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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2041362" data-attributes="member: 151">It's just an odd cultural thing, I suppose.  I've never found a deep explanation for it.  Mostly, I think, it's a way to allow titillation without showing anything, particularly in a region that anime has long been restricted from showing.That is to say that in Japan, up until recently, showing pubic hair in any form was verbotten, be it in manga, anime, live TV or live movie forms.  It was always a loosely enforced standard, most likely with its roots in the Nationalist movement that had it's origins in pre-WW II Japan, which in turn had it's root in Victorian era.  Drawing a particularly graphic picture in a weekly manga usually resulted in a call down to the local prefectural police house for a short 'don't do that, again' speech.This had a very odd side-effect however, which was the preponderance of characters with invisible, missing or hairless private parts.  Another way this was bypassed was to pixelize the offending areas, like watching Cops where they hide someone's face.  Now, enter into this the idea of panties, which allow the showing of said region without actually showing anything at all; it's enough to get a 14-year old boy going "Oh...yeah!" without actually violating any rules.  It's also a fairly likely scenario, given the typical Japanese school girl uniform.  It's a lot easier to show a girls panties than it is to show actual nudity, at least as often as some shows have done.And yeah, there are some fans who don't get that some folks just don't find anime that compelling, and are darned irritating.  I've met people who don't understand why I don't think Ranma 1/2 is really that interesting after about 8 or so episodes, for example, or who figure I just haven't watched enough Gundam, yet.  No, no...I've watched TOO MUCH Gundam, son, that's the problem. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If you're looking for some shows that are very far from that mark, one very understated and underrated show, to me, is "<a href="http://www.geneonanimation.com/MainContentPage.aspx?PageUID=e4f7842c-b100-4a9a-8ea8-e91dfc6e5c63&CatUID=7e51ecae-1202-4cf7-bba0-0c37b9953f93&Letter=M&ctl_GridTitlespg=1&ctl_BrowseGridpg=0&hdn_ProdID=9c415082-dac8-4ac3-bb78-96886c9309c9&Title=d69db986-c2a7-4b66-9c83-237c9233164e&TitleType=bc3bba18-208c-4534-9697-f3719fd13683" target="_blank">Master Keaton</a>".  But then, some folks aren't willing to try watching a show about the globe-trotting adventures of an insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London.</blockquote>

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