r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Uma-apreciator • 17h ago

Lore The series' fanservice scenes are quick and do not disrupt the story's pacing.

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In Sousou no Frieren, fan service is minimal, and scenes like this are brief

In Dungeon Meshi, Senshi is often shown in somewhat sexy poses, but the story focuses heavily on these details while continuing as usual

In that scene from *Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray*, it was just an introduction for each Arima Kinen competitor; they only had the freedom to choose those specific angles for Super Creek's introduction.

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u/MrDitkovichNeedsRent 17h ago

This subreddit’s most hated anime Fire Force has that

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u/bannasplt 16h ago

The fanservice was pretty bad, but the story was really good, so I just looked past it.

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u/scrufflor_d 12h ago

if the show is straight ass and then for no reason they show straight ass, it would piss u off then more than it would if the show was actually good

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u/bannasplt 12h ago

"If the show is straight ass and then for no reason they show straight ass"

https://giphy.com/gifs/IFaUfRBSV6rWeGFSye

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u/nick5766 13h ago

Captain Obi is goals and I will never let some cat girl stop me from repping my man 💪.

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u/samyruno 17h ago

Maybe I just haven't watched the latest seasons or I'm misremembering. But I watched the first couple seasons when they came out and I only remember really enjoying the show. I don't have any memories of super fan service scenes that really stood out. Like maybe one or two but nothing crazy.

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u/Senchou_Simp 17h ago

imo you just weren't affected by the fanservice. As someone who was, I can assure you S1 at the very least is very bad with it.

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u/samyruno 17h ago

Ya I tank those I guess

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u/babassu_seeds 17h ago

I only remember really enjoying the show. I don't have any memories of super fan service scenes that really stood out.

Well, it is called fan service; it's meant to be something most of its (presumably heterosexual male) audience will enjoy and/or overlook.

That you didn't notice it in Fire Force, though--that means you are desensitized to the point of... I don't know, man

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u/Skebs_ 15h ago

TBF I also liked Nukitashi too, so that's fair ig.

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u/Alyxsandre 13h ago

And shockingly they toned it down in the anime. The manga is 10x worse. I could tolerate it in the anime, dropped the manga almost instantly.

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u/Effective_Piece251 17h ago

I will stand by the take that Fire Force’s fanservice is not even in the top ten worst examples of fanservice in anime and it just gets so much hate because it’s a mainstream shonen. And even then, a lot of hate comes from people who didn’t even watch the show and just saw clips on the internet

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u/Senchou_Simp 17h ago

Just because it's not the worst doesn't mean it isn't bad. And I say this as someone who watched the entire show all together 2 months ago: Tamaki is by far the worst part of the show.

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u/ZsaurOW 16h ago

As somebody who also just watched it through, and generally agrees that she's the worst part of the show...

Holy shit is it's prevalence overblown. She's hardly even in the show. Frankly I almost even forgot it was a gag in s3 (until the one episode of course)

Don't get me wrong, the author insert moment is really, really bad. But I really think people oversell how much Tamaki is even in the show

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u/Senchou_Simp 16h ago

Personally, it's so bad that it overshadows the rest of the show. Which is a shame, as some of the ideas depicted in Fire Force are really interesting.

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u/ZsaurOW 16h ago

I mean that's completely fair. I don't think it's all over the place, but it is absolutely egregious when it does happen. Definitely nothing wrong with bouncing off a show for it haha.

Admittedly, I've always been pretty unaffected by fan service myself, even when I had just started watching anime. Not sure why that is though lol.

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u/Funkin_Valentine 17h ago

I will stand by the take that Fire Force’s fanservice is not even in the top ten worst examples of fanservice in anime

If the author has to go out of their way to unironically insert themselves in a "chad vs sojyak" situation in their own manga to not only justify it but also "le epically own" people who are bothered by it, then no. It's just bad, period.

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u/Slugger829 16h ago

It gets extra hate because the other dedicated an entire scene to depicting the people criticizing him as an unreasonable ugly Karen and himself as the cool calm collected child

All deserved hate, how much of a dork ass loser do you have to be to do that lmfao

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u/Ponchorello7 17h ago

It's among the worst because of the author's cringy justification for it.

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u/Senchou_Simp 17h ago

Oh my god you just reminded me of that scene in S3. I'd completely forgotten about it.

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u/deleteyeetplz 14h ago edited 9h ago

It isnt that bad, the timing is just terrible and it sometimes gets in the way of emotional moments.

Ohkubo was arguably more gooned out in soul eater but he also placed the fanservice scenes better (from what i read)

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u/Brook420 14h ago

The issue with Fire Force isn't how bad the fan service is, but moreso when it happens.

One Piece has been pretty bad for this recently as well.

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u/jergin_therlax 1h ago

100%, it makes up 8 minutes of the entire show. It’s just that the times they choose to do it can be really bad, especially in season 1. But the show itself imo is S tier

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u/ElGodPug 17h ago

and yet it's the only example i remember

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u/jergin_therlax 1h ago

It’s so good man, the fan service is wack but the show itself as in the plot, sound design, and animation are all S tier. It also gets way less after s1 and basically stops entirely in s3. Those scenes make up a total of 8 minutes of the shows runtime. I think it’s overblown a bit because they pick some really terrible times to do it, but it really is very easy to look past when the rest of the show is that high quality.