Sailor Fuku / Anime & Manga

Sailor Fukus are very commonplace in Anime and Manga series.

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• .hack//:
  • In .hack//Legend of the Twilight, one of the fetished-up outfits that Shugo discovers in a treasure chest is a sailor fuku.
  • The character designer for the .hack//Another Birth novels has mentioned considering giving Akira a sailor fuku in the real world, but decided against it as they were overused, and gave her a less common blazer uniform.
• Akebi's Sailor Uniform has serafuku right in the Japanese title (Akebi-chan no Serafuku). When main character Komichi Akebi is about to start at her mother's old girls' middle school, she dreams of wearing the same sailor uniform her mother wore, and her mother even makes one for her...only to find out at the entrance ceremony that the school's uniform has changed to blazers and collared shirts. Despite the misunderstanding, the principal allows Komichi to keep wearing the sailor uniform, since it's technically an official school uniform even though it's no longer in use. Komichi still sets out to make friends despite how her sailor uniform makes her stand out from everyone else at school.
• In Amakusa 1637, Natsuki Hayami and her female friends wore serafuku at school. The first volume◊ has a serafuku-wearing Natsuki on its cover.
• Misaki of Angelic Layer wears her uniform to play Angelic Layer, as do a few other characters.
• Azumanga Daioh:
  • The high school where the series takes place uses sailor uniforms for the girls' uniform, though with elastic ties instead of the typical scarf or bow. The winter uniform is salmon pink with long sleeves, while the summer uniform is blue with short sleeves. In the manga, Yukari and Nyamo dress up in an older version of the school's uniforms during the third year's costume race, with the primary difference being that the collar is the same color as the top.
  • Kimura suggests that the girls wear their sailor uniforms in gym class, and later goes after Yukari and Nyamo in the aforementioned costume race, implying that he might just have a sailor uniform fetish.
  • When Chiyo's elementary school friends graduate to middle school, they wear the classic navy blue sailor uniforms with red scarves. Chiyo expresses jealousy that she'll never get to wear one like theirs because she skipped ahead to high school, but they note that they are not likely get into her school.
• Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Babel II genderflips the trope, with the protagonist Kouichi Yamano wearing a gakuran. Understandable, he's in junior high and the series was created in The '70s.
• In the Fujiyama Gansta Paradise arc of Black Lagoon, Yukio's highschool has gray fukus as uniforms. Yukio herself is seen wearing hers even after she leaves school completely, though when she's forcibly and humiliatingly stripped off it, she switches to a kimono.
• Bleach:
  • The high school attended by the lead character has grey gakurans for the boys and blazer uniforms for the girls, and thus fukus were not seen for most of the early manga. This makes the appearance of Lisa Yadomaru, a woman likely in her twenties, wearing the fuku a little jarring.
  • Following the Time Skip, Ichigo's little sisters Karin and Yuzu wear fukus on entering middle school. Orihime and Tatsuki used to wear fukus when they attended middle school, presumably the same one Karin and Yuzu go to.
  • In the flashback to the time when Ichigo and Chad met in middle school, both are wearing traditional black gakuran.
  • The Everything but the rain backstory mini-arc shows that Karakura High School used to have the serafuku as its girls' uniform around 20-25 years ago, though with shorter skirts than usual. The person shown wearing one was the younger Masaki Kurosaki aka the woman who would later become Ichigo, Yuzu and Karin's mother.
• Saya Kisaragi from Blood-C wears a red and black blazer uniform in the TV series, but in Blood-C: The Last Dark she switches to a navy blue sailor uniform.
• The middle school that most of the Bokura no Hentai characters go to use gakuran and sailor fuku. Marika, who is transgender, hates the fact she has to wear the boys uniform and says it looks like she's going to a funeral. Wholesome Crossdresser Satoshi wears the girls uniform when he is a first year but hits a growth spurt and begins dressing more masculine in his second year. Marika begins wearing a sailor fuku when she begins living as a girl.
• In Bloom Into You, the boys at Toomi East High School wear gakuran, while the girls wear jumpers, blouses, neck ribbons and bolero jackets, though the jackets still have sailor-style collars. The "school for rich girls" that Sayaka used to attend had a more traditional sailor fuku as their uniform, as did Yuu and her friends' middle school. In the School Play, Maki's character wears a gakuran that's a lighter color than Toomi East's version.
• In Bokurano, by Mohiro Kitou, the major part of the cast are in junior high so they tend to use serafuku and gakuran. i.e, Mako/Nakama's school has white and black fukus, while Moji and Tsubasa's has black gakuran (and he wears his in the OP) and blue/gray serafuku.
• In one episode of Bottle Fairy, the fairies, while imagining going to school, are all in sailor fuku... except for Cloudcuckoolander Hororo, who dresses up in the equivalent iconic uniform for kindergarten and elementary school. The others get her straightened out by the time "class" starts, though.
• Naomi Tanizaki from Bungo Stray Dogs wears her school uniform while working as a part-timer in the Armed Detective Agency.
• Takane Katsu in Burst Angel wears this, wields a sword, and drives a motorcycle. And she's a police officer who snags Jo's arm with a thrown cuff on a chain.
• Buso Renkin: The school attended by Kazuki and his younger sister Mahiro uses a variant on the concept that Nobuhiro Watsuki said was inspired by Gothic Lolita styles, with puffed shoulders and a long, wide skirt on the girls' uniform◊. However, Tokiko wears a more conventional serafuku uniform from the school she attended previously while hunting homunculi, and continues to wear it out of practicality after enrolling in Kazuki and Mahiro's school. Though Watsuki drew her in the local uniform in a chapter cover, in the chapter proper she says it's too frilly and hard to move around in (plus, the long skirt would be shredded every time she activated her buso renkin, four scythes on robot arms attached to her thighs).
• When Candace "Candy" White-Andree from Candy♡Candy went to a Boarding School in England, she and the other female students wore one-piece white dresses (plus red scarves and blue linear) that, as mentioned above, were most likely inspired by both the fuku and the "rational dress" codes. There were two variations: the above linked white dresses for everyday wear, and black ones with brown scarves for Sundays.
• In Captain Tsubasa, Nankatsu Junior High has gakuran and fuku as uniforms. (In contrast with the other schools either using blazer-type uniforms, or blazers for girls and gakuran for boys) In the manga and the Road to 2002 anime, the fuku is in the traditional white and blue/all blue color; in the first anime, however, it's shown as being reddish-brown, almost burgundy.
• Cardcaptor Sakura:
  • Sakura's elementary school follows the serafuku-type uniform for boys as well as girls. The boys wear a uniform identical to the girls', except they wear 3/4-length black trousers instead of the girls' white skirts. A flashback reveals that the middle school Touya attended followed the standard serafuku for girls and gakuran for boys pattern (as he is shown wearing one). The high school switches to a shirt-tie-trousers/pleated skirt uniform.
  • Sakura's mother Nadeshiko and her best friend Sonomi used to wear this type of uniform when they were in high school. In fact, Nadeshikp wore it when she met Fujitaka, and apparently when she married him too!
• In Death Note, Misa wears a sailor fuku as part of a disguise.
• Case Closed zigzags this trope around:
  • While Shinichi, Ran and Sonoko go to a highschool that prefers the blazer style, the junior high they used to go to had the gakuran and fuku. Akako, Aoko, Kaitou and Hakuba's own school still uses serafuku (a dark blue one) and gakuran.
  • Kazuha and Heiji's school in Osaka also favors the serafuku (also a dark blue one) and the gakuran, and they show up wearing them at the start of the Desperate Revival arc.
  • In the Detective Koshien mini arc, the highschool aged amateur sleuths are asked to wear their school uniforms. Hakuba wears normal clothes that do look a bit like a school outfit (since he's an exchange student he's not that bound to such rules), Tokitsu puts on a light blue blazer uniform, Heiji wears the aforementioned gakuran... and seeing Koshimizu in a blue serafuku with a white scarf reveals to Conan, Hakuba and Heiji that she isn't a boy. It's a plot point: Koshimizu is actually 20 years old, but uses her old serafuku to make herself look younger and blend in better.
  • Youko, a one-time character who tried to pass herself as Shinichi's girlfriend to rope him into helping her rescue a kidnapped boy whom she was babysitting wears a white and blue serafuku.
  • Also used in a flashback within another case. Many girls who wore serafuku with extremely long skirts (which, as said above, was a style associated with girl delinquents) were victims of hit-and-run incidents 20 years ago. A delinquent girl whose best friend was one of the madman's victims posed as bait to help the police catch the culprit, deliberately wearing her skirt long despite the danger — and succeeded in getting the man caught, though she and one of the policemen investigating the case were severely injured in the process. To see how the story itself ended and who the school girl actually is, see May–December Romance.
  • The "Itinerant Drama Troupe" filler case has New Transfer Student Tamanosuke Itou, who shows up at Teitan High School wearing a gakuran rather than the school's light blue blazer outfit.
  • In the "Darkness of the Prefectural Police" case, a middle-school girl named Tsuyako is seen wearing a fuku. She wears it in a flashback... and right when she's shot dead. Her older brother, who was standing next to her and wearing a blazer uniform, would become the case's Sympathetic Murderer.
  • Heiji Hattori's Self-Proclaimed Love Interest, Momiji Ooka, is seen in a sailor fuku too. The 21th movie shows that it has a white blouse, light gray collar/skirt, dark blue scarf and dark grey lines on its collar and cuffs.
• Cherry Juice: Haruka Fukushima, author of the shojo manga, admits in the omake that one of the main reasons she decided to make a high-school romance series was so that she would have the opportunity to draw Sailor Fuku.
• Code Geass:
  • The female uniforms of Ashford Academy are very obviously Western inspired, but a mere look at the boys' uniforms will show that they're pretty much gakuran outfits — just without the golden buttons. Considering the massive stigma against the Japanese or "Eleven" in the story, this may be a rather ironic Shout-Out.
  • A picture from the first season's first OP has the teenaged Naoto Kouzuki and Kaname Ougi wearing gakuran, which is justified as they are Japanese/"Eleven".
• In Crayon Shin-chan, Shin's mother Misae finds her old white and black fuku and puts it on... and much to her joy, it still fits her. This being Shin-chan, Hilarity Ensues.
• Reversing matters, the Supernaturally Powerful Student Council in Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! wear white and gold gakuran. The other students have a Western-style uniform with a blazer and tie.
• In Devil Hunter Yohko, whereas Yohko goes to a highschool with Western blazer uniforms, her apprentice Azusa wears a fuku since she's still in middle school.
• Digimon:
  • Sora wears a green one in Digimon Adventure 02. Miyako gets hers in the third movie — and wonders whether she can wear her cargo pants under the skirt.
  • Ruki from Digimon Tamers uses a blazer-like uniform instead (in fact, she's the only of the primary school-aged kids whose school uses an uniform), though she always changes out as soon as she gets home.
  • In Digimon Adventure tri., as the Digidestined go to either junior high or highschool,◊ Hikari wears the traditional green serafuku while the now highschool-aged Sora and Mimi wear blue and grey blazer uniforms. On the other hand, Meiko Mochizuki◊ wears an uniform that looks mostly Western, but has a very sailor-like collar.
• In Dokonjou Gaeru, Hiroshi's girlfriend Kyouko uses a blue fuku despite her being still in elementary school. Probably to higlight that she's from a better-off family than the rest of the cast.
• In Eyeshield 21, Deimon High has blazer uniforms for boys and girls but Suzuna Taki, a student from another school, often shows up in a white and blue fuku plus Modesty Shorts.
• Invoked in Franken Fran, when a giantess washes ashore and, after Fran saves her life, the greedy owner of the private beach where this takes place dresses her up in a fuku to attract visitors. It doesn't work, since the giantess is almost immediately retrieved by her kin.
• From Up on Poppy Hill takes place during the sixties, so Umi's high school uses the classic sailor fuku for girls and the gakuran for boys.
• In Fruits Basket, Kaibara Municipal High School uses serafuku for the girls but no gakuran for the boys (instead, they wear a collared shirt with a short necktie). Momiji Sohma wears the girls' serafuku top with shorts since he likes it better than the boy's uniform (at least until he has a growth spurt and switches to the standard boys' uniform). Arisa Uotani wears a much longer skirt than everyone else — it comes from having been a former sukeban.
• Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu:
  • A delightful sequence occurs where Kaname Chidori, normally dressed in the school's fairly unusual outfit, agrees to become "manager" for a rugby club, and so puts on a more traditional sailor fuku (and carries a kettle).
  • Commander Mardukas has just threatened Sousuke with terrible retribution should he do anything indecent to Tessa while she is staying in Japan, when the girl in question enters wearing a Jindai High School uniform. Cue open-mouthed response from both males, until Tessa asks what they're staring at.
• In Full Moon, a flashback includes a girl in a serafuku. The girl is Meroko's former self, Moe Rikyou, who lived and died in the Showa era of Japanese history when serafuku were the main school uniforms for girls. Years later, after remembering her past life, Meroko appears as Moe in front of her best friend Fuzuki (Mitsuki's grandmother) to tell her that she shouldn't grieve for her tragic death any longer.
• Fushigi Yuugi and its prequels (Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden, Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Ibun and Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Senki) toy around with the trope. The Mikos are Japanese girls in the right age bracket, but not all of them wear fuku:
  • Takiko Okuda aka the Genbu no Miko, who is from the Japan of The Roaring '20s, wears hakama to her new school in the countryside. According to Word of God, however, she used to wear the (very recently implemented) fuku when she lived in Tokyo.
  • Suzuno Ohsugi aka the Byakko no Miko wears a dark blue fuku with a long skirt, a black scarf and black tights underneath, a spitting image of the traditional one. She is from the Japan of the late 20's/early 30's, and as said above the fuku and gakuran had been implemented as uniforms few years ago; when Suzuno appears as a teenager in both the original series and the prequel Byakko Ibun, she's in her fuku. ^note (Warning: There are HUGE spoilers for Byakko Ibun and the original series behind the link) But in Byakko Senki proper, there's a subversion: It begins when Suzuno is 8 years old, so she doesn't start wearing serafuku right off the bat — yet the illustrations and the fact that this is a prequel state that she eventually will be old enough to put one on.
  • Miaka Yuuki and Yui Hongo, the Suzaku and Seiryuu no Miko respectively, wear Western-styled uniforms in both junior high and highschool.
• In Girls und Panzer, the girls of Oarai Academy, the only shown high school that does not have a national theme, wear sailor fuku as their school uniform.
• In Glass Mask, Maya Kitajima is seen wearing a blue fuku as her uniform.
• A variant of the standard sailor uniform as a one-piece dress somehow winds up in the thrift store in Haibane Renmei, where Rakka buys it and wears it for the majority of the series.
• Hanaukyō Maid Team La Verite episode 8. When Konoe doesn't have any civilian clothes to wear, her assistant Yashima Sana dresses her in one of these and then puts on one herself. They look like a cross between a normal Japanese School Uniform and a Catholic school uniform.
• In The Hating Girl, Ryouji's ex-girlfriend from Osaka wears the typical sailor fuku, but the uniform for Asumi and the other girls at their school is a skirt, button-down shirt, and sleeveless overshirt.
• While the tops of Hayate the Combat Butler's Hakuou Academy have resemblance to the style, the skirts are ankle length and are actually dresses. Isumi still dislikes them for being 'breezy', though she wears kimonos.
• In Hell Girl, Enma Ai wears a black sailor uniform with a red necktie whenever she's observing the human world. This, alongside the opulent kimono she wears when she's in the Twilight realm, seems to highlight her as an archetypical Japanee girl.
• In Hell Teacher Nube, Nube works at a public elementary school that has no uniforms. However, when the high school-aged Izuna Hazuki joins the cast, she shows up in a blue and white sailor uniform.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • The anthropomorphized Sealand always wears a male sailor suit. Italy occasionally wears a shirt that looks a lot like the top of one.
  • In the notes for Gakuen Hetalia, Taiwan is seen wearing a sailor fuku instead of the more Western-oriented uniforms worn by the other girl nations.
  • In the pictures of the Japanese prefectures, several of the prefectures wear clothes resembling either serafuku (Akita, Fukui, Gunma, Kochi) or gakuran (Aomori, Saga, Kagoshima, Ehime, Fukushima), while others wear what looks like Western uniforms (Iwate, Miyagi, Tokushima, Hyougo, Kyoto, etc.)
• High School Fleet has the crew of the Harekaze wear these as school uniforms, which is a justified case as nearly all of the characters are aspiring sailors as well as students. Their use of sailor fuku hearkens back to when they were originally navy uniforms instead of school uniforms.
• While the schools from Ikki Tousen tend to favor the blazer design, the uniforms of Seitou High are white and light-blue fukus with yellow scarves. (With the exception of Chou'un, who uses a blazer).
• In Inazuma Eleven, Raimon Junior High has blue/green gakuran as its uniform for the boys, but girls wear blazer/pleated skirt combos that seem to change colors depending on the girls' class.
• Kagome Higurashi from Inuyasha is a middle school girl who wears her green and white sailor uniform while hunting youkai in the sengoku period, centuries before they were invented. She's a time traveler from the present day and Word of God says — tongue planted firmly in cheek — that she prefers it because it's durable. Near the end of the series, however, Kagome is shown as a high school student and she's wearing a blazer uniform instead of her iconic serafuku. And in the very last chapter, Kagome's now teenaged younger brother Shouta shows up in a gakuran.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • The third part of the manga (Stardust Crusaders) has two characters, The Hero Jotaro Kujo and his former-opponent-later-ally Noriaki Kakyoin, who wear either a custom uniform that resembles the gakuran (Jotaro, whose Badass Longcoat + nice hat ensemble looks like one) or a 100% genuine one (Kakyoin, who even sunbathes in it). ^note According to Araki himself, he came up with Jotaro's design gakuran-like clothes as a Shout-Out to the above mentioned Babel II and its gakuran-wearing protagonist, Kouichi. It's also shown that the girls who go to Jotaro's school wear sailor fuku.
  • The fourth part (Diamond is Unbreakable) features Joseph Joestar's Heroic Bastard Jousuke Higashikata, a highschool student who goes into battle wearing his gakuran. Other highschool-aged characters also wear school uniforms when around, like his schoolmates Kouichi and Nishimura, the bully Hazamada, and Kouichi's Stalker with a Crush Yukako (who wears a noticeably customized sailor fuku).
• Joshi Kausei: Mayumi wears one, unlike her friends Shibumi and Momoko. Explained as her being a New Transfer Student.
• Although Sakuragaoka High School in K-On! uses blazer uniforms, several characters have been shown wearing sailor uniforms when they were in middle school.
  • Yui and Nodoka have been shown wearing white and green serafuku with red scarves during flashbacks. Ui is also shown wearing the same uniform during Yui's first year in high school, since she's still in middle school at that point.
  • Azusa's first appearance also shows her in a navy blue serafuku with a red scarf.
• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: Shichui'in Academy uses black gakuran for male students and black, one-piece serafuku (albeit with a uniquely-shaped collar) for females.
• In Kill la Kill, Senketsu is a sentient sailor fuku with an Eyepatch of Power who is often worn by the main character, Ryuko (and at least once by Satsuki◊ and Mako◊). It's worth noting that in this series, clothes are weaponized to the point of being Powered Armor, and the show even gives a Call-Back to the fact that sailor fuku were originally military uniforms.
• In Kimagure Orange Road, the middle school attended by the cast has gakuran for the guys and gray and white serafuku for the girls.
• Kochikame: Special Detectives Moonlight and Venus are male variants of Sailor Fuku who make their role in fighting crime using old fighter jets and made appearances in every TV special.
• In Love Hina, the younger tenants are occasionally seen in sailor fuku (Kaolla in particular wears hers constantly), and Kitsune and Naru are prominently seen wearing them in flashbacks...and, occasionally, not in flashbacks.
• Uranohoshi's school uniform in Love Live! Sunshine!! is a sailor fuku with a grey collar and skirt, and differently-colored ribbons/scarves that indicate which grade students are in. Some of Aqours' costumes take inspiration from sailor fuku as well.
• Lucky Star's characters wear sailor fuku as their school uniforms, and the Anime Theme Song is even titled "Motteke! Sailor Fuku". The CD has a B-side titled "Kaeshite! Knee Socks".
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha also based her battle uniform on a sailor fuku, although her young incarnation has a considerably longer skirt than normal.
  • This seems to be the uniform at the Mid-Childian school Harry Tribeccah goes to in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid.
• Parodied along with just about every other anime trope in Martian Successor Nadesico. Impractically short-skirted sailor fuku feature prominently in the titular space battleship's "Early 21st Century High School" virtual reality entertainment program and one character trying to seduce another hacks the program to make her skirt even shorter.
• In Mazinger Z Kouji, Sayaka, Boss and Boss's friends attend the same school. Though the first anime didn't include any uniforms, in the manga and in more modern Mazinger media (like Mazin Kaiser and Shin Mazinger Zero, whether anime or manga) the boys wore gakurans while Sayaka and Minerva X from the Zero manga wore blazer uniforms with rather short skirts (plus Sayaka sometimes ads Zettai Ryouiki to it).
• Mekakucity Actors: Ayano and Shintaro are shown wearing a fuku and gakuran, respectively, as middle-schoolers while the high-school uniform is a formal shirt and tie with checker-pattern skirt/pants. The fuku has so often been associated with Ayano in the fanbase that she even wears it inside the Daze, despite the fact that when she committed suicide, she was in her junior year of high-school, and wearing the appropriate uniform.
• Toune in Melody of Oblivion, who goes around fighting Monsters wearing sailor fuku.
• In Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, the school attended by Lucia and her friends has fuku for the girls and Western blazers for the boys (and Rina)
• In Millennium Actress Chiyoko is often shown wearing a sailor fuku in the scenes depicting her childhood: unlike modern versions it's a genuine 1930s-era winter uniform made out of heavy wool for durability and cut with "room to grow" bagginess.
• Nobel Gundam from Mobile Fighter G Gundam is a Humongous Mecha dressed in a Sailor Fuku. As if that weren't nonsensical enough, it's from Sweden of all places. Presumably the scientists who designed it were a bunch of weeaboos (it does show its Scandinavian roots in another way, though...).
• In Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun the school the characters attend have blazer uniforms, but there are occasions where the serafuku shows up:
  • Mamiko, the Stock Shoujo Heroine of Nozaki's shoujo manga Let's Fall In Love!, wears a green and white serafuku with a white scarf.
  • Nozaki also tries to make Sakura model a serafuku for him, ends up wearing it himself, and fails miserably due to his muscular body. The same uniform made another appearance as a "change of clothes" when the two arriving in Nozaki's flat drenched in rainwater.
  • Kashima's younger sister Rei goes to an all-girls' school, and she wears a typical old-fashioned dark green serafuku with a long skirt.
• Lunar's dad wears one in My Bride is a Mermaid as part of a very misguided attempt to get closer to and understand his daughter better. When Nagasumi accidentally sees him in the outfit through a window, he gasps and closes the curtains, shouting at Nagasumi not to look.
• My Hero Academia: Midoriya and Bakugou wore gakuran in the first chapter while they were in middle school. At U.A. High School, everyone wears gray blazers. This makes the serafuku worn under a cardigan by the villain Himiko Toga stand out, especially since she wasn't shown wearing one at her middle school before she snapped.
• My-HiME:
  • The Fuuka Gakuen Boarding School offers blazer uniforms for the highschool students, but not for the junior high ones. For that reason Mikoto, Nao and Shiho wear white and blue fukus while Takumi and Akira use grey gakuran.
  • The members of the Absurdly Powerful Student Council can put on custom uniforms, so Reito chooses a black and red gakuran. Shizuru and Haruka wear differently-colored blazer uniforms, though.
• Naruto:
  • An omake series of Naruto, inspired by one of the ED's of the series, featured the main characters attending a high school with these uniforms. The associated fetishism was hilariously interrupted when said fukus were worn by Orochimaru and Kabuto.
  • The Class Representative Sumire from Boruto wears a purple version, despite the fact the ninja academy doesn't even use uniforms.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
  • Mahora Academy girls used the serafuku as uniform at the time Sayo was a student, but now they use blazer uniforms. Sayo herself still wears the serafuku but that's because she's a Cute Ghost Girl who died quite a while ago.
  • Other 3-A students will dress like this from time to time, including the Narutaki twins (though Fuka will sometimes wear shorts in lieu of a skirt, as seen in Volume 2 of the manga).
  • In one of Ayaka's imagine spots before she gets a Pactio with Negi, she daydreams about Negi wearing a serafuku.
• Nisekoi: Bonyari High School has boys wear gakuran and girls wear serafuku, albeit with an overly long tie in place of a ribbon. Marika wears a more traditional serafuku from her previous school, while Tsugumi wears a blazer and pants from her previous school.
• Ouran High School Host Club:
  • Haruhi, the local wholesome female cross-dresser, infiltrates Ouran Academy's elementary school division with 17-year-old Honey. Honey, who has a huge case of Older Than They Look, dresses in his old elementary school uniform while Haruhi puts on her dark blue middle school sailor fuku (in the manga, she wears Ouran's middle school uniform, which is also a sailor fuku but of a different color). The rest of the club admits that the two stick out anyway so the disguises are useless: they just wanted to see Haruhi in a schoolgirl's uniform.
  • Haruhi's middle school uniform shows up again in the Alice in Wonderland inspired All Just a Dream episode.
  • Ouran Academy's middle school division uses sailor fuku as the girls' uniform, but in the high school division (which the series mainly focuses on) the girls' uniform is a yellow dress with puffed sleeves instead. That doesn't stop Renge from occasionally cosplaying her favourite Dating Sim's heroine while wearing a sailor fuku.
  • Benio's all-girls school, St. Lobelia, has Sailor Fuku, which actually resemble long skirts.
• Penguindrum has Ringo Oginome attend an all-girls private school that has white and green serafuku with also super-short magic skirts. On the other hand, Shouma and Kanba's all-boys school has blazer uniforms.
• Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star, HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, Doki Doki! PreCure, and Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure all have their respective heroines wear sailor suit-esque school uniforms (although the ones in Heartcatch and Doki-Doki are dress uniforms, they're still sailor suit-esque nonetheless). Miki's school uniform in Fresh Pretty Cure! also has a sailor collar, though the other Cures' uniforms don't since they all attend different schools.
• In The Prince of Tennis, some schools favor the fuku/gakuran combination (Seishun Gakuen aka Seigaku, Rokkaku, Fudomine) while others prefer the blazer designs for both genders (Hyotei, Saint Rudolph, Rikkaidai). Yamabuki is a rather curious case since the male students wear white gakurans, but the girls wear an odd all-white blouse/skirt combo that looks like a tennis outfit. Here is a summer female uniform comparison chart taken from the 'Gakuensai no Oujisama' game. ^note : Top row from left to right: Seishun Gakuen aka Seigaku, Rikkai Daigaku Fuzuku aka Rikkaidai, Rokkaku, Hyoutei. Bottom row from left to right: Fudomine, Saint Rudolph, Yamabuki.
• One of Chloe's outfits in Pokémon Journeys: The Series is a sailor fuku. Unlike most sailor fukus, it’s a dress with anchors on it. Goh also wears one when he goes to school for tests.
• Private Actress:
  • Shiho Kobayakawa attends an all-girls high school that uses black fuku as its uniform. She often goes to work while wearing said fuku, too. It's averted in the Boarding School case however, as said Boarding School uses blazer type uniforms instead.
  • The child actress Konomi Yushirou wears a serafuku in her first appearance, too. She's most likely in elementary school, however.
• The Quintessential Quintuplets: Asahiyama High averts this uniform style, but Kurobara, the female-only school the quintuplets attended prior to the start of the story, has it with a black blouse and white skirt combo. Itsuki is shown wearing it on the first chapter as a symbol of her being a New Transfer Student, and it's occasionally seen during flashbacks.
• In Ranma ½, Kodachi's all-girls school uses a white and light brown serafuku.
• The manga version of Read or Die included this when parodying (but using) fanservice moments, with Yomiko donning one of the much younger Nenene's fuku. It's even lampshaded.
  Yomiko: Even though I'm 25, it looks good, right?
• In Revolutionary Girl Utena, Ohtori High has serafuku with Giant Poofy Sleeves and VERY short light blue magic skirts for the girls, and light blue gakuran for the guys. The members of the Absurdly Powerful Student Council wear custom uniforms instead, though Juri and Nanami are seen in serafukus when not in reunions.
  • Utena tends to use a Custom Uniform, but when Touga defeats her and Anthy goes with him as per the Duels rules, she wears the normal serafuku too, much to the surprise and squeals of her fangirls. Once she beats Touga and Anthy returns to her side, she returns to using her Custom Uniform since the serafuku was a symbol of her ultimately temporary slump.
• A oneshot in Robot: Super Color Comic takes place in The Future where Sailor Fuku are no longer used however the protagonists of the chapter wear them while going to a picnic. They try to cosplay as 21st century girls, eating food from that period (crepes) and going down to the long-since evacuated areas below ground.
• Subverted in The Rows of Cherry Trees: the cover has two girls wearing serafuku, the first pages feature girls in serafuku... but the Sakura Institute that Yukiko, Chikage and Ayako attend has Western-looking outfits for their students.
• Though the central female characters of Sailor Moon are actually junior high-schoolers, not only do they all wear sailor uniforms in their "civilian" lives, their Senshi uniforms seem to be clearly based on them as well; indeed, this is where the "Sailor" in the name comes from. This is later justified when it is revealed that the sailor-suit concept comes from ancestral memories of the heroes' uniform, not vice-versa. The last season has the girls in highschool, and they keep wearing sailor uniforms as school clothes, only with a darker color scheme (the blue of the collar and the skirts in the HS uniforms is almost navy blue).
• The sailor uniforms in Saki appear to have quite some variation in skirt lengths, ranging from way below the knees to ultra-short, permanently flashy miniskirts — the latter usually reserved for younger characters, sometimes combined with Zettai Ryouiki.
• Sakura Gari features boys who wear either hakama or gakuran:
  • In the flashbacks, a 12-or-13-year-old Souma wears gakuran. This is specially notorious in the scene where his Wicked Stepmother's corpse is found in what looks like a Bath Suicide.
  • Masataka is always seen in hakama since he's a highschool student/butler and the story is set in the Tokyo of 1920. Some of his classmates wear hakama too, while others prefer the recently implemented gakuran.
• Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, as seen above, uses the sailor fuku and the gakuran as the uniforms.
• Seraph of the End:
  • The military uniforms in this series are very, very similar to the ones that inspired the fuku and the gakuran, and it makes sense considering the setting and how it includes an Imperial Army probably inspired by the Real Life one.
  • The only thing that Mahiru Hiragi◊ is seen wearing is a white and gray fuku, complete with Zettai Ryouiki.
  • The younger cast, including the protagonist Yuuichirou and Mahiru's younger sister Shinoa, initially go to a school that has gray/black fukus for the girls and gray gakuran for the boys.
• Shadow Star, by the aforementioned Mohiro Kitou, has three cases of this:
  • The prestigious all-girls school that Satomi attends (and Shiina and Mamiko join in the manga) has a black serafuku with a white scarf and red tights as its uniform. The anime is Cut Short, but its very last scene has Shiina getting ready to go to class and wearing her own fuku.
  • In Akira's junior high, the boys use gakuran while the girls wear blazers.
  • Shiina's dead sister Mishou was shown wearing a serafuku as well. And she had it on when she was found dead in very odd circumstances.
• When Tiara from Shamanic Princess transfers to a local school, she wears a sailor fuku. It's unusual because it's a college and doesn't have any sort of uniform policy.
• After Yuzuru in A Silent Voice decided to return to school, she was shown in a sailor uniform.
• Tomonaga Yoshiko in Sisterism wears one in a chapter.
• Slam Dunk:
  • The main school, Shohoku High, has black gakuran for the boys and blue and gray blazer uniforms for the girls.
  • Out of the other schools, the major part use blazer outfits for both genders. The closest exceptions are Ryonan High (with gakurans for the boys) and the anime-only Takezono (the girls use dark red and light brown fukus, the guys wear blazers with the same color schemes).
• The VF-1A "Angel Bird" variant Valkyrie from the first episode of Super Dimension Fortress Macross. Though it never transforms out of fighter mode on-screen, the paint scheme becomes oddly familiar in Battroid mode. One of the many such Easter Eggs thrown into the first few episodes of the series.
• Sweet Blue Flowers: The all-girl high school attended by Akira, Fujigaya, has relatively realistically depicted sailor fukus, with skirts way below the knee.
• Tenchi Muyo!:
  • In the first movie, Tenchi Muyo in Love, Ryoko and Ayeka wear a black version of the sailor fuku, blending in with the rest of Achika and Nobuyuki's class.
  • The Tenchi Universe High School AU has the cast as highschoolers and averts the trope since Tenchi, Ayeka and Ryoko wear blazer uniforms.
  • Averted in Tenchi in Tokyo too: when Tenchi transfers to a Tokyo highschool, the uniforms are blazers for both boys and girls.
• Tokyo Babylon has teens wearing Western uniforms more often than not, but one of the most important scenes has a boy wearing a gakuran. The boy is a teenaged Seishirou and the scene is the Forgotten First Meeting between him and a then-small Subaru.
• In The Twelve Kingdoms, Youko and Yuuka's highschool uses a dark gray, long-skirted serafuku as its girls' uniform. The anime makes their originally all-girls school into a mixed gender one and Youko's childhood friend/Yuka's suitor Asano is shown using a normal blazer uniform.
• In Vampire Princess Miyu, the major part of the schools featured in the OAV's, the TV series and the manga have Western-styled uniforms. In the fourth OAV, however, Miyu wears a classy-looking dark gray fuku with a white collar and a red scarf when she attends an all-girls middle school in Nara before being made into a vampire.
• In Urusei Yatsura, Tomobiki High has black gakuran and dark blue serafuku as uniforms. Medou wears a customized white gakuran instead because of his Screw the Rules, I Have Money! mentality, whereas Ryuunosuke uses a gakuran rather than a serafuku because of her stereotypically masculine father.
• Hitomi from The Vision of Escaflowne wears her school uniform for most of the series, even though she's been transported to another world where Japanese high schools are not present. In one episode, she's given a local dress to wear, only to rip off the skirt so that she can run freely later. Interestingly, the dress rips completely cleanly and evenly, leaving her with an outfit that looks amazingly similar to her school uniform. Also, Hitomi's uniform in itself is a mix of both styles: the collar of the Western-inspired school jacket looks a lot like the collar of a serafuku when you look at it close, and it also has a red scarf like a serafuku usually would.
• Wandering Son:
  • Trans girl Nitori starts wearing one in elementary to pass as a girl while out with her friends. She continues to wear it casually in middle school, despite her school not using them. She is mistaken for a New Transfer Student when she goes to her school as a girl in her sailor fuku one day. She is immediately sent off to the nurse while her parents are called.
  • When the True Companions split off into various high schools Sasa, Momoko, and Chizuru got put into an all-girls schools that uses Sailor Fuku. In comparison Nitori, Makoto, Doi, Oka, Seya, and Maho go to schools that have the contemporary "blazer" style uniforms, while Takatsuki and Chiba got into a school that is uniform-free (which Nitori wanted to go to but failed enrollment for; Takatsuki is a trans boy and entered the school specifically to avoid wearing a skirt). Nitori doesn't buy a new sailor fuku in high school, and instead gets a new girls uniform that matches her male uniform.
  • The incident that led Yuki to become a hikikomori and drop out of school involved her classmates forcing her to put on a fuku, as a part of the bullying they subjected her to for being transgender.
• In Whisper of the Heart, Shizuku's middle school uses the classic sailor uniform for female students, with a grey collar and skirt.
• Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest:
  • In both the original Wolf Guy manga and the remakes, the school where Hot Teacher Ms. Aoshika works and which Inugami transfers into has gakuran for the guys and serafuku for the gals. In the Ookami no Monshou remake, while Inugami's gakuran is the traditional black one, his school's ones are actually white.
  • The local Fille Fatale Ryuuko Kounuma wears a heavily modified serafuku with a skirt, a a midriff-baring top and Zettai Ryouiki on one leg.
  • When Ms. Aoshika was a student, she went to a school that also had serafuku for the girls. Sadly, a flashback shows that she was wearing her fuku... when she was raped.
• X/1999:
  • The school attended by Kamui and the Monou siblings has gakuran for the boys and Western-looking blazers for the girls. Later, the junior high and highschool aged Dragons of the Heavens (Kamui, Yuzuriha, Sorata and Arashi) transfer to CLAMP Campus and switch to frilly Western school uniforms.
  • Saiki attends a different school and wears a gakuran, while Yuzuriha's old school had blazers for both genders.
  • Arashi Kishuu wears a light brown and white serafuku almost all the time, until she transfers to CLAMP Campus with the others.
• In Yo-kai Watch Jam The Movie: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat be a Hero? and Yo-kai Watch Jam - Yo-kai Academy Y: Close Encounters of the N Kind, Y Academy uses gakuran for boys and sailor suits for girls.
• In Yuri is My Job!, Liebe Girls' Academy, a fictional school portrayed by the characters who work at the salon, has a sailor fuku as its uniform, and Mitsuki and Hime once re-enact the "tie-fixing" scene from Maria Watches Over Us. While Hime and Kanoko's middle school also has a sailor fuku, their high school has a blazer uniform, while Mitsuki's school has a sailor fuku and Hime and Mitsuki's elementary school apparently didn't have a uniform.
• More than once seen in the horror manga anthology Zekkyou Gakkyuu. The biggest example is the narrator, Yomi, revealed to be a Cute Ghost Girl who, as the much-abused junior high student Yumi Akimoto, died after cracking from the pressure and other circumstances and blowing up a classroom to kill herself and her bullies.