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Darksorrow29
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Every now and then I see people talking about High School of the Dead and how the fan service "takes away from the show". This maybe an unpopular opinion but I personally would have been bored to tears if High School of the Dead had no fan service at all. This could just be because I'm not huge into zombie plots and I generally find them all to be the same. Outbreak...running away...consolidating into a group... finding weapons... etc. I guess the fan service just added some icing on the cake to enjoy the show. That and add some humor to it.
So it started making me wonder... can any of you think of a show that would bore you without fan service? I mean obviously some shows are purely made just to display fan service but I think the question is still fun. - How would Strike Witches be if they all wore full pants and it was rated G? - Queen's Blade without fan service? |
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Vaisaga
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We'd still have high speed dogfights with a lovable cast of characters. I'm probably a bigger consumer of fanservice shows than most of ANN's userbase, but there's never really been a show that I watched only for the fanservice. Fanservice is an added bonus and becomes completely ineffectual if I don't care about the girls being shown off. So even if they didn't occasionally strip down, I'd be interested in them as characters, their relationship with others, and whatever plot the show has. I enjoyed Rosario+Vampire, but I don't have a panty festish so all the panty shots had no effect on me. I kept watching because I liked the characters and the premise. There might be some shows I'd like less if you removed the fanservice, like To Love Ru Darkness, High School Dxd or Daimidaler, but there are plenty of other things to like about those shows. |
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Chiibi
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Free! Nuff said.
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Cam0
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Funnily enough I sometimes thought that High School DxD had a bit too much fan service. However To Love-Ru might be pretty dull without its fan service. I don't like excessive fan service and I've never watched a show only for its fan service however I do think that for some shows it is a necessary ingredient. |
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getchman
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pretty much everything Vaisaga just said is how I feel as well
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Cenobite451
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Interesting question, this. Off the top of my head the only one I can think of that'd be completely intolerable without the fanservice element is Daimidaler, but like Vaisaga said I'd definitely miss it in most other fanservice-heavy shows as well.
The one exception I can think of is probably Freezing; I've always felt that it kind of clashes with the tone of the show. That brings to mind the obvious corollary to the original question, so now I'm curious: what shows do you all think would be improved by taking away the fanservice? |
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Touma
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For the original question, I cannot think of any.
There are a lot of shows that would be less interesting without fan service. For me most shows that have fan service would probably be less interesting if it was removed, but I cannot think of anything that would be boring without it. For that to happen it would have to mean that I like the fan service but I do not like the show. If that was true then I probably would not be watching the show at all, with or without fan service. There are so many shows that I like that have fan service that there is just no need to watch a show that I do not like just to see the fan service.
Again, I cannot think of any. I like fan service and I cannot really believe that anything could possibly be improved simply by the removal of something that I like. It definitely would be possible to improve a show by removing the fan service and replacing it with something else. But that is a different situation and it has almost infinite possibilities. |
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HaruhiToy
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I can live without fan service, at least the coarser types of it. What I can't stand is fan service that gets censored. I have stopped watching some seasons online (DxD Season 2 comes to mind) solely over that issue. It isn't that I can't live without seeing another nipple or butt crack (I have seen enough in real life after all) but I despise having some pinhead party being allowed to decide what I get to see and what I don't, and that fact thrown in my face.
On the aesthetics, you can often see how many fan-service heavy shows could be improved if they were re-scripted with a bit more thought and a bit less cheap attractions. Getting back on topic, I would think Najica Blitz Tactics, and the Aika series (going back a decade here) would be nearly worthless without fan service. In that heap I would also put Daphne in the Brilliant Blue which would lose a lot without those outrageous costumes. |
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Animegomaniac
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The Queen's Blade franchise, especially Queen's Blade Rebellion. That one's pretty mediocre as it is but without the loli being forced to wear vibrating armor, it'd have no plot. Somehow Echidna, Menace, Melona, Airi, Nanael, Cattlya {I don't remember any names from Rebellion}, these are characters who aren't described by their fan service content, they're defined by it. Do I watch shows just for their fan service content? Yes but I admit that I watched Daimidaler for its comedy. |
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Kruszer
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None really. If I find all that interests me about a show is the fanservice I drop it. If I watched them there were other reasons like the story, the romance aspect, or it had characters I liked.
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One-Eye
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This is like asking fan-service lovers if they would be titillated without the fan-service or asking playboy readers if they would continue to read it without pictures of naked women. I get bored or irritated with most fan-service shows as it is with the fan-service included, so I doubt removing it would bore me more. Quasar of Stigmata or sucking boobs gives you powerups? Yea, thrilling stuff there. Sekirei or which rack in my harem is bigger? Yawn. Queens Blade or mediocre fantasy story with Fan Service? Eh. However, I will say the only one that might not be as funny with the fan-service removed is High School of the Dead because its so ridiculous that its actually funny.
I don't know. A little less fan-service in the first season of Freezing I think would have helped. The mix of blood and boobs at the same time in some scenes was a little squicky. They didn't make that mistake in the second season. Plus every time they had to pause to insert fan service was like slamming on the breaks on any momentum they had. The whole Pandora Queen episode was a waste, because they already had enough fan service going and they could actually used that episode to advance the characters some. But hey, obviously fighting a desperate war against an overwhelmingly powerful interdimensional enemy was not the point of the show. Bathing scenes that's the point. When you get that far you might as well just buy the playboy or watch some porn. |
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casualfan
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Even without fanservice I would still follow Queen's Blade, Sekirei, Highschool of the Dead, Blade and Soul just to name a few from the top of my head. Their stories aren't complex but I find the characters likeable and that's enough to make me like those shows.
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victor viper
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Najica came to my mind, but without the fan service, it would scarcely even exist. I'll disagree, however, about Daphne in the Brilliant Blue. There's actually an interesting story about Maia and some interesting character interactions buried in there under all of the skimpy costumes. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Ikki Tousen. Without the exploding clothes and myriad other forms of fan service, there would be just kind of a bad tournament show/retelling of the Three Kingdoms. |
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Polycell
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Ikkitousan all the way. I tend to watch shows regardless of the fanservice(except for when they screw it up so badly I don't even want to touch the show) and definitely never because of it. At one point I decided to give it a try and watched the first episode of Dragon Destiny and had to walk out halfway through - the damn series is freaking boring if you're not there for titties.
EDIT: Another series that comes to mind, though I passed it up because it seemed like this sort and can't say for sure, is Manyuu Hiken-chou. Can anybody confirm or deny? |
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walw6pK4Alo
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I can think of plenty of shows that would have been instantly better if some toplessness was added. Dragonaut had everything going for in terms of its visuals, but the insanely horrid story and characters made into a burning tire fire of stupid, so some nipples and other cake would have made it less painful. Blade and Soul is considerably better, but it still could have used some nudity to spice it up. I'm clearly not talking about just some cleavage or panty shots here, those don't count, gotta show something that society considers indecent in public.
Breasts are central to the story in Manyuu, so nudity is kind of required. |
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