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* Kohaku from {{Tsukihime}} is a {{Meido}} who wears a kimono with an apron.
* Ryougi Shiki from KaraNoKyoukai wears nothing but kimono, except for a red leather jacket over it.

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In contemporary Japanese settings, kimono is often shorthand for "this character appreciated the traditional Good Old values". Even people who wouldn't normally even think of abandoning the comfort of Western wear, will go out of their way to wear fancy kimono for formal celebrations and events. For more information about kimono, see [[{{Kimono}} the useful notes]]. For specifically kimono-flavoured fanservice, both sexual and [[PanderingToTheBase not so]], see KimonoFanservice.

* Saotome Nodoka in '' [[{{ptitlegynukzwikxmd}} Ranma ½]]'' almost always wears a kimono, and is a walking parody of the YamatoNadeshiko archetype.
** Kyouko from ''MaisonIkkoku'': [[http://digilander.libero.it/bertimaurizio/MI/anime/MI96-02.jpg wedding kimono]]. Akane from ''[[{{ptitlegynukzwikxmd}} Ranma ½]]'': [[http://members.fortunecity.es/lamia/imagenes/ranma-akane.jpg western wedding dress]]. Three guesses which one is the CuteBruiser and which one is the YamatoNadeshiko [[hottip:*:Though Akane was put once in a traditional wedding kimono against her will, she got into the wedding gown of her own free will.]]
* In the ''[[{{Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokémon]]'' games, Gym Leader Erika always wears a traditional kimono. Four generations later, she remains the gentlest and most polite of all female Gym Leaders. She runs a perfume shop as her day job and tends to flowers as her hobby.
** There is also a quintet known as the Kimono Girls. These are the only characters in [[{{Ptitleh2xwpnnp}} the games from which they originate]] to keep their Japanese names (though mixed up among them). Their role is to perform an old ritual to bring Ho-oh to the top of Ecruteak City's Bell Tower. Note that the entire Johto region, where they live, has a strong feudal Japanese look, with old-fashioned wooden houses and paper doors, temples with guardian monks, and a culture deeply reverent of tradition.

** Kyouko from ''MaisonIkkoku'': [[http://digilander.libero.it/bertimaurizio/MI/anime/MI96-02.jpg wedding kimono]]. Akane from ''[[{{ptitlegynukzwikxmd}} Ranma ½]]'': [[http://members.fortunecity.es/lamia/imagenes/ranma-akane.jpg western wedding dress]]. Three guesses which one is the CuteBruiser and which one is the YamatoNadeshiko.

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* {{Mulan}} is forced to wear a pink kimono-like dress for her visit with the matchmaker, despite her film taking place in China.

In contemporary Japanese settings, kimono is often shorthand for "this character appreciated the traditional Good Old values". Even people who wouldn't normally even think of abandoning the comfort of Western wear, will go out of their way to wear fancy kimono for formal celebrations and events. For more information about kimono, see [[{{Kimono}} the useful notes]]. For specifically kimono-flavoured fanservice, see KimonoFanservice.

* Japan, [[MoeAnthropomorphism quite]] [[YamatoNadeshiko fittingly]], is often seen wearing a yukata and once cleans his house [[WholesomeCrossdresser while wearing traditionally female kimono and apron wear]]. Needless to say, fans love to break out the KimonoFanservice for him in fanworks.

* In the ''{{Pokemon}}'' games, Gym Leader Erika always wears a traditional kimono. Four generations later, she remains the gentlest and most polite of all female Gym Leaders. She runs a perfume shop as her day job and tends to flowers as her hobby.
** There is also a quintet known as the Kimono Girls. These are the only characters in [[PokemonGoldAndSilver the games from which they originate]] to keep their Japanese names (though mixed up among them). Their role is to perform an old ritual to bring Ho-oh to the top of Ecruteak City's Bell Tower. Note that the entire Johto region, where they live, has a strong feudal Japanese look, with old-fashioned wooden houses and paper doors, temples with guardian monks, and a culture deeply reverent of tradition.

If the ShrinkingViolet fianceé or would-be-so is shown in kimono, expect her to have been brought up in "Kyoto style". In short, character wearing a kimono daily means that they will most likely follow the expected ideal of a Japanese person of their age, sex and position. A male daily wearer, on the other hand, reads as somewhat of a rebel, as he most likely won't be a white-collar salaryman.

* [[YamatoNadeshiko Ichiki]] from ''NabariNoOu'' is always seen wearing a traditional kimono.

* Saotome Nodoka in ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'' almost always wears a kimono, and is a walking parody of the YamatoNadeshiko archetype.

* In ''IchigoMashimaro'', it's discovered that Ana doesn't have a yukata, so the temporarily "borrow" one off of Miu. As in, she had been wearing it when they borrow it. Then Chika remembers Nobue's old one, which Miu ends up wearing to the matsuri.

* Saotome Nodoka in [=~Ranma½~=] almost always wears a kimono, and is a walking parody of the YamatoNadeshiko archetype.

** There is also a quintet known as the Kimono Girls. These are the only characters in [[PokemonGoldAndSilver the games they originate from]] to keep their Japanese names (though mixed up among them). Their role is to perform an old ritual to bring Ho-oh to the top of Ecruteak City's Bell Tower. Note that the entire Johto region, where they live, has a strong feudal Japanese look, with old-fashioned wooden houses and paper doors, temples with guardian monks, and a culture deeply reverent of tradition.

* On ''QuantumLeap'', Sam leaped into a man who had a Japanese WarBride he brought home from his stint in Japan, who wore a kimono all the time. The year was 1953.
** In the context her constant kimono wearing might be related to either not wanting to give up clothes reminding of home and good pre-war times, and not needing to OR the production wanting to underline her otherness.

* Early on in ''{{Persona 4}}'', the transfer student [[MeetCute runs into]] Yukiko Amagi while she's wearing a kimono. It's used as visual shorthand for how she's following her family's traditions and becoming the next head of the Amagi Inn.

* In ''TsunamiChannel'' Haruna is presented as a very traditional girl from an extremely wealthy and traditional family, having been groomed like a [[YamatoNadeshiko samurai wife]] ([[BladeInAStick naginata]] wielding and all ), so she naturally wears kimono all the time.

* Early on in ''{{Persona 4}}'', the transfer student [[MeetCute runs into]] Yukiko Amagi while she's wearing a kimono. It's used as visual shorthand for how she's following her family's traditions and becoming the next head of the Amagi Inn.

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** In the context her constant kimono wearing might be related to either not wanting to give up clothes reminding of home and good pre-war times, and not needing to OR the production wanting to underline her otherness.