Anime Girl In A School Uniform

Uniforms

There is a blossoming attraction to anime girl in a school uniform these days. In the United States, the only remnants of schoolgirls in uniform are the Catholic schoolgirl-type encounters we may stumble upon from time to time, but in Japan school uniforms are standard fare for the large majority of public schools.

Whether it’s the association with youth, purity, curiosity, and/or inexperience or something more simple like appreciation for the clean-cut, orderly look and feel to a student body in unison, school uniforms have become wildly popular in the eyes of the older crowd.

There is pride in the look amongst the students themselves, of course. School spirit and the dignity of walking down the street proclaiming to the world which prestigious school you attend is the envy point of some anime characters.

How many times have we heard an anime girl say “I chose that school because the uniforms look cute”? And yes, they do. Let’s have a look…

Typical for most schools is to have different uniforms for
each season. Winter uniforms are heavier and better suited
to shield from the brisk cold.

While summer uniforms are made of lighter fabric and lighter
colors, usually the opposite of the winter colors, to keep
students from melting in the classroom.

As is no surprise either, girls are usually adorned in frilly,
puffy, more airy designs with bright, pretty colors…

…while boys get darker colors in more business-like attire,
which has been the traditional look for males for decades.

Forever popular will be sailor-fuku.

You don’t have to be so modest about it, Ruriko.

See? Miharu is displaying that shyness guys adore.

As well as the pleasantness emanating from Momoka.

Kamichu is a fan of sailor-fuku.

Same as This Ugly Yet Beautiful World.

Anime Girl In A School Uniform

Even the rural Kizaki High is in the sailor-uniform spirit.

Full Metal Panic took the basic idea but played around with it a bit.

Sumizuka High took the sailor-suit outline, but filled it in with
earth-tone colors.

As did Shana’s school in Shakugan no Shana, in this case, a
darker green as opposed to amber brown.

Sometimes different grade levels get different colors in their
outfits, like they do at Miyagami Academy.

No, it’s not Mahoro’s maid outfit that’s the school’s design, but
rather the sailor fuku Rin is wearing.

Enough of all these sailor fukus, let’s look at the other types.

The girls of Tokimeki Memorial have uniforms that are blends
between old-school sailor suits and new-age designs.

The uniforms in School Rumble bring us another type of
uniform… the white blouse underneath a vest.

The girls in DearS get to wear dress-coat jackets with short
skirts. Armfulls of melon bread are not standard.

And the girls of Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru feature full-
body one-piece dresses.

Minagi Tohno from Air models the dresses from her school,
complete with a bow fixed around her lower back.

The students from Neon Genesis Evangelion show off their old-style dresses.

The school Ichika attends also features one-piece dresses.

Despite having various hair colors, the girls from Shuffle! all
remain uniform when in uniform.

The first version of Negima! has the Mahora girls in a
buttoned vest over a blouse above a monochrome skirt…

…while the second version puts the girls in blazers with the
school crest embroidered over the heart above a plaid skirt.

At Okitsu High School, both the male and female students
wear bright-blue suits.

Much similar to what is required at the Yamisaki Private Girls’ Academy.

The uniforms in Kashimashi ~ Girl Meets Girl seem to be
an amalgamation of all the styles we’ve seen so far: a
high-cut vest with a school patch over a full dress-skirt.

It’s the same thing with North High. The girls have a modified version of the sailor-fuku with shoulder pelts extending all the way down to the waist with a belted skirt.

A different kind of school calls for a different kind of uniform;
the “maidens” of Guarderobe appropriately enough dress
like maids.

To no surprise, the students at Ro-gumi Ninja Training School
wear traditional martial-arts wardrobe, like Shinobu’s pink
kimono-type outfit complete with a headband.

There are a few schools that pick the brightest colors known to science, like Arisu’s uniform
from the anime, Kagihime Monogatari: Eikyuu Alice Rondo