Kimono Fanservice: Difference between revisions

'''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]].)

 

: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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== Anime and Manga ==

** 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 kimono, which isn't working very well for him. Both he and others models walk around in them to advertise, invoking this trope.

* Sumire Kanzaki does a B2 variation with an [[Impossibly Low Neckline]] in ''[[Sakura Taisen]]''.

* 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 centimetre below her buttocks. She thinks it's a perfect fit, and Yuno and Hiro say it looks "cute" and "fashionable", respectively, though Sae privately thinks she looks like a hooker.

* 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 yukata and kimono a ''lot'' more often than canon does? And use them to play up his [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] and/or [[Moe]] traits? You betcha.

* One of the scenes in a ''[[Code Geass]]'' game have the mainly European cast wearing kimono. Hilariously, it even included the [[Meganekko]] who has... ''problems'' with the Japanese.

* Yumi from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' wears an off-the-shoulders kimono that should not logically stay up. She is also a former prostitute.

* 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.

* 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 e...]]''. During a flashback, we see {{spoiler|Kaoru Orihara}} wearing a yukata during a date with her boyfriend {{spoiler|Takehiko Henmi}}, and she strips naked in front of him... {{spoiler|to show him her physical scars after her [[Ill Girl|breast cancer]] caused her to have a mastectomy. She then breaks up with him, because [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|she doesn't want to be a load to her loved ones]].}}

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Akane Tendo is forced into one of these in the manga. Due to [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|the relationship between her and Ranma Saotome]], Ranma lampshades this trope in a way that makes it a complimentary put-down.

{{quote|'''Ranma:''' It suits you, Akane.

* In ''[[Gosick]]'' Kujo wears a men's kimono for an entire episode. A rare male example.

* In ''[[My-HiME]]'', after Shizuru rescues Natsuki from Nao, she's seen wearing a purple kimono and gives Natsuki a light blue one. Shizuru continues wearing the kimono for most of her [[Psycho Lesbian]] rampage, but it eventually gets torn in places, and she changes back into her [[Student Council President]] [[Custom Uniform|uniform]] by the time Natsuki confronts her.

 

== Fan Works ==

 

== Film ==

{{quote|'''Buffy:''' I don't like getting you worked up like that. We can't actually do any of those things. You'd lose your soul. Besides, I don't even own a kimono. }}

 

 

== Video Games ==