Or: When and why did Japanese culture divorce the bunnysuit from the Playboy company and turn it into more of a General Thing? As an eminent bunnygirl myself, this is of course important scholarship for me.
I had always been under the impression this was an 80s thing--indeed, a friend of mine recently mentioned she thought it took off with the Daicon 4 opening animation (1983) (figure 1). But then I saw someone post a screencap (figure 2) from an episode I'd apparently seen once but completely forgotten about of JAKQ Dengekitai (1977), and I got to wondering.
