Seiza Squirm: Difference between revisions

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had an episode that played on this: neither Usagi nor Chibiusa was able to last through a tea ceremony, while their slapstick attempts to remain dignified highlighted the [[Victim of the Week]]'s "pure heart."

* ''[[20th Century Boys]]'': Shouhei Chouno is kneeling in front of the portrait of his legendary grandfather. He's been trying to follow in the grandfather's footsteps and has so far been a failure. He vows to keep trying, and starts to stand up to stride off dramatically, only to find that his legs have gone to sleep.

* The protagonist of ''[[Skip Beat!]]'' breaks her ankle shortly before one of these. All in all, she does pretty well, right up until she faints from the pain.

* In the first half-season's opening credits of ''[[Hanasaku Iroha]]'', there is a scene where Ohana and Nako, dressed in kimonos, are getting up from the seiza position and, while Nako gets up normally, the much less experienced Ohana crumbles down with a painful face expression.

* Pictured above: Erika in episode 7 of ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]''.

* In ''[[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual]]'', the [[PMC|Earth Defense Force]]'s inexplicable Traditional Japanese Obaa-Sama at one point drags most of the main cast into some Flower Arrangement training on the reasoning that 'During times of war, it is doubly important to maintain a high level of culture'. The training includes sitting in Seiza, and while all the girls manage just fine, [[Ordinary High School Student]] Kazuki almost instantly collapses as his feet fall asleep. Followed seconds later by [[Mad Scientist]] Ken Sanada. How [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Ken's daughter]], Mitsuki, wound up being so comfortable with Seiza is somewhat of a mystery. The other two girls, however, are easily explained, since one of them is from an old Japanese family, and the other is an [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Alien Bioroid]] [[Energy Being]] [[Cloudcuckoolander]], who most likely can't [[Feel No Pain|feel pain]] anyway.

 

* Extremely averted in ''[[Undocumented Features]]'', where anyone who has need to get into seiza will do so without squirming or any other problems. In another Eyrie work, ''[[Neon Exodus Evangelion]]'', the main characters can even get into seiza in the EVAs.