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Lord Marksman and Vanadis (TV).

A person like this certainly isn't new to an ecchi show where showing tits is the main goal no matter how it is achieved but it doesn't make him anymore cheap regardless. We totally didn't see that last minute save coming right? Was I the only one?

But she isn't really a support character in the traditional sense. This is a harem. And since it is a harem each girl part of said harem always has a role to play. This has almost always been the case in fantasy action harems. I for one have never seen a useless girl in a show like this nor do i wish to see such a thing here.

Anyways, I did have some serious problems with that scene and the way it was handled. One, the creepy guy was way creepy. Two, I have a high tolerance for fan service when it's mostly harmless, like when the camera just stares at Ellen's boobs, but the fan service in that scene was just exploitative of the character who was undergoing trauma. Not only did her undergarments reapeatedly show, but the camera explicitly focused on them several times over the course of the scene, showing a head-on shot of her knees to belly, or belly to collar bone, rather than from angles that showed less. It wasn't appropriate.

Sure, you could have her clothing getting cut up, that's something rapey guy would probably do, but then the tasteful thing would be for the camera to ignore it, to attempt to find angles in which you can see that her clothes are torn, but not what's underneath. Think of it like when a show cannot show nudity or use overt censoring, so they have to use camera angles that show that the character is nude, without showing any of the naughty bits. The only fan service that would be even remotely appropriate to that scene would be after she's already been saved, she could notice Tigre noticing her state of undress and do a "kya!" or something, because then the traumatic situation is over, but by placing the fan service right in the middle of the trauma, the show almost made the viewer complicit in it.

The thing is, Zion is still son of a lord that is much more powerful than Tigre or his father. Killing Zion is probably not the best idea so it's better to try to catch him alive or at least, try to.

spoiler[Right after that scene anyways, you can see Rurick and a few soldiers run in so that's implying they're trying to catch him.]

Wheel of Time? Hmm... I should check it out. I bought a few books ages ago and it's one of the few books I did not read at the time since I was finishing up the Merlin Series by T.A. Barron.

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A person like this certainly isn't new to an ecchi show where showing tits is the main goal no matter how it is achieved but it doesn't make him anymore cheap regardless. We totally didn't see that last minute save coming right? Was I the only one?

Well, it could have gone two ways. The "dark show" version would be no save, deal with the consequences, the "light show" version is the save. I honestly would have dropped the series had they gone the dark route, but it is a legitimate way to go so long as the rest of the series earned that mature realism.

I don't have a problem with Titta being a simple maid though. She's a maid of a minor county, there's no reason for her to have ninja skills. She could perhaps have escaped on her own using "everyman skills," but I would not have appreciated the show more if she'd just busted out some magical powers or insane fighting skills. It's ok for some characters to be normal.

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But she isn't really a support character in the traditional sense. This is a harem. And since it is a harem each girl part of said harem always has a role to play. This has almost always been the case in fantasy action harems. I for one have never seen a useless girl in a show like this nor do i wish to see such a thing here.

She has a role to play, she makes the tea.

Anyways, I did have some serious problems with that scene and the way it was handled. One, the creepy guy was way creepy. Two, I have a high tolerance for fan service when it's mostly harmless, like when the camera just stares at Ellen's boobs, but the fan service in that scene was just exploitative of the character who was undergoing trauma. Not only did her undergarments reapeatedly show, but the camera explicitly focused on them several times over the course of the scene, showing a head-on shot of her knees to belly, or belly to collar bone, rather than from angles that showed less. It wasn't appropriate.

Sure, you could have her clothing getting cut up, that's something rapey guy would probably do, but then the tasteful thing would be for the camera to ignore it, to attempt to find angles in which you can see that her clothes are torn, but not what's underneath. Think of it like when a show cannot show nudity or use overt censoring, so they have to use camera angles that show that the character is nude, without showing any of the naughty bits. The only fan service that would be even remotely appropriate to that scene would be after she's already been saved, she could notice Tigre noticing her state of undress and do a "kya!" or something, because then the traumatic situation is over, but by placing the fan service right in the middle of the trauma, the show almost made the viewer complicit in it.

I don't think this alone will drive me from the series (although there's plenty more to choose from this season), but it would make me less likely to recommend it. It's a shame, because there's a lot of interesting stuff that would make this show so much better if they toned down the fan service obsession.