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NEWS: Kyoto Animation Streams 3rd Beyond the Boundary: Idol Trial Short

That lowered my motivation to finish the show. I'd rather they keep the manservice contained to their fujoshi oriented series.

Well yeah.
Males can go fudge out, girls aren't for sexualizing, it's guys where it's at.
Kyoani has finally come into the open with that opinion.

Does an animated character make you that insecure about yourself?
It's not even a part of the main series, it's a seven minute short outside of it. Lol.

And you're using totally wrong examples. What they did here is like if Free (or any female orientated series) had only VERY tame male service, usually fully clothed, or at least muscle details left out, then all of a sudden, an episode focusing 5 minutes on a naked, very carefully drawn girl, her ass in our face and numerous sexual poses, whereas we'd never seen anything close to it from any guys.

It has nothing to do with insecurity. It's just something that I'd rather never see. I cringed while I watched the short.

Would you have cringed if it was one of the girls instead? If not, then it might be a good idea to examine that reaction from the perspective of women who are confronted with that sort of thing regularly in many of the anime they consume.

That insecurity ad-hominem attack is what you girls always boil down to use.
However, in your hypocritic bullshit, you forgot that it's still women that complain the most about sexualization in general.

And you're using totally wrong examples. What they did here is like if Free (or any female orientated series) had only VERY tame male service, usually fully clothed, or at least muscle details left out, then all of a sudden, an episode focusing 5 minutes on a naked, very carefully drawn girl, her ass in our face and numerous sexual poses, whereas we'd never seen anything close to it from any guys.

Beyond the Boundary isn't even a fanservice show and hasn't shown anywhere near as much skin anywhere else except this short.

Nope, I wouldn't have. I know female fans have to put up with a lot of that kind of stuff. I'm not opposed to the creation of more female oriented shows like Free! There's admittedly a lot of imbalance in the industry. I just don't want to see such a high degree of manservice in an otaku oriented show just as I wouldn't expect otaku oriented fanservice in shows aimed at women. Beyond the Boundary isn't even a fanservice show and hasn't shown anywhere near as much skin anywhere else except this short.

I also rarely see women in forums throwing a fit over something as dumb as a seven minute short that isn't even included in the series.

This is laughable, cause I've seen plenty of the skin of the sister of this guy. Are you sure we're watching the same show? I know I saw quite a bit of skin of Mitsuki especially when she was sprawled out basically naked on the glasses frame, there was also an episode with them in the showers, and there was an episode where she hung around in a bathing suit. Also, I seem to remember Akkey's mom tits mom wearing a rather revealing outfit, not completely nude, but pretty close.

Oh yeah, sure, it's not seven minutes straight of fanservice, but there is plenty for men still in it and it's funny how you try to say it isn't actually there.

Two things.

1) The assumption that Kyoukai no Kanata is an "otaku-oriented" show. KyoAni usually goes on record as saying they make shows for "everyone" and while I might not personally agree either, I don't think it's as simple as saying, "you girls get Free!, we get everything else in the catalog."

2) The assumption that what was in the short was supposed to count as "fanservice" in the first place. Look at the girls' reactions. Did they look titillated or excited by what Hiroomi was doing? Showcasing male nudity as "weird" and "funny" is something that shows up in a ton of series. The fact that Hiroomi is well-built and not ugly in no way negates the fact that the entire joke of the sequence is "lol he has a penis and penises are gross lololol".

Like I said, I'm not opposed to KyoAni or whoever making more female oriented shows. Free! was a huge success, so you'll likely get more. It's only an opinion I guess, but personally, everything about Beyond the Boundary screams otaku show to me. And, yeah, I don't buy that they make shows for everyone. At all. There's always demographics.

Are you really trying to make the argument that that wasn't fanservice? I don't mean any offense, but I'm not even going to dignify that with a response.

Are you trying to make the argument that any sort of nudity is fanservice?