A Deep Dive Into Anime Fanservice

Hey lextorias’ dad

The thing that really turns me off of fanservice is the recurring theme of “against their will”. SOOOO much fanservice in anime is women being exposed, groped, viewed, or straight up assaulted against their will, and it’s always played for lighthearted fun. Even shows where fanservice fun is the entire point focus mainly on girls being unwillingly sexualized, with male consequences (if any) portrayed as a simple punchline. Female characters who are proactively sexual seem to be rare (not nonexistent, but heavily outnumbered by sexy girls who don’t want to be sexualized).

The real takeaway from this video is the beginning of the 'Lextorias sitting on a couch' arc.

One of my favorite obscure facts about Evangelion, is that plug suits weren't originally going to be those skintight latex suits. But Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the character designer, wanted to see the cosplays of girls in the tight suits. He mentions it in his art book, Der Mond. It just further shows how horny that team was.

multiple times during this video your couch looks like a censor bar for the background footage. Made me chuckle!

Kill la Kill was so ridiculous, wacky and fun. That I forgot the characters are all skimpy. Props to the Anime that made Sexy look actually Cool.

“I don’t care if age is just a number. That number is 911, you should be in F-ing prison” absolutely amazing line!

A whole deep dive into fanservice without even mentioning Highschool DxD, well played 👏👏

I like how his background changes to the time of his video..beginning being sunny and the end being night

The most offputting part of fanservice for me is when it’s inappropriately done to extremely underage looking female characters… and the quickest example I can give is No Game No Life

Good video! I AM a bit disappointed that you don’t get into the probably the biggest reason people hate fan service: consent and intent. Literally nobody complains about Julia or Faye from Cowboy Bebop dressing sexy. They presumably chose their own outfits and are grown ass ladies expressing their own sexuality. Even Dress Up Darling is about a girl choosing to dress sexy. But 90% of anime fan service is done in spite of the characters wishes in ways that often parallel uncomfortable ways girls/women are sexualized against their wishes in real life. It’s not fun for female watchers or even just like me who wishes to see boobs without feeling like I’m party to SA. Ugh. Edit: spelling/autocorrect

The problem about fanservice is that this kind of fanservice is often for men. So are women really being empowered? Or are men just applauding for women being naked and trying to rationalize it?

Can I just say that the fanservice for male characters is totally different than the female characters that I wouldn't really call it fanservice? You'll never see a male character get accidentally "groped" and feel humiliated for it. Or male parts jiggle and a close up of their skintight bums while their faces blush? It ain't sexy, it's just a trip to the local gym lol. I want better fanservice for male characters, truly.

watching as a woman kinda hurts cuz its like “oh shit sorry I forgot we’re objectified” like lmao i’m watching this to escape not to be reminded

As someone who was shamed a lot for any display of sexuality throughout my life, Kill la Kill will always be my favorite show just for how unapologetic it is. How i felt when i saw it's nudity and sexuality shown as something cool and empowering rather than shameful, silly or degrading (those aspects reserved to poke fun at the horny audience, rather) will forever be in my heart as one of the best experiences i had woth media. I rarely reqatch things, but ive rewatched KLK three times and i will be rewatching it again. So, yeah.

Just wanna say, the history of Ginnax is so wild, thank you for giving a very small sample of it. For an added bonus: if I remember right, before anime, they primarily worked in bootleg and fan games. I’m pretty sure this included the legendary Titenic, but that might be wrong lol also, yes, ALL of these games were pure, unadulterated, completely nude servings of service

I genuinely laughed at the "... how does that even happen" in the list of fan service. If there is one thing we know about anime its that it will never let physics get in the way of a good bit of fan service. Be it a breeze that only affect women's clothing to a fall ending up with the male protagonist's face in a crotch regardless of starting orientation or distance.

My issue with fanservice is that its usually teenage girls that get sexualized against their will, its rapey, mysoginist and pedophelic. I don't know if your examples fit into this but im fairly certain they do.

I'm so happy that you talked about Kill La Kill. Loved that anime, especially because it's not that standard fanservice, but things like Satsuki absolutely owning her appeal and nudity.

honestly, fanservice to me isn’t actually that horrible of a thing if it doesn’t disrupt the plot. however, i draw the line at where most fan service lies: with teenage girls it’s straight up NOT cool to see underage girls in sexual lights, it makes me wildly uncomfortable, and the way it’s excused so often just upsets me, because this stuff just normalizes attraction to underage girls by showing it in media so often.