Opinions on Sukumizu Inklings

I'm very sure the female Inklings from the Splatoon series would love to wear the school swimsuit worn by Ushio Kofune from Summer Time Rendering. The biggest problem, however, is that the Inklings are severely hydrophobic. This explains why you don't get to see Inklings in swimwear outside of Splatoon fan art.

Sukumizu Daioh Rendering

Go figure that the sukumizu school swimsuits from Azumanga Daioh and Summer Time Rendering bear strong resemblances to conventional one-piece swimsuits unlike the average Anime sukumizu school swimsuit.

Sukumizu Faux Pas

Attention, female readers. If you feel that your swimsuit does not have enough fanservice appeal, bear in mind a sukumizu makes you look immature and uncool.

In many Shojo TV shows, wearing a school swimsuit (sukumizu) outside school premises is a major faux pas because any female character wearing a school swimsuit to a swimming complex or a water park or the beach outside of field trips would be considered immature. This will cause other female characters to scramble to get her proper swimwear lest she be seen as uncool.

Even a two-piece swimsuit comprising of a sports bra swim top and boyshorts swim bottoms, which appears to be modest by two-piece swimwear standards, would have far better approval than a school swimsuit in swimwear terms, and yet, people are saying that Samus from Metroid shouldn't be wearing swimwear as alternate costumes to any Super Smash Bros games, claiming that fanservice is not allowed in many of Nintendo's games. Nintendo, however, states clearly that the sports bra and boyshorts attires worn by Samus in the Game Boy Advance Metroid games are eligible alternate costumes for Zero Suit Samus in the Super Smash Bros games given that such costumes are also worn by female wrestlers in professional wrestling, and Smash not only has several stages that allows the swimming feature, but also a boxing ring that stands in as a wrestling ring.

As for wearing a sukumizu to take part in an Anime convention swimwear competition, that is definitely out of the question.

Metroid © Nintendo.

Ice Bucket Swimwear

Author's Note: This comic is dedicated to the memory of Anthony Senerchia Jr and Pete Frates, the two men who inspired the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, as well as SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg. All of them passed away due to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's disease. Also, summer may be over, and the 2020 edition of the Ice Bucket Challenge had to be cancelled due to the current pandemic, but this does not mean there will be no comic about the Ice Bucket Challenge because the idea for this comic was already conceived to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Ice Bucket Challenge.

If you played Xenoblade Chronicles, you do know that Shulk can just confront the enemies while in his swimming shorts. He also wears them as an alternate costume in the Super Smash Bros games as well. Of course he would be really feeling it when it comes to the Ice Bucket Challenge.

While wearing a sukumizu school swimsuit to the beach does not sound like a good idea aside from excursions to the beach, wearing a sukumizu school swimsuit for the Ice Bucket Challenge would be a totally different scenario, however.

Skirted female swimwear would usually have skirts that are not transparent. However, transparent skirts do exist, and swimsuits with transparent skirts should get more attention as they have far more fanservice.

Yes, female swimsuits with long sleeves that look like gymnastics leotards are a thing. Even better still, there are two-piece swimsuits with long sleeves as well.

Japanese animation seems to be obsessed with striped lingerie such as Shimabra and Shimapan. Therefore, striped bikinis would be another good choice for swimwear to wear for the Ice Bucket Challenge. Also, the "My bikini is ready!" quote in the last panel is a reference to the "My Body Is Ready" quote that became synonymous with Reggie Fils-Aime and the Wii Fit series.

Female Japanese School Uniform Cliches

There are many overrated costumes in Japanese pop culture, with female school uniforms being one of the most notable examples.

The female school uniform we are all familiar with is called the "sailor fuku." It is a school uniform worn mostly by female middle school students, and attracts a lot of attention in anime. In high school, however, it is mostly replaced by the blazer uniform, which also attracts similar attention in some anime shows and video games.

Female sports attire used to have skimpy shorts called buruma, which is Japanese for bloomers. For looking like panties, the buruma became popular with various anime fanbases. However, at the end of the 1990s, they were eventually phased out in favour of sports shorts that provided more modesty in many schools throughout Japan. Therefore, the bloomers that looked like panties are considered "old-fashioned." Yet, female athletes taking part in athletics competitions are still wearing them.

The school swimsuit seen in various anime is called the "sukumizu." Both the "old type" and the "new type" have gained a lot of attention from anime fanbases, and the "new type" would actually be more suitable for swimming competitions, including swimming competitions featured in video games. If one is seen wearing a sukumizu to the beach when it does not involve a school field trip to the beach, either the person is modest or immature, depending on how you look at her.