History Main / TransferStudentUniforms

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima,'' Student #1: Sayo Aisaka, wears a SailorFuku, while the rest of the students normally wear buttondowns, vests and blazers. When this is initially noticed in the class register, it leads to the assumption that she's a transfer student who never actually got there... but of course, the truth is that she's a ghost, and the uniform she wears was the standard [[JacobMarleyApparel at the time of her death]] -- 60 years earlier.

* In ''Fanfic/WhereTalentGoesToDie'' and ''Fanfic/WhereTalentGoesOnVacation'', like in ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'', the students wear their old schools' uniforms to the killing game, with some exceptions. For example, [[FarmGirl Iwasawa]] never had a school uniform, so she wears a button-down shirt and overalls, while Tsukimura wears a maid's kimono.

* The canon-ness is certainly debatable, being a spin-off game, but according to ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle'', [[Videogame/Persona4 Yu]] kept wearing his old uniform even after transferring away at the end of the game

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'':

* Just about everyone in the ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'' games. The casts are all students who were allowed to transfer to the extremely prestigious Hope's Peak Academy, and over the course of the various killing games [[LimitedWardrobe exclusively]] wear either clothes fitting their personalities or the uniforms from their previous schools. All the better, because all scenes of the school itself during normal times show them as being a pretty uninteresting brown.

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* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Haruhi Fujioka is too poor to buy a new school uniform when she first goes to Ouran High, even wearing a boy's uniform because her self-consciousness of her gender isn't as much as that of other people's and because the general format (shirt and pants) was easier to mimic with the clothing she had already.
* Yusuke from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' distinct green uniform annoys the faculty, since while technically acceptable he wears it just to stand out. Even Kuwabara wears a slightly different shade of blue than the standard uniform. This is anime-only, though; manga color images usually have Kuwabara and Yusuke's uniforms matching, even if the colors aren't always consistent, unless the artist was color-coding them. Keiko calls Yusuke on his green uniform in the dub, but the original doesn't really mention it.
* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'':
** Utena's "boy uniform" in the TV anime, which includes bright red bicycle shorts, is not worn by any of the boys at her school, but is, according to the plot, an approved style (she helpfully points it out at the very beginning -- there's nothing at the school dress code that bars her from wearing the male uniform). One wonders [[{{Stripperiffic}} who approved it]] and if it has ever been worn by any boy in the history of the school.
** It's the same way in the manga, except her "boys' uniform" is entirely ''pink''. However, a better justification is given in the manga -- the wording used in the student handbook specifies that students must wear a uniform made by the approved designer, apparently meaning that Utena is free to commission a custom uniform from said designer.
** In the movie and the [[AnimeFirst movie manga]], the only difference between Utena's uniform and Ohtori's boys' uniform is the coloring (hers is black-and-white, Ohtori's is green/teal).
* Makoto Kino in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' wears an old school uniform throughout her entire middle school career and only switches over in high school. This is technically not so much due to lack of integration in the cast as the school not having one in [[HugeSchoolgirl her size]], but it does mirror the fact that, outside of the senshi, Makoto was an outcast in middle school due to her height. Her school uniform had elements (long skirt, type of shoes) that were typically associated with a kind of young female delinquents, sukeban, that were prominent in during 70s-80s Japan. Indeed in early designs, Makoto was supposed to lead a gang of girls, and though she didn't she was still [[FaceOfAThug stereotyped this way by others]]. This lengthened skirt does not appear in the [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon live-action series]] as the sukeban wasn't as prominent anymore.
* ''Anime/JubeiChan'':
** Freesia Yagyuu wore a different school uniform. This is curious since she did not go to any other school previously. However, by the very end she is seen wearing the current school's uniform.
** Jiyuu herself wore a different one in the first season, and in the second is wearing the standard.
* Also TrappedInAnotherWorld, Hikaru, Fuu and Umi had their respective school uniforms incorporated into their magical armor in ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth''. The manga even jokes about the impracticality of their outfits.
* Subverted? by Aoba from ''Manga/CodeBreaker'' because she changes into her new Hesei high school uniform even before she starts attending class.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** Subverted by Ranma who, despite the pressure of a rules-specific principal, gets into more trouble from his haircut than for not wearing a uniform. This may have something to do with how [[LimitedWardrobe iconic]] his usual outfit is.
** Note that Ranma is ''the only character in the series'' to never, ''ever'', wear a school uniform, unless it's the female kind in order to pull a prank on Ryoga or fool Kuno for some obscure purpose -- in which case, it's always treated as a WigDressAccent PaperThinDisguise. Ironically, the first thing that the majority of {{FanFic}}s that deal with a split or locked female Ranma do is shove her into a school uniform, ignoring the entire manga.
** Ukyo from the same series generally wears her previous school's boy's uniform while attending Furinkan High, despite being "outed" as a girl in her first appearance. She occasionally wears a girl's uniform in the anime (beginning with a spotlight episode where she deliberately attempts to femininize her image) but was never shown wearing a girl's uniform in the manga (except for gym).
* Subverted again by Yuuri in ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh''. While initially TrappedInAnotherWorld unexpectedly, on a subsequent visit he's wearing normal casual clothes... but his advisors comment his uniform looks so spiffy they tailored up a perfect replica for him to wear as his royal outfit.
* Mendou from ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'' wears a different (all-white) school uniform not because he transferred in, but because he's a [[ShelteredAristocrat rich, arrogant bastard]] and he thinks it makes him look important.
* Similarly, the rich and arrogant Hokuto in ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'' wears a white uniform, which turns out to have been a mistake on his part because he transferred to the wrong school.

* A variation on this is what happens to Jun Manjoume in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''. He's demoted to Ra Yellow, and decides to leave Duel Academia. After a rather long journey he comes back, but since he went to another school he counts as a transfer student and has to start in Osiris Red dorm. Rather than wearing the red outfit, Manjoume wears his own black coat.
* In the ''Manga/YuGiOh'' manga, Bakura is still wearing his old school uniform in the end (at least a year after he was transferred to Domino High.)
* A-Ko and C-Ko wore their old uniforms pretty much all through the first ''Anime/ProjectAKo'', but finally changed to the school uniforms in the epilogue.
* Kaere/Kaede from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', along with being the only character with a different hair color, is also the only girl in class (excluding Matoi) whose uniform is different than anyone else's -- she sports a plaid miniskirt, blazer and tie in lieu of the SailorFuku every other girl wears.
* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima,'' Student #1: Sayo Aisaka, wears a SailorFuku, while the rest of the students normally wear buttondowns, vests and blazers. When this is initially noticed in the class register, it leads to the assumption that she's a transfer student who never actually got there... but of course, the truth is that she's a ghost, and the uniform she wears was the standard [[JacobMarleyApparel at the time of her death]] -- 60 years earlier.
* Itsuki in ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this: the fact that he appears in North High's uniform from the beginning is a subtle hint at his transfer being deliberately pre-planned so he could better observe Haruhi.

* Ikuno from ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'' refused to change her school uniform after transferring to her new school, since she didn't know how long she would be attending, due to her father's job. So she stands out, even when she ''does not have someone else's blood on it''.
* Himari from ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'' keeps her "old" school uniform (or at least a different one) to warn demons who plan to attack Yuuto that she is there to defend him. It's implied that it's actually a fake; Himari does not appear to have ever gone to school before and Rinko doesn't recognize it despite having seen a broad range of uniforms at atheletic meets.
* Happens to Nagisa in ''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'' anime, but not the manga.
* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', each Miko is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who is TrappedInAnotherWorld, so... yeah.

* New students start showing up in ''Manga/MedakaBox'' bearing the uniforms of a prestigious high school; unfortunately they're all AxeCrazy ChaoticEvil [[PersonOfMassDestruction people of mass destruction]].
* ''Arisa'': A half-Japanese transfer student who was in Europe (possibly Spain or Portugal) prior to his appearance [[spoiler: somehow seems to be the BigBad, or at least very tightly bound to the plot]].
* In ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'', this is subverted when Ryuuichi begins to attend Morinomiya as a 3rd-year middle school student and is presented with his new uniform. He initially attempts to be practical by opting to continue to wear his old uniform since he'll only remain in the middle school section for less than a year. However, Chairman Morinomiya counters with the fact that he's now part of her school in possible defiance of the trope, since it's vaguely implied she's aware of the kind of impression another school's uniform would give off to everyone in the student body.
* Averted in the various ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' series -- none of the human transfer student girls are seen wearing (or even ''having'') their previous school's uniforms. [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Setsuna]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Ellen]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure Makoto]] and [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Hime]] get a pass as they were from other worlds.
* Kanoko Naedoko of ''Manga/TheSecretNotesOfLadyKanoko'' is constantly transferring middle schools, but always wears the same uniform.

* In ''LightNovel/DuRaRaRa'', [[http://dinosbacsi.tumblr.com/post/108365622936/best-introduction-1010 Mairu]] [[spoiler: Orihara]] goes to a school with blazer uniforms... but she wears her old SailorFuku.
* In a {{filler}} two-part episode of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Tamanosuke Itou arrives to Ran and Sonoko's class wearing his old ''gakuran'' rather than the school's blazer uniform.
* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'', Mimi and Meiko transfer to Tsukishima High School where Taichi, Yamato, Sora and Koushirou are already in. While Mimi already has the school's school uniform (and given that she never wore a school uniform before thanks to spending her entire middle school life in the US, it was necessary for her to get it early), Meiko doesn't get hers yet and she has to wear her old uniform during ''Reunion''. It symbolizes how Mimi is already part of the group, while Meiko is still and outsider at that point. When she joins the group at the end of the movie, she gets her new uniform between ''Reunion'' and ''Determination'', symbolizing her integration.
* Noriaki Kakyoin in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' introduces himself as a recent transfer student -- made apparent by his dark green uniform in contrast to the school's black uniform. Whether or not he was actually a transfer student and wasn't just saying that to [[spoiler: avert Jotaro's suspicion until he was prepared to attack him later in the day]] is unknown.
* In ''Manga/ATropicalFishYearnsForSnow'', Konatsu, who transferred to her current school from a school in Tokyo, wears her old school uniform- a blouse and skirt with a neck ribbon- in lieu of the school's uniform, which is a blouse, a jumper dress and a necktie. Partly as a result of this, Koyuki [[IdenticalStranger briefly mistakes another girl who was wearing that uniform for Konatsu]]. Surprisingly, Kontasu continues wearing her old school's uniform for some time, even after the new school year begins at her new school, and she becomes a second-year.
* Soma Yukihira, the protagonist of ''Manga/FoodWars'', seems to wear the black ''gakuran'' of his old school, while the Totsuki jacket is navy-blue with white borders on the collar, with pleaded brown pants and tie. This fits with the fact that he is an outsider, coming from humble roots as the heir of a specialty-of-the-day diner where most of the students come from prestigious families in the culinary world, and he has to work his way up in the academy.

* In ''Film/{{Rushmore}}'' Max Fischer continues to wear the Rushmore uniform when he goes to a public school. He hasn't come to terms with the fact that he's been kicked out of his beloved private school.

* The LiveActionAdaptation (and indeed any other version) of ''Literature/TheDemonHeadmaster'' has this in the first episode, with the Headmaster and several students pointing it out (and the Headmaster explicitly stating disapproval). The regular green uniform is the only one seen for the rest of the series (although none of the FiveManBand or Dinah could be properly seen as being "assimilated").

* Claire in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' wasn't a transfer student -- she was introduced as a new freshman -- but she wore her old Catholic school uniform for some months before finally adopting street clothes. Alli [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]] when Degrassi itself implements uniforms some time later.
** Series creator Linda Schuyler [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5gmmasVuE1r5uoxco1_1280.jpg started school in Canada]] in her old British school's uniform shortly after her family immigrated.
** ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' straight-up inverts it in Season 12 when the Ice Hounds plus Becky arrive in their new Degrassi uniforms for a special start-of-term assembly -- in which it's announced that uniforms are abolished EffectiveImmediately.
* [[TheHero Gentaro]] and [[SixthRanger Ryuusei]] in ''Series/KamenRiderFourze''. Ohsugi chides them that they have to wear the school uniform until Ryusei notes that while the uniforms are recommended, they aren't ''required''. Gentaro is particularly attached to his old uniform:
-->'''Gentaro:''' [[LargeHam This uniform has held my blood, sweat and tears!]]\\
'''Ohsugi:''' THEN TAKE IT TO THE CLEANERS!
* In ''Series/TheInbetweeners'', Will has transferred from a private school to a [[TheGoodOldBritishComp state school]]; while the blazer he wears is officially an optional part of the new school's uniform, [[NonUniformUniform hardly anyone else wears it]], giving the same effect of making him stand out as an outsider and a nerd (the briefcase also doesn't help).
** Given a similar CulturalTranslation in [[TransatlanticEquivalent the US version]] -- American!Will always wears a blue suit jacket.
* In ''Series/ShutUpFlowerBoyBand'', the main characters show up wearing their old uniforms to their new school and are given a week to get new uniforms.

* The canon-ness is certainly debatable, being a spin-off game, but according to ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle'', [[Videogame/Persona4 Yu]] kept wearing his old uniform even after transferring away at the end of the game
* In ''VideoGame/CherryTreeHighComedyClub'', Ravian Merry/[[DubNameChange Vivian Bergman]] is a foreign exchange student who isn't quite adjusted to the new location and wears a different uniform from the rest of the students.

* Discussed in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' during Akiha's route. She transfers in to Shiki's school yet continues to wear her old uniform. When questioned, she states she has absolutely no intention of wearing the new school uniform. Bad things happen before it becomes an issue and afterward irrelevant. Kagetsu Tohya, however, has her getting the new school uniform in the mail.

** Utena's "boy uniform" in the TV anime, which includes bright red bicycle shorts, is not worn by any of the boys at her school, but is, according to the plot, an approved style (she helpfully points it out at the very beginning - there's nothing at the school dress code that bars her from wearing the male uniform). One wonders [[{{Stripperiffic}} who approved it]] and if it has ever been worn by any boy in the history of the school.
** It's the same way in the manga, except her "boys' uniform" is entirely ''pink''. However, a better justification is given in the manga--the wording used in the student handbook specifies that students must wear a uniform made by the approved designer, apparently meaning that Utena is free to commission a custom uniform from said designer.

** Subvrtes by Ranma who, despite the pressure of a rules-specific principal, gets into more trouble from his haircut than for not wearing a uniform. This may have something to do with how [[LimitedWardrobe iconic]] his usual outfit is.
** Note that Ranma is ''the only character in the series'' to never, ''ever'', wear a school uniform, unless it's the female kind in order to pull a prank on Ryoga or fool Kuno for some obscure purpose --in which case, it's always treated as a WigDressAccent PaperThinDisguise. Ironically, the first thing that the majority of {{FanFic}}s that deal with a split or locked female Ranma do is shove her into a school uniform, ignoring the entire manga.

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima,'' Student #1: Sayo Aisaka, wears a SailorFuku, while the rest of the students normally wear buttondowns, vests and blazers. When this is initially noticed in the class register, it leads to the assumption that she's a transfer student who never actually got there... but of course, the truth is that she's a ghost, and the uniform she wears was the standard [[JacobMarleyApparel at the time of her death]] - 60 years earlier.

** There's a logical reason for this. Part of the reason for school-specific uniforms in Japan ties into group representation--your uniform marks you and identifies you to the rest of society. Ask any Japanese kid or young adult; they'll tell you the very FIRST thing they notice about someone is their school uniform. This is likely the central reason for Kagome usually wearing her seifuku in the past; she's "representing" the future and her school in another age. (Nevermind that the contemporaries of that era wouldn't even begin to understand this--conformist culture in Japan became what it is today chiefly during the Meiji era.)

* Averted in the various ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' series - none of the human transfer student girls are seen wearing (or even ''having'') their previous school's uniforms. [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Setsuna]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Ellen]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure Makoto]] and [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Hime]] get a pass as they were from other worlds.

* Noriaki Kakyoin in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' introduces himself as a recent transfer student - made apparent by his dark green uniform in contrast to the school's black uniform. Whether or not he was actually a transfer student and wasn't just saying that to [[spoiler: avert Jotaro's suspicion until he was prepared to attack him later in the day]] is unknown.

* Claire in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' wasn't a transfer student - she was introduced as a new freshman - but she wore her old Catholic school uniform for some months before finally adopting street clothes. Alli [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]] when Degrassi itself implements uniforms some time later.

** ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' straight-up inverts it in Season 12 when the Ice Hounds plus Becky arrive in their new Degrassi uniforms for a special start-of-term assembly - in which it's announced that uniforms are abolished EffectiveImmediately.

* The majority of characters in ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' are birds and wear, at most, neckties with colors corresponding to what grade they're in. Their gijinka forms - false pseudohuman appearances - mostly wear uniforms, but there's quite a bit of leeway there. ForeignExchangeStudent Sakuya eschews both and wears something entirely different. He's rich as well as [[FrenchJerk foreign]] and doesn't feel the need to dress like the commoners.

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima,'' Student #1: Sayo Aisaka, wears a rather different uniform from the other students. When this is initially noticed in the class register, it leads to the assumption that she's a transfer student who never actually got there... but of course, the truth is that she's a ghost, and the uniform she wears was the standard at the time of her death - 60 years earlier.

* In ''Manga/ATropicalFishYearnsForSnow'', Koyuki Amano, who transferred to her current school from a school in Tokyo, wears her old school uniform- a blouse and skirt with a neck ribbon- in lieu of the school's uniform, which is a blouse, a jumper dress and a necktie. Partly as a result of this, Koyuki [[IdenticalStranger briefly mistakes another girl who was wearing that uniform for Konatsu]]. Surprisingly, Kontasu continues wearing her old school's uniform for some time, even after the new school year begins at her new school, and she becomes a second-year.

* Some jurisdictions offer a district-wide uniform option in order to assist students who are new to the neighborhood or have just transferred between district schools. Even where they don't, most elements of a typical school uniform (white shirt/blouse, black or charcoal grey trousers or skirt and dress shoes) are pretty universal, with only a blazer or sweatshirt and tie being unique to the school.

* ''Film/TheKarateKid2010'' has a variation with Dre wearing the proper school uniform to his first day at school in Beijing. However, he and his mom didn't realize that Chinese public schools only use the uniform on designated "uniform days" (this was not one of those days) or on field trips, so he ends up looking like a stupid foreigner, further cementing the racist bullying he suffers from some of his classmates.

* When ActionGirl Tokiko officially enrolls in Kazuki's school in ''Manga/BusoRenkin'', she refuses to wear the school's ballgown-like female uniform (barring a one-off for {{Fanservice}} in a chapter title splash panel), instead holding on to the [[SailorFuku seifuku]]-like uniform from her previous school. When queried, she says the old uniform is easier to move in, and because it leaves her legs exposed, she can more easily bring her alchemical weapon ([[ImprobableWeaponUser a set of four mechanical blades strapped to her thighs]]) to bear.

* Averted by Areola, the transfer student in ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'' who spends the entire film nude..

* When ActionGirl Tokiko officially enrolls in Kazuki's school in ''Manga/BusouRenkin'', she refuses to wear the school's ballgown-like female uniform (barring a one-off for {{Fanservice}} in a chapter title splash panel), instead holding on to the [[SailorFuku seifuku]]-like uniform from her previous school. When queried, she says the old uniform is easier to move in, and because it leaves her legs exposed, she can more easily bring her alchemical weapon ([[ImprobableWeaponUser a set of four mechanical blades strapped to her thighs]]) to bear.

-->Gentaro: [[LargeHam This uniform has held my blood, sweat and tears!]]
-->Ohsugi: THEN TAKE IT TO THE CLEANERS!

* Some jurisdictions offer a district-wide uniform option in order to assist students who are new to the neighborhood or have just transferred between district schools.

* Makoto Kino in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' wears an old school uniform throughout her entire middle school career and only switches over in high school. This is technically not so much due to lack of integration in the cast as the school not having one in [[HugeSchoolgirl her size]], but it does mirror the fact that, outside of the senshi, Makoto was an outcast in middle school due to her height. Her school uniform had elements (long skirt, type of shoes) that were typically associated with a kind of young female delinquents, sukeban, that were prominent in during 70s-80s Japan. Indeed in early designs, Makoto was supposed to lead a gang of girls, and though she didn't she was still stereotyped this way by others. This lengthened skirt does not appear in the [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon live-action series]] as the sukeban wasn't as prominent anymore.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', RobotGirl Aigis has to wear the winter uniform regardless of the season, the better to hide her very noticeable hip and shoulder joints, as well as her arms and legs (covered in armor rather than skin.)

** Subverted in that the Main Character, who is a transfer student, is wearing the new uniform ''the day before school even starts''. Could be a JustifiedTrope, in that as a Wild Card; his personality can instantly change to fit his needs.

** At first, she wears other outfits when travelling to the past, but after the first two or three volumes, Takahashi apparently decided, "Nope, it's gotta be the uniform." Kagome continues to occasionally wear other outfits in the present, but after the early episodes, it's always the uniform when she's time-travelling.

* The school in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' doesn't have set uniforms however Shion's uniform is noticeably different from everyone elses when she transfers. It's changed in the remakes and most adaptations though.

* ''Literature/McAuslan'': When [[AuthorAvatar Dand]] [=MacNeill=] first shows up to join his [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed new regiment]], he is still wearing his green jungle-pattern uniform from the Burma campaign. His new subordinates, who spent the bulk of [[WorldWarTwo the War]] in Africa, comment on how strange his uniform looks.

* Literature/MacAuslan: When Dand MacNeill first shows up to join his new regiment, he is still wearing his green jungle-pattern uniform from the Burma campaign. His new subordinates, who spent the bulk of the War in Africa, comment on how strange his uniform looks.

* Haruhi Fujioka is too poor to buy a new school uniform when she first goes to Manga/{{Ouran High|SchoolHostClub}}, even wearing a boy's uniform because her self-consciousness of her gender isn't as much as that of other people's and because the general format (shirt and pants) was easier to mimic with the clothing she had already.

* Utena's "boy uniform" in the ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' TV anime, which includes bright red bicycle shorts, is not worn by any of the boys at her school, but is, according to the plot, an approved style (she helpfully points it out at the very beginning - there's nothing at the school dress code that bars her from wearing the male uniform). One wonders [[{{Stripperiffic}} who approved it]] and if it has ever been worn by any boy in the history of the school.

* Subverted by Ranma from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' who, despite the pressure of a rules-specific principal, gets into more trouble from his haircut than for not wearing a uniform. This may have something to do with how [[LimitedWardrobe iconic]] his usual outfit is.

* Rei Ayanami appears as a hyperactive transfer student in the episode 26 AlternateUniverse of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Two spin-offs set in this continuity -- the manga ''Angelic Days'' and the DatingSim ''Girlfriend of Steel 2'' -- retain her uniform and personality change.

** In the recent spin-of manga ''Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionCampusApocalypse'', Kaoru is presented as a transfer student who has his own uniform. Much like Rei, he wears it at all times.

* In ''{{Rushmore}}'' Max Fischer continues to wear the Rushmore uniform when he goes to a public school. He hasn't come to terms with the fact that he's been kicked out of his beloved private school.

* A more direct Western example was seen in the Australian live-action series ''RoundTheTwist'', where the Twist kids wear their old uniforms at the beginning of the series. Later on, when the boy who turned into a merman is first seen, he wears the uniform of his former private school, which is far more elaborate than that worn at the Port Niranda school.