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Ojou, pronounced o-joe or eau-jeau for French speakers (often Ojou-san or Ojou-sama, equally they are the more than formal honorifics), a formal Japanese give-and-take for literally "immature lady", is typically used in anime when referring to wealthy, high-course female characters. ^annotation This term should not exist confused with Oujo, which means "princess" (literally "lord's daughter"). Ojou is written with distinctly unlike kanji and has the accent on the second syllable while oujo has it on the first. Regardless, this entry is in fact suitable for both, due to shared personality and mannerisms.

The reason for that is that while she is often rich, and occasionally fifty-fifty an actual Blue Blood, the key signal is that other people treat her like royalty, whether or not she actually is. Sometimes an Ojou tin can actually attain her status simply by personality alone (often in high school settings where she is probably a School Idol), past being so heavily idolized that a fanclub springs around her, elevating her to a condition far higher up that of those effectually her, while leveling vehement reprisals against whatever who would treat her every bit a commoner. Oftentimes, a wealthy Ojou is establish in a leading role in the Absurdly Powerful Student Council. In fact, her wealth is oftentimes the Hand Wave caption for the absurd power: they make the rules because they have coin.

In the original Japanese, wait all types of ojou to use the more formal first-person pronoun "watakushi" rather than the more coincidental (and feminine-merely) "atashi," and to make heavy use of the "wa" feminine emphasis particle at the end of their sentences.

About Ojou characters can be boiled down to 3 main types: a Proper Lady, an Water ice Queen and Royal Deviling version. See the Analysis For This Folio to see how those three types tend to play out.

A staple feature of these characters are to have Ojou Ringlets, Regal Ringlets, or a Hime Cut for a hair cut and for the Regal Brat type a Noblewoman's Laugh.

A character saying "oujo-sama to oyobi" (roughly, "Call me queen") implies something else entirely.

Meet also Princely Young man for the Spear Analogue of this trope. Boys' Honey works occasionally features a male version of the Ojou. The Yamato Nadeshiko is the developed version.

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• Ken Akamatsu'southward early on manga A.I. Dearest You has two: Kimika Aso is the haughty and mean-spirited type and an Expy of Sayoko Mishima.
• Ai Yori Aoshi:
  • Mayu Miyuki is a type 2, and something of a Rich Bowwow when she's not around Kaoru. She still gets a chip of sympathy due to Parental Abandonment.
  • Aoi Sakuraba, just girl of a wealthy family, is an almost perfect blazon 1, and very much the Yamato Nadeshiko. Her babysitter/tutor/foster-sister Miyabi, a Ninja Maid without the Meido compatible, calls her "Aoi-ojou-sama" from fourth dimension to time, specially early in the manga.
• Reika Ryuuzaki in Aim for the Ace!, 1 of the founding members of the stylized genre, and the first to utilize many of the phrases that went on to define the spoken language of rich girls in anime. (Note that Kazumi Amano Gunbuster is a huge parody of Reika, and indeed Gunbuster is one giant parody of Aim for the Ace!, though few fans are aware of it.
• Claudia Enfield from The Asterisk War is the Pupil Quango President of the school the protagonists attend to and the girl of a high-ranking official from a Mega-Corp that essentially rules the world. Ayato fifty-fifty lampshades that, given the electric current political climate, Claudia has a better social standing than Julis, who is an bodily princess.
• Midori from Attack No. i starts out as a queenly if not a bit snobbish rich girl on the volleyball team, merely progresses into a better sort of ojou who's more on the "graceful and gracious" finish.
• Chiyo-chan in Azumanga Daioh, though she defies pretty much all of the stereotypes other than "Large Fancy Business firm" and "has her own power and influence", and the latter is considering she's cute, smart, and well-liked.
• Kyoka Kanejo from B Gata H Kei belongs to the 2nd multifariousness, has this tropes in spades and throws in an unhealthy obsession for adept measure. Oh, and a ludicrous mansion

• Kunugi-tan from Binchou-tan, who is also somewhat of a Lonely Rich Kid, despite living in a mansion loaded with meidos.
• Sayaka Saeki of Blossom Into You lot plays with this. She comes off as fairly dignified, and plain went to a "school for rich girls," but she doesn't follow the stereotype as much as some In-Universe might think. Despite being adequately polite overall, Sayaka isn't above being a bit snide with people who get on her nerves, and she says that even at her old school, she and her friends enjoyed fairly ordinary pleasures like eating at chain restaurants and doing karaoke.
• Takami "Komo" Komoda from Bokurano, the girl of either a high-ranked military man (manga) or a congressman (anime), is a quiet and determined Aloof Nighttime-Haired Girl who embodies the Proper Lady type. Fifty-fifty as she dies, especially in the manga where her piano playing is vital to her battle.
• Most of the female characters in Boys over Flowers (excepting the poor to the point of absurdity primary character and her best friend), notably Shizuka, Domyoji'due south sister Tsubaki, and Sakurako, although the latter is more typified by her less pleasant attributes.
• Tomoyo Daidouji in Cardcaptor Sakura comes from an extremely wealthy family unit, and equally such is very composed and polite. She's sometimes followed by a cadre of female bodyguards. One of her Alternate Universe selves from Tsubasa -RESERVoir Relate- is even referred to every bit "Tomoyo-jou." Mei Ling from the anime is 1 also, being a fellow member of the prestigious Li clan.
• Case Closed:
  • The Suzuki sisters, Ayako (Proper Lady) and Sonoko (mild Spoiled Brat).
  • Also, many ojous show upwards in the different cases — similar Akie and Natsue Hatamoto (Spoiled Brat and Proper Lady, respectively), Reika Yotsui (massive Rich Bowwow who dies for it), Asuka Shibazaki (top model, girl of a politician and another Rich Bowwow who as well pays with her life), Ema Anzai (oil painter, member of a keiretsu and also a Rich Bitch ... approximate what happens to her?), Etsuko Torakura (Proper Lady, married into a rich family via a savage Scarpia Ultimatum), Naoko Takei (mix of Proper Lady and Lonely Rich Kid who is kidnapped due to her father'due south horrible sins), etc.¨
  • The latest Ojou in the series is Momiji Oouka, who mixes the Ice Queen and Spoiled Brat types (she's more than of the first in the manga, and more of the second in the 21-thursday Not-Serial Movie).

• A Certain Scientific Railgun:
  • All of the girls attention Tokiwadai are called "ojou-sama" past pretty much everybody else.
  • Upon hearing that she'southward from Tokiwadai, Misaka is commonly assumed by anybody to exist a Rich Bitch... until it turns out that she's a deredere Nice Daughter with a heaping aid of Trivial Miss Badass for those who don't go information technology.

• Lawmaking Geass:
  • There are mainly 2, one on each side of the conflict (though neither one is directly involved in the fighting). Milly Ashford, the president of the school's Absurdly Powerful Student Council, whose family runs the academy everyone goes to. Kaguya Sumeragi was the head of a powerful house in Japan who, despite her young historic period, is treated much similar a princess and has a high social status.
  • Besides, iii of Milly'south friends are also Ojous to some degree. Nina Einstein mixed this with Shrinking Violet and later Psycho Lesbian, Shirley Fenette was this and the Naïve Everygirl, and Kallen Kouzuki mixed the Ojou and Sick Daughter images when she was in schoolhouse to encompass upwardly her Activity Daughter escapades.

• Himemiya Chikane in Destiny of the Shrine Maiden is an extremely lonely and rich young woman who fits in the Ice Queen type, with a soft spot for Himeko.
• Fairy Tail:
  • Lucy Heartfilia grew up as one but she left because her father focused on his concern instead of her to the point of neglect. That being said, no 1 in the Fairy Tail guild gives her preferential treatment and she prefers it that way.
  • Minerva carries that title as well, and is even called this by her fellow guild mates.
• The Familiar of Null'due south Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière is stuck in a schoolhouse where Anybody is an ojou (or their male person counterparts) because it'due south a school for nobles. She still expects high class handling past everyone that's a plebian, Particularly Saito.
• Food Wars!: Erina Nakiri is the girl of a rich family unit. She's exceptionally beautiful and talented as a chef albeit as well arrogant for her ain good, at to the lowest degree until she undergoes some Grapheme Development. Her cousin Alice likewise counts, though she tends to exist a lot more than childish in her behavior and is a lot friendlier and more sociable.
  • Ikumi is a double subversion. While she is the heir to 1 of Japan's largest meat distributors, and does get called ojou-sama by her father's subordinates, she is also a foul-mouthed lad-ette with a penchant for wearing American-flag-patterned bikini tops. Young Ikumi was a far more traditional example of this trope, simply her father raised her to be more laddish in order to take a chance of surviving as a woman in the frathouse-like atmosphere of the meatpacking manufacture.
• Mint Blancmanche of Galaxy Angel. For some reason, Mint seems to be a popular name for Ojous.

• Genius Cripple Madoka Otowa from Get Backers (who also owns a Stradivarius, oddly plenty).
• Girls und Panzer:
  • The Nishizumi sisters live in a Big Fancy House and are treated as ojous at abode and by the Nishizumi-ryu students.
  • Hana Isuzu as well lives in a Big Fancy Business firm, uses the watakushi start-person pronoun, and practices traditional flower arranging besides tank-do.
• Ayumi Himekawa and Shiori Takamiya from Glass Mask. Ayumi is another ojou with lighter pilus (downright blond in the old series), though Shiori is more of a traditional blackness-haired one. In Ayumi'due south specific case, it'south actually deconstructed in the way this affects both her (lots of people think Ayumi is using her parents' fame and wealth to farther her career, simply she'll take null of it) and Maya (ane of the reasons she thinks Ayumi is superior to her, which again doesn't charm her).
• Kumiko Yamaguchi in Gokusen is the granddaughter and heir presumptive of a yakuza dominate and is called ojou when at home.
• Houjou Reika of Practiced Luck! Ninomiya-kun is an ojou and is called every bit such by her servants who telephone call her ojou-sama and her juniors at high school who call her ojou-senpai.
• Wang Liu-Mei and Louise Halevy from Gundam 00. Liu-Mei is the Ice Queen type, as the leader of a very important family and eventually 1 of the villains; on the other hand Louise began every bit a Nice Girl blazon with shades of Spoiled Brat until she got hit with the Mother of all break the cuties and became a mix of Fallen Princess, Dark Action Girl and Broken Bird.
• Yurin L'Ciel from Gundam AGE, who'south the Proper Lady type. Unusually for the trope she wasn't born equally one, but was adopted by the richest man in her colony after her parents died. As well bad she met a really bad end.
• Relena Darlian/Peacecraft from Gundam Wing is both this and Rebellious Princess. A more traditional Ojou is Sylvia Noventa.
• Tsuruya from Haruhi Suzumiya is an aversion to any of the typical personalities. Technically she'southward an ojou because her family is ridiculously rich, and her Big Fancy House is extremely impressive; however she has absolutely none of the personality traits of i. She's laid-back, downwardly to globe and is but "i of the girls", not to mention a lot of fun. Probably why she gets forth with Haruhi and so well.
• Hayate the Gainsay Butler:
  • Nagi Sanzen, with a dash of Tsundere thrown in for extra moe points.
  • The perpetually lost Isumi Saginomiya fits the trope even meliorate so Nagi; her profile in the manga even calls her the one most worthy of the title "Ojou-sama", and in the omake to Volume 5, affiliate 52, Nagi and Sakuya actually discuss why she qualifies as the most ojou of the ojou-samas.
  • The newly introduced Athena also qualifies. Since Nagi and Athena were originally the same graphic symbol, it makes sense
  • Athena would fit perfectly, if she'd pull off the laugh.
• In Hell Girl, Enma Ai's administration always address her as "ojou", but she isn't one.
• Hellsing'southward Integra Hellsing. Walter, her Battle Butler, even calls her 'My Princess' at 1 point. You know, right after he betrays her.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • The sweet-looking, wavy-haired Belgium subverts this: the "Meeting of the World" strip and anime has her as The Ojou, some illustrations show her wearing very pretty dresses, and she already had quite a bit of money as a pint-sized economic genius — simply label-wise, she's more of a tomboyish Cool Big Sister.
  • Monaco is a straighter case, though.
  • Maria Theresa (yes that Maria Theresa) mixes this with The High Queen. And then does Poland's erstwhile boss, Queen/Rex Jadwiga.
  • Austria's Nyotalia form is as well this, though she loses the glasses.
• Hidamari Sketch: When Yuno and Miyako go to a shrine described as "wonderful" past their teacher, they run across a Shinto priest who calls them "ojou-san". They soon observe that he calls even elderly women "ojou-san". The two speculate that he'due south the reason Yoshinoya chosen it wonderful.
• Saya Takagi in Loftier School Of The Dead. Her family unit is extremely wealthy, consummate with a large estate and a Big Fancy House.
• Hyakunichikan!!: Kanami is a kindergarten version with Regal Ringlets to testify her groundwork, though the only one who really treats her like a princess is Tanaka, the caretaker her wealthy parents hired. Her classmates are too young to know to treat her any unlike.

• Eriko Tamura from Idol Densetsu Eriko is the daughter of the president of a large music visitor. Then, her parents go into a automobile blow, leaving her begetter dead, her mother in a coma, and her evil uncle in control of the company. Things get worse from there.
• Christine "Chris" Robbins from Itazura Na Kiss is the perfect case of a non-Japanese ojou. Her mother is a cute, famous actress from Hollywood, her father is the president of a major depository financial institution, and she has ties with nobility. Charles was fifty-fifty invited to her wedding.
• Kaguya from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War is treated this style by her classmates, even past the standards of a schoolhouse where over 99% of the student trunk come from super rich families. Her family owns ane of Nihon's largest companies, and she displays mastery over a variety of creative and intellectual subjects. However, as hard every bit she tries to behave equally ane, she often displays lapses in behavior that are unbefitting of a proper one many times.
• An overseas version of this is Layla Hamilton from Kaleido Star, equally a perfect Water ice Queen blazon.
• Mika from Kanamemo is an odd example; she behaves very much like this, even calling Kana a "commoner", but why a rich girl would have to evangelize newspapers is never addressed.
• Akiko Hashou from Kasei Yakyoku, who leans to the Water ice Queen type.
• Katherine in Kaze no Stigma, from a "famous American fire mage family".
• Satsuki Kiryuin from Kill la Kill is a regal, dignified tyrant who, as president of the Absurdly Powerful Student Quango, rules over Honnōji Academy with an iron fist.
• Mirai Asuka from Rex Of Idol revealed to be one in chapter 40
• Kagami Kuro from Kodomo no Jikan is the second blazon but watch for the Tsundere streak.
• Tsumugi Kotobuki (a.grand.a. Mugi-chan) from K-On! is a very sweet daughter from a spectacularly rich family (her house is implied to exist huge), and then she fits in the Proper Lady sub-type.
• Ladies Versus Butlers! is practically filled with this trope, nearly of the characters are high class Bluish Blood. Sernia Flameheart is at the top of the heap though, with the pilus, laugh and (for the offset part of the story) mental attitude, only she lacks the respect of others, who only telephone call her Ojou every bit a kind of mocking, normally prefering to refer to her equally 'Drill' after her hairstyle.

• Lucky Star:
  • Miyuki Takara is the Nice Girl blazon; she lives in a mansion, e'er at the top of the class, is extremely kind and polite to anybody despite her wealth and intellect, and her other friends go to an university where they exchange greetings similar those in Maria Watches Over United states.
  • Konata Izumi parodied this in an episode where she got addicted to Marimite and began acting like a Proper Lady type, weirding out her friends.
• Kamishirou Rin (Japanese-type) and Kazetsubaki Kuriko (western-type) in Maburaho.
• The Macross series possesses a few of these but plays with the trope some. Mylene Jenius in Macross 7 fits much of the bill for wealth and eventually quasi-mystical power, merely she has an aversion to the responsibility and expectations her social position (daughter of a pair of state of war heroes) places on her and, aside from her sweet ride, dislikes flaunting her coin too much; Sheryl Nome in Macross Frontier is somewhat more traditional, although she usually conceals her identity in public to avert being mobbed. Interestingly, both possess calorie-free hair, Mylene being cotton-candy pinkish and Sheryl being strawberry blonde.
• Margaret Burton in Madlax is a Nice Girl type, before the plot reveals that it has many surprises for her...
• Magic Knight Rayearth:
  • Fuu Hououji and her sister Kuu likewise fit the bill, and since they're both modest and ladylike they become for the Proper Lady type.
  • At the beginning Umi was a Spoiled Deviling type who went out of the way to make sure everyone knew it. She loosens up more or less shortly and switches to a more Proper Lady-like kind.
• Victoria Dahlgrün from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vivid, ane of Vivio'southward rivals in the Inter-Eye tournament.
  • Nanoha's two friends Suzuka and Alisa are ridiculously rich. You lot wouldn't guess how Nanoha, whose family has only a eating house and a dojo (well, they are also mercenaries), got two rich girls with Big Fancy Houses and also many pets, unless you know the backstory ^note Alisa bullied Suzuka, and Nanoha slapped Alisa in the face. Suzuka shouted they mustn't fight, and the three became friends. Well, both of them have pretty ordinary personalities.
  • Rinne from ViVid Strike! is an adopted case.
• Kurosaki Sayoko and Minazuki Mahiru in Mahoraba. Kurosaki Asami'south friend, known only as Sa-chan, tries to portray herself as an ojou equally well, but whether she is or not is left an open question in the anime.
  • In the manga, the answer is revealed. She isn't - she just has a small inheritance and plays up the paradigm in guild to go attending.
• Asuna Kujo from Maison Ikkoku is a very timid young woman who is quite the Nice Girl, never ever getting angry even when she tries to.
• Maria Watches Over Us:
  • A vast majority of characters in the show are this, with Yumi beingness a notable (and purposeful) exception - even if they don't act the part, all the girls' families are filthy rich. Sachiko is the most extreme example in personality, however.
  • Yumi is actually turning into the Closer to Earth version of the first type of Ojou. She'southward definitely got a set of fans that are rabid plenty to requite Touko hell one time information technology obvious that the latter is being favored by Yumi to be her soeur.
  • Touko herself counts as a the second type. Even if she'southward adopted. Actually, the Chinensis family seems to both attract and create Ojous.
• Meiko Akizuki in Marmalade Boy fits the basic character type, though not the full stereotype: she has lighter hair and isn't a fellow member of the Student Council (ane of her love interests is the council president, though).
• Kanade in Mayo Chiki! is a rather articulate example, complete with her own butler at schoolhouse. Her true personality isn't quite standard, though.
• In Mellodia, Momoe, at first, has lived a rich life until her begetter'south death. She later deconstructs the trope by learning to live by herself.
• The dream-world version of Nagato Kaya in Mugen Densetsu Takamagahara Dream Saga.
• My Hero Academia's Momo Yaoyorozu is a polite, well-mannered, intelligent young lady who is likewise obscenely wealthy.
• Fujino Shizuru in My-HiME, 1 of the rare ojou with lighter-colored hair.
• Hyuga Hinata in Naruto is the Proper Lady type. She'south the heiress to the currently largest private clan in Konoha, and has a Big Fancy Firm.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
• The prototype vocal of Tamaki Reika from Ojamajo Doremi is really called "Super Ojou-sama," and she refers to herself as the "world's prettiest Ojou-sama" in episode 14 of Motto Ojamajo Doremi. Reika herself is quite the instance of the Rich Bitch type, though with sides of Lovable Alpha Bitch after she gets Hidden Depths.
• Haru from Ojojojo. It'southward right in that location in the title. She's the heiress of the Jigokumeguri Zaibatsu and is a deconstructed Rich Bitch (although she gets improve equally the story progresses). Her sister as well applies.
• Sharon Rainsworth, her mother Shelly, and her grandmother Sheryl from PandoraHearts belong to 1 of the about powerful families in the series. Oz's younger sis Ada can be an example of this as well.
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt has Scanty and Kneesocks, the Evil Counterparts to the heroes. While the principal characters are skanky and hedonistic angels who simply care nigh satisfying their base of operations desires, Scanty and Kneesocks are snobby and order-obsessed demons who take their evil duties quite seriously.
• Isabella from Paradise Buss is more or less an Ojou trapped in a solitary rich male child's body.
• Ryoko Katsuragi in Penguin Revolution is Vice President of the Student Council and this in her school... except she's really a guy. Anybody at schoolhouse nevertheless thinks she'south gorgeous, though.
• Delight Tell Me! Galko-chan has a girl who just has "Ojou" equally her nickname. While we don't know much nearly how much money she has, we know her lunches are always in tiered lacquerware bento boxes and made past the family chef, and the entire family has custom-fabricated lingerie.
• Platinum Berlitz in Pokémon Adventures is a sophisticated, serious daughter from a wealthy family.
• Himeno's two footstep sisters Mawata and Mayune fit both types of Ojous in Prétear. Mawata is the tranquility still spoiled girl and Mayune is the snarky overbearing blazon. Interestingly enough, due to her father's remarriage Himeno could hands be an ojou just refuses to let the legions of butlers and maids care for her like one. Or her classmates for that thing.
• The Pretty Cure multiverse seems to like them, with Honoka (Cure White) from Futari wa Pretty Cure and both Komachi (Cure Mint) and the same Karen (Cure Aqua) from Yes! Pretty Cure 5. Then, there are Reika (Cure Beauty) from Smile Pretty Cure!, and Alice (Cure Rosetta) from DokiDoki! Pretty Cure, the latter being as rich as Karen. Both, Karen and Alice, are shown to accept butlers.
  • Itsuki (Cure Sunshine) from HeartCatch Pretty Cure! — when the term is used, it's a giveaway that he is really a she. "O-OJOUSAMAAAAAA?!"
  • Hibiki (Cure Tune) from Suite Pretty Cure ♪ subvert this. She'south not equally wealthy as the other examples, but she'southward patently the wealthiest lead Pretty Cure, nonetheless; her tomboyish personality makes it a scrap hard to recognize this. Her parents are famous musicians and her house is fancier than her teammates'.
    • Ako (Cure Muse), the princess of Major Land, was used to alive in a castle, but now she prefers to live with her grandpa Otokichi, the former rex, in a small house.

• Rue in Princess Tutu, yet she fits likewise into Dark Magical Girl. Though Rue is revered as much for being the best dancer as she is for her aristocratic style. And like all Real Life prima ballerinas, she pays for that skill in pain and blood.
• B-Ko Daitokuji from Project A-ko. Plenty money and manufacturing capability to build multiple Humongous Mecha overnight.
• Despite Puella Magi Madoka Magica being largely set in an upper-class neighbourhood, it'due south not until Puella Magi Oriko Magica and its championship character show up that we got a true ojou. Though Hitomi and Mami come up fairly shut.
  • Incidentally, an official sound drama done past the voice actors contains the following exchange:

    Homura: A hostel? This is my showtime time.
    Sayaka: Wow, you're such an ojou.

  • Haruka from Puella Magi Suzune Magica was explicitly intended as a princess-type character.
• Kodachi "The Black Rose" Kuno from Ranma ½ fits to a T in the Rich Bitch / Spoiled Brat kind. She and her brother Tatewaki even live in a traditional Japanese palace.
  • Also Mariko Konjou, the cheerlader who pursues Kuno. She's also a Spoiled Brat type.
• Hirasaka Kayuki from The Record of a Fallen Vampire, complete with Big Fancy House (with The Thing That Goes "Doink") and a ridiculously fancy kimono closet.
• Piffling Neese in Record of Lodoss War. Her mother is a very high ranking priestess, her father a famous sorcerer, and her grandmother was a one of the greatest heroes of Lodoss. As most kings of Lodoss were born commoners and gained their position past becoming famous heroes, this puts her in the very highest circles of social club. Her personal bodyguard Aldo also e'er calls her Neese-sama aka Lady Neese.
• Revolutionary Girl Utena:
  • Nanami is one of the almost over-the-top examples of the Spoiled Deviling tyope, and holy crap does she flaunt information technology. And the plot bends over to punish her for it.
  • Juri is hinted to exist fifty-fifty richer than Nanami and casually i-ups her at a ball. She's also an elegant, refined Lady of War
• Sailor Moon:
  • Michiru Kaioh (Sailor Neptune) is an interesting instance of the Ice Queen blazon, in that information technology is never stated that she is really filthy rich, and nosotros never have any thought who her parents are, only the fact that she owns a Stradivarius violin and a gigantic condo with its own aquarium (with Haruka) and is a world-famous violinist and painter in her ain right (enough then to get double-billing with the world-famous pop sensation The Starlights in the Stars season of the 90s anime) still makes her part of this trope. In fact, Usagi, in a memorable episode, wherein she is feeling she is not swish enough or worthy enough of Mamoru, stumbles upon Haruka and Michiru in a theater in a park, where Michiru is upward on phase playing her violin and looking classy, so proceeds to bounce a lemon on her violin while playing it with her eyes closed; Usagi declares Michiru to be the "ideal Princess" and pitifully follows her around for the remainder of the episode, hoping she'll get some of it past osmosis or something. Michiru also, notably, has a mirror which e'er shows her the truth and has the ability to sense when things are coming, and has wavy, aquamarine hair. It was clearly mentioned in the manga that both she and Haruka are rich, non as much as Hotaru's and Rei's fathers, merely had loads of money. Specifically through a good number of patrons.
  • Rei Hino (Crewman Mars) is also an ojou of the Ice Queen type. She goes to a private Catholic schoolhouse and her dad's a big pol. Much more in the manga and live-activity, though: in the first anime, she's a lot more than Hot-Blooded (making her a bit of a Spoiled Brat when at her worst), and in Sailor Moon Crystal she'southward closer to her original self but has some shades of Shrinking Violet.
• Saori Kido in Saint Seiya, who begins as the Spoiled Brat type and matures into the Proper Lady kind. She's even called ojou-sama by her butler past Tatsumi. The Bronzies are more than informal and phone call her "Saori-san" ("miss Saori").
• Touka from Saki is a classic version... desu wa!
• Tsukiko Okakura from Sakura no Ichiban! is from a wealthy noble family unit, has a grouping of girls that follow her every step, and is a member of the school's Sakura Flower Society, a club where girls from rich families go to accept tea parties. She besides possesses a Hime Cut.
• Eri Sawachika of School Rumble goes by Ojou to several characters (most frequently Harima). Besides a notable Tsundere.
• Chisa Taiami (showtime type) and Hibari Niigusa (third type) from the post-apocalyptic manga 7 Seeds. Their wealthy families helped fund the Seven Seeds projection and insisted that they be included in exchange for this assistance.
• Sgt. Frog: Momoka.
• The anime only character Lulu De Morcerf in Shugo Chara!.
• Rodoreamon from Simoun; Neveril is the aforementioned archetype simply not addressed as such.
• A more Tsundere version is Eri Fujisawa, the banana of the Ryoukufu squad in the third Slam Douse OAV. She'southward nicknamed "ojousan" by Michael Okita and even by her bus, goes to one really exclusive school for rich kids (lampshaded often in the dialogues) and sometimes is more of a dominate than the motorbus himself..
• Lottie and Sara in Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry both come from rich families, every bit, information technology is implied, do most to all Reasoners.
• Mami Honda from Gals! is ridiculously rich in the anime. Her wealth is not mentioned in the manga, though her way tends to be classier than Ran and friends.
• The all-girl Fujigaya high school from Sweet Bluish Flowers caters to students from wealthy families, which makes "normal" daughter Akira feel out of place at times. Kyouko fits right in though and she also tends to act the part. Yasuko besides comes from a wealthy background, simply attends the middle-course Matsuoka high school. She is also much more than tomboyish.

• Aeka and Sasami in Tenchi Muyo! both count, though Aeka comes to listen first.

• Minto Aizawa in Tokyo Mew Mew with shades of Rich Bitch at the starting time.
• Saki Tenjouin from To Love Ru is a type ii: stuck upwardly and prideful, just shows a kind side towards people in need.

• Kihel Heim from ∀ Gundam is a blonde, but fits in otherwise. Her niggling sister Sochie is more of a Tsundere.
• Tamao Kikunoi from The Wallflower is insanely rich and referred to as a princess many times in the series. Fifty-fifty her fiance calls her "Ojou-sama".
• During the camping arc of Yotsuba&!, Ena and Yotsuba occasionally play at being Proper Young Ladies.
• Okko's Inn has Matsuki, who runs a luxurious inn and acts like a bratty princess.
• The Story Between a Dumb Prefect and a Loftier Schoolhouse Daughter with an Inappropriate Brim Length: Pupil Council President Yamato Nadeshiko ^note Though this is partially an Ironic Name, as she's not demure at all is a type two, who enjoys teasing her Vice President Kaoru Kogori, especially in her "gal form". She's well-respected every bit the Educatee Council President, and her family is friends with the Kogori family, who are rich enough to accept a beach villa and a chauffeur, implying her family'southward prominent too.

    Comic Books

• Albedo: Erma Felna EDF had many of them of both genders, including the titular protagonist. This is quite justified because, while being an American comic, the storytelling is definitely not:
  • As mentioned previously, the titular Erma Felna is basically a armed forces version of this trope. She is a descendant of a prestigious family of soldiers that dates back centuries, and her personality usually gives that vibe, not to mention that, in times of peace, she is usually a very educated and formal adult female, albeit, when she was a child, she was a Imperial Brat, especially towards her younger brother. On the other hand, she could be a deconstruction of this, equally she could be quite mercurial, vindictive at times, and prone to explosive outburst, not to mention she doesn't receive any kind of special privileges for existence one, not that she cares of this anyways. Heck, she is even addressed with the in-universe term of ojou-sama by the resident Master Computer, The Net.
  • Her mother Eda is a much classical ojou than her own daughter, albeit this is very most justified, as she is an Actual Pacifist with a utter hatred for war. She even sits in seiza pose for drinking tea.
  • Teka Ardehad is as well another classical example of an ojou. In this example this is even more than justified because she hails from a royal family and also because she is a clone from Erma.

    Literature

• Annagramma Hawkin, Tiffany Aching's social nemesis in the immature adult Discworld books, embodies the second version of this trope. It is subverted in Wintersmith, where it'due south revealed that her family isn't rich at all and she actually starts to acquire from experience.
• Journeying to Anarchy:
  • Being Nolien's sister, Hailey is a Heleti blue blood. Her posh manners and Stealth Insult training drive Tiza crazy until they get best friends.
  • While exploring Dengel'southward castle lair in Ceiha, Eric meets "Asuna", the animated skull of i of his Dengel'south students. He notes that she has the demeanor of a haughty lady and imagines what she would expect and act like in the by; dressed in finery and ordering her father-figure's soul-spring slaves to perform tasks for her.

    Live-Action TV

• Lana Lang from Smallville started out beingness Smallville's sweetheart. She is kind to everyone, beautiful, and involved in everything so everyone in the whole school knows her and likes her. She also starts out as a cheerleader and the homecoming queen.
• Ahim de Famille from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger is a Princess on a team of Infinite Pirates (due to The Empire they're fighting destroying her entire planet).
• Tsuruhime from Ninja Sentai Kakuranger was raised by a rather aristocratic family, while the boys were brought up on the streets.
• Romana of Medico Who, a Time Lady who, every bit she reminds him, did far better academically than the Doctor and who started off early on every bit an Water ice Queen, became a Proper Lady, earlier regenerating. Every iteration of the Expanded Universe, has Romana'due south second or third regeneration become Lady President of the Fourth dimension Lords.
• Lady Morgana in the first series of Merlin was the alpha female of the castle, what with being Rex Uther's beloved ward and secret daughter and Prince Arthur's foster sis.

    Music

• Vocaloid Kagamine Rin in the "Story of Evil".

    Video Games

• Quinn Sakurazaki of Azure Striker Gunvolt Serial is the daughter of a wealthy conglomerate.
• Emma Cole from Balan Wonderworld lives in a mansion staffed with maids.
• Rozalin of Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories is both a literal demon noble and accessory to Well, Excuse Me, Princess!.
• Mega Human:
  • Yai in Mega Human Battle Network, a mini-Ojou of the Chiyo-chan sort. Her wealth and connections are often a plot bespeak. They're also how she manages to stay afloat as a NetBattler without her friends' natural talent: she just buys outrageously expensive chips.
  • Her Mega Homo Star Force Expy, Luna, is too a mini-Ojou, as well as her class' president.
• Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort from Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection is the daughter of an absurdly rich oil magnate from Monaco that has screw-the-rules money from his franchise (Though, past Tekken 6 that dominion seems to have no effect when he was on the verge of bankruptcy). She, nevertheless, spends most of her time with her butler, and is quite svelte throughout.
• Persona:
  • The outset Persona has the elegant and beautiful Eriko Kirishima, who'due south from a wealthy family and is 1 of the more popular girls in her schoolhouse.
  • Mitsuru Kirijo from Persona iii is red-haired, the Student Quango President, and the daughter of the president of the Kirijo Zaibatsu. Her social link is even the Empress Arcana.
  • Yukiko Amagi from Persona iv, destined to inherit her parents' classic Japanese inn and widely desired by the boys in her school. Her Social Link is the Priestess Arcana, fifty-fifty.
  • Haru Okumura from Persona five is really a fleck of a subversion. She may be the cute and cultured daughter of the president of a major corporation, merely she has trouble making friends due to her fear that everyone is merely trying to use her for her family's wealth, and her classmates regard her equally a weirdo. That said, similar Mitsuru, her Confidant arcana is Empress.
• Lady Riddel in Chrono Cantankerous is a somewhat meek and retiring ojou, though she has her moments of bravery.
• Karin Kanzuki from Street Fighter. Despite existence wealthy to extremes (she uses her wealth to try to cheat Sakura out of a legitimate competition in the Sakura-focused UDON comic mini-series and can casually arrive to a fight via helicopter), she is talented enough to last in a real fight using her family'due south martial arts.
• Fire Emblem:
  • The Binding Blade gives us Pent and Louise's girl, Clarine. She'south a mounted White Magician Girl -> Magic Warrior who tends to human action like a Type ii, just shows two or iii Type one traits too (particularly towards Dorothy). In that location's as well Magical Daughter Warrior Lilina.
  • The Blazing Blade has Lady Priscilla of Carleon, a redheaded and melancholic Ojou who'due south serenity and polite also every bit a mounted White Magician Daughter who can become a Magic Warrior through promotion, and Louise, a cute and elegant Archer married to Mage General Pent the about powerful magic user in Etruria. Both asre Nice Girl types.
  • From Burn Emblem: The Sacred Stones we accept the three princesses of the game: female person lead Eirika, her friend Tana, and White Mage L'Arachel.
  • While many of the actual Princesses and regal women of Fire Emblem Awakening are more down-to-earth (similar Lucina and any other girl fathered by Chrom, Lissa, and Say'ri), the young noblewoman Maribelle breathes this trope. Implied in the instance of Sumia, since she has the Ojou Ringlets hairstyle (even if not as large as Maribelle'due south) and her potential Beloved Interest Gaius refers to her every bit "that crazy noblewoman" in one of their supports.
  • Burn Emblem Fates has several Princesses (Camilla and Elise for Nohr, Hinoka and Sakura in Hoshido, a female person Avatar and Azura for both sides) plus some noblewomen (Xander's servant Peri, Hinoka's retainer Setsuna, and Ryoma'due south servant Kagero). None of them tend to fit in the archetypical Blazon 2, withal.
• Touhou Project:
  • Remilia Scarlet is the Ojou of the Ruby Devil Mansion. As for influence, well... she IS a powerful vampire... Somewhat subverted in that she's mostly only an Ojou in her own head, and the just ones who actually treat her like an Ojou are her Ninja Maid and, arguably, her Magic Librarian.
  • Likewise, ghost princess Yuyuko Saigyouji is the Oujo of Hakugyokurou.
  • And exiled moon princess Kaguya Houraisan is the Oujo of Eientei with Eirin and a horde of rabbits to keep her visitor.
• Sapphire of Disgaea iii: Absence of Justice is an Ax-Crazy example of this. Very nice to Almaz though except for one accidental assail and the time he needed to exist puched to go him in line.
• Lady Bow of Newspaper Mario 64 is a Boo version of this.
• Yurika Kirishima from Project Justice is an odd amalgamation of qualities from both types of Ojou. Similar the Proper Lady, she is unassuming and naive (although her desire for a normal life is to escape her electric current life as a hired assassin and her brother'due south reluctant henchwoman), but lacks the vocal fanbase that worships her every move. She has the physical features of the Royal Brat (Ojou Ringlets and Tsurime Eyes eyes), but lacks any of the personality traits of that type. She is nonetheless portrayed equally high-class and implied to be rich, at least compared to her best friends Akira and Zaki.
• Ashelin in Jak and Daxter is the Baron'south daughter, a high-ranking member of the Krimzon Baby-sit, and takes over as Governor of Haven Metropolis later on Praxis'due south expiry.
• Chiaki Tachibana from Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne. She evolves due to the horrific events of the Vortex World into a full-blown monster.
• Gardenia from the .hack games both acts like a highly esteemed full general and has her own devoted fan club (whom all members refer to her equally Lady Gardenia). In fact it'southward because of Gardenia's fan club that Kite was able to recruit her as they forced him to deliver her a alphabetic character. And leading her to reveal she doesn't want annihilation to do with this fan lodge when she refuses to cooperate with Kite by taking the letter. At start.
• Ridley from Radiata Stories is type 2: A snobby Blueish Blood knight, who is followed on her missions by other knights to brand sure she doesn't become injure. Later on a key event, she mellows into the first type; polite and sweet VIP among her new allies, with an Idiot Hero declaring his life's mission is protecting her.
• Rule of Rose has examples of the both basic types: first Diana who is closer to the latter definition as the de facto leader of the Aristocrat Social club, characterized by her strong-willed, mischiveous personality and willingness to humiliate those who don't meet her standards, well-nigh notably the protagonist Jennifer. The second example is closer to the first definition: the sickly, gentle-minded Wendy who in her office of Rose Princess outranks Diana and manifestly is the founder and lawmaker of the Club. Yous also don't want to stop upwardly in her bad side.
• Helena Douglas from Dead or Alive carries herself as one (and for all intents and purposes, fits the trope) but the soft exterior conceals a very troubled heart.
• The mainline IDOLM@STER serial has Iori Minase, the Tsundere Royal Brat, too as Takane Shijou, the mysterious Proper Lady.
  • The subseries games also has (at least) 1 ojou idol. Popular examples from the subseries include Momoka Sakurai and Chizuru Nikaido. Ane is a even so-a-child idol who wants to be treated similar a lady, and some other is an developed idol who acts like a celebrity and often coughs when she laughs. Both of them autumn into the Proper Lady category.
• Chizuru Kagura, Hinako Shijou, Elisabeth Blanctorche and Rose Berstein from The Rex of Fighters. Chizuru and Hinako are the Proper Lady kind, Elisabeth is the Ice Queen type, and Rose is the Royal Deviling diversity.
• Asuka 120% has Tamaki Shindou, the principal's daughter.
• Tears to Tiara 2 has Elissa, the daughter of head merchant and governor-general of Qart Hadast.
• Princess Maker 2:
  • The Girl of the game subverts it: she and her begetter are, in practice, members of the nobility of the realm after the Father was the Hero who saved the Realm years ago, and she'd probably fit real well in the sugariness type. However, despite her living with her dad and the family butler Cube in what's implied to be a Large Fancy House, she has petty actual spending money for herself, so she must have upward role-fourth dimension jobs after turning 10 to pay for her own expenses.
  • Out of the Girl's rivals, Patricia Hearn is very much the Spoiled Deviling blazon. She'due south the only Rival who doesn't agree any office-time jobs, is seen only taking up Art classes before she formally appears, and is super haughty and dismissive when she challenges the Daughter, Noblewoman's Laugh included.
• Petra Johanna Lagerkvist from Arcana Centre. She's frigging rich alright...
• Mii Koryuji from Project 10 Zone. Not simply does she live in a Big Fancy House just Kogoro often refers to Mii every bit "ojou".
• Sumire Kanzaki from Sakura Wars fits the 2d category to a T. Cute, talented and rich, she has no problems reminding others of these facts.
• Nanami Ginja of Omega Labyrinth Life is the heiress to the absurdly rich and powerful Ginja Conglomerate. Inside Belles Fleurs University, she acts much more like a princess than a form representative, dressing in much more elaborate and fancy wear than her peers, and taking great pains to be refined, genteel, and generous. Ane of her skills even references this: "Noblesse Oblige."

    Visual Novels

• Except for Chiho, all of the main female cast in Princess Evangile come up from upper-class families, with the cease result being that well-nigh of them live sheltered lives, having never seen a boy their age outside of their ain brothers.
• Miku in A Profile, though at beginning she attempts to deny it and pretend she doesn't fit the trope.
• All the girls in Shikkoku no Sharnoth who nourish the royal university. They're non quite aristocrat level, but pretty close.
• Kotonoha Katsura from School Days starts as the Proper Lady kind. She's very pretty, kinda naive, lives in a Large Fancy Firm, is thought of as "unreachable" past boys, envied badly past girls and prone to snap horribly in some routes and endings.
• Arcueid Brunestud from Tsukihime. Very wealthy despite literally having no source of income, presumably based on a fortune that was amassed 800+ years agone. Cheque. Big house? Castle Brunestud, plus some vaguely alluded to mansions. Check. 'Real' Princess, check. Scrap of a lonely rich grown upward kid but other than that more often than not simply a strangely friendly demeanor, check. Oh, and supernatural powers tied to her existence a princess in the first place. She'southward also chosen the White Princess, if that helps.
  • Tohno Akiha is a better case, though. She actually does behave like a noble.
• Rin Tohsaka from Fate/stay night has at least some characteristics of this: she's from a family of magi nobility (and she's non shy about it), and has a large fanclub of boys at school who consider her untouchable.
  • Luviagelita Edelfelt is, at least in Fate/unlimited codes, a straight example of the second type.
• Katawa Shoujo:
  • Shizune Hakamichi comes from a very rich family unit, lives in a Big Fancy House and is the Student Quango President. Later she's revealed to be a Solitary Rich Kid who has driven almost all of her friends away (save for Hisao and Misha) due to how competitive she is, and has very serious bug about it since, existence deaf-mute, poor Shizune can't show and express her feelings and thoughts properly.
  • Lilly Satou comes from a rich family and has a Large Fancy House (though she doesn't like it existence referred to every bit a "mansion"). She and Shizune too happen to be cousins.
• Ouba University appears to by and large be a school for ojous in Kara no Shoujo but the ojou is the local Student Quango President, Orihime Tsukishima. Only she's stifling under the atmosphere of the school and expectations on her, so she gear up a prostitution ring among those who are similarly repressed.
• Sonia Nevermind in Danganronpa two: Bye Despair, existence titled every bit the "Super Loftier-School Level Princess". Information technology'due south unsaid that her home country is some sort of totalitarian police-state but it's all Played for Laughs.
• True Dearest Junai Monogatari has Remi Himekawa, who is the sweet Lonely Rich Kid type.
• Despite her complete lack of social skills, Kotomi Ichinose from CLANNAD comes from a rich family.
• Missing Stars:
  • Katja is of the Proper Lady variant. She's a polite and well-mannered immature woman who speaks in a formal manner. A developmenter's blog post went into depth on how troublesome it was to make Katja fit this equally the archetype is and then overdone that fifty-fifty subverting it is becoming overdone.
  • Subverted with Natalya. Upon meeting, Erik mistakes her for one of these... then she starts talking. Every bit information technology turns out, Natalya has none of the personality. She's a goofy joker.
• Karen Ayanokouji from Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka is this type of character. She has the curls, the express mirth and tries very hard to delight her classmates with her fortune, just ultimately ends up trying mode too hard.

• Since Otoboku - Maidens Are Falling For Me is set up at a individual all girl's school, many characters fit this, about notably Takako.
• All just i of the harem from Princess Lover! also qualifies. Two of them are actual nobility/royalty, and the remaining seems to be the head of a large fashion visitor.
• Rei Ijyuin from the first Tokimeki Memorial game. She's actually a Wholesome Crossdresser who acts like a tough and aloof guy, just has a hidden gentle and girly side which comes afloat if you go her as your girlfriend.
  • The more directly-up Ojou is really Yukari Koshiki, girl of a rich family and very courteous, naive and sweet. And she knows Rei'south existent gender, every bit they're childhood friends.
  • Megumi Mikihara, Shiori's all-time friend, also is a scrap of this and of Shrinking Violet. Yuko Asahina is this and a Genki Daughter.
  • And Girl'due south Side 1 gives us Mizuki, of the Purple Brat type.

• Mio Shimazu from YU-NO is a Tsundere variant, consummate with Ojou Ringlets. She's the daughter of the town mayor.

    Web Original

• Blackness-haired Ayla Goodkind in the Whateley Universe. Afterward existence disinherited, she's still worth a third of a billion dollars, which is peanuts by her family unit'due south standards. She was disinherited from a mutant-hating family unit considering she manifested as a mutant. She was the blond Sheltered Aristocrat earlier she manifested.
  • Solange and Traduce are both definitely examples of the second type. Solange is also the Alpha Bitch.
• RWBY:
  • Weiss Schnee is an example of the ice queen subtype. While not technically royalty or even nobility, the Schnee family is enormously wealthy and powerful.

    Ruby: (to Weiss) Hey, I said I was sad, princess!
    Blake: It's heiress, really.

  • Blake never talks nigh her family unit, only occasionally opening up nearly how she was on the run in the wilderness earlier she came to Buoy. She's therefore a bit embarrassed when she and Dominicus render to Blake'south home in Menagerie, and Blake has to admit she's the daughter of the island's leader, and she lives in a Big Fancy House with guards and servants.

    Western Animation

• Avatar: The Terminal Airbender:
  • Mai of Avatar: The Terminal Airbender, and Toph being a rebellious tomboy version.
  • Asami Sato from The Legend of Korra is the girl of Hiroshi Sato, the wealthiest man in Democracy City and herself a genial, generous fan of pro-bending who talks her father into sponsoring her poor fellow's team.
• Shriek from CatDog is the rebellious blazon, having run away from her pampered life with a rich family unit to go function of the Greasers.
• Trixie Tang on The Fairly OddParents is the richest girl in town, and everyone bows to her when she enters the bus (after an introduction said by the jitney driver, no less).
• Whitney Stane of Iron Man: Armored Adventures is one of these, equally the daughter of a loftier-class CEO. At least until her father lost his task as punishment for associating with a criminal and spent his money developing the Iron Monger armor.

    Existent Life

• At that place once was a young Japanese arts student named Michiko Shouda, the daughter of a rich businessman who was the president and after honorary chairman of the Nisshin Flour Milling Company. She vicious in love with Crown Prince Akihito of Japan, managed to ally her Prince Charming after more than one hardship (considering of her commoner condition, and besides the fact she was from a Roman Catholic family in Shinto domimated Japan), and ultimately she became Empress Michiko of Japan.
  • Quite interestingly, she had previously been introduced as a potential suitor to a certain Kimitake Hiraoka (Yukio Mishima'southward pen name), a ascent star in the Japanese literary scene as well as the royalist-nationalist Right. Nonetheless, he was, alas, gay, and a Beard was non in the cards. Then much the ameliorate for her; in The '70s, the poor fellow tried to stage a coup against her father-in-constabulary and ended up committing seppuku.
  • For obvious reasons, pretty much every female in the Japanese Regal Family qualifies as this. Crown Princess Masako (now Empress Masako) was an atypical instance, though, every bit she had her own career as a lawyer before getting married to Crown Prince Naruhito and, like the Empress, was a commoner.
• Western example: Silvia Renate Sommerlath, daughter of a German businessman. She married Carl Gustav 16 from Sweden and is now his Queen.
• Some other Western case: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, who was previously just Kate Middleton.
  • Also Sophie Rhys-Jones, Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward the Earl of Essex.
  • And another: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, née Meghan Markle.
  • And yet another: Diana, Princess of Wales, formerly Lady Diana Spencer.

• Beyoncé. Even before she was rich due to her music, she came from an upper-center class family unit. She's very feminine and svelte and the people around her definitely treat her like royalty.
• Grace Kelly: she was built-in into a wealthy family, became a film star famous for playing swish characters, and subsequently married Prince Rainer of Monaco.
• Jackie Kennedy. Her first husband was president John F. Kennedy and her second husband was Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis. She was known for her style, charm, dignity, and love of high culture.
• Eva Peron. While born into a poor family, she grew up to exist First Lady of Argentina. Both during her life and after her death, she was famed for her charisma, political and clemency work, and stylish style.
• Subverted with Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey. She tried to pass herself off as an example of this by creating the impression of being rich. In reality, she came from a working-form Russian family and scammed wealthy business concern acquaintances and several hotels in New York Metropolis over $275,000. Swindled has further analysis of Delvey'south schemes here

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