Third, while Japanese media can have a focus on fanservice at times (see Sister is Unusual for an egregious example), We are seeing only a sliver of what they actually produce. In fact, complants from the older generations will argue that the current one is less aggressive than before (Danger:Must Silence will tell you that's bullshit but I'm more relaying what they say) Japan in the modern era is actually facing a crisis since multiple factors are causing men to shift away from marriage and sex.Īlso, Japan's view of sex is opposite of ours: its not that they tend to have it in everything, its that they believe it a more natural thing and did not impose heavy restrictions on sex like Europe during the Dark Ages and Renaissance. When the US came, Japan quickly adopted several western cultural aspects, this included our prudishness. Pre Meiji Japan was actually very liberal with sex in its writing and general lifestyle, hell women didn't even wear anything like panties but Koshimaki which is basically a giant skirt but nothing else underneath. Japan's relation with sex has been an odd one. The type I freaking despise is the "something fer da dads" type of fan-service, where the thing is actually about something entirely different but for whatever reason they put in fan-service anyway.Ĭlick to expand.I do wish you refrain from such a generalized statement. Can't say it has me interested but I'm completely fine with this sort of fan-service where it's the entire point. That doesn't make it a good fighting game, having never played it I can't tell you if it is. Removing them would be like removing the torture, deaths, demons and all that sort of thing from Dragon Age.Ĭertainly you can have a fantasy RPG without all the dark stuff, but it wouldn't be Dragon Age.Ĭertainly you can have a fighter without all the fan-service stuff, but it wouldn't be whatever the hell this is.įan-service is very much necessary in a fan-service fighter, just like horror-elements are very much necessary in a dark fantasy RPG.
The panty shots, schoolgirl outfits, swimsuits and cleavage seem to be part of what the game is all about. Judging from that video, which admittedly isn't all that much to go by.