The japanese anime of the Ghost Sweeper Mikami
in which the character is derived from also wears very short and
likes to whip her apprentice.
Plot Summary: Reiko Mikami is a very beautiful,
greedy and skillfull ghost hunter, and her dream is to have more
and more money. Her assistant is Tadao Yokoshima, who is very
pervert, but very loyal, just because he desires Mikami, although
she treats him like grabage, and always manipulates him to do the
dangerous tasks.
her apprentice likes to be stepped on and whipped because of the
view from below. 
