Anime Fanservice

Warning! Some oversensitive readers may find this post naughty.

Since you geeks repsond more to ANIME TALK than POLITICS here’s another anime rant. Sorta. Oh fanservice, where would anime be without it? Well, it’d probably be alot better actually. What is fanservice you ask? You know: a flash of white panties, girls tripping and landing on boys (sometimes other girls) in provocative positions, maybe a boob or two, and fanboys eat this up despite the fact there’s a whole industry of hardcore anime tentacle porn out there they could be fapping to.

And where basement dwelling otaku with shelves full of x-rated statuettes may like fanservice, I for one have trouble taking any show with an abundance of it very seriously (unless it’s an outrageously silly and genuinely funny comedy, then I let it slide. I still love you Maho Tsukai Tai and Project A-ko!) Like most people, for example, I was told for years that Neon Genesis Evangelion was TEH BEST ANIME EVARZ. I had seen the first two episodes years before and it bored me to death, but when it finally aired on Adult Swim I decided to finally watch it all. For an anime that was supposed to be top-quality, philosophical, religiously controversial, a paradigm of creative and symbolically deep anime… it sure had alot of stupid, mindless fanservice. The second I saw a scene in which a 14 year old girl’s skirt is blown unnaturally up above her navel so that she flashes a group of teenaged boys I had a feeling I wasn’t going to like this anime (the first 14 or 15 episodes were all goofy as fuck too. Jesus! .. okay Eva is a rant for another day.) It even PROMISED FANSERVICE in each preview for the next episode! I’ll venture to guess the 14 year old girls in skin-tight bodysuits is the only thing that’s kept that series popular for 11 years.

So by now you might be wondering: what on Earth has gotten Sai on this rant? Well read on (unless you don’t want your parents to see you looking at pantyshot pics.)