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* Main character Ginko from ''[[Mushishi]]'' wears recognizably modern clothes despite the story's setting suggesting a [[Pre Meiji]] Japanese location. The author eventually admitted that Ginko was made during the early design period where the story was supposed to take place in modern times, with him simply being left unchanged.

* Likewise Chrono's very distinctive outfit in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' is back from when he was designed to be a more important lead character -- and a villain -- rather than a side character. There [[Improbably Female Cast|not being much to compare him to]], even Elio's outfit is much less flashy.

* Although ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' was the first [[Real Robot]] anime, it still carried a lot of baggage from the [[Super Robot]] genre, mainly the design aesthetic for Zeon vehicles and an [[Aerith and Bob]] naming scheme for their people that evokes the Alien invaders common to Super Robot antagonists, and a number of gimmicky weapons and [[Merchandise Driven|accessories]] for the Gundam like the G-Armor, Beam Javelin, and Gundam Hammer. The latter were quickly retconned out of existence in the Movie adaptations, and later Zeon designs have tried to evoke a image closer to [[World War II]] Germany.

** Played with in the SEED series, where the titular gundams were only called a handful of times (once in the first series, twice in the second) because that's what their OS's acronyms spelled out. The units were almost always refered to by their production names.