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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'', Shigure and Hayato prefer fundoshi to Western-style bathing suits. Shigure also wears a [[Sarashi|chest wrap]] for her upper body and finds a standard two-piece bathing suit to be indecent.

** Shigure always wears a fundoshi.

* In the ''[[Gokusen]]'' manga, [[Shipper on Deck|Ooshima]] more or less forces Shin to participate in a festival where the men traditionally wear fundoshi, because it's major [[Fetish Fuel]] for [[Yakuza Princess|Kumiko]].

* In the ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' manga, Tamaki must wear one of these if his team loses the sports festival. {{spoiler|They do. He does}}

* Featured often in ''[[Gintama]]'' for comedic effect.

* Played for squicky laughs in a [[One Piece]] filler set in Medieval Japan, where Nami is hit by a strange piece of cloth... revealed to be [[Hollywood Cyborg|Franky's]] Fundoshi. Her reaction is priceless.

* In ''[[Sakigake Otokojuku]]'', fundoshi are the only underwear permitted by school rules. Consequently, all the students wear them.

* Goemon from ''[[Lupin III]]''. Particularly of note on missions involving swimming or diving; the rest of the Lupin gang will opt for wetsuits, but not the [[Samurai|highly traditional]] Goemon.

* Salamander from ''[[Yondemasuyo, Azazel-san]]'' wears nothing but a fundoshi. It's a [[Shout-Out]] to Yukio Mishima (of whom Salamander is a parody of) posing in fundoshi with a sword for a photoshoot.

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Green Hornet]]: Year One''. When conducting research for Kato's origin, writer [[Matt Wagner]] was surprised to discover that Japanese underwear of the period essentially consisted of - as he put it - 'banana hammocks'. A scene involving Japanese soldiers in fundoshi ended up in the comic.

 

== Film ==

* Many of [[Akira Kurosawa]]'s movies, being set in medieval Japan, feature men wearing this (and often not much else).

* In ''[[Gung Ho]]'', the Japanese plant managers are shown swimming in a river wearing fundoshi. In a version bowdlerized for cable TV, these were digitally retouched to look more like conventional swimsuits when seen from behind.

 

== Video Games ==

* One of [[The One Guy|Zafira's]] [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|unlockable swimsuits]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable]]: The Gears of Destiny''. The other one is an [[Old-Timey Bathing Suit]].

* ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]'': Jin's taunt and anti-air animation show he's not afraid to be traditional in more than one way.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' wears a fundoshi under his usual outfit. Since Jack suffers [[Clothing Damage]] in half the episodes, he has many, ''many'' fundoshi scenes. This has contributed to making Jack a very potent [[Mr. Fanservice]].

 

== Real Life ==

 

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