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* General example. Virtually every [[Dating Sim]] game has leitmotifs for each character.
* All of ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'''s main female characters had their own themes. The ending song of the anime, ''Dango Daikazoku'', even goes on to have the same tune as Nagisa's eponymous theme music.
** Worth noting that virtually all of the main female characters in [[Key Visual Arts]]' visual novels feature their own themes, and there's even one for a male character. (Natsume Kyousuke from ''[[Little Busters!]]'')
** Non-animate things have leitmotifs, too. For an example, a song called ''Snowfield'' plays when it's snowing.
** On the same topic, a few themes are used for any event filling a certain theme, such as ''Shining in the sky'' and ''The Place Where Wishes Come True'' being used for many of the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] instances, ''A couple of idiots'' and ''Meaningful ways to pass the time'' for many of the comedic plot development scenes, ''Sping Wind'' and ''To the same heights'' for plot development in general and ''Distant Years'' along with ''Town, Flow of Time, People'' for flashbacks
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' has a few of these, most of which are [[Crowning Music of Awesome|brain-meltingly awesome]]. Most notably, Battler has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICKoZ18zHk&fmt=18 "Dread of the Grave"], Beato has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyzV_zgmT50&fmt=18 "Organ Opusculum in C Minor"], Lambdadelta has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq5YSqzX6Jk&fmt=18 "Miragecoordinator"], and Eva-Beatrice has the [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]-tastic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J5LF2Udf20&fmt=18 "Happiness of Marionette"].
** As said in the anime section, ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' has a few too.
** According to fans, Kinzo's theme is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMM_BPTYglM la divina tragedia]. [[Memetic Mutation|OH]] [[Large Ham|DESIRE!!!]]
* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' has several, including ''Die Lorelei'' for Ilya (which is also a pre-existing song), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhyWEIgW-bg&feature=related ''The Golden King''] for Gilgamesh, and ''[[Dark Reprise|All Evils]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe821OoYPUY of the World]'' for {{spoiler|the Shadow}}.
** You also have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUs8FEsDUZ4 ''Emiya''] for Shirou and {{spoiler|Archer}}, and for Saber you have ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn_QT5YvEbE Kodoku na Junrei]'' for the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Heartwarming]] and [[Tear Jerker]] scenes, and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCL_EqNKpVA The Sword Of Promised Victory]'' whenever she decides to unveil her Noble Phantasm and do something [[Badass]], and for villains, you have Kotomine's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n226M5ZzkOE Church On The Hill]''. And if you want, you can look into [[Fate/Zero]] for ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6Rog9FK9w The Berserker]'' and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiXr1AgiTFU The Lancer]''.
* The ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' series makes extensive use of this trope : each character in the series has its own iconic tune, which plays each time they show up, and even starts to play a fraction of seconds ''before'' the character appears on screen (so the first cue of who shows up is actually musical). [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in ''Tokimeki Memorial 2'' with [[Broken Bird|Kaori]] [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Yae]], who has a more cheerful variation of her Leitmoif, which plays when she {{spoiler|finally overcomes her painful past and turns back to her former [[Genki Girl]] self, [[The Power of Love|and fully falls]] [[Near-Victory Fanfare|in love with the protagonist]] [[Good Ending|who patiently and affectionately helped her along the way]]}}.
** ''[[Mitsumete Knight]]'', ''Tokimeki Memorial'' 's [[Spiritual Successor]], made the same use of this trope. And ''also'' [[Playing with a Trope|played with the trope]] with {{spoiler|[[Emotionless Girl|Raizze]] [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Haimer]]}}, who has ''two'' variations of her Leitmotif, {{spoiler|the somber "Cold Lips"}} : the first, {{spoiler|"Salishuan the Spy", an epic, battle-engaging tune}} which plays when {{spoiler|Raizze reveals to you her identity as Salishuan the Spy of the Eight Generals of Valpha-Valaharian, and challenges you to a duel in order to avenge her father, [[Final Boss|the leader of the Eight General Wolfgario the Ravager]], slayed by you in a duel a week earlier}} ; the second, which follows ''just after'' the first variation [[Relationship Values|if she's deeply in love with you]], named {{spoiler|"Sorrowful Blade"}}, is a {{spoiler|heartwrenching tune playing as [[Tear Jerker|Raizze is conflicted between]] her love for her father and thus her duty to avenge him, and the love she feels for you}}. And you'll ''need'' to hear this second variation [[Anyone Can Die|if you don't]] [[Lost Forever|want her to]] [[Tear Jerker|meet a sad fate]].
* Characters in the [[Girls Love]] VN ''[[Akai Ito]]'' and ''[[Aoi Shiro]]'' have [[Leitmotif]], but [[Akai Ito|Yumei]]'s Itsuka no Hikari was actually promoted to a vocal single later (along with [[Big Bad|Nushi]]'s sinister Wheel of Fortune).
* Each of the heroines in ''[[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!
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