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Despite being a transfer student, Marika should have been given a uniform. But
why didn't they give her one? Chitoge wpre the same uniform since her first
day.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OsMmdl.jpg)![enter
image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kwIPHl.jpg)

In manga chapter 129 (Now it has 131 chapters)

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GjnPj.jpg)


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nisekoi
Why doesn't Marika wear same uniform as the others?


In this case, Marika is probably wearing her old school's uniform. As a
transfer student, there's a grace period before you get provided the one the
school designates (they are typically purchased).

This is also the case of the [Transfer Student
Uniforms](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransferStudentUniforms)
trope:

> New Transfer Students in places where school uniforms are a cultural default
> setting often wear their old ones until the school can provide them with a
> new one. **In fiction, this shows the newcomer or outsider. When they get
> the current school uniform, this indicates they've been assimilated**. If
> the student is meant to be a Fish out of Water, they will keep their old
> uniform throughout the series. In Japanese media, even rebels don't choose
> to abandon uniforms entirely; in American media they will do this even if
> the new school doesn't have uniforms. Compare the Non-Uniform Uniform.


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Aside from the "assimilation" thing, it's worth mentioning that school
uniforms normally aren't just stored in bulk somewhere in the school's
designated warehouse of uniforms. That'd be ridiculous because all students
have different measurements. Can you imagine the amount of unused uniforms of
all shapes and sizes?

Each student orders their uniform before the year begins, and they all get it
on time. Students that transfer in the middle of the year have to order their
uniform separately from all other students, and may even have to wait until
the required materials are shipped to the factory. So there's really nothing
unusual going on, just everyday life stuff.


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Myabe she doesn't want to? Not that I know this for a fact within the story,
but remembering Nagi No Asu Kara, the characters had agreed to keep wearing
their old school uniforms on purpose as a way of saying they didn't belong to
the new school.


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It's true that if she transferred in the middle of the year she would have had
do wait...but she transferred in their first year and the manga is already
like halfway through second year (even the anime is into the second year) so
at this point if she is still not wearing it it's cause she doesn't want to...
Realistically, she would have been written up by this point by a disciplinary
person but because this is an anime/manga it's probably the whole "character
look" thing. Even if this were real life, she clearly has a lot of power and
authority due to her father's position so maybe they'd get the school to look
the other way, be it she just wants to stand out or she's more comfortable
with her old clothes. Marika is a more modest, feminine person so could you
really picture her in a mini skirt?


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