Campione!: Yuri Mariya is officially called a "Hime-Miko" (a woman with divine ancestry that gives her spiritual powers), but she otherwise fits the trope to a T, dressing up in a kimono and working at the local shrine. Madoka from A Bridge to the Starry Skies. It actually protects the world from her Superpowered Evil Side. In Brave10, Isanami is a priestess of Izumo, a lively dancer with the specific task of protecting the Kushimitama. 
She actually comes from a long line of miko which ended when her mother was possessed by the Sealed Evil in a Can that her family was suppose to keep under control and tried to kill her daughters.
Blue Exorcist has Izumo Kamiki, who drives the shrine maiden motif home by fighting with twin foxes she summons from paper talismans. While they themselves are often confused for mikos in the West, they are actually Buddhist nuns. In the Bonus Episode of Ah My Buddha the haremettes face off against a group of mikos and a group of Catholic nuns in a game show. Japanese depictions of most priestesses and other low-rung religious functionaries tend to borrow from miko, including nuns. Miko are more common in H-Games, because they don't have a permanent vow of chastity they can just take over their temple when the head priest(ess) dies or quits, or else they can quit being miko, and then they can do whatever they want. Their outfits traditionally consist of red hakama (trousers) or a long red skirt, and a white haori (kimono jacket). Otherwise fictional and non-fictional Miko work in shrines, often as an afterschool job. If a main character, she might be endowed with mystical powers in order to fight demons, hang Ofuda so that she won't have to fight the demons in the first place, receive visions, etc. Straight portrayals and dramatizations are used just as frequently as a priest or nun would be in North American or European media. Given the strength of Shinto in Japan and the position shrine maidens hold in it, it is no surprise that they are a common character type in anime. A miko (巫女) is a shrine maiden in the Shinto religion.
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