The logic of anime is typically not to be trusted, but every now and then I find myself wondering if some dumbass situation is almost realistic enough to be an actual scenario experienced by a living, breathing human at some point in time. Unfortunately that rules out fucking a hot alien space pirate or something. Still, it leaves room for the more mundanely lewd situations that anime offers up. Today I wanted to focus on a small scenario depicted in an episode of The Dangers in My Heart: sweating so much that it reveals your body and undergarments in public. Or in this case school, the setting of 90% of all anime.
I’m no (complete) moron, I know that wet t-shirt contests exist for a reason and that if you dampen a piece of white, thin material then you will be able to see through it to some degree. But my question is has this actually ever been a problem for anyone in normal everyday life? I’ve never been sitting in a classroom, building, or place in nature where my clothes were soaked from sweat simply by existing. Maybe if I ran a while on a hot day then sure some stains will show up, but not to the degree seen in the cover image. In my experience you would have to really be doing some excruciating exercise in blistering heat to reach that level of moisture and in the anime this character wasn’t. I know people sweat differently so maybe it’s not true for everyone. So we have arrived at our brass tacks question: have you guys ever been in a situation where you felt embarrassed that your shirt or some similar garment had become see-through due to sweat? And if so, where and what the fuck were you doing for it to be so prominently drenched?
I can think of a few reasons. This heat is crazy!
More than anything I think this demonstrates how anime can turn any fucking basic situation into an exaggerated lewd fantasy. However, maybe there’ll be some people who chime in to say how this is a real problem and it’s just something that I personally have been saved from having to deal with thanks to sweat genetics. Have you ever dealt with this, or known someone who did? Is there a shred of a chance this is common for a decent proportion of people, or is this anime forcing lewd logic wherever it can? Put on a t-shirt, head out in public on a hot day, and get arrested for your boobs showing in the library cause your top got soaked in the comments below!
I'm aware, for example, that many schools (at least in my country) now have coloured shirts as opposed to white because of it. Some kids wear undershirts to avoid being embarrassed by the white shirts becoming see-through, but the problem is the heat can get so bad a lot won't due to genuine fear of heatstroke.