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Fan service: Is it necessary?

This discussion of fan service has unfortunately focused on the sexual portion.

As even Fear Ghoul has said (and yeah, I don't think I needed to be told that BP is your favorite series given that name Wink )

It's dumb in my opinion, to shoot down an entire series for the sole aspect that it has fanservice in it, when it may have other good qualities to it which you do like. Liking it less, yes, but dismissing it outright, no. Maybe that's the completist in me talking, though. Some people have different tastes I realize, but for me it usually takes more than one reason for me to drop something, usually like two or three.

Fanservice in anime is one of those parts of japanese culture that makes anime interesting and different for me so I wont ever say that it is unnessary or ask for it to be toned down.

I don't have the right in the first place.

I think it's the cameo and homages that make things tough for anime. It alienates people from adopting some series as they rely heavily on "you had to be there" moments.

The reason it has done so is, if I may be allowed a conjecture, that the real objection against fanservice held by the anti-fanservice crowd is not that it is unnecessary, but that it is sexual. They certainly don't seem to have the same issues with the non-sexual fanservice, in fact they seem to have completely divorced those elements from their own usage of the word "fanservice"

Could you imagine a show like Haibane Renmei if Rakka was walking around with DDD's or knockers the size of a walrus? You don't need to be a prude to find that it just doesn't always work, whether it's a common element in the medium or not.

You're taking what people such as myself have said and taking it to an extreme. No one ever said that they dropped a whole series just because of a little bit of fanservice (I even mentioned that Stand Alone Complex was one of my favourite anime). But the fanservice does detract from the experience somewhat, such that if I were to rate a series that had fanservice on ANN, even if it were perfect in every other regard, I would still peg it down because of the fanservice to just excellent.

In my option, fanservice should ONLY be allowed if the characters are eighteen or older. If they are older than 18, then fanservice is fine.

However, that should never mean that just because they are eighteen or older that the character needs to always be those those types of positions. Though this all depends on the type of show as well.

Obviouslly, fanservice shouldn't be, but unfortunely enough is in shonen series, as well as a wide variety of other show genes. But like I stated before, as long as the characters are older than eighteen, then fanserivce is fine.

fanservice - term for the inclusion and/or overuse of certain story elements that aren't needed for the advancement of the story. Usually referring to sexual contents like panties, glimpses of nudity and so on, but can also be used for other elements, such as violence.

I disagree. You can find fanservice in many old school western cartoons such as He Man, so the fanservice is not for me what makes anime interesting. I became interested in anime when I was shown stuff like Hellsing, Ninja Scroll, Akira, and Ghost in the Shell, because these all have the kind of mature stories with adult content that you just don't find in western cartoons or films. I wasn't drawn in by panty-shot #18946789.

They are being prudish. That's really all there is to it -- sexual uptightness.

If you're a paying customer, then of course you have the right.