Shirtless Scene / Anime & Manga

• This website dedicated to shirtless scenes from animes and anime inspired video games.
• Crim in .hack//SIGN gets a full shirtless scene later in the series.
• Chapter 53 of Attack on Titan has probably the first major shirtless scene of the entire manga so far courtesy of Eren. And he is apparently ripped. One can only imagine the fangirl reaction.
  • Later on he gets tied up for entire chapters shirtless before he's finally rescued. The anime adaptation spared no effort in showing this in full glory.
  • Levi and Erwin had their shirtless scenes in the manga, but never made it to the anime. Needless to say, the fangirls were pissed.
  • Chapter 82 gives us shirtless Armin, who seems to be similarly built to Eren despite his tiny weight of 120lbs. Though perhaps not in the way his fans wanted...

• Guts from Berserk has these all over the place. The best come in volumes 9 and 10.
  • Farnese has one in volume 17 a Rare Female Example.
• During episode 20 of Black Butler, Sebastian is arrested and chained up in some kind of torture room. And the first thing the creepy Torture Technician does is rip his shirt, giving us a nice shot of his abs. And many fangirl Squee's were heard.
• Probably the only straight example of fanservice in the Black Jack OVAs is from the titular doctor himself, in an entirely gratuitous Pool Scene in the fourth episode... Oh, and the Shower Scene in the first. And a Hot Springs Episode (which, incidentally, takes place near a beach). Kind of a pattern there.
• Bleach: Most males have a well sculpted chest that will be revealed when his shirt is removed. It's easier to list the male characters who never get a shirtless scene.
  • Mayuri Kurotsuchi, the squicky Mad Scientist actually gets a shirtless scene. Complete with scars.
  • Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, the general of the Gotei 13, invariably strips to the waist before using his shikai. For dramatic purpose this reveals an ungodly amount of scars, plus a more muscular figure than the protagonist has, despite being older than the latter's country of origin. In the third movie, he literally jumps out of his shirt before delivering an attack.
  • Ichigo gets to have shirtless and even almost naked moments, due to Clothing Damage.
  • Zaraki gets to show off his chest when he gives Ichigo one free attack before they fight. He's also stripped to the waist in the Hueco Mundo arc after fighting Nnoitra. He also shows up shirtless when he shows up to help fight Yammy.
  • Chad also gets the less fleshy version most of time, but given that he's the embodiment of the Latino stereotype... Yeah.
  • Even Uryuu has a couple of shirtless scenes, one when his father saves his life from arrancar attacks, and one when his father restores his powers. He's pale, but somehow remarkably well-built. (He's an archer, after all.)
  • Ulquiorra manages to get his shirt torn open in both fights against Ichigo. Despite being a lot more slender than most of the male cast, it turns out he has quite a lovely chest.
  • In an omake, a few members of the Shinigami Women's Association went to great lengths to get one of these out of Ukitake. Yay!
  • Grimmjow is a walking Shirtless Scene by default. He does wear a jacket, but nothing underneath it and always leaves it open. Nice.
  • Ikkaku is shirtless during his fight with Eduardo.
• Buso Renkin: While he has a few during the series, Kazuki's most prominent shirtless scene is at the end of the L.X.E. arc when he transforms into a Victor for the first time. The scene isn't intended as fan service, however, but to set Kazuki up as a mirror to the always shirtless Victor.
• Cherry Juice: These happen frequently with the male lead Minami, including on the very first page of the manga. This is a mixture of both Mr. Fanservice, and Author Appeal for the female Mangaka.
• Chrono Crusade has several moments, although most notable is probably the fact that Joshua almost never keeps his shirt fully buttoned (basically only when someone forces him to so he'll be presentable), and Chrono in his true form only wears a jacket that does not cover his chest.
• Classi 9 has two examples: in chapter 12, Bach is seen in a Shower of Angst, and in chapter 20 Beethoven strips in the streets to prove is a man.
• Few fans of Darker than Black will forget November 11's Naked First Impression with Mao, and not just because it was funny. Hei's civilian alias Li on the other hand is a textbook case of the "partially buttoned shirt" variant, as he seems physically incapable of having more than three buttons done at any given time. No wonder every woman in sight falls for him.
  • Li's partially unbuttoned shirt is Lampshaded in the OVA (and was then immortalized as a Memetic Mutation) in the form of two in-universe women fixating on his collarbone, which is often noticeably visible because of this trope.
• In "Father" in Death Note, while discussing his plans with Misa and Ryuk, Light lifts up his shirt to reveal the Death Note stuffed in his pants. This is radically different than the manga where he hid the Death Note in a corset he was apparently wearing.
• Ginti of Death Parade rips off his shirt in the OP (but his suspenders remain intact). In Episode 6 Idol Singer Harada also goes topless when he demonstrates his physique.
• Dante of the animated Devil May Cry series gets this too every so often, but the first example is in the first episode — at the end, Dante comes out of the back wearing nothing but pants, toweling his hair off and dripping water. The fangirls rejoiced.
• Kanda from D.Gray-Man periodically updates the readers as to the expansion of his chest tattoo. You know, in case they were worried about it.
  • Allen, too, gets a shirtless scene or two, most recently to show off the scar from shoulder to hip he accidentally gave himself. Fangirls go completely insane.
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba:
  • As the series progresses some training events have the main trio: Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke partake in those sessions completely shirtless, showing how they became quite muscular over the series.
  • One of the series' strongest demons, Kokushibo, is styled like a samurai, once the heroes manage to land an attack on Kokushibo all it does is rip his haori off (coat) leaving him bare chested, showing he is quite muscle bound; it's where The Coats Are Off and Kokushibo gets overwhelmingly serious in their fight.
• Several Digimon across all of the Digimon shows (and games) have humanoid bodies, and are usually, if not always, shirtless. Weregarurumon and Leomon are prime examples. Now, if only they'd get more screen time, and Leomon would stop dying!
  • In a less Furry Fandom example, the main heroes in each season usually get shirtless at least once, with Digimon Data Squad having male gratuitous shower scenes (but not angsty) as well, from both male main characters. It was known by some as Digimon Fanservicers due to this coupled with the more realistic art style used.
  • Digimon Adventure has the (in)famous episode 8, where the male characters had a bath scene that had to be partially censored overseas. Later in the episode Taichi loses his bathrobe and has to make due with walking around in just underwear and shoes.
  • Digimon Adventure 02 had Davis taking a bath with Chibomon in episode 15, plus he was also briefly shirtless during the beach scene in Hurriance Touchdown.
  • Kazu and Kenta enjoy a bath together in episode 26 of Digimon Tamers.
  • From Digimon Fusion, we have Mikey Kudo enjoying himself at a hot spring in episode 7, and is seen to have a toned body for someone as young as him.He also swam in digital space shirtless in episode 22, combining this trope with a Moment of Awesome by having a cannon ball attached to his leg and using said cannonball to attack the Monster of the Week. There was no need to take his shirt off, but it wouldn't be half as cool otherwise.
• Whether it be a result of the massive Clothing Damage that afflicts the men of Dragon Ball Z ,good old fashioned shower/bath scenes, shirtless training, when someone gets serious, or the odd homoerotic nude visualization of a deceased comrade speaking from beyond the grave, the ratio of shirtless scenes to scenes in which any given male character wears a shirt are around 50-50. (maybe if Videl and Android 18 channeled their ki/energy into their bodies instead of making their clothing Nigh-Invulnerable, they would be able to hang with the guys in combat?)
  • 18 had Clothing Damage at one point early on, too — just not enough to reveal anything.
  • And yet, to the dismay of fangirls everywhere, never once did Future Trunks go without. This may be the first instance of a vagooblock in anime. We did, however, see Dragon Ball GT Trunks shirtless when repairing the Grand Tour Spaceship on the desert Planet Rudeeze. Trunks also gets severe Clothing Damage in Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan to the point where he’s practically shirtless.
• Shobu Kirifuda from Duel Masters got a really long one (4 entire volumes) in the FE manga when he landed up in hot as hell Egypt.
• Many of the characters in Eyeshield 21 have shirtless scenes after practices and times like that. Mizumachi just likes stripping down to his shorts and waving his shirt around (he used to be a swimmer, which might explain it). Ootawara on the other hand turns it into Fan Disservice by often losing his pants (and sometimes everything else) and farting a lot.
• Fairy Tail has a heap of these.
  • Natsu's usual clothing is an open vest, he closes it after the timeskip. However most battle he ends up shirtless due to clothing damage.
  • Gray goes shirtless, pantsless, socksless... he's not into clothing.
  • Laxus during his battle with Gajeel and Natsu in the Battle of Fairy Tail arc. He continues to do it later, simply by virtue of powering up when getting serious, just enough to literally shred his shirts off but not enough to hulk out like he did previously.
  • Gajeel while fighting Natsu during the Phantom Lord arc
  • Sting waking up to Natsu rampaging in the Sabertooth accomodations set a record for most Fangirls knocked out by Fairy Tail shirtless scene.
  • Jellal after being healed by Wendy
  • Lyon also has a shirtless habit which he shares with Gray
  • Most men in the Fairy Tail pool OVA
  • Loke when showing his guild mark
• Of course, the ultimate example of this trope has to be Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, who manages to burn off his shirt by the power of sheer awesomeness almost every episode, conveniently right before handing that episode's main villain the beating of his life, yet mysteriously always re-acquires it in the following episode.
• Naturally, this shows up quite a bit in Fruits Basket, since the Members of the Zodiac are always naked when they change back from their animal forms (but you only see the guys from the waist up).
  • Kyo has a more traditional Shirtless Scene in the finale of the anime (and manga equivalent)
  • There's plenty more Manservice in the Hot Springs Episode and Beach Arc. Kyo is actually the only one who keeps his shirt on at the beach (because he doesn't intend to swim), but since he jumps in the water anyway...
• Major Armstrong from Fullmetal Alchemist enjoys randomly taking off his shirt to show his magnificent musculature. He's so diesel, he could fuel a semi for a trip across mainland China. He does it so often and suddenly, to everyone else's dismay, he's a definite parody of this trope.
  • Then there's Armstrong's dear friend, Sig Curtis, who's able to rip apart his entire upper wardrobe by flexing. Armstrong and Sig thus become good comrades by the friendship forged with muscle.
  • Even lampshaded in his fight with Scar.
  • Edward Elric too has had his share of scenes showing off his surprisingly ripped torso (and automail arm), beginning with the first chapter.
  • And Roy Mustang also showed his abs for a particularly dramatic comeback after being thought dead.
  • Ling had a shirtless dramatic entrance (popping out of a manhole).
    • Ed even gets an outdoor shower scene in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), and a majority of his concept artwork shows him pulling or ripping his top off in some fashion.
• Sōsuke from Full Metal Panic! gets a few of these. Once near the beginning, when he tackles the teacher down the stairs thinking she was a terrorist and ends up having to have his back bandaged up due to the wounds from it. Another time is when he gets so tired and lacks sleep to the point where he passes out — before he passes out, however, we're treated to a blurry picture (possibly a hallucination?) of himself, shirtless and restrained◊.
  • In addition, the dust jackets of the manga include pictures of the cast in skimpy bathing suits. Not wanting to isolate the female audience, these bits of fanservice include Kurz◊ and SÃ'suke◊
  • Kalinin in the anime, after being wounded during the Behemoth arc. Complete with bandages.
  • Gauron, of all people, in the manga. Not that the anime gave you a different idea, what with how well that uniform fit him, but in the manga he looks as if he was chiseled in stone.
• Fushigi Yuugi's hunks and some of their cousins in other Yuu Watase manga.
• Pretty much the entire male cast of Gintama and one female, though she's hiding it, go shirtless in its 7th ending theme. A subversion exists in the same ending as Prince Hata, who looks much like Dragon Ball Z's fat Buu, not only appears shirtless, but is wearing only a fundoshi.
• Eiri Yuki of Gravitation gets this; the opening picture for this trope used to be of him (from a NSFW doujin).
• Great Teacher Onizuka has a shirtless scene in the first episode, when Onizuka shows up at a student's house and smashes a hole in a wall with a sledgehammer.
• Nono from Gunbuster 2 gets one in the first episode when she gained Heroic Resolve by ripping her shirt off, because she took the "Topless" part a bit too seriously.
  • Actually, if you look carefully at that scene, her clothes were stuck to the barbs of the monster. Ripping them off was clearly the only option. Her dialogue after the battle does show that she took the term "Topless" literally, though, by claiming that she had become one.
• Van of GUN×SWORD gets a few shirtless scenes. What's really interesting is that in flashbacks from before his fiancee's death, he seems to be a Walking Shirtless Scene. Maybe that's why Elena agreed to marry him?
• Haruhi Suzumiya:
  • Haruhi-chan gives us some completely unnecessary shirtless scenes of Koizumi. They even drop the Super-Deformed thing to make their point.
  • In the original, the second iteration of Endless Eight has Kyon shirtless at the beginning. It's the Fanservice Episode of Season 2!
  • Itsuki himself also gets some... attention in the same arc. Mostly of a different kind, considering he was wearing some sort of skimpy black speedo.
• Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3 - Kurenai no Tsuki has a scene with five of the Hachiyou^note Kurou, Hinoe, Benkei, Yuzuru and Kagetoki shirtless, cleaning up. A few minutes later, Nozomi stumbles upon a shirtless Masaomi (with Female Gaze in play). Luminescent Blush ensues.
• The Captain from Hellsing has no shirt on under his coat, as revealed in the 82nd chapter.
• England from Hetalia: Axis Powers gets one when he takes a hot bath in Japan's house. The scene was amped up for Fanservice effects in the anime rendition, adding a bit of Ship Tease when his host is nonplussed at his nudity — yes, the same guy who was scandalized when his partners paraded around without shirts. Germany has a pretty hot Shower Scene in the Manga also.
• Yuuto Kiba from High School D×D has several such scenes, as do other boys.
• Higurashi: When They Cry's Keiichi has a FULL EPISODE of wearing nothing but a speedo.
  • In the same episode, the buff and athletic Tomitake is shown in nothing but a speedo as well, the muscular bear bellied chief, Oishi, is shown in revealing swim trunks, and the slim bishounen, Irie is shown in slightly shorter but less revealing slim trunks. They call themselves "The Four Soul Brothers of Heavenly kings".
• Hisoka, the Enigmatic Lovable Traitor of Hunter × Hunter, gets two completely naked scenes: first a shower scene, then later a scene in which the protagonists find him bathing in a lake (with some conveniently placed speech bubbles). These are also the only times we get to see him without his Facial Markings (okay, face paint) and Improbable Hairstyle.
• I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying:
  • Played for Laughs in episode 7 when Hajime randomly decides to take off his shirt after trying some of Kaoru's improved cooking, showing off his surprisingly toned abs.
    Kaoru: By the way, why'd you take your shirt off?
  • A similar scene occurs in the manga (complete with Bishie Sparkles), though with the justification of it being really hot out. Turns out that Kaoru had no idea he was that good looking since he always keeps the lights off when they have sex.
• Inuyasha:
  • Happens a surprising amount to Inuyasha, usually after taking off his outer kimono and giving it to Kagome. Also sometimes if his outfit gets ripped up during battle.
  • This happens most notably during his fight with Goshinki. After sustaining serious injuries the previous episode, he spends most of the episode running around in his undershirt at most. Then Goshinki breaks the Tetsusaiga, and while he's still in shock slashes him with enough force to tear his shirt to ribbons. He gets better, unlocking his demon blood and carrying out the rest of the fight with no shirt on and much focus on his abs. Additionally, fan art and even some canon media tend to depict him shirtless when he’s in his demon form, even though he’s only shirtless here.
• Yoshimori from Kekkaishi gets a few shirtless scenes in the anime. His kekkai training was used as an excuse on both occasions in episodes 8 and 42. Episode 42 even included a scene in which he removed his kekkaishi robe with rapid fire precision.
• The first half of Kill la Kill had a running gag where resident Mr. Exposition/Fanservice, Aikuro Mikisugi, would spontaneously start taking off his clothes for apparently no reason at all. This stops in the second half only because he stops wearing clothes altogether.
• The Legend of Mother Sarah gender flips and deconstructs the trope at the same time. As she's working in the refugee camps, due to her unusually tall and powerful stature, Sarah is forced to work alongside the men, shirtless and bra-less, which of course attracted a lot of ogling from her co-prisoners. What happens next is neither sexy, nor positive for poor Sarah.
• In a hilarious example, Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier bumps into Alto for the first time (who was shirtless at the moment), and immediately focuses on his face instead, mistaking him for a very beautiful girl.
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS fans disappointed in the lack of nekkid Erio Transformation Sequence in the anime worry not, the supplementary manga gives him one (albeit, just one panel).
• After he gets injured for the first time in Maiden Rose Klaus makes a bit of a habit walking around with only bandages on his torso. Coincidentally, his shirt also seems to be the only clothing that comes off during sex.
• Kouji Kabuto from Mazinger Z pulled this sometimes, specially late in the series (the episode where Erika showed up comes to mind). Dr. Hell also pulled this at the end of Mazinkaiser for seemingly no reason, and despite being a very old man.
• Kaito from Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch. This site has a whole section on his increasingly improbable shirtless scenes in the manga.
• Hosaka in Minami-ke is prone to going shirtless for little reason or provocation. There's even an eyecatch of him in one of his shirtless moments.
• Both Setsuna and Allelujah in the second ED of Mobile Suit Gundam 00.
• Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun gives the guys a shirtless moment or two (mostly in the Beach Episode). In particular:
  • Chapter 37 has Mayu of all people taking his shirt for Miyako so he can "repay" her kindness (giving him cake) with his body, that is by letting her use him for drawing references. Mikoshiba finds it unfair she's more interested in Mayu modelling for her than Mikoshiba drawing flowers for her manga so he also goes topless to get her attention. In an omake Miyako comments on how toned Mayu is while also saying she prefers Mikoshiba's body.
  • Mikoshiba also goes topless in the Anthology chapter; the gang are playing the King's Game and some of them run out of ideas thus keep ordering someone to take a piece of clothing off - and Mikoshiba is the poor victim every time.
• Sherlock Holmes of Moriarty the Patriot gets a couple of these:
  • Did Sherlock actually have to strip down to his underwear after Adler jumped into a river fully dressed? Probably not, but he sure did anyway. Technically, this is two scenes, since the scene skipped between when he stripped down in public and when they got home, with him still undressed.
  • Seen again after being rescued by Billy. Sherlock has pants on, so did the shirt need to stay off? Well, it's not as if he put it on himself after waking up.
• Naruto:
  • Naruto spends a good few chapters shirtless and covered in oil in Naruto Shippuuden. Sasuke has a brief shot in a movie trailer drenching himself under a waterfall. It was rumored that the fangirls could be heard for miles around.
  • Even long before that, Naruto spent a good part of his Wind Chakra training shirtless which was even well featured on a chapter cover!
  • Hidan, after a fight, has his Akatsuki uniform half ripped up, making all his appearances later on be half-Shirtless Scenes. Apparently Kakuzu was too much of a tightwad to give Hidan money to get another one.
  • Not just Hidan. Deidara, Sasori, Kakuzu and Pain go shirtless at one point in time as well.
    • Those can all be considered subversions, as they show their bodies are far from attractive, being covered in toothy mouths, wood panels, multiple stitches and body piercing, respectively.
    • However, Kisame also gets his cloak torn off, and despite being a shark-like man with blue skin, his chest is rather normal looking.
    • Itachi, who is the most normal Akatsuki member in terms of appearance and abilities is the only member in Akatsuki that dies without being shirtless. He loses his cloak while fighting Sasuke but under it is a shirt.
  • Then we got shirtless Danzo (who was also bleeding profusely and had his arm reduced to a stump at the time), which could not be more Fan Disservice.
  • In some anime only scenes and a filler episode, we get to see Jiraiya in the hotspring with his chest completely bare. We also get to see this in the manga, but by that point, he has a huge scar obscuring most of chest.
  • Also, people tend to forget this, but Gaara's older brother Kankuro also had a shirtless scene in episodes 11 and 12 of Naruto Shippuden as well as the manga. After he was poisoned by Sasori, he was immediately rushed to a hospital room where he is shown topless as well as not having his hood and face-paint on. He was shown to be very well-built and toned (and he even gained some fangirls as a result!)
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi occasionally gives Negi shirtless scenes. It's less Squicky than one would expect, as he's usually magically aged into a teenager when they happen.
  • Like, for example, teenage Negi vs. Jack Rakan in a shirtless battle worthy of the Tenkaichi Budokai.
• Almost as soon as he shows up on screen for the first time in episode 24 of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Kaworu Nagisa ends up stripped butt-naked along with Shinji Ikari in a shower scene. He was only around for one episode so he had to make up for lost time somehow, right?
  • Rebuild took this even further: until he donned his plugsuit for the first time when Zeruel was attacking, he was a Walking Shirtless Scene. In fact, only one of them qualifies for this trope since in the other, he's completely naked.
• Happens surprisingly often in One Piece.
  • The most prominent example is Ace, where practically every scene he's in turns into a shirtless scene. Also happens with mostly with Luffy, Zoro and Franky. A notable example for Zoro occurred during the Drum Island arc, where he spends a good portion of the crew's time there wandering around without a shirt on. Sanji in comparison rarely takes his top off, but an example occurs in Water 7 where when Robin bids him and Chopper farewell, Sanji jumps into the water to chase after her and is next seen shirtless and ringing out his top.
  • Parodied when a woman's baby messes Zoro's shirt, so the mother yanks it off to clean it for him. Before she explains why she stole it, he angrily accuses her of being a pervert.
  • After the timeskip, Zoro signifies that he's getting serious by stripping off his coat in addition to donning his bandanna.
  • Female example with Marguerite from Amazon Lily, who during the scene where she removes the mushrooms from Luffy’s body is lacking a top (in the manga).
  • Charlotte Katakuri in his duel with Luffy, indicates a Let's Get Dangerous! by removing his vest and fighting Luffy shirtless.
  • In Wano, when the Curlyhats reunite with Luffy after he went down with the Sunny, Sanji is surprisingly shirtless with the implication that he was swimming looking for Luffy who has Super Drowning Skills. Later Luffy spends the entirely of his Training from Hell in Udon Prison shirtless.
  • Another female example with Black Maria who has Toplessness from the Back at start of her fight with Robin. Subverted in the fight proper, as she’s conveniently wearing some wrapping over her breasts.
• Ouran High School Host Club gives all the male characters in the club plenty of opportunities to take their shirts off. The club's website once featured a picture of Haruhi shirtless which, naturally, turned out to be photoshopped.
  • Kyouya's scene in episode 8◊
• Outlaw Star's Gene Starwind nearly matches Innocent Fanservice Girl Melfina in the number of times they've gone topless. Considering that the latter pilots the ship naked...
• The four Bishōnen boys from Perfect Girl Evolution (Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge) frequently go shirtless, causing MASSIVE nosebleeds. Mostly from Sunako.
  • Yes, there was a naked Furo Scene involving all four of them. The fangirls peeping in on them didn't stand a chance.
• Phantom ~ Requiem for the Phantom has one episode with protagonist Zwei sunbathing on a roof, and another with him coming out of a shower◊. In spite of some noticeable scars he attained from gunshot wounds earlier in the series, it doesn't really take away from his attractiveness.
• In Pokémon: The Series Ash has gotten shirtless a countless number of times throughout the seasons and movies though the excess of it and his young age can cause it to be considered Fan Disservice by some. Thought that doesn't stop his numerous fans from clamoring for more, and even Brock and Cilan join in at times. And after, Kiawe also joined, who shirtless almost all season, no matter what the occasion, and he did the same case in the game.
• Pokémon Adventures required Red to use his shirt to tie down a steering column on an airship while he went to defuse one of Carr's Forretress bombs. Since he cast off his jacket prior to his battle with Giovanni, this trope is the result of these desperate measures. And he manages to stay that way for over half a saga.
  • Heck, any chapter which focuses on Red (baring Yellow) has him shirtless in one way or the other. He's taken off his clothes to persuade some Pokémon to play with him, his shirt was taken off to apply bandages, he stripped naked to enter a hot spring and finally the above-mentioned shirt-ripping.
  • The SWSH chapter has Raihan showing off his selfies, with one of the pictures featuring him shirtless in bed. If the manga is to be believed, his baggy hoodie hides a very muscular frame.
• We get several shirtless scenes for Fakir in Princess Tutu; somewhat justified because he has a plot-relevant birthmark on his chest, but also usually with an obvious fanservice factor as well. Mytho also has one scene where he has his uniform shirt unbuttoned in the second season — a tip-off that something is very odd, because normally he wears the shirt fully buttoned... but without pants.
• Kougami in Psycho-Pass has a couple of shirtless workout scenes showcasing his lovingly-drawn chest and abs. Akane certainly seems appreciative.
• Pumpkin Scissors: This has a tendency to happen to Randel while he's in a fight, to the point that he's almost a Walking Shirtless Scene. It's decidedly not meant to be fanservice, though.
• Since most of the cursed men in Ranma ½ shed their clothes when transforming (as they turn into animals), they all get Shirtless Scenes with astonishing regularity. The exceptions are Genma and Ranma (whose girl curse means he gets to keep his clothes on during a transformation... usually).
  • In the manga, what's funny is that Ranma's girl side gets far more Shirtless Scenes than his male side ever does.
• Until a significant way in Tsuna from Reborn! (2004) ripped his shirt and pants off every time he activated his attack, leaving him in just his boxers while he fought. Also, near the beginning of the TYL arc, both him and Gokudera are shirtless in the middle of a forest at night. Brrr.
  • Xanxus has a 99% chance of being shirtless every time he appears in a non-plot related picture. This is obviously only done to show us the plot-related scars on his chest.
  • During his battle with Belphegor, Gokudera wore his shirt completely unbuttoned and hanging open with nothing covering his torso save for a lot of bandages.
  • Ryohei is embodiment of this trope, 'cause he gets more Shirtless Scenes than any other character. And he's quite hot.
  • And don't forget about the latest Katekyo Hitman Reborn OAV where we get a veryyy veryyy looong extra bonus screentime focused on Hibari Kyoya's chest in an Onsen. The day it was released, many fangirls died from bloodloss.
• At one point in the later arcs of Revolutionary Girl Utena, this particular trope becomes obsessive, affecting every Bishōnen on the series and possibly merging with Homoerotic Subtext and getting to the point of Fan Disservice in some cases.
  • Hilariously parodied in the OP for the Sega Saturn game, where the first thing that Akio and Touga do is to open their shirts and show off their chests, much to Saionji's embarrassment.
• Ryo from Ronin Warriors goes shirtless for a good two or three minutes at the beginning of episode 20, after he awakens from a Catapult Nightmare.
• During Tsukune's fight with Moka's father near the end of Rosario + Vampire Capu 2, he gets his shirt blown apart when the residual vampire blood in his body starts working again.
  • This happens a few times in the second season of the manga, mostly in the Sun arc but he is first shirtless on the frontpage on the chapter probably just to show how badass he has become and well it worked
• In the manga The Rose of Versailles, André gets a shirtless scene when he changes out of his rainsoaked uniform as Oscar walks in on him. Cue Oscar being all indignant and flustered.
• This happens a bit in Rurouni Kenshin, though canon-wise, it happens the most during the Kyoto arc. Most memorable would be when Sanosuke fights his ex-teacher Anji (Sanosuke throws his shirt off while Anji's explodes due to sheer rage and power), and later when Kenshin gets his blown off by one of Shishio's gunpowdered sword attacks.
• In Saint Beast, Judas has a few, usually with water keeping it from being more than just shirtless.
• Saint Seiya:
  • Dragon Saint Shiryu seems to enjoy stripping off the upper half of his armor when getting serious with an enemy. The better to show off his huge... Power Tattoo.
  • Seiya also manage to get a few, the first one against the before-mentioned saint, and another were he takes off his shirt before fighting three Silver Saints and after sneaking out of the hospital.
  • Deathmask of Cancer also fights shirtless against Shiryu. As does Krishna of Krisaor during the Poseidon arc, and Okko of Tiger before the Sanctuary arc. The Dragon Saint tend to have that effect on his opponents.
• Saint Seiya Omega:
  • On the other hand, this sequel doesn't get one until episode 51 where Pegasus Kouga starts off wearing Sagittarius armor and ends up fighting like this against the God of Darkness.
  • Shiryu's own son, Ryuhou, doesn't get a proper Shirtless Scene until episode 83. Yes, the Power Tattoo runs in the family.
• Saiyuki's protagonists do this quite a bit (particularly the 'older' three) and then there's Kougaiji who's a Walking Shirtless Scene for the first anime (he's got a jacket though which is just odd).
  • Kenren sort of counts in Gaiden too.
• Jin near the climax of Samurai Champloo. Complete with his unwoven hair blowing gently in the wind. Cue fangirls fainting.
• Date Masamune gets one in the Sengoku Basara anime, possibly to balance out his Walking Shirtless Scene rival Yukimura. He's also injured and bandaged. It's great!
• Shaman King villain Hao wears a poncho but he is shirtless.
  • Faust goes through his introductory fight mostly shirtless, but bar certain demographics, it's much more Squick.
• Occurs twice in the second anime season of Slayers; the first when Gourry and Zelgadis are healing from an attack from a pair of demons raiding Princess Amelia's castle, and the second when said pair's covers are blown during the Once a Season cross-dressing episode. It turns out that the Lady Land kingdom they had infiltrated (hence the disguises) is full of men that had also hidden their genders, and increased the shirtless count, including the princess Zelgadis had been falling for. Ouch. Gourry is also seen shirtless in an early scene of the Slayers Premium movie.
  • Valgaav, the Big Bad from the third season, exaggerates this with the Walking Shirtless Scene trope - the closest thing he wears to a shirt is a flimsy top that exposes his midriff.
  • A very humorous promotional spread for the Un-Cancelled fourth season, illustrated by the man who drew the illustrations in the light novels, has Gourry and Zel as this again, this time in flimsy swimwear. Xellos and Wizer Freion are in on it also.
• The three male protagonists in Snow White with the Red Hair get at least one apiece:
  • Zen is topless when Shirayuki bandages an injury for him as well as completely nude when he takes a bath with Obi at an inn.
  • In addition to the bath scene at the inn and a Public Bathhouse Scene Obi ends up topless for some bandaging and on some covers, with an open shirt with nothing on underneath on another cover and is later shown to sleep topless when he bothers to sleep in his own room and bed.
  • Mitsuhide gets a topless scene when Obi won't stop banging on his door while he's trying to change so he opens it before he gets a shirt on. Since Obi, Kiki and Shirayuki were are all standing there and he proceeded to finish getting dressed with the door open he gets pestered about it for a while and all three comment on his build.
• When Yume from Someday's Dreamers meets her magic instructor Masami for the first time, he is completely shirtless, leading to a very flustered reaction for the poor girl. Of course, that Masami's best friend Kera opened the door being practically shirtless as well doesn't help matters.
• One episode of Soul Eater featured Soul trying to cheat on a test by hiding cheat sheets in his clothes, and then being strip-searched by the teacher when he caught him. Soul spent the rest of the test in only his boxers, much to the glee of the fangirls.
  • Soul actually gets Shirtless Scenes fairly regularly after he gets his scar.
  • Later, Stein of all people gets one. He's unfairly ripped, in case you're wondering.
    • Courtesy link. In case you were, y'know, curious or anything.
  • Also, Black☆Star. Besides having awesome biceps he's also BUFF when you see him shirtless with just a towel over his shoulders after training.
  • In perhaps the most gratuitous example, Free is shirtless for his illusionary fight with Death the Kid. He's wearing a shirt in the scene immediately before and puts it back on immediately after, and there's no obvious reason why he took it off just to fight. (By the way, he's in his Wolf Man form most of the time, which may detract from or enhance the effect, depending on your preferences.)
  • In the manga only, Ox, Harvar, Kilik, and the pots hang around the school shirtless after coming back from an extremely Hot-Blooded mission.
• In the first season of Star Blazers Wildstar does hard physical exercise to angst. In a later episode, affably evil Desslok is in his bath and learns that a general has returned. He stands and the camera focuses on his chest... and stays there for about five seconds. This fails as fanservice immeasurably, however, as Desslok (going by this screenshot) has no nipples.
• Just going to show that Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is incapable of doing anything halfway, we have the fight scene in episode 20: Simon and Viral. Prison bathroom brawl. Wearing nothing but ridiculously tiny towels.
  • And of course Kamina is shirtless all the time. So often that the presence of a shirt-wearing Kamina in Simon's Lotus Eater Dream immediately indicates that some weird shit is going on.
  • Let's not forget the bath episode, with everyone staying naked for a good 6 or 7 minutes, leading Viral to call the gang "naked monkeys" for the first half the series.
• Texhnolyze begins with a shirtless Ichise staring at himself in the mirror. No, it's not meant to be enticing.
• Kuroi from Thou Shalt Not Die gets a shirtless scene in Chapter 7, going out of shower.
• Kotetsu T. Kaburagi (aka Wild Tiger) has a prolonged Shirtless Scene in the ninth episode of Tiger & Bunny. Being significantly older than most anime protagonists or superheroes has not made his Heroic Build any less heroic. He then gets another prolonged shirtless scene in episode thirteen, which ends with, well, this◊. It should come to no surprise that Tiger & Bunny fans love Wild Tiger.
• Tokyo Ghoul:
  • Kaneki gets this after taking a shower.
  • A less fanservicey example would be Torso and the couple occasions he goes shirtless. The more terrifying ones being when he approaches a tied up Mutsuki while shirtless and picks up a limbless Mutsuki with his freakishly long arms.
• The second opening sequence to Toward the Terra has Keith taking off the shirt of his uniform for symbolic reasons, while the first has him completely naked (which also actually makes some sense if you really think about it, but let's face it, why would you?).
• Subverted in Trigun. Vash the Stampede is fairly good looking in his Badass Longcoat, but when he gets his first shirtless scene, it turns out he's so cut up, scarred, and shot to pieces that he looks like Frankenstein's monster underneath.
• Abel Nightroad of Trinity Blood certainly gets his share of shirtlessness. Also, Brother Petros spends the entire fifth volume of the manga without a shirt. And is he ripped!
  • Hugue has also been sans shirt more than once, revealing a LOT of scars (said scars haven't deterred the fangirls in the slightest).
  • Lampshaded early on in the manga, when Tres' clothes get turned into swiss cheese by machine-gun fire (of course it doesn't affect him at all) and Abel goes into fanboy mode at the sight of him, complete with Luminescent Blush.
  Abel: I think that... Tres... you are so HOT!
  Tres: I don't understand what you mean.
• Umineko: When They Cry gives Kanon, a very feminine Bishōnen servant, a shirtless scene. Then he removes a bandage covering a stab wound on his chest and PUTS HIS FINGERS IN IT. What do you expect? This is When They Cry.
  • There's another Fan Disservice example at the end of the second arc when Battler briefly gives up. Beatrice chains him up and parades him around naked.
• Vampire Knight has quite a few of these. Then again, given the large quantity of vampire cuties it may not be all that surprising.
• Johnny Rayflo of Vassalord, so much so he qualifies as a Walking Shirtless Scene. Expect at least one panel or page dedicated to showing off his lack of a shirt.
• In Violinist of Hameln, everytime Hamel transforms into a Mazoku he bursts out of his clothes. In the anime, his signature black outfit even seems to somehow grow back everytime he changes back. In the manga, Drum attacked the human army with giant spikes that shot out of the ground... and somehow managed to rip both Clari and Trom's shirts off without causing them too much damage otherwise.
• In The Vision of Escaflowne, Van Fanel can grow wings from his back, destroying his entire shirt every single time they're used.
• Weiß Kreuz: Glühen features plenty of shirtless scenes in its OP. And Youji's outfit is a mix of shirtless and Badass Longcoat.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: Malik Ishtar has several scenes where he strips off his shirt in front of everyone (though it's actually a plot point — he's showing the tattoo on his back), prime material for his fangirls.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: A favorite coveted screenshot among fangirls is of Kaiser waist up in the shower. Jaden too has a pretty nice body for someone who just plays with trading cards all day.
• YuYu Hakusho: Almost all of the main characters (and many of the Big Bads) have multiple scenes in which his shirt is ripped up in the midst of battle. Well, except the Bishōnen (Kurama) with the largest fan club.
  • No, instead he gets to rip open his shirt during a fight and rub blood all over his chest...
  • Gets Lampshaded in one episode. The announcer notices they've "somehow lost their shirts."
  • At one point while summoning the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, Hiei's shirt explodes for no reason.

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