Talk:Panchira

message: This article is worthless without pics!! :-P  Cyde Weys 23:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you offering to take some GFDL photos? --Malthusian (talk) 03:47, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Actually, there might be some validity to the request: What constitutes a panchira? How is it usually depicted? What is the level of exposure? And just on a personal note, I think every article should have  a picture. 24.126.199.129 10:47, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Amongst my group of knucklehead high school friends in Oklahoma we called this a rutabaga.  It was easy for us to shout across the classroom and you'd see 3-5 heads pop up to scan the room.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jawz101 (talk • contribs) 19:55, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worthless without pics 

message: It has been suggested that the article Panchira be merged into Upskirt. Personally, I agree: it's unnecessary to have a separate article for a term when it can simply go under a subheading… If anyone else has an opinion on this, it would be much appreciated if they stated it. Depending on what the majority (or only) opinion is within the next month or so, the merge suggestion should be executed and/or removed. 24.126.199.129 10:56, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's good enough to have it's own article. It's developed it's own sub-culture specific to anime and manga (and beyond, as well), and there's definitely enough information out there to maintain this as separate. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Panty shots are a recurring joke in anime. Upskirt is mostly a type of porn. I don't think they should be merged.81.178.70.106 18:26, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge Suggestion

message: Regardless of how pervasive this is, the article needs references. Should be easy if it's so pervasive. (^_^) ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: How excatly is this show panchira? I've seen many episodes of it and I haven't recognized and panchira of some sort. Can anyone give me some examples of the panchira in the show before I remove it from the list? --Coconutfred73 05:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Zatch Bell!? A panchira show?

message: At least one published source confirms that there is a clearly defined 'panchira subculture' in Japan with origins reaching back to the early Showra era (c 1926). The book is "Tabloid Tokyo" by Geoff Botting et al. Although written for a general audience, the book quotes sociologist Shoichi Inoue (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) as linking the development of the modern day "panchira subculture" to the overt Westernization of Japan that took place during the 1960s (Botting et al, p 16). The practice of "scoring" a glimpse up young women's skirts became extremely popular around this period; according to Inoue, "Magazines of the time have articles telling the best places where panties could be viewed".  
Anne Alison makes a brief reference to panchira in "Permitted and Prohibited Desires" theorizing that that the exposure of women's (or girls') underwear in manga and anime is constructed under the male gaze as an "immobilizing glance" (in the sense that panchira is usually presented as a tableau in which the characters are seemingly 'petrified'). She further postulates that the 'glance' is generally constructed as transgressive: the audience is permitted a glimpse of the female body (partially) unclothed, but it is always framed as a forbidden action.
"Japanese comics did not seriously begin exploring erotic themes until
the sixties, with the collapse of the pay-library system (largely
brought about by the unexpected success of cheap comic magazines such as
Kodansha Publishing's Shonen Magazine). Artists working for the
pay-library system had already pioneered the depiction of graphic
violence, and had proudly declared that they were drawing gekiga ("drama
pictures"), not mere comics. In the search for realism (and readers), it
was inevitable that sex would soon make an appearance.
As the Japanese comics market diversified, sex spread beyond the gekiga
to just about every conceivable niche in the marketplace. The gekiga
continued their realistic and often violent depictions, but the other
major divisions in the manga world developed their own approach. Boy's
comics began to explore "cute" sex, mainly consisting of panchira ("panty shots") and girls in showers. Girls comics were more coy, with
little nudity, and the actual act depicted with such romantic restraint
as to be almost undetectable. Ladies comics were a little more bold, but
still emphasized romance over all else. Comics for women also featured
many homosexual love stories, which remain popular even today. Comics
dedicated to eroticism inevitably appeared, and in most of these, plot
and storytelling ran a distant second to the depiction of every sex act
you could imagine (and some you probably couldn't)...."
"...The mildest material appears in comics for children as young as twelve
years old. Comics such as Macching Machiko-sensei contain scenes of
students flipping up girl's skirts to see their underwear, or trying to
surprise them in the bathtub. Nudity in the shower or bath is treated,
culturally, much differently than nudity in any other context. These
comics rarely go any farther, except occasionally, when a boy might
manage to actually lay hands on a girl's breasts (he is usually then
slapped silly by the girl). Everything is played for broad comedy, and
is drawn in a very cartoony style."
Kris Millegan, "Sex in Manga", Comics Journal, 1999.
Anne Cooper-Chen states that the endlessly repeated image "of a male gazing at a female's panty clad crotch" represent an archetypal manga panel (see "Sex, Violence and Hierarchy in Japanese Comics" by Anne Cooper-Chen, in Comics and Ideology, McAllister et al, 2001, p.105). She also agrees with Alison that women/girls portrayed in their underwear (or naked) is a common motif in Japanese comics, and is most frequently accompanied by a masculine "viewer" whose voyeuristic presence is indicative of the male gaze (ibid 110).
Bryce notes that the teachers in Go Nagai's 'Harench Gakuen' engage in various forms of abnormal and outlandish behavior, exemplified by their obsession with seeing the female students' underwear (Bryce, Mio: 'School' in Japanese Children's lives depicted in Manga, p 10). Bouissou (p. 17) states that Harenchi Gakuen 'smashed' the Japanese taboo against eroticism in children's comics and started a "nationwide boom of skato meguri (to roll up the girl's skirt)" (Bouissou, Jean-Marie: "Manga goes Global." Paper presented at the University of Sheffield, March, 1998).
Further Reading:
Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics, and Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga, both by Frederik
L. Schodt.
Midnight68 (talk) 09:42, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: The development of panchira in Japanese popular culture has been analyzed by  numerous writers, both Western and Japanese. Many observers trace the beginnings of the phenonemon to the 1960s, although at least one published source confirms that a lingerie "subculture" had been established during the early Showa era. Largely based around fetishistic photography, this early variant was considered socially unacceptable due the return to traditional Japanese values that took place throughout the 1930s. Strong anti-Western sentiment hastened the subculture's disappearance during the interwar period, as anything suggestive of Western sexual attitudes was regarded as degenerate(Botting et al, p 16).
Most sources agree that the overt Westernization of Japan following World War Two played a key role in the return of a "panchira subculture". Ideas, fashions and visual media previously unavailable could now be 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, reinforced through numerous media outlets - magazines, newspapers, films, journals, and comics.
It is significant to note that panchira re-emerged in what was considered a juvenile medium. Aihara and Takekuma in Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga describe the 'evolution' of panchira from the mid-1940s, starting with Machiko Hasegawa's Sazae-san:
:... why did pantyflashing enjoy such success in shounen manga that it surpassed even total nudity in popularity - for no apparent reason? The answer lies in "panty evolution" ... pantyflashing has been around for a while - as far back as Wakame of Sazae-san, for example. She was always pantyflashing! 
Aihara and Takekuma go on to state that while Wakame's depiction contained no sexual connotations per se, the adoption of the visual convention by later generations of artists led to the sexualization of girls/women's underwear in modern manga. This is indirectly confirmed by Kris Millegan in "Sex in Manga", when he writes that "Japanese comics did not seriously begin exploring erotic themes until the sixties...", stating that boy's comics (Shonen manga) began exploring 'cute' sexual imagery composed mainly of panty-shots and shower scenes.  
Midnight68 (talk) 02:55, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Panchira in Japanese pop culture 

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