I don’t have an issue with fanservice overall, just don’t shove it in my face, don’t overcompensate, don’t treat your audience like idiots (CONTEXT Matters)

Imagine reading a synopsis where a main heroine  gets into various situations because she’s too nice to say no. (Komori-San can’t decline)

Sounds wholesome, i like wholesome. Most do.

I’d assume the story is to display her journey on learning how to say no and her failed attempts is the comedy.

Sounds like Slice of Life/ aka Slice of boring but it’s a weekend, so why not- 

You watch the anime, not even 2min in, and the first close up shot of the 15 year old child is NOT a reasonable full body shot where we see her face, like in the manga:

You get this: 

ooookay, definitely a sign of good writing 

Mind you, i come from Desert Punk (one of my favorites):

 Junko, the main femme fatale of the story (And if you know Junko, she was packing serious heat & she used that to her advantage.)

So the context of the fanservice was, she took advantage of her assets.

Not her being taken advantage of by the situation because the Author & Studio assumes i’m too stupid to pay attention to the story on my own ability

So i can enjoy a well endowed lady, especially when (the context is) they’re grown women-- not a minor/kid

Teens, especially in the West, do develop at an early age. It’s not like girls with figures like that don’t exist. They do, i went to school with girls like that. So her breasts being big isn’t the issue:

• Why do you feel the need to emphasize & exploit it?  Is my question (Is that a focal point of her existence, what are you trying to communicate to me A GROWN ASS man or a 13 year old boy-  by doing stuff like this?)

All in all it’s a first world problem, i get it.

I only harp on this because it’s so creepily prevalent in settings where the female players/even the males are kids:

I hear so much about how japan doesn’t do woke, but this is okay? 

I deadass made a bet that this was a Deviant Art porn commission,i thought to myself “there was no way this shit was real.”

I lost that bet.

Especially when back when Ochako got that melodramatic flashback scene during the tournament arc few years back. People swore on their mum (at the time) that My Hero was pioneering progression for female characters in shonen 

Yeah about that.....

(very next  season)

Pov: An anime about Superheroes

Funny how Raven is literally a half-demon in a one piece swimsuit & a cloak/Starfire is an alien rocking a mini with some midriff but both girls get more respect from their writers than all MHA girls put together. 

(someone pointed out to me that in EP2 there was a split second frame where you see Star’s undies, I swear to you in 20 years of watching it, i’ve never noticed it. I’m not saying that to say the person who saw it is weird, no, i’m saying for whatever reason they chose that shot & angle, it was not emphasized, the action didn’t STOP so you could ogle her bloomers. It was so quick someone had to let ME know it existed. That I can live with. )

TT2003 is allowed to be an actual characters with arcs & shit, and not just waifu props to support the boys from the background and get MAYBE 1 or 2 episodes to maybe be useful.

• And a flashback, a slight change in motivation, and showing their friends their room is considered “character development”
• Or a beach episode where they showcase their young little bodies in still shots (Because it’s not like we can use this time to develop them as people???? pfft nah)

They’re literally the strongest (Starfire)/most powerful (Raven) members on the team. 

Want to watch a show where Teen Heroes get shit done? WITHOUT the juvenile bullshit? 

(TEEN TITANS 2003) for dayz

Avatar The Last Airbender is another good example (the closest to risque they got was cleavage cleft in various points, which was weird because what they were wearing would actually prevent cleavage (except Ty-Lee’s case where she’s on the beach in a kini so that’s a given, a girl looking like a girl isn’t a sin) in all cases it’s less than 000.1% of the show . The camera didn’t PAN ZOOM for 5 seconds on their breasts, the audience was never subjected to that. That is the point.

Regarding Komori;

Because there’s a STARK difference compared to the Manga, this tells me that the Studio went out of their way to prioritize animating frames of a 15 year old kids breasts bouncing center-screen than just showing us the girl:

And in that panel of the manga she was holding a box, which obstructed the view of her chest from the front, so they also went the extra mile to remove the box so we could see her breasts in full

And no, i didn’t drop it because of one shot of her chest. I kept goin just to prove a point and yes you get more emphasis of her chest (as well as a character verbally pointing out that her breasts are big) as well as bouncy sound effects.....

Because priorities. 

shame on me for wanting wholesome/ COMPETENT, good writing, where the kids are allowed to be kids & not sexualized and exploited meat bags with lines..

Guess i can just stick to ‘Kid Cosmic’ for that.

I don’t mind fanservice, I’d prefer none of the Japanese kind (because real fanservice is easter eggs & parallels, reference, respecting other works, META is fanservice)

 but the way japan does it, this show, that’s a hard pass. Why? Cause it’s unnecessary, and it’s gratuitous.

Mainly because of the context. It’s not what you do it’s how/why you do it. Period.

Further reminded why i keep taking mad breaks from 95% of Anime cause at the end of the day; Genre has a lot to do with it. And no matter what genre you run to, authors coming from the same culture that creates a similar type of mindset, will tend to project the same crap into the story.

Trash.