Nakoruru is a Cute Bruiser and The Beastmaster version of the trope. She looks cute and lovely (and may have been one of the Trope Codifiers for Moe), but she's also a Nature Heroine completely devoted to both her little sister Rimururu and to the beautiful natue she dearly loves. Specially after she pulls an Heroic Sacrifice to restore the flora and fauna to their original state after Mizuki's messes, and then turns into a nature spirit as well. She's devoted to her mission to the point of rejecting Galford's feelings since she's so Married to the Job, and does so in the most apologetic way she can pull when she's dying, and her last words to him are making him promise that he won't mourn for her.
Haohmaru's lover Oshizu and Ukyou's lady of liege Kei Odagiri fit in as well, both in their own ways. Oshizu quietly supports her boyfriend despite how both of them are very aware of how Haohmaru priorises battle over everything. On the other hand, Kei is a quiet and classy noblewoman who keeps a Lady and Knight deal with Ukyou Tachibana and cares for him even after he is dead.
Ukiha Mikado from La Corda d'Oro Starlight Orchestra is characterized to be as traditional Japanese as possible on top of being a Kyoto native, coupled with deliberately feminine Long-Haired Pretty Boy aesthetics, gentle and dignified Ojou mannerism and a poetic Gender-Blender Name.
Galaxy Angel: Chitose gameverse is played straight as a yamato nadeshiko. Like everyone else in the the anime, her game self is parodied , with her trying to be perfect but usually failing to be even tolerable.
Believe it or not, Mai Shiranui is one and very proud of it, since in her own words, she's "the number one Japanese girl." It's more evident when she's outside the fighting ring, of course: i.e., in the KOF: KYO game, Mai shows us that she lives in a Big Fancy House and keeps order there, and later she cheerfully and gladly puts on a very fancy kimono (more exactly, an iromuji) and hosts a tea ceremony for Kyo and his girlfriend Yuki◊. Please don't question Mai's YN-ness if you know what's good for you.
This is highlighted in KOF XIV when Mai fights Bandeiras Hattori when Bandeiras addresses Mai as "Yamato Nadeshiko" in their pre-fight dialogue.
Also Shizuka Kusanagi, Kyo's mom. Always in a kimono, uses a naginata, is very sweet and compliant as well as extremely sneaky and sly...
Chizuru Kagura pulls this off far more appropriately than Mai does, crossing the aspects of Ojous and Mikos. She's cool-headed, agreeable, and soft-spoken, but when the chips are down, she willhold her own. While her appearances are linked to the underlying goal of keeping Orochisealed, Chizuru usually has to play the role of Team Mom to ensure that Kyo and Iori stay in line, and Kyo himself sometimes claims that she treats him and others like children. What might come as a surprise, however, is her hobby: motorcycle racing.
Persona 4 has YukikoAmagi. It kind of comes with her job, being the heiress of a traditional-style Japanese inn, but she embodies so much of it that herShadow is everything a Yamato Nadeshiko is not; very, very trashy… and not one bit serene. Interestingly, Yukiko plays with the trope in action, even if appearance-wise she matches the trope to a T (what with being the tallest of the main female cast, the long black hair, etc): at first she plans on abandoning the inn in order to find her own path in life and escape her "gilded cage"; later on, she realizes that the inn isn't a cage at all, but it's home with a lot of people she loves and cares for. This means that when she confronts a television crew who want to turn the inn into a laughingstock for cheap ratings, she delivers a verbal smackdown and sends them packing in a most un-YN-like fashion. She notes that without the help of the player character, she wouldn't have developed the inner steel to do that. She also loses the YN attitude when she's competitive: "I'll destroy you in one blow!"
The Pokemon Gardevoir. It looks vaguely like a pretty human female, and it devotes itself to protecting and serving its trainer, to the extent of sacrificing itself for them.
Froslass looks like she's wearing a kimono! Specifically she's a Yuki-onna.
The Kimono Girls/Apprentice Geishas◊. They were the inspiration for the aforementioned Sakura-chan and her sisters in the anime.
Erika the Celadon Gym Leader, including wearing a kimono and practicing ikebana (floristry).
Rainbow Mika's tag-team partner is namedyamato nadeshiko, and she's a short-haired brunette fighter.
The most straightforward example is Hokuto from the Street Fighter EX continuity. She's calm, cool, very tall and pretty and the Onee-sama to her sister Nanase, as well as a Lady of War when she fights.
Iroha from A New Beginning defies this trope despite having the looks: her father wanted her to be one, but she refused and ran away from home because what she really wants is to be a blacksmith.
The Seijyun Girls Academy in Rival Schools is a high-class all-girls school that has special courses to teach its students to become yamato nadeshikos. However not only is it the home to an all-female gang led by Aoi "Zaki" Himezaki, but the girl who suits the archetype the most is Yurika, The Mole from the Darkside Student Council.
The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. A mother figure to everyone in her Quirky Miniboss Squad and a literal mom to one of them. It is precisely her absolutely unwavering sense of loyalty and duty that compels her — clearly against her own instincts — to sacrifice her own men and ultimately condemn herself to being forever remembered as a traitor — all for the sake of protecting her country, accomplishing her mission, and averting a nuclear holocaust. Guess who does her voice? (count: 14)
Suikoden II has Yoshino Yamamoto. Softly-spoken, wears a kimono, devoted to her husband Freed; she ticks all the domestic boxes. When you go to recruit her, she's busy with the laundry. Last but not least, she's wields a naginata in battle and is significantly stronger than her husband - who is in the military.
Suikoden III has her daughter Sanae Yamamoto. She is just as capable as her parents and shares the same personality as her mother.
More Chinese than actual Japanese, but Litchi Faye-Ling would count within the context of the trope. Kind, sensible, soft-spoken, nurturing and Friend to All Children, as well as being tall, long haired and having Hime Cut for the ones not in ponytail. Although her dress of choice is kind of skimpy, she tried her best to dress as modest as possible (except her infamous boobies usually get in the way, forcing her to reveal some of her skins). It's no wonder Bang Shishigami fell in love with her. She's not THAT submissive, though, and can fight damn well and gracefully with her staff. Word of God claimed that she is one of the few Good people in the series, despite a Face–Heel Turn, since to be fair, most of them are caused by Hazama toying around with one of her YN aspects: devotion to her lover Lotte Carmine, who's currently corrupted by the Boundary and the reason she fights was because she's looking for the cure.
Tsubaki Yayoi. She's very beautiful, polite, mature and intelligent, from an extremely traditionalist family, and extremely loyal to them and the Librarium. She only has eyes for one man, Jin Kisaragi, and assists him in his duties as his secretary. She's also shown to have an intimidating temper when annoyed or angered, as shown in Remix Heart... However she's not a straight example onsidering her origins and limited romantic interests have instilled her with malignanttendencies, and her ivory-tower upbringing leaves her naive and woefully susceptible to manipulation, which Hazama abuses like it's going out of style, pushing her to a heartbreaking Face–Heel Turn.
Being the Buddha of compassion and in charge of granting wishes, Kannon Bosatsu of Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA- is always polite, has a generally gentle disposition, is deeply caring for his brother and everyone else, and is considered the temple's collective mother figure, but he is also brave on the battlefield and the most feared Buddha in the entire temple due to his strict discipline and management of their finances and kitchen. He is certainly Silk Hiding Steel, but more steel than silk.
Oichi in her Samurai Warriors... or at least from the 2nd game forward (since in the first game she was instead a peppyToken Mini-Moe) being that not only she's soft-spoken and very devoted to her husband Azai Nagamasa and his domain of Oumi, absolutely nothing will make her take away her support to Nagamasa, not even her 'Demon King' big bro who came knocking and want Nagamasa dead because of some honor-related betrayal (that she also supported). Even as Nagamasa died, she still kept the memories of him in her until her death (though thankfully she still showed care to her 'other' husband, Shibata Katsuie)
Unfortunately, in the Sengoku Basara, Oichi is... something else far creepier, though she has some of its elements if it wasn't overridden with how gloomy she is. However, the game does have a genuine one: Maeda Toshiie's wife Matsu, described as a 'homemaker'/'perfect Japanese wife', very dedicated (and rather lovey-dopey) to Toshiie, and damn determined to defend the Maeda household with Naginata at hand. Also she's an excellent cook, and her character/story gimmick seems to be serving food to everyone, be it her husband or her soldiers or her nephew Maeda Keiji.
In the fourth game of the series of Samurai Warriors , has Lady Hayakawa that is soft spoken, has a rather soft fighting style (with a game-like theme), loyal, kind hearted, and will definitely not take crap from anyone daring attacking her home.
Kaguya Houraisan (who is the Kaguya-hime of legends; see above) can be seen as one, having all the qualities but she can also be childish and frivolous (and fanworks have a tendency to portray her as a selfish Spoiled Brat who exists only to humiliate Mokou or as a NEET).
Fujiwara-no-Mokou has all the get-up to be a yamato nadeshiko, down to being a Fujiwara, the clan who married their daughters to Japanese Emperors to secure their political power. The mess she's in was caused by, amongst other things, her desire to uphold her father's honor after the aforementioned Kaguya scorned him. She's now an anti-social white-haired bifauxnen who is anything but feminine.
The closest the series has yet come to a true Yamato Nadeshiko is probably Byakuren Hijiri who is tall, has long dark hair (though it's a purple-to-brown gradient), graceful and pretty on the outside, and calm, collected and warm on the inside and boy does she put up a fight.
Juzumaru Tsunetsugu from Touken Ranbu has all the makings of one. He is feminine and ethereal in design, has a generally gentle and soft-spoken demeanor, perpetually speaks in keigo and displays pacifist leanings, but being an important Buddhist artifact, he, like his former owner Nichiren, is a firm believer in the true meaning of his religion, bravely fights in the name of "exterminating evil and bringing righteousness" and "leading others to the right path", and is willing to face persecution for his beliefs.
Guy's fiancèe/Maki's older sister Rena from Final Fight. Not only she has the looks, but she also possesses very polite speech patterns and wears a dark-colored kimono.
Hakuouki. Chizuru Yukimura is sweet, kind, and too ladylike for her crossdressing to be remotely effective; at the same time, she also won't hesitate to step forward to protect others and in her gentle way proves to be very stubborn and resilient, as Hijikata ruefully acknowledges in his route and in the anime.
The main character from Dokidoki Survival: Sanroku no Mystic is a soft-spoken girl (default name: Tsugumi Obinata) who fits in the archetype well: she has long dark hair, is super sweet and a bit prone to accidents and bad luck, but also kinda stubborn. And some of the guys she can romance are very hard to handle (like Ryoma or Kirihara), so she has to be pretty patient.
The player can make the Featureless Protagonist from Gakuensai no Oujisama (default name: Shizuka Hirose) develop into one too, but it depends on which school and/or potential boyfriend they choose for her. Tip (Some Tenipuri kids tend to like yamato nadeshiko girls in this game — Ryoma (wants a girlfriend who's modest, sweet, cheery and a bit naive/easy to prank), Ohtori (is a male yamato nadeshiko himself and wants a girl as kind, sweet and supportive as he is, but who doesn't order him around and is a bit passive), Mizuki (wants a very refined and feminine girl who's also reliable, cool-headed, mature and willing to make sacrifices for her friends), etc. So if the player wants the girl to romance any of them, they shall get her YN points up.
Queen Mikoto from Hoshido has the Raven Hair, Ivory Skin-like looks, a seiyuu to match, the wisdom and strength that are needed to be The High Queen... Though curiously, she turns out to not be a Hoshidan native. She probably shaped herself into one when she came to live there, though.
Prince Ryoma's subordinate Kagero isn't as YN-ish as Mikoto but her Aloof Dark-Haired Girl looks, her Undying Loyalty to Ryoma and her land, and her high-class hobbies like ikebana and tea ceremony make her a good candidate.
The youngest daughter of the Hoshidan Royal Family, Princess Sakura, is a Token Mini-MoeWhite Magician Girl who, with her gentleness and her hidden stubborn streak, counts as a Yamato Nadeshiko in training. She even is a Shrine Maiden, which is meaningful since more than one YN in media comes from a miko background.
Played straight with Houshou in KanColle. She's portrayed as the traditional Japanese housewife through her idle lines, as is basically the de factoTeam Mom not just for the carriers (her real-life counterpart was the world's first purpose-built carrier) but for the entire fleet. She is also rumored to operate a pub.
Zigzagged with the trope's namesake, Yamato. Despite being the anthropomorphic personification of the namesake IJN Battleship (which is basically the very symbol of the might of Imperial Japan in World War 2,) she's not exactly dressed up like most examples of the YN archetype, having more focus on Fanservice instead. However, it is revealed via her dialogue lines where she exhibits this trope the most, though this is more of an an ironic twist that is Played for Laughs because of the "Hotel" nickname her real-life counterpart earned for the entirety of her service life.
From the Ninja Gaiden games, Momiji, Ryu Hayabusa's apprentice and childhood friend. She's gorgeous, gentle, caring, polite, motherly to all the children of her home village, and currently provides the page image for Naginatas Are Feminine.
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