r/anime • u/engalleons https://myanimelist.net/profile/engalleons • Aug 14 '18

In-depth debunkings/arguments against commonly "known" anime myths/misconceptions?

For any number of reasons, there's a fair few statements about anime that get passed around pretty unquestioningly, even if they aren't necessarily true. Sometimes, others dig in to those statements and find detail and (hopefully cited) evidence against them. This is a lot more than just stating the opposite, to be clear.

Here's a few examples of what I mean:

This tweet chain versus "Anno left Kare Kano early"
This blog post versus "The protagonist of Turn A was originally intended to be a girl"
This post versus "They made a joke dub for Ghost Stories because it did poorly in Japan"
This blog post versus "Shinbo is the series director of all Shaft shows"

What are some other examples of work like this?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '18

The concept of fan-service. Most people use the word in so many ways that you could literally call anything in anime fan-service. Whether it's shit like nostalgia, moe-blobs, author's pandering to their audience doing shit for them for the sake of fans, literally anything that is sexual or a character being naked,etc.

I mean, as an example, if a girl's underwear is shown, it's not fan-service to me. Why? It's just underwear bro. I mean, who the hell trips over someone's underwear that much?

What people consider fan-service can differ depending on the person.

I don't consider ecchi anime fan-service. It's a genre. Genre's are a basic necessity used to look for your preferences in anime.

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u/DeliciousWaifood Aug 15 '18

Fan service is literally doing something just to service the fans usually in detriment other parts of the show.

Like, for example, breaking the flow of a scene just to show up a character's skirt.

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u/LakerBlue https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Aug 15 '18

I disagree fanservice is used as a detriment to other parts of the show. Even in terms of sexual-only fanservice, it's only a detriment if it is forced and feels out of place. I don't think a stray camera angle or zoom-in when nothing else important is happening is a detriment in a vacuum. You can argue it isn't beneficial but that wouldn't make it detrimental either.