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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': [[CatGirl Blake's]] outfit in Volumes 1-3 features this, but due to a software error her model doesn't have a visible belly button. After Volume 4 (and a change in animation software), her outfits trend toward a more traditional BareYourMidriff style, but flashbacks done with the new software featuring the old outfit now show her belly button.

SisterTrope to CleavageWindow, which applies the same concept to a person's bosom.

Compare with NavelOutline, where a character's navel is covered but still apparent through her clothing.

Compare BareMidriffsAreFeminine, where the midsection is largely or fully exposed as an indicator of a character's femininity. A lot of characters' costumes have belly-baring openings in them; to fit this trope, the character must be able to mostly or completely cover the area exposed with one hand.

Contrast BareYourMidriff, where the midsection is largely or fully exposed. A lot of characters' costumes have belly-baring openings in them; to fit this trope, the character must be able to mostly or completely cover the area exposed with one hand.

* ''VideoGame/GrimmsNotes'': The dress worn by Lira's Essence combines this with NavelDeepNeckline, as the small oval slit that shows her navel starts where the opening in front that shows off her cleavage ends.

* ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'': Shiny Chariot's white jacket combines a roughly figure eight-shaped navel cutout and [[AbsoluteCleavage a plunging neckline]], ostensibly to draw even more attention during her public performances.

* ''VideoGame/GrimmsNotes'': The dress worn by Lira's Essence combines this with AbsoluteCleavage, as the small oval slit that shows her navel starts where the opening in front that shows off her cleavage ends.

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'': Shiny Chariot's white jacket combines a roughly figure eight-shaped navel cutout and [[AbsoluteCleavage a plunging neckline]], ostensibly to draw even more attention during her public performances.

SisterTrope to CleavageWindow, which applies the same concept to the female bosom.

** Kyoko Sakura doesn't attend a school like Madoka and her friends and has a snarky, rough-and-tumble personality. In keeping with this, her casual clothes are [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]] and a jacket over what is likely some kind of belly shirt, as the jacket is unfastened at the bottom just enough to expose her navel.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': The female version of Byleth ups the fanservice from the male version by creating such a gap via both an angled hem on her top and a notch in the top of her [[WhoWearsShortShorts extremely short shorts]].

** Durandal has a number of midriff-baring outfits in both the game and its associated media, but in version 5.5, she gains two new outfits with only diamond-shaped navel cutouts, the battlesuit Palatinus Equinox and the alternate outfit Heavenward Dragon, an Asian dress like Rita's Maid of Celestia outfit. One animated short released for the 2022 Chinese New Year shows them buying the dresses from a shop while out on the town and wearing them during the evening's fireworks.

This usually is done either by an actual cutout in the character's outfit or a scalloped or notched hem in the character's top that combines with their pants/shorts/etc. to frame their navel.

** Durandal has a number of midriff-baring outfits in both the game and its associated media, but in version 5.5, she picks Heavenward Dragon, an Asian dress with a diamond-shaped navel cutout like Rita's Maid of Celestia outfit. One animated short released for the 2022 Chinese New Year shows them buying the dresses from a shop while out on the town and wearing them during the evening's fireworks.

** Bronya Zaychik's default outfit as the Herscherr of Reason has a roughly diamond-shaped opening that, in her character sprite, shows the upped cleft of her navel but doesn't fully expose it, while artwork goes back and forth on whether it's covered or exposed.

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[[caption-width-right:300:L: [[VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd Rita Rossweisse]]. R: [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyoko Sakura]].]]

Everyone is familiar with the {{fanservice}} power of belly exposure, but sometimes a character's design goes to the opposite end of the spectrum. In these cases, their clothes feature a small opening that only exposes the navel and a bit of belly around it, as it is just enough skin showing to draw attention without being blatantly sexy and uses their navel as a sort of target to draw the viewer's eye. This can also be a way to indicate that a character has an edgy personality and likes to show off a little bit, or has some unique decoration in that area.

** While Raiden Mei has several revealing outfits, the only ones that actually expose her navel are her default as the Herscherr of Thunder and Orochi Cutlass, an alternate outfit for her Shadow Dash battlesuit which closely resembles the previous one. In both of these, said exposure is via a small diamond-shaped cutout.

** Marian from the Sinnoh saga has a small opening in her outfit that shows her navel

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Harley likes to wear an outfit which makes him resemble his Cacturne, which includes both a vest with Cacturne's pattern of diamond-shaped dark spots and a shirt with a diamond-shaped cutout around his navel.

* ''Manga/DontToyWithMeMissNagatoro'': Nagatoro's "demon king" guise, which she appears to Senpai as in ch. 9 and which he imagines her as when she offers for him to sit with her and her friends in the school cafeteria, is a collared leotard with a devil tail and a heart-shaped cutout framing her navel. In the latter scene, this outfit is actually more modest than the devil getup Senpai imagines one of Nagatoro's friends wearing. The heart imagery also is a visual cue to Nagatoro's feelings toward Sempai.

* {{Inverted|Trope}} by Elesa's outfit in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', which has her midriff bared except for a gray strip over her navel.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': [[CatGirl Blake's]] outfit in Volumes 1-3 features this, but due to a software error her model doesn't have a visible belly button. After Volume 4 (and a change in animation software), her outfits trend toward a more traditional BareYourMidriff style, and flashbacks done with the new software featuring the old outfit now show her belly button.

* In ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'', Shiny Chariot's white jacket combines a roughly figure eight-shaped navel cutout and [[AbsoluteCleavage a plunging neckline]], ostensibly to draw even more attention during her public performances.
* In ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'', Cure Miracle's Sapphire Style form has a flared notch in the upper garment which only exposes her navel, contrasted with Cure Magical whose Sapphire Style features a halter top with a sari-like extra garment over it.
* In the manga version of ''Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', at one point, Asuka wears a jumper-like outfit whose top has a notch in the hem that shows her navel. This isn't the first time she's worn anything revealing around Shinji, but in this instance, the reduced exposure fits with the mood of the scene, as she's asking Shinji if he's talked to Kaji lately and is dejected when he says he hasn't. This contrasts with an earlier conversation between them when Asuka is at her most confident and psychologically stable and is wearing a tube top and shorts.
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Harley likes to wear an outfit which makes him resemble his Cacturne, which includes both a vest with Cacturne's pattern of diamond-shaped dark spots and a shirt with a diamond-shaped cutout around his navel.

* In the 2008 remake of ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'', the fanservice value of Hiroko Sasagawa's outfit was increased by giving it a diamond-shaped opening showing her navel.

* In ''VideoGame/AtelierRyzaEverDarknessAndTheSecretHideout'' [[MsFanservice Ryza's]] shirt has a convenient cut on the lower half of her shirt that seems to have no purpose other than expose her navel. Even after becoming a full Alchemist and gaining a belt, the belt ''still'' doesn't cover her navel.

* In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', Menat's story mode outfit, which is the least revealing of the three she has, still features a half-moon-like navel cutout.
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', the female version of Byleth ups the fanservice from the male version by creating such a gap via both an angled hem on her top and a notch in the top of her [[WhoWearsShortShorts extremely short shorts]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Rose Quartz most often wears a long white dress with a star-shaped window around her navel, which exposes her gem.

Compare with NavelOutline, where a character's navel is covered but still apparent through her clothing. Contrast BareYourMidriff, where the midsection is largely or fully exposed. A lot of characters' costumes have belly-baring openings in them; to fit this trope, the character must be able to mostly or completely cover the area exposed with one hand.

Contrast BareYourMidriff, where the midsection is largely or fully exposed. A lot of characters' costumes have belly-baring openings in them; to fit this trope, the character must be able to mostly or completely cover the area exposed with one hand.

* In ''VideoGame/AtelierRyzaEverDarknessAndTheSecretHideout'' [MsFanservice Ryza's]] shirt has a convenient cut on the lower half of her shirt that seems to have no purpose other than expose her navel. Even after becoming a full Alchemist and gaining a belt, the belt ''still'' doesn't cover her navel.

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[[caption-width-right:350:L: [[VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd Rita Rossweisse]]. R: [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyoko Sakura]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/GrimmsNotes'', Lira's dress has a small gap that shows her navel.

** Rita Rossweisse's Maid of Celestia outfit is an elaborately designed cheongsam which, among its many fanservice aspects, has a diamond-shaped cutout around her navel. With most versions of Rita, her default pose on the home screen is to stand with her hands resting crossed on her belly; in this outfit, her hands are perfectly placed to cover the cutout, almost as if she's trying to hide it.

Everyone is familiar with the {{fanservice}} power of belly exposure, but sometimes a character's design goes to the opposite end of the spectrum. In these cases, their clothes feature a small opening that only exposes the navel and a bit of belly around it, as it is just enough skin showing to draw attention without being blatantly sexy. This can also be a way to indicate that a character has an edgy personality and likes to show off a little bit, or has some unique decoration in that area.