History Main / KimonoIsTraditional

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** Early in ''VideoGame/Persona4'', the Protagonist [[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. Yukiko can wear that kimono, or a fancier ceremonial kimono, as costumes in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]''.

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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' will often have traditionalist characters wear kimonos. It's perfectly natural in the series' original country of Japan, but might seem odd in the localizations, which are guilty of ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange to the United States.
** The Fey clan wears kimonos in line with their family tradition and work of [[WillingChanneler spirit channeling]].
** GrumpyOldMan Victor Kudo from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'' not only wears one, but once embroidered kimonos as his job.
** Metis Cykes from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' wore a kimono while alive to reflect her fondness for Japanese culture. Jinxie Tenma from 5-2 wears a variant as the daughter of the mayor of a traditional Japanese village.
** Taifu and Uendo Toneido of from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' wear them in line with their work as practitioners of rakugo, a form of traditional Japanese theater.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Cartagra}}'' and ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'' are set in modernizing, postwar Japan. But Takeshiro (protagonist of ''Cartagra'') and his wife are among the notable few who stick to traditional dress. In contrast with Reiji (protagonist of ''Kara''), the two are less quick to adopt 'modern' styles and means, even though the wife is now a television actress.
* Kokori Fushikawa from ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'' almost always wears a kimono. She may be more of a spoiled brat than a YamatoNadeshiko, but she holds on to the traditional values of the noble families well, mainly their superiority over the "commoners", and flaunts it at any chance she gets.
* Kakuya from ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' wears a luxuriously decorated Japanese garment, which makes her stand out in the otherwise-urban setting and marks her as something supernatural.
* Hiyoko Saionji wears a kimono as her only outfit during ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', since she's a Japanese traditional dancer. However, it's later revealed that she's unable to tie her obi by herself.
* Kohaku from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' is a {{Meido}} who wears a kimono with an apron.

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

* Ryougi Shiki from ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' wears nothing but kimono, except for a red leather jacket over it. While she's not exactly a traditionalist, she's very conservative and hardly ever uses any kind of modern convenience.

** Washio in ''LightNovel/WashioSumiIsAHero'' is a very patriotic child who is depicted wearing a kimono at least once. It turns out [[spoiler:that she's the same character as Togo]].

Kimono is a likely wear-of-choice for YamatoNadeshiko, and will underline these qualities UpToEleven. A {{Geisha}} will ''never'' work out of kimono. An elderly character wearing a kimono will likely represent the traditional ways, demanding respect as the iron-fisted head of their family. Sometimes the whole family is dressed this way, and might seem stuck in the Middle Ages when it comes to values.

Note that simply wearing yukata does not qualify a character to be traditional in kimono -- it's considered a different type of garment altogether in Japan, and has different connotations. Similarly on the opposite end, wearing an ''uchikake'', i.e. a loose, unfastened outer kimono on top of the normal kimono, in normal conditions (outside weddings) [[UpToEleven multiplies all the traditionalness, class, and wealth indications]] the kimono itself gives to a character.

* [[{{Reincarnation}} Katakura Kojuurou]] in ''Manga/{{Gate 7}}'' is always showed wearing a kimono and hakama ''and'' [[UpToEleven uchikake.]]

** Early in ''VideoGame/Persona4'', the Protagonist [[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.

** Konata's father Soujirou is an example himself, since he typically wears a kimono and haori. He's a freelance writer, which references the Japanese stereotype of authors always wearing traditional clothing.

* ''Manga/FruitsBasket''

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

* Yuriko Nishinotouin of ''{{Manga/Kakegurui}}'' is president of the Traditional Culture club, and protecting that club and its members from the harsher aspects of life at Hyakkaou Academy is her main motivation for gambling and remaining on the Student Council. Fittingly, she is always seen wearing a kimono instead of Hyakkaou's uniform.

* ''Franchise/LupinIII'' has Goemon Ishikawa XIII, who is always seen in a kimono and hakama, reflecting his {{Samurai}} honor and traditional ways. (Except for the rare times that he wears a disguise)

* Shigure Sohma from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' almost always wears kimono. Since he's an author, it's related to the Japanese stereotype of how writers and artists only ever wear traditional clothing, and in one manga omake he says he invokes this trope because of that stereotype.
** His traditional family head Akito also wears a male kimono. [[spoiler:At the end of the story, she decides to stop hiding her gender and switches it out for a female one.]]

* Yuriko Nishinotouin of ''{{Manga/Kakegurui}}'' is president of the Traditional Culture club, and protecting that club and its members from the harsher aspects of life at Hyakkaou Academy is her main motivation for gambling and remaining on the Student Council. Fittingly, she is always seen wearing a kimono.

* Kyouko from ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'': [[http://digilander.libero.it/bertimaurizio/MI/anime/MI96-02.jpg wedding kimono.]]

* Shigure from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' almost always wears kimono. Since he's an author, it's related to the Japanese stereotype of how writers and artists only ever wear traditional clothing, and in one manga omake he says he invokes this trope because of that stereotype.

** Konata's father Soujirou is an example himself, since he typically wears a kimono and haori. He's a freelance writer, which reference the Japanese stereotype of authors always wearing traditional clothing.

* Ryougi Shiki from ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' wears nothing but kimono, except for a red leather jacket over it.

* Kokori Fushikawa from ''VisualNovel/MajiDeWatashiNiKoiShinasai'' almost always wears a kimono. She may be more of a spoiled brat than a YamatoNadeshiko, but she holds on to the traditional values of the noble families well, mainly their superiority over the "commoners", and flaunts it at any chance she gets.

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* Ryougi Shiki from ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' wears nothing but kimono, except for a red leather jacket over it.

* Tsuruya in Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero wears a kimono out of school nearly all the time for this reason.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' has a few examples:

* {{Defied}} by Mariko Kurata of ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha'': while in the past she may have been this, finding out [[spoiler:she was sterile]] drove her to be as little as traditional as possible, still wearing only kimonos but now alongside crazy hairstyles that [[HeadPet include a live squirrel]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'': Several important elder patriarchs and oyabuns throughout the series (such as Jin Goda from ''[[VideoGame/Yakuza2 2]][=/=]Kiwami 2'', Tadashi Madarame from ''[[VideoGame/Yakuza5 5]]'', Mitsugu Matsugane from ''VideoGame/{{Judgement}}'' and Ryuhei Hoshino from ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragom'') wear old-fashioned haoris and kimonos and all of them are shown in a primarily positive light, representing the ideals, traditions, honor and nobility that modern yakuza only pay lip service to.

* Japan of ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', [[MoeAnthropomorphism 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.

* Hiyoko Saionji wears a kimono as her only outfit during ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2'', since she's a Japanese traditional dancer. However, it's later revealed that she's unable to tie her obi by herself.

* In ''Manga/LuckyStar'', the girls talk about the tying of the obi. Kagami's assumption was that Miyuki had tied it herself, but instead, the person at the store tied it. Konata's obi was tied by her father, a fact which disturbs Tsukasa.

Kimono is a likely wear-of-choice for YamatoNadeshiko, and will underline these qualities UpToEleven. A {{Geisha}}, would be expected to ''never'' work out of kimono. An elderly character wearing a kimono will likely represent the traditional ways, whining for respect as the iron-fisted head of their family. Sometimes the whole family is dressed this way, and might seem stuck in the Middle Ages when it comes to values.

* ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'':

Kimono is a likely wear-of-choice for YamatoNadeshiko, and will underline these qualities UpToEleven. A {{Geisha}}, at least a proper one, will ''never'' work out of kimono. An elderly character wearing a kimono will likely represent the traditional ways, demanding respect as the iron-fisted matri- or patriarch of their family. Sometimes the whole family is dressed this way, and might seem stuck in the Middle Ages when it comes to values.

* ''Franchise/YuushaDeAru':

* ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'':