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Fan Service and story integrity

So basically, how much is too much for you? (And I'm not really talking about anime series where the POINT of the show is fanservice (Aika), but ones that try to have an actual storyline).

I'm not sure it's fair to talk about the works of Masamune Shirow as containing fanservice. Shirow is an artist who produces powerfully erotic work, with themes as extreme as SM and bestiality. Eroticism is just part of his graphic (in both senses of the word) vocabulary, not an "artificial additive" to increase sales as fanservice is.

Anyway, I personally don't find fanservice annoying, even if there's a story trying to get itself told in amongst all the panties and cleavage. In fact, I find the "anti-fanservice" that some animes contain highly annoying. I could give several anime examples, the most recent i've seen being Blood+, but I'll explain using Daphne from Scooby Doo as more people have probably seen that cartoon than any specific anime. So, has anyone ever seen Daphne's panties? No. And this is despite the fact that she wears a very short dress, and is always tripping over, climbing, falling down holes, etc. etc. This surely is just as unnatural as the unremitting panty shots of Najica and Aika.

Daphne was just an example that I'd hoped most people had seen, I wasn't trying to fly off OT. In Blood+, Saya wears a short, loose skirt with a hemline that is magically held down even when she jumps from high places.

Oh well, nothing much we can do about that...it's up to the creators.

For instance, I loved the first GITS manga, and sure, there were plenty of cheesecakey shots and convenient angles showing off Kusanagi's goodies, but there was not so much that it got in the way of the story. But I've flipped through the second GITS manga, and now it just looks like porn, so I'm not really interested in picking it up. I'm sure the story might still be great, but when every single female character is wearing a pointlessly short skirt and/or panties/bodysuit that is so skintight, it wraps around the woman's crotch bulge with a big shiny highlight there and on the melon boobs, I find I can't really take the work seriously anymore because I find it a bit ridiculous.

Unless you're thinking of Velma...Her skirt was pretty short and wasn't skin tight...IIRC. But still it was meant and targeted for a young age and the time scooby-doo was made was back in the 80s'....which then standards in America in my opinion when it came to shows were a little more stricter.