And she has never worn shoes since.
- Akebi's Sailor Uniform: Downplayed with Komichi; while she'll wear shoes when she has to, she'll still take her shoes and socks off at the first opportunity. This is lampshaded during her first phys ed class, where everyone does a lap around the school racetrack while being timed. Akebi gets weird and astonished reactions for some reason, and the camera deliberately strays away from showing anything below her calves. Then, it's shown that Akebi is running barefoot with track dirt soiling her soles, indicating that she took off her shoes and socks. She gets an impressive time, and as she is wiping her feet, she concludes that she runs faster barefoot. Her teacher understandably scolded her because she could have gotten hurt doing that.
- Komura from Ashigei Shoujo Komura-san epitomizes this trope so much that she takes it to its logical conclusion; she strictly uses her feet for every little task in even the most implausible of situations. Justified as she comes from a line of really talented acrobats.
- Bakemonogatari: Nadeko Sengoku describes a hatred toward footwear in the light novels, especially socks. When she goes over to Koyomi's house to enjoy a party with him in Koyomimonogatari, she leaves her shoes at the door, then as soon as she sits down on his bed, she slips off her socks and folds them up neatly. Koyomi has no idea she's habitually barefoot whenever possible, so he overthinks it as though there's some unwritten courtesy rule where someone takes off their socks upon entering someone's room. She goes totally barefoot when under the influence of an evil snake entity, which unleashes her inhibitions, such as resigning to footwear outside.Sengoku: I like being barefoot. Barefoot with sandals. Always barefoot in my room, even in the winter. Basically, I hate socks. Wearing them feels weird.
- Black God: Kuro usually goes barefoot but wraps her feet in bandages outdoors. Later in the series, she wears open toe socks, but still no shoes.
- Ed from Cowboy Bebop loses all balance if she even puts on socks, let alone shoes (given that she uses her toes to type at times, is it really any wonder?). Flashbacks also show her barefoot, suggesting she may have lived her entire life as such.
- Yuki Kuroiwa of Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater dislikes stuffy school uniform stockings and prefers to wear just flip-flops or just be barefoot.
- Fairy Tail:
- Coco, King Faust's perpetually barefoot Perky Female Minion (until her Heel–Face Turn), until she starts wearing sandals, of course. This might simply be a means of differentiating her from the anime-only Earth!Coco.
- Mavis Vermilion, the Fairy Tail Guild founder, is also fond of being barefoot at all times. It only helps accent her adorable appearance. It's because she once worked for a cruel guildmaster who took away stuff from her all the time, and her only pair of shoes was one of these things. Mavis eventually grew used to being barefoot and decided she felt better this way than wearing shoes, and thus quit wearing shoes.
- In Fire Force, protagonist Shinra Kusakabe's fire powers burn through his shoes whenever he uses them, so he generally prefers to either go barefoot or wear easily removable flip-flops if it's not a formal event. He gets a Non-Uniform Uniform with no shoes and shorter pants to accommodate his powers. The fire-based nature of his powers and inherent durability of third generation pyrokinetics handles any issues with going barefooted in cold conditions.
- The title character of Future Boy Conan goes barefoot, a useful habit as his toes are notably prehensile and share his tremendous strength. When the people at High Harbor try to give him shoes, he gets rid of them fast, though it doesn't help that they're too big for him.
- In the 2005 Glass Mask anime, one of the actors portrays Isadora Duncan, who throws off her ballet shoes, proudly declaring that she has no need for shoes because she learned to dance barefoot and will continue to dance barefoot. Maya later repeats this iconic line word for word, impressing the people around her. This later helped land her the role of Jane in The Forgotten Wilderness, who herself initially did not wear shoes, being Raised by Wolves. Furthermore, Maya lost a shoe downstream in her journey through the wilderness to prepare for that role.
- Good Luck Girl! has Momiji and Ranmaru who follow variations of this trope. The former wears only her right shoe, leaving her left foot bare as part of her hobo appearance as a god of misfortune. Ranmaru on the other hand is squirmy, whiny and uncomfortable in anything but bare wooden getas, and often kicks them off - sometimes shoots them at her victim - and fights barefoot. Including catching knives with her toes.
- Inuyasha wears extremely old-fashioned clothing even for the feudal setting. He is always barefoot, which comes in useful when he's scratching himself... being half-dog-youkai, he scratches himself the way a dog does. Oddly enough, even when he's in the modern era, no-one really seems to notice or care (except for one episode of Final Act).
- Chigawa Kon of Kaijuu Iro no Shima never, ever wears any footwear. Ever as the other islanders wear sandals, she is never not barefoot. Even the first shot of the manga is her bare feet padding through town as she makes her way towards her favorite cave.
- The titular protagonist of Saki eventually realized that she prefers to be barefoot when she plays Mahjong, and the act of taking her shoes and socks off during a game allows her to loosen up and really give it her all. Saki discovered this during a tournament where something felt off until she got rid of her footwear. This is because the first time Saki ever played the game as a little girl, she was barefoot, since she was at home. The same went for her time at training camp, where she didn't wear shoes due to playing indoors, and sometimes didn't even wear socks (disliking the inn's provided socks, which were tabi). She even claps her bare feet together for good luck, imitating her younger self. It later becomes her Signature Move to signal that she's about to play hardcore.
- Shelter: Rin is barefoot almost all of the time both in- and outdoors, only wearing shoes once outside of flashbacks.
- In Show by Rock!!, Daru Dayu has a pair of geta that she only wears if she has to touch the ground. She almost never leaves her seat atop her floating daruma and her sitting posture has her legs dangling freely over the side, so the geta become dead weight for her feet that she usually kicks off. Because of this, she gives the impression that she never wears shoes, even when she goes into a restaurant. Nobody comments on it.
- In Super Lovers, 8-year old Ren, who trusted no-one and preferred to wander in the woods with Haruko's dogs rather than associate other people, constantly refused to wear his shoes until Haru managed to have him wear them.
