Why always "skirt-flipping" fan-service's (mini-skirt blowing up.)?


Sometimes in anime/manga, I see some scene's where the MC flip the skirt of
the heroine, or even some random character with a cute face. I know there are
many kind of fan-service's like groping breast, yuri scene's, etc. But why is
it almost always skirt flipping ? Like it is the standard of fan-service.

Is there story behind it? Where does this originate from?




I have made some research and this is what i got (and sorry about my grammar )

So it called `Panchira (パンチラ)` refers to a brief glimpse of a woman's
underwear.

> Panchira (パンチラ) refers to a brief glimpse of a woman's underwear. The term
> carries risqué connotations similar to the word 'upskirt' in English usage.
> The word is a portmanteau of "panty" (パンティー pantī) and chira, the Japanese
> sound symbolism representing a glance or glimpse. It differs from the more
> general term "upskirt" in that panchira specifies the presence of underpants
> (the absence of which would more accurately be described as ノーパン; nōpan).

**Origins**

> **Traditionally, Japanese women did not wear underwear.** On December 16,
> 1932, there was a fire in the Tokyo Shirokiya department store. Legend has
> it that some of the female staff tried to use their kimonos to cover their
> privates as they climbed down ropes from the higher floors, and accidentally
> fell to their deaths. Japanese newspapers began agitating for women to start
> wearing 'drawers' (ズローズ zurōzu), but seemingly had little impact at the
> time. In a 1934 survey by a Fukuoka newspaper, 90% of the women surveyed
> were still not wearing 'drawers' a year and a half after the
> fire.[2](https://books.google.co.id/books?id=WkJ9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT446&lpg=PT446&dq=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&source=bl&ots=LhGN8iCxnu&sig=O9j3-t-mDOaf34vLQxM_4gRj4cE&hl=id&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip8PHEyoHWAhWIL48KHdqPDc0Q6AEIWzAL#v=onepage&q=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&f=false)
>
> As noted below, the development of panchira in Japanese popular culture has
> been analyzed by a number of American and Japanese writers. Many observers
> link the phenomenon to the Westernization of Japan following World War
> II.[7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchira) During the occupation,
> fashions, ideas, and media previously unavailable were accessed by the local
> population, leading to a slight relaxing of earlier taboos. Western-style
> clothing (including women's underwear) gained popularity in the post-war
> period, reinforced through numerous media outlets — magazines, newspapers,
> films, journals, and comics.
>
> At least one Japanese source traces the beginnings of panchira to the
> release of The Seven Year Itch in 1955.[8] The media coverage surrounding
> Marilyn Monroe's iconic scene fueled the emerging Japanese craze. According
> to architectural historian Shoichi Inoue, the practice of "scoring" a
> glimpse up young women's skirts became extremely popular around this period;
> "Magazines of the time have articles telling the best places where panties
> could be viewed".[9] Inoue also writes that actress Mitsuyo Asaka spurred
> the popularity of the word 'chirarizumu' (チラリズム 'the thrill of catching a
> brief glimpse of a women's nether regions') by parting her kimono to show
> off her legs in her stage shows in the late 1950s.[10]
>
> In 1969, the Japanese oil company Maruzen Sekiyū released a television
> commercial featuring Rosa Ogawa in a short mini-skirt that gets blown up by
> the wind with her forming her lips into an 'O' in surprise. This led to
> children imitating her line "Oh! Mōretsu" (Oh！モーレツ, too much, radical), and
> a fad for sukāto-mekuri (スカート捲り flipping up of a girl's skirt).[11] Ogawa
> subsequently appeared in a TV show Oh Sore Miyo (Oh! それ見よ, literally "look
> at that," but actually a pun on 'O Sole Mio,' a neapolitan song 'my
> sunshine') that again featured scenes of her mini-skirt blowing up.

**Anime/Manga**

For anime/manga culture, it's 'partially' answered from this question.

[Where did the anime trope of Clothing Damage / Clothes being torn
originate?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/28469/where-did-the-
anime-trope-of-clothing-damage-clothes-being-torn-originate)

it was from this manga, Shameless School

**Wiki Explanation**

> Harenchi Gakuen (ハレンチ学園, lit. "Shameless School") is a Japanese media
> franchise created by Go Nagai. Harenchi Gakuen was one of the manga
> serialized in the very first issue of Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly
> Shōnen Jump. The series was the first big success for Go Nagai. It is also
> considered as the first modern erotic manga, sometimes considered the first
> hentai manga, though Nagai never used explicit sexual situations in the
> original run of the manga.

And from the same wiki, it was written

> By the late 1960s, panchira had spread to the mainstream comic industry, as
> fledgling manga artists such as Go Nagai began exploring sexual imagery in
> boys' comics (shōnen manga).[12] Adult manga magazines had existed since
> 1956 (e.g. Weekly Manga Times), but it is significant to note the
> introduction of sexual imagery into boys manga. Millegan argues that the
> ecchi genre of the 1970s rose to fill a void left by the decline of Osaka's
> lending library network:[13]

and i read an article about Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump came under fire for
running a busty spread on Yuragi-sō no Yūna-san (Yūna of Yuragi Manor). The
illustration sparked conversations about ecchi works in a magazine that is
largely seen as reading material for kids under 14 years of age.

**Summary**

From what i could tell, the originate of "skirt-flipping" is from short mini-
skirt that gets blown up by the wind ). There is a book with titles,
`Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture` that
explain about this topic, but i couldn't copy the reference's, since its
licensed. You could read the book online
[Here](https://books.google.co.id/books?id=WkJ9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT446&lpg=PT446&dq=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&source=bl&ots=LhGN8iCxnu&sig=O9j3-t-mDOaf34vLQxM_4gRj4cE&hl=id&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip8PHEyoHWAhWIL48KHdqPDc0Q6AEIWzAL#v=onepage&q=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&f=false)

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**References**

  * [Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture](https://books.google.co.id/books?id=WkJ9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT446&lpg=PT446&dq=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&source=bl&ots=LhGN8iCxnu&sig=O9j3-t-mDOaf34vLQxM_4gRj4cE&hl=id&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip8PHEyoHWAhWIL48KHdqPDc0Q6AEIWzAL#v=onepage&q=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&f=false)

  * [Panchira (パンチラ)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchira)

