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In Japan,
Kimono<ref>One kimono, many kimono - no "s" on the plural. Likewise, one yukata, many yukata.</ref> are also a specific type of Japanese [[Fetish Fuel]], in ways not easily explainable. First, people are expected to ''not'' wear normal/western-style lingerie underneath, including bra and panties, as bra will ruin the chestline (which should be smooth), and panties will without exceptions create pantylines. Second, most of the body will be covered in a lovely package, spelling out (in the case of a young girl) "youthful", "innocent", "pure", "proper", "cheerful" and "<s>virginal</s> eligible for marriage" - in kimono code. Few people in Japan know enough about
Then there's the fact that the idea of getting to open a present wrapped neatly like this thrills many a mind, similar to [[Of Corsets Sexy|corsets]]. There's also the fact that no matter how much of the body is wrapped up and hidden, the Ultimately And Most Bewitchingly Sensual Mystery of Female Body, the nape of the neck, will be game for eyes. Then add to that the garment restricts the movements of arms and legs to appear rather lady-like (or, on guys, more disciplined and manly) - what's not to like.
Yukata are worn by nearly everyone come summer and festivals. The feelings they awaken are rather similar to kimono. By nature, a yukata is relaxed home-wear (comparable to shorts and a tank top), and situations where one can wear it are very limited. A big deal of the allure of [[Festival Episode|summer festival]] or hot springs (filler) episodes in anime and manga is related to having the cast in yukatas. ''[[Vapor Wear|Because there's nothing underneath]].'' On young children, the special fluffy yukata obi makes for an excellent chance for extra big bows and super-cuteification.▼
▲''Yukata'' -- a similar but lighter and less formal robe-like garment -- are worn by nearly everyone come summer and festivals. The feelings they awaken are rather similar to kimono. By nature, a yukata is relaxed home-wear (comparable to shorts and a tank top), and situations where one can wear it are very limited. A big deal of the allure of [[Festival Episode|summer festival]] or hot springs (filler) episodes in anime and manga is related to having the cast in
[[Kimono Fanservice]] comes in two types, which can and do overlap (Please note that straight fanservice, where the garment simply happens to be a kimono, but could just as well be a bathrobe or a shirt or any other garment, is simply [[Fan Service]].):▼
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==== A: [[Costume Porn]] ====▼
Where the audience appreciates the garments themselves. Especially prevalent in period pieces. Can overlap with [[Awesome Anachronistic Apparel]].▼
==== B: [[Pandering to The Base]], [[Fetish Fuel]] (with/or [[Downplayed Trope|mild]] [[Fan Service]]) ====▼
▲:Where the audience appreciates the garments themselves. Especially prevalent in period pieces. Can overlap with [[Awesome Anachronistic Apparel]].
Where the audience appreciates getting to see their favourite bishoujo or bishie in this specific dress. Unlike in conventional [[Fan Service]], the amount of skin shown will be [[Downplayed Trope|very modest]]. Caters to such fanservice tropes as (supposed) [[Going Commando]], (hypothetical chance of) mixed [[Action Dress Rip]] and [[Show Some Leg]], and maybe [[Sarashi]]. Especially in the case of geishas, a specific sexual plus without its own trope yet is that the dress frames the nape of neck, which was ''the'' Japanese fixation on female body before Western fashions became dominant.▼
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Due to its complexity and obscurity to modern (and non-Japanese) folks, it's also constant fodder for [[Did Not Do the Research]] -induced [[Unfortunate Implications]] (right flap over left means you are dead and soon buried) and [[Accidental Innuendo]] (in modern era costumes, obi tied in front means you are a ''working girl'' and need to be able to get it off on a short notice but in older period costume, this innuendo won't apply; and a million more). Kimono wearing in itself has suffered from [[Trope Decay]]; a single man can be blamed for today's tubular kimono fashion, its rigid rules, and the death of the more fluid style of pre-WWII times. As per [[Rule of Cool]], many of those rules get kicked out of the window in fiction, and heroines won't get accused for "abusing a national symbol" by a mob of angry aunties.▼
▲:Where the audience appreciates getting to see their favourite bishoujo or bishie in this specific dress. Unlike in conventional [[Fan Service]], the amount of skin shown will be [[Downplayed Trope|very modest]]. Caters to such fanservice tropes as (supposed) [[Going Commando]], (hypothetical chance of) mixed [[Action Dress Rip]] and [[Show Some Leg]], and maybe [[Sarashi]]. Especially in the case of geishas, a specific sexual plus without its own trope yet is that the dress frames the nape of neck, which was ''the'' Japanese fixation on female body before Western fashions became dominant.
▲Due to its complexity and obscurity to modern (and non-Japanese) folks, it's also constant fodder for [[Did Not Do the Research]]
See [[Qipao]] for another type of "sexy Asian dress" that occurs frequently in fiction.
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'''Please do not add examples of typical [[Fan Service]] that just happens to use a kimono (the kimono falling off or open, kimono used in the same way as a normal robe, etc) to this page. They should go on the [[Fan Service]] page.'''
{{examples
* Ichihara Yuuko from ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* Ichihara Yuuko from ''[[XXX Holic]]'' has [[Costume Porn|stunning ensembles]] [[Rule of Cool|breaking every conceivable rule of kimono propriety]], while remaining elegant and very stylish despite her... suggestive fashions.
** Also notable for a relatively normal teenaged male protagonist example. [[His Quirk Will Live On|The tradition is carried on]] by Watanuki {{spoiler|after Yuuko's death}}.
* ''[[Iro Otoko]]'' centres around a designer who is trying to market fashionable men's
* Sakaki buys Yuki a kimono in ''[[Heart Strings]]'' in order to present him as a "yakuza wife." Very much [[Fan Service]].
* In ''[[Legal Drug]]'' the main characters all wear yukata at one point and Kazahaya immediately begins complimenting the beautiful Kakei. Saiga, on the other hand, gets the opposite reaction as he looks like a nightclub worker wearing yukata and [[Sunglasses
* In ''[[Kaze no Yukue]]'' while at a summer festival Kento starts talking about how pretty women in yukata are and his lover Akira makes a sulky comment about yukata not suiting him. This of course spawns an [[Imagine Spot]] of Akira in yukata that is actually a bit of a [[Fan Service]] [[Rule of Funny|fail]].
* ''[[
* [[Ship Tease|Fai's furisode]] in ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]''.
* Sumire Kanzaki does a B2
* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', a festival offers free snacks to those who come in yukata (and bring the flyer). Miyako, who doesn't have one, is ready to [[Curtain Clothing|pull down her curtains to make one]], but Hiro offers her old one with a [[Magical Princess Minky Momo|Mahou Shoujo Minky]] print. It comes down to about a
* In ''[[Lucky Star]]'', at the matsuri, Konata muses that if they were in a [[Dating Sim]], they'd trigger a flag because they're at a festival, outside, wearing
* Nearly any manga and anime long enough features a [[Festival Episode|summer festival episode/chapter]], or a [[Hot Springs Episode|ryoukan/hot springs resort one]], or ''both'', with male members of the cast expressing gratitude for getting to see the ladies in yukata, and sometimes vice versa as well.
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism|Japan]] from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' doesn't really fit this trope canon-wise, fitting [[Kimono Is Traditional]] better... but does fandom put him into
* Amasawa of ''[[The Weatherman Is My Lover]]'' has a cosplaying habit, so when the cast and crew of his program take a trip to an onsen, he brings along a female yukata. And I quote:
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'''Koganei''': "[[Distracted
* One of the scenes in a ''[[Code Geass]]'' game have the mainly European cast wearing
* Yumi from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' wears an off-the-shoulders kimono that should not logically stay up. She is also a former prostitute.
* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* In the last chapters of ''[[Inuyasha]]'', Rin is seen receiving a kimono from {{spoiler|Sesshoumaru}}. It's [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|highly heartwarming]].
* In ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'' Shino mentions traditional clothing while imagining a kimono-clad woman getting her obi unwrapped. But she points out that while she'd like to be in that position, she's worried about getting dizzy from the spinning.
* An [http://i-a.animepaper.net/thumbnails/preview/202881/1/%5Banimepaper.net%5Dpicture-standard-anime-fullmetal-alchemist-edward-elric-for-japan!-202881-nat-preview-141036ce.jpg omake image]{{Dead link}} for ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' features Edward Elric doing kimono fanservice in both senses of the term.
* This trope played out in at least three episodes of ''[[Maicchingu Machiko Sensei]]''. One episode featured the main character acting in a historical drama,another was set during the Lunar New Year, and the third took place during a festival. In keeping with the tradition of the anime, she lost her kimono everytime.
* Ryougi Shiki of ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]'' hardly ever wears anything else. [[Lady of War|And she kicks lots of ass, too.]]
* [[Tear Jerker|Cruelly and dramatically]] subverted in ''[[Oniisama
* Often occurs in festival episodes for the ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' series. May count more as
* ''[[Ranma
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'''Akane:''' Really?
'''Ranma:''' Yes. For even overweight girls can look beautiful in
** Akane and other characters often wear lovely
* ''[[Shakugan no
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* Tsuruya fits an extreme version of [[Costume Porn|Type A]] during one chapter of [[Kyon Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]. Since she wears a kimono much of the time at home, [[Going Commando|Type B]] is likely to be in effect, too.▼
== Fan Works ==
▲* Tsuruya fits an extreme version of [[Costume Porn
== Film ==
* The film version of ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha]]'' offers
* O-Ren Ishii from ''[[Kill Bill]]'' seems to be a
== Literature ==
* ''[[
* The racier [[Pulp Magazine|pulp stories]] of the Thirties would often have a Western character wearing a kimono as an "at-night but not actually in bed yet" garment; the fashion took a sudden nosedive in the Forties for reasons that should be obvious.
* ''Okimono Kimono'', written by Mokona of Studio [[CLAMP]], is all about kimono as Mokona sees (and creates) them.
== Live Action TV ==
* In a live action western male version, ''Blonde'', a [[Marilyn Monroe]] biopic, is mostly notable for featuring Patrick Dempsey and [[Jensen Ackles]] in a threesome. It also is notable for having Ackles swishing around in a kimono, much to the pleasure of fangirls (and probably a few [[Even the Guys Want Him|fanboys]] too).
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Buffy and Angel are walking out of a movie theatre [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|looking rather tense]] after watching an erotic foreign film.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', the [https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Beautiful_Headhuntress Beautiful Headhuntress] wears a kimono, as does [https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Warrior_of_Tradition Warrior of Tradition], a fusion of that card and Sonic Maid.
== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Peachi]]'' spoofs the ''[[Persona 4]]'' example from above:
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'''News Reporter''': ''Yukiko Amagi is wearing a kimono because she's filling in for her mom at the inn they run.'' }}
* ''[https://www.kukuruyo.com/2020/07/06/succubus-fashion-kimono/ Succubus fashion: Kimono]'' — bonus art from Kukuruyo's monster girl series.
== Western Animation ==
* In the last episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* In the [[Pixar Shorts|Pixar animated short]] ''Tokyo Mater'', [[Cars|Mater]] can actually be seen flirting with some female Japanese cars designed to resemble Geisha girls before running into the short's main villain, Kabuto.
** The three Geisha girl cars and Kabuto later make brief reappearances in the film ''Cars 2''.
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== Real Life ==
* Geisha are more or less the embodiment of
* Some hostess bars have a few girls wearing kimono to cater to the fancy of men who like this kind of thing.
* There have been some [[Miss World]] contestants from Japan wearing
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[[Category:Costume Tropes]]▼
[[Category:Fanservice Costumes]]▼
[[Category:Japanese Media Tropes]]
[[Category:Useful Notes/Japan]]
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