HIII I LOVE YOU AND YOUR WRITINGS! I'm kinda new to anime and manga so I was a bit confused with your post in regards to ones you've watched, read, and stop following. For fairy tail you mentioned fan service. What is that?
Hello friend!!
What I mean by fan service is that there are a lot of unnecessary close-ups of women’s private areas, nudity, some guy ends up with his face shoved between a female character’s boobs, etc. Stuff like that is common in boys’ manga, and while it is annoying, I can get through a series if it’s not happening constantly.
In Fairy Tail, it happened constantly. Shots framed looking up from a woman’s rear end, bath scenes, crotch shots in the middle of fights or conversations even. During a very serious battle between strong female characters that I wanted to like and respect, they ended up ripping each other’s clothes off and fighting naked. And I thought, “Why does everyone else get to have a normal fight while these characters are being blatantly objectified?”
How was I supposed to respect the characters when the author didn’t respect them? How was I supposed to see them as important when the author paraded them as sexual objects?
And the thing about fan service is that it’s becoming more prevalent in newer anime. Lately the series I’ve watched have had the “loli” character for pedophiles, or that “not-quite-incest” relationship, and it’s so, so, so gross.
But anyway, that’s just my opinion.
