Japanese schoolgirls

From TeeVeePedia, the Internet TV Encyclopedia.

Japanese schoolgirls are celebrated throughout the world because of an incident that occurred during the final season of World War II. The writers of the show originally wanted to use Tokyo, Japan for the show's finale. Plans for VJ Day were all set and the Babbage Difference Engines ready to ship out. The goal was to sink Japan to the bottom of the sea, as quickly as possible, ending the war with a splash.

At that point, as if by magic, a group of teenage and pre-teen Japanese girls wearing impossibly tight blouses and impossibly short skirts appeared at the site of the Manhattan Project. The girls began singing a song about the power of friendship and love as the deserts of New Mexico began to bloom with millions of flowers. Touched by the incident, the writers decided to move the finale to Hollywood, where the effects of the destruction wouldn't be noticed among the normal chaos that is Hollywood.

In recognition of the feat, the government of Japan ordered that at least one Japanese schoolgirl appear in every episode of every anime. (As a side effect of this decision, about 12% of all overweight adult male viewers of anime choose to dress up in the traditional Japanese schoolgirl costume.) In addition, the image of a Japanese schoolgirl appears on the rarely seen 1-million yen (US equivalent: about $6.52) note.