D-Cup Distress Narrator

Basic Trope: Buxom is not better, at least for this girl.

Straight: Alice is a D-Cup. She hates this and tries to downplay her proportions as much as possible. Exaggerated: Alice has breast hypertrophy, giving her breasts your average superheroine would be jealous of. And Alice would let them have it, because she can barely function in normal life due to her supermassive bust. Downplayed: Alice complains about her large chest while doing things like shopping for bras or long-distance running, but for the most part she doesn't draw attention to it. Justified: If one lacks muscle training for the back, big breasts can put a serious strain on it, and can cause chronic pain or possible spine deformation. A flat-chested woman or girl might believe there are social downsides to lacking upper-torso curves, but at least her chest will never give actual health problems. Alice can't afford the custom clothes and bras needed to accommodate her enormous breasts. She would be forced to wear regular ones regardless of discomfort or risk of tearing the clothes or not wearing anything under them. People assume that Alice is promiscuous due to her large breasts. Even when Alice convinces others that she is not promiscuous, many still use the ample breast size as an excuse to slut shame and generally bully her. Authority figures assume that having a huge chest means Alice was asking for said harassment. Alice’s breasts often attract attention from either jealous women or smitten men, and this results in emotional discomfort for Alice. Alice enjoys physical activities like running and jump-roping, and if she doesn't use horrendously expensive custom bras, her breasts will bounce around uncomfortably, wreak absolute havoc on her sense of balance, and give any passing boys/lesbians an entirely unwanted show. Alice is actually underage and she isn't ready for intercourse with older men who pay attention to her breasts yet. Alice thinks being busty makes her look fat, and when her breasts are bulging out from her clothes or her bra, it becomes a Misery Trigger of Does This Make Me Look Fat? Big breasts are just a part of Alice's overall problem. For starters, he'd prefer it if you called him Alex. Inverted: Alice considers her big boobs to be her most attractive feature. Alice is small-breasted and unhappy about it. Alice is proud of her small bust. Subverted: Someone suggests this might be true, but Alice doesn't seem to mind having a large chest. Alice at first seems to complain about her breasts, but it turns out that she actually thought of those as good points. Double subverted: Alice brushes off complaints in public, but that's just so she doesn't get mocked for daring to hate what other people think would be awesome. Sarcasm about her situation is the only way she can cope. Parodied: Alice seems to have A-Cup Angst because her breast size is the smallest of the group... but nope, turns out she thinks that her breasts are too big. Alice has a crush on a pedophilic guy who keeps chasing an A-Cup Angst girl or a Straw Misogynist who hates everyone who looks female, so she wants a flatter chest to please him. Alice goes bonkers whenever she hears the word "bust", even when it's used in a context that clearly has nothing to do with her, or even breasts in general ('drug bust', 'bust' in the sense of 'a sculpture of someone's head and upper chest', et cetera). Alice is a Straw Feminist who thinks all men who look at her must predatorily stare at her breasts without any consent. All girls in this work have the same breast size and body type, but Alice still thinks her breasts are too big. Zig-zagged: Some days she is unhappy with her big breasts. Other days, she doesn't mind at all. Averted: Alice never has any issues regarding her bust size or she is average sized/smaller. Enforced: Alice was originally designed to appeal to the Male Gaze. Later writers hated her being a blatant Ms. Fanservice or even doesn't want her to be too promiscuous, and so added insecurities around her bust size to give her some more depth. Lampshaded: "People who think they'd like stupidly big breasts have obviously never actually had to deal with them. The backaches suck, the male attention gets tiresome, and frankly I just want them gone." Invoked: Alice formerly had Big-Breast Pride, but a small-breasted character insults Alice's breasts to take her down a notch. Alice formerly had Big-Breast Pride, but eventually becomes jealous of small-breasted characters. Exploited: Alice is challenged by a small-breasted rival. Alice knows her endowment puts her at a disadvantage so she tries but loses or just gives up. Defied: Alice gets a reduction rather than angst about it. Alice decides to power through her angst and gives herself a reason to be proud of her breasts. Her boyfriend Bob loves Alice's breasts and makes her feel better about them. Discussed: "It's sort of funny how ladies tend to get so flustered over something as insubstantial as their cup size." Conversed: "Why is she so unhappy about her big breasts? She's attractive to men." "Maybe she's a lesbian, or just doesn't want to attract the attention of the sort of men who only give girls the time of day if they're busty." Implied: Alice looks down at her (ample) chest and frowns. Deconstructed: Alice finds no comfort from her jealous smaller chested friends, and only Innocently Insensitive remarks from those that like her large chest commending her on all the things she hates about them. Now she wants nothing more than to be rid of them if only so everyone could just clam up about the subject and let her be. Alice finds out that the only way to lose her breast size is by losing weight, so she undergoes a strict, serious diet and ends up destroying her health via malnutrition and/or excessive exercise. "Alex" initially thinks wanting smaller breasts is a sign of being transgender, but after actual breast removal and a few amounts of hormone therapy, it turns out that she doesn't actually want to be a man for the rest of her life, and her missing breasts delve her into A-Cup Angst instead. Reconstructed: She finally finds a supportive person who truly accepts her as her heart, not just her breast. And then, she finally discovers a shop that has bras of her size, learns to accept herself, builds her own confidence, starts wearing form-fitting clothes for her own pleasure despite negative or pervert reactions, and delves into a few degrees of Big-Breast Pride. Alice gets a reduction from an overly-large one to a more moderate size, and it makes her life and her activities more convenient. Alice discovers breast cancer survivors who remove whole breasts to save their life through a documentary and a body positivity ad, so she stops treating her accidentally missing breasts as a weird thing. Alex discovers that they're actually nonbinary, which can be justified why they reject both womanhood and manhood at the same time. Played for laughs: Alice isn't insecure about her breast size or is prideful about them, but something makes her temporarily lament her breasts hindering her. Her complaints about her breasts act as a springboard for A-Cup Angst jokes. Played for drama: Despite all the downsides of her large breasts, Alice can never find anyone who takes her problems seriously, which drives her into a downward spiral.

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Meme of The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You hates having large breasts because they make her more noticeable, and she's terrified of being noticed. Unfortunately for her, she's pretty stacked even when she wears a minimizer. In an early chapter of Ai Kora, Yukari becomes self-conscious about her ample bosom and tries wearing a "breast-reduction" bra, which is really just a regular bra that's several sizes too small being sold by an unscrupulous salesman. Hachibei is more interested in Yukari's breasts for their shape rather than their size, but when he finds out what happened he talks Yukari into accepting her body (and secretly takes the time to inflict some righteous retribution on the salesman who preyed on her insecurities). Maria Ortega from Aoi House is embarrassed by her large chest, so much that she ran off crying when Alex talked to Sandy about her... not realizing that he's within earshot of her. Azumanga Daioh: Sakaki's breasts are a constant source of awe to her friends, which has made her self-conscious about them. So it usually causes her embarrassment whenever they call attention to her chest. This ties into her general complex about being seen as a cool, tall Aloof Dark-Haired Girl when she'd rather be smaller and cuter. B Gata H Kei: While Yamada (and the other girls, to some extent) is always jealous of Takeshita's large bust, Takeshita has pointed out that: boys talk to her chest, she has back pains, her large breasts get in the way in PE class, she's constantly ogled and commented upon, people assume that she's stupid because she's busty, it's hard finding bras that fit, and during the summer she gets painful underboob rashes from all the sweat that gathers there. Blue Eyes: Maria at one point comments that the size of her breasts is embarrassing. Never mind how many other girls have just as or even larger breasts than hers. Hacchi from Bokura no Hentai had this in elementary. She was One of the Boys but hit puberty early. Suddenly her male friends didn't want to play with her and everyone treated her differently due to her chest. In the Hot Springs Episode of Brave10, Isanami is envious of Anastasia's breasts, but Ana, being practical says she'd rather be small-breasted because it's less uncomfortable and it would be easier for her as a Ninja. Lee Kim-soon, a government agent and martial artist from The Breaker: New Waves hates her large breasts. In the side story chapters 9.5 and 19.5, she limited her martial arts training to practicing just one type of kick because she hates the way her breasts jiggle if she uses any other martial arts moves. She even said she planned on using her bonus pay from one mission to get breast reduction surgery. A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun: Half the girls in the cast complain about the back problems and other issues that arise from their large chests. Of course, the other half are suffering from A-Cup Angst, so they grumble that the bigger girls are just trying to humble brag. Mikagami Nagisa, who can adjust fat in a body, gives a girl enormous boobs that she asked for as a reward for helping Nagisa... and a few days later, the poor girl is already asking to go back to normal, because her back hurts and she's tripping over everything because she can't see her own feet. Nagisa, for her part, keeps her chest at a modest B-cup, which says quite a bit about how much value she sees in giant boobs. D-Frag!: Takao's are so big that attempting to pull up the zipper on her tracksuit caused the zipper to break and fly off like a bullet. The incident garners the cheers of the entire crowd, while Takao turns beet red in embarrassment. (Later it turns out that the size of the tracksuit was too small.) Fairy Tail: Invoked and parodied in a "Freaky Friday" Flip filler. Lucy herself never complains about her large breasts, but when Gray ends up in her body, he immediately notes that her back is terribly sore. In the actual series, Wendy finds herself having to use a spell to transfer her mind into that of Irene Belserion after the later pulls a Grand Theft Me on her own body. While Wendy is happy to finally know what having large breasts feels like, she does note that they are pretty heavy before switching them back. Shiori from FullMaPla often complains about how her large breasts cause her back pain, much to Makoto's annoyance. Futari Ecchi: Misaki Manaka has a very large chest (G-Cup, at least!), but it's clear that she isn't all too happy about them. The author even focused a chapter on all the problems her large breasts cause her: Their weight causes sore shoulders and backaches, with her also subconsciously resting her breasts on surfaces to alleviate the pains, and running is very uncomfortable due to bouncing and rubbing of the fabric against her nipples. She has difficulty finding bras that are the right size, she gets a lot of unwanted attention from men and gets mocked by women, or even slut-shamed for their size. Yuki Ushimaru of Gakuen Babysitters normally defies this trope despite clearly being more well-endowed than the other girls in her class. It only comes up when Kirin pats and nuzzles her breasts because they remind her of her mother's, much to Yuki's horror and embarrassmentnote . Of course, the distress probably has less to do with her breasts on their own and more to do with them being fondled by a toddler. One short story in Good Luck Girl! has Momiji forcibly switch bodies with Ichiko, in order to ruin her reputation. Before leaving Momiji brags about how awesome it is to have big breasts only to come back about a minute later to complain about how burdensome large breasts are and tell Ichiko she feels sorry for her. Still doesn't stop her from wanting big breasts, however. In Gou-dere Bishoujo Nagihara Sora, Sora uses her powers to perform Breast Expansion on Tenka. She doesn't like it and begs Sora to undo it, but she refuses and doesn't understand why anybody would not appreciate it. The new breasts weigh Tenka down and hurt when she tries to run or practice martial arts. To make matters worse, her martial arts teacher turns out to be an asshole who only trained her because he had a fetish for flat-chested girls. Once she gets her new breasts, he declares he sees no value in her now, expels her from the dojo, backhands her to the ground, and almost beats her up before the others save her. Tenka eventually decides to keep her breasts when she gets a crush on Shouta, whom Sora claimed liked large breasts. Great Teacher Onizuka: Tomoko has the biggest boobs in her class and it's making her miserable; she's still a child at heart and not at all ready for the attention they get her. Yae from Hanjuku Joshi really hates having large breasts, even wearing a painfully small bra in an attempt to flatten them down. In Hetalia: Axis Powers, Russia says in the Anime that Ukraine doesn't like her breasts because they make her back hurt. Ikki Tousen: At one point during the manga's first bonus chapter, Hakufu (or Mouki, as she's called then) complains about her bust size, to which her friends say they sort of noticed, causing her to blush wordlessly. Later in the same chapter, she comments that she "doesn't recall having these before," and tells someone ogling her that he's "making her five kinds of self-conscious." Kamen no Maid Guy: Naeka Fujiwara resents her breasts, especially in episode 2 since they apparently make her bad at math. They are so enormous and invasive that not even an iron breastplate can keep them contained. Miu Fuurinji in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple laments her size, mostly due to how it interferes with her being a martial artist. The fact that several characters call her a dairy cow contributes to this. Motoko Aoyama of Love Hina gripes at one point that, since her breasts are so big already and still growing, it makes it harder for her to wrap her sarashi. To add context, she's a Huge Schoolgirl devoted to kendo and (for the most part) Does Not Like Men: three reasons she sees her breasts as a burden. In the Lyrical Nanoha series, Signum is normally indifferent to her large breasts - but she does get embarrassed when Hayate wants to grope them. She also gets into an uncharacteristic fight with Vita when the latter calls her "Boob Demon." Yamraiha from Magi: Labyrinth of Magic complains that the weight of her breasts makes her shoulders stiff. In Maka-Maka, Nene is insecure about the size of her breasts. She started designing clothes and studying fashion after she could never find clothes that fit her. Oiso from Manyu Hikencho is notable for being one of the few large-breasted women in the series to hate her breasts. She was formerly her village's best diver but her breasts grow so large that they got in the way of her diving. When Chifusa ends up having to use the breast-absorbing technique on her, shrinking Oiso's breasts, Oiso is grateful. Downplayed with Centorea from Monster Musume. She doesn't show much resentment towards her ample chest (it being a centaur racial trait), but she gets embarrassed whenever people bring attention to it. She also is utterly incapable of finding a bra that will survive her boobs, which becomes a plot point when she engages in a jousting match with her mother and is handicapped because her boobs bouncing throws off her center of balance. My Dress-Up Darling: Shinju Inui is a Huge Schoolgirl, who aside from being extremely tall for a middle schooler also has a very large bust. Aside from the obvious insecurities that stem from this, she wants to do cosplay of a male character, meaning that her breasts get in the way of making it convincing enough. Mai Tokiha from My-HiME started with this trope: primarily because she was an early bloomer who was pretty much forced to wear a bra when she was only ten (as she explained in the first episode's omake). But due to her stubborn streak and the fact she had no mother, she soon grew out of it and developed Big-Breast Pride; as she put it, she wanted to walk proud, "with my chest out and my head held high." My Wife is the Student Council President: Rin Misumi is notable for having a curvaceous figure for a girl her age, especially her breasts. But she confides to Izumi that they've caused her "nothing but trouble" because of the rumor being spread around school that she allegedly used her chest to steal another girl's boyfriend. It was a false accusation since Rin wasn't even aware of him until after the breakup, and said she still turned him down. Implied once in a while with Hinata from Naruto, who gained a quite curvy figure after the Time Skip. In one of the chapters leading up to Road To Ninja, she is in the onsen...and is greatly embarrassed when her breasts keep floating up in the water. Yuna from Negima! Magister Negi Magi is annoyed about her bust growing since it gets in the way of playing basketball. The titular nurse of Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary is less enthusiastic about her large bust than everyone else. Roxy Simpson from Planetes has "a complex about her breasts" as Tanabe puts it. Planetes being a highly realistic and mature series, this is one of those rare examples where this trope is played rather seriously. Roxy works as a receptionist and the way men keep harassing her and asking her on dates makes her worried that she looks slutty. The fact that she used to be a prostitute doesn't help. Shii of Puni Puni☆Poemi has an absolutely enormous chest, large enough that she has to set them down on things around the house to keep from falling over, including the title character's head and she apparently once smothered the cat. When each of the family members gets an Imagine Spot for what they'd wish for with Puni Puni Poemi's magical powers, Shii's spot shows a flat-chested version of herself. A more downplayed version appeared in Servant × Service, where Yamagami is actually relieved that Chihaya guessed her chest puppies' size to be merely F-Cup! Natsumi Hinata from Sgt. Frog is reminded more often that she'd like that (usually by the lesbians stalking her) she's more well-endowed than average and seems to think they're more a burden than a blessing. One of her fears is that she'll "end up a mutant like mom" and the effects of Kururu's age-changing beam in volume three indicate that this is indeed destined to be her terrible fate. (Doesn't stop her from wearing bikinis, though.) Morino from Toshiue no Hito was hounded by boys when her breasts grew and was even sexually harassed at university before Tsutomu stepped in to save her. When they broke up and Ageha came on the scene, she tried her best to use her sex appeal to win him back first, leading to angst when she was harassed (and saved) again. To Strip the Flesh: Chiaki, as a transgender man, understandably hates his large bust and has a dream sequence of them getting removed. Unbreakable Machine-Doll: In another one of her angry fits with Raishin, Charlotte makes the assumption that he prefers large-breasted women like Freya and calls her "Ms. Mamories" in the process. Freya, taking insult to that, tells her that bigger doesn't always mean better and lists all the problems with having large breasts, to which Charlotte somehow takes that as offensive teasing, not seeing the downsides at all while under the belief that there's not a single good thing about having a flat chest. For the majority of UQ Holder!, Karin doesn't seem all that bothered about being one of the more well-endowed characters, but late into the series when she reunites with the protagonist Touta after 45 years of floating through space, she asks him if he doesn't like big boobs. He had previously told her under a Truth Serum that he appreciated how big they were, so the most likely explanation is that Karin is just really insecure, seeing as her true identity is Judas Iscariot. Variable Geo: In her opening scene, Yuka gets depressed when she sees that another of her uniform shirts has become too tight in the chest again because her already large breasts are still growing. Having little to ask for after the first two wishes granted by her Deal with the Devil, Snark from The Voynich Hotel decides to wish for large breasts, just to know how it feels to have them. She ends up quickly regretting it once they fail to get her the man she wants and realizes how much of a load they are on her back. Miss Aoshika from Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest has had large breasts since the time she was a teenager, and they've attracted her a lot of unwanted attention (and what's more, people tend to claim that she's "asking for it" due to her figure). Furutani Himawari of YuruYuri is notably stacked for a 13-year-old and does not enjoy it as she feels it alienates her from her classmates and brings unwanted attention. Not to mention it drives her best friend Sakurako nuts. Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs: Both Nonko and Sagiri downplay this: Nonko isn't that bothered about the size of her chest, but she does ask Koyuzu to use transformation to make her breasts smaller at one point because they get in the way when she's drawing manga. While Sagiri doesn't completely hate her chest size, she is bothered by the fact it seems to be increasing and the weight of her chest limits her speed during her missions. When Koyuzu turns her chest smaller, Sagiri actually prefers how much lighter it is. Chisaki, on the other hand, plays the trope straight. She doesn't like having big breasts because of all the unwanted attention they attract.

To be truly "Godly", it is best that a female have a "boyish", that is, non-adult female body, while having a feminine presentation. [...] Because the sex characteristics of a grown woman are evil and dangerous.

I got them heavy boobs, heavy boobs, Dense like dying stars. I got them heavy boobs, heavy boobs, I can't run real far. Let me break down what I just said: Each of my double D's has the volume of a toddler's head. Not bitchin' bout my boobies They look super fly in shirts But if I swung them in your face You'd be like "Oh my god that hurts. I'm blind. Holy crap. I literally can't see. I have permanent retinal damage. I'm suing you and your heavy boobies."

Yuka: (looks down after buttoning her shirt) "Oh NO....!" (camera zooms in on her boobs, showing stretched gaps between the buttons) Yuka: (now with waterfall tears) "Another one of my shirts is too tight."

Asuka: Why do you insist on fondling mine when you've got your own? Katsuragi: A little groping never hurt anyone. Might even make 'em grow a cup size or two! Asuka: I don't want 'em bigger! In fact, I wish they were smaller! Katsuragi: You would trade these out for booblets? Asuka: Yeah, in a heartbeat! — Senran Kagura Tahani: Couture just doesn't fit my body. I'm cursed with ample bosom. Eleanor: And yet you soldier on.

"I spent most of my time at parties trying to convince women that I hated myself, then had social hangovers about those conversations."

"Tall with big breasts isn't cute at all... Uu~..."

Peter: This is silly, I carn even see my feet now. Hope: You should worry, I haven't seen mine since I was thirteen!