and some where it is simply distracting (Ghost in the Shell)
FTFY
I give Ghost in the Shell a pass because its her skin and hair which is augmented and not her clothes. Makes sense. (At least I think that's how it worked when she cloaked.))
If you're talking about the first film, she wasn't actually nude. That was a skin-toned bodysuit. At least, that's my recollection. And of course that's no excuse for the outfit and full-dive internet shenanigans in SAC, though I'll hesitantly give it a by because it never really interfered with the plot and the Major was smoking hot.
They had a whole lot of times where everyone is seated, the Major stands to deliver her lines (so that her head is cut off, and you see, perfectly framed in the screen, from her shoulders to her thighs as she speaks). That was what really pissed me off. No issue with the outfit, really angry about prioritizing her boobs over her face when delivering plot information.
This. I'd actually forgotten about this, probably a deliberate effort on the part of my subconscious. It was just so painfully out of place, especially when, apart from the Major, there was basically nothing of the sort going on.
and some where it is simply distracting (Ghost in the Shell)
FTFY
I give Ghost in the Shell a pass because its her skin and hair which is augmented and not her clothes. Makes sense. (At least I think that's how it worked when she cloaked.))
If you're talking about the first film, she wasn't actually nude. That was a skin-toned bodysuit. At least, that's my recollection. And of course that's no excuse for the outfit and full-dive internet shenanigans in SAC, though I'll hesitantly give it a by because it never really interfered with the plot and the Major was smoking hot.
Was it a bodysuit? I thought that was her Shell.
Stand Alone Complex specifically refers to the television show.
I'm nearly certain that it was. I'm talking about that very early scene when she's in that highrise, where she jumped out of the window and activated the active camo after assassinating whats-his-name. I'll have to go back and re-watch it at some point, though, it's been years and my memory is fuzzier than a stuffed tiger. And yes, I was talking about SAC's problems in contrast to the first film.
Strike Witches is a very polarizing show. Essentially, it is WWII, except all the fighter planes are young girls carrying guns, and instead of fighting each other they're fighting aliens. It gets a lot of flack for fanservice, a fair bit of which is justified, but the underlying war story's pretty well done.
To be more explicit it "gets a lot of flack" because it massively panders to paedophiles.
That would be why the most often depicted examples are massive breasts. No, wait, that doesn't make any sense at all.
That was probably more in reference to the fact that a large portion of the cast are underaged girls who spend most of their screentime running around without pants for literally no reason at all.
While not explicitly stated (at least in the anime, I haven't examined any of the supplemental material either), it seemed fairly obvious to me that the lack of pants was so they could wear their airplane parts. Of course, that doesn't explain why pretty much no women in the universe seem to wear pants, unless there's some sort of war-hero based women's lib movement going on.
That said, I'm pretty indifferent to fanservice unless it's extremely gratuitous (High-School of the Dead is one of the only shows I can think of that really annoyed me, mostly the guntits scene), and absolutely despise it when things that should be seen aren't (unless it's a comedy show poking fun at that kind of thing). Things like the Magic Skirt, pixellation/black bars, or absurd amounts of steam really piss me off because they jar my suspension of disbelief so much. It isn't about missing out on seeing something, it just seems so fundamentally wrong to, for example, have a girl hanging from a rope by her feet with her skirt firmly in place instead of obeying gravity, and throwing something on the screen to block something out is basically beating you with the fourth wall.
This is the excuse that always seems to come up, but the response is pretty simple. It seems like a reasonable assumption that something wonky is going on with pocket-dimensions, because I don't really buy that they manage to fit both their legs
and engines into those little things, in which case pants should fit just as well as legs. But if we handwave the volume requirements... well, I wonder if there is some sort of garment for the lower body which doesn't extend down the entire length of the leg. I could swear that there's something like that.
As for the latter part--eh, I agree insofar as that it's another good reason why fanservice needs to die in a horrible pit for as long as production studios and artists can't grasp the concept of moderation. Though to be perfectly honest, I watched some of HSoTD just for the sake of laughing at how terrible it was, while silently wishing that it hadn't had the ecchi stuff. :|
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