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DmonHiro





PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:35 am Reply with quote
Hope they don't get the tanks wet.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:38 am Reply with quote
I must say that any show that resorts to using a fanservice beach episode has very low confidence both in its viewerbase and its own quality.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:40 am Reply with quote
interesting choices by the history team
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:41 am Reply with quote
Chagen46 wrote:
I must say that any show that resorts to using a fanservice beach episode has very low confidence both in its viewerbase and its own quality.


Almost everything has beach chapters/episodes. Its just a standard of the medium.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 11:00 am Reply with quote
Eh, as long as they keep the TV series relatively tame I don't mind a fanservice/beach OVA.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 11:06 am Reply with quote
I'm all for fanservice of Rommel-chan. There isn't nearly enough in the series itself.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 11:17 am Reply with quote
Chagen46 wrote:
I must say that any show that resorts to using a fanservice beach episode has very low confidence both in its viewerbase and its own quality.
You actually don't have to say it. Again. As you do in every single thread.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:47 pm Reply with quote
Chagen46 wrote:
I must say that any show that resorts to using a fanservice beach episode has very low confidence both in its viewerbase and its own quality.


it's a special ova for fans when they buy the dvd's/blurays I don't see the problem giving fans something like that.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:51 pm Reply with quote
The videos on the official site at the link are blocked from the US.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:52 pm Reply with quote
Chagen46 wrote:
I must say that any show that resorts to using a fanservice beach episode has very low confidence both in its viewerbase and its own quality.


how about hot springs or swimming pools?

confidence is not being used in this kind of business
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:58 pm Reply with quote
I dunno how I feel about this. I am normally very pro-fanservice, but GuP hasn't had a speck of it to date and I really love the show. It's going to be kind of like seeing your cute little sister suddenly show up in a bikini out of the blue.

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I just realized that for a lot of anime fans, that's not a bad thing.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:59 pm Reply with quote
I wonder why nobody ever realizes that maybe they put this stuff in because the people who make anime like this tend to like fanservice? I'm pretty sure something like To Love Ru doesn't have fanservice to pander... its becauses its mangaka loves the fanservice and has been drawing doujins for a while before being picked up by Jump. Its otaku making manga/anime for otaku.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:15 pm Reply with quote
Odd, I thought To LOVE-Ru was made because Black Cat was so excruciatingly awful and poorly received (even after being turned into an anime which also bombed) and so Yabuki wanted a hit series and thusly abandoned all dignity and joined up with "writer" Saki Hasemi to create one of the blandest soulless ecchi harem series ever conceived.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:17 pm Reply with quote
If Black Cat wasn't already a hit, he wouldn't of gotten a chance to make another Jump manga. It was made because people wanted more of Yabukis art.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:35 pm Reply with quote
And even so, he and the writer wouldn't have made Darkness so overabundant with nudity if they didn't want to do it.

As for the fanservice here, it's pretty tame, just girls in swimsuits. Chagen, give it a rest on trying to prove how mature you are. Fanservice is an anime constant, even in the 70s.
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