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-->''I don't even have legs, but I still manage to fall down...''
-->--'''[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/c074/7.html Sayo]]''', ''MahouSenseiNegima''

-->''Today's Resolution! I will not trip where there is nothing to trip on! [[FinaglesLaw ...Waugh!]] ''
-->--'''Sae Sawanoguchi''', ''Magic User's Club''

(Pronounced like "Doh Jee Koh".)

This character type is a carefully constructed set of character traits and personality type designed to be one of the most popular forms of {{Moe}} in Japan. The most notable features of a Dojikko are her [[TheKlutz klutziness]] and her [[TheDitz ditziness]], however, other notable features go into her construction. She must also be [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon non-threatening]], [[ThePollyanna generally positive]] ([[HurtComfortFic except when they suddenly need someone to cheer them up]]), and have a [[{{Uke}} submissive]] or passive personality, as her target demographic [[WishFulfillment believes in an ideal female]] that gives them someone they feel they could [[BigBrotherComplex protect, for the betterment of their egos]].

Like many other [[TheKlutz klutz characters]], a dojikko's clumsiness rarely does ''her'' serious harm, but can often set off [[DisasterDominoes Rube Goldberg-like chain reactions of disasters]]. She's never seriously injured, though, and she always pops back up with a good-natured, but rueful, smile. If these disasters tend to take care of her enemies without her even realizing it, she is also TheFool. It is almost inevitable that at some point her clumsiness will result in a CrashIntoHello.

As another aspect of the character, {{Fanservice}} plays a large role in the character type. "[[DeusExMachina Accidental]]" pratfalls often result in {{Panty Shot}}s (no {{Magic Skirt}}s here), and there is often plenty of overlap with MsFanservice in this trope.

The popularity of this character among the nerds of the anime subculture of Japan has led to a proliferation of these characters in anime in recent years, thanks in no small part to their ability to sell TheMerch. Expect [[http://img35.imageshack.us/i/mikuru20080704707.jpg/ figurines]], wall scrolls, and full-sized body pillows. Because of this, they may be added as a way of expanding the marketability of a show, much like the TokenLoli.

While the dojikko can be a separate character, it is not rare for this to overlap with other female character types, especially TheDitz. A {{Meganekko}} is fairly similar to this character in personality, different in that her non-threatening nature is generated by glasses rather than clumsiness, although it only requires placing glasses on a dojikko to make a Meganekko twofer. There's also rare male versions, designed to [[EstrogenBrigadeBait draw in the female crowd]] by making a similar desire to [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe take him home]] and be his "big sister". Either way, expect {{Tareme}}.

Was once part of CuteClumsyGirl.

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* Mihoshi in ''TenchiMuyo''.
* Kaho in ''SisterPrincess''.
* Minako Aino/Sailor Venus in ''SailorMoon''
** Also Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon.
* In ReadOrDie, Joker's assistant Wendy, to the point where she considers it a major triumph to deliver a tray of tea unscathed. (However, by the [[{{ROD The TV}} TV series]] she appears to have lost all her clumsiness, probably as part of [[spoiler:her transformation into TheDragon]].)
** Well, even in the TV series' epilogue she does manage to drop a tray off-screen, giving one of the few signs of still being her old self underneath it all.
* Wagashino Azuki from ''Sweet Ninja Girl Azuki'', so much so that "I'm so sorry Master Sanae!" might well be her CatchPhrase. Combines this with GenkiGirl traits, with disastrous(ly comical) results.
* Similarly, Mutsumi Otohime of ''LoveHina''.
* Taeko from ''AiYoriAoshi''.
* Nodame of ''NodameCantabile''.
* Tashigi from ''OnePiece''.
* Tessa from ''FullMetalPanic''. At times it's hard to believe a girl who can't even keep her balance while ''walking'' is [[TeenGenius the captain of the world's most advanced submarine.]]
* Lucia from ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch''.
* Ayu from ''{{Kanon}}''.
* Misuzu from ''{{AIR}}''; the reason we can tell her [[{{reincarnation}} past life]] the first time we see her is by her CrashIntoHello introduction.
* ME-Tan, AnthropomorphicPersonification of the Windows ME operating system from the "OS-Tan" Internet meme, has a tendency to crash a lot. Just like the operating system.
* Matsuri from ''IchigoMashimaro''. Lampshaded in an episode which summarizes her average day, showing that she can barely get through a day of school without constant help from Ana. After hearing the summary, Miu comments "That's the usual!? [[ThisIsReality This isn't a manga for crying out loud!]] Do you really think Matsuri will be able to function in the real world!?"
* [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] messily by Kisaragi from ''ElfenLied''. Unfortunately, despite being one of the few characters with any significant dialogue in the first episode, she gets her head ripped off ten minutes in.
** Nana also counts. It's justified since [[spoiler:all her limbs were sliced off by Lucy, and she has to use artificial limbs controlled by her vectors. In fact, they constantly become detached due to her clumsiness]].
* One of Doremi's (''OjamajoDoremi'') classmates gives her the nickname Dojimi.
* Kimura's wife from ''AzumangaDaioh''.
* Mignon from ''KingOfFighters: Maximum Impact''; her introduction in both games is to run into the arena... and trip on the door. When she uses her super moves, they typically throw her back several feet.
* Male example: [[http://bleachflame.com/content/media/files/m14.jpg Hanatarô Yamada]] in ''{{Bleach}}''. Also, sometimes Orihime Inoue - she even provides one of the examples listed (banging head into male lead's head)...heck, her first appearance is when she [[CrashIntoHello bumps into him and falls down]].
* Miyuki in ''LuckyStar''. Also deconstructed by Konata: Kagami asks her if she acts out this trope at her job at a cosplay cafe, like dropping her drinks (complete with [[http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/6349/kagami2vk6.gif demonstration]]), but Konata dismisses it as something cute in fiction but just annoying in real life.
* The title character of ''{{Karin}}'' has so much trouble when excited that she might as well be wearing stilts on roller skates.
* Priscilla from ''{{Claymore}}'' was introduced as one of these, first seen falling on her face, then babbling apologies for being held up by some [[OurDemonsAreDifferent youma]] in joining the hunt team she was assigned to. Shortly afterwards we (and her aggravated colleagues) look around the corner to see [[BadAss how many youma she just plowed through]].
* Haruko Akagi in ''SlamDunk''. A more-or-less recurring running gag is to have Haruko tripping over her own feet and falling to the ground when she attempts to play seriously. She's GenreSavvy enough to prefer cheering and helping the others out rather than playing, since her clumsiness would hinder her efforts at playing in her school's team.
** The lead Hanamichi Sakuragi is actually a ''male'' example in the beginning. As he learns more about basketball he loses some of the dojikko traits. Not ''all'' of them.
* Tokino Akiyama in the ''{{Genshiken}}'' spinoff ''KujibikiUnbalance''. As demonstrated in the swimming contest.
** Though she ''might'' have been faking on that one- she was supposed to stall for time so that the aliens would have to use the bathroom.
* The eponymous ''PrincessTutu''. A ballet student who's actually a ''duck'' in diguise, Ahiru is constantly falling out of bed, messing up her ballet moves, and crashing into the other characters. Her walk is described as looking like a duck's waddle on at least one occasion.
* Sakura Shinguji from ''SakuraTaisen'' is a little bit of a dojikko, but she's not nearly as bad as Erica Fontaine from the third and fourth games. In the latest installment of the series for the DS, Erica can actually trip while your party's walking around and lose HP (which doesn't stay cute for long).
* Chiri from ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' tries to be a dojikko in one episode (which is the exact opposite of how she normally acts) because she thinks they get more love. This naturally ends in disaster.
* Toujo Aya and Mukai Kozue of ''Strawberry 100%'' definitely fall into this, although Aya starts out as HollywoodHomely.
* Minawa from ''{{Mahoromatic}}'' has never met an object she can't ''repeatedly'' trip over. This accounts for most of the apologies she spends all her time making. On the bright side, she's [[RobotGirl very unlikely to hurt herself]].
* Haruka Amami from ''The Idolm@ster''.
* Azmaria Hendrich in ''ChronoCrusade''.
* Rio Takeuchi in ''{{Spiral}}'' is a subversion. She acts like a Dojikko to appear cute and harmless, even pathetic. She kills a man by tripping in front of him, and then stabbing him when he helps her up. This man was previously established as cautious and intelligent, but having already formed an opinion of her as a meek and unlucky girl, he drops his guard, and she murders him right in the middle of a school.
* Male example: Eisuke Hondou from ''DetectiveConan'' A [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] is hung on this when one of the characters comments that he would be very cute if he were a girl.
* Sayo in ''MahouSenseiNegima'', who somehow manages to trip over her own feet despite being a ghost that ''doesn't have feet''.
** Justified when she gets a body though: Having feet for the first time in decades can do that to you.
** Nodoka also noted that she "falls over a lot" as a justification for carrying some first aid.
*** One of the first things she does in the series is fall off of a staircase while carrying a massive stack of books.
* Sakuno Ryuzaki in the ''PrinceOfTennis'' anime. In the manga, not as much.
** A male example is Satoshi Horio, Ryoma's classmate and friend who claims to have two years of prior tennis experience, but fails when he's gotta show it off.
* Amelia Will Tesla Sailunne from ''{{Slayers}}'' frequently has her attempts at dramatic entrances foiled because of this.
* A very rare example of a dojikko who's ''not'' a source of comic relief is Princess Oboro from ''{{Basilisk}}''. Her absolute lack of martial arts skills, united with her being a TechnicalPacifist ''and'' a ShrinkingViolet, has made her the "black sheep" of the Iga Tsubagakure.
* [[ThoseTwoGuys Suzuka's]] personal [[{{Meido}} maid]] Farin from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. The only scene that centered on her involved her spinning herself to dizziness from a cat and [[WeaselMascot Yuuno]] running around her, with Nanoha and Suzuka barely saving the tray she's carrying. Cue loud "Gomen nasaaai!" and Shinobu and Noel commenting on how she's done it again.
** In the [[FanWebComics 4komas]], [[CoolBigSis Ginga]] is a dojikko. A ''big'' one. To the point that when [[spoiler:she's [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] by the bad guys]], the heroes recognize her because of the [[BananaPeel thing on her path]]...
* Athena from ''{{ARIA}}'', to the point where one starts to wonder how she keeps herself and her customers from serious injury while steering a gondola. Except that she's revealed to be actually capable of not being clumsy, but normally doesn't do it because it's tiring.
* Saya "Sae" Sawanoguchi from ''[[{{Ptitle4ih24d5a}} Magic User's Club]],'' as above quote states, once resolves to stop tripping when there's nothing to trip over, to stop running into walls, and to not collide with other people. Naturally, she does all three in short order.
* ''MegaMan Powered Up'' for PSP makes [[{{Meido}} Roll]] look like this -- whenever she teleports into a stage, she's a couple of feet off the ground and lands on her rump. (It's cute the first few times.) The question here is who's actually operating the teleporter.
* If Mikuru Asahina from ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' doesn't do this herself, Haruhi actually goes out of her way to ''make'' her drop the tea...
** She's actually a subversion in that while she has all the stereotypical personality traits fitting the trope, and isn't exactly athletic, she isn't least bit clumsy in normal, everyday activities. Haruhi, who wants to follow tropes at all costs berates her for forgetting to drop the tea tray every now and then.
* Mayu of ''{{Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun}}'' has this to such an extent that she's described as a natural weapon, devastating an entire island of armed men. "Waugh! Gomenasai!"
* Momiji from ''BlueSeed'' often [[PantyShot shows her panties]] by tripping over everything.
* [[{{Pokemon}} Dawn's Piplup]] is a [[{{mons}} mon]] version of this. When it tries to stretch itself up in ego, it falls over.
* Masaki from ''Ice Revolution''; especially sad in that she's a fairly skilled martial artist who wants to be a ''figure skater''.
* Tomoko in ''{{Great Teacher Onizuka}}'' is another example.
* Chise in {{Saikano}} both falls into and inverts this trope. Normally she's rather klutzy, but in her [[PersonofMassDestruction Ultimate Weapon]] mode she is [[LadyOfWar incredibly, horrifically graceful and efficient]].
** In the OVA she's seen stumbling cutely in the battlefield to the confusion of the American soldiers who try to determine if she's a threat or not. Then she vaporizes everything in a mile radius.
* Shurelia from {{Ar Tonelico}} starts off as a somewhat cold [[LadyofWar Lady of War]], but after you actually get her into your party and put her into a costume other than the Linker suit, it becomes apparent that she's incredibly clumsy. She will actually fall over after casting spells, and gets lost repeatedly in the course of the game. In spite of all of this, she's probably the smartest character in the game.
* [[{{Naruto}} Hinata Hyuuga]] fits the bill when around her crush; otherwise, she seems to be fairly competent, although typically pretty [[ShrinkingViolet Moe]].
* Lolo in {{Klonoa}} 2: Lunatea's Veil. Resolves to be more careful in holding on to the Elements and wastes no time in proving her point by ''dropping one''. And she falls on her face in just about every other cutscene, including her variant of the title screen intro.
* Even ''KatamariDamacy'' invokes this with Royal Cousin Honey; the King describes her with "She's very clumsy, but We think that's what makes her so cute!"
* That is the first opinion Ritsu gave to Yui in ''[[{{ptitlei5gydjrz}} K-On!]]''.
* Miyako from ''SasamekiKoto''. Though her {{Moe}} appearance hides a somewhat manipulative personality.
* Saki from ''HayateNoGotoku''.
** Izumi also does well at it.
* Satsuki Miyanoshita from GhostStories shows of her panties to the same boy once each in the first two episodes. One with a thoughtless fall in a new room of her new house, once when tripping on a can purposefully put in her place.
* Kisaragi from ''GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass''--she broke her class teacher's mug 4 times in the same episode, and has mentioned that she kept being the "it" in tag--in this case, she was "it" for a whole ''157 minutes''.
* Hiwamari from ''{{xxxHolic}}'' [[spoiler: spoiler: inflicts this on other people due to a rather nasty, irremovable curse.]]
* [[MidoriDays Takamizawa]] has a crush on a girl who resembles his favorite fictional character to exact proportions, said girl following this trope dead on. She bumped into a street light reading a book, apologized to it, and then walked off embarrassed.
* In TonaGura, starting with Chapter 35 of the manga, Tojo Haya, the bipolar junior partner in photography to Yuuji and Marie's Dad has been annoying and causing problems for the entire cast, to the point Kazuki seems to find her more annoying than Yuuji's intrusive grabbiness, and that is a real trick. Her tendency to yell out at the most awkward possible moment almost seems to unite the would-be couple.
* Dino Cavallone from ''{{Katekyo Hitman Reborn}}'' trips down stairs, and over his own feet, and sometimes nothing at all. Not to mention that sometimes his whip comes loose from his belt and trips him up - [[spoiler: unless his kickass subordinates are around, that is.]]
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* The DS ''{{Castlevania}}'' games feature the "Student Witch", whose main attack is to take to the air on her broomstick, then fall on you when you walk under her. Yes, even the servants of Dracula can be MoeMoe.
** Maria has an annoying tendency to randomly trip during certain moves in ''Judgment''. While it fits the game's interpretation of her character, this is worse than it sounds; even if her move connects, any opponent can land a half-lifebar super on her at no risk.
* Meru from [[TheLegendOfDragoon The Legend of Dragoon]] has a victory pose where she proudly thrusts her hammer skyward, then falls over. She then sits up and rubs the back of her head in embarrassment.
* Viki from the {{Suikoden}} series. Her clumsiness manifests in her tendency to sneeze herself through time and space. At the end of each game, she accidently teleports herself from the victory banquet into the next game, despite each game being set many years apart, and not in chronological order. As a result, Viki has served in at least five wars non-stop. Six if you count the time there was two of her in Suikoden III.
* Carol from ''{{Wild ARMs 5}}''. Her regular attack consists of her shooting a rocket launcher bigger than she is, then falling on her butt. She also tends to trip and fall when confronted with [[DoesNotLikeMen boys]] and is in general adorable.
* Linu from ''NeverwinterNights'' has got to be the clumsiest of them all. She brings disaster everywhere she goes (to those around her). So clumsy you fear being around her and one possible remark from the player is: "I think I'm going to go someplace safer.. like a dragon's cave."
* Colette, TheChosenOne of ''TalesOfSymphonia'', possesses "Divine Clumsiness". She's constantly tripping (even when she has wings!), but her antics tend to disable traps, uncover lost artifacts, and so forth. Her most powerful attack in the game, Holy Judgment, is unlocked when she stumbles with her incantation in battle. She is also the only character with a stealing ability... which consists of her tripping on them.
* Talim from [[SoulSeries Soul Calibur IV]] has an attack like this. It's quite hilarious when you manage to knock out an opponent with this one attack.
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* Webcomic example: Kimiko from ''{{Megatokyo}}'' is a bit of a Dojikko, usually limited to her coffee pots at the Anna Miller's.
* GaiaOnline's Kanoko does this a bit, perhaps most obviously in the storyline of the Dark Reflection minigame where she falls through a magical mirror into a BizarroUniverse (from which players then have to rescue her).
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