<p>About six minutes into S1E40 of <em>Sailor Moon</em>, Usagi wants her younger brother Shingo to join the family in the hot spring, but he is ashamed and wears a towel. The weird part is that it covers his non-existent breasts, since he is a boy.</p>
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<p>Why would a boy cover himself to that extent? At first, I thought that I had misunderstood something and that the boy actually is Sailor Moon's female friend or something, but I double-checked, and it really is her brother.</p>
<p>Is this yet another &quot;strange Japanese thing&quot;?</p>

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2022-01-09T00:09:26.320Z
Surely the obvious explanation is that that's just how big the towel is? I'm a boy (well, man), and the towels in my house are large enough to cover my chest, and I don't care.
F1Krazy
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2022-01-09T13:21:56.813Z
[This](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11249943876) asks the exact same question. There is not really an answer, but  the asker is guessing it was simply the choice of the animators.
sundowner
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2022-01-09T15:39:12.767Z
There was a short mention about this in [someone's episode review in Japanese](http://blog.livedoor.jp/melamine/archives/1521808.html), wondering why Shingou was behaving effeminately.
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Why does Shingo wear a towel like a girl?
# Why does Shingo wear a towel like a girl?
Posted by: username_0 on 2022-01-08
About six minutes into S1E40 of *Sailor Moon*, Usagi wants her younger brother Shingo to join the family in the hot spring, but he is ashamed and wears a towel. The weird part is that it covers his non-existent breasts, since he is a boy.

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Why would a boy cover himself to that extent? At first, I thought that I had misunderstood something and that the boy actually is Sailor Moon's female friend or something, but I double-checked, and it really is her brother.

Is this yet another "strange Japanese thing"?
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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Surely the obvious explanation is that that's just how big the towel is? I'm a boy (well, man), and the towels in my house are large enough to cover my chest, and I don't care.  
> **username_2**: [This](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11249943876) asks the exact same question. There is not really an answer, but  the asker is guessing it was simply the choice of the animators.  
> **username_3**: There was a short mention about this in [someone's episode review in Japanese](http://blog.livedoor.jp/melamine/archives/1521808.html), wondering why Shingou was behaving effeminately.  
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