Sexy "Power Armor", am I 'juvenile' for liking it? (a response to recent Kill La Kill concepts)

[Marik2]

I was more disturbed by Neptune

But whatever. it sells.

lulz been meaning to get into the games cuz the premise sounds cool and it looks silly.

 

[Da Orky Man]

If stupid looking power armor was a sin to like, then I'd have quit liking Warhammer 40K long ago. Marines get brick shithouses, while Sisters of Battle get a space corset. Despite that, it still looks like armor. Must be the pauldrons. They make anything look like armor.

As far as female armour goes, the Sisters of Battle do pretty well, they're pretty much in third place behind Femshep in her default armour and Samus. Yeah it's a corset, but at least the rest of her is properly armoured. And considering the hyper exaggerated setting, it's a miracle that the SoBs are actually so conservatively dressed. And lets be honest here, the day a female gets a non breasted chest plate is the day I eat my hat.

Edit: shit. Halo 4. Forget I said anything!

Calling you out again.

Precisely the same armour as what male Imperial Guard wear. A sensible flak jacket covering everything it reasonably can with inbuilt communication radio.

Bam.

 

[xyrafhoan]

I would like that design a lot if the boobs weren't just covered by tiny straps that realistically would cover nothing as you move around. Any real boobs would slide out immediately and I just cannot set aside my suspension of disbelief. I don't even care if they left in the midriff and subtle bit of her upper butt for fanservice, but this is incredibly impractical even compared to the usual bikinitop that gets used as "female armor".

 

[MrMan999]

If stupid looking power armor was a sin to like, then I'd have quit liking Warhammer 40K long ago. Marines get brick shithouses, while Sisters of Battle get a space corset. Despite that, it still looks like armor. Must be the pauldrons. They make anything look like armor.

As far as female armour goes, the Sisters of Battle do pretty well, they're pretty much in third place behind Femshep in her default armour and Samus. Yeah it's a corset, but at least the rest of her is properly armoured. And considering the hyper exaggerated setting, it's a miracle that the SoBs are actually so conservatively dressed. And lets be honest here, the day a female gets a non breasted chest plate is the day I eat my hat.

Edit: shit. Halo 4. Forget I said anything!

Calling you out again.

Precisely the same armour as what male Imperial Guard wear. A sensible flak jacket covering everything it reasonably can with inbuilt communication radio.

Bam.

Damn it. Now I am sad that we will never get an Imperial Guardsmen game.

 

[Saelune]

People who go around deeming things immature, usually have already done so for anime anyways. Maturity is for people who lost their childish enjoyment of things.

 

[Amir Kondori]

I think it looks good. I also don't feel the need to "justify what I like", I don't have to justify shit, I think the design is really good. The art is good too, but nothing that blows my mind.

In any case the female form is one I typically find pretty appealing and there are a lot of design elements I like here besides just the showcasing of the female form.

 

[CabooseVD]

So I felt sort of bad for liking this, especially hot off the heels of a lot of hot topic issues with female characters and their portrayal in nerd culture.

My only issue with things like is is functionality. It's not really armor if it leaves most of your vital organs exposed.

But the organs are the sexiest part.

 

[Amir Kondori]

So am I disgusting manchild that needs to grow up, or as the little girl from the Taco ad says; why can't we have both? (ie. sexy if given context, Bayonetta, etc)

I own an up-to-date complete set of Masamune Shirow's excellent Pieces and W-Tail Cat art books, so I'm with you 110%. But still, you're wasting your time. Appeasement only emboldens authoritarians.

I don't understand why people even bother to look to others to justify their tastes! I like your line about appeasement, it makes me think the OP is Neville Chamberlin, and he is trying to appease Hitler, in this case the people who are judging him for is taste in anime/manga. Of course it is doomed to failure. They will never give an inch. We need some Churchill types to step in and say "we don't care what you think of my tastes, I love big boobs on my female characters (sometimes) and I like them swaying in the breeze in a skimpy leather outfit with lots of straps (sometimes)".

 

[chuckdm]

Must be the pauldrons. They make anything look like armor.

This is very true. As someone who runs quite a few skimpy Skyrim mods, adding pauldrons to even the littlest nothing of armor automatically makes it seem more like "armor" than it is without them.

Coincidentally, this is why I don't use armor with pauldrons on female characters. Even when I'm using something more modest (for example, Misfit Mage or Field Mage - I like mage/rogue hybrid characters) they never have pauldrons. Just looks too butch for my tastes.

OT: You shouldn't feel bad about this. It's an anime. If people have a problem with it, they are more than capable of just not watching it. If someone asks you to stop discussing it with them, you should stop. If someone says they don't want to see pictures, don't show them. But what you do when you're home alone is your own business man, and nobody has the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't do in private.

Now if you have a girlfriend and ask her to wear something like this - into battle or otherwise - expect one very messy breakup. (Well...more likely than not. If she's already into cosplay, hell, go for it.) The key to any good fantasy is to remember it's a fantasy, which means odds are good that 1) nobody else is interested and 2) others may be offended. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have one. It just means it should remain private.

 

[Piorn]

Oh so the armor's mouth is like this uncovered middle part, nice idea, though I'd say you could have done the same concept a bit more tasteful than that, and it doesn't look like it's actually useful for protection.
Personally, the concept idea is cool, but the execution is a bit too fanservice in my opinion.

 

[Story]

I'll be honest and say I kinda dig the whole "living outfit" concept that seems to be going on there.
That being said, the obvious skimpiness of it all makes it very juvenile, yes.
But as over 50 people ahead of me said before, you are free to like what you like.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

Is it "juvenile"? Maybe. Kind of.

But honestly who cares? What gets you off, gets you off; and if you dig it, then just dig it. True maturity isn't about picking apart what is and isn't "acceptably" mature, it's realizing how stupid a discussion it is in the first place and just doing what you enjoy.

I like all sorts of stuff that someone finds objectionable in some way. Hell I grew up in the 80s when listening to Heavy Metal literally got me accused of being a Satanist. By my high school principal. I didn't care then, and I don't care now. And neither should anyone else.

So long as you aren't hurting someone else, then it's no ones business but your own what you enjoy.

 

[Yeager942]

It's not so much that is exists, just that it was the only clothing that females appeared in.

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

Thank god the armour doesn't have a tongue.
It would seem really uncomfortable knowing your armour is constantly licking your crotch.

And armour is pretty much anything you can add to protect any part of your body.
So, if the skimpy outfit manages to protect her shoulders or whatever is covered up it's still armour.
Just like only wearing a helmet still means you are wearing armour, even though the rest of your body is stark naked.

 

[MarsProbe]

Doesn't armour have to...

You know. Armour a person, to be considered armour.

That isn't armour, it's a pandering sexual fantasy.

Exactly. One bullet to the stomach and she is down. Kinda makes all that armour pointless as its just slower her down, might as well not wear it with such an obvious target area to aim for.

Except in the anime, she'll somehow shrug off a ton of damage, despite her incredibly flimsy attire. You know, just once I would like to see an anime/JRPG that kicks off with a character with an outfit insanely impractical for battle wielding some ridiculous weapon heading into battle and we think this is going to be the main character until moments they unexpectedly drop dead. Cue reveal that they have just been taken out by a sniper over 2km away. That's what you get went you enter battle dressed like your going to a cosplay gathering.

You should watch Darker Than Black. It has people with special powers but the fights are rather straightforward, usually if someone gets hit once, then they die. Not in the lame buzz kill way but in a, these people are professionals and know what they're doing way.

I actually watched some of that, though it was many moons ago now and I think I only got a few episodes in. Probably around the time I was trying to juggle more animes than were humanly possible at one time. I think I had a spreadsheet to keep track of them all...

Oh, and the other person who replied to my post (Bix or something like that) said something about the guy in the heavily armoured soldier dying the same way as the girl going to war in squeezed into a pair of napkins sewn together. I'm guessing they were trying to be a smartass or something. Well done, smartass. Go peddle your tacky wares somewhere else.

 

[runic knight]

The outfit beside it looks like a living creature clothing. My guess is that some sort of magical power in involved to the point that any complaints about armor not protecting means nothing. I can find a bracelet that gives me defense because it is enchanted, so I am sure not going to begrudge a shirt with a hole in it the ability if it too is enchanted. Besides, basic anime rules for magic armor shows that it doesn't actually act like armor. You don't see them getting hit and shrugging off the blows so much as you see them gaining the ability to leap buildings and dodge attacks, or rely on blocking the attack with the complimentary magic wand of power. Magic loincloth mentality there.

It is a dumb stylistic choice and that is fine. Anyone complaining about it daring to call itself armor though are sort of forgetting a number of conventions in comics, manga or anime.

 

[BarelyAudible]

I'm bummed that the battle suit looks like a dozen vinyl figures already for sale at (insert Manga merch store here), but I dig the possessed outfit.

 

[Voulan]

Mate, you can like whatever you want.

...

However. Don't you dare refer to that... that as "armor". Just don't.

It's a sex doll outfit. Acknowledge it for what it is.

I'll second this. It's clearly meant to be pandering and invites us to look at her sexually, which is the exact opposite of what armour is supposed to do. Rarely do male armour sets give us the same impression. And since almost all female characters are dressed like this, it presents an ideological perspective of women being sex objects. Ideologies are invisible, hence many people responding "so what?" because it being harmful is not immediately apparent.

So, you're not bad in finding it attractive, but it might be beneficial to consider why women are almost exclusively dressed this way, while men aren't.