Comments on: A highly scientific discussion about breasts

By: The P Word « The Animanachronism

The P Word « The Animanachronism — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:19:41 +0000

[...] once wrote an entry which tackled the issue of fanservice in a serious [...]

By: CCY

CCY — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:58:00 +0000

Owen: I think you hit on the head the point that I was dancing around and didn't quite mention: fanservice is generally good as long as it contributes to the anime in some way.

i.e. If it can be legitimately funny, or can add to the plot in some way then fanservice isn't too bad. But breasts for the sake of having breasts is just sort of useless.

Speaking from a cynical internet perspective, there are plenty of other ways for people who enjoy that to get their fix.

By: Owen S

Owen S — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:17:00 +0000

I’d like to think that only 12 year olds never exposed to porn get horny from fanservice (I probably did at that age, but that’s another story), and that fanservice is more of like an obligation that animation studios perceive to exist in that “we won’t sell DVDs”, so on and so forth.

A great recent example was Gurren Lagann’s Yoko, who’s the epitome of walking fanservice. The first episode has her in positions that would have been really, and by really I need to emphasise REALLY REALLY distracting had it not been for the epic action going on in which she made her appearance. Even Kamina points this out in something akin to self-satire; he says “whoa, nice body” aloud before being told by Yoko to stfu and concentrate on the monster.

Even when Simon reaches the obligatory “whoops I landed on your breasts” part it isn’t at all distracting, because of how it’s pulled off: her expression turns from relief to something akin to anger, only a second later we’re notified that it’s fear because two more monsters just appeared from behind the camera’s POV.