History GoofyPrintUnderwear / AnimeAndManga

* One chapter of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' showed that [[TokenMiniMoe Kanna]] wears panties with a silhouette of Creator/CoolKyouShinsa's AuthorAvatar on them.

* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul[=:Re=]'', Haise Sasaki's infamous "ENERGY" boxers. His subordinates steal them as part of a trade with InformationBroker Chie Hori, and when he notices them missing, he frets about how they were his favorite. An illustration from the 2016 calendar features him wearing them.....[[MrFanservice and nothing else]].

** In a similar, offscreen example, Tsukasa in ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is particularly embarrassed by absent-mindedly wearing character print underwear on MeasuringDay.
** Also similarly, Yuno in ''Manga/HidamariSketch'' was also hugely embarrassed when her kitten-print undies were revealed in a locker-room prank. (Why does it have to be {{yonkoma}}...?)

* In one of the ''Anime/{{K}}'' manga, Reisi Munakata, the Blue King, takes his jigsaw puzzle hobby far enough to have a jigsaw-puzzle print on his underwear. Briefs, not boxers, of course, for fanservice.

* In the Cloverway English dub of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', a little boy drops his pants in front of Rini and says "I wear Sailor Moon underwear!" though he is shown holding plain looking briefs in one hand and his shorts in the other. In the original Japanese, he tells Chibiusa "Look at my little elephant!", doing his impression of Manga/CrayonShinChan.

* In one of the ''Anime/{{K}}'' manga, Reisi Munakata, the Blue King, takes his jigsaw puzzle hobby far enough to have a jigsaw-puzzle print on his underwear. Breifs, not boxers, of course, for fanservice.

* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'': Kanba is revealed to wear [[RealMenWearPink pink]] boxers during a chase scene in episode 5. Subverted because it's not PlayedForLaughs; he's trying to recover Himari's hat and hanging on the ''truck'' that's carrying it only outta [[{{Determinator}} sheer willpower]]. ([[ItMakesSenseInContext It's a long story.]])

* Dr. Z of ''VideoGame/DinosaurKing''.
* Sunohara Youhei of ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'', though the hearts on his are actually pink.
* When Jing [[DefeatByModesty steals Dundar's butt-plate]] in ''Manga/KingOfBanditJing'', shreds of heart boxers are seen around the edges.

* Manga/{{Ranma|OneHalf}} is often seen wearing underwear with his name (or the first syllable thereof) printed all over it.
** Also when Tsubasa is revealed to be a boy despite dressing and acting like a girl he is shown to wear pink boxers with yellow smiley faces on them.
* Several characters in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime are shown wearing white/blue striped underwear, including Ash, a Hitmonlee's trainer in "The Punchy Pokemon", and Meowth imagines [[BadassDecay Giovanni]] wearing them while trying to cool down.
* Anime/{{Naruto}}'s are green with an orange branch pattern.
* In a filler episode of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', a girl caught Gohan wearing teddy bear print boxers, and threatened to tell the school about "his secret" unless he went on a date with her (and she actually thought the boxers only added to his cuteness). However, Gohan thought she'd caught him removing his Great Saiyaman costume.
* ClassyCatBurglar Carson D. Carson spends most of ''Project Eden'' (The LightNovel/DirtyPair movie) running around in his pink with green polka-dot boxers after the girls confiscate his clothes.

* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'', The entire beginning of the series, especially when it comes to our favorite little Dying Will Bullet that burns off all your clothes (except your underwear, in most cases). As a matter of fact, Tsuna seemingly has a different one each and every time. The boxers return again when Spanner captures him... well... you know the rest...

* In the Cloverway English dub of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', a little boy drops his pants in front of Rini and says "I wear Sailor Moon underwear!" though he is shown holding plain looking briefs in one hand and his shorts in the other. In the original Japanese, he tells Chibiusa "Look at my little elephant!", doing his impression of Manga/CrayonShinChan.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'''s eponymous Soul apparently wears blue boxers with bones on them both in the manga and the anime (and since the series was animated by BONES...yeah).
* In ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'', [[ThreateningShark Shark Fujishiro]] is left in his fishie boxers after [[CaptainErsatz Lunar Papa]] takes his track suit.
* In one episode of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' Jaden is shown in boxers with his teacher's cat printed all over them.
* In ''Manga/DragonHalf'', Mig's Teddy Bear undies first lead to his [[DefeatByModesty Defeat By Embarrassment]] at the hands of the heroes, then his blackmail by Vina.

* In ''LightNovel/KoreWaZombieDesuKa'', Orito ends up in purple flower-print boxers during one of the OVA episodes.

* In Episode 2 of the ''Anime/LittleLulu'' anime, when Tubby strips down to his underwear as one of his tactics to try and scare Lulu, he is shown to be wearing a pair of navy blue boxers with sky blue splotch patterns on them.
* The eponymous ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' is revealed to wear black boxer briefs with lightning bolts on them; as first shown in the episode "The War of the Vests and Undies."

* Asuna of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' was embarrassed to no end when a magical sneeze from Negi destroyed her clothes, showing her teddy bear panties to the man she had a crush on.
* On the cover of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' volume 3, you can see that Orihime's wearing polka-dot underwear.
* In ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', Hinagiku is normally serious... until she was revealed to wear (rather cute) frilled orange panties that didn't suit her at all (although she says she likes them)

* Parodied by (what else?) ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'', in which Don Patch wears panties with ribbons on them, and he makes no effort to hide this ([[CrossDresser yes, he]]).
* Penny in ''Manga/ZatchBell'' has underwear with her one-sided boyfriend (Zatch) on them. Then, she accidentally reveals them to Kiyo's class. Their reactions are epic.
* In ''Manga/MidoriDays'', Seiji recognizes one character as being American because of her [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead American-flag panties]]; Shiori's are teddy-bear print.

* In one of the episodes of the second season of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', Ikkyu is so distracted by Chiri's Bell Pepper panties that he manages to forget that they were attacked by an alien race piloting ''HumongousMecha''.

* When Umino flipped up Miss Haruna's skirt in ''Anime/SailorMoon'', it had a big smiley on it. She does have [[WomanChild a fairly fun and childish personality]] to go with it. And when Haruna's panties were revealed, [[ChristmasCake she]] was so embarrassed that she cried while claiming [[DefiledForever "Now I'll never get married!"]] This scene was one of the reasons this episode was [[MissingEpisode wholly excised]] from the Creator/DiC English dub.
* The movie ''Manga/UltimateTeacher'' has Ganbachi humiliate Hinako by removing her skirt in front of the whole class... revealing her lucky kitty gym shorts. Naturally, men from all over rush in to have a look. Hinako's maturity is later reflected when she defeats a gang by showing that she's now wearing plain, white panties.
* In a RunningGag for ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'' anime, Kyu (but not the viewer) ends up seeing up Megumi's skirt for a variety of reasons (though never because he ''intentionally'' flips her skirt up; sometimes the wind blows strongly while she's wearing a short skirt, at others she trips on her feet...) and blurts out what pattern is on them on a semi-regular basis. The patterns include things like teardrops and bunnies.

* In ''Manga/{{Change 123}}'', when Kosukegawa first meets [[CheerfulChild Mikiri]], she's wearing bunny panties . . . [[InnocentFanserviceGirl and nothing else]].
* In ''LightNovel/OokamiSan'', Machiko has panties with her name on them, and a matching bra... though she may have worn them specifically to seduce Ryoushi.

* Penny in ''ZatchBell'' has underwear with her one-sided boyfriend (Zatch) on them. Then, she accidentally reveals them to Kiyo's class. Their reactions are epic.
* In ''MManga/idoriDays'', Seiji recognizes one character as being American because of her [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead American-flag panties]]; Shiori's are teddy-bear print.

* In ''Manga/Change123'', when Kosukegawa first meets [[CheerfulChild Mikiri]], she's wearing bunny panties . . . [[InnocentFanserviceGirl and nothing else]].

* In ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'', Spain has [[TrademarkFavoriteFood tomato]]-print boxers. China has [[PandaingToTheAudience panda]] boxers.

* In the Cloverway English dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'', a little boy drops his pants in front of Rini and says "I wear Sailor Moon underwear!" though he is shown holding plain looking briefs in one hand and his shorts in the other. In the original Japanese, he tells Chibiusa "Look at my little elephant!", doing his impression of Manga/CrayonShinChan.

* In ''Manga/SetoNoHanayome'', [[ThreateningShark Shark Fujishiro]] is left in his fishie boxers after [[CaptainErsatz Lunar Papa]] takes his track suit.

* A RunningGag on ''BlueSeed'' involves Momiji displaying a different animal on the seat of her underwear when she does her OnceAnEpisode PantyShot. The other characters maintain a betting pool on just what's going to show up on her panties any given day.
* Asuna of ''MahouSenseiNegima'' was embarrassed to no end when a magical sneeze from Negi destroyed her clothes, showing her teddy bear panties to the man she had a crush on.

* In ''MidoriDays'', Seiji recognizes one character as being American because of her [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead American-flag panties]]; Shiori's are teddy-bear print.

* In one of the episodes of the second season of ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', Ikkyu is so distracted by Chiri's Bell Pepper panties that he manages to forget that they were attacked by an alien race piloting ''HumongousMecha''.
* The first episode of ''HimesamaGoyoujin'' has [[AlphaBitch Aoi Misuzu]] slip on a discarded soda can, showing off her tanuki-print panties to the rest of the tennis club.

* In a RunningGag for the ''TanteiGakuenQ'' anime, Kyu (but not the viewer) ends up seeing up Megumi's skirt for a variety of reasons (though never because he ''intentionally'' flips her skirt up; sometimes the wind blows strongly while she's wearing a short skirt, at others she trips on her feet...) and blurts out what pattern is on them on a semi-regular basis. The patterns include things like teardrops and bunnies.
* In one chapter of ''MagicKaito'', Kaitou flips up Aoko's skirt and recoils in horror - Aoko, knowing that he often does this to her, had put on panties with a fish print! ([[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Kaitou is mortally afraid of fish for reasons that were never explained]]).
* In ''{{Change 123}}'', when Kosukegawa first meets [[CheerfulChild Mikiri]], she's wearing bunny panties . . . [[InnocentFanserviceGirl and nothing else]].

* In ''{{Mahoromatic}}'', Miss Saori Shikijo is sometime seen wearing teddy bear panties.

* In the Cloverway English dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'', a little boy drops his pants in front of Rini and says "I wear Sailor Moon underwear!" though he is shown holding plain looking briefs in one hand and his shorts in the other. In the original Japanese, he tells Chibiusa "Look at my little elephant!", doing his impression of ShinChan.

* When Jing [[DefeatByModesty steals Dundar's butt-plate]] in ''KingOfBanditJing'', shreds of heart boxers are seen around the edges.

* In ''[[DoctorSlump Dr. Slump]]'', Yamabuki Midori is reported to wear ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' panties.

* In ''SetoNoHanayome'', [[ThreateningShark Shark Fujishiro]] is left in his fishie boxers after [[CaptainErsatz Lunar Papa]] takes his track suit.

* In ''DragonHalf'', Mig's Teddy Bear undies first lead to his [[DefeatByModesty Defeat By Embarrassment]] at the hands of the heroes, then his blackmail by Vina.

* In ''KoreWaZombieDesuKa'', Orito ends up in purple flower-print boxers during one of the OVA episodes.

* Parodied by (what else?) ''[[BoboboboBobobo Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo]]'', in which Don Patch wears panties with ribbons on them, and he makes no effort to hide this ([[CrossDresser yes, he]]).

* Kamon on ''{{FLCL}}'', in a [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LupinFLCL.jpg homage]] to ''Franchise/LupinIII''.

* [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] is often seen wearing underwear with his name (or the first syllable thereof) printed all over it.

* In the English dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'', a little boy drops his pants in front of Rini and says "I wear Sailor Moon underwear!" though he is shown holding plain looking briefs in one hand and his shorts in the other. In the original Japanese, he tells Chibiusa "Look at my little elephant!", doing his impression of ShinChan.

* When Umino flipped up Miss Haruna's skirt in ''Manga/SailorMoon'', it had a big smiley on it. She does have [[WomanChild a fairly fun and childish personality]] to go with it, which of course was thrown out in the English dub.
** And when Haruna's panties were revealed, [[ChristmasCake she]] was so embarrassed that she cried while claiming [[DefiledForever "Now I'll never get married!"]]

* In the English dub of Manga/SailorMoon, a little boy drops his pants in front of Rini and says "I wear Sailor Moon underwear!" though he is shown holding plain looking briefs in one hand and his shorts in the other. In the original Japanese, he tells Chibiusa "Look at my little elephant!", doing his impression of ShinChan.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': as of the TimeSkip, Naruto now has black boxers with pink hearts on them.

* From ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', we have Gintoki's [[RealMenWearPink pink strawberry boxers]].