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SakuraAvalon



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 12:32 pm Reply with quote
i want to get Ai Yori Aoshi and it says there is fan service and i want to know what it is i think i have an idea but im not sure Embarassed
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SuperSkylineGTR



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 12:35 pm Reply with quote
Fan service is basically anything showing off a certain character (mainly female characters) It can involve nudity and/or suggestive body language. I believe that's a correct term.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 1:23 pm Reply with quote
SuperSkylineGTR wrote:
Fan service is basically anything showing off a certain character (mainly female characters) It can involve nudity and/or suggestive body language. I believe that's a correct term.


The broadest definition of fanservice is anything that the creators did to appease the fans.

It can range from cool poses to gigantic explosions, "breaking the 4th wall", self-insertion and lots of other things, including nudity and panty shots.

of course, Ai Yori Aoshi is the latter sort of fanservice. H_H
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 2:00 pm Reply with quote
Regarding your question about Echii,

It means "lightly perverted."

Take a look at our lexicon for definitions fo this and many other common Anime terms. The lexicon is still very sparse, but over time it will contain much more information.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:16 pm Reply with quote
But don't confuse Fanservice with Hentai. Hentai is quite literaly (by western defenition) pornography. Think about an R rated movie, say, Pretty Women, it's got nude scenes and sex scenes, but it's not porn. Fanservice works the same way, it can be included in any anime (even Pokemon) be it a sex scene or a shower scene or even a swimsuit episode, but not be porn/hentai. I guess looking back you could say the sex scene in Romeo and Juliete was a Shakespearian fanservice. It's not just in anime, it's in anything that has fans and doesn't have to always be about sexuality, such as Basketball players showing off, Monster Trucks doing donuts, or wrestlers rallying the fans.

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