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Originally Posted by Mr_Paper
It's unfortunate but many newer series are starting to depend on it and even abuse it. While Mahoromatic was a good series, it could have been a hundred times better with only half the fanservice content that was in it and there was no need to show the teacher's more graphic fantasies.
Personally, I tend to watch a series for it's story and plot not to be assulted visually by half naked women who have nothing better to do than run around or flaunt their bodies.
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I have to say that I agree with you here. I also tend to watch a show for it's story and plot, and could certainly live with less fanservice. It makes you wonder, though, do the shows actually sell better/find more audience with the fanservice than they would without it? Why
are the animation companies throwing in more and more fanservice?
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Originally Posted by hunterx
you don't know what soft porn is. Soft porn is sex scenes without the explicit parts. Futari no ecchi is soft porn, just showing breasts or panties with no sex is not soft porn
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Yeah, I've gotta say I wasn't too sure of the definitions myself... what counts as porn and what doesn't. But, if, as Mr_Paper says, it's "no better than soft porn", then whether it technically is or isn't doesn't really matter.
I'm still very interested if anyone will choose to tackle the question about how fanservice in anime compares to the sexually suggestive stuff we find in other "mainstream" entertainment media. And also, I've gotta wonder, as I mentioned earlier... does fanservice actually truly help sales? I suppose it must, otherwise why would we be seeing more and more of it?