PopCultureClay

Child of the Nostalgic 90's, lover of comic books, Funko POPS, Anime, RWBY, Pokemon, animals, Alabama Football and pretty much all things pop-culture

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@ReignOfPride I can see Kara getting in a fist fight with her

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@dcuworld I swear, if Jimmy and Kara don’t get together by season end….

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@ImStillDissin Of course Toph is straight. She confirmed it herself

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@insomniacgames This game looks really awesome! Is the rumor of you planning to make a Dr. Strange game true?

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@BrandonBVarnell Your fans are here for you

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@paolini How’s the Disney+ show coming along?

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@WooperEnjoyer54 You clearly have NO idea what you’re talking about and have never watched anime before

[Brandon Varnell @BrandonBVarnell]

Equating fanservice with "treating women like sex objects" is oversimplified and in many cases wrong.

Very few female characters in anime are reduced to "sex objects" and I would argue that most female characters have a much stronger personality and presence than their male counterparts, which is why so many women love characters like Noelle (Black Clover), Marin Kitagawa (My Dress Up Darling), and Yoko Litner (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann). Even Rias Gremory from High School DxD, well-known for its ecchi and nude scenes, is never reduced to a mere sex object.

This might come as a shock to some, but there are many women who like to feel sexy, and sexy female characters are empowering to them.

Fanservice also comes in many forms - romantic tension, comedic accidents, playful dialogue. Even heavy action scenes with over the top fighting is fanservice. To reduce all that to objectification ignores its broader use.

There are of course genres like ecchi, romcom, and harem that are built around playful exaggerations, missunderstandings, and sexual tension. But the inclusion of fanservice is a feature, not a flaw. It's part of the reason viewers choose to engage in those genres in the first place.

Good or bad writing has little to do with fanservice and is all about execution. How well the anime is paced, how the characters develop, and the tone of the story.

Anime is just entertainment at the end of the day. Fanservice can be humorous, exciting, or just fun, and condemning creators for using tools that their audiences want misrepresents the relationship between creators and their viewers.

I'm kinda sad I see posts like this on my profile, but as this is part of being in the anime community, I can't just avoid it all the time unless I abstain from the internet entirely.

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@jaYTgameNews Avengers Assemble!

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I pulled the best card from the newest set in the trading card game app

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@BrandonBVarnell I hope they enjoy it as much as we do

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@ecchi_waifus69 Thanks

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BREAKING: JD Vance lies that there was a negotiated end to the Second World War. With who? Hitler killed himself in the bunker. Mussolini was overthrown. Two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. Germany and Japan were occupied by allied forces. Read a book.

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@ecchi_waifus69 What’s the blonde girl name?

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is beautiful! I encourage everyone to do this.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Wake up, America.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

🚨 BREAKING:

Republicans are lashing out at the creators of this new ad.

They're TERRIFIED.

It must have struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as pedophile-protectors.

You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!

#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

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@BrandonBVarnell Nice!

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@BrandonBVarnell Awesome. Also, try Astra: Lost in Space

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@BrandonBVarnell Well, you’re not wrong there. How about Record of Grandcrest War? It has a romance that develops strongly