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A naked or topless woman is shown only by the camera showing her bare back (and nothing below her waist). This usually means someone is seeing her Sexy Front... but not us. Allows the ''suggestion'' of female nudity without actually showing the bare breasts. A form of [[Discretion Shot]].
Very [[Rare Male Example
This trope does not count if the character is also seen topless from the front. [[Dress Hits Floor]] is the below-the-waist equivalent.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Inuyasha]]'', Kagura has one of these in an episode when she's attacked from behind, showing off Naraku's mark on her back.
* Happens to Clare in ''[[Claymore]]'' a couple of times when Rubei tells her to turn around while naked. Of course, what he's seeing is a [[Take Our Word for It|really horrible-looking scar, or possibly something]] even more [[
* Riza Hawkeye in the manga version of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', in the manga and anime it also {{spoiler|has a giant tattoo, and burn scars covering it}}. Since it's [[Good-Looking Privates|Riza]], you could still call it Fanservice, and the fourth ending to Brotherhood prominently features her back.
* In the ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' anime, the audience sees Saber's back while Shiro sees the front after she gets out of the bath. Saber [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|doesn't seem to mind]] and tells Shiro that he shouldn't think of her as a woman, but as a warrior first. Shiro's reaction? "[[Please Put Some Clothes On]]!"
* The ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' anime has the twins putting a photoshopped picture of Haruhi's shirtless back on the club website,<ref>since Haruhi is actually a girl, but they want people to think she's a boy</ref>
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' does this on occasion, but it's usually overshadowed by the fact that most of the girls are naked all the time anyway, their modesty only preserved by [[Censor Steam]] and [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|lack of detail]].
** In an oddly justified use of the trope, Setsuna's tribal [[Ravens and Crows|crow]] garb comes with an exposed back purely for [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-demons]] and [[Youkai|full crows]] in humanoid form to release their [[Winged Humanoid|wings]]. Otherwise the new appendages would appear underneath the user's shirt uncomfortably.
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* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' gives us a view of Miaka's back as she's bathing to purify herself for the summoning ceremony (her butt's included though, poor girl). We don't see her when she turns around. Tamahome does.
* ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'': Holo [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|normally doesn't wear clothes]], but she ''does'' use the trope to justify why she's not going to remove her (ear- and tail- concealing) cloak for some strange merchant Holo and Lawrence met that day.
* In ''[[009-1|Zero Zero Nine One]]'' Mylene Hoffman/ Agent 009-1 has several Toplessness From The Back scenes combined with [[Modesty Bedsheet
* ''[[Soul Eater]]''. Tsubaki Natsukasa in the first opening and the various [[Furo Scene
* Weapons-grade [[Pettanko]] Isis Egret from ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' has another side that's gotten a lot of attention lately, with a certain racerback outfit.
* Mixed with the Japanese nape-of-neck thing in ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' when Fuu poses for an artist. First she's asked to only loosen her kimono a bit and let the collar slide a little lower. OK, that's a bit naughty. The artist just keeps prompting her to lower the collar more and more. Scandalous!
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* The audience (and [[The Captain|Sheridan]]) get this treatment on ''[[Babylon 5]]'' when the new [[Political Officer]] attempts [[Distracted by the Sexy|to seduce him]].
** In a fifth-season episode we see Lyta Alexander nude from the back in a scene with the irritating telepath Byron, showing how vulnerable she is to his manipulation.
* Rather surprisingly, this shows up in the pilot episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' between Mulder and Scully. The case involved teenagers being returned from alien abduction with two small bumps on their lower back. While getting ready to take a shower, Scully finds two such marks on her own back, freaks out, and
** And how Chris Carter thought that this scene wouldn't escape romance-hungry viewers (Mulder and Scully were originally only supposed to be "platonic work partners") is insane.
* The British sitcom ''[[Coupling]]'' does this a couple of times - once with Sally (Kate Isitt) in series two and once with Jane (Gina Bellman) in series four. In each case the audience is treated to "the full backal", as the show puts it, but other characters see the front.
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