What is fanservice?
When you say the word “fanservice”, I feel like most people think of something very particular – the beach episode, the hot springs episode, panty shots, or anything else that puts cute girls (or beautiful women) in skimpy outfits or less for the viewing pleasure of the audience or otherwise indulges prurient desires. And, certainly, this is a kind of fanservice… but it’s not the only one. I’ve talked about others before; in Granblue Fantasy when a ton of characters we’ve never seen jump out and show their stuff in the final plot episode, obviously to appeal to people who were their fans in the game even though the plot didn’t have room for them, that’s a kind of fanservice.
In short, while there is absolutely one
kind that stands heads and shoulders above the rest, fanservice is
material that exists to gift the audience with exactly what they
believe they want, satisfying some natural viewer desire whether or
not it’s actually germane or intellectually fitting.
Read More…Read More…