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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Yotsubato|Yotsuba&!]]'', Yanda is an old kohai of Koiwai's, and can get away with mooching off him for that reason. This only extends so far - when he picks on Yotsuba, Koiwai is obligated to pick on him in return.
* In ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', Hikaru calls Roy (who was a more senior pilot in Hikaru's family airshow) ''sempai''.
** In ''[[Robotech]]'', this is changed to Rick calling him "Big Brother," which is not quite the same.
* Maya Ibuki in [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion]] calls Ritsuko "sempai", which was given [[Seme|a whole]] [[Girls Love|new context]] in a scene in ''End of Evangelion''.
* Tatewaki Kunou in ''[[Ranma ½
* Sei Suga in ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru]]'' is thrilled to receive a visit from current Lillian students at her office, as all of them are her ''kohai''.
** The Soeur system is based on this as well.
* Hyatt and Elgala always refers to Excel as "Excel-sempai" in ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]''. In the dub, it's just "Senior".
* Likewise, Milly refers to Meryl simply as "sempai" throughout ''[[Trigun]]'', which is ironic considering Milly is almost as tall as Vash.
* Yakou Tenma is the kohai of Pegasus in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! R]]''.
* In ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' and ''[[Digimon Adventure 02|02]]'', Jou is sometimes called "sempai," as he is the oldest of the group. Miyako also calls Koushirou "Izumi-sempai," as he was her senior in the computer club, and Daisuke refers to Taichi as "Taichi-sempai," as he was his senior in the soccer club.
** Taiki himself becomes a sempai to Tagaru and Yuu in the [[Digimon Xros Wars:
* [[Drop the Hammer|Shin]] of ''[[Dorohedoro]]'' is [[Statuesque Stunner|Noi]]'s sempai. They happily makes bets on who will kill the most or eat the fastest. Despite being basically assassins, they're [[Punch Clock Villain|pretty]] [[Crapsack World|decent]] [[Grey and Gray Morality|guys]]. Shin only allows Noi to call him like that though.
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', Andreas Darlton and Gilbert G.P. Guilford begin treating Suzaku Kururugi in a [[Sempai-Kohai]] fashion after he wins their respect, and even moreso after he's selected as Euphemia's Knight (they're both Knights of Euphemia's older sister Cornelia). In the second season, Guilford offers him some friendly advice and, when Suzaku expresses surprise, he openly admits to trying to play the sempai. (Despite the fact that in terms of status, Suzaku has surpassed Guilford at this point by becoming a Knight of the Round.)
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** Pain jokes that as they shared a master, Naruto should consider him his Sempai. Naruto is not amused.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Izuru, Momo and Renji consider Shuuhei their sempai; they first interact with him while he is directing a field exercise in their time in the Academy. Yoruichi refers to herself as Soifon's sempai.
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Yusuke initially greets [[Evil Counterpart|Sensui]] as "sempai," as he was the previous Spirit Detective, but he's being sarcastic, because Sensui is now attempting to destroy the world and commit genocide. ([[Batman Gambit|Sort]] [[Thanatos Gambit|of.]]) Later, when Yusuke meets Kuroko Sanada, the ''first'' Spirit Detective, who retired with a modicum of her sanity in tact, he is ''incredibly'' respectful towards her, although he addresses her as "Kuroko-san," not "sempai." Either way, it's the most (conventionally...) respectful Yusuke is to anyone, ''ever.''
* In ''[[Minami-ke]]'', Kana passes off "Mako-chan" as a kohai of hers in order to explain why a girl Chiaki's age keeps visiting her. Meanwhile, Haruka and her friends deal with Hosaka, whose attentions are unwanted but can't just be ignored because he's their sempai.
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'': When the girls start their second year, Chiyo-chan is furious at not being taken seriously by the new freshmen (who are of course still older than her). She finally accosts a random student on the stairs and makes him call her "Mihama-sempai", then walks off giggling at the sound of it. The official translations use "Miss Mihama".
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** In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'', Vivio refers to Einhart as her sempai, but calls her "Einhart-[[Japanese Honorifics|san]]" rather than "Einhart-sempai"
* Used repeatedly in ''[[Prince of Tennis]]''.
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', Shishio refers to Kenshin, the government's previous manslayer in the shadows, as his sempai. Similarly to the ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' example, he's being kind of snarky about it, as Kenshin is kind of trying to stop his grand plans now.
** There's also an exchange (with Kenshin borderline channeling his dark ''Battousai'' personality) where Kenshin dismissively refers to Shishio as his kohai.
* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', Skull constantly refers to the other [[Enfante Terrible|Arcobaleno]] as his sempai. He ''is'' the youngest, after all.
** Fran and the other Varia as well.
* In ''[[Love Hina]]'', Shinobu frequently calls Keitaro sempai.
** And it is about the * only* form of direct, non-grudging respect he ever gets from anyone. Until {{spoiler|the manga's epilogue, when the regulars vociferously defend him to new girl Ema}}.
* In the manga of ''[[Ghost in the Shell (manga)|Ghost in The Shell]]'' Bateau gets on Togusa's case (Togusa being the rookie of the pair) about not backing his sempai. Togusa replies that kind of thinking is obsolete. The translation used may actually be the most bizarre used yet, with "sempai" translated to "bishop."
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* In ''[[Kochikame]]'', Kankichi Ryotsu is often called Sempai by most of the fellow police officers.
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]: At the start of the second season, Juudai is thrilled to finally be one of the older students, especially during his first duel against Edo, who refers to Juudai as 'sempai'. A few episodes later, Edo's final words to Ryou in their Pro duel have him calling himself Ryou's sempai, since he's been in the Pro Leagues longer than Ryou has. After that, Edo switches to calling Juudai by his name instead of "sempai". Also, Kenzan continually refers to most of the older students with the sempai honorific (except for Juudai, who is his aniki).
* In ''[[Durarara!!]]'', Tom and Shizuo still hold something of a sempai-kohai relationship long after both of them have graduated from school (with Shizuo now working as Tom's bodyguard). When Tom hires another bodyguard alongside Shizuo, Shizuo is elated that he gets to have a kohai of his own, completely oblivious to the fact that said kohai is plotting to kill him.
* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', Sae and Hiro are Yuno's and Miyako's sempai. They all seem to get along pretty well, so they don't seem to treat it like an obligation. In volume 4 of the manga and the third season of the anime, they all get two new kouhai: Nori and Nazuna. (Incidentally, Yuno moved into the room occupied by Hiro and Sae's sempai, Misato.)
* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'': Tamama often refers to the older members as '-sempai'; the only one who doesn't get this treatment is his beloved Gunsou-san. Kururu also refers to Giroro as his sempai at times; in his case, however, this is more to antagonize by reminding him that the scientist is younger than him, yet Kururu outranks him.
* In ''[[
* In the fifth episode of the anime for ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'', Satou refers to Hitomi exclusively as ''sempai'' during their meeting. At the end of it, [[Lampshading|Hitomi jokingly asks him if he still remembers her name.]]
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', Mami is Madoka's and Sayaka's ''sempai'', both in school, and as a [[Magical Girl]]. She becomes motivated to protect them because of this.
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* ''[[Planetes]]'' has [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Hachirota's]] sempai to [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|Ai Tanabe's]] kouhai.
* From the one time she's seen doing it, [[Lucky Star|Konata]] seems to enjoy surprising first-years by status-dropping when she goes to see her cousin in her class. Given that Konata is still short and [[Pettanko|flat]] enough to look like she's not old enough to be in high school even after she later graduates, it's quite a shock.
* Subverted in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': Hutt River claims to be Wy's sempai (translated as senior in scanlations), but Wy doesn't pay him much respect: she is less than willing to greet him when she goes by his home and she even agrees with Molossia when he calls Hutt River a "lameass bastard". Still, Hutt's ridiculously snobby attitude doesn't help.
* Kagura and Ayase in ''[[Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo|Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo]]'' use these terms, even after Kagura has left the school.
* Happens a lot with [[Boys Love Genre]] and [[Yaoi]] works, whether set in a school or an office environment. For example, Souchi's sempai to Morinaga's kouhai in the university in ''[[The Tyrant Falls in Love]]''.
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* ''[[Super Sentai]]'':
** Despite technically being the senior officer in ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'', Tetsu ([[Sixth Ranger|DekaBreak]]) fondly refers to Red Ranger Ban as "sempai", mostly because Ban showed him a way to fulfill his duties with passion instead of the hardnosed indifference he was taught.
** In the various ''Sentai'' [[Crossover|team-ups]], the members of the younger Sentai team tend to defer to the older, sempai team.
* In [[Tomica Hero Rescue Force]] [[The Hero|Hikaru]] commonly refers to [[The Lancer|Kyosuke]], [[Action Girl|Rei]] and [[The Medic|Juri]] as this until he found out that the teams [[Sixth Ranger]] was [[Da Chief]] he reffered to R5 as "Dai-Sempai".
** [[Tomica Hero Rescue Fire]] has a similar example, Tatsuya refers to Hikaru and the rest of Rescue Force as "Sempai". As for the team itself, [[The Hero|Tatsuya]] calls [[The Big Guy|Yuuma]] his sempai, who is in turn seen as a sempai by [[The Chick|Jun]].
* Invoked in ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]''. After the death of his mentor, GE CEO Don Geiss, Jack Doneghy tells Liz Lemon that Geiss used to call him ''kohai'' in private, while Jack reciprocated, calling him ''sempai''. Although Jack [[Men Don't Cry|won't admit it]], he is very shaken by Geiss' death (or more accurately, [[Human Popsicle|preservation]] [[Shout-Out|in]] [[Star Wars|carbonite]]), masking it by working himself up at the possibility that he'll inherit something from Geiss. He inherits Argus, Geiss' pet peacock. Long story short, {{spoiler|Liz convinces Kenneth--who claims to know how to interpret peafowl calls--to tell Jack that the bird had said, "sempai, kohai." Jack becomes convinced that Geiss' spirit had inhabited Argus, leading him to pour out to the bird. He ends up reconciled to Geiss'...Geiss'...what happened to Geiss.}}
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