History Main / KimonoFanservice

* The Type B is '''horribly''' subverted in ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness''. In a flashback, [[spoiler: Hisoka Kurosaki]] is seen wearing a dark kimono. Then [[ToplessnessFromTheBack it sexily]] [[DressHitsFloor falls off him]]. And '''then''', [[FanDisservice what follows]] is [[spoiler: the ''exact'' flashback to the time when Muraki ''raped Hisoka and cursed him into a CruelAndUnusualDeath''.]]

* [[TearJerker Cruelly and dramatically]] subverted in ''Manga/OniisamaE''. 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]].]]

Kimono are also a specific type of Japanese FetishFuel, in ways not easily explained to the uninitiated. Firstly, people are expected ''not'' to wear western-style lingerie underneath, as a bra would ruin the bustline (which should be smooth), and pantylines are a definite no-no. Secondly, the whole body being wrapped in one lovely package typically spells out (in the case of a girl) "youthful", "innocent", "proper", "charming" and "eligible" in kimono code. Few people in Japan know enough about kimono to detect every nuance, but the message seems to trigger some subconscious level of understanding. The idea of getting to open up such a prettily-wrapped present thrills many a mind, similar to [[OfCorsetsSexy corsets]]. There's also the fact that, no matter how much of the body is covered, the Ultimate and Most Bewitchingly Sensual Mystery of the Female Body (i.e. the nape of the neck) is revealed for all to see. Add to that the long shape and restriction of the garment forcing one to adopt a lady-like elegance (or, for guys, a tall and dignified posture) and, well... what's not to like?

!!!B: PanderingToTheBase, FetishFuel (with/or [[DownplayedTrope mild]] {{Fanservice}})

* 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 FetishFuel 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.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', on New Year's Day, when the girls are all wearing kimono, Junpei claims that every guy fantasizes about how there's [[GoingCommando nothing underneath]]. Unfortunately, he said this Ken who [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes asks the girls if they are cold because of this reasoning.]]
** If Junpei got to try he'd be sorely disappointed as there in fact would be underlayers upon underlayers underneath. Especially in winter.
** In the PSP version with the Female Protagonist, you can go out with Junpei to summer festival with a yukata. He sings the praises of the yukata and how sexy the Protagonist looks. And you wear a kimono on New Year's Day too with the other girls. Too bad nether are shown save from the shoulders up.
** Amusingly, Junpei may ask the female main character if girls are really GoingCommando with a kimono (which in several regions is the case, just not ''everywhere'') and the possible answers are "Yes.", "No." and "I'll leave that to your imagination."
* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', [[YamatoNadeshiko Yukiko]] wears one when she works at her family's inn.
** It also has all the girls wearing yukata for the summer festival, which Teddie finds very exciting. Kanji is too embarrassed to even look at them.
** On New Year's Eve, the guys work themselves into a tizzy over the thought of the girls showing up in their yukata... only for them to instead come bundled up in winter clothes like them, because it's bloody cold!

* In the last chapters of ''Manga/InuYasha'', Rin is seen receiving a kimono from [[spoiler: Sesshoumaru]]. It's [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming highly heartwarming]].

* Music/JanetJackson in the music video for "All of Me".

* In a live action western male version, ''Blonde'', a Creator/MarilynMonroe biopic, is mostly notable for featuring Patrick Dempsey and JensenAckles in a threesome. It also is notable for having Ackles swishing around in a kimono, much to the pleasure of fangirls (and probably a few [[EvenTheGuysWantHim fanboys]] too).

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10724053/1/Code-Geass-The-Prepared-Rebellion-V2 Code Geass: The Prepared Rebellion]]'', Sayoko manages to take Lelouch's breath away by dressing up in traditional Japanese clothing, which includes a kimono.

* ''Manga/{{XxxHOLiC}}'':
** Ichihara Yuuko has [[CostumePorn stunning ensembles]] [[RuleOfCool breaking every conceivable rule of kimono propriety]], while remaining elegant and very stylish despite her... suggestive fashions.
** Also notable for a relatively normal teenage male protagonist example. The tradition is carried on by Watanuki [[spoiler:after Yuuko's death]].
* ''IroOtoko'' centres around a designer who is trying to market fashionable men's kimonos, which isn't working very well for him. Both he and others models walk around in them to advertise, invoking this trope.
* Sakaki buys Yuki a kimono in ''Manga/HeartStrings'' in order to present him as a "yakuza wife." Very much {{fanservice}}.
* In ''Manga/DrugAndDrop'' the main characters all wear yukata at one point and Kazahaya immediately begins complimenting the beautiful Kakei. Saiga, on the other hand, gets the opposite reaction as he looks like a nightclub worker wearing yukata and SunglassesAtNight.
* In ''Manga/FutureLovers'' while at a summer festival Kento starts talking about how pretty women in yukata are and his lover Akira makes a sulky comment about yukata not suiting him. This of course spawns an ImagineSpot of Akira in yukata that is actually a bit of a {{fanservice}} [[RuleOfFunny fail]].

* [[ShipTease Fai's furisode]] in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''.
* In ''Manga/HidamariSketch'', a festival offers free snacks to those who come in yukata (and bring the flyer). Miyako, who doesn't have one, is ready to [[{{Curtain Clothing}} pull down her curtains to make one]], but Hiro offers her old one with a [[Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo Mahou Shoujo Minky]] print. It comes down to about a centimeter below her buttocks. She thinks it's a perfect fit, and Yuno and Hiro say it looks "cute" and "fashionable", respectively, though Sae privately thinks she looks like a hooker.
* In ''Manga/LuckyStar'', at the festival, Konata muses that if they were in a DatingSim, they'd trigger a flag because they're at a festival outside, wearing yukata.
* 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.

* Amasawa of ''Manga/TheWeathermanIsMyLover'' has a cosplaying habit, so when the cast and crew of his program take a trip to an onsen, he brings along a female yukata. And I quote:
-->'''Amasawa''': "Cute?"
-->'''Koganei''': "[[DistractedByTheSexy Yeah]]...I mean NO!"

* Yumi from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' wears an off-the-shoulder kimono that should not logically stay up (a fact the author himself acknowledged when he got mail from cosplayers who attempted to replicate the look and failed). She is also a former prostitute.
* ''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.
* In the last chapters of ''Manga/InuYasha'', Rin is seen receiving a kimono from [[spoiler: Sesshoumaru]]. It's [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming highly heartwarming]].
* In ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'' Shino mentions traditional clothing while imagining a kimono-clad woman getting her obi unwrapped. But she points out that while she'd like to be in that position, she's worried about getting dizzy from the spinning.

* This trope played out in at least three episodes of ''Manga/MaicchinguMachikoSensei''. One episode featured the main character acting in a historical drama,another was set during the Lunar New Year, and the third took place during a festival. In keeping with the tradition of the anime, she lost her kimono every time.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Akane Tendo is forced into one of these in the manga. Due to [[BelligerentSexualTension the relationship between her and Ranma Saotome]], Ranma lampshades this trope in a way that makes it a complimentary put-down.

** Akane and other characters often wear lovely yukatas during festivals.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Gosick}}'' Kujo wears a men's kimono for an entire episode. A rare male example.
* In ''Anime/MaiHime'', after Shizuru rescues Natsuki from Nao, she's seen wearing a purple kimono and gives Natsuki a light blue one. Shizuru continues wearing the kimono for most of her PsychoLesbian rampage, but it eventually gets torn in places, and she changes back into her StudentCouncilPresident [[CustomUniform uniform]] by the time Natsuki confronts her.
* 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.
* The Type B is '''horribly''' subverted in ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness''. In a flashback, [[spoiler: Hisoka Kurosaki]] is seen wearing a dark kimono. Then [[ToplessnessFromTheBack it sexily]] [[DressHitsFloor falls off him]]. And '''then''', [[FanDisservice what follows]] is [[spoiler: the ''exact'' flashback to the time when Muraki ''raped Hisoka and cursed him into a CruelAndUnusualDeath''.]]
* After a PottyFailure in episode 6 Mayu from ''Anime/DeathParade'' changes into a kimono. Harada hits on her now that she isn't wearing a lot of makeup and looks more homely. She returns back to her normal attire next time we see her.
* Numerous characters in ''Manga/{{Adekan}}'' but especially pretty boy Shiro who's kimono's often are draped haphazardly on him to heighten the fanservice.
* 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.
* Akito is frequently shown wearing a kimono in ''Manga/FruitsBasket''.
* Tomo in ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' wears one habitually and after she becomes a god Nanami wears a pretty one.
* Most anime only have girls wear kimonos in {{Festival Episode}}. ''Anime/{{Free}}'' thrives on having a CastFullOfPrettyBoys and thus Rei and Nagisa wear kimono during the festival episode.
* The fourth intro of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' ("Fighting Dreamers") features a segment where images of the main female characters dressed in kimono appear on a wall the males are running past. Jiraya stops to drool over Kurenai.

* In ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon'', [[BigBad Skullmageddon]]'s {{geisha}}s exhibit Type B with ShowSomeLeg and [[ImpossiblyLowNeckline low necklines]].
* Sumire Kanzaki does the ImpossiblyLowNeckline variation in ''VideoGame/SakuraWars''.

* Kimiko Tohomiko from ''XiaolinShowdown'' wears one in "Tangled Web!". Also, in the episode "Dream Stalker", Wuya wears the same kimono that Kimiko wore in Raimundo's nightmares.

* Ichihara Yuuko from ''Manga/{{XxxHOLiC}}'' has [[CostumePorn stunning ensembles]] [[RuleOfCool breaking every conceivable rule of kimono propriety]], while remaining elegant and very stylish despite her... suggestive fashions.

* Ryougi Shiki of ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' 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.

* There have been some MissWorld contestants from Japan wearing heavily B2 type costumes on the "national" round. Opinion varies on whether those costumes are an exiting and sexy approach to the kimono or a complete disgrace.

* Sumire Kanzaki does B2 var. ImpossiblyLowNeckline in ''VideoGame/SakuraWars''.

* Kimiko Tohomiko from ''XiaolinShowdown'' wears one in "Tangled Web!" and during the showdown, she removes her sandals and undoes her bun by removing the Tangle Web Comb, LettingHerHairDown. Also, in the episode "Dream Stalker", Wuya wears the same kimono that Kimiko wore in Raimundo's nightmares.

* Kimiko Tohomiko from ''XiaolinShowdown'' wears one in "Tangled Web!". Also, in the episode "Dream Stalker", Wuya wears the same kimono that Kimiko wore in Raimundo's nightmares.

* Tomo in ''Manga/KashimashiKiss'' wears one habitually and after she becomes a god Nanami wears a pretty one.

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

* The [[HotSpringsEpisode Hot-Spring Scramble]] DLC mission in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' lets you see [[spoiler:Lucina]], [[{{Tsundere}} Severa]], [[MediumAwareness Owain]], and [[CasanovaWannabe Inigo]] in yukata. Oh, and [[RandomNumberGod A]][[MsFanservice n]][[MemeticSexGod n]][[SeriesMascot a]].

* Sakaki buys Yuki a kimono in ''HeartStrings'' in order to present him as a "yakuza wife." Very much {{fanservice}}.

Yukata are worn by nearly everyone in Japan come summertime and festivals. The feelings they awaken are rather similar to kimono. By nature, a yukata is relaxed home-wear (comparable to shorts and a tank top), and situations where one can wear it are very limited. A big part of the allure of [[FestivalEpisode summer festival]] or [[HotSpringsEpisode hot springs]] (filler) episodes in anime and manga is related to having the cast wear yukata. ''[[VaporWear Because there's nothing underneath]].'' On young children, the special fluffy yukata obi presents an excellent opportunity for extra big bows and super-cutesyfication.

* The Type B is '''horribly''' subverted in ''Manga/YamiNoMatsuei''. In a flashback, [[spoiler: Hisoka Kurosaki]] is seen wearing a dark kimono. Then [[ToplessnessFromTheBack it sexily]] [[DressHitsFloor falls off him]]. And '''then''', [[FanDisservice what follows]] is [[spoiler: the ''exact'' flashback to the time when Muraki ''raped Hisoka and cursed him into a CruelAndUnusualDeath''.]]

Yukata are worn by nearly everyone in Japan come summertime and festivals. The feelings they awaken are rather similar to kimono. By nature, a yukata is relaxed home-wear (comparable to shorts and a tank top), and situations where one can wear it are very limited. A big part of the allure of [[FestivalEpisode summer festival]] or hot springs (filler) episodes in anime and manga is related to having the cast wear yukata. ''[[VaporWear Because there's nothing underneath]].'' On young children, the special fluffy yukata obi presents an excellent opportunity for extra big bows and super-cutesyfication.

* The film version of ''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.

* ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji'' includes pedantically detailed descriptions of about everything the female characters wear. In addition to being CostumePorn, this also provided contemporary and history-savvy readers with loads of insight into the character's personalities. Most translations omit these descriptions for obvious reasons.

* In the [[PixarShorts Pixar animated short]] ''Tokyo Mater'', [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Mater]] can actually be seen flirting with some female Japanese cars designed to resemble Geisha girls before running into the short's main villain, Kabuto.
** The three Geisha girl cars and Kabuto later make brief reappearances in the film ''Cars 2''.