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{{trope}}
[[File:makoto bath.jpg|link=The Girl Who Leapt Through Time|frame|Charming...]]
{{quote|'''Kakei:''' By the way... Mizumachi, what are you doing?
'''Mizumachi:''' Eh? What do you mean? When you're in a public bath, you either swim or peep, right?
'''Everyone:''' YOU DO NEITHER!
|''[[Eyeshield 21]]''}}
A '''Furo Scene''' is a bathing scene involving the use of the Japanese style of bathing mostly for the purpose of [[Fan Service]]. A ''furo'' is a Japanese bathing tub
It is also done in the nude, which is where fanservice comes in. A
The Furo Scene is so common in anime, [[The Wiki Rule|there is even a wiki]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130425142731/http://animebaths.wikia.com/wiki/Anime_Bath_Scene_Wiki that catalogues them neatly, apparently].
NOT to be confused with a [[Guro]] scene... although a [[Blood Is Squicker in Water|combination]] isn't beyond the realm of
Compare
{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Tower of God]]'' suddenly decided to have some characterization in a bathhouse on the 20th floor.
* Happens multiple times in ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]'', in the extremely large and luxurious ofuro in the main house. Also at an outdoor ofuro during a [[Beach Episode]]. Also the subject of a good deal of sexual tension and humour in Kaoru's apartment during the first two episodes.
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** The [[Fan Disservice|male]] characters go to a bathhouse, and, since they're bored, decide to compare the sizes of their [[Unusual Euphemism|"XXXXX"]]. Humourously, [[Big Bad|Papillion]] is there, [[Gag Penis|and his is the biggest]].
*** Two things: a) Pappy is [[The Rival]] at this point, and b) we don't know if he is the biggest, as it was comparative and he was wearing a bucket on it as he was walking outside. (He's just weird like that).
** While in the manga the girls go to a teahouse at this point, this is switched in the anime so that they go to a bathhouse
* A ''sentou'' public bath is the source of, or setting for, [[Hilarity Ensues|humourous antics]] (as well as [[Fan Service]]) in several espisodes of ''[[Chobits]]''.
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', one of the [[All There in the Manual|Picture Dramas]] features a group of Ashford girls (Milly, Shirley, Kallen and Nina) taking a bath together in the Ashford Academy's bath house.
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* ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' has Yuno contemplating events in her bath at the end of every episode. The girls also attend a public bath together and Miyako doesn't have any inhibitions to hop into the tub with Yuno when the opportunity arises. Strangely this is only used more for comedic effect than for actual [[Fan Service]] as the characters are drawn in [[Super-Deformed]] style whenever they might otherwise show skin.
* Shows up a few times in the ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'' manga. Chika seems too embarrassed to join them (though it's implied that she probably joins Nobue, her sister, under normal circumstances) and opts to take one later.
* There's one scene in ''[[One Piece]]'' at the end of the Arabasta Arc, there's a scene of everyone enjoying in the baths of the palace (men and women divided by a wall) and all men decide to espy, the response: Nami's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc0KjmZjuXg Happiness] [[Fan Service|Punch]].
* In the wartime [[Girls Love]] manga series ''[[Kurogane Pukapuka Tai]]'', there's an unwilling one where stinky U-Boat captain Nina Stortebeker is hauled off and thrown in the tub before being scrubbed with a long-handled broom. Played for fanservice, naturally.
* ''[[Love Hina]]'' makes this a reoccurring event (the onsen being a major feature of Hinata-so), and a regular reason for Keitaro to be the [[Accidental Pervert]].
* The Jungle Bath in ''[[Love Mode]]''.
* ''[[Lucky Star]]'' has one such scene, although given the animation style of the series, it's not nearly as [[Fan Service|naughty]] as some of the other examples...
** Actually there were two, with one as part of a longer scene and therefore even less naughty.
* ''[[King of Thorn]]'' has flashbacks to a furo scene of twins Kasumi and Shizuku bathing together. The first flashback is initially played for [[Fan Service]], but quickly turns disturbing. The second flashback shows what actually happened in the bath—an [[Interrupted Suicide]].
** Actually there were two, with one as part of a longer scene and therefore even less naughty.
* Many times in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' with various members of the [[Fundamentally Female Cast|mostly female cast]], from Hayate and the Wolkenritter in ''A's'' to the Forwards in ''StrikerS''. There was even a brief Furo Scene with Nanoha's father in the first season, whose heavily scarred body serves as a [[Continuity Nod]] to ''[[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～]]'', where we learn that he was a bodyguard in his "old job". And that "bodyguard" was a bit of an understatement.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has numerous scenes set in the Mahora baths, but chapter 235, set in a giant bathhouse in the Magic World, is the undisputed king of this. Soooo much [[Skinship Grope]]. [[Serial Escalation|So much.]]
** Anyone else get the feeling [[Ken Akamatsu|the writer]] is required to stick a certain amount of fanservice into any given arc? It was originally [[Executive Meddling|supposed]] to be a harem series, not the action he wanted. So bam, a [[
** Then there's the bath scene in volume 3 when Negi's training in the mountains...
** And the later one with Asuna and Setsuna. Complete with [[Fantastic Arousal]]!
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** There's also the scene featuring Shinji and Kaworu as they take a bath and talk...
** This trope is played straight at the ''onsen'' that Shinji, Misato, Asuka, and Pen-Pen attend following the defeat of Sandalphon, the Eighth Angel.
* There are quite a few such scenes in ''[[NieA 7]]'', since Mayuko and Niea live over a public bath and love to make use of it. They are fairly light on fanservice, even if they do contain some slight nudity.
* Parodied in ''[[Ninin ga Shinobuden]]''. Shinobu is... enthusiastic about the prospect of bathing with Kaede. And of course, [[Dirty Old Man|Onsokumaru]] attempts join in, and ends up tied to a pile of garbage. Not to mention what happens [[Skinship Grope|in his imagination]].
* Almost every episode of ''[[
* In the ''[[Patlabor]]'' OAV episode "Black Trinary," a suspect is hiding in a public bath, and his only real identifying mark is a group of moles in his armpit. The male officers, as customers, go in to find him, and have to come up with ways to check out the other bathers' armpits (most are not amused). When they do find the guy, {{spoiler|the ensuing fight, which eventually spills out into the street, includes many rather "strategicly" placed black dots that bounce around through the air and onto the characters at the appropriate times (pixilation is just so un-funny)}}
* It happens in the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' manga, at the start(ish) of the 3rd story arc. Red, the protagonist, is looking for some mystic/magic/healing springs that can cure his hands, which are constantly shaking due to his encounter with the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|ecoterrorist]] [[Four Is Death|Elite 4]] in the last story arc. Of course, when he finally gets there, Sabrina is already bathing, but she doesn't seem to mind and he gets in, of course carefully facing the other way. Then, the very moment he looks at her, she stands up, declaring that her treatment is complete.
** Sapphire and Flannery enjoyed the Lavaridge hot springs and had a Gym Battle at the same time. The Sinnoh Trio conveniently found a bathhouse after they were sprayed by a Stunky. They smelled so bad that they had the baths to themselves.
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* Similar goings-on occur in the first episode of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]''. When Kafuka arrives in the classroom, it appears to be a large furo/indoor onsen. Filled with every female student in class. Every time anything naughty would be visible, however, there's both [[Censor Steam|steam]] AND [[Scenery Censor|Maeda-kun's face]] (the uncensored version removes Maeda-kun). It turns out to have been an [[Imagine Spot]].
* In ''[[Saiyuki]]'''s bath house episode, Gojyo and Hakkai have one. Tenpou also gets one, in a bath tub (he's fallen asleep) in the gaiden manga.
* The characters of ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]''
* The last part of an OVA of ''[[School Rumble]]'', although if you want to watch it, bring some [[Brain Bleach]].
** One episode had Eri going to a public bath for the first time.
* ''[[Shikabane Hime]]'' has almost the entire female cast in a furo at one point, with strategically placed bubbles, of course.
* ''[[Simoun]]'' replaces the traditional furo scene with a number of scenes set in the shower instead. The scenes give the cast ample opportunity for skinship, but interestingly contain remarkably little actual [[Fan Service]]. The shower scenes are ubiquitous enough that every level of the ''Simoun'' video game features one as well.
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* Quite a few scenes in ''[[Strike Witches]]'' revolve around the base bath.
* Relatively common in the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' storylines as well. In the TV series and the OVA, the bathroom is a piece of alien tech to begin with. And, living up to the name, Tenchi isn't always in there (though he gets dragged in on occasion, or the girls walk in on him, or girls walk in on him after another girl dragged him in...).
* In the series ''[[
* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]]''. Taro and several of the maids, during the [[Hot Springs Episode]]. Also Taro and Konoe together in Episode 14.
* In ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]'', we see the main characters being chased out of their baths by horrendous mold, hauntings, and worse. Then they all visit a public bathhouse while they figure out who's causing all this trouble. Bath scenes were split evenly between the male and female classmates and teachers.
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* ''[[Outlaw Star]]'''s penultimate episode is their [[Hot Springs Episode]], with the female members of the cast enjoying a number of onsen (the [[Cute Monster Girl]] complaining that it wasn't hot enough and winding up in a ''lava pool''). At the same time, the episode's A-plot involves Gene climbing to the top of the mountain to get nude footage of the priestess whose temple was built there. When he arrives up at the top of the mountain, he finds himself on the snow-covered glass roof looking down on what is either a giant stripperiffic laundry, or an odd sentou, filled with barely-dressed miko.
* The anime version of ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' has one, as Shirou accidentally walks in on Saber, who, compared to the previous occasion this happened earlier in the anime, was actually embarrassed to be seen, believing her body which is more toned than Rin's makes her less attractive to Shirou, for whom she is beginning to become something of a [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] for, though Shirou tries to convince her he finds her body attractive as best he can without making the situation more awkward than it already is, with little real success. She was mostly concealed by the water though. The manga has a scene at the beginning of the fifth volume set earlier in the series that partially defies this trope in the anime since he was about to walk into the furo just as she was coming out, where Shirou actually walks in on her while she's still in the furo, standing up, and completely naked. He freaks out. Big time.
* ''[[Popotan]]'' has a mandatory [[Once an Episode]] furo scene... except for those episodes that have more than one furo scene culminating in an onsen episode where the girls try ''every bath'' at a hotsprings resport.
* In ''[[Wild Rock]]'', the ''Child Rock'' chapter features [[Doting Parent|doting uncles]] Yuuen and Emba spending some quality bathing time [[One Million BC|in the lake]] with baby Nava.
* Several chapters of ''[[Kochikame]]'' have Ryotsu and fellow police officers relaxing in a sentou and even flashback stories Ryotsu's boyhood life involving sentous.
* As a running gag in ''[[Doraemon]]'', poor Shizuka never gets to finish a bath or shower, and takes them ''all the time''. Literally so, as she's tried in other ''time periods'', just to be interrupted by Nobita and Doraemon. Heck, a good percentage of his gadgets have very little purpose other than to peep on Shizuka, teleport to Shizuka, brainwash Shizuka into becoming a nudist, etc etc...
* ''[[Wandering Son]]'' has a few. The first one is to illustrate how different Nitori is from the other boys, and to give some insight into some of the male characters. The second is used for talks.
* See this ''[[Naruto]]'' manga [https://web.archive.org/web/20110727025508/http://mangastream.com/read/naruto/93368877/3 two page color spread] featuring Naruto and his friends in two separate furos. Compare the girls chatting happily and relaxing, while the boys fight [[Female Gaze|and show far more skin than the girls.]]
* ''[[Maicchingu Machiko Sensei]]'' has a few episodes with these scenes. Expect one or more male students (or even a teacher) to sneak a peek. One episode had a teacher and student flying in a kite and landing in a furo by accident. Of course, the eponymous Miss Machiko and her students were there at the time and the men (mostly) hid themselves.
* Averted in ''[[The Tower of Druaga (anime)|The Tower of Druaga]]'', where Fatina is only briefly shown to be bathing for a few brief seconds, and even then only from a distance, splashing around. The scene quickly cuts to Kally complaining about the noise she's making, after which Team Leader Neeba gives him permission to [[Accidental Pervert|"take a peek"]]. Kally responds to this incredulously.
* A central theme in ''[[Thermae Romae]]'', which also has the equivalent Roman bath scenes—though without the fan service unless you like handsome young Roman male bodies.
* [[Training with Hinako|''Bathtime With Hinako And Hiyoko'']] is an extended full-OAV-length furo scene.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
* In ''[[Piracy The Genetic Pirate Opera]]'', America is, unfortunately, walking by a bathhouse as the Supernovas and Capricorn Pirates are using it to wash themselves after their food fight. After some [[Innocent Innuendo]] is said and America sees England's car, he runs away from the bathhouse.▼
▲== Fan Works ==
▲* In [[Piracy The Genetic Pirate Opera]], America is, unfortunately, walking by a bathhouse as the Supernovas and Capricorn Pirates are using it to wash themselves after their food fight. After some [[Innocent Innuendo]] is said and America sees England's car, he runs away from the bathhouse.
* Has happened at least three times in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]''. {{spoiler|First with Kyon and Tsuruya, then with Kyon, Tsuruya, and Nagato, and finally with Kyon and Haruhi.}}
* In ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]'' Makoto can be seen thinking things over in her bathtub quite a few times. It's surprisingly devoid of [[Fan Service]] though, what with her big feet dangling over the edge [[Fetish Fuel|(Unless you're into]] [[Foot Focus|that kind of thing...)]]▼
▲* In ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]'' Makoto can be seen thinking things over in her bathtub quite a few times.
* ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]'' features a furo scene, with the father taking a bath with his two daughters. This scene was allegedly considered disturbing when the film was originally released in the US, despite its complete lack of sexual content by Japanese standards.
* The Miyasaki film ''[[Spirited Away]]'' is based around a bathhouse for the spirits.
* ''[[Austin Powers]]'' has one of these with Italian secretary "Alotta Fagina".
* In ''[[Back to The Future]]'' II, Marty interrupts Biff with two ladies in one of these, to ask about [[Timeline-Altering MacGuffin|Gray's Sports Almanac]].
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* A rare, '''non-sexual'' Western example happens between a man and a woman in ''[[Buffalo '66]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Bridges Of Toko Ri]]'', Michener includes a public bathing scene in which the American pilot and his family arrive, and the wife finally, very reluctantly, agrees to bathe nude. They are surprised when a Japanese family arrives. Eventually, the adults and the children have a wonderful time.
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* [[Yoshiki Hayashi|Yoshiki]] shows that [http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=14155082&albumID=159338&imageID=22521533 it is possible to combine a furo scene and a guro scene.] Not safe for work.▼
* Sentai in general will often have at least one episode that involves a sentou during the course of a season.
* ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'''s Umeko was often seen in a bathtub.
* A character from ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' would often be shown in the tub.
** Funnily enough, though, it was always the male characters... [[Ho Yay|sometimes two or more of them together.]]
* An episode of ''[[Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' shows Sarah shaving in the tub, when she accidentally cuts herself. Cue dramatic shot of blood in the water.
* British celebrity chef/sex symbol [[Nigella Lawson]] has done this at least once: while waiting for something to cook in the oven, she pours herself a glass of wine and, just as the screen goes into the shows' trademarked soft-focus-mode, slips out of her clothes and into a tub.
== [[Music]] ==
▲* [[Yoshiki Hayashi|Yoshiki]] shows that [https://web.archive.org/web/20090911230433/http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Riviera: The Promised Land]]'' offers two. They even replace the normal character portraits with nude ones (with a full range of expressions, and of course [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]). For the first one, it's theoretically possible to stumble into it without knowing what you're doing, but the second one is guarded by a ''[[Giant Mecha]]'' that you have to take down, so it'd be hard to argue your innocence there. {{spoiler|They also serve as a ruse to prevent you from finding the [[Infinity+1 Sword]], which is found the very last time you can possibly access that location.}}
* The ''[[Suikoden]]'' series is known for having funny and/or character-developing bath scenes.
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* The ''[[Rune Factory]]'' games typically have a bath house and bath scenes.
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
▲== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* There are a couple such scenes in ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth]]'', most notably when Angie visits Mary's flat and they take a bath together. Despite her bath being so tiny only one person can fit in, and only just.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Devil Bear]]'', [http://www.thedevilbear.com/comics.php?p=25 cleanliness] is next to [http://www.thedevilbear.com/comics.php?p=49 Daiva-liness].
* ''[[Supernormal Step]]'' gives us a bathtub scene [http://supernormalstep.com/89/ here.]
* Parodied in ''[[Megatokyo]]'', where Ping needs to visit a [http://megatokyo.com/strip/412 public bath] and Miho needs to show her how it works, with Piro and Largo in a nearby room. Piro's anti-conscience actually plans to use this to drill the concept of fanservice into his head, except by the time he gets the chance, the whole thing has ''already taken place''. ''Offscreen''. Nice going.
* ''[[Not Quite Daily Comic]]'' has a fairly long and fanserving [http://www.truefork.org/Art/comic/cindex.php?103 one] that ends in destruction and mayhem.
* ''[[Red String]]'' includes a very rare onsen scene that not only involves a traditional mixed-gender bath, but is played fairly seriously and realistically, not primarily for [[Fan Service]] or titillating humour.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Done a few times with Yumi Ishiyama of ''[[Code Lyoko]]''. Although set in France, her family's house is equiped with a typical Japanese furo.
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