Poll: Does Fansevice bug you?
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If I want sex, i'll watch a hentai. (or go visit my boyfriend) But if I'm watching a regular anime, I don't want to be distracted by butts and boobs all over the place. The Highschool of the dead manga had just as much fanservice, but I read it for the story and actionForensicYOYO said:
Appreciation of well-drawn female bodies is all well and good, but after awhile it can insult your intelligence. So yeah, it bugs me. It's like, hey, look, the creators of this anime felt they needed to orient the camera on incredibly detailed drawing of panties or boobies so often that it's as though that's the most exciting thing going on in the entire anime. It's hard to feel as though my time is well-used watching garbage that the developers themselves had such poor faith in. Fortunately, that doesn't happen too often, but it's really annoying in the animes that do. (E.g. Shuffle! [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5375] or Popotan [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2082].)
I'd probably feel differently about this if I were, like the original poster, still a teenager young enough to think "putting C4 on puppies and making them go boom" was funny enough to go on my profile, as the hormones implicit to that age would render drawings of the fairer sex's mystery regions as a source of unlimited awesome that fully deserves front and center stage on any entertainment media I watch. Alas, this is no longer the case.
I'd probably feel differently about this if I were, like the original poster, still a teenager young enough to think "putting C4 on puppies and making them go boom" was funny enough to go on my profile, as the hormones implicit to that age would render drawings of the fairer sex's mystery regions as a source of unlimited awesome that fully deserves front and center stage on any entertainment media I watch. Alas, this is no longer the case.
It kind of bugs me, but then again I'm incredibly fucked up in that department.
Weird fetishes, not getting turned on by porn... I don't really think I represent anyone with my answer.
Weird fetishes, not getting turned on by porn... I don't really think I represent anyone with my answer.
The only fan service I like is Bandit Keith fan service...in America.
Fan service doesn't bother me unless it's being constantly shoved in my face (I do need to breath after all). Adding sexuality certainly won't make a bad show good but it also doesn't automatically ruin something that is otherwise fun. I think nerds tend to go way too far in their denials of any kind of "perversion." Liking boobs doesn't make you disgusting. It's understandable because they are pretty awesome.
Fan service doesn't bother me unless it's being constantly shoved in my face (I do need to breath after all). Adding sexuality certainly won't make a bad show good but it also doesn't automatically ruin something that is otherwise fun. I think nerds tend to go way too far in their denials of any kind of "perversion." Liking boobs doesn't make you disgusting. It's understandable because they are pretty awesome.
It bugs me when there is so much of it that it starts killing a great series. For example, Rosario + Vampire, the manga is kick ass and awesome, but the anime tries to hard with all the skirt flips and bouncing that eventually get covered up by censors anyways that the story gets morphed into something much less awesome.
If people like fanservice or whatever it's called, watch Penguin Girl (or Penguin Musume Heart some places). It's actually so random that you'll sit there asking yourself "WHAT?" all the time. Fellwarden and I laughed our arses off during the first 14 episodes.
OT: It really depends on the anime, if it's fanservice all the time, it may become annoying.
OT: It really depends on the anime, if it's fanservice all the time, it may become annoying.
It's not the sight of fanservice that bugs me, so much as the fact that I know I'll be judged as a pervert by anyone who sees me watching anime.
Cartoon boobs are kinda odd to some people, I feel like it kinda lessens a story. I'd be less inclined to recommend an anime/manga with fanservice even with an awesome story and such because it's kind of uncomfortable.ForensicYOYO said:
Edit: Yep the guy above me said it better.
People should understand that fanservice does not equate to comedy (it does only once or twice but it gets old REALLY fast) nor does it give character any depth, a lot of people seem to place ecchi and comedy in the same section and without a doubt their friend the harem genre is also with them most of the time.
In generally fanservice bugs me a lot and I can't handle it in too large a dose because I just fit with rage as to how insulted I feel. Some people like that stuff and some people think "there is nothing wrong with loli," I should personally never want to go down that road but as long as they don't harm others I'm fine with it
Funny enough I tolerate fanservice a lot more in mature titles than I do in shounen ones, that is why I've got a bigger catalog of Seinen Harem than I do of Shounen ones. I think its because Seinen writers take the sexualisation of the characters more seriously and hence it doesn't come of as childish or forced.
In generally fanservice bugs me a lot and I can't handle it in too large a dose because I just fit with rage as to how insulted I feel. Some people like that stuff and some people think "there is nothing wrong with loli," I should personally never want to go down that road but as long as they don't harm others I'm fine with it
Funny enough I tolerate fanservice a lot more in mature titles than I do in shounen ones, that is why I've got a bigger catalog of Seinen Harem than I do of Shounen ones. I think its because Seinen writers take the sexualisation of the characters more seriously and hence it doesn't come of as childish or forced.
