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Does anime fanservice ever keep you from recommending an anime?

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Zekes!

Member
Fanservice makes me more unlikely to recommend a manga/anime because I don't want people to know I'm trash

it's my dark secret
 
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Fugu

Member
bobawesome said:
No. If people are going to be prudish enough to complain about it I don't want to be friends with them in the first place.
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It's not prudish to dislike when otherwise good anime is ruined by the medium's seemingly compulsive need to appeal to the sexual appetites of lonely single boys on a semi-frequent basis.

Fanservice isn't bad because it represents sex; it's bad because it represents a fantastical and adolescent form of sex that doesn't exist in the real world. Its inclusion compromises the whole operation.
 
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AnathemicOne

Banned
Yes, also puts me off from shows entirely. Though I've built up a tolerance for it there are many shows that exist that take it way too far. I wanted to get into the Monogatari series but the protagonist is an insufferable pedophile. Kill la Kill I never got into just from Ryuuko's outfit.
 
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_Ryo_

Member
Yes. It also keeps me from watching anime. It's weird. Hentai doesnt really bother me but when I see gratuitus fanservice in normal anime I am extremely put off. It is why I quit a few episodes into Kill la Kill, and the later episodes of Onen Piece increase the level of lewdness a great amount. If it gets any worse I could see myself stop watching it.

I am alright with periodic fan service but if it is in every ep then I wont watch or recommend it.
 
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Mr Fahrenheit

Member
I try to base recommendations off a person's tastes, so usually there's enough that comes before that it's not something that I consider. That said if I meet someone who whines hard about fan service I'll usually just not talk to them about anime cause those are just some water without ice, most recent season of The Simpsons individuals, it'd be like talking to a nun about the wild weekend you just had.

I also don't talk about anime with people who like KLK because they're obviously beyond help.
 
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Not Spaceghost

Spaceghost
Hey is that scene in Star Trek into darkness where alice eve's character tells kirk to turn around so she can change but he looks anyway and while she's in her underwear tells kirk again to turn around but the camera kinda lingers so we can all admire her funbags and tum tum considered fan service?
 
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LotusHD

Banned
Not Spaceghost said:
Hey is that scene in Star Trek into darkness where alice eve's character tells kirk to turn around so she can change but he looks anyway and while she's in her underwear tells kirk again to turn around but the camera kinda lingers so we can all admire her funbags and tum tum considered fan service?
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Yes
 
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CielTynave

Member
Recommending? Only if fanservice is more or less meant to be the selling point, overshadowing any possible plot and character development.

Watching?
Well I just got my copy of Valkyrie Drive on Blu-ray today so take a guess.
 
F

Fury451

Banned
I seem to avoid fan-services stuff naturally, just based on what I like about anime. Most of my favorite shows have little to none at all.

High School of the Dead however was completely egregious despite being a good show, and I would always turn it off when my girlfriend was around.
 
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Messofanego

Banned
I don't recommend any animes with fanservice in them, and these are the usual ones I recommend to others.

The Flowers Of Evil
Paranoia Agent
Serial Experiments Lain
Mushishi
Ping Pong
Tatami Galaxy
Makoto Shinkai films
Mamoru Hosoda films
Studio Ghibli films

One aspect of Welcome to the NHK is examining people who are into fanservice.

LotusHD said:
There are two kinds of anime fans:

The ones who calmly navigate through all the fanservice-laden ones and solely seek out the shows that have no fanservice:

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And there are those that do not give a fuck if it has fanservice, and slowly build up a tolerance to it:

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First one is me.
 
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Pau

Member
StoneFox said:
Honestly I have a hard time recommending Berserk to people because I don't know what their reaction to all the sexual content would be. Like, it's a minor detail in the grand scheme of the plot but I think it can be off-putting to some, especially since it is straight up rape in more than one occasion. I guess it is an opposite scenario to fanservice though?
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The rape scene in the second Berserk movie was pretty much fan service.
The camera focuses on Casca's bare breasts for most of it.
So yeah, rape shown in such a way is super off putting. Or when it only happens for female characters. Or only happens onscreen for female characters. At that point I have to side eye the whole thing.
 
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gabelsqt

Member
I would love to recommend Shokugeki no Souma to my friends that love cooking but the food orgasms can be too unsettling and deemed inappropriate.


Their loss.
 
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PSqueak

Banned
I keeps me from even keeping watching.

It made the seven deadly sins unwatchable for me, and im someone who even gave the show a shot because i have a GTS fetish.
 
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UnemployedVillain

Member
Pau said:
The rape scene in the second Berserk movie was pretty much fan service.
The camera focuses on Casca's bare breasts for most of it.
So yeah, rape shown in such a way is super off putting. Or when it only happens for female characters. Or only happens onscreen for female characters. At that point I have to side eye the whole thing.
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It seems like you skipped the beginning of Berserk...
when the main male character is shown being brutally raped as a child by his adoptive parent
 
Kingpin Rogers

Kingpin Rogers

Member
I was going to recommend Gantz to someone until it just got really weird. The scene that did it for me was when a female character was fondeled in bed because she called herself a pet earlier and according to the male character you give pets "lots of hugs and kisses" this was after he was turned down for sex. Man, gantz was a weird show.
 
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Pau

Member
UnemployedVillain said:
It seems like you skipped the beginning of Berserk...
when the main male character is shown being brutally raped as a child by his adoptive parent
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I didn't watch the first movie and was told that scene wasn't shown at all so it sounds like i would have missed it anyways. I can't comment on the tv or manga.
 
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UnemployedVillain

Member
.JayZii said:
But did the camera focus on Guts's bare breasts for most of it?
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Why would they focus on Gut's breasts?
The whole point of the focus on Caska was that Griffith WANTED Guts to see it happening.
It wasn't glamorized for fanservice reasons like some of you are making it out to be. The instant jump to sexualization the second there's nudity drastically oversimplifies the scene and completely ignores context
 
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Ran rp

Member
i don't recommend anime 'cause fanservice and poorly drawn blob shit keeps me away from most of it in the first
 
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Pau

Member
UnemployedVillain said:
Why would they focus on Gut's breasts?
The whole point of the focus on Caska was that Griffith WANTED Guts to see it happening.
It wasn't glamorized for fanservice reasons like some of you are making it out to be. The instant jump to sexualization the second there's nudity drastically oversimplifies the scene and completely ignores context
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It's not that there's nudity. It's the camera work. But we're probably going to disagree on that.

I also don't think Griffith had anything to do with that scene beyond being the guy that saved her? Wasn't it a flashback from her point of view? I could be forgetting.
 
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CommandThrower

Member
It depends on who I'm talking to. Does that person have the disposition to appreciate and/or not be bothered by fanservice? Then I'd recommend something like Keijo.


Does that person have the disposition to not appreciate such fanservicey content? Then I'd recommend something like Monster or Flying Witch.
 
shira

shira

Member
I think Hunter X Hunter is one of the few I do recommend because there is very little fanservice. Also I can't believe they squeeze fanservice into Haikyuu, but at least there hasn't been like obvious tropes like beach volleyball or some shit.

The Shokugeki no souma artist was doing hentai before so that goes hand in hand
 
John Blade

John Blade

Member
It depend on who I recommend the anime to. Fan service is something you kinda have to accept in anime now when you're watching it which suck for me as they will be time they is a good show to watch but you need to get through so many fan service stuff that it's better not to recommend to my friends. I guess now, it's more something I need to remind myself a bit as I am much older now and anime stuff is for the younger people now.

For me, I am slowly going toward some serious anime or slice of life anime with little to no fan service even though they will be anime I will watch which have some.
 
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Sparkedglory

Member
I don't really care about fan service personally. If it's there then it most likely won't bother me. Though if i know somebody won't like it then obviously I won't recommend it, or I may just warn them.
 
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RockTurtle

Member
if my friend is the type of person who can't overlook animated cheesecake cause it upsets their sensitivities, i don't bother talking about anime in the first place.

otherwise, prison school and berserk ALL DAY ERR DAY
 
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Ray Down

Banned
_Ryo_ said:
Yes. It also keeps me from watching anime. It's weird. Hentai doesnt really bother me but when I see gratuitus fanservice in normal anime I am extremely put off. It is why I quit a few episodes into Kill la Kill, and the later episodes of Onen Piece increase the level of lewdness a great amount. If it gets any worse I could see myself stop watching it.

I am alright with periodic fan service but if it is in every ep then I wont watch or recommend it.
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No one should be watching the OP anime.
 
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Sch1sm

Member
If I like it enough to recommend it despite its shortcomings, then I'm gonna recommend it. I'll let them know that there's fanservice at best.
 
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Gentleman Jack

Member
This thread reminds me of how important and influential Chariot's method of ranking and recommending animation should be in this world. I've yet to see its equal.

Manga Effects: Manga is a very visual medium that uses a lot of effects to support emotions or to indicate them to the reader in an abstract way. Said Manga Effects find their way into anime. This includes for example the big single sweat drop that is on the head of characters, perverted nosebleed, the ghost leaving the body temporarily when the character figuratively died and those blue stripes hanging from or behind a character's head to indicate that he or she is depressed. It also refers to visualisations like auras or glowing eyes that are just symbolic (HxH auras for example does not count, since they're actually there).

Examples:
* Monster
** Shingeki no Bahamut
*** Silver Spoon
**** Haikyuu!!
***** Nyaruko-san

Fanservice: The amount of lewdness in the anime. Covers suggestive camera angles, fetish situations (e.g. dropping milk over a girls face) and provocative clothing. This indicator suggest the quantity, not the quality of the lewd content.

Examples:
* Fullmetal Alchemist
** Toradora
*** Basquash!
**** Monogatari Series
***** Queens Blade

Moe: This category specifically refers to the culmination of “cute girls doing cute things”-moe in the context of young adults or adults that inherently act like children or way younger than reasonable. Thus anime like Usagi Drop don’t have a moe rating, since the little girl is just acting her age. On the other hand I don’t refer to immature adults like Space Dandy either. I also have the context of the series in mind. Nobody in D-Frag acts any kind of mature, but to a intended, comedic effect, opposed to K-On! where the girls are overly childish just to be cute. It should also be noted that it’s not limited to female characters.

Examples:
* Nana
** Chihayafuru
*** Shinryaku! Ika Musume
**** Saint Onii-san
***** K-On!

Suffering: Life isn’t always bright, some days are dark and some days have Urobuchi sitting in the corner of your room mumbling your name over and over. This category’s purpose is to outline how much the characters in the anime suffer in a way that is supposed to make the viewer suffer with them. Suffering that is just used as a joke, such a tsundere beating up the protagonist doesn’t count.

Examples:
* Eve no Jikan
** Hunter x Hunter
*** Parasyte
**** Shigofumi
***** Narutaru

Sawashiro: Points to the presence of our lady of anime, her excellency the voice of heaven, the supreme goddess Miyuki Sawashiro. Praise be! The more of her in an anime, the better of course.

Examples:
* Ghost in the Shell: Arise
** Psycho-Pass
*** Kimi ni Todoke
**** Zetsuen no Tempest
***** Kokoro Connect
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M

mlclmtckr

Banned
bobawesome said:
No. If people are going to be prudish enough to complain about it I don't want to be friends with them in the first place.
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I feel like most people dump on fanservice because it's sad and desperate pseudo-porn for lonely nerds and not because people are prudish.

"Oh, bobawesome? That super erotically-enlightened bohemian libertine with the sexy cosplay French maid avatar and the penchant for cartoon representations of sexualized children?"
 
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