History Main / Fundoshi

* Another female example: Matabei Gotou from ''LightNovel/HyakkaRyouranSamuraiGirls'' wears this. In her case, it's definitely FanService... (She's not even wearing a skirt or anything over it!).

* Juuichi's fundoshi scene during the camping arc of ''VisualNovel/{{Morenatsu}}''. Also, Tatsuki is sometimes seen outdoors in a fundoshi.

* The hidden ending of ''[[{{VideoGame/Contra}} Neo Contra]]'' involves an over-the-top action sequence with Jaguar. [[spoiler: It ends with Jaguar "swimming" into the cosmos with his red fundoshi while Bill Rizer is holding the frontal flap of Jaguar's fundoshi.]]
* A the beginning of "Defeat the Shadow Ninja" in ''VideoGame/{{Ninjala}}'', Kappei asks Van where his fundoshi has gone (localization refers to it simply as a loincloth), only to find Gumchi wearing it on his head.

* In ''[[VideoGame/TengaiMakyou Tengai Makyou IV: The Apocalypse]]'', Zengo presents himself in a red fundoshi before he joins your party.

* ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'''s Hanayama Kaoru is a Yakuza, and so a very traditional man. When he gets serious on a fight, he [[BattleStrip rips his clothes]], shows his family's back tattoo and keeps on fighting. [[http://view.thespectrum.net/series/new-grappler-baki-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+04&page=101 Wearing only a fundoshi.]]

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* When [[{{Anime/SpaceDandy}} Dandy]] went to the Planet Kayu to find the elusive Munagi, he wore a fundoshi throughout the episode!
* ''Manga/YakitateJapan'': To counteract Monica's bikini-clad attire, Suwabara ripped most of his clothes off except his underwear, which happens to be a fundoshi!
* The manga version of ''Manga/{{Shigurui}}'' often depicts artwork of Fujiki and Irako in a fundoshi
* In ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', Shigure and Hayato prefer fundoshi to Western-style bathing suits. Shigure also wears a [[{{Sarashi}} chest wrap]] for her upper body and finds a standard two-piece bathing suit to be indecent.
* In the ''Manga/{{Gokusen}}'' manga, [[ShipperOnDeck Ooshima]] more or less forces Shin to participate in a festival where the men traditionally wear fundoshi, because it's major {{fetish}} for [[YakuzaPrincess Kumiko]].
* When ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' sees someone in a fundoshi at the town festival, she reacts as a five-year-old probably would: "BUTT!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! BUTT!!!"
* In the ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' manga, Tamaki must wear one of these if his team loses the sports festival. [[spoiler: They do. He does]]
* Featured often in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' for comedic effect.

* Another female example: Matabei Gotou from ''LightNovel/HyakkaRyouranSamuraiGirls'' wears this. In her case, it's definitely FanService... (She's not even wearing a skirt or anything over it!).

* Played for squicky laughs in a ''Franchise/OnePiece'' filler set in Medieval Japan, where Nami is hit by a strange piece of cloth... revealed to be [[HollywoodCyborg Franky's]] Fundoshi. Her reaction is priceless.
* In ''Manga/SakigakeOtokojuku'', fundoshi are the only underwear permitted by school rules. Consequently, all the students wear them.
* ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'''s Hanayama Kaoru is a Yakuza, and so a very traditional man. When he gets serious on a fight, he [[BattleStrip rips his clothes]], shows his family's back tattoo and keeps on fighting. [[http://view.thespectrum.net/series/new-grappler-baki-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+04&page=101 Wearing only a fundoshi.]]

* Goemon from ''Characters/LupinIII''. Particularly of note on missions involving swimming or diving; the rest of the Lupin gang will opt for wetsuits, but not the [[{{Samurai}} highly traditional]] Goemon.
* Salamander from ''Manga/YouAreBeingSummonedAzazel'' wears nothing but a fundoshi. It's a ShoutOut to Yukio Mishima (of whom Salamander is a parody of) posing in fundoshi with a sword for a photoshoot.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Elfman wears one adorned with a character meaning "honorable man".

* ''Manga/SamuraiHaremAsuNoYoichi'': Yoichi in his show's requisite BeachEpisode.
* In ''Anime/CuteyHoney'', [[DirtyOldMan Dan]][[MiniatureSeniorCitizens bei]] wears one for FanDisservice.
* ''Manga/KyouKaraOreWa'' features it in a rather strange way: a character who [[MuggingTheMonster tried to bully Mitsuhashi pre-series]] ended up bandaged in such a way it looked he was wearing a fundoshi over his head and nicknamed Fundoshi Mask as the start of Mitsuhashi completely ruining his life and [[ButForMeItWasTuesday forgetting about him]].
* In ''New Manga/GetterRobo'', Musashibo Benkei wears one in his debut episode ([[GoingCommando but only that episode]]).
* During a fight in a hot spring in the manga version of ''Manga/LoveHina'', traditional MasterSwordswoman Tsuruko Aoyama is shown to be wearing fundoshi; her younger sister and Hinata-sou resident Motoko is shown to wear regular white panties.

* ''Manga/FoodWars'':
** One of Isshiki's standard outfits, the others being the NakedApron, the BarelyThereSwimwear and the [[SharpDressedMan Nice Suit]].
** Senzaemon Nakiri also wears one, but unlike Isshiki he wears it as underwear. He usually dresses in very traditional Japanese garb, so it sort of comes with the territory.
* ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': [[BloodKnight Kumojaki]] wears one during the BeachEpisode. [[http://img291.imageshack.us/i/ohgodwhatl.jpg/ A reeeaaaaaaaally long one.]]
* ''Manga/BlackClover'': Worn by both Yami and Magna of the Black Bulls in order to emphasize their manliness. Magna wears his to the [[BeachEpisode beach]], while Yami wears one in combination with a happi during the FestivalEpisode. Fundoshi also seem to be Yami's underwear of choice.
* Matsuri of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' wears fundoshi, which we end up [[MsFanservice seeing a lot]] after he's [[GenderBender turned female]]. According to a bonus page, it's considered part of the exorcist {{ninja}} uniform, but Matsuri wears them even off the job because he's comfortable in them. He also [[TooMuchInformation lets Suzu know]] that his grandpa wears a red fundoshi. This doesn't seem to be as common as Matsuri assumes, as Soga lets him know he just wears boxers. Eventually, Matsuri's mother convinces him to switch to regular panties as a sort of mental endurance training--temporarily causing Matsuri to become [[SecurityBlanket less confident]] and even [[CongruentMemory less coordinated]].

* ''ComicBook/TheGreenHornet: Year One''. When conducting research for Kato's origin, writer MattWagner was surprised to discover that Japanese underwear of the period essentially consisted of - as he put it - 'banana hammocks'. A scene involving Japanese soldiers in fundoshi ended up in the comic.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' spin-off ''ComicBook/BadGuys'', Yama is shown to wear a fundoshi while in stone sleep. It's also hinted from the clothing and equipment neatly laid out on the bed that he often wears an athletic cup.

* In the movie ''Film/ShowdownInLittleTokyo'', the fully tattooed Yakuza gang fought the protagonists Kenner and Murata with only a fundoshi. Even though the fight is set [[BathhouseBlitz inside a private sento]], you can't have the yakuza fight in the nude. So the yakuza gang wore a fundoshi while getting their butts kicked by the protagonists.

* Many of Creator/AkiraKurosawa's movies, being set in medieval Japan, feature men wearing this (and often not much else).
** Perhaps the most prominent example is in ''Film/SevenSamurai'' when Kikuchiyo went to the riverbank to catch fish with only his fundoshi wrapped around his waist. Even when he is ready for battle, there would be glimpses of his fundoshi shown beneath his armor.
* In ''Film/GungHo'', the Japanese plant managers are shown swimming in a river wearing fundoshi. In a version bowdlerized for cable TV, these were digitally retouched to look more like conventional swimsuits when seen from behind.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''[='=]s Bang Shishigami wears one beneath his outfit, it's the only clothing that survives his [[FinishingMove Astral]] [[KillItWithFire Heat]].
* At a certain point of the game, William Adams from ''VideoGame/NiOh'' will ditch his European trunks in favor of the Japanese fundoshi. After all, he stayed in Japan for an extensive amount of time.
* The hidden ending of [[{{VideoGame/Contra}} Neo Contra]] involves an over-the-top action sequence with Jaguar. [[spoiler: It ends with Jaguar "swimming" into the cosmos with his red fundoshi while Bill Rizer is holding the frontal flap of Jaguar's fundoshi.]]

* The Ruan Brothers from ''Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty'' are headswaps of each other. All sharing the same muscled physique with a rokushaku fundoshi as their base sprite.

* Fundoshi is worn as swimwear and underwear by male Hoshidan characters in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', to contrast with the Nohr men, who wear black trunks under their outfits. Ryoma even wears a special red Hoshidan-themed fundoshi in the game's BeachEpisode.
* Starting in [[{{VideoGame/SoulCalibur}} Soul Calibur IV]], the fundoshi is one of the recurring costume pieces for character creation.
** With the advent of ClothingDamage, characters such as Mitsurugi and Yoshimitsu reveal their fundoshis whenever they take significant damage onto their lower extremities.
* Kai, the young male in ''VideoGame/KarinsSkinDivingDiary'', wears a fundoshi as swimwear. [[AccidentalPervert The problem Karin has with this]] is that [[FemaleGaze Kai's fundoshi is so small and tight on him that Karin can see it practically hugging his naughty bits underneath]]. In a combination of HypocriticalHumor and {{Fanservice}}, Karin can happily earn her own fundoshi after helping Kai out with research on some caves, but this also means [[NippleAndDimed leaving her breasts completely exposed]].
* A the beginning of "Defeat the Shadow Ninja" in ''VideoGame/{{Ninjala}}'', Kappei asks Van where his fundoshi has gone (localization refers to it simply as a loincloth), only to find Gumchi wearing it on his head.

Traditionally, the fundoshi was worn as a form of underwear. Its role as underwear has decreased in modern Japanese society, as more people wear Western-style boxers, briefs, panties, etc. The fundoshi still may be worn during traditional festivals, or as swimwear. In fiction, it will often be worn constantly to complete a Japanese set of AwesomeAnachronisticApparel.

* Matsuri of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' wears fundoshi, which we end up [[MsFanservice seeing a lot]] after he's [[GenderBender turned female]]. According to a bonus page, it's considered part of the exorcist {{ninja}} uniform, but Matsuri wears them even off the job because he's comfortable in them. He also [[TooMuchInformation lets Suzu know]] that his grandpa wears a red fundoshi. This doesn't seem to be as common as Matsuri assumes, as Soga lets him know he just wears boxers.

* Salamander from ''Manga/YondemasuYoAzazelSan'' wears nothing but a fundoshi. It's a ShoutOut to Yukio Mishima (of whom Salamander is a parody of) posing in fundoshi with a sword for a photoshoot.

* Matsuri of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' wears fundoshi, which we end up [[MsFanservice seeing a lot]] after he's [[GenderBender turned female]]. According to a bonus page, it's considered part of the exorcist {{ninja}} uniform, but Matsuri wears them even off the job because he's comfortable in them. He also [[TooMuchInformation lets Suzu know]] that his grandpa wears a red fundoshi.

* At a certain point of the game, William Adams from ''VideoGame/NiOh'' will ditch his [[{{StockUnderwear}} European trunks]] in favor of the Japanese fundoshi. After all, he stayed in Japan for an extensive amount of time.

* Matsuri of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' wears fundoshi, which we end up [[MsFanservice seeing a lot]] after he's [[GenderBender turned female]]. According to a bonus page, it's considered part of the {{ninja}} exorcist uniform, but Matsuri wears them even off the job because he's comfortable in them. He also [[TooMuchInformation lets Suzu know]] that his grandpa wear a red fundoshi.

* The Feudal Japan spin-offs of {{VideoGame/Yakuza}} often depicts the main character in a fundoshi in various situations. It ranges from goofy minigames, sidequests to plot-related cutscenes.
** In "VideoGame/RyuGaGotokuIshin", Ryoma Sakamoto woke up inside a prison with his clothes [[MrFanservice stripped off leaving only a fundoshi wrapped around his loins.]]
** In "VideoGame/RyuGaGotokuKenzan", one of the sidequests requires Kiryu to reveal his musculature physique with only his fundoshi-clad attire in front of the NPC.

* The Feudal Japan spin-offs of [[{{VideoGame/Yakuza}} Ryu Ga Gotoku]] often depicts the main character in a fundoshi in various situations. It ranges from goofy minigames, sidequests to plot-related cutscenes.
** In "Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin", Ryoma Sakamoto woke up inside a prison with his clothes [[MrFanservice stripped off leaving only a fundoshi wrapped around his loins.]]
** In "Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan", one of the sidequests requires Kiryu to reveal his musculature physique with only his fundoshi-clad attire in front of the NPC.

Traditionally, the fundoshi was worn as a form of underwear. Its role as underwear has decreased in modern Japanese society, as more people wear Western-style boxers, briefs, panties, etc. The fundoshi still may be worn during traditional festivals, or as swimwear.

* ''Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma'':

* In ''Film/LadyNinjaKaede'', several of the male characters are shown wearing fundoshi, which is appropriate for the Edo era. (Unlike the female characters who are shown GoingCommando, or wearing[[AnachronismStew completely anachronistic]] [[RuleOfSexy fishnet body stockings]].)

* Starting in [[{{VideoGame/SoulCalibur}} Soul Calibur 4]], the fundoshi is one of the recurring costume pieces for character creation.