Clothing Damage/Anime and Manga



""♥♥♥ THIS SHIRT-RIPPING TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS! ♥♥♥""
 * Pretty much guaranteed to happen in any Hentai in which the female lead is an Action Girl or Faux Action Girl.
 * A male example in Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu: Hideyoshi suffers Stripperiffic Clothing Damage in episode five, complete with Bishie Sparkle and Yoshii blushing.
 * Dragon Half. Apparently, the only thing strong enough to stop the Big Bad's son's Laser Blade just happens to be the Heroine's Boobs of Steel. Said Laser Blade is tough enough to cut through stone pillars, even parts of the audience, but yet when the heroine gets hit with it, all it does is cut her bra off.
 * Mazinger Z: It happened to Sayaka Yumi in the original manga sometimes (too many times for her liking). Given that it was created by Go Nagai, the man introduced Fanservice in anime, it is not surprising. In one chapter, several female robots with blades replacing her arms sliced her dress to ribbons, without actually cutting her flesh or underwear.
 * Great Mazinger: Jun Hono suffered from this more often than Sayaka (much to her disliking).
 * Bleach has a lot of this, mostly for the very lean buff male characters who have a tendency to get their clothes ripped open/off/to shreds and run around for the rest of the arc. Curiously, it almost never happens to female characters and when it does the damage is minimal and not fanservicey (such as Orihime having the clothes ripped off... from her shoulders).
 * Ichigo particularly has this problem; the poor guy can't even fight internal battles without baring his abs. The manga has taken this to its logical extreme, with Ichigo explaining that, since his outfit changes when he assumes bankai, his shirt takes damage in proportion to how much spirit power he loses. As he rests, the robes mend.
 * Also in later manga chapters, Sosuke Aizen's shirt and jacket is partially ripped open at the front, displaying
 * Ulquiorra does this deliberately with Ichigo's sword, tearing his shirt open to reveal he's the 4th Espada.
 * Szayel has this happen to him during his first battle with Renji and Ishida, leaving him shirtless. He even stops the battle to go change clothes.
 * Not that he wears much to begin with, but Grimmjow loses his jacket during his second fight with Ichigo.
 * Practically every time that Motoko uses some Kendo technique in Love Hina's manga, it is certain that some female clothes will be damaged.
 * Najica Blitz Tactics, among its ineffable quantity of fanservice, includes damaging some weird clothes.
 * Inuyasha
 * Kagura's clothes are destroyed when he uses wind scar. Then when Gyomaru fires a laser at her it destroys her clothes again.
 * Inu-Yasha, Naraku, Jakotsu and Hakudoshi also suffer from a very similar situation to lesser degrees.
 * When Inu-Yasha battles Goshinki, Goshinki claws him and his shirt explodes.
 * Ranma ½
 * There is an amusing Double Subversion in an early anime episode. Ranma's shirt gets slashed low on the chest, and it's even Lampshaded by Ranma's dialogue complaining about his favourite shirt. The Subversion? He's male at the time. Of course, then he jumps through a fountain...and doesn't realize it until thirty seconds later when we've all had a good long look at "his" underboobs.
 * Battle-damage to Ranma's shirts happens while in female form. In her first fight against Mousse, he was intentionally ripping off all of her clothes, since he thought it was a disguise. When he eventually succeeds, Akane steps in and gives Ranma a change of clothes. Much to the despair of their high school's male population, most of whom were watching the fight at the time.
 * Another deliberate instance in the Battle Dogi story arc: the only way to remove the Dogi (other than seducing the owner to get the Dogi to reject her) is with a solid strike to the yin-yang belt buckle, which makes the suit burst into shreds. Too bad for the owner that the Dogi always disintegrates whatever she's already wearing when being summoned.
 * The destructive Transformation Sequence from Moldiver.
 * Honey Kisaragi's Transformation Sequence in the various versions of Cutey Honey. Also, a little humorous clothing damage occurs on occasion. (Her reaction to that varies from episode to episode, though she never cares about the seconds spent naked while her outfit is disassembling and reforming.)
 * Devil Hunter Yohko's Transformation Sequence.
 * In Project A-ko, Ako's first fight with D has her shirt and dress being sliced in some rather interesting places.
 * There's about a nine in ten chance that anytime a female character in Ikki Tousen (a.k.a. Battle Vixens) gets hit any clothing she's wearing from mid bust line down will go up in smoke.
 * Happens in nearly every episode of Steel Angel Kurumi. In fact, in one episode of Steel Angel Kurumi 2, the main character apparently has the ability to completely obliterate her outfit by flexing in just the right way.
 * There's one very interesting example in Sailor Moon. In episode 27, bit character Urawa has a horrible nightmare about Ami being attacked --- but the only thing that gets damaged are her clothes, and by the time the vision ends she's wearing nothing but scraps.
 * All over the place in Mahou Sensei Negima; botched spells obliterate clothes, robots are armed with clothes-destroying lasers, there's a clothes-eating octopus, clothes get petrified and then shattered... then there's Takane, who gets hit with this so often that the other characters (who are used to living in a universe where this happens on a daily basis) call her "the stripper" and she begins getting Stockholm Syndrome about it.
 * Hayate the Combat Butler
 * Poked fun of when one girl's clothing is shredded by a monster attack while trapped in an RPG. Not just any monster, a slime monster. It'd be easier to tear clothing with Jello.
 * In a manga chapter, Sakuya is put into a suit to try and force Saki into gambling against Wataru's mother, she chooses to play roulette, and then Wataru and Saki find out that when they lose a round, Sakuya's outfit tears itself. You don't win roulette often indeed.
 * GetBackers
 * The women in the manga fall prey to this endlessly. It's extremely rare for any of the women to manage a single fight without losing almost all their clothes.
 * Ban Midou also often ends up with his shirt shredded into pieces whilst fighting. And when he doesn't end up totally losing his shirt, he usually ends up giving it to Himiko, who by that time rarely has any clothes on.
 * Happens all the time in He Is My Master.
 * Blue Seed
 * Tends to happen to Momiji a lot. Like in the first episode, and the characters (particularly her love interest) make fun of it through the rest of the season (and beyond).
 * Kusanagi himself occasionally destroys the upper part of his trademark outfit during his transformations and ends up shirtless. His orange skin notwithstanding.
 * Full Metal Panic!
 * The final episode of Full Metal Panic Fumoffu, where
 * When having a Whispered flashback, Kaname rips her clothes to expose her cleavage for no apparent reason.
 * Kaze no Stigma
 * Ayano's clothes are shredded after a climactic fight with a wind demon.
 * In the manga, there are a few incidences where Kazuma damages Ayano's clothes. The first time Ayano and Kazuma fight in the anime, he causes a large rip in her skirt when she fights Catherine McDonald's Metatron.
 * Male example: In Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch it gets to the point where you wonder if Kaito has any shirts left...
 * This occurs to Nana in Elfen Lied in her battle with Mariko in episode 12.
 * An early episode of Bastard!! has a villain throwing one of the female leads into a pit full of clothing-eating green slime.
 * Fullmetal Alchemist
 * Edward Elric couldn't walk past a knife rack without his shirt shredding itself to pieces to reveal his arm. Or his arm and torse.
 * Never mind Ed, Sergeant-Major Armstrong parodies this trope to hilarious effect. He will rip off his shirt at the drop of a hat—in order to show determination, moral conviction, or even sympathy and sadness. It seems to be how he deals with almost any situation. He even uses it when deciding his friendship with Sig Curtis. One scene in the 2003 anime version had him punch an incoming stone fist so hard that his shirt explodes, revealing his almost hilariously buff figure.

"Index: Tou-ma... you did something perverted again... Touma: Wait, no, you can't blame me this time!"
 * Speaking of Curtis, he does the same thing in the friendship scene, flexing so hard his shirt tears off.
 * Roy Mustang mostly averts this trope, as he stays surprisingly clothed throughout the series. However, in episode 19 of Brotherhood, when Mustang is stabbed by Lust, and must resort to searing his wound closed. This leads to a climactic scene in which Mustang is shown with his uniform jacket and shirt undone, revealing his injured chest, as he
 * Dragon Ball
 * Played for comedic effect when a child Goku seems to have no problem fighting in front of a large crowd completely naked (his clothes destroyed by his Oozaru transformation). Similarly, he is unfazed when only his pants are completely destroyed in a later battle.
 * This is the only kind of damage Taopaipai takes from the Kamehameha.
 * Clothing damage is more or less a given in every fight of Dragonball Z, and nearly random in exposure area. Recoome's chest and butt are exposed by a blast from Vegeta, Goku's shirt is stripped off by a fireball launched by Vegeta.... well, the important thing is that someone's shirt gets torn off, at least In fact, Goku's shirt gets torn so much that you can gauge where in the fight you are by it—if it's still there, and the enemy looks dead, it isn't over yet. Apparently, aliens are immortal unless Goku is topless.
 * In any fight involving fighters with Saiyan armour, the plates extending out over the shoulder or forming a sort of skirt around the waist always got broken off. At the beginning of the Cell saga the only character who still wears the stuff is Vegeta, and it no longer features shoulders pads or the skirt stuff (which The Other Wiki tells me are called Faulds in European armour and Tare in Japanese armour).
 * 18 gets her clothes torn up when fighting Vegeta, but gets a new set later.
 * Also, Videl gets her clothes torn up when fighting Spopovitch.
 * 17 gets his shirt destroyed in a battle against Gohan in one of the movies.
 * Pretty much a given for any fight in Rave Master (unless you're watching the anime). Special mention goes to Julia, for having her first fight include so much Clothing Damage that afterwards all she has left is her underwear and a bra fashioned from the remains of her shirt.
 * Devilman has to inflict this on his own clothing during Transformation Sequences.
 * Devilman Lady goes even further—her pants go bye-bye too when she transforms into a she-devil. Her handler remarks that she's going to have to remember to bring Jun an extra set of clothes for missions.
 * Vaan has to shred his own shirt whenever he popped his wings in Vision of Escaflowne.
 * Chrono Crusade
 * Rosette has most of her clothing torn off during her fight with Rizelle. (So badly that in the anime, the next episode shows her wearing a sack in place of her normal uniform and has to borrow clothing from somewhere in the manga.) Lampshaded when Rizelle mockingly says the effect is quite pretty.
 * Satella Harvenheit also gets her clothes shredded occasionally, most notably in.
 * The manga shows Chrono's clothes dissolving in a flashback to when he.
 * In Mysterious Girlfriend X, the title character does this to herself and others with a pair of scissors she keeps in her panties.
 * To LOVE-Ru has clothing damage about every other chapter. In the anime, every episode. Doesn't matter what the cause is, any female in the cast is going to get her clothing torn off in some way.
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
 * Surprisingly uncommon, considering its infamous Transformation Sequence, but there's a very straight example near the end of The Original Series. Fate blocks Nanoha's Divine Buster, but the effort causes her Barrier Jacket to get torn in a lot of places.
 * The scene played out a bit differently in the manga, with both combatants getting hit hard . Fate still gets the worst of it, but Nanoha's barrier jacket gets torn up pretty badly as well.
 * In the first episode of A's, one of Vita's hammer attacks that destroys Nanoha's shield also destroys the first layer of her Barrier Jacket. (It's worthwhile to note that this situation was caused by an Unstoppable Rage when Nanoha damaged Vita's hat.) Vita's clothes also get significantly damaged after some difficult battles on a desert world.
 * Another significant example would be in Chapter 15 of the Striker S manga, where Signum and Nanoha go at each other in a no holds barred exihbition duel. Again, Nanoha's outer layer of her jacket gets destroyed by the end, but Signum's armor is completely wasted, with significant rips in her underlayer of armor as well.
 * Aisha ClanClan of Outlaw Star is prone to this. Partly because her skin is significantly tougher than her ceremonial armor, but mostly because her own powered forms are a bit bigger than her clothing.
 * Revolutionary Girl Utena: Utena's clothes get torn up during her second duel with Touga.
 * In Grenadier, Rushuna Tendou's clothing gets damaged so often, one would think her shirt was made entirely out of tissue paper. Made really funny when the damaged article of clothing is her underwear, and she ends up running around the battlefield with her hand on her crotch while wailing "NOOOOO!!!" The rest of her outfit is also systematically reduced to tatters during the course of the same fight.
 * Doronjo in Yatterman is a regular victim of this trope. This may be a reason why the anime will never be aired in America. Yatterman is a children's superhero anime in Japan and Doronjo sometimes has her breasts accidentally exposed, and this is considered inappropriate for a children's show in America. This has been severely toned down in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, which will see an American release.
 * A Certain Magical Index
 * In the first episode, Index wants to see a demonstration of Touma's Anti-Magic powers, and boasts that since her clothes are magical, it should work. Touma touches her clothes, and she's instantly stripped.
 * This also comes up later, since it seems as if all religious clothing is enchanted, and thus destroyed by Touma's hand. One notable occasion has two nuns wearing clothes that bind them from using magic. Touma, logically, thinks he should destroy these... but everyone else stops him. Later, after getting knocked unconscious, he finds the girls looking at him demurely. Apparently their rescuers used his hand to destroy their bindings while he was sleeping.

"Hayate: Yeee! Ayana!! Your clothes! They're all ripped and sexy now!! You rank number one in violent sexuality!!!"
 * A member of the Amakusa, Itsuwa, actually invokes this trope in a fight with a powerful enemy. She enchants her clothing in such a way that it takes the damage meant for her body, making even normal clothing act like proper armor.
 * In Strike Witches, Charlotte Yeager manages to break the sound barrier during an engagement. She's so fast that she slams onto the enemy, tearing both the enemy and her clothes apart. The rescue squad (Yoshika and Lynnette) can only nervously laugh while they carry her nude body back to base.
 * Plenty of times in Asu no Yoichi. Tsubasa's fighting style is dependent on clothing damage.
 * An early chapter in the My-HiME manga has some kind of water monster that  melts girls' clothing. Possibly justified because it was looking for HiME, who are identifiable by marks that can appear anywhere on their bodies. (When it actually catches one of the HiME, it locks her in to suffocate her.)
 * One Piece
 * Mr. 3 uses his Wax-Wax powers to trap Zoro, Nami and Vivi on a giant wax sculpture, with a rotating set of candles slowly encasing them in wax. Usopp manages to release them, burning away Nami's shirt and singing Vivi's, but leaving Zoro's untouched. Usopp also burns off Luffy's vest in order to save him from the Color Trap that Miss Goldenweek painted on it.
 * Lampshaded in an SBS, where when questioned why his character's clothes never were fully destroyed despite their various body-changing powers, Oda answered "If they fought naked, wouldn't it kind of change the emphasis of the manga?"
 * .hack Sign
 * The clothing of the main characters inexplicably disintegrates as they fall through space during the Theme Song. The camera always cuts away before anything naughty is revealed.
 * Subaru is assaulted and almost killed by another PK, destroying her clothes in the process.
 * When Tsukasa is attacked by, his clothes are also ripped apart.
 * Used by Blue in Pokémon Special. When her shirt is ripped, it is revealed that her breasts are actually two pokeballs tucked under her shirt.
 * Happens again during the Black and White arc, this time to Black and White courtesy of Virizion.
 * Makina in Shikabane Hime  tends to suffer serious rips to her clothes before killing the Monster of the Week.
 * This is done frequently in Rebirth to Milly.
 * Frequent male examples in Yu Yu Hakusho, usually to Yusuke. An early chapter of the manga that didn't make the anime also had a female example.
 * When Itsuki and Akiha are handcuffed together in Sora O Kakeru Shoujo, Leopard decides to toy with them by slowly making parts of their Latex Space Suits disappear. Try as they might to go unnoticed, news of someone streaking around the school has already spread by the next day.
 * Funnily enough, it's the men in D Gray Man that suffer the most Clothing Damage. Allen and Kanda especially suffer from this, constantly having most of their shirt torn up. Lenalee also gets her jacket burnt off during her battle with Eshi.
 * Mahoromatic.
 * One chapter features a "Panty-thief Ninja" who devotes his entire life to—well, guess—and whose signature attack is the ability to destroy a girl's entire outfit with a single sword-stroke: so thoroughly does it work that the pieces of outfit left over to preserve modesty can be measured in square millimetres.
 * If that weren't enough, another chapter (also the Beach Episode) is devoted to the attack of the rampaging "Cloud Crab". Cloud Crab is a warehouse-sized robot crustacean that was originally designed by invading alien forces as an Anti-Android war mecha—except that a slight malfunction means that rather than hunting down and destroying androids, it grabs young women and tears their clothes off.
 * A chapter of Midori Days does this when a pervert on the subway cuts two girls' skirts on the rush hour train. The first one finds this out after several shocked stares; the second doesn't discover this until a lot later.
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 * When Dorothy's opponent tears off the left half of her dress. She is unfazed until this is pointed out... several chapters later. Ginta even Lampshade Hangs this by saying: "Well, you survived, even if your dress didn't!"
 * When Dorothy is fighting, this is commented on when she summons her guardian. Strangely enough, despite all of the girls battling, Dorothy seems to be the only one to suffer.
 * In Saikano, Chise's transformations as the Ultimate Weapon inevitably destroyed her blouses, and on at least one occasion left her completely naked.
 * Ronin Warriors
 * The second OAV, "Kikoutei Densetsu", has Ryo get his shirt shredded early on by the film's antagonist.
 * Also happens later in the OVA as
 * Katekyo Hitman Reborn
 * Tsuna burns off all his clothes (except his boxers) every time he gets hit with the Dying Will Bullet. He gets hit with it a lot.
 * And during his battle with Mukuro he got hit with an attack that left numerous tears in his clothing.
 * In Flame of Recca, Fuuko. To a less extent some of the guys will have their clothing damaged, but the amount of battles which DON'T end with the poor girl half naked could probably be counted on one hand. Lampshaded during her battle with Fujimaru, where he deliberately aimed at her clothes for his own enjoyment, leaving only her underwear. Afterwards his teammate gave her his coat.
 * Plenty of times in Queens Blade. Special mention goes to Airi, who has her clothes regenerate and then get damaged again.
 * Naruto
 * Kakashi loses his Konoha vest to one of Kakuzu's wind jutsus, but seems otherwise unhurt when he re-emerges after the attack.
 * Any time this happens to an Akatsuki member, you know that they are going to die. Averted with  who have all removed their cloaks and are either still alive or die a long time after removing it.
 * And in the second Shippuden movie, at one point the villain hits Naruto with an attack that removes a portion of the jacket covering his back.
 * In Hayate Cross Blade?, Jun does this to Ayana with her "Kamaitachi" attack, which prompts a Lampshade Hanging by Hayate:


 * In Fist of the North Star, Rei uses his Nanto Seiken style to slice off Mamiya's clothing to prove a point, exposing her breasts. His point being that if Mamiya truly renounced her femininity, then she wouldn't need to cover her chest.
 * In Defense Devil, every time demonic defense lawyer Kucabara defeats a Shinigami, his final attack destroys every inch of their clothing. As of chapter seventeen, this has led to the complete stripping of one (delicious) female, and two males.
 * Happens quite often in Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple, especially to Miu and Shigure. Kenichi also has a habit of losing his shirt during his fights.
 * In episode seven of Wandaba Style, the girls' standard sweatsuits are so worn from all the experiments that Teen Genius Susumu had put them through that Sakura and Himawari's burst to pieces with slight provocation (Sakura provoked hers to prove to Susumu that they needed new clothes, Himawari just got too into her dramatic monologue). The same happens to Ayame and Yuri's outfits when Susumu sends them down a tunnel in freefall to get to their new clothes.
 * Happens NEEDLESS to the whole female cast. The girls seriously can't do anything without having half their clothing rip to shreds. Lampshaded in the manga as an accurate visual representation of how damaged people are, to which
 * Beyblade
 * Male example: In episode 49 in the first season, Ray's clothes get torn up by the bit-beast Falborg's wind attacks.
 * Kai gets most of his shirt ripped off in season 3. His very defined chest is revealed very nicely for about 5 or 6 episodes. Young fanfgirls rejoiced!
 * In Zero Zero Nine One Mylene Hoffman, Agent 009-1, gets clothing damage on a number of occasions; she also has machine guns in her breasts that cause clothing damage every time she fires them.
 * Durarara!! gets one in one of the most awesome ways you can pull off this trope. In episode 3, Shizuo punches a thug so hard his clothes fly off from him!
 * Seen in episode 15 of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
 * Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru: Shusei gets a good deal of the front of his shirt ripped up as a result of being subject to torture by Ashley. And while fighting Ashley leaves a few tears in Hotsuma's clothing with her metal claw-like weapon.
 * Air Gear: Agito has this happen to him.
 * Perfect Blue: When trying to rape Mima near the end of the movie, Me-Mania rips her shirt open, slices the corner of it, and tears the rest of her clothes off.
 * Mirai Nikki once featured Yuno with her blouse and bra ripped open as a result of.
 * Hellsing: In a flashback scene of Sera's horrific childhood, a burglar rips off the shirt and bra from.
 * Legend of the Blue Wolves: Captain Continental rips off Jonathan's shirt before raping him.
 * Sekirei: Occurs every single time when one of the Unwanted Harem members engages in battle. Sometimes out of battle, too!
 * In Fushigi Yuugi when Yui summons Seiryu and he grants her his divine power, her beautiful ceremonial clothes are ripped to shreds.
 * Master of Martial Hearts:
 * In addition to the fact that the fighters are all apparently wearing tissue paper that looks like clothes, there was one instance where a girl got punched in the shoulder and her skirt basically exploded.
 * Another girl took a blow to the face, causing her bra to fly off—which tears through her shirt in the process.
 * Occasionally subverted in that while her opponents tend to wind up over-exposed, Aya almost never loses anything but outerwear. (A notable exception is the poolside fight with Yuu, where she is only wearing a swimsuit to begin with.)
 * One of the cheesier episodes in the Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind manga is when the Emperor decides to give Nausicaä "a good thrashing". His goons basically just tear her trademark clothes apart.
 * In one episode of Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt, Panty gets Stocking to slice off her shorts so that she can access her panties during a fight scene.
 * Freezing is one of those rare series where the girls' bodies get torn up along with the clothes.
 * Godannar has Anna getting her wedding dress torn up in the first episode.
 * The title character in Maicchingu Machiko Sensei apparently wears clothes made of paper since they get ripped off very easily about Once Per Episode.
 * In one of the first battles of the The Sacred Blacksmith anime, Cecily's armor took a beating but survived relatively intact... until after the battle when, while facing and talking to Luke, the chestplate shattered.
 * In Demon City Shinjuku, the skirt of Sayaka's dress gets ripped a good bit.
 * Dog Days embodies this trope. Since battles cause no physical harm (well, in protected areas and to native people), if a female fighter gets hit by an attack she loses her outer clothing.
 * An aspect of the characters' power in Ultimate Girls. The instability of their transformations causes their clothing to disintegrate from the moment they transform, potentially leaving them completely nude when they run out of time. Fortunately, their powers are enhanced by their embarrassment, so the closer this outcome gets the more powerful they become. Further, the girls' transformation sequences actually destroy whatever they happen to be wearing at the time. This means that if they don't strip down prior to transforming they'll have nothing to wear when they change back.
 * In the penultimate episode of Tiger and Bunny, Kotetsu takes the brunt of an energy blast that not only obliterates his Powered Armor, but nearly half his undersuit with it.
 * Occurs numerous times in Girls Bravo for the Fan Service. A notable example is the time Kirie's clothes got ripped during a wrestling tournament.
 * In Jack to Mame no Ki when Tulip the giant finds out Margaret doesn't really want to marry him in his rage he grows taller and tears off his wedding suit and he's left in his tattered undershirt and boxers.
 * Lupin III
 * Has happened many times to Lupin and Fujiko. Fujiko is often in disguise when this happens to her, and when she has her disguise cut off she's left in her underwear.
 * Also frequently inflicted on male Mooks by Goemon, who uses his Absurdly Sharp Blade to cut through their guns and their clothing, leaving them standing embarrassed in their boxers.
 * Hanaukyo Maid Tai Episode 3. As a side effect of Ikuyo Suzuki's Weather Control Machine exploding, all of the maids nearby (except Mariel) have their clothing disintegrate.
 * Fairy Tail:
 * Happens a lot, especially to Lucy. Most notably, during a theater play. As her skirt is on fire, Erza shreads Lucy's clothes with her sword in front of the whole audience.
 * Erza gets this too, though she usually switches armor shortly after. Although after a long fight, Erza will leave her damaged clothing on for some time.
 * Despite having in the most battles, Natsu doesn't seem to get this as much. Possibly justified, since he doesn't ever wear a shirt to begin with. Just a vest and a scarf. His pants and vest are often frayed and worn by the end of a fight, though. And recently his scarf changed colors under ominous circumstances.
 * Gray subverts this. He takes his clothes off in advance. And not just before fights. Avoiding clothing damage is not the reason, he just likes taking his shirt off.
 * Jellal, when fighting Natsu. His overcoat catches fire as he takes it off and it burns to ashes in an instant. This is the only affect Natsu's attack has on him.
 * Highschool Dx D has the protagonist Ise use this as one of his primary skill called Dress Break.
 * In Gourry's first appearance in the Slayers anime, he grabs a bandit, tosses the man in the air, and before the bandit hits the ground, Gourry has sliced all of the man's clothes off without scratching him.
 * The result of Mea's standoff with  from episode 4 of Popotan. While she apparently has the power to withstand powerful energy attacks, her clothes do not.
 * Episode 6 of Rail Wars! is egregious - Koumi starts the episode wearing a pretty outfit, and ends it wearing because everything else has been torn away over the course of the episode.