So my response is ambiguous. If I really like it or not, it depends...
]]>It's like you read a comic and theres futuristic mechas, maybe you like mechas and so like the comic more, maybe you dislike mechas and thus it doesn't add attractive, but a plot don't become better or worse for having or not having mechas, if you read a comic and it have a love story maybe you like it, or maybe you prefer action and don't want to be bothered by a love story, but that doesn't make the comic worse, nor is unnecesary nor should make someone stop watching the comic if the action he wants to see it's good enought, the same as fanservice. Saying fanservice is not necesary it's the same as saying it's not necesary to add a love story or a robot, this are not elements that makes a work better or worse nor are necesary or unnecesary, they are just tools to be used wisely.
The problem it's the same as any other thing, and thats when it's abusive and the comic itself only bases on that and nothing else. It's like modern action movies that consist only on continuous fights. Action fights are good if they are scarced through the movie and have a sense, going with the plot, but when the movie bases entirely in fight after fight with just a weak plot to justify it, then thing start to go bad. But that doesn't mean action fights are bad, it's just a misuse of them.
The same with fanservice, some works abuse of fanservice and almost only use it continously with little plot, and so it becomes tiring, but that's not the fault of the fanservice neither means fanservice it's bad, it's just a misuse of it.
I like fanservice when it's not excesive, i like to use some fanservice in my comics and i have found, as johandark said, that it's highly effective, meaning fanservice likes more people than it dislikes.
What i don't understand, in fact, it's why some people would stop watching a comic or any other work just because it have fanservice. That's just an assumption that a work must have a bad plot just because it shows a woman naked from time to time, and that's utterly ridiculous.
]]>As the works of several people here our comic has fanservice indeed. I haven't see an increment of readers when a page whit it shows (as I'm concerned) but people likes it every now and then so I'm ok with that.
]]>Fan Service... oh come on, this is what Anime are made for . Without that, you don't have Anime or Mangas .
I'm in the middle of reading "Freezing", that's why I'm totally for Fan Service .
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]]>It is gender neutral, fanservice is not only about some specific characters taking their clothes off, though I have the suspicion it's manga's fault that fanservice has this bad reputation. :s
anime/manga doesn't have the kind of history your examples have, so the only way for service is nakedness and very very few references to other shows
]]>@Mariko - I don't think fan-girls are forgotten, but maybe there's not fan-girl and fan-boy fan service at one time, in one show?
Par example Twilight (always shitless werewolf boy)
Have you seen Kuroshitsuji ? I think the plot was predominated by fan-girl stuff And by looking at Guy Ritchie's Sherlcok Holmes 2 trailer, even there's some fan serving.
After , if it's IN THE PLOT (for instance, Chun-Li taking shower in the SF2 anime, it makes sense.) that's different. So for exemple I won't frown upon something as johandark did because it's part of the plot.
But if it's just big boobs for the sake of big boobs and attract readers.... well, you certainly won't catch my attention and rather make me run away , sometimes even if the story is ok because it simply pisses me off (and a comic already lost my vote for that simple reason. I like the story, but too much playing on irrelevant appearances of mini skirts, big boobs etc.).
Then, as an artist, I won't use of it and actually, in my comic, I'm rather taking a malicious pleasure to feature UGLY women (here is an exemple : http://www.amilova.com/fr/BD-manga/2548 … age-1.html (cover of a chapter which will mock fan service by the way.)
I know it's certainly not the way to win a contest but I don't care. I prefer to lose sticking on my ethics than breaking them and win doing something my conscience doesn't agree with.
"The end justifies means"? Nah, I don't agree.
]]>There's so many drawings and comics revolving around half naked girls, if we want them we can easily find them, no need to have them making no sense in a good comic.
]]>I try to ignore fan service, be it male or female oriented. It certainly doesn't work on me, on the contrary. When it gets "too much", the plot better be damn good for me to keep up with it. At best, I find it so ridiculous that it amuses me (well it can get insulting too but better laugh than cry about it ^.^ ).
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