Innocent Innuendo / Anime & Manga

• When Kunimitsu from Ayane's High Kick is first shown, he is standing in the shadows staring at Ayane during her Pro-wrestling tryout with a smug grin on his face. Later when he introduces himself he digs the hole even deeper... though he was simply trying to take her on as a kickboxing student, Ayane didn't know that at the time.
  "Nice legs, missy! I never thought I'd find a pair of legs like yours in this town!"
• Basquash! has an extended sequence between Dan and Miyuki in its first episode that turns piloting one of the Bigfoot mecha into a much sexier experience, at least from the point of view of Miyuki's grandpa, who thinks that she's "doing it in the wrong order."
• Oh boy, is this trope in spades in Black Butler. The author uses this to lampshade the obvious Ho Yay between the two main characters. The corset scene and Ciel's asthma attack are the most well known (but certainly not the only times this trope is used). The former scene in both the manga and anime has Ciel shirtless, grunting and moaning and Sebastian behind him telling him to take it; lean against the wall if he has to. It turns out Ciel's being fitted for a corset. Oh, by the way, Ciel's a boy.
• Happened in the first Bleach movie when Senna was staying over at Ichigo's house. Senna was speaking in a very "suggestive" tone when she said that Ichigo's bed was comfortable and that she wanted to sleep in it. One of Ichigo's little sisters Yuzu and Ichigo's father were listening in on the conversation and thought something different was going on.
• My Bride is a Mermaid:
  • An epic one involving San and Akeno in a bath, sounding for all the world like they're... enjoying themselves, while Nagasumi and Mawari listen outside. They were actually seeing how long they could stay in the water without reverting to mermaid form.
  • There's also one in the second episode, where Nagasumi tries to dry off San's tail while she's in her kimono. Except the rubbing itself looks... suggestive, to say the least, not even taking the dialogue into account. Oh, and San's parents happened to be walking by. The mother doesn't mind as much as the father...
• Happens in Case Closed: We see headshots of Hattori and Kazuha sweating and panting, mumbling things like "Shift to the right a bit," "No, a little higher," and "OW! That hurt!" Then, they pan out and we realize they're tied together, having been kidnapped, and were trying to loosen the bonds. Naturally.
• In the four-part Crayon Shin-chan story arc, The High School Years, Shin is a boxer in school, and when his crush sees him practicing while walking down a sidewalk in the rain, she thinks to herself "He's taken up boxing again, which represents everything I most loathe in this world. And yet... he looks so hot doing it. I'm getting so wet just standing here watching him... I really should go inside where it's not raining."
• Zig-zagged in Daitoshokan No Hitsujikai. While listening at the door of the Library Club's meeting room, Nagi overhears Shirasaki telling Kakei that she's "never done this for a guy before" and asking if he's okay with it. At first Nagi jumps to the obvious conclusion, but she's smart enough to know that it's probably not what it sounds like. Determined not to fall for a "cliché", she opens the door...to the sight of Kakei with his eyes closed wearing nothing but a pair of pants, and Shirasaki with her back to the door and her head in front of his crotch. Stunned that they actually were doing something sexual, Nagi quickly apologizes and bolts out of the room at top speed...as the rest of the Library Club members sitting around the table burst out laughing. In fact, Shirasaki was only measuring Kakei's waist for a costume she planned to make for him.
• In Dancougar Nova, Seimi finishes the Boost Nova Knuckle, and invites Sakuya to test it in the simulator room. Aoi and Kurara follow them, and listen in on their conversation, which sounds very sexual. They barge in to find Seimi standing outside the simulator, and Sakuya thrilled about his new weapon.
• Actually gets Played for Drama early in DARLING in the FRANXX. Piloting the titular mecha requires Synchronization between a male and female pilot, and the cockpit configuration is blatantly reminiscent of doggy-style sex. So it's little surprise to hear a male pilot being told to "Get it up!" when they're having trouble synchronizing, or a character being teased for "knocking one out" in a solo training unit. However it slowly becomes clear that the characters aren't trying to make innuendoes - they genuinely have no idea about sexuality and the implications of what they're doing, highlighting the disconnect between the intimacy implied by piloting and their sterile lives off-duty.
• Doujin Work does this in practically everything it can get its hands on. (Um, wait...) A show dealing with the struggles of a newbie doujin artist, it often brings up jokes such as comparing virginity to being a beginner artist, and partnership to lesbianism. Every episode title also relates to some form of innuendo pun or hentai cliche. Although other times it's clearly on purpose, such as the creepy relationship between two other characters, more often than not it can disturb viewers from even getting into the doujinshi industry.
• In Eyeshield 21's bathhouse manga arc, the boys listen in on Suzuna and Mamori's conversation on the women's side of the bathhouse. Only after Monta erupts with a tremendous Nosebleed do we discover that Suzuna was referring to Mamori's bath towel.
  Suzuna: Mamo-nee's big! Mine's small, still like a kid! Can I touch?
  Mamori: Oh, sure!
  Suzuna: Oooh, soft...
• Excel♡Saga
  • Vol. 22 features this gem:
    Watanabe: ...How does it feel inside a little girl?
    Iwata: Hmm...It was kinda dull, you know...
  • They were talking about Iwata's brief stay in Ropponmatsu II's body. Sumiyoshi warns the two from making such comments in public.
• In FLCL, it's "batting practice" or "grabbing the guitar out of Naota's head"...so that's what they're calling now...
  • "Hey, I didn't know boys felt like this inside!" "Don't touch me there from behind!" "Hurry up and pop it!" "If you rush, it won't pop! Go slow!" It was enough to give every one of the female agents listening in a massive nosebleed.
  • There was also the case of Naota hearing Haruko trying to fix the robot she made of his father. "Why won't it stand up? It's got this extra layer..."
• Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) includes a scene of Riza Hawkeye in bed, moaning things like "Mmm, that tickles!" and "Oh, you're so bad!" only to pull the covers off to reveal her dog licking her foot.
• Several episodes of Gakuen Heaven begin with some rather suggestive dialog between two of the guys. Sadly for fangirls, this is always revealed to be something completely innocent.
• Ignoring the imaginations of the yaoi fangirls listening in, this page◊ from a fan comic by the illustrator of Genshiken. And the reality◊.
• Parodied in Good Luck Girl!. Konjiki-hime overheard a seemingly perverted conversation between Bobby and Tanpopo, but she chalked it up to this trope in effect. Turns out Bobby was really groping Tanpopo's breasts.
• Great Teacher Onizuka:
  • Zig-Zagged. School Nurse Naoko Moritaka is shown making orgasmic faces and saying things like "No...no more! I can't take it!" but it's shown she was actually donating blood. It turns out she does get turned on by this though.
  • At Tomoko's apartment, Miyabi hears a scream and then this conversation:
    Tomoko: Teacher, no! You can't do that!
    Onizuka: Come on, just a little bit. What's the worst that could happen?
    Tomoko: Nooo! Stop! Don't touch there! I'm losing control... Ah. Oh. Ahhh.
    Miyabi runs in, to find them playing a video game.
• Haruka Nogizaka's Secret:
  • Mika listens in on her older sister and Yuuto through a closed door. When she hears Haruka mentioning something of Yuuto's is "big and hot", she barges in and tries to interrupt — they were making pancakes.
  • Then there's the extended "drawing doujinshi behind closed doors" scene in Purezza (which, meaning "purity" in Italian, is arguably a lampshade). This one has Haruka's father joining in on overhearing, at which point he chops down the bedroom door with a sword before realizing the scene isn't what he thought.
  • The trope is getting so common in Purezza that, combined with its general overuse elsewhere, it's starting to push the boundaries of Discredited Tropedom. Virtually every episode features extended Innocent Innuendo, and every episode title. I.e. "Please Put It In," "My Body Is Burning Up," and "It Might Have Gone In."
• Hayate the Combat Butler:
  • In the "White Day" arc, Hayate runs into Hinagiku and ends up having to admit to her that he gave the cookies he was intending to give to Ayumu, to Maria instead. Her response 'You'll repay me with your body'. After Hayate's stuttering, she reveals that she was just talking about introducing him to a cafe-shop owner where he could make more. Why she used that specific phrasing is still confusing, though.
  • Nagi also falls for this trope often, and the other characters usually lampshade how she's misreading conversations to be innuendos when they aren't. In these cases, the audience was often watching the original scene, and then laughs at Nagi's misinterpretations. Sometimes the other girls fall into this as well, even though they know full well that Hayate is a Chaste Hero.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • Germany rushes over, completely misinterpreting a panicked phone call in which Italy was in bed with his brother claiming it 'hurts' and was 'stuck'... only to find that it was just their curls that had got tangled together.
    N. Italy: [phone rings at Germany's] Germany! Germany, help! Ow ow ow!
    S. Italy: Don't move! Not there!
    N. Italy: Owch! It won't come out! Get it out! TAKE IT OUT!
    S. Italy: Hang up already! [line goes dead]
    Germany: Romano's in bed...? It von't come out...? "Ow ow"...? Take it out...?
  • Though that curly hair is the two brothers' erogenous zone...
  • And from the manga we have this scene◊, in which Japan overhears a less than innocent sounding exchange between Italy and Germany.
• Ichaicha Suru to Okane ga Waichau Futari no Hanashi: Natsuki sees Haru heading into Hojo's apartment, and then hears her saying things like "So much came out!" and "Shall we go for one more round?". Haru was actually talking about taking selfies together to make money appear, but Natsuki naturally assumes she's talking about sex.
• I Want Your Mother To Be With Me!: In Chapter 13, Yuzuki worries that her lack of athletic ability will make her a burden to Asahi in the preschool sports fest. She asks Ryo if the two of them can go somewhere alone, and the next page shows a shed, with suggestive dialogue coming from it.
  Yuzuki: Ah. Mm.
  Ryo: I'm sorry. Does it hurt?
  Yuzuki: No. I'm fine. Please do it harder.
  • It turns out Ryo is helping her stretch (though still in a rather suggestive position if anyone found them).
• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War:
  • Chapter 14 is built on these. Due to thinking that "first time" means kissing, Kaguya ends up implying that she had sex with her newborn nephew on camera (among other things).
  • Chapter 22 is sort of a continuation to that. Due to her inexperience, she started seeing every word and action as an innuendo. In particular, she described the act of sharing earbuds as "penetrating a membrane with a foreign object".
  • In Chapter 91, Fujiwara wants to play a "game where you can pump it as many times as you want, but you have to pump it at least once, and whoever busts it, loses", while moving her hands in a very suggestive way ^note to make it even more obvious, the sounds for pump are like the sounds when you fap. Shirogane, Ishigami, and Iino are somewhat disappointed because it sounded like a Sexual Euphemism for a dirty game, but what Fujiwara wanted to pump with air turned out to be a balloon.
  • All of Chapter 171, which explains why the Media Club now owes the Board Game Club. Karen (of the former) discovered the Board Game Club had retreated off campus for their activities; given their reputation of having no social awareness, she chose to call and check up on them. While the readers can see what's going on and that it makes sense (they're continuing activities already referenced), the phone conversation starts out by stating they're absolutely up to something, and strongly implies the "something" involves bringing boys in for sex. Karen cross-checks with the other girls there, who emphasize that while they were kind of pushed into it, they're happy letting the girl whose idea it was make the decisions. This gets worse as Karen continues to attempt to avoid this trope and clarify, adding implications they're doing it as a business, they're also counterfeiting money on the side (and framing Karen's best friend Erika), discussing future terrorist plans against the school, and finally establish Erika is actually there and is absolutely on board with her new lifestyle and comrades. Karen calls the police on them. They think it's Karen knocking and make a very bad initial impression.
• Kanpai: One of the main characters is a werewolf who ate a girl and was later transformed into human form. When he says that young girls taste the best, the schoolgirls interpret it as something else entirely.
• An episode of Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho has Covert Pervert Shizuoka overhear Amuro and Kaname talking about something in a shrine. Amuro mentions something "soft, but when you poke it it, it gets harder." Shizuoka assumes the obvious, but in reality, they're talking about the state of the food offerings.
• In the first episode of Kimikiss, pure rouge, Kouichi ponders his new living situation with his "big sis" Mao. Mao then enters his room, saying she couldn't sleep. Cut to a camera shot of Mao's door, as we hear her moaning...about the racing game they're playing.
• A Kind World runs on this: Each comic is a panel or two setting up what seems to be a lewd situation, but then the last panel shows a wholesome ending.
  • In one, a boy says he "wants to do it with you no matter what!" to a Stacy's Mom who says she's "no longer at the age to do something like ''that'". The activity in question? Video gaming.
  • A girl invites a young boy to her house to "have some fun"...it turns out to be video games again.
  • It seems to be a girl on an Enjo Kosai...but she's actually helping her dad pick out a gift for her mom.
  • A girl stays behind for some "after-school practice with senpai". Turns out he's helping her get better at ping-pong so she can compete nationally.
• Kodomo no Jikan's second season's OAV: Kuro-chan and Shiro-chan starts with Rin making some very provocative sounds and saying some rather lewd things. Just to have the camera pan out to show that she is just at the nurse's office and only getting a needle in the arm.
• Subverted and lampshaded in Love Hina when Keitaro and his adopted sister Kanako (who has a massive crush on him) are heard exchanging extremely suggestive-sounding dialogue with lots of panting. What were they actually doing? He was helping her with her math studies. But what about helping her with math could possibly cause that kind of dialogue? Absolutely nothing!
  Naru: Math is not an orgasmic experience!
• Maburaho:
  • In one scene, main character Kazuki appears to be having sex with an offscreen girl while Kamishiro Rin's voice offers encouragement such as "more" and "faster". The camera then shows that Rin is standing next to Kazuki, making him do pushups.
  • Another time Yuuna asked Kazuki to "make [her] a woman". The camera then showed Kazuki taking her hand and directing it toward his pants... where Kazuki was holding an eel that Yuuna was trying to work up the courage to touch.
• Macross Delta: When trying to make emergency repairs to the colony ship, the Walkure hear over the radio Hayate and Mirage grunting in exertion and saying things like "Hold me tighter!" Freyja blushes and Reina amusedly says she doesn't want to know what the two of them are doing. Turns out that Hayate was trying to open a stuck valve, and needed Mirage to brace him for leverage.
• In one episode of Magic User's Club, Sae hears her best friend Nanaka and Aburatsubo speaking in the magic club room. What sounds like sex in the process turns out to be... him putting her onto his literal broomstick so they could fly around the school.
• The entire gimmick (at least for the first few chapters) of the manga A Manga Where an Old Man Teaches Bad Things to a ●-School Girl. Each chapter starts out implying they're about to do something sexual or inappropriate, but then pulls a Bait-and-Switch and reveals it to be something entirely innocent.
  • In one chapter, he puts his hand over hers and says he'll "teach [her] something no boy would know"...which is how to beat a certain video game.
  • In another, she asks if he'll see her as an adult if she drinks something, and he says it won't be bitter for long. It turns out to be coffee.
  • In one, he's teasing her, saying "maybe you were lying when you said you could put it inside by yourself?" It turns out she's trying to put a croquette in frying oil without it splashing.
• In Martian Successor Nadesico, resident otaku Hikaru Amano is suspected to be having a relationship with the much older Seiya Uribatake. Akito and Yurika track them down behind a large crate in the hangar bay, overhearing Uribatake advising Hikaru on how to hold certain tools and several other innuendos before Akito is forced to intervene. They then discover it was simply the pair of them making robot models.
• In Mind Game, Nishi half-jokingly suggests to his love interest Myon to look for a Love Hotel after they met on the subway. Then the scene cuts to a series of misleading close-ups: on a disposed package of what could be condoms, a zipping sound, Nishi telling Myon not to move, Myon's straining face, Nishi's grinning face with grunting sounds. Cut to the Reveal Shot of how he patched up her ankle. What else were you thinking?
• In Mitsudomoe, Hitoha named the class hamster Chikubi (Nipples), thanks to Futaba's boob obsession dovetailing with the little creature's tail. When the hamster starts feeling bad, Hitoha says she's going to take Nipples home, talking about how everyone touched it and pinched it. Then Nipples stands up and the class begins chanting the hamster's name, wanting to touch him. Kuriyama-sensei has been outside listening, and has some very wrong ideas about what was going on.
• In Mobile Suit Gundam Char and Garma have a very innuendo-laden conversation while the former is taking a shower...with the door open, no less!
• In Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, when Kashima asks what the relationship between Nozaki, Mikoshiba, and Sakura is, Nozaki is deliberately vague to hide the fact that they draw manga together:
  Nozaki: We like to meet at my apartment for unspecified activities.
• In Nagasarete Airantou Suzu and Shinobu have a discussion about how much fun it would be to ride Ikuto. Sitting on his shoulders like Yukino.
• In a scene in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Asuna is being goaded by some of her classmates into thinking that Little Miss Badass Vampire Evangeline may be doing something... untoward, to their ten-year-old teacher Negi. Things actually seem to be going that way from a conversation she overhears when they find them, but in actuality, she's just sucking his blood, and from his arm, at that. (This has the side effect of helping defuse any tension among the characters or readers about what's actually going on, despite the focus of an earlier arc being keeping Evangeline from doing just this.)
  Evangeline: Hurry and whip it out!
  Negi: Evangeline-san, no! We mustn't!
  Evangeline: I told you, call me Master....
  • The scene mentioned in I Didn't Mean to Turn You On is repeated at the beginning of Chapter 263 to invoke this trope, though given the whole point of said event, only Negi is the innocent one.
  • Haruna does this on purpose when she creates a fake Negi so that the girls can practice their Pactio kisses.
    Haruna: In case anyone was wondering, he sports an impressive length of 23.5 centimeters!
    Other girls: [Shocked Stares]
    Haruna: Hmmmmmm? What exactly are you imagining? I was talking about his tongue, of course!
    Other girls: THAT'S EVEN WORSE!!
• Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary:
  • In one chapter, the end of a page shows a boy with a flushed face, and then Shitara making a face pretty close to an ahegao, with her Overly-Long Tongue going off the page...
  Boy: W...Wow, Shitara. Where...did you learn to use your tongue like that...
  Shitara: Mn...mph...Did I do...a good job...?

  • And then we see that she was showing off her ability to tie two cherry stems in a knot with her tongue. Both of them are fully clothed and on a date in a cafe. However, this boy does have a tongue fetish, which Shitara was deliberately playing on.
  • Another chapter opens with sucking and slurping sounds coming from a girl with her head between a guy's legs, and then it turns out she's a vampire, and was sucking his blood, not his penis.
  • In Chapter 30, most of the chapter is building up the expectation that Hitomi and Moji-sensei are going to have sex in the infirmary, but the thing that's "thicker and harder" than she thought it would be turns out to be his hair, which she was shaving for swim class.
• Oreimo
  • While Kyousuke and Kuroneko are dating, Kuroneko is in Kyousuke's room, and Kirino overhears them struggling with...something. She charges into the room angrily, only to find that they were playing a video game.
  • This is also played with as a Running Gag; Kyousuke is frequently the unwitting Right Through the Wall audience to Kirino's squees and giggles, brought on by Brother–Sister Incest eroge. She doesn't think she's doing anything naughty (according to her, she just thinks little sisters are cute), but since she's blatantly in tsundere love with her real older brother, it's much less innocent than she believes.
• Mashiro in The Pet Girl of Sakurasou often does this, given she has No Social Skills and is also Innocently Insensitive.
  • Episode 2: Sorata's been her first... male friend.
  • Episode 5: She pretty much implied she has been having sex with Sorata all night, through use of "this and that"—in front of Nanami—while that "this and that" was merely playing video games.
• In Ranma ½, poor Akane is the victim of one of these, as she overhears Ukyou and Ranma doing... something in the solitude of Ukyou's room, complete with the chef's squealing and Ranma's grunting. Many mentions are made of "pulling out" and "grabbing it." Ukyou is heard insisting Ranma to "make up his mind" and "pick one", which resonated too deeply with Akane's paranoia that Ranma would choose his cute fiancee over her. Akane, thinking the worst, bursts into the room with tears in her eyes... and finds Ukyou and Ranma playing Old Maid, preparing for Ranma's match with the Gambling King.
• Rune Soldier Louie: In the 2nd episode, there's a scene showing Ila bouncing up and down, eyes closed, apparently in the throes of sexual ecstasy as, just offscreen, Louie is heard grunting accompanied by what sounds like creaking bedsprings. It turns out that she was just sitting on his back, during a set of finger pushups (seen at 4:30-4:43 here).
• During the training camp set after the Prefectural finals in Saki, Fujita Pro invited Yumi to have a match with her and Hisa. This eventually led bit of dialogue in chapter 62 when Hisa was inviting the best players of the other schools to her room for some games so she can train herself.
  Hisa: Yumi...
  Yumi: Hisa.
  Momo: [to Hisa] Wh-wh-why are you calling her by her first name? (to Yumi) Who is she?
  Yumi: We got along well last night.
  Momo: Last night!? Got along well...!?
  Hisa: [winks] Let's do it again today
  Momo: [about to cry] ~~~~!!
  Yumi: Calm down, Momo. We're not doing anything special.
  Momo: Doing what...!?
• Samurai Champloo. In his introductory episode, there are a couple of scenes where it looks/sounds like Manzo the Saw is masturbating, but it turns out to be something innocent (i.e. exercising with his unique weapon). This is probably because he's a parody of Hanzo the Razor, who engaged in some... unique sexual practices.
• In the Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei episode where Commodore Perry shows up for some reason and starts disturbing everything, one thing he does is interfere for the character Kiri Komoroi who typically hides herself in various rooms throughout the school. Her Catchphrase is "Don't open it!", so when he disturbs her, she makes a comment that "Only Sensei has opened me before." Itoshki-sensei comments that she shouldn't say things like that which give others the wrong impression.
• Shaman King had one scene in the anime with Tamao of all people. She's saying some odd things to Yoh, with her eyes squeezed shut and beads of sweat on her face. Then she wakes up.
• Sister Princess uses this when Haruka gives an injured Wataru a moxibustion treatment. Given the sugary sweet nature of the series, it's obvious from the start to any discerning viewer that nothing scandalous is happening.
• In the second episode of Slow Start, Eiko decides to dub her sister's soup as "Little Sister Sauce", and Hana is mortified. Eiko later admits that such a name implies that the soup comes from her sister's secretions.
• In Sora no Manimani, Mihoshi casually walks into Saku's classroom and mentions how the two of them stayed up all night, were exhausted afterward, and she can't wait to do it again. As she skips off singing about stargazing with Saku, his classmates are getting other ideas.
• To Love Ru:
  • One of these happens when Rito gets his hand stuck to Lala's tail, and Mikan overhears their attempts to remove it. This may not be innocent, given that Lala's tail is rather sensitive.
  • Happens again in Darkness, where at one point Mikan hears a very suggestive conversation between Momo and Rito in Rito's room one morning, ultimately panicking and rushing in to yell at Rito only to find them playing a video game together with Celine. Outside, Momo teases Mikan about what she was obviously imagining.
• Toradora!: Ami tends to use this when she assumes her kawaiiko persona, though an unintended example happens when she's talking to Kihara and Nanako about being unable to handle someone "bigger" than she had handled before; Kitamura absentmindedly misconstrues this as a well-endowed man, while Ami points out that she's talking about a big dog she had to work with at a photo shoot.
• Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!:
  • In episode 9, Hana's mother Tsuki misinterprets Hana and Sakurai's conversation (with her in the room!) about her cats as them talking about him being into her, and her daughter willing to help them hook up. The audience knows what's going on the whole time, though.
  • Later in the episode, Tsuki overhears Hana and Sakurai in the cafe storeroom talking about aged coffee beans, but thinks Sakurai is talking about how he Likes Older Women.
  • In episode 11, we see Hana and her mother (fully clothed, mind you) breathing heavily and moving slowly back and forth, and then see Sakurai doing the same while squeezing something that looks suspiciously like a pair of breasts in a white shirt...We even get a "Harder, senpai" and "You're so good at this" before it pans out to reveal that the three of them are kneading dough for udon.
• In one episode of Wagnaria!!, Yamada is desperately searching for "Daisy". Her coworkers ask her who on earth "Daisy" is, to which she replies that "Daisy is the product of my and Soma-san's love". Soma hastily clarifies that Daisy is the stuffed bear he gave her as a gift.
• Witch Craft Works: One of Tower witches calls herself out on being an idiot, for even trying to get through to her comrade cat-eared rabbit-wielding witch girl Tanpopo, as the latter is oblivious to how saying that protagonist's woman (referring to fire witch successfully protecting him so far) is only after The white stuff, which is inside his body — could cause any misunderstanding. Takamiya himself, however, is dumbfounded thinking he didn't get that right.
• In ×××HOLiC episode 3, Watanuki and Yuko have a very... interesting conversation (below) with no specific background to hint at what they're really doing. Turns out they were just playing baseball.
  Watanuki: Are you... sure about this?
  Yuko: I'm ready, Watanuki. Now. Give it to me. (the viewer is then shown the full scene of Yuko holding a bat) Pitch, Boy!
  Mokona: PIIIITCH!
• Yakitate!! Japan:
  • Kyousuke hears Monica and Kai engage in this after Kai's defeat at Monica's hands in the Monaco Cup arc. Turns out they were just baking bread. It helps when your tenue de travail is an American flag bikini or a loincloth.
  • Another example occurs earlier in the series, when Kinoshita overhears what he interprets as Azuma sexually assaulting Tsukino. Turns out she was just upset by him soaking his dough. And that's not a euphemism.

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