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A lot of series do that, and I'd really enjoy having something that stays relatively lighthearted throughout for a change. I do rather wish it hadn't gotten so bloody series towards the end, though. It was a hell of a lot of fun getting there, of course, but seriously, it's not hard to predict which characters are going to end up together.
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It was pretty obvious how things were eventually going to turn out from halfway through episode 1. Welp, I just finished Toradora! And I have to say, the idea that it doesn't have a clear cut main romance plotline is just straight up wrong. The "shut up Shinji" line is the best so far. I'm actually watching now that I'm not at work. It'll take time for series relying too much on fanservice to flop altogether, if they ever do, simply because they won't stop making money until better series (probably still with fanservice) come along to compete with them.Īlso, Searz, I'm getting a 403 forbidden error on that. If I'm right about the fanservice having to do with economics, it'd stand to reason that after the worldwide economy starts to pick up a bit more we should start to see more series that either don't bother with fanservice at all to tell their stories or otherwise rely on it less to carry them. It could explain the increasing sexualization of the -monogatari series, as well. It may also have to do with the switch from Naruto regular to Shippuden (I don't really know, but the timing in 2007 isn't too far off) and the start of the Fairy Tail anime (in 2009), as anime studios really wanted to cash in on existing successful manga series. For anime, this is probably why we're not seeing as many cerebral series and much more slice of life, romance, and stereotypical shonen. They are much more likely to play it safe for guaranteed money through things like comic book adaptions (which are selling really well), action movies (which generally make decent money), or sequel/prequel stuff (cashing back in on stuff that's already worked). I don't know too terribly much about the anime industry, but I imagine it works at least somewhat similarly to the way Hollywood works here, in that studios aren't really willing to take big risks in times of economic turmoil. It seems pretty likely that the amount of current fanservice in anime, then, is due to the need to make anime that are going to make money (sex always sells). That rather nicely coincides with the drop in the US stock market and start of the oh-so-fun worldwide recession. To respond to the video, though, if the noticeable jump to the amount of fanservice happened around 2007-2008.
#HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD BULLET GIF FULL#
Beyond the too-short skirts and all-female cast, there's basically no fanservice in the series, which is strange considering that the genre its deconstructing is fairly full of fanservice. I really like that most of the background images when he's talking about anime without fanservice are from Madoka. The animation style is a nice throwback, as well.
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Since I watch a ton of anime that is, honestly, about relationships, it was a really nice change of pace. It was actually pretty good, except that the two main characters started going out in episode 1 and then very little happens besides minor spit fetish every episode, the main male character being a stereotypical Japanese anime male about female characters, and some relatively light fanservice (by modern standards, although it did get heavier towards the end) you know, the standard romcom issue of not actually having enough episodes of content, so you just draw out the little you have over too long and the series as a whole suffers. It was a deliberate exploration of weird fetishes and deliberately fetishizing something nonstandard for the anime/manga scene. The spit fetish anime, Nazo no Kanojo X, was supposed to be weird.