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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#1: Oct 2nd 2010 at 6:33:34 PM

It's time for another round of Guess That Trope!

If you guessed it was a bathing scene involving a woman using her breasts as a scrubbing tool you win a super cookie.

I think Breast Sponge would cut out any ambiguity.

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#2: Oct 2nd 2010 at 7:50:35 PM

If the move is to rename, the problem that I see with that name is that it seems to imply absorbent boobs. I dunno what would work better, but it doesn't get my vote.

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#4: Oct 2nd 2010 at 8:24:09 PM

Breast Scrubber makes it sound like the boobs are being scrubbed not doing the scrubbing. That and reading the examples, most of them don't even really seem to fit.

edited 2nd Oct '10 8:27:57 PM by shimaspawn

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#5: Oct 2nd 2010 at 8:26:35 PM

^ but that's the trope its someone getting their back washed (or whatever) but the girl decides to use their breasts to do the action.

edited 2nd Oct '10 8:26:48 PM by Raso

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#6: Oct 2nd 2010 at 8:28:27 PM

Sorry, this is what I get for posting while talking to someone. I edited it to say what I meant. Breast Scrubber makes me picture some guy scrubbing a woman's tits.

edited 2nd Oct '10 8:29:23 PM by shimaspawn

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DRCEQ Since: Oct, 2009
#7: Oct 2nd 2010 at 8:30:47 PM

If we can have Scrubbing Bubbles brand toilet cleaner, then why not Scrubbing Boobies brand body cleaner? :p

I know, that's just horrible.

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#8: Oct 2nd 2010 at 8:31:34 PM

Ahh I guess I can see that... hmmm maybe My Breasts Shail Be My Scrubber? (ok that reminds me of Yugioh Abridged) or No Scrubber But I Got Boobs

EDIT: ^ ahaha

edited 2nd Oct '10 8:44:28 PM by Raso

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#11: Oct 2nd 2010 at 10:45:29 PM

I guessed correctly... but that might be because I saw it passing through YKTTW.

Not sure I like the rename either. Looking at the examples this is not limited to breasts.

edited 2nd Oct '10 10:46:15 PM by Sackett

Rhatahema Since: Sep, 2010
#12: Oct 3rd 2010 at 12:09:04 AM

^Well that is the limitation imposed by the description.

Is this common enough to justify its own trope page? Also, for being described as an anime trope, only 4 of the 8 entries are in that catagory. Should it be reworked to include any example of intimacy through washing? (Woman In The Dunes comes to mind.)

DRCEQ Since: Oct, 2009
#13: Oct 3rd 2010 at 12:12:53 AM

^ First and foremost, shouldn't Anime & Manga be at the top of the list on an "Anime" trope? If anything (and it should be at the top of the list btw,) the trope should be edited to say it originated as a trope from anime.

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#14: Oct 3rd 2010 at 1:21:01 AM

I knew what it was instantly(in fact I haven't even looked at the page yet). A long time staple of anime, manga, and soaplands, though perhaps not the type that people are keen to admit to reading.

edited 3rd Oct '10 1:21:18 AM by Daremo

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#15: Oct 3rd 2010 at 7:08:08 AM

My only issue is with the examples. The NYPD example isn't this. She washes him in an interesting place, but not with her chest. And Menage A Trois scene is just two girls in a shower one of whom is holding a bath scrubber. I don't know that the rest of the examples are much better, but I don't know the series to comment. I mean the Kodomo No Jikan is talking about pubic hair. Last I checked, you didn't have that on your tits. This means that at least a quarter of the tropes examples are bad. I know there aren't many, but it's a tiny number to start with.

edited 3rd Oct '10 7:10:37 AM by shimaspawn

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#16: Oct 3rd 2010 at 10:48:56 AM

Between the "anime trope", the overly-coy description, and the fact that the examples are over the place, I think this needs far more than a rename.

It needs a clear description to decide what it is, exactly (just a girl using her breasts to scrub the guys back? intimate showering in general? just when it's used as a ship-tease?), first and foremost.

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#17: Oct 3rd 2010 at 10:52:06 AM

The whole Breasts squished into the back as a tease is really common in Anime and other mediums. (Its got to be a trope already?).

edited 25th May '14 8:05:16 AM by FastEddie

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#18: Oct 3rd 2010 at 12:19:35 PM

It's a common tease in Western media as well. It should not be written to sound like anime is the main place it's used. And this isn't just breasts-to-back whatever the circumstances. It's very specifically "rubbing her breasts against the other person's back under the pretext of scrubbing their back."

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#19: Oct 3rd 2010 at 12:28:21 PM

Yeah your right I am surprised that there isnt one thats breasts on the back which gets the guy going trope (bad summary) and yeah bad picture I forgot about the whole intentional thing.

edited 3rd Oct '10 5:26:54 PM by Raso

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#20: Oct 3rd 2010 at 5:05:30 PM

Maybe you're thinking of a subtrope of Thanks for the Mammary?

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#21: Oct 3rd 2010 at 5:09:30 PM

It might be a sub trope Thanks for the Mammary is a unintentional breast grab (atleast I always thought so). while I was thinking of was more of when say a woman gives the guy a hug from behind and presses their breasts on his back as a tease (mostly).

EDIT: on Thanks for the Mammary it lists this as its super trope? "Super-Trope to Body Sponge."

edited 3rd Oct '10 5:27:02 PM by Raso

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johnnye Since: Jan, 2001
#22: Oct 3rd 2010 at 7:29:38 PM

How about Intimate Bathing? We already have Shower of Love, but we could make a distinction between "actually washing someone, but in a sexual way" and "having sex in a shower".

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#23: Oct 3rd 2010 at 10:08:11 PM

That might be the better way to go, having Intimate Bathing as the trope with the Body Sponge examples as a specific type.

edited 3rd Oct '10 10:08:37 PM by Willbyr

DRCEQ Since: Oct, 2009
#24: Oct 11th 2010 at 12:48:03 AM

Bumping this up in the interests of getting it renamed.

redlar Since: Jul, 2009
#25: Nov 20th 2010 at 7:10:46 PM

After reading the trope, I understood what it was. This is a terrible name. I do think it's pretty clear what the trope is about though; a girl asking to "wash" a guy she likes.

Now, about an alternate name: I was going to put an alternate name here, but I couldn't come up with a good one. Sorry.

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