Taro-chan

Taro-chan was a fictional female character featured in Chibikko Kaiju Yadamon (ちびっこ怪獣ヤダモン TCJ, 1967-68). Drawn in the highly cartoonish style prevalent in the industry at that time, Taro has the distinction of owning the shortest dress in animated history; barely reaching down to her hips so that her panties were fully visible even when standing still. According to Wikipedia.jp, none of the original prints have survived, apart from a few grainy intros posted on youtube and nico video.

It is possible, however, to reconstruct Taro's appearance from print media and merchandise associated with the cartoon. Surviving manga depict Taro as a young girl with thick black braids, wearing a short yellow dress, bright red shoes, and white cotton briefs. Unusually for the time, her panties were depicted with folds and wrinkles, details routinely ignored by artists and animators during the sixties. Several sources claim that Go Nagai drew the manga adaption; this would have been less than one year before he launched the highly successful Harenchi Gakuen in Weekly Shōnen Jump.

This might explain the copious amounts of gratuitous panchira in what was clearly a children's title.

Compare with

 * Uran
 * Sally
 * Akane-chan