it definitely looks like crux would have been more accurate to say it's not just for fanservice.
I guess. I don't watch it for fanservice, but now that I think of it there was a beach episode. Even though it spend more time on character development and the shots of girls in fanservicey outfits immediately cut to the MC not even noticing, because he was busy paying attention to his own woman. Perhaps it's fanservice of the heart, rather than fanservice of the dick.
Yes. Can be good for comedy. Also a buncha' other stuff! Including romance.
That doesn't really make it not-fanservice, does it? Unless I'm being too liberal with my definition.
If "it's comedy" means "it's fanservice" then that's a super liberal definition. Yes, if you take the word apart it could mean "anything added to the show because the fans would like it" but generally it's a word used, with negative connotation, to refer to lewd or erotic content that doesn't contribute anything to the work besides cheap titillation.
I was trying to make the point that ecchi implies fanservice, so never mind
Ah. Was coming across as implying only fanservice (i.e. the series could have no other redeeming features if labeled ecchi), so yeah, misunderstanding squelched.
I think y'all are being too broad in your definitions. Perhaps ecchi could imply fanservice, but it doesn't denote it. Something can easily have ecchi bits, in the sense that there are scenes with less than full clothing or with sexual undertones. Netoge no Yome does, because it's a romance and that's all but mandatory for an even remotely serious romance. I gave a definition for fanservice above, which is distinct from that definition for ecchi in that it includes a measure of utility or value.
That said, I seem to give far fewer fucks about either than much of this thread does. Y'all are positively American about it.
Okay, so my sole exposure to that franchise is a few times of watching other people play. But.
Something about the scale involved there seems... off. Also the riding thing! I don't remember seeing the riding thing. Just how much of that trailer(?) triggered instinctive revulsion from people that actually play the game?
I don't play it much, but more is off than the scale. The games are about adults killing monsters and forging weapons and armor from their remains. The show seems to be a daytime anime cashgrab to promote merchandising among younger audiences, so it has more children and less slaughter. The riding, to my knowledge, isn't in any of the games, but I don't think there's a strong reason it couldn't be. Actually, a monster rancher type spinoff game focusing on breeding and working harmoniously with monsters might be fun in its own right. I'm not interested in that anime, but then, I'm not the audience for it. And a monster hunter anime aimed at me wouldn't have any means of generating the revenue streams that would be worth CapCom's time.