List of 1970s Bathing Scene Trends

This is a list of miscellaneous facts and statistical comparisons of appearing trends in bathing scenes from anime, manga and other related media between the years 1970 through 1979. Also note that results are not completely accurate as this research only comes from the scenes that have been discovered and put on this site so far.

Overview
The 1970s is known as the earliest decade where anime and manga started getting big and many known concepts seen in them started. Due to anime and manga being low-budget and only appealing to children in Japan at the time, many of it stayed on its storyline and didn't drift into bathing scenes too often and when it did it was almost only played for comic relief and instead of fanservice. In the area of bathing scenes the author who contributed to bathing scenes the most in this decade would be Go Nagai who was the pioneer of ecchi and fanservice anime and manga such as Cutie Honey. Cutie Honey also made a major contribution to the Magical Girl genre inspiring shows that incorporated fanservice such as bathing scenes like Majokko Megu-chan. Monkey Punches Lupin III also became a major staple in anime which the character Fujiko Mine became a huge source of fanservice in the franchise providing her with quite a lot of Bath and Shower scenes throughout the series and movies. Though Tatsunoko Productions prominently focused on Superhero shows that most often didn't have time for fanservice, the Time Bokan series installments in the later half of the decade had villainesses such as Doronjo and Muujo that would often be portrayed bathing a lot of times.

First and Last Scenes
The first known bathing scene to be in an anime of the entire decade was Cleopatra VII Philopator's Bath scene from the film Cleopatra: Queen of Sex in September 15th, 1970 while the last known was a Bath scene of Sayla Mass in Mobile Suit Gundam episode 37 from December 15th, 1979.

Bubble Bath Scenes
The earliest known Bubble Bath scene to appear in this decade was of Honey Kisaragi in the opening credits to the Cutie Honey anime which first aired on October 13th, 1973. Due to bathing scenes still just barely getting into anime and manga at the time, it is possible that it may have been the very first bubble bath scene in anime. Though between years there is a tie between 1974 and 1977 for having the most bubble bath scenes, both years only had 2. The only bubble bath scenes in 1974 were of Megu Kanzaki from Majokko Megu-chan episodes 3 and 23 while 1977 only had bubble bath scenes with Doronjo from the Yatterman ending credits and episode 10. The last known bubble bath scene of the decade was also of Doronjo in Yatterman episode 71 which aired on May 6th, 1978. With bubble bath scenes only appearing in the years 1973, 1974, 1977 and 1978, Yatterman was the series that had the most with 3 of them all featuring Doronjo.

Barrel Bath Scenes
The earliest known Barrel bath scene in the decade as well as anime in general was in Dororon Enma-kun episode 15 which first aired on January 17th, 1974.