Those looking to catch the upskirt view of a Japanese schoolgirl may be suprised to find themseleves brought low - real low - as the ever-mercurial landscape of schoolgirl fashion trends toward longer skirts. All over, the rolling-up has stopped, and hemlines have dropped, according to reports.

From not wanting to bother pulling the skirt out again when warned by teachers to a dislike for sunburned legs, girls interviewed gave a variety of reasons for the shift. Some reasoned that the boom in popularity was rooted in admiration of a stricter girls' school in Nara, or a revived appreciation for Marimite. Others even suggested that the rolling-down was the first blow in an all out fashion war between east and west, the proper and elegant long-skirted girls of Osaka against the miniskirt-wearing tramps in Tokyo.

My friends, this is very disturbing news. Hundreds, if not thousands of our favorite tropes are at risk should this trend become permanent! If schoolgirls start wearing longer skirts, how will we tell the proper girls from delinquents?! Everyone knows that the delinquents are the ones that wear long skirts and facemasks walking around carrying practice swords! If all skirts go long, we'll only have two highly visible elements to look for!

In a long-skirt world, crashing into someone will never be the same! The girl you knocked over on the way to school won't have to be concerned about your seeing her underwear, and thus will not suddenly scramble to sit up, crying "kyaaa~!," thus forming the relationship that will eventually lead to you two finding out you were childhood friends who once pledged to marry each other when they got into college!

Despair, friends, for our absolute territory may well be breached.