History Main / KimonoFanservice

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' Tifa can wear one of three different dresses during her infiltration to Don Corneo's place, one of which is an elegant kimono.

* While the Princesses in ''Manga/PrincessPrincess'' don ElegantGothicLolita fashion, Arisada notes that the style depends on who's in charge of the sewing club, and when ''he'' was a princess, his costumer preferred this trope, in equal parts Type A and Type B.

* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' makes reference to the fact that a kimono would traditionally be worn without underwear, and the whole show is a massive example of type A, thriving in AwesomeAnachronisticApparel. Also, each tankobon features one of the female students in a kimono on the back cover.

* Tsuruya fits an extreme version of [[CostumePorn Type A]] during one chapter of ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero''. Since she wears a kimono much of the time at home, [[GoingCommando Type B]] is likely to be in effect, too.

* O-Ren Ishii from ''Film/KillBill'' seems to be a type A when she's a Japanese ganglord.

* The film version of ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' offers type A. Unless you notice and care about such mistakes as incorrect fit in should-be-tailored pieces, less-than-perfect ''kitsuke'', or inappropriate seasonality.

* Geisha are more or less the embodiment of type A. Not do they only master the proper kimono wearing posture and carriage to be always elegant, they also wear certain items (like red underkimono) and such fashions (such as lower-and-looser-than-strictly-proper obi) to specifically tantalize. As the style they wear is obsolete, also counts as GorgeousPeriodDress.

* A rather bizarre example happens in the FurryComic ''ComicBook/{{Katmandu}}''. During her debut issue, the main protagonist, Liska, wears something that looks between a mix between a bathrobe with a yukata, thanks to her previous master, Mother Sanna, during her slavery years. The bizarre part came for two important reasons: The first one, Liska's society is based [[BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins on Native American cultures]], and the second one, there's no mention about a society [[{{Wutai}} based on Japan, or any Asian culture, for that matter]], which justifies its use.

Due to its complexity and obscurity to modern, and foreign, folk, it's also constantly subjected to research failure-induced faux pas (right flap over left means you are dead and soon to be cremated) and AccidentalInnuendo (in modern era costumes, obi tied in front signify a ''working girl''). Kimono wearing in itself has suffered from TropeDecay; 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 RuleOfCool, many of those rules get kicked out the door in fiction, and heroines won't get accused of "abusing a national symbol" by a mob of angry aunties.

-->-- '''Eveless Eden'''

Due to its complexity and obscurity to modern, and foreign, folk, it's also constantly subjected to research failure-induced UnfortunateImplications (right flap over left means you are dead and soon to be cremated) and AccidentalInnuendo (in modern era costumes, obi tied in front signify a ''working girl''). Kimono wearing in itself has suffered from TropeDecay; 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 RuleOfCool, many of those rules get kicked out the door in fiction, and heroines won't get accused of "abusing a national symbol" by a mob of angry aunties.

* Ryougi Shiki of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' hardly ever wears anything else. [[LadyOfWar And she kicks lots of ass, too.]] It's not usually used for fanservice with her, partially because she tends to wear a jacket over it, but this [[http://abload.de/img/takeuchi_takashi0063ucni.jpg official image]] and these [[http://abload.de/img/141644444fb11a5c5fb49ebc8e.jpg concept sketches]] do come to mind. Rrrr.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Gosick}}'' Kujo wears a men's kimono for an entire episode. A rare male example.

* In ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'' this is Kuroka's (Koneko Toujou's older sister) standard attire, with an ImpossiblyLowNeckline to boot. And with the series being very much an {{Ecchi}} series, it's played for {{fetish}} as she's also a ShamelessFanserviceGirl. She eventually reveals that she [[GoingCommando wears absolutely nothing under her kimono]] as she takes it off and dives into the Hyoudou residence swimming pool, naked.

* ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'': Shana, a world-innocent {{Tsundere}}, sports a kimono during some festival episodes, and almost everyone both in and out-universe agree she's cute wearing it.

* In ''Manga/{{Chihayafuru}}'', the main characters usually wear kimono to karuta competitions at the behest of Kanade, whose family owns a traditional clothing store. It's noted many times how gorgeous Chihaya and Taichi look in them - in fact, when they promote the club at the beginning of their second year, they deliberately put the two of them in kimono to speak to the school to invoke this trope. Kanade exemplifies it best, though - while she's normally considered cute more than beautiful ([[BuxomIsBetter and, uh, busty]]), when she wears a kimono she becomes a full-on YamatoNadeshiko, dignified and refined and graceful, and enthralling to watch.

* Tobirama offers a RareMaleExample in ''[[Fanfic/UmeiNoMaisUnchained Unchained]]'', as his Lord-Wife Izuna really enjoys buying him expensive outfits, seeing him wear said outfits and unwrapping him from said outfits.

* [[TearJerker Cruelly and dramatically]] subverted in ''Manga/DearBrother''. 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 [[IllGirl breast cancer]] caused her to have a mastectomy. She then breaks up with him, because [[DontYouDarePityMe she doesn't want to be a load to her loved ones]].]]

** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', the girls wear yukatas during the Fireworks Festival, with Ryuji being vocal about looking forward to seeing the girls in them. Played with when Ryji asks why the hell Yusuke is wearing one. Though [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Yusuke]] simply plays the part that its aesthetically pleasing and [[KimonoIsTraditional normal]] to wear it for the occassion.

* ''Webcomic/{{Las Lindas}}'' {{Action Girl}} and {{Ms. Fanservice}} Kate Aryoko despite {{Word of God}} saying she wears as A she's draw definitely as B

See {{Qipao}} for another type of "sexy Asian dress" used frequently in fiction.

* Nearly any manga and anime long enough features a summer festival episode/chapter, or a 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.

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->''The kimono, of course, does that thing that all kimonos generally do.''
->''"Oh shit" I hear myself say.''
->''And I would have thought, at my age, no single part of a woman could ever again be ''this'' simply breath-taking to behold.''

* Alois wears a red one sexily in ''Manga/BlackButler'' to [[FanDisservice seduce a perverted old man]] and its shown again when Claude [[HoYay imagines him wearing it while looking turned on]]. A flashback shows Ciel briefly get a chance to wear it in Alois's place.