Barely-There Swimwear Narrator

Basic Trope: Swimwear that doesn't cover much of your body. Straight: Alice wears swimwear that only covers her boobs and crotch. Exaggerated: Alice wears seashell bras that don't even completely cover her boobs. Downplayed: Alice wears either a sleeveless vest or a bikini that completely covers her torso and leaves the rest of her body exposed. Bob wears a bathing suit that only covers his crotch and upper legs. Justified: Alice is trying to attract attention. The only swimwear available to Alice is extremely skimpy. Inverted: Alice wears a full-body wetsuit that only leaves her head, neck, hands, and feet exposed whenever she's either casually swimming in the nearby seawater, teaching Bob (her son) how to swim, surfing, going for a walk on the beach, observing other people's activities on the beach, or laying down on the beach with Bob to cuddle him and help him take naps, and whenever she dives beneath the seawater to film the daily lives of various marine creatures, Alice then wears a full-body wetsuit that only leaves her face exposed (together with goggles, artificial respiration gear, and flippers). Subverted: Alice is mentions to have skimpy swimsuits, but she shows up in either a wetsuit or a normal long-sleeved shirt, jeans, and bare feet. Double Subverted: Alice then takes the wetsuit/regular clothes off to reveal skimpy swimwear underneath. Parodied: Alice was forced to buy the swimsuit due to it being the only one available, and is embarrassed by the attention she gets. Alice loses the swimsuit, but it covered so little nobody notices, not even herself. Averted: Alice wears goggles, artificial respiration gear, and flippers with her sleeveless vest/bikini to avoid having too much of her skin being visible at one time. Bob wears a waterproof shirt with his bathing suit to prevent his upper body from being visible. Defied: Alice goes naked. Bob doesn't like seeing women and girls (including his mother Alice) in skimpy swimwear, so he burns seashell bras, bikinis, and other types of skimpy swimwear with a flamethrower on sight and leaves full-body wetsuits that only leave the women and girls' heads, necks, hands, and feet exposed, other full-body wetsuits that only leave their faces exposed, goggles, artificial respiration gear, and flippers completely alone. Zigzagged: Some people on the beach wear either swimwear that only covers their boobs and crotches or seashell bras that don't even completely cover their boobs. Others wear either sleeveless vests, bikinis, waterproof shirts, or bathing suits, and the rest wear full-body wetsuits that either only leave their heads, necks, hands, and feet exposed or only leave their faces exposed (together with goggles, artificial respiration gear, and flippers). Enforced: Studio executives are well aware of the amount of fanservice that skimpy swimwear often provides, so they make Alice wear skimpy swimwear to invoke Male Gaze. Lampshaded: "Have you ever noticed how women and girls often enjoy walking around in skimpy swimwear whenever they're on the beach?" Discussed: "The reason why women and girls often wear skimpy swimwear is because they wanna show off their bodies to their male friends." Conversed: "It sure is nice whenever we get to see women and girls in skimpy swimwear." Invoked: Brittany gets Alice to buy a skimpy swimsuit and steals her other swimwear so she has to wear that to the beach. Exploited: Brittany takes photos of Alice in her swimsuit to humiliate her. Played for Laughs: Alice wears skimpy swimwear that also has writing telling people to look at her on it. Played for Drama: While battling Emperor Evulz and his countless mooks on the beach, Alice wears skimpy swimwear to avoid being needlessly weighed down in the nearby seawater. Played for Horror: Alice wears skimpy swimwear to show off her Vagina Dentata, boobs armed with mouths of their own, and other forms of Body Horror. Implied: Bob hears rumors about Alice always wearing skimpy swimwear, so he goes to the beach in anticipation of Alice doing exactly that. Deconstructed: Whenever Alice wears skimpy swimwear, Emperor Evulz and his countless mooks use the occasion as an opportunity to exploit Alice's lack of proper protection against their attacks, and once they manage to hit her, she quickly dies. Reconstructed: But then, Alice realizes she can also remove her skimpy swimwear and blind her enemies by covering their eyes with it, allowing her to survive and save the day.

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For the Beach Episode of Ayakashi Triangle, Reo modifies her team's ninja suits into Chainmail Bikinis. Her own top shows more than half of her breasts and both her and Matsuri's bottoms are microthongs, though Soga just got swim trunks. Since Reo did the change instantly without explaining in advance, Matsuri and Soga are very surprised. Matsuri: (cover chest with arms) What the heck is this?! In episode 40 of the anime adaptation of Black Clover, Noelle is purchasing swimsuit. Klaus, who entered the store having heard Noelle scream, asks what she and Vanessa were doing there. Vanessa states that they were looking for a swimsuit for Noelle, lamenting some that she had offered one of her own swimsuits to Noelle. Along with a shot of what it looked like, Noelle exclaims that it was just strings. Bleach: In the Beach Episode based on the manga omakes, the women are shopping for swimwear and Isane is mourning the fact all the cute costumes are for shorter women. Her sister Kiyone finds her a swimsuit that she can wear, the catch being that it's entirely too revealing and skimpy for Isane to even contemplate wearing it. Her captain, Unohana, intervenes and takes Kiyone's side, further shocking Isane. Then she reveals the swimming costume she's going to wear... and even Kiyone's jaw hits the floor. Only Isane's and Unohana's swimwear are commented on in-universe. In Buso Renkin, Papillon's swimwear is a black mankini a bit sleeker than the famous lime-green one in Borat that draws this reaction from bystanders as it is less concealing than the normal Speedo, since it leaves virtually his whole ass hanging out, other than one narrow strip, with no side coverage whatever. In some other non-beach scenes, he wears a particularly skimpy pair of Speedos that usually covers much more In episode 15, Touma's mother wears incredibly scant swimwear, much to his horror and his father's delight. Especially since Touma's seeing her as Index. In the beach / pool episode of A Certain Scientific Railgun, Kuroko chooses one of these◊ out for herself. She lacks the typical voluptuous body-type usually seen with this trope, although Rule 34 was quick to pick it up and run with it all the same. In the Railgun SS novel, Xochitl asks Saten to get her a swimsuit. Saten gives her one◊ that greatly embarrasses Xochitl with how revealing it is. In New Testament Vol. 8, Lessar asks Touma which swimsuit she should buy, the one that is just a bunch of wires in the shape of a bikini or the one-piece that turns transparent when wet. Touma gets flustered but tells her to wear one over the other. The combination makes it look modest. In the uncensored version of the second chapter of The Electric Tale of Pikachu, Misty is wearing a swimsuit that is basically a few strategically-covering strips of material. Ash ends up staring so much she belts him in the face with a Shellder. Encouragement of Climb: Aoi goes shopping for swimsuits, and each is more revealing than the previous one "It's just strings!" When she picks up the last hangar, "a swimsuit you can't even see!" Then Aoi realizes that it's just an empty swimsuit-shaped hangar. Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Tatsuko tries to buy one of these, prompting screams of "Stop that exhibitionist!" and "She's kiddie porn walking!" from her classmates as they tackle her to the ground to stop her. Illya's classmates try to convince her to buy a swimsuit that looks like a bunch of strings, but she refuses. In Freezing, Attia convinces Satellizer to put on a one-piece that looks like a bunch of white straps. She reluctantly agrees, and the boys go wild. They go even wilder when Attia's prank is revealed: the suit's material turns transparent in bright light. She essentially has a Naked Freak-Out. Girlfriend, Girlfriend: While shopping out for swimsuits for a beach trip to Okinawa, the girls allow Naoya to pick for them. While Shino tries to pick a relatively modest one, Saki steps up and says that "iron-boards need to wear microbikinis". Shino complains that it almost covers nothing, which Saki retorts that's the point, earning her a chop to the head. In the end, she picks a blue bikini that Naoya chose for her. Girls Bravo: The rules of Fukuyama's private "Girls Fight!" competition make it mandatory for all combatants to wear progressively smaller swimsuits as they advance in the rankings. By the time of the semi-final match between Kirie and Kosame, they each have to wear thong string bikinis. Kirie: [angrily at Fukuyama] Why the hell do they get lunch, while I GET A THONG?! Fukuyama: [over the PA system] How's this for a reason: BECAUSE IT's TOTALLY KINKY!! Yoshinoya models one of these in Hidamari Sketch. Remarkable for a "safe" Slice of Life anime. In Higurashi: When They Cry Rei's Pool Episode, Miyo Takano sports an outrageously revealing tiger bikini.◊ Similarly-endowed Mion wonders why "it's not against the law to have boobs that big." In How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?, when competing at the Miss Muscle Island competition, Ayaka wears a swimsuit so barely there that they blur it out... and promptly gets disqualified over it. In Kämpfer, Female Natsuru and Akane are forced to wear impossibly skimpy suits in front of an entire classroom. The Kanokon Beach Episode has Nozomu try to pass off three bandages (two little ones and a big one) as a swimsuit. Oblivious as to why the other girls object to it, she (or rather Chizuru) is eventually forced to purchase a more normal swimsuit at said beach. Kengan Ashura has an omake strip where Kaede, Kokomi and Rino are shopping for swimsuits, and the latter two pick swim wears that are barely more than a few pieces of threads that probably won't cover up anything, to Kaede's horror. In Mazinkaiser, Lori and Roll wear a one piece that can be described as "two postage stamps and some dental floss." Of course, it's a Go Nagai series, so what's to be expected of it? Unsurprisingly, Kouji (and his little brother, Shiro) are head-over-heels gaa-gaa over it and Sayaka is none too pleased. Maken-ki!: At the start of chapter 74, Haruko and Ms. Aki find themselves mysteriously transported from the Ooyama's bathhouse, to the surrounding forest, without any clothes. So Aki whips up a pair of leaf bikinis for them to wear. When Haruko notes how revealing they are, Aki figured she'd say so and shows her the grass skirt she made to go with it.... except it was more like a lei. In Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Lucoa gets into trouble twice for indecent exposure at the beach and Comiket due to how much skin she is exposing, and causing her to get dragged out of the scene both times. First time she is wearing a string bikini, second time something with barely more coverage. Lucoa: The best thing about swimsuits is that you can boldly show off more flesh. Employee: No, that's not allowed. My Love Story!!: For a beach episode, Rinko and her friends are purchasing new swimsuits. Innocent Rinko shows her friends a couple of risque bathing costumes, much to their horror; they help her pick out a more modest but still very flattering suit. During a couples' costume contest in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, for the swimsuit portion, a girl puts on a skimpy piece that gives her partner a Nosebleed. In Chapter 27 of Omamori Himari, Shizuku of all people is wearing an extremely skimpy bikini (this also answers the age-old question just how these sling bikinis look like from the backside). In the anime of Ouran High School Host Club, the host club goes to a (fake) tropical getaway, and the twins' maids try to get Haruhi into a swimsuit. One of the bikinis they show her is made only of several thin strips of cloth, causing her to loudly protest, "That's just a bunch of strings!" It's not clear how one would even put on such a suit... Kasumi's skimpy bikini in the Ranma ½ anime Beach Episode "Battle for Miss Beachside" comes as a shock to her sister Akane, as this isn't what you'd expect from a Yamato Nadeshiko like Kasumi. It still isn't as small as the one worn by Kodachi,◊ however, to her brother's desperation. Ruby's swimsuit in Rosario + Vampire Season 2, with witnesses saying it's just a string. In So, I Can't Play H!'s OVA, the school holds a swimsuit contest. Quele tries to coax the shy Mina into participating and makes her try several swimsuits to show her she has nothing to be ashamed of. They are all so skimpy that Mina gets very uncomfortable, and the last one makes her shriek and cover her privates with her hands. The Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann series has an interesting inversion, when the other cast members note that Yoko's swimsuit is less revealing than her normal outfit. Kittan even yells at her that the more skin she shows, the better; he gets her sniper rifle's barrel in his face for his trouble. A few seconds later, every single male in sight gets a nosebleed from resident Kawaiiko Nia's conservative one-piece, despite her being barely into her teens and not much of a body to show off. Kittan immediately remarks, "Truly, it is better to conceal than to reveal." Cue Cross-Popping Veins from Yoko. In Tomo-chan Is a Girl!, when the girls go to get Tomo a swimsuit for the beach, she sees an example of this trope and flips out. She ends up in a fairly modest bikini top and shorts combo but still gets embarrassed, mainly because she would have worn something that covered far more of her body if her friends hadn't intervened. Done alarmingly frequently in Archie Comics, considering that it's supposed to be for kids. Artist Dan DeCarlo was an unrivaled master of Fanservice, so there are frequent shots of Veronica being indecent at the beach. One time she even got arrested — as did Cheryl Blossom when she attempted to go topless at another one. In one comic book adaptation of the cartoon version of Beetlejuice, the title character enters Lydia in a beauty pageant. He tries using magic to change her clothes into a swimsuit, going through a few styles, including one that makes her blush and a large sign saying "NOT approved by the Comics Code" appearing to cover her. In Cavewoman: Pool Party, Carrie supplies some swimsuits for the party that don't cover very much: Carrie: Oh no! They seemed a lot bigger in the store... Mona: You've got to be kidding. Carrie: They say "one size fits all" on the tag. Meriem: Yeah, if you're two feet tall. Gemini Storm's 4th issue reveals that during pool parties, this is the standard uniform for the waitresses. Power Girl wore one of these in her 2009 while visiting Atlee's home. She was very embarrassed by its brevity, commenting it looked like a thought balloon, a testament to how skimpy it was considering what she usually wears. In one issue of X-Men (2013), the students are relaxing at a beach when they come under attack by a Sentinel. Hellion just happens to be wearing a very brief pair of swim trunks at the time, and acknowledges that they're probably too short. Jubilee (and frankly the rest of the girls) begs to differ. The furry comic Zu has a story called "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka-dot Bikini (Redux)" where a very nice bunny has a incredibly small (and unseen to the reader) bikini that causes everyone to Wild Take at the sexy sight of her. Her boyfriend, a rather easygoing otter, manages to keep his composure, although the sight of her leaning down is a real test of that. At the end of the story, the bunny girl is charmed that he was trying to keep his dignity, but he loses it in a change room when he finally realizes that while everyone looks at her lustfully, only he, himself, will go home with her! At that, he dances with joy at the incredible sex he's bound to have that night. In a Beetle Bailey strip, someone asks Killer at the beach why a girlfriend isn't wearing the swimsuit he bought her. Killer answers that her father has standards: a swimsuit must be larger than a postage stamp. An early strip involving an islander "volcano virgin" and her overprotective father plays with the trope: apparently he doesn't mind his daughter sacrificing herself to the volcano, as long as she does it in sensible clothing. Father: You call that a sacrificial vestment?! I can see right through it! Virgin: Oh, Daddy, you're so old-fashioned. A somewhat later strip (reprinted 6/6/17) has actress Boopsie mistake the bikini she's supposed to wear for a movie for dental floss. In the 2/18/13 strip of Momma (a reprint from the 1980s) Momma's daughter poses in a new bikini, and Momma says, "...when I had you vaccinated there, I never dreamed it would show — that's what I think!" In the 9/2/12 strip of Rex Morgan, M.D., June Morgan goes shopping for a swimsuit at La Thong, and the file clerk describes their products as "microscopic". This style of swimwear is one of the chief draws of Skinmax-style B-movies like Bikini Carwash Company, Bikini Carwash Company II, The Great Bikini Off-Road Adventure, Beach Babes from Beyond, Savage Beach, Return to Savage Beach, and Day of the Warrior. In Bikini Carwash Company the guys also wear banana hammocks. In most of these, it's more or less irrelevant how much the bikinis cover, because they're going to be coming completely off soon anyway. Borat ends with the very hairy male lead in the famous lime green mankini. It actually covers about as much total skin as bikini/Speedo briefs, but it still manages to look perverted as hell by uncovering skin between leg and torso, including much of the buttocks. A reporter discovered that wearing it on public beaches can get you charged with breaking public decency laws — despite technically showing no more skin than other men on the beach. OK, they're not swimsuits in the traditional sense, but the thong bikinis that Dana Delany's character Mistress Lisa makes the both the male and female guests wear in Exit to Eden count. In My Father the Hero, there's a scene where the father meets up with his daughter poolside with her in a white one-piece swimsuit. Imagine his surprise when she gets up and it's revealed to be a thong bottom.... In one version, a much more modest suit is digitally superimposed, which makes the entire scene farcical as the father character overreacts to a perfectly normal swimsuit. In Piggy (2022), protagonist Sara's already skimpy string bikini looks even skimpier on someone of her weight as Alpha Bitch Maca cruelly points out. And she has to walk home wearing it and nothing else because Maca and her friends steal Sara's clothes. In Six Days, Seven Nights, David Schwimmer's character remarks, "I thought it was an eyepatch!" In Soul Surfer, the bikini that Alana buys. Bethany: Are you kidding? That looks like an eyepatch. The Babysitters Club: In the second book, Stacey's swimsuit is described as "it was skimpy (and we're talking very skimpy) and yellow, with tiny bows at the side of the bottom part". Claudia even mentions that "the top part was filled out pretty nicely". In Citizen Girl, G is given a bikini which she at first mistakes for a necklace, an illusion not helped by the fact that it actually does fit in a jewelry box. In Eagle Strike, Sabina's bikini is described as being "made out of so little material that it hadn't bothered with a pattern". In Naked Came the Stranger, Gillian seduces Morton Earbrow by wearing a swimsuit with "openings in unexpected places" that seems to be held together by shoelaces. In the 1980's action series SOBS, two members of the Heroes "R" Us unit strip off to follow the villains into the water. When the chase ends up back on land, one of them realises his colleague is effectively "bottomless" as he's just wearing a thong. When the embarrassed colleague asks for help covering up, he replies, "And deprive all these tourists of a chance to see the Eighth and Ninth Wonders of the World?" In the classic SF story The Wheels Of If, the Alternate History-hopping protagonist goes to the beach, and finds that people are wearing nothing but a knit strap around the waist. When he tries to go skinny-dipping, the cops show up to arrest him for indecent exposure ("shameful outputting" ... English in this timeline has much less Latinate influence). Turns out he's in a timeline where it's okay to show genitals and nipples in public, but navels are obscene. Mentioned in the last two scenes of Wraith Squadron, when the survivors are enjoying themselves at the beach and the uniform for the day is bathing suits that might generously be called minimal. In the last scene, Commander Wedge Antilles is asked why he's still fully dressed and working, not out in a scrap like his squadron, and says that he'd make them uncomfortable.