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I can't get enough

4 (5.2%)

If it is good, I can enjoy a little peak

29 (37.7%)

I could honestly care less

12 (15.6%)

I ignore it, but sometimes it is just distracting

16 (20.8%)

It is annoying, honestly stop!

16 (20.8%)

Total Members Voted: 75

[Vector]

I never really saw the AoT uniforms as bondage clothes or anything. To me it looked practical on the women and effeminate (at worst) on the men. It didn't seem like the camera lingered on his butt but I did occasionally noticed how weird it (the butt) looked, how it was so thin and blocky. Never thought that there was intentional camera work there so thanks for corrupting me I guess.

The latter is really, really noticeable in the manga. The anime more specialized in slow pans up the backs of everyone's legs. Manga's weird in that it seems like bloody nobody really invests in knowing how to draw men's butts (I mean this strictly from a "they're lacking in anatomy lessons" perspective), but... yeah.

Nobody believes me on the AoT uniforms, but... : / That's why I say "opt-in!" If it's not debatable, I'm kind of not interested.

Fanservice of Integra Hellsing!? Where the bloody hell was that in the entire series!? Seras Victoria yeah but Integra?

Integra's got the whole androgyny and power thing going on. The author actually originally imported her from one of his porno doujinshi.

[Andres]

Wait, when was this? All I remember about MGLN was that it was Gundam with people instead of mecha. They didn't even go for fanservice in StrikerS after the cast had grown up. Like, the most non-PG thing in the original run was Precia being a crazy abusive mother.

...Unless you're talking about the smut that the show was sort of derived from as a(n ultimately more successful) spinoff, the Triangle Hearts whatever about her older siblings and parents being sexy modern ninjas or whatever it was. Can't say I ever had that cross my desk.

Someone linked a wikipedia page to that show on another thread and I had no idea how MGLN was a spin-off. Now I know, thanks. Look, I heard good things about the show how it was basically Gundam with magical girls - I just finished watching TTGL and PMMM so I was hella interested - and then I found myself forcing through the first seven episodes - not even being able to watch the eighth - because of all the god-forsaken fanservice centered on Nanoha. I think I blocked it out pretty successfully since I can't remember much of it but I do know that there were several panty shots.

[TempAcc]

Hellsing's main characters were all imported from a doujinshi by the same author, I heard.

Anyway, if you're looking for a good giant robot experience, just watch gunbuster. I cant stress just how much I love gunbuster. There's a good reason as to why it is considered the father of all of gainax's mecha stuff and one of the forerunners of modern mecha manga and anime in general, alongside gundam, mazinger and getter robo. If you're looking for something more along the lines of TTGL, you might wanna watch diebuster, since its the thing that inspired TTGL in the first place, though its not as awesome or long.

Anyway, there's a fair bit of 90s and 80s more adult centered anime and manga that make copious use of fanservice, such as bubblegum crisis and agent aika and tenchi universe, though those last two probably dont count since agent aika borders on hentai and tenchi universe is a harem type anime, meaning fanservice is an actual feature of it, rather then a mechanism to attract fans.

[Flying Dice]

Wait, when was this? All I remember about MGLN was that it was Gundam with people instead of mecha. They didn't even go for fanservice in StrikerS after the cast had grown up. Like, the most non-PG thing in the original run was Precia being a crazy abusive mother.

...Unless you're talking about the smut that the show was sort of derived from as a(n ultimately more successful) spinoff, the Triangle Hearts whatever about her older siblings and parents being sexy modern ninjas or whatever it was. Can't say I ever had that cross my desk.

Someone linked a wikipedia page to that show on another thread and I had no idea how MGLN was a spin-off. Now I know, thanks. Look, I heard good things about the show how it was basically Gundam with magical girls - I just finished watching TTGL and PMMM so I was hella interested - and then I found myself forcing through the first seven episodes - not even being able to watch the eighth - because of all the god-forsaken fanservice centered on Nanoha. I think I blocked it out pretty successfully since I can't remember much of it but I do know that there were several panty shots.

Yeah, now that I think on it, that stretch before they jumped the shark on the Monster of the Week plots was also about the same period of time it took for them to ditch the transformation sequence and all that other bullshit. All I can say is that you should definitely soldier on; past the point where the TSAB shows up it turns into a radically different series, A's is pretty much pure drama and fighting, and StrikerS is where most of the comparisons to mecha come on the strongest -- it's basically a straight-up science fiction military drama. And also a drama about childhood friends-turned-lovers/heterosexual perpetually single BFFL (depending on how you interpret it) adopting a child/technomagical WMD. Though the fandom is something of a yuri-zone, given that of the relative handful of male named characters, most of them end up on a bus to other jobs and/or spend most of their time in animal forms, so you might want to avoid online fora related to it if that bugs you.

As for the manga series after that... eh. Vivid is magical girl martial artists and sorta bleh, Force is only good because Nanoha at that point has about half a suit of flying power armor and is otherwise a new plot in the universe about a boring stereotypical young-male-falls-into-situation protag and magical disease zombie something something I don't know.

e: Though if I had to pinpoint what exactly makes me enjoy the series so much, I'd set aside the jokes and memes. Those are fun, but they're ultimately superficial. Rather, it's the underlying and continuous theme of 'family' which runs throughout all of the televised seasons. While avoiding spoiling anything too much, that's the fundamental driving force between all of the conflicts, people striving to protect or restore the safety and happiness of their family (often in nontraditional senses of the word). Most of the interesting characters are defined quite heavily in terms of their emotional connections towards those that they consider to be family.