Worst examples of blatant fanservice

[Casual Shinji]

Except in Ghost in the Shell (the movie) it's not sexualized at all. There's nudity, yes, but it's not for the sake of titillation. It's actually very sterilzed and cold. Kind of like a mannequin or robot.

I'd argue that for the most part that's a pretty weak excuse. For some scenes, yes, I see it too but for the most part her way of dress is plain ol' titillation. It really put me off as well, I couldn't see any other excuse for it other than making her look hot. Especially in Stand Alone Complex.

And if that wasn't annoying enough, there's the bloody Tachikoma as well. I'll never get Japan's weird way of handling tonality.

I'm not talking about Stand Alone Complex. I'm talking about the first movie, where she just wears regular gear. And whenever she's naked there's not a hint of sexualisation due to how things are shot and lit. But subconscienciously it's because the movie starts off showing how she gets assembled bit by bit. Whenever she's naked she gives off the impression of a mannequin; Physically ideal, but cold and lifeless. This only gets enforced by the end when all the mechanisms inside her start to rupture due to stress, untill her arms and legs shatter to pieces.

You know things have gotten bad when a guy noted for his seminal contribution to science fiction anime is better known for his bizarre porn titles.

I only ever bought one issue of the GitS manga, and coincidentally it was the one where within the first few pages there's a giant naked orgy in cyberspace in full, highly detailed colour.

I like Shirow though. I'm not too familiar with his stories, but I always loved how he drew robots and other mechanisms. There's almost never a square or a corner to be found in any of his designs, it's always nice and round. It's one of of the things I really find lacking in current anime... Those awesome machine designs that were so intricate they almost looked like they just might be feasible.

I'm going to go with Ninja Scroll, personally. I mean, yes, it's a sort of 'coming of age' thing for anime geeks, but it's clearly just fan service for fan service's sake. Let's make her naked and have a rock version of Colossus rape her! So our hero can just walk right up and kill the guy, to prove he's a badass!
Me: "What the shit am I watching?"

You mean the rape scene that's obviously meant to make you feel totally creeped out? That's fan service?!

 

[lassiie]

So I love the show Fairy Tail, and am on episode 110, or thereabouts. There are three things I have noticed constantly in this show. First, I swear to god Lucy's boobs have grown at least a cup size since the beginning of the show. Second, in every shot where the heroes are getting beat in any fashion, there is a shot from behind or right under Lucy as she is on her knees in the traditional "about to get fucked" sort of way. Third, Erza's "armor" that she requips with is just blatant. I won't even consider some of the filler episodes since those are always so blatant.

I am at school right now and didn't feel like googling pictures to put on here, so feel free to look.

 

[Fox12]

Elfen Lied. Not because the fanservice itself is so bad, though it can be, but because there was actually some real potential for a great story in there.

I hate the premise that there "was" potential for a great story, but fanservice so now the story doesn't count any more.

I'd be afraid to let you anywhere near Kodomo No Jikan, for example (I'd tell you to look it up on TVTropes but it's banned from being discussed on TVTropes because of people with similar positions on the whole "fanservice prevents story from existing" thing).

Ummm, I think you took my comment a little too far. Chill out, haha. I love Elfen lied. In fact, I make a point to watch it once a year. I just feel that it has a poor script that was saved by brilliant execution, direction, music, and the best use of sound I've seen from ANY anime. Sometimes it feels like Lucy carries the show almost on her own. My main point was that I love recommending it to people, but it's funny that I have to throw in so many disclaimers.

 

[Black Reaper]

Judging from what i've read bout the new Starfire comics, this is what they've turned into

And Blazblue's female character designs
I think some of the males have pretty good designs

Spoiler: males

But the females designs are needlessly fanservicey

Spoiler: females

I like my main's design, except for her underwear that is always visible for no particular reason

Spoiler: Kokonoe, my main

There are only a handful of females who are actually wearing something

 

[loa]

Giganto makhia by kentaro miura. Yeah, that's the author of berserk.
Masterful world building, excellent illustration and incessant insistence on cramming as much fanservice of an underage little girl as a "running gag" in it as possible.
It's really distracting and unnecessary.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

You always seem to get a couple people saying Fairy Tail in stuff like this and how it has gotten "worse" in recent manga which as far as worse goes that is just nostalgia in my eyes. Especially, since the first two images are your first impression of it. I mean it pretty much screams there will be fan service. It isn't like Ravemaster was completely different.

Spoiler

That and I don't get while people seem to point out ecchi shows as having the most blatant fan service which is like watching a porno and complaining that people are having too much sex. Anything like Highschool of the Dead, Queen's Blade, etc. They don't exist for anything other than fan service. So I don't see why this would irk anyone when it is the sole point and the work isn't meant to be anything more.

Stuff like the things in SAO did annoy me a bit as there was not really any reason for them to exist in the show at all. Sure it got that harem thing going for it after awhile but there was no need for some of the stuff that went on in the second half of the first season.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I watched High School of The Dead once. Hated it. Not just because of the bad, unlikeable characters, tired art style, or any reason why one would hate an anime like HSotD. But because of the rampant ecchi bullshit. Always male-oriented, always completely tasteless, always... just, unsexy, period. Also, the fact that boobs are not just bags of jello and cotton is something that seems to go completely over the animators' heads.

I also find Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei hilarious, in that the manga parodied this sort of fanservice, while Shaft's anime plays it completely straight, unironically. Well, except for the creepy shotacon relationship between two characters, which is played for as much creepiness and twisted humour as the manga usually plays everything.

In the first episode alone, the main character/female lead gets, I think, four panty shots, when the manga gave her none, except for the occasional stupid gag involving cheerleader fetishes in political leaders (don't ask about that one). In other words, Shaft is sexing up teenagers for fun. Again.

 

[ExileNZ]

I'm going to go with Ninja Scroll, personally. I mean, yes, it's a sort of 'coming of age' thing for anime geeks, but it's clearly just fan service for fan service's sake. Let's make her naked and have a rock version of Colossus rape her! So our hero can !
Me: "What the shit am I watching?"

Sorry are you talking about the series or the movie?

There's a SERIES?
The big, rock guy at the beginning who throws the dual bladed sword like a boomerang and gets stabbed in the eye didn't die from getting stabbed in the eye? It's been a while since I watched the movie, but I remember that being the end of him.

Well so much for the spoiler warning. I digress.

Yes, he gets his head split open by his own sword, but Jubei was only decorative in that fight. The guy's whole body (which Jubei was unable to scratch) starts falling apart because of the poison he absorbed by trying to rape Kagero. Jubei really only distracts him long enough for the poison to kick in, and he's as surprised as the rock guy is (though probably in less pain).

At any rate, my issue here was with "just walk right up and kill the guy, to prove he's a badass". Jubei gets his own arse handed to him and really only helps finish the guy off.

 

[Ratty]

That overated crap Ghost In the Shell has a stupid bimbo robot taking her clothes off to work. I saw that, then said, FTS! and left the video.

Except in Ghost in the Shell (the movie) it's not sexualized at all. There's nudity, yes, but it's not for the sake of titillation. It's actually very sterilzed and cold. Kind of like a mannequin or robot.

That cold sterile approach seen in the film is more because of the director of the movie then anything else though. In the original manga Major Kusanagi is a very sexual being. There's a 2 or 3 page full color lesbian sex scene that is omitted in most English language editions for example. The only thing that scene really demonstrates character-wise is Kusanagi breaking the law for the cybernetic threesome, so it shows she's not entirely a "straight arrow" cop. So it's pretty gratuitous. I've heard the original author of GitS now basically just makes softcore porn for a living.

GitS: SAC is based on an alternate universe since the ending of the original manga and movie didn't lend itself very well to sequels. Though the director of the first movie made one in that continuity anyway, focusing on Batou as I understand.

The worst one I've seen is hands-down "Highschool of the Dead". To be honest I usually dismiss fanservice as ultimately harmless kitsch, or as a symptom of a problem rather than a problem itself. Like the chainmail bikins of yesteryear's western fantasy art. But HotD just made me feel dirty.

 

[CelestDaer]

I'm going to go with Ninja Scroll, personally. I mean, yes, it's a sort of 'coming of age' thing for anime geeks, but it's clearly just fan service for fan service's sake. Let's make her naked and have a rock version of Colossus rape her! So our hero can !
Me: "What the shit am I watching?"

Sorry are you talking about the series or the movie?

There's a SERIES?
The big, rock guy at the beginning who throws the dual bladed sword like a boomerang and gets stabbed in the eye didn't die from getting stabbed in the eye? It's been a while since I watched the movie, but I remember that being the end of him.

Well so much for the spoiler warning. I digress.

Yes, he gets his head split open by his own sword, but Jubei was only decorative in that fight. The guy's whole body (which Jubei was unable to scratch) starts falling apart because of the poison he absorbed by trying to rape Kagero. Jubei really only distracts him long enough for the poison to kick in, and he's as surprised as the rock guy is (though probably in less pain).

At any rate, my issue here was with "just walk right up and kill the guy, to prove he's a badass". Jubei gets his own arse handed to him and really only helps finish the guy off.

Ah, right, I forgot that part. All I really remember of Ninja Scroll was how much nudity was in it.

 

[SajuukKhar]

In the film, at least. In SAC, it was really jarring to see the Major wandering around the office without pants on. And no, I don't buy the excuse that in the future, nobody really cares about modesty standards in cybernetic bodies. She's the only one who really does it, and there is no reason other than to show off her legs. It also doesn't help that her tactical armor looks way better.

the major does it, at least in the movies, because the full body stealth camo suit needs to be properly fitted for her body PERFECTLY, or else it could cause seams in the camera projection and fuck up the illusion.

That's actually based somewhat on real science.

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

Except in Ghost in the Shell (the movie) it's not sexualized at all. There's nudity, yes, but it's not for the sake of titillation. It's actually very sterilzed and cold. Kind of like a mannequin or robot.

In the film, at least. In SAC, it was really jarring to see the Major wandering around the office without pants on. And no, I don't buy the excuse that in the future, nobody really cares about modesty standards in cybernetic bodies. She's the only one who really does it, and there is no reason other than to show off her legs. It also doesn't help that her tactical armor looks way better.

In the manga it's even worse. Masamune Shirow sure does like his bronzed, gleaning female bodies.

I certainly argue even with the fanservice in SAC, you can pretty much just ignore it and find other stuff to like such as charcters, story, and world in general. The manga is worse but again, I ignore it for the story

OT, One of the worst example of fanservice I can think of is not anything particularly flashy but it's horrifying in implications. Most of the time I just need to say "Recently, My Sister is Unusual" and leave it at that but for those who don't know

Spoiler: horrifying details

Basically, the main female protagonist has a ghost possessing her body that wants to bone her new stepbrother. In one scene, the ghost comes out and does Yuri with the girl and I don't think she agreed to it. In addition, there is a stupid scene with a chastity belt that only opens once every hour and she needs to go to the bathroom (you can see where that goes). This is all the first episode and I immediately didn't want to watch more.

For something in the more conventional mold, there is a new OVA for Infinite Stratos called "Infinite Stratos-World-Purge-hen". Anyone who read the light novels (like I did in my boredom) knows whats coming up in the OVA but for those who don't know

Spoiler: World Purge Arc(note:NSFW)

The heroines (and block headed male protagonist) have to enter cyber space to deal with a hacker attack. Unfortunately, the heroines go first and encounter a program that makes their "ideal" worlds. Given this is a crappy harem, you can see how this goes

Link if image does not work [http://baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=File:IS_v08_002-003..jpg]

 

[Kerethos]

I rarely watch anything anime, they just don't appeal to me. Last thing I watched, years ago, was probably Hellsing. I don't recall how heavy it was on the fanservice, but I think people mostly wore clothing.

Anyhow, that's not why I'm commenting. I'm here to introduce the solution to all these wardrobe conundrums. How do the clothing always stick to breasts like that? (I can't answer why they all though that level of boob job was a good idea though).

So here it is: The Boob sock!

The tailoring of choice for providing the right level of fanservice!

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

Judging from what i've read bout the new Starfire comics, this is what they've turned into

And Blazblue's female character designs
I think some of the males have pretty good designs

Spoiler: males

But the females designs are needlessly fanservicey

Spoiler: females

I like my main's design, except for her underwear that is always visible for no particular reason

Spoiler: Kokonoe, my main

There are only a handful of females who are actually wearing something

This is Toshimichi Mori, the guy pretty much loves his fanservice and seems to have a thing for blondes given both Noel and Es in the Xblaze visual novel.

 

[ExileNZ]

Ah, right, I forgot that part. All I really remember of Ninja Scroll was how much nudity was in it.

If you really want a treat, you should watch Ninja Resurrection.

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

Although not visual fan service;

The relationship between the Kirito and Asuna in Sword Art Online felt like a sort of mental fanservice. The anime was always a self insert nerd-loner power fantasy and then suddenly they have the main character playing house, even adopting a child. That part really put me off on the anime. Also, in season two, the ridiculous 'love-triangle' thing between Kirito, Asuna and his sister, playing right into the Japanese imouto fetish. His little sister was also exploited graphically for fan service, so I guess that this bit ties in with the thread at hand?

Continuing on this kind of fan service; pretty much all of Log Horizon.

Two things

One, I thought Suguha was a cousin, not a sister? I mean they introduce her as a sister but in the light novels, they clear up that she is in fact, a cousin.

Two, I can agree with you about SAO about how it's a bit self-inserty. Kirito is a mega gamer that leveled solo and managed to get a skill exclusive to only one possible person at a time. He manages to get a girlfriend/wife that is complete waifu bait (and I will admit I like Asuna on some shallow level): understanding, strong willed, capable and good in the house. Add it that the fact that Kirito manages to get two other girls to love him without him doing anything and the fact that he basically beat the game

 

[Soviet Heavy]

In the film, at least. In SAC, it was really jarring to see the Major wandering around the office without pants on. And no, I don't buy the excuse that in the future, nobody really cares about modesty standards in cybernetic bodies. She's the only one who really does it, and there is no reason other than to show off her legs. It also doesn't help that her tactical armor looks way better.

the major does it, at least in the movies, because the full body stealth camo suit needs to be properly fitted for her body PERFECTLY, or else it could cause seams in the camera projection and fuck up the illusion.

That's actually based somewhat on real science.

No shit, it's almost like I wasn't even talking about the film. I am not talking about the movie, something everyone who has quoted me so far seems to have missed. I am specifically talking about the first season of the anime series Stand Alone Complex. NOT THE MOVIE. I don't have problems with the film, because the film portrayed it in an appropriate context (that she is a cyborg and not meant to be sexualized). I do have problems with the anime series, where she is the only one on Section 9's team that does not wear pants, without any justifiable reason given. She just goes to work in a leotard because it lets the animators show off her ass.

 

[TristanBelmont]

I don't really feel like Ikkitousen, Highschool of the Dead, and Queen's/Witchblade can really count. Those are all designed to be that way while stuff like Code Geass and Sword Art Online and Evangelion often have it for absolutely no raisin.