While browsing the site, I noticed that some Girlish Pigtails (A trope where pigtails denote youthfulness and/or girlyness) examples are simply "this girl has pigtails", so I'm gonna check if it does have problems.
(63/63)
- Just has pigtails - (27/63)
- Seems valid - (13/63)
- ZCE - (15/63)
- Unsure - (8/63)
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Just has pigtails (27/63)
- Arcana Famiglia (Felicità) /Girlish Pigtails: She fastens her long hair into pigtails with black ribbons. Just has pigtails
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! – Supporting Cast (Cassie Lang) /Girlish Pigtails: Scott shows Hank and the Heroes For Hire a picture of Cassie with her hair styled in this. just has pigtails
- The Baby-Sitters Club (2020) (Mary Anne Spier) /Girlish Pigtails: In the first half of the first season, she often wears her hair in two braids. just has pigtails
- Cocoppa Dolls (Zoe, Princess of Cancer) /Girlish Pigtails: Not only two pigtails, she combines in some braids for stylishness. just has pigtails
- Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (Ouran Nakagawa) /Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair in these. just has pigtails
- Denji Sentai Megaranger (Miku Imamura/Mega Pink) /Girlish Pigtails: Sports it during the series, loses it when she appears in Gaoranger Vs Super Sentai. just has pigtails
- Dick Tracy - 1950s Era (Susie Zonn) /Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is very wavy, to the extent that it resembles a pair of wings when brushed down. She often wears dual ponytails to accentuate the effect. just has pigtails
- Doubt Academy First Roster (Natsumi Yagami) /Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is put up in a pair of long, flowing pigtails. Just has pigtails
- Dubious Company (The Pirates (Elator “Elly” Cernocis)) /Girlish Pigtails: Tiren braided his hair this way with cursed hairties, which causes much of Elator's issues with Marty. just has pigtails
- Fate/Grand Order: Casters G to M (Izumo-no-Okuni) /Girlish Pigtails: Okuni sports a loose one in her first two Ascensions and later adds another pair in her Third Ascension. just has pigtails
- Feathers and Mountain Air (Supporting characters (Sinthesia Ilyph)) /Girlish Pigtails: Puts her hair like that for work, otherwise lets it loose. just has pigtails
- Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Global Originals And Precursors (Fan Festa Winners (Myra)) /Girlish Pigtails: Possesses long pink pigtails. just has pigtails
- Fire Emblem Fates - Corrin /Girlish Pigtails: One of the many hairstyles you can give Female Corrin through Character Customization. just has pigtails
- Girls und Panzer der Film (Haru Fukuda) /Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is tied into two braids, and she's one of the tank commanders of Chi-Ha-Tan's sensha do team. They're also cute. just has pigtails
- Grisaia: Phantom Trigger (Murasaki Ikoma) /Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair on two waist-length pigtails. just has pigtails
- Gundam: Reconguista in G (Venus Globe (Khun Soon)) Girlish Pigtails: She wears her hair in three spiky ponytails. just has pigtails
- hololive Japan - Original Generation (Miko Sakura) /Girlish Pigtails: She has a pair of low-worn pigtails in her casual outfit.
just has pigtails - Jet Force Gemini (Vela) /Girlish Pigtails: Notably, they're not the typical bending pigtails but short, spade-shaped ones. just has pigtails
- Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl (Tomari Kurusu) /Girlish Pigtails: She wears her hair in pigtails. just has pigtails
- Mortal Kombat X (Cassie Cage) /Girlish Pigtails: Sports a pair of pigtails in her Cassie Quinn skin in MK11. just has pigtails
- Rewrite (Shizuru Nakatsu) /Girlish Pigtails: Kotarou seems to identify her by her hair a lot of the time. He considers the twintails to be a rare spawn monster at one point. just has pigtails
- Roulette Rampage Reloaded (Sumiko Ihara) /Girlish Pigtails: Tied up with black and white Monokuma scrunchies, further likening her to Junko. just has pigtails
- Rune Factory Frontier (Cinnamon) /Girlish Pigtails: Despite her mature features, she wears her hair like this. just has pigtails
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (Pierre and Kurin) /Girlish Pigtails: Kurin always keeps her hair braided in a short pair of pigtails, at the nape of her neck. just has pigtails
- Tokyo Mew Mew (Bu-ling Huang / Mew Pudding) /Girlish Pigtails: In the manga sequels, Bu-ling ties some of her hair into pigtails that make her look even more adorable. just has pigtails
- Trails Series Estelle's Party (Estelle Bright) /Girlish Pigtails: Her iconic brown tails serve as one of her few visible girly features. One of the group victory quotes in Reverie brings this hairstyle up with her, Tio, Nadia, KeA, Alfin, and Celine. just has pigtails
- Urara Meirocho (Ko'ume Yukimi) /Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair like this. just has pigtails
Seems valid (13/63)
- Black Lagoon - Hotel Moscow (Sofiya "Balalaika" Pavlovna) /Girlish Pigtails: Her Start of Darkness episode "Little Soldier Girls" reveals that she wore her hair like this prior to enlisting in the Soviet Special Forces. This serves to highlight the contrast between the innocent girl that she was, and the nihilistic Blood Knight that she becomes. seems valid
- Deltarune: Noelle /Girlish Pigtails: Berdly's flashback in Chapter Two indicates that she had this hair style when she was a child. seems valid, since pigtails here indicate Noelle being rather young when she had them
- Dōkyūsei (Kurumi Nishina) /Girlish Pigtails: In the form of braids, to highlight her childish nature. seems valid
- Domestic Girlfriend (Momo) /Girlish Pigtails: Momo sports these, complimenting her child-like personality. seems valid
- Fruits Basket - Tohru Honda /Girlish Pigtails: She sometimes wears her hair in pigtails or braids when she's not at school, which definitely fits her feminine personality. Flashbacks show that she wore pigtails more often when she was in middle school. seems valid
- GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class (Miki "Nodamiki" Noda) /Girlish Pigtails: She normally does her hair in twin buns, which fits her bubbly personality very well. seems valid
- Granblue Fantasy Event Characters (Airi Totoki) /Girlish Pigtails: She rather girly and innocent and uses pigtails as her hairstyle. seems valid
- I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! (Marie Sera Marian) /Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair like this and has the joy, if not the innocence that goes with the style. seems valid
- Kamisama Kiss (Main Characters (Nanami Momozono)) /Girlish Pigtails: As a child Nanami had her hair up in short pig tails but now, as noted by Tomoe, she hardly ever puts her hair up. seems valid
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Chiyo Sakura) /Girlish Pigtails: Wore her hair in pigtails before entering high school, which is befitting of a very girly character. seems valid
- Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Roxy) /Girlish Pigtails: Even though she hates being mistaken for a child, her braided pigtails do make her look somewhat childish on top of her already young-looking body. seems valid
- Neon Genesis Evangelion – Other Characters (Hikari Horaki) /Girlish Pigtails: Pretty appropriate choice of hairstyle for one of the series' most idealistic and innocent characters. seems valid
- Pokémon Diamond and Pearl - Gym Leaders and Elite Four (Candice) /Girlish Pigtails: She's a peppy young girl and wears a pair of pigtails to go with her energetic and childish nature. seems valid
ZCE (15/63)
- And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online? (Akane Segawa/Schwein) /Girlish Pigtails: They go well with her tsundere personality. ZCE
- BlazBlue - Rachel Alucard /Girlish Pigtails: And quite long ones too. ZCE
- Brave Frontier Units Part 3 (Elulu) /Girlish Pigtails zce
- Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror (The Ketch Sisters - Mina and Frost) /Girlish Pigtails: Mina again. zce
- Earth Twenty Seven Witches (Dusk) /Girlish Pigtails: Her style of choice. zce
- Elena of Avalor - Civilians (Amara) /Girlish Pigtails: She has them. zce
- F-Zero AX-GX (Princia Ramode) /Girlish Pigtails zce, in fact it's commented out
- How to Deal with a Yandere (Lily) /Girlish Pigtails zce
- Ladies versus Butlers! (Selnia Iori Flameheart) /Girlish Pigtails: Of the drill-variety. zce
- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! (Sanae Dekomori) /Girlish Pigtails: Which she attempts to weaponize by turning them into bolas, though she usually just ends up getting tangled up in them. zce
- Maid Sama Family Members (Suzuna Ayuzawa) /Girlish Pigtails: Although she isn't that particularly girly. zce
- Persona 4: The Investigation Team (Rise Kujikawa) /Girlish Pigtails: Which she ditches, at least temporarily, in the Golden epilogue. zce (in fact it's commented out)
- Planetary Moe The Not Quite Planets (Eris) /Girlish Pigtails: Fitting for her Tsundere image. zce
- Sound! Euphonium (Haruka Ogasawara) /Girlish Pigtails zce
- Tales of Symphonia (Presea Combatir) /Girlish Pigtails: They actually become important in a sidequest where she has to dress up as Klonoa. They serve as her "ears." zce
Unsure (8/63)
- Boruto - Team 10 (Chocho Akimichi) /Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair in a pair and is a flighty slacker. unsure
- Corrector Yui (Akiko Yanagi)/Girlish Pigtails: She is always seen using pigtails, making her look as a tomboyish girl. unsure
- D.Gray-Man - Exorcists (Lenalee Lee) /Girlish Pigtails: Somewhat subverted. She has her long green hair in pigtails and a sweet personality, but she can and will mess you up if you threaten her or her friends. And the pigtails are gone anyways after most of her hair gets burnt off. unsure
- Dragon Hunters (Zaza) /Girlish Pigtails: Has pigtails to suit her Genki Girl personality. unsure
- Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart (Generals (Resta)) /Girlish Pigtails: Seems to accentuate her apparent age. unsure
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Karane) /Girlish Pigtails: Downplayed. Though she has pigtails, she’s overall quite serious and adult, though occasionally a more playful side of hers sneaks out. unsure
- Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Longstocking) /Girlish Pigtails: She ties her red hair into two pigtails. Though she's not very conventionally feminine. unsure
- Tweeny Witches — Magical Girl Squad (Eva) /Girlish Pigtails: She braids her hair into high pigtails with brown bands at the end. She's a Cute Witch with Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold. unsure
Possible solutions:
- Disambig the trope
- Rename and/or rewrite the trope
