LAST EDITED ON Aug-18-14 AT 08:08 PM (EDT)
 
Oh, so here's another great thing about this show. After facepalming myself almost into unconsciousness at the blatancy of Strike Witches, I was oddly delighted to find that this is the way K-On! does fanservice:

Classy, eh? Seriously. I mean, yeah, they're kind of doing the classic dakimakura thing there, but they're fully dressed. Mio hasn't even taken off her blazer. (OK, Ritsu's barefoot, but hey, it's her bed, surely she has that right. She's still wearing her tie, for pity's sake. :)

A minute later they show Ritsu first getting to a sitting, then a standing, position on the bed, from a camera angle looking more or less directly on from the front, and at no point is her underwear visible. I must be getting old, 'cause I approve the crap out of how they did that. On a lot of anime shows these days, you'd have been able to read the print on the waistband. :)

(In the interest of full disclosure, there is a running joke about a panty shot on the show, pursuant to an earlier-established running joke about their faculty advisor liking to dress them in absurd, abbreviated stage costumes, but although everyone at the school festival sees it, the audience doesn't. The joke is Mio's reaction to having accidentally done it/being reminded of it later, not the shot itself.)

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