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Originally Posted by Vexx
HAH! I was called a "dirty old man" by one pathetic little anon negrep for showing interest in one series.
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Hehe... yeah, watch out for those old farts who have avatars of cute, winking girls.
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It's been mentioned many times in this thread, but yeah I can't stand blatant fanservice... (eg. Haruhi series with all those bunny girl / waitress / maid outfits for Mikuru)
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You really thought Haruhi had intolerable fanservice!?
I used to feel put off by fanservice, back in my days when I preferred action/sci-fi/drama/paranormal titles, mostly. But then, I began to "expand my horizons" and found out what a hopeless romantic I was. Naturally, I began to watch a lot more harem/moe/slice of life type stuff.
I eventually came to accept the fanservice as part of the way things were. There are degrees of it in different series, and I usually decide how seriously I'm going to take it as soon as I figure out what the degree is. If it's light, I go along with it. If it's being shoved down my throat (like the panty-shot-per-minute in episode one of
Rosario+Vampire), then I basically ignore it... if the rest of the series has some redeeming quality of some kind.
So, being the old fart that I am, if the story and characters are something I think I can get into, I basically brush off the fanservice as something intended for the younger crowd, and focus on getting the most out of the other elements of the series -- art/direction/seiyuu/story/characters/music/etc.