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== Fanfiction == |
== Fanfiction == |
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* Tsuruya in [[Kyon Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]] wears a kimono out of school nearly all the time for this reason. |
* Tsuruya in [[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]] wears a kimono out of school nearly all the time for this reason. |
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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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* Early in ''[[Persona 4]]'', the transfer student [[Meet Cute|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. |
* Early in ''[[Persona 4]]'', the transfer student [[Meet Cute|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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* [[Grumpy Old Man]] Victor Kudo from ''Phoenix Wright [[Ace Attorney]]: Trials and Tribulations'' not only wears one, but once embroidered kimonos as his job. |
* [[Grumpy Old Man]] Victor Kudo from ''Phoenix Wright [[Ace Attorney]]: Trials and Tribulations'' not only wears one, but once embroidered kimonos as his job. |
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* In [[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]] Episode II, Jin Uzuki wears kimono in a world thousands of years removed from Japan's ''existence'' on a [[Earth |
* In [[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]] Episode II, Jin Uzuki wears kimono in a world thousands of years removed from Japan's ''existence'' on a [[Earth-That-Was|destroyed Earth]]. He is not merely a [[Fan of the Past]], but holds to a very old-fashioned [[Good Is Old-Fashioned|sense of propriety]], and is a practitioner, to [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] levels, of traditional martial arts. |
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* In the ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game)|Pokémon Red and Blue]]'' 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. |
* In the ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game)|Pokémon Red and Blue]]'' 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. |
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** There is also a quintet known as the Kimono Girls. These are the only characters in [[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|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. |
** There is also a quintet known as the Kimono Girls. These are the only characters in [[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|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. |
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