History Main / MeasuringDay

%%* The Korean horror movie, ''Film/MementoMori'' has a scene with this.

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* ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'': Academy City does this, but combines it with with power measurements, to see how far the students are along the curriculum. So the scenes of kids getting their height and weight checked are interspersed with scenes of them trying to levitate scales or guess cards.

* ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'': Academy City does this, but combines it with with power measurements, to see how far the students are along the curriculum. So the scenes of kids getting their height and weight checked is interspersed with scenes of them trying to levitate scales or guess cards.

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* ''Webcomic/KarinDou4koma'': While the other girls compare bust sizes, [[CuteGhostGirl Ran]] briefly becomes a skeleton with glowing eyes to terrify some boys trying to peek.
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* ''VisualNovel/DaCapo Second Season''

%%* ''LightNovel/MayoChiki''. Again, there's a SweetPollyOliver whose {{Masquerade}} is threatened by this.
* In one episode of ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'', due to the frequent attacks on the IS Academy, the Academy decides they need to increase the number of prepared defenders, so they have all the students get measured so they can get them into [[PoweredArmor IS Suits]] of their own. IS Academy happens an all-girls school...except for TheOneGuy, Ichika. And, of course, it's he who gets roped into measuring the girls. Fearing [[PervertRevengeMode retribution]] from his UnwantedHarem, he tries to do the measurements with his eyes closed. Unfortunately, he accidentally gropes the girl he's measuring, whose squeals attracts his harem anyway...cue OhCrap from Ichika.

A Japanese cultural trope often seen in manga and anime series that take place in a school setting, measuring day is the students' annual full physical examination. This usually takes place during the course of a whole day and is often used for fanservice. Since MostWritersAreMale expect lots of [[GagBoobs jokes in which certain physical quantities]] of (female) students get compared -- or where one of the girls gets a chance to really [[WeightWoe freak out about her weight problem]], imagined or not. Conversely, a lack of growth, embarrassing or inappropriate underwear or an inappropriate body ''under'' the underwear are also sources for potential angst, making measuring day a special trial for a WholesomeCrossdresser or a SweetPollyOliver. In addition, there's the usual [[AllMenArePerverts group of guys]] that always try to [[ThePeepingTom peek]] on the girls' examinations.

* ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'' features an omake built on this concept, Examination Day. All Sekirei in the city are required to report for physical exams, which involves bikinis and competition over bust size. The [[ACupAngst flat-chested]] villain ends up leveling the building after [[BuxomIsBetter the heroes]] discover her dropped bra and wonder who such a tiny thing could belong to.

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* Shows up in ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'' in one of its [=OVAs=] titled "Vacation." In addition to the usual fanservice, it serves to start the crisis for the episode because protagonist Haruyuki is too overweight to pass his examination.

%%* ''Anime/{{Maburaho}}''

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* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' in the anime's ''Capu2''. Mizore doesn't actually ''get'' measured because she's too busy [[StalkerWithACrush stalking]] Tsukune again.

* ''Manga/DokiDokiSchoolHours''

* ''Anime/{{Maburaho}}''
* ''Manga/HighSchoolGirls''
* Briefly in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''

* Despite not being a school setting, a measuring day scene is added into the first OVA for ''Anime/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl''. This scene has the obvious amount of fanservice, but also shows how things have to be adapted to accurately measure people who have radically different bodies from humans. It's determined that the girls are starting to put on weight, leading to them going to the gym instead of merely having Ms Smith decide they need more exercise the way it was handled in the manga.

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* The Korean horror movie, ''Film/MementoMori'' has a scene with this.

* ''LightNovel/MayoChiki''. Again, there's a SweetPollyOliver whose {{Masquerade}} is threatened by this.

A Japanese cultural trope often seen in manga and anime series that take place in a school setting, measuring day is the students' annual full physical examination. This usually takes place during the course of a whole day and is often used for fanservice. Since MostWritersAreMale expect lots of [[GagBoobs jokes in which certain physical quantities]] of (female) students get compared--or where one of the girls gets a chance to really [[WeightWoe freak out about her weight problem]], imagined or not. Conversely, a lack of growth, embarrassing or inappropriate underwear, or an inappropriate body ''under'' the underwear are also sources for potential angst, making measuring day a special trial for a WholesomeCrossdresser or a SweetPollyOliver. In addition, there's the usual [[AllMenArePerverts group of guys]] that always try to [[ThePeepingTom peek]] on the girls' examinations.

* Used as a conflict point in ''Anime/IMyMeStrawberryEggs'' in which crossdressing teacher Hibiki is at a loss on how to prevent his status as male from being known after the faculty declares he must undergo a physical as well. His landlady saves the day.

* In ''MarginalNumber4'', they have one of these. The catch? Atom thought GoingCommando was required (it isn't) and ends up losing his [[GoodLuckCharm lucky underwear]].

** The FanService part gets lampshaded since (barring Haruhi) all the students have their own personal doctors and the examination is "really popular" because of MrFanservice.

* Shows up in ''Manga/AccelWorld'' in one of its [=OVAs=] titled "Vacation." In addition to the usual fanservice, it serves to start the crisis for the episode because protagonist Haruyuki is too overweight to pass his examination.

* Shows up in ''Anime/AccelWorld'' in one of its OVAs titled "Vacation." In addition to the usual fanservice, it serves to start the crisis for the episode because protagonist Haruyuki is too overweight to pass his examination.

A Japanese cultural trope often seen in manga and anime series that take place in a school setting, measuring day is the students' annual full physical examination. This usually takes place during the course of a whole day and is often used for fanservice. Since MostWritersAreMale expect lots of [[GagBoobs jokes in which certain physical quantities]] of (female) students get compared--or where one of the girls gets a chance to really freak out about her weight problem, imagined or not. Conversely, a lack of growth, embarrassing or inappropriate underwear, or an inappropriate body ''under'' the underwear are also sources for potential angst, making measuring day a special trial for a WholesomeCrossdresser or a SweetPollyOliver. In addition, there's the usual [[AllMenArePerverts group of guys]] that always try to [[ThePeepingTom peek]] on the girls' examinations.

* ''Anime/LuckyStar''. Only one of the girls has nothing to be gloomy about, and gets flat-out scolded for it. (Though the others' complaints are hardly earth-shattering stuff: "[[OlderThanTheyLook I'm still short]]," "[[GoofyPrintUnderwear I forgot it's measuring day today and wore my printed pants]]" and "[[WeightWoe I gained one pound.]]")

* Variant crops up in ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun''. It's called "Measuring Day" but rather than a physical exam it's measuring the students' special powers. Special precautions have to be taken at Tokiwadai when measuring [[PersonOfMassDestruction Mikoto's]] Railgun, including using the pool as a shock absorber.