![]() ![]() It’s a picture of childish innocence, and a happy little feel-good moment. They joyfully take their clothes off, look each other up and down, and start giggling. Keep an eye on Mero’s two friends when they strip off. Sankarea gives us a bit more of a grey area here, but I think it leans towards wholesomeness for the scene in question far more than it leans towards fanservice. But it is entirely tasteful and shown in a way that is as far from fanservice as you can get. ![]() A good example is Girls’ Last Tour, which is in my opinion entirely wholesome and suitable for young children (disclaimer: the BBFC doesn’t agree and awarded it a 12 certificate), and yet there is a scene with the two girls in a bath and also one where they go for a swim in an… well I won’t spoiler it because we’ll be doing episode-by-episode reviews next year. The reason I chose it was to tackle the subject of whether all nudity in anime counts as fanservice. Sankarea is a very fanservice-heavy series, and this is an episode that has very little of it, instead focusing almost entirely on Rea enjoying her shopping trip and then her monster of a father attempting to kidnap her, so it is an episode that largely drives the ongoing story along. The eighth episode of this series might seem like an arbitrary choice for this article. Meanwhile, Chihiro’s cousin Ranko, who has a massive crush on him and makes no attempt to hide that fact, is enjoying “a nice long bath” at some public baths, which are so quiet that she appears to be the only person there, until she runs into Chihiro’s younger sister Mero and two of Mero’s friends, who are about to go into the baths. If zombie girl Rea goes out in the sun too much her body will deteriorate but she is keen to do “something a normal girl would do” and persuades Chihiro to take her on a shopping trip. This week, the eighth episode of zombie romance Sankarea: Undying Love.Ĭhihiro has always been obsessed with the idea of zombie girls, and by a strange chain of circumstances he ends up living with one. A warning: this series will have plenty of spoilers and sometimes NSFW discussions and images. ![]() Can fanservice ever be justified in anime or is it a disturbing and unnecessary aspect of the genre? In this occasional series we look at the rights and wrongs of fanservice and other questionable content in anime. ![]()
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