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shigmiya64 Somebody get this freaking duck away from me! from a settlement that needs our help, General Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
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#101: Oct 4th 2016 at 5:57:58 PM

It feels like the real topic here is one of censorship rather than image picking.

The current character seems to be a perfect fit, and I just checked, Gurren Lagann is freely available in several mainstream places without any sort of content warnings or censorship of the character who currently provides the page image (at least in the US, which is normally pretty big on censoring what can be considered sexual content).

Perhaps this topic should be moved.

Agreed, I'm really not seeing anything wrong with the current. Change the caption to something like "Yes, that is what she wears into battle," and call it done.

Ravok RIP Toriyama Since: Jun, 2015 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#102: Oct 4th 2016 at 7:17:06 PM

Keep the current. I see absolutely no problem with it, as Yoko's age isn't in any way, shape, or form dwelt on in the anime, she's a perfect fit for the trope, and I honestly don't see why we should give a crap if people think the site is "weird" because we have a supposedly-teenage girl as a page image.

Trust me, there are TONS of weirder pics that could be the page image. I say Keep, add the caption [up] suggested, and be done with it.

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#103: Oct 4th 2016 at 7:44:18 PM

That's not a bad caption suggestion, but I'd rather it lampshade it being her default outfit...can't think of anything, though.

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#104: Oct 4th 2016 at 8:03:06 PM

If we had a Signature Outfit trope for those characters who only wear one outfit the majority of the work and all of its promo art to the point where its just not the character in any other out fit I would say point to that.

shigmiya64 Somebody get this freaking duck away from me! from a settlement that needs our help, General Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Somebody get this freaking duck away from me!
#105: Oct 4th 2016 at 8:17:32 PM

[up][up] How about a 30 Rock quote? "A girl can wear this anywhere. School, church, alone on the playground, a child therapist's office." Maybe tweaked to mention battlefields.

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#106: Oct 4th 2016 at 10:43:13 PM

"A girl can wear this anywhere. School, church, alone on the playground, battling robots in a post-apocalyptic wasteland."

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shigmiya64 Somebody get this freaking duck away from me! from a settlement that needs our help, General Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
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#108: Oct 6th 2016 at 8:15:00 AM

Should probably not have "alone on the playground," since it's part of the joke of the original quote and doesn't really transfer here.

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#109: Oct 8th 2016 at 4:26:30 PM

[up][up][up][up][up][up][up] The problem isn't being "weird" it's being creepy. Again, it's not like we'd be walking on eggshells, we just need to consider the alternatives.

Speaking of alternatives, there was another alternative I neglected to mention earlier; Faye Valentine, from Cowboy Bebop. Here's a collage I came up with featuring two very different screenshots, but with her looking fanservicey in each one.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fayevalentine.png

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#110: Oct 8th 2016 at 4:28:56 PM

Just keep current.

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#111: Oct 9th 2016 at 9:45:37 AM

Can't we just keep the current and be done? This has dragged on for long enough.

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shigmiya64 Somebody get this freaking duck away from me! from a settlement that needs our help, General Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
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#112: Oct 9th 2016 at 9:49:40 AM

[up][up][up] neoYTPism, I don't think anyone else in the discussion has a real problem with the current besides you. I understand that you feel strongly about this, but you're still only one voice. The rest of our opinions are just as valid.

edited 9th Oct '16 10:22:04 PM by shigmiya64

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#113: Oct 9th 2016 at 7:32:17 PM

Yeah, this has dragged on long enough and we're just spinning our wheels. Locking up; I'll add the suggested caption and tag the page.

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