On Fanservice

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DanMachi, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, ef: a tale of memories, Fujiko Mine, Fuuka, Hibike! Euphonium, Izetta: The Last Witch, Keijo, KonoSuba, Lupin the Third, Sound! Euphonium, Walkure Romanze

Grant Watson over at The Angriest has started reviewing Izetta: The Last Witch, and his rant regarding the fanservice in episode 4 The Secret of the Witch is glorious to behold:

Then there’s this soft-core animated pornography, dropped onto the rest of the series like a bucket of turds through a ceiling fan.

I dropped Izetta around episode 3; I was already uncomfortable with the levels of fanservice, and the blatantly phallic imagery of Izetta riding that gun in a short dress and not much more. I had also, courtesy of anitwitter, heard about episode 4 and said “no, nope, not going there”.

Girls Beyond the Wasteland (2016) with some spoilers

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ef: a tale of memories, Girls Beyond The Wasteland, hiiro no kakera, ShokoMeza

Source: https://www.animelab.com/shows/girls-beyond-the-wasteland

Girls Beyond the Wasteland[1] is, ironically, a show about committing to your dreams that does not commit to its own premise.

The basic premise of ShokoMeza is the formation of a high school club to develop, market, and release a visual novel. ShokoMeza it itself adapted from a visual romance novel and, given the nature of such games, there’s a male lead, a male sidekick (who can be mostly ignored), and four female characters for the male lead to romance.

Bakemonogatari (2009)

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Bakemonogatari, ef: a tale of melodies, ef: a tale of memories, Hanabee, Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Part 1 Cover (image sourced from Hanabee)

The Hanabee release of Bakemonogatari ^[1] is a stunningly beautiful set of discs, and possibly more so than this somewhat difficult series from Studio Shaft deserves.

Auctioning Review Copies for Ovarian Cancer Research @SwanCon

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Bodacious Space Pirates, ef: a tale of melodies, ef: a tale of memories, Hanabee, sf cons, Toradora

I was always going to auction a batch of review copies at SwanCon for cancer research. Cancer has hit the Australian SF community far too hard in recent years, and the kind provision of the review copies by Hanabee is too good an opportunity to pass up.

The only question was which type of cancer research to support this time around.

ef: a tale of melodies (2008). A spoiler free review of season two.

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ef: a tale of melodies, ef: a tale of memories, Hanabee

ef: a tale of melodies ^[1] is the sequel, or rather the completion, to ef: a tale of memories and is an anime that I’m finding very hard to write about. Together they make up the adaptation of ef: a fairy tale of the two.