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[[File:seifuku_8199.jpg|frame|<small>Everyone looks good in a Sailor Fuku. Even mechas.</small><ref>from top left then down: [[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Usagi Tsukino]], [[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei (Manga)-sensei|Chiri Kitsu (L) and Kafuka Fuura (R)]], [[Inuyasha (Manga)|Kagome Higurashi]], [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]], [[Street Fighter (Franchise)|Sakura Kasugano]], [[Blood: theThe Last Vampire (Manga)|Saya]], [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Anime)|Nobel Gundam]] </ref>.]]
 
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** Haruhi's middle school uniform shows up again in the [[Alice in Wonderland]] inspired [[All Just a Dream]] episode.
** The Ouran Academy has a more elaborate get-up for female students, but that doesn't stop Renge from occasionally cosplaying her favourite Visual Novel's heroine in fuku. Also St. Lobelia has Joshikousei uniforms, which actually resemble long skirts.
* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei]]''
* ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star]]'' and ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]'' both have their respective heroines wear sailor suit-esque school uniforms (although the ones in ''Heartcatch'' are dress uniforms, they're still sailor suit-esque nonetheless). Miki's school uniform in ''[[Fresh Pretty Cure]]'' can also be considered an example.
* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' revolves around a [[Club President|high-school club]], and thus, sailor fuku appear in abundance. In Volume 1 of the novels, Kyon [[Lampshade Hanging|wonders]] if the principal has a fetish for this since male students wear blazers and ties, but girls wear the more traditional sailor uniform.
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* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]],'' though only to point out that the fact Sayo wears one is proof that she died a long time ago as the uniform has changed since.
* ''[[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 Harii Tribeccah goes to in ''[[ViMagical VidGirl (Manga)Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]''.
* Kimura in ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'' suggests sailor uniforms as a gym outfit.
** Chiyo's two friends from elementary school wear these upon entering middle school. Chiyo's somewhat jealous that she'll never get to wear one because she skipped ahead to high school, but they note that they are not likely get into her school.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic Fumoffu]]''
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** When 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 [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|asks what they're staring at]].
* Hitomi from ''[[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.
* In one episode of ''[[Bottle Fairy (Animeanime)|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.
* The manga version of ''[[Read or Die (Anime)|Read or Die]]'' included this when parodying (but using) [[Fan Service]] moments, with Yomiko donning one of the much younger Nenene's ''fuku''. It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].
{{quote| '''Yomiko''': [[Christmas Cake|Even though I'm 25]], it looks good, right?}}
* 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.
* ''[[Love Hina]]'', the younger tenants are occasionally seen in them, and Kitsune and Naru are prominently seen in flashbacks...and, occasionally, ''[[Sexy Schoolwoman|not]]'' in flashbacks.
* The sailor fuku's worn in ''[[Maria-samaMariasama ga Miteru]]'' are an interesting variety, in that they have very long skirts and are generally not very flattering. In that, they may actually be [[Truth in Television|more like the real thing]].
** Also notable in that they appear to be one-piece dresses, as opposed to the typical separate blouse and skirt.
* Nobel Gundam from ''[[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 [[The Berserker|another way, though...]]).
** Similarly 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 [http://www.macross2.net/m3/sdfmacross/variant-vf-1a-angel.htm oddly familiar] in Battroid mode. One of the many such [[Easter Egg|Easter Eggs]] thrown into the first few episodes of the series.
* The sailor uniforms in ''[[Saki (Mangamanga)|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]].
* ''[[Aoi Hana]]'': The all-girl high school attended by Akira, Fujigaya, has relatively realistically depicted sailor fukus, with skirts way below the knee.
* 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. Strong candidate for [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]?
* While the tops of ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'''s Hakuou Academy have resemblance to the style, the skirts are ankle length. Isumi still dislikes them for being 'breezy', though she wears kimonos.
* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]] 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.
* ''[[Cherry Juice (Manga)|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]].
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Bleach]]'': The high school attended by the lead character does not employ this type of uniform and thus it was 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.
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* ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'': Tendou Juka, Tendou Souji's little sister, is a prime example. Some consider her an example of [[Lolicon]] pandering.
* Surprisingly, ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]''. In the episode "Court Martial", a young girl is wearing a futuristic sailor fuku. Humorusly enough, it looks like something Sailor Mercury would wear.
 
== Film ==
 
* The live-action adaptation of ''[[Blood: theThe Last Vampire]]'' has finally brought this fetish to the silver screen.
* [[Emily Browning]]'s character in ''[[Sucker Punch]]'' appears to do this.
* In ''[[Two Brothers]]'' Raoul, a French boy in [[The French Colonial Empire|1920's French Indochina]], wears the Western sailor suit fashion that became the basis for the use of sailor suits as school uniforms in Japan.
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== Video Games ==
 
* ''[[AIR (Visual Novel)|AIR]]'' is not set in a high school, but all the girls wear their uniforms almost all the time.
* ''[[Yoake Mae Yori RuriRuriiro Iro Nana]]'' gives sailor uniforms to about half the haremettes; in an odd twist, [[First Girl Wins|poster girl]] Feena is among those that do not.
* Sakura and Karin from the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' series both dress in sailor fuku. It's so much a part of who Sakura is, that she wears it as her fight uniform in ''Street Fighter IV'', despite [[Word of God]] stating that she's over twenty now.
* ''[[Guilty Gear (Video Game)|Guilty Gear]]'': The Jellyfish Pirates wears this as their uniform.
* Hinata Wakaba from ''[[Rival Schools (Video Game)|Rival Schools]]''.
* Athena Asamiya from ''[[Psycho Soldier (Video Game)|Psycho Soldier]]''. Her ''King of Fighters'' incarnation was suppossed to fight in a sailor fuku but the [[Word of God|creators]] thought that it would be "too risqué", and limited the outfit to her pre-fight animations. Years later, she actually fought in such outfit in ''SNK vs Capcom'' ([[Neo Geo Pocket]] version); and finally, in ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters]] XI'', ''XII'' and the upcoming ''XIII'' she actually fights using a school uniform... [[Not Allowed to Grow Up|as late as it may seem]].
* Kasumi and Ayane from ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' have, in some games, alternate outfits that are school outfits, all for [[Fan Service]] purposes, of course, but also note that [[All There in the Manual|they're supposed to be that young]].
* Saki from the ''Oneechanbara'' series has a sailor suit as her default outfit.
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** both of those characters' outfits featured shorts or culottes instead of a skirt, and
** one of them gets a free pass on account of actually ''being a sailor''.
* In ''[[Recettear an Item Shops Tale (Video Game)|Recettear an Item Shops Tale]]'', the strongest and most expensive clothes that can be purchased that playable (though the NPCs can be sold it as well, obviously) female characters can equip and be sold is a sailor uniform, whose description reads "Confers great power upon women of any age group." Though if male characters come in asking for clothes, you can sell them this also (though the playable male characters cannot equip it, which would make it funnier).
* In ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'', a sailor uniform and gakuran can be found as special clothes.
* In ''[[Kisetsu O Dakishimete (Visual Novel)|Kisetsu o Dakishimete]]'' (the 2nd game of the ''[[Yarudora (Visual Novel)|Yarudora]]'' series), the school blazer Mayu wears when the player character first finds her is a plot point. At several moments of the storyline, they use it to try and find the school it's affiliated to, and consequently [[Quest for Identity|discover Mayu's identity]]. It doesn't work, nobody they ask has ever seen this blazer. When following the {{spoiler|"Spirit of the Cherry Trees"}} storyline, it's implied the blazer is {{spoiler|the one Mayu's sister Mami, who just came back from overseas, wore when she was accidented}}.
* In ''[[Valis (Video Game)|Valis]]'', Yuko Ahso wears a sailor fuku for the first few stages before going [[Stripperiffic]]. The blue skirt matches the color of her hair. It returns in ''Valis II'' as one of her selectable outfits.
 
 
== Web Comics ==
 
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', [[Raised Byby Wolves|Grace]] pictures herself and most other female characters wearing fuku in her school-related [[Dream Sequence]]. This is probably meant to imply that her impression of school up until that point came almost entirely [http://egscomics.com/?date=2007-05-23 from watching anime.] Judging by the design, it's specifically ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]''.
* The heroine of ''MAQ #41'' used to wear Japanese uniforms to school. Since she lives in the United States this was viewed as quite odd and helped make her a target for bullying.
* ''[[The Wotch]]'': The spell used to turn Professor Sorgaz into MingMei Wu was allegedly created by a "rabid anime fanboy" which is why she ended up Ka-fuku'd as well as "Ka-Girled." Since it also gave her a Chinese name he must have been ''ignorant'' as well as rabid. She ditches the fuku after Anne undoes the part of the spell that is messing with her head.
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== Western Animation ==
 
* Katana, the (at first) girl Outsider in ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', wore a sailor suit in Season 1. However, in Season 2, she ditched it for the classic costume of her comic book counterpart.
* [[The Prima Donna|Lily]] wears one in ''[[Kappa Mikey]]'', even though she actually is not a student.
* ''[[Totally Spies]]'': Madison, the President's daughter wears one.
* ''[[Napoleon Dynamite (Animationanimation)|Napoleon Dynamite]]'': In the second episode, a scantron dating machine pairs Napoleon up with a Japanese foreign exchange student named Tokiko, who's sporting Sailor Fuku and every other Japanese schoolgirl-related trope you can imagine.
 
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