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* Asuka Kazama of the ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' series wears sarashi as part of her 'Yakuza Diceroller' special costume designed by Creator/OhGreat in ''Tekken 5''. In ''Tekken 6'', one of the pieces of her alternate matsuri outfit is a pair of shorts made from cloth wraps.

* In ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'', the leader of the [[OpposingSportsTeam Gorira Alliance]] wears one under her jacket - and nothing else.

* {{Delinquent|s}} Kunieda Aoi from ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' wears a sarashi and [[FanService nothing else]] on top aside from her BadassLongcoat.

* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex''[='=]s Awaki Musujime wears one sometimes.

* Junko Hattori from ''Literature/DemonKingDaimao'' has both a Sarashi and a {{Fundoshi}}.
* Back when Uotani, an accomplished delinquent, was still "in service" in ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', she learns that she's in the same school as the daughter of her role model, the Red Butterfly. She pictures the girl as wearing a school skirt, carrying a katana, and wearing a sarashi. On the next page, she meets the "daughter": it's [[TheIngenue Tohru]].

* Ryougi Shiki of ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' wears sarashi more-or-less consistently instead of bras. Shiki is not a fan of Western clothing. Besides the leather jacket, that is, and that's just because [[OfficialCouple Kokuto]] picked it out.
-->I have never worn anything but kimono.
** Of course, a montage shot in Paradox Spiral (movie version) shows A LOT of bras...[[{{Fanservice}} for some reason]]...
* An open shirt and sarashi appears to be the "uniform" of Haine's yanki gang in ''Manga/TheGentlemensAlliance''. Also kicks the FanService up a notch; yanki Haine is hot, and the rest of her gang doesn't do too bad either.
* Kondo and Kyuubei (and a whole bunch of thugs) wear these in [[ShirtlessScene one ending sequence]] of ''Manga/{{Gintama}}''. Kyuubei's was sort of a spoiler...

* The {{Yakuza}} that [[spoiler: almost rape Sara Uchida]] in ''Manga/KaseiYakyoku'' wear this. It's also a pretty important detail, since [[spoiler: one of them had a [[HiddenWeapons a knife concealed in his]]; Sara snatches it and turns the tables on them.]]

* In ''Anime/LastPeriod'' episode 11, the army of Android Sonyas claim that they've been patched to solve the problem with their breasts inflating and eventually exploding. This is represented as them binding their chests with sarashi.

** Harry Tribeca, being the leader of a gang of {{Delinquent}}s, wears this under a long coat as part of her Barrier Jacket.

** Bandage-style wrappings seem to be a common fashion accessory in ''Naruto''. At least one character is seen wearing them sarashi-style. Prior to the timeskip, Ino wears them from her knees at least up to her midriff. This is most likely a case of extremely creative inventory management. For shinobi, all-purpose bandages can be used for everything from bandaging wounds to bracing sprains/breaks to using them to ensnare an opponent to passing secret messages to igniting explosives, and then probably about a dozen other uses. However, because a shinobi can only wear so many equipment pouches, and a lot of their equipment is fairly bulky, it makes sense to carry bandages already worn on the body.

** After the timeskip, Sasuke briefly wore a sarashi covering his stomach under a sleeveless black robe during his battle with Itachi.

* Kagome, the elementary schooler in ''Manga/SamuraiHaremAsuNoYoichi'', has one. This is because she's very...[[HiddenBuxom developed]] for her age, and she uses it to hide that she is. She ends up using the cotton to bandage her implied crush's wrist but makes sure her chest is not noticeable.
* In the ''Manga/SgtFrog'' manga, Koyuki is seen wearing these a number of times.
* Shana from ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'' wears this in a few episodes.
* Mira Nygus from ''Manga/SoulEater'' would probably qualify. She has bandages covering her breasts, arms, and lower face (though NOT on her midriff).

* Though she's not the only one, Master Tigress from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' is depicted as having a flat chest (though that's assuming the AnimalsLackAttributes trope isn't in play). In fanworks, people often justify this by having Tigress wear a sarashi around her chest to conceal her breasts.

* WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}, from the eponymous film, wore the breast-flattening version to pass as an Imperial soldier. The bandages she wears at the hospital tent also count.

* Sometimes used symbolically even in [[JidaiGeki samurai]] films. Even though presumably everyone should be wearing one, only the designated tough guys will actually be visibly wearing one.
* In some edits of Creator/BruceLee's ''Film/FistOfFury'', Lee's character is able to figure out someone is a Japanese spy when he spots them in a sarashi. Not so much by ''what'' he's wearing but by ''how'' he's wearing it. The man's nipples were exposed, as is standard for Japanese men (as in the page image); Chinese prefer to keep them hidden.
* In ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', ComicBook/{{Katana}} is wearing a ''UsefulNotes/{{bosozoku}}'' version of her ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' outfit, modified to depict her with an open jacket and a sarashi to cover her breasts.

* The ''Literature/DreambloodDuology'': Hanani binds her breasts and wears men's clothing to downplay her status as the first woman in the [[ReligionIsMagic Sharer priesthood]] of Gujaareh. Once she realizes that she's making herself unhappy, that it's not doing anything to mollify the people who feel threatened by her, and that she's setting precedent for future female priests, she switches to unapologetically feminine garb.
* Ichiko in ''Literature/KamikazeGirls'' wears a sarashi as part of her ''UsefulNotes/{{bosozoku}}'' outfit.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Lift's POV chapter in ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'' reveals that she's started wearing a bandage wrapped tightly around her chest even though she hasn't been injured. The implication is that she's trying to bind her breasts due to her issues with accepting [[GrowingUpSucks that she's reached her teenage years]].

* One Eldar Farseer model for ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has one worn over his robe.

* ''{{VideoGame/Arknights}}'':

* The Spirit from ''Videogame/DeadByDaylight'' wears only this in her default outfit. Both because she was a daughter of a line of samurai, and to also invoke FanDisservice considering her body is pale and partially dismembered after being attacked by her father.

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', [[{{Wutai}} Hoshidan]] girls seem to use sarashi as replacement for bras whereas Nohrian girls use more Western-looking underwear. The ProudWarriorRaceGirl Rinkah, however, wears sarashi as a top, therefore she also fits in the "toughness" aspect of the trope.
** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes Heroes]]''

* Baiken from the ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' series acquires a sarashi in ''Xrd [=Rev2=]'' to work as makeshift ModestyShorts. Prior to this, [[MagicSkirt she let the spritework cover herself up.]]
* Anghel's human form has these big time in ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend''.

* ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection[='=]s'' Musashi wears fairly scant sarashi as a top, which [[ClothingDamage comes undone in the middle if she takes too much of a beating in a sortie]]. She covers up for real upon upgrading to Kai Ni, however. Asashimo meanwhile can be seen using sarashi as more of an undergarment in her autumn and saury festival CG's, in which she is wearing happi. Battle damage causes Asashimo's sarashi to break slightly in her saury CG's, but it remains intact in the autumn CG.

* Included, along with just about everything else, in the wardrobe options of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow 2''.
* Daidōji from ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' wears one as a bra (not that it does anything to prevent bouncing.) Fitting, since she's the "manliest" of all the girls. Homura also wears one normally as a bra, making her seem AmbiguouslyBrown at first, even though she is just tanned.

* The character customization parts of ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur III'' and ''IV'' allow you to equip a female character with a sarashi.

* In ''VisualNovel/DramaticalMurder'' Koujaku wears sarashi under his kimono, tying together his samurai-like appearance.

* Natani, a UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}[[note]]sort of--it's complicated[[/note]] wolf assassin from ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'', uses a sarashi to cover up his breasts and better present as male. Ironically, he's actually one of the bustiest characters in the series and actually has to use special wraps enchanted with a variant of the BagOfHolding enchantment to make it work.
** Also Raine, from the same comic, as of Chapter 15 onwards. (Shown later to have been made from her torn-up jumper/sweater, which was used for bandages).

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* Michiru of ''Literature/{{Sapphire}}'' wears a bandage bra which she cuts open with a {{Ninja}} knife at one point. [[LampshadeHanging Alec even jokes about how she is able to buy her lingerie from the first-aid department.]]
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* Cinder, the initial main villain of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', uses this under a loose vest in Volume 3, though the waist wrap stops below the navel.

** Katara from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' wears wrappings similar to this as underclothes. Although there is no {{Word of God}} about it, but since the show is set in a heavily Asian-influenced universe, and probably some time in the past before bras were invented, it's just assumed that women (usually) wear them with casual clothes or clothes that don't give any support in the ''Avatar'' universe.

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' is shown to have one under his robe.

Note to anyone who might want to do this: '''DO NOT Use ACE bandages![[note]]Known outside the USA as elastic bandages, compression bandages, pressure stockings, etc.[[/note]]''' Ace bandages keep pressure and tighten over time and cause cutting off of blood circulation, blood clots, difficulty breathing, bruising, cracked and broken ribs, and death in more extreme cases.[[note]]Bacon, Candace "[[https://bellatory.com/clothing/Alternative-to-Bras-What-to-Wear-When-Your-Bra-Hurts10 Painless Alternatives to Wearing Uncomfortable Bras". Bellatory.com "Do not use ace bandages or other overly constrictive material that might cut off circulation and cause blood clots, broken ribs, breathing problems, and other dangers.]]"[[/note]]

Note to anyone who might want to do this: '''DO NOT Use ACE bandages![[note]]Known outside the USA as elastic bandages, compression bandages, pressure stockings, etc[[/note]]''' Ace bandages keep pressure and tighten over time and cause cutting off of blood circulation, blood clots, difficulty breathing, bruising, cracked and broken ribs, and death in more extreme cases.[[note]]Bacon, Candace "[[https://bellatory.com/clothing/Alternative-to-Bras-What-to-Wear-When-Your-Bra-Hurts10 Painless Alternatives to Wearing Uncomfortable Bras". Bellatory.com "Do not use ace bandages or other overly constrictive material that might cut off circulation and cause blood clots, broken ribs, breathing problems, and other dangers.]]"[[/note]]

** Ryuunosuke wears a ''sarashi'' not only to demonstrate her tough, combative nature but also as a substitute for the bra her father wouldn't let her wear.
** Tomibaro also has a sarashi, from his bushido lifestyle and traditional clothing choices.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''[='=]s Awaki Musujime wears one sometimes.

* Junko Hattori from ''LightNovel/DemonKingDaimao'' has both a Sarashi and a {{Fundoshi}}.

* Ryougi Shiki of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' wears sarashi more-or-less consistently instead of bras. Shiki is not a fan of Western clothing. Besides the leather jacket, that is, and that's just because [[OfficialCouple Kokuto]] picked it out.

* In Chapter 25 of ''Manga/HitomiChanIsShyWithStrangers'', Hitomi gets quite a few blushing gazes [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer from her female classmates]] when she wears a too-small ''gakuran'' unbuttoned with sarashi, looking very much like a JapaneseDelinquent.

* Shana from ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' wears this in a few episodes.

* Ryuubi wears those under her martial arts uniform in ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' ''Dragon Destiny'' to keep her [[GagBoobs ENORMOUS breasts]] under check. [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Of course, it only works to a degree]].

Note to anyone who might want to do this: '''DO NOT Use ACE bandages![[note]]Known outside the USA as elastic bandages, compression bandages, pressure stockings, etc[[/note]]''' Ace bandages keep pressure and tighten over time and cause cutting off of blood circulation, blood clots, difficulty breathing, bruising, cracked and broken ribs, and death in more extreme cases.[[note]]Bacon, Candace "10 Painless Alternatives to Wearing Uncomfortable Bras". Bellatory.com "Do not use ace bandages or other overly constrictive material that might cut off circulation and cause blood clots, broken ribs, breathing problems, and other dangers." https://bellatory.com/clothing/Alternative-to-Bras-What-to-Wear-When-Your-Bra-Hurts[[/note]]

* Back when Uotani, an accomplished delinquent, was still "in service" in ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', she learns that she's in the same school as the daughter of her role model, the Red Butterfly. She pictures the girl as wearing a school skirt, carrying a katana, and wearing a sarashi. In the next page, she meets the "daughter": it's [[TheIngenue Tohru]].

** Chin Pirako, who is actually a assassin, wear one. She's obsessed with acting like a Yakuza.

* Due to being a traditional samurai (and occasional MrFanservice) Goemon from ''Characters/LupinIII'' wears the sarashi. Bathing scenes with him will use either just the {{Fundoshi}}, or the fundoshi and sarashi.

* Kagome, the elementary schooler in ''Manga/SamuraiHaremAsuNoYoichi'', has one. This is because she's very... developed for her age, and she uses it to hide that she is. She ends up using the cotton to bandage her implied crush's wrist, but makes sure her chest is not noticeable.

* In ''Manga/WaratteSotomuraSan'', a girl asked Sotomura where to buy Sarashi under the assumption she was using one. Sotomura was so ashamed of the fact she had no need of Sarashi she played the SureLetsGoWithThat trope.

* In some edits of Creator/BruceLee's ''Film/FistOfFury'', Lee's character is able to figure out someone is a Japanese spy when he spots them in a sarashi. Not so much by ''what'' he's wearing but in ''how'' he's wearing it. The man's nipples were exposed, as is standard for Japanese men (as in the page image); Chinese prefer to keep them hidden.

* Discussed in ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', when Erika and Largo play a ninja fighting game. Largo admires the [[JigglePhysics bouncing animation]] for the very busty female ninja Erika plays, and Erika comments that in reality it would be inconvenient to fight hanging out like that, and that a female ninja would more likely bind herself.

* Natani, a UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}[[note]]sort of--it's complicated[[/note]] wolf assassin from ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'', uses a sarashi to cover up his breasts and better present as male. Ironically, he's actually one of the bustiest characters in the series, and actually has to use special wraps enchanted with a variant of the BagOfHolding enchantment to make it work.
** Also Raine, from the same comic, as of Chapter 15 onwards. (Shown later to have been made from her torn up jumper/sweater, which was used for bandages).

* It was the fashion in the late 80's-early 90's for Japanese "gangster girls" to wrap their chests.

For female characters, however, a sarashi can be worn as a tube top, in which the bandages are worn wrapped around only their chest, while their midriff is left bare; a sarashi may also serve as an accessory to a potentially boring outfit, as an aid in {{crossdress|er}}ing, or simply as a way to prevent bouncing. In these cases the wrapping is pushed up a few inches to cover and flatten the chest ([[{{Fanservice}} usually]]), and the irony inherent in using such a traditional symbol of masculinity to accentuate or disguise femininity may be deliberately invoked.

For female characters, however, a sarashi can be worn as a [[BareYourMidriff tube top]], in which the bandages are worn wrapped around only their chest, while their midriff is left bare; a sarashi may also serve as an accessory to a potentially boring outfit, as an aid in {{crossdress|er}}ing, or simply as a way to prevent bouncing. In these cases the wrapping is pushed up a few inches to cover and flatten the chest ([[{{Fanservice}} usually]]), and the irony inherent in using such a traditional symbol of masculinity to accentuate or disguise femininity may be deliberately invoked.

* Mira Nygus from ''Manga/SoulEater'' would probably qualify. She has bandages covering her breasts, arms, and lower face (though [[BareYourMidriff NOT on her midriff]]).

*** As part of New Year's festivities, Dagr trades her [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring attire]] for a more conservative yukata, with black sarashi as part of the ensemble. Nott joins her, wearing a similar outfit.

** According to her C-Support with a [[PlayerCharacter female Robin]], Princess Say'ri from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' wears sarashi.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', [[{{Wutai}} Hoshidan]] girls seem to use sarashi as replacement for bras whereas Nohrian girls use more Western-looking underwear. The ProudWarriorRaceGirl Rinkah, however, wears ''sarashi'' as a top as well, therefore she also fits in the "toughness" aspect of the trope.

* Ichinose Saki of ''Manga/MahounoIroha'' wears one as opposed to a bra.

* Female Ronin (Bushido) characters in ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' wear what looks almost like a standard {{miko}} outfit... with the top open to show a sarashi underneath. Male Ronin, meanwhile, are {{Walking Shirtless Scene}}s.

For female characters, however, a sarashi can be worn as a [[BareYourMidriff tube top]], in which the bandages are worn wrapped around only their chest, while their midriff is left bare; a sarashi may also serve as an accessory to a potentially boring outfit, as an aid in {{crossdress|er}}ing, or simply as a way to prevent {{Gainaxing}}. In these cases the wrapping is pushed up a few inches to cover and flatten the chest ([[{{Fanservice}} usually]]), and the irony inherent in using such a traditional symbol of masculinity to accentuate or disguise femininity may be deliberately invoked.

* Daidōji from ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' wears one as a bra (not that it does anything to prevent {{Gainaxing}}.) Fitting, since she's the "manliest" of all the girls. Homura also wears one normally as a bra, making her seem AmbiguouslyBrown at first, even though she is just tanned.

* Shiver from ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' wears only a sarashi covering her chest (and a very loose translucent shawl) above her waist, signifying the rather vicious wasteland bandit beneath her cool and elegant exterior as one of Splatsville's top idols.

* ''JingiStorm'': From this largely obscure 3D fighting is Nishioka Giichi, a yakuza member, who notably wears such a binding as his only form of clothing.