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* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'' (and by extension its {{spinoff}}s such as ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBlack'') is about personifications of cells that make up our body, although it mostly focuses on the immune system. It also turns organs into places, like blood vessels as roads, or the stomach as a giant kitchen. It also employs MundaneMadeAwesome, like a mosquito bite being depicted as a mass alien abduction of red blood cells, or a viral infection as an outbreak of {{Plague Zombie}}s.

* The cast of ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' series consists of personifications of game consoles, videogame companies and videogame franchises. Villains also often personify some videogame-related concept, such as digital piracy. This isn't present for all sides of the console wars, however: the PC nation has none due to there being so solid console for PC gaming (the closest they've got to one is the [[Anime/HyperdimensionNeptunia anime universe's]] Setag), while mobile gaming is presented as something everyone does rather than an aspect of who anyone is.

* Cast of ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'' series consists of personifications of game consoles, videogame companies and videogame franchises. Villains also often personifying some videogame-related concept, such as digital piracy.

* ''Come to Hoshizora Hall♪'' centers around a cast of anthropromorhic instruments, each brought to life from the love and care of their shared master.

* ''Music/{{Tsukiuta}}'' is the months of the year as idols. There's a boy and a girl for each month. Their parent agency, Franchise/{{Tsukipro}}, has groups based on the elements (fire, earth, air, water) and on birthstones, also including a group that's a bunch of personifications kf Glico brand sweets.

* Music/{{Tsukiuta}} is the months of the year as idols. There's a boy and a girl for each month. The spinoff series have groups based on the elements (fire, earth, air, water) and on birthstones.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', the main characters are "The Endless", a family of seven anthropomorphic personifications of universal concepts, around whom much of the series revolves. From eldest to youngest, they are Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium. Also, various other gods, demigods, angels, fallen angels, demons and other creatures from diverse mythologies are represented in this comic book series by Creator/NeilGaiman.

* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'' (and by extension its {{spinoff}}s such as ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBlack'') is about personifications of cells that make up our body, although it mostly focuses on the immune system. It also turns organs into places, like blood vessels as roads, or the stomach as a giant kitchen. It also employs MundaneMadeAwesome, like a mosquito bite being depicted as a mass alien abduction of red blood cells.

* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'' is about personifications of cells that make up our body, although it mostly focuses on the immune system. It also turns organs into places, like blood vessels as roads, or the stomach as a giant kitchen. It also employs MundaneMadeAwesome, like a mosquito bite being depicted as a mass alien abduction of red blood cells.

* Music/{{Tsukiuta}} is about twelve males and twelve females who embody each month of the year.

* ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'' has you as a time-traveling sage gathering various Japanese swords and give them life and human forms - [[{{Bishounen}} as pretty boys]], that is. Specifically, they're the swords used by various historical Japanese figures, particularly the Sengoku era, such as Date Masamune or Oda Nobunaga, and brings with them characteristics and history of each swords in question (along with their former owners). Unlike [=KanColle=] above (both this and that game are made by {{DMM}}), this game explains how they came to be.

* ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' is a game where you as an [[NonEntityGeneral Admiral]] gather and organize "fleet girls" (''kanmusu''), warships that take form of girls, in a war against horrors of the sea, called the "Abyssal Fleet". Specifically, the fleet girls personify ships that took part in WorldWarII, and bring with them the characteristics and history of each ship in question. At first the ships are taken from the Imperial Japanese Navy, but later updates give us ships from Germany and Italy, and even later ones give us ships from the Allies' side as well.

* ''VideoGame/WarshipGirls'' is pretty much the Chinese's [[FollowTheLeader response]] to Kantai Collection above, as it also features personified WorldWarII warships, in form of girls. The difference is that they featured ships of multiple countries right off the bat as opposed to just the IJN.

* ''Anime/RobotGirlsZ'' is about moe anthropomorphisms of girls representing the ''Anime/MazingerZ'' franchise's robots.

* ClassicalMythology:

SubTrope of AnthropomorphicPersonification and MoeAnthropomorphism. Compare CuteMonsterGirl, which is when monsters or other inhuman beings resemble attractive human girls, NationsAsPeople, which is about the personifications of countries appearing in a work regardless of whether the cast is mostly personifications or not, AnimateInanimateObject, where inanimate objects are given life but not human form, and WorldOfFunnyAnimals, where the work takes place in a world where everyone is an animal with some amount of human traits. Those tropes and this one can overlap.

* ''Come to Hoshizora Hall'' features a personified orchestra, coming to life because of the love and care their previous owner gave them and performing and transforming during the nighttime.

* (Pictuered above) ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' is a story about the personifications of the solar system, who act out various space phenomena- Earth gets into other planets' personal space and asks them intrusive questions, Sun is in charge because everyone is intimidated by him, etc. They're all shown as {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s who [[TheBlank lack faces]] and who are nearly immortal unless killed.

* ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' (pictured above) is a story about the personifications of the solar system, who act out various space phenomena- Earth gets into other planets' personal space and asks them intrusive questions, Sun is in charge because everyone is intimidated by him, etc. They're all shown as {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s who [[TheBlank lack faces]] and who are nearly immortal unless killed.

* ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' is a story about the personifications of the solar system, who act out various space phenomena- Earth gets into other planets' personal space and asks them intrusive questions, Sun is in charge because everyone is intimidated by him, etc. They're all shown as {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s who [[TheBlank lack faces]] and who are nearly immortal unless killed.

* The ''Sega Hard Girls'' franchise is about Sega's consoles as girls. ''Anime/HisCoolSeHaGirls'' focuses on three of them going to an AcademyOfAdventure.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': The setting is in Gensokyo, a parallel world where various {{Youkai}} and other mythical creatures took refuge in; they're all shown as cute young girls.

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[[folder:Film - Animation]]

[[folder:Manhwa]]
* ''Manhwa/FlightHighSchool'' features military aircraft as high school students. The students share design motifs of the aircraft they were based on.
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[[folder:Mythology, Folklore and Religion]]

** The twelve Olympian gods and the numerous minor gods all represented a specific concept (be it an abstract concept or a natural phenomenon). Ares/Mars represented [[WarGod war]], Aphrodite/Venus represented [[LoveGoddess love]], Hades/Pluto represented the dead, Poseidon/Neptune represented the sea, Dionysus/Bacchus represented wine, etc. In the case of minor gods, their name often literally is the Greek/Latin word for the concept their represent: Nike/Victoria means "victory", Thanatos/Mors means "death", Eros/Cupid means "desire", etc.

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* ''Roleplay/{{Personifications}}'' is a roleplay about the personifications of the Seven Heavenly Virtues and the Seven Deadly Sins interacting with each other. While they are mostly immortal, they can be killed and a new entity personifying that thing will come into existence. Personifications of things other than virtues and sins also exist in that universe, such as Money and Love.
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* ''Videogame/KantaiCollection'' is a game where you as an [[NonEntityGeneral Admiral]] gather and organize "fleet girls" (''kanmusu''), warships that take form of girls, in a war against horrors of the sea, called the "Abyssal Fleet". Specifically, the fleet girls personify ships that took part in WorldWarII, and bring with them the characteristics and history of each ship in question. At first the ships are taken from the Imperial Japanese Navy, but later updates give us ships from Germany and Italy, and even later ones give us ships from the Allies' side as well.
* ''Videogame/ToukenRanbu'' has you as a time-traveling sage gathering various Japanese swords and give them life and human forms - [[{{Bishounen}} as pretty boys]], that is. Specifically, they're the swords used by various historical Japanese figures, particularly the Sengoku era, such as Date Masamune or Oda Nobunaga, and brings with them characteristics and history of each swords in question (along with their former owners). Unlike [=KanColle=] above (both this and that game are made by {{DMM}}), this game explains how they came to be.
* ''Videogame/{{Touhou}}'': The setting is in Gensokyo, a parallel world where various {{Youkai}} and other mythical creatures took refuge in; they're all shown as cute young girls.
* ''Videogame/WarshipGirls'' is pretty much the Chinese's [[FollowTheLeader response]] to Kantai Collection above, as it also features personified WorldWarII warships, in form of girls. The difference is that they featured ships of multiple countries right off the bat as opposed to just the IJN.

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If you're wondering about "what if a group of things are shown as humans, what would they do", look no further than this trope. This is OlderThanDirt as people from the distant past tend to assign personality and (usually humanoid) form to the phenomena of the world, usually because humans understood them better that way; this is the basis for many {{mytholog|y}}ies. Similarly, works with this trope are made because of the potential human understanding perspective of the things that are personified, or at least to see what they would say or how they would interact with the world; this trope takes it to the next level where many of the cast are personified things.