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->'''Dawn''': Why didn't you wait until we were in the tunnel?
->'''Peter''': I thought I was. Sorry.

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--> '''Roger:''' Something ate holes in all my sweaters! They're ruined! Some of my best costumes are sweater-based. How am I supposed to be Japanese subway molester Shinju Omigawa without his baby blue cardigan?!

* Western example: The main character in ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'' is groped on a train. Her aunt considers it a [[SheIsAllGrownUp sign of maturity.]] This particular aunt is a GoodBadGirl who ReallyGetsAround, and the story is set in the 1910s, so expect some ValuesDissonance to be in play. To be fair to the aunt, she gave her a knitting needle which the protagonist was almost looking forward to using.

* Subverted in ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'', where the girl falsely accuses a guy of groping her on the railway for the reward money she'd get for turning him in under the setting's Orwellian obscenity laws. The main character has to rescue the guy by claiming that ''he'' did it and then trying to run away.

* In ''Manga/GirlFriends'', Sugi encounters one during her ADayInTheLimelight chapter, who happens to be [[spoiler:her elementary school teacher]]. This is also something of a subversion because she's actually ''used'' to dealing with molesters; it's the salarymen who come to her rescue that she worries about because they inevitably want to date her.

* ''Film/KinjiteForbiddenSubjects'': Two Japanese businessmen discuss the subject after one of them witnesses a woman being groped on the subway who submits to the assault, both regarding it as a form of sexual fetishism. Later one of them drunkenly attempts the same thing on a business trip in the United States, [[ValuesDissonance resulting in immediate retaliation]].

* A ''Webcomic/SexyLosers'' strip (titled [[IncrediblyLamePun Chikan Fingers]]) features a chikan who runs into a not-so-wholesome crossdresser, who [[CrossesTheLineTwice threatens to scream if he stops]]. (And that's not even the punch line.)

* A whole episode of ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'' focuses on three detective girls (TheChick Megumi, ActionGirl Yukihira and former {{Meganekko}}/now CuteBruiser-in-training Kuniko) trying to capture one of these who attacked Kuniko on a train. Kuniko had just gone through a tremendous BreakTheCutie ordeal few weeks ago and, despite her AdrenalineMakeover, she still had a long way to go, and ended up [[HeroicBSOD having a sobbing meltdown]]. Yukihira also gave her a quick GetAHoldOfYourselfMan, letting her pull her act together, which she did as the three girls worked together to locate the offender ''and'' prove his involvement. [[spoiler: By the end not only they succeed, but Kuniko partially upgrades to ActionGirl by being the one who knocked out the chikan in the end.]]

Due to differing social values, this trope is relatively-unknown in the West, where a woman in this position is ''much'' more likely to scream bloody murder and possibly take a swing at the creep.

*** In an unrelated manga anthology, Yuki had a chapter about her. She gets groped by a man on the train but they end up making small talk.

* In ''Manga/Change123'' Motoko is molested by a chikan on the way to meet Kosukegawa. She is so flustered that her SplitPersonality [[BloodKnight Hibiki]] takes control and reaches down to meet the pervert's fingers. At first he believes she is getting into it, but needless to say this was not the case.

* ''Manga/EdenNoHana'' features one that tries to grope Midori Wakatsuki's thigh when she [[SleepyHead falls asleep]] on her train seat. Her classmate Hashiba realises this just in time, and scares him off.

** In the Christmas Special, Motoko is groped by one on a subway; her response, being Motoko, is violence. But unlike the vast majority of violence she was able to inflict in ''Love Hina'' to that point, this time, her beating the man almost gets her arrested.