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means upskirt
Upskirt

Upskirt is a :slang term usually referring to up skirt photography, images of the view up a woman's skirt , including shots of a woman's underwear or crotch, or exposing her vulva or buttocks....
 in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. The word is a portmanteau of and chira, the Japanese sound symbolism
Japanese sound symbolism

This article describes sound symbolic or mimetic words in the Japanese language. Most languages have such words; for example, "bang", "zap", "ding", "slither", "pop", etc....
 representing a glance or glimpse.

Panchira is an expression used by Japanese women to warn each other that their underwear is visible; the term carries risque connotations similar to the phrase "your slip is showing" in English usage.

In anime
Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
 and manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
, panchira refers to a panty-shot or upskirt take.






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means upskirt
Upskirt

Upskirt is a :slang term usually referring to up skirt photography, images of the view up a woman's skirt , including shots of a woman's underwear or crotch, or exposing her vulva or buttocks....
 in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. The word is a portmanteau of and chira, the Japanese sound symbolism
Japanese sound symbolism

This article describes sound symbolic or mimetic words in the Japanese language. Most languages have such words; for example, "bang", "zap", "ding", "slither", "pop", etc....
 representing a glance or glimpse.

Panchira is an expression used by Japanese women to warn each other that their underwear is visible; the term carries risque connotations similar to the phrase "your slip is showing" in English usage.

In anime
Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
 and manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
, panchira refers to a panty-shot or upskirt take. It has been used extensively by Japanese artists and animators since the early sixties.

According to anecdotal sources in Japan, the convention is believed to have started with Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka

was a Japanese people Mangaka, animator, movie producer and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion....
, whose character designs for Uran
Uran (manga character)

Uran, also known as Astro Girl, Sarah, and Zoran, is a fictional robot from Osamu Tezuka Astro Boy series.Uran is Astro Boy cybernetic sister; a superhuman android with a naive, tomboyish personality....
 ("Astro Girl" in English, from the Astro Boy comic strip (Japanese: Tetsuwan Atom)) incorporated an improbably brief hemline. The practice was transferred to animation when Astro Boy was adapted for television in 1963. Confined mainly to harmless children's series throughout the remainder of the decade, panchira took on more fetishistic elements during the early seventies, most notably in Tezuka's Marvelous Melmo
Marvelous Melmo

is a magical girl manga and anime by Osamu Tezuka. This series centered around Melmo, a nine-year-old girl whose mother is killed in an auto accident and has to then take care of her two younger brothers ....
 (1971), Toei Doga's adaptions of Go Nagai
Go Nagai

is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica.He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating the seminal works Cutie Honey, Devilman, and Mazinger Z in the 1970s....
's Cutey Honey (1973), and Inoue Tomo's Majokko Megu-chan
Majokko Megu-chan

is a Magical girl anime series. The manga was created by Tomo Inoue and Akio Narita, while the 72-episode anime series was produced by Toei Animation between 1974 and 1975....
 (1974). A more recent example is the notorious Agent Aika
Agent Aika

Agent Aika, known in Japan as simply , is an Adventure film anime Original Video Animation series. It is about a Japanese people woman named Aika Sumeragi who works as a salvager for companies that hire her, but gets caught up in a plot for world domination....
 (1997-1999).

From that point on, panchira was inextricably linked with the lewd humor that would, in time, become a staple of Japanese animation and entertainment in general (see Ecchi
Ecchi

Ecchi is derived from a Japanese word meaning "lewd", "sexy", "lascivious", or "naughty" when used as an adjective, or sexual intercourse when used as a noun....
). In the present day, panchira pervades almost every known anime genre, making it - arguably - one of the defining characteristics of the artform. It is particularly prevalent in so-called harem anime
Harem anime

Harem is an informal fan term used to describe a trend in Japanese anime or comics wherein a single average male character is surrounded by three or more attractive females, most of whom are romantically interested in the main character....
, adult romances and hentai
Hentai

is a Japanese language word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornography comics and animation, particularly Japanese anime, manga and Video game ....
.

Indirect Panchira


In what can be viewed as a form of self-referential parody, some anime and related productions feature jokes centered around someone's reaction to off-screen panchira. Examples include:

  • In the panchira-heavy anime Agent Aika
    Agent Aika

    Agent Aika, known in Japan as simply , is an Adventure film anime Original Video Animation series. It is about a Japanese people woman named Aika Sumeragi who works as a salvager for companies that hire her, but gets caught up in a plot for world domination....
    , a man avoids an all-female patrol by hiding under a grate in the floor. After they have walked overhead he emerges with a huge grin and steam coming out of his ears.
  • Blue Seed
    Blue Seed

    is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yuzo Takada. It was anime for broadcast on TV Tokyo in 1994.The story is based on the Izumo cycle of Japanese mythology and the tale of the god Susanoo and the eight-headed monster Yamata no Orochi....
  • Colorful
    Colorful

    is a manga by Torajiro Kishi which was adaptated into a 16 episode anime series. The episodes are composed of Vignette s typically involving men and teenage boys attempting to Panchira and/or look down their blouses....
  • Iketeru Futari
    Iketeru Futari

    is a Japanese anime created by Takashi Sano. The series has 16 episodes, with about 5 1/2 minutes per episode. This anime features fan service and Panchira....
  • Najica Blitz Tactics
    Najica Blitz Tactics

    is an anime television series by Studio Fantasia. It premiered across Japan between October 4 2001 and December 27 2001. The show is similar to that of Agent Aika?both being directed by Katsuhiko Nishijima and animated by Studio Fantasia?with much of the same content....
  • Air Master
    Air Master

    is a seinen manga created by Yokusaru Shibata and serialized in Hakusensha's Young Animal. The story focuses on Maki Aikawa, an ex-gymnast turned streetfighter....
  • Ikki Tousen
    Ikki Tousen

    or "Bakunyu" Hyper-Battle Ikki Tosen is a 13 episode anime series loosely based on the manga by Yuji Shiozaki, which is in turn based on the classic Chinese literature Romance of the Three Kingdoms....
  • Kirameki Project
  • AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission
    AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission

    AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission is an anime OVA series by Studio Fantasia. It is the prequel to the Agent Aika OVA series, also by Studio Fantasia....
  • In an episode of the anime Trigun
    Trigun

    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Nightow, published from 1995 to 2007 and spanning 14 Tankobon.The manga was serialized in Tokuma Shoten's Shonen Captain from the series debut in 1995 until the magazine's demise 1997....
    , a female hostage shoots her captor with a weapon held between her feet, since her hands are tied. The captor's last words are "They were white."
  • In Hayate the Combat Butler
    Hayate the Combat Butler

    is a Japanese manga series, written and illustrated by Mangaka Kenjiro Hata, about a boy who starts a new job as a butler and the events he experiences with his employer....
    , Miki sees Hinagiku changing, and reveals that her panties are orange with frills, and then continues by saying that they're rather cute and don't suit her, although Hinagiku says she likes them.


See also

  • Upskirt
    Upskirt

    Upskirt is a :slang term usually referring to up skirt photography, images of the view up a woman's skirt , including shots of a woman's underwear or crotch, or exposing her vulva or buttocks....
  • Kazuhide Uekusa
    Kazuhide Uekusa

    was born December 18, 1960 in Edogawa, Tokyo, Tokyo. He is a Japanese economist, economic analyst, a former senior economist at Nomura Research Institute, and chairman of the Three-Nations Research Institute....
  • Fan service
    Fan service

    , fanservice, , or simply , is a vaguely-defined term primarily used for Japanese anime and manga to refer to elements that are unnecessary to the storyline....
  • Downblouse