingNative. While Sheila is not particularly athletic, Arusu rides a FlyingBroomstick like a skateboard, with which she is skilled enough to have been nicknamed [[RedBaron "the Skateboard King"]] back in the Human Realm. While Arusu opposes the idea of violence, Sheila is quite willing to fight the warlocks as a {{Child Soldier\|s}}.
222	* The titular Tomo from ''Manga/TomoChanIsAGirl'' is such a massive tomboy she has to be balanced by ''two'' girly girls: the Eastern SilkHidingSteel girly girl Misuzu, and the bubbly, air-headed Western girly girl Carol.
223	* ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': Hikaru and Maria play the trope, subverting it slightly, in one of the ''Anime/MazingerZ'' sequels. Hikaru is very feminine -and later a still kinds girlish ActionGirl-, and she switches from flowing dresses to pants and miniskirts [[AdrenalineMakeover as the story progresses.]] Maria, on the other hand, is a tomboy and a {{Tsundere}} biker constantly and consistently wears dresses and skirts. Not matter what, they are good friends.
224	* In ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'' we have Lum's friends Benten and Ran, Benten is a tough, trigger happy, biker girl who loves a good fight, while Ran is very feminine and prefers girly activities, but she does have a vengeful side to her and will behave violently when angered, Lum herself and her other friend Oyuki are somewhere in between.
225	* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'' has the hot-headed, athletic and tomboyish Asako and her best friend the girly, gentle and sweet Mayuko.
226	* In the ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' anime, Pai Chan and Sarah Bryant are portrayed somewhat like this, with Pai being quite tomboyish and Sarah being quite the opposite, while both being more or less capable fighters (despite Sarah's beginning as a FauxActionGirl of sorts).
227	** OTOH, in the original game Sarah was the tomboy and Pai was the girly girl.
228	* Chizuru from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' is boisterous and loves [[WholesomeCrossdresser screwing with gender roles]]. She has a more feminine best friend named Momoko.
229	* ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'': Another adult example is [[PunchClockHero Masane]] and Reina. [[spoiler: They are [[CheerfulChild Rihoko]]'s adoptive and biological [[ActionMom mothers]] respectively.]]
230	* ''Yami no Shihosha Judge'': We met up with the {{Tsundere}}, Nanase, and the fearful wants-to-do-good girl, Keiko Yamamoto.... [[spoiler: this would have to be an aversion of VasquezAlwaysDies]].
231	* In ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'', there's two pairs of these:
232	** Ena has long hair, always wears cute dresses and plays with teddy bears, while Miura is jokingly called a boy by the other characters. This is subverted in that Ena is much more willing to handle "slimy" animals than Miura, who completely loses it when approached with a frog -- and then there was the [[NoCartoonFish fishing trip]].
233	** Ena's older sister Asagi is conventionally beautiful, with waist-length hair, while her friend Torako wears short hair and skinny jeans. They're also the couple identified as having [[HoYay Les Yay]] by some fans.
234	* ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'': Between the series' star duo, Miyuki is the long-haired feminine one, despite being an avid and highly skilled mechanic. Whereas her partner, Natsumi, has short hair and is well-known around the precinct for her boisterous nature and superhuman strength.
235	* ''Manga/YourLieInApril'': Tsubaki is a sporty, [[BoyishShortHair short haired]] girl who boys used to make fun of and call a "gorilla" in elementary. Kaori is more feminine, has long hair, and is a violinist.

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