To-do list:
- Remove Porn/Hentai/Ecchi works that are intended to be racy.
Original post
Note: This thread was proposed by ~tropette, who gave permission for others to make the thread.
Best Known for the Fanservice, according to its page, describes works to which the following applies: "This is the common tendency for fanservice to overshadow everything else about a work."
However, either the trope has drifted in scope or was overscoped from the beginning. First of all, it has the usual issue where any sexual content, innuendo, etc. is referred to as "fanservice" regardless of intent or circumstances. It also tends to collect overly horny writing like all other fanservice tropes.
The bigger problem, though, is that "best known" is used very loosely and often just means "known," or sometimes "known by this troper who is typing with one hand." What a work is "best known" for is inherently subjective and subject to Fan Myopia — an argument might be made that the trope should require citations to be less subjective — but a good litmus test might be: Assuming you've heard of the work, do you have any idea what the "best known" fanservice in question even is? If not, it probably isn't an example.
Wick check: Here. Restricted this to YMMV pages since anything else is likely to be a pothole or questionable usage of the trope in the first place. I split this into a few categories:
- The definition that best matches the title and description: fanservice that is genuinely the best known thing about the work. This is not as common as the trope description would lead one to believe.
- Fanservice that is well-known and/or iconic, but not the best known thing, or at least one well-known thing among many.
- Fanservice was heavily played up during the promo of a work and may have been the best-known thing before it came out.
- Fanservice exists, but does not overshadow the rest of the work. In the wick check this is by far the largest category. Often accompanied by the phrase "Some people remember..." or similar.
- Fanservice exists, does not overshadow the rest of the work, but This Troper is going to be horny about it on the page anyway.
- Not an example/other.
Wick totals:
- Risque content that is the best known element of the work: 9/50: 18%
- Very well-known risque content but not the only well known aspect: 7/50: 14%
- Fanservice exists but is not the best-known thing: 15/50: 30%
- Was the best-known thing during promo/early on, no longer is: 5/50: 10%
- "This character is hot"/one-handed troping": 10/50: 20%
- Not an example at all: 1/50: 2%
- Unclear/other: 3/50: 6%
Edited by MacronNotes on Aug 2nd 2022 at 1:46:44 PM
low-poly Shinri
#77: Dec 12th 2022 at 6:24:01 PM
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All done, though I did not touch the entries I'm unsure of
Now for the final folder, before I move on to the Video Game subfolder
S–Z
- Parodied in Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei in an episode about how people will easily get distracted by something and completely ignore the more important issue. A straight example is when Chiri battled aliens but nobody remembers her deed as the sole witness was completely fixated on her bizarre underwear. Another straight example that lampshades the entire episode was when Nozomu was lamenting over how the viewer survey answered that they were more interested in the fanservice segment where Komori was flirting with Majiru over the alien invasion plot. Even the aliens were more interested in that segment than the invasion itself, which is why they were so easy to defeat.
- Seikon No Qwaser has a number of cool elements, such as memorable characters, literal Elemental Powers, Character Development and kickass battles. Sadly, all of that tends to be overshadowed by the rampant breast feeding (since those elemental powers do run on breast milk) and bondage.
- Sekirei has a strong, character-driven plot and excellent fight scenes. But what most people know about it is the World of Buxom and fanservice bordering on softcore at times. Many are surprised to learn the author is a woman.
- With Simoun, everyone remembers the underaged lesbian powered airplanes.
- Sky Girls, the spiritual predecessor to Strike Witches and Vividred Operation was about somewhat cute girls in suggestive skin tight suits piloting flying Mini-Mecha and battling aliens aiming to destroy humanity. It had decent characters and an engaging plot with many twists, but... well, just look at the trope name again.
- Strike Witches is ostensibly about an elite flying unit battling an alien invasion with magic, but apparently the only people possessing the right kind of magical powers are pre-teen and teenage girls willing to fight aerial battles in their underwear. Countless panty shots ensue. In fact, it's easier to count the scenes without panty shots.
- Vividred Operation, by the same director, is a pseudo-Magical Girl series about cybernetically enhanced girls fighting giant evil robots. But more importantly: they don't wear pants (and when they do, they're very short ones), and there are lots of ass-shots.
- So I Cant Play H has a fairly intricate plot concerning the balance between the human world and Grimwald. It also features gorgeous art and character designs by Kanai Yuuko, with animation by Studio Feel. Yet, if you go by most forum discussion, you'd swear the series was nothing but boobs and Lisara being stripped semi-nude in all of her fight scenes.
- Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie had a prominently large proportion of male viewers watching it only for Chun-Li's Shower Scene. Apparently fanservice-loving Masami Obari noticed and provided respective shower scenes as well on the Fatal Fury and Battle Arena Toshinden spin-offs he directed.
- To Love Ru does have a rather diverse cast and interesting universe, as well as a number of serious emotional scenes. If you talk about TLR to anyone though, that probably won't be the first thing that comes to their mind. Not that you can blame them. Try looking for even one manga chapter without gratuitous nudity and/or underwear shots. And the sequel series Darkness is even worse in this regard.
- Witchblade is the story of a woman trying to make a life for herself and her 6 year-old daughter after a massive disaster takes away everything from her, including her memories; all while dodging Child Protective Services and getting caught up in a corporate power struggle. It's also the story of said woman turning into a superpowered warrior with a ridiculously Stripperiffic outfit and getting into fights that are the very definition of Orgasmic Combat. Guess which part people remember more (hell, guess which part is used to market the show?)
RJ Savoy
#78: Dec 14th 2022 at 12:08:43 PM
To Lover-Ru from early on would shove its plot and cast out of the way for softcore pornography. Sky Girls, Strike Witches and Vividred Operations all have plenty of skin showing in just about every frame, so we can't say it's being played up. Same for Witchblade. Seikon No Qwaser was so fetishistic that we had to cut it. I would remove all these. Others I can't speak for, but the Street Fighter film looks as if it would qualify if it's only one scene.
Otherwise I just think the Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei entry is badly-written. Shouldn't "played straight" be "done in-universe"?
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
low-poly Shinri
#79: Dec 14th 2022 at 6:29:43 PM
Done removing those (Including Zetsubou Sensei), I also removed the Sekirie examples, since it also is an ecchi.
Now that anime is done. Time for the Games!
A–C (Note it was A-D but I realize that it's hella long, So I trimmed out the D section for another time)
- Agarest Senki effectively uses this as a selling point. 5-generation-long romance story? The whole game is a Nintendo Hard with Timed Mission and 100% Completion? Screw that, US publishers know that players are playing for fan service, and RPG elements are just extra.
- Obscure Philips C Di game The Apprentice is mostly known online these days for a number of secret passwords that let the player see the protagonist use his magic to strip some girls; as a parody of Mortal Kombat, these scenes are referred to as "Nudalities".
- ARMS is mostly known due to the popularity of its female characters, especially the voluptuous Twintelle.
- Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout is one of the most well known and best-selling games in the long-running Atelier series. Why? An extremely attractive female lead and her equally attractive compatriots. Despite the game bringing several major improvements to gameplay and graphics, it's hard to talk about the game without someone mentioning Ryza's thighs or Lila's chest. Ironically, the game is actually Tamer and Chaster than previous Atelier titles in almost every other regard, lacking a Beach or Hot Springs Episode and other Ecchi scenes.
- The Battle Cats is a fast paced Tower Defense game that requires quick thinking and is quite difficult for a mobile game. What many players take in notice though is the many, many female Uber Rares present.
- Bayonetta is an extremely fluid, highly-refined Beat 'em Up with some of the deepest combat mechanics ever put in a Stylish Action game, and a distinctly over-the-top, gloriously Camp style that, between it and its sequel, has earned an array of accolades, awards, and even a few coveted perfect scores. But the eponymous Bayonetta's Spy Catsuit is usually the first thing that comes to mind. Or the fact that her boss-slaying cutscenes leave her temporarily wearing nothing but Godiva Hair. That and her extremely sensual and teasing personality just pushed the 'fanservice' factor even bigger.
- Since BioWare has, for the longest time, been the only major Western RPG producer who consistently included Romance Sidequests in their games, you'd be forgiven for thinking that that was all their games were about if you never played them. Curiously, you'd get that impression regardless of whether you listened to the detractors or to the die-hard fans.
- Kanna from Blaster Master Zero 2 is disproportionately more popular than anyone else in the game, or even the game itself. The second's worth of screentime she made in the reveal trailer from the Nintendo Direct was enough for anyone who's into plant girls with Gag Boobs to spontaneously generate fanart of questionable intent, regardless of whatever she's like or wherever she's from.
- BloodRayne was a series of action-adventure games made primarily in the early 00s, most famous for the Stripperific main character who at one point posed for Playboy.
- You'd probably be forgiven for hearing about Blue Archive and immediately correlating it with the massive amount of Playboy Bunny and Meido fan art that got made about it.
- Bombergirl has gained a cult following outside of Japan namely through it cast of cute and/or sexy girls shifting from the cartoony robot characters from the classic Bomberman games more than the game itself (which isn't helped by the fact it was never released outside of Japan), and one of its defining features involving seeing the girls clothes being blown up when the player or team is defeated. The game has spawned a number of fanart of the titular Bombergirls, some of which come in the spicy variety, especially when it comes to Sepia Belmont, Olive, Pine, and Grim Aloe.
- There are two things most people know about Brain Dead 13. The hilariously gruesome deaths Lance can suffer from, and the Vampress Vivi with her large jiggling busom, and her Impossible Hourglass Figure.
- If anyone remembers the obscure 1994 brawler Brutal: Paws of Fury, it's almost certainly because of Foxy Roxy, a curvy foxgirl with skintight clothing who does handstand splits on the character select screen. The vast majority of fanart is of her, and most sprite sites usually only offer her sprites, and nothing else...not the other fighters, or even the backgrounds!
- Caladrius is well-known for the Clothing Damage the characters' portraits suffer whenever they take damage. Even the male characters get in on this, albeit to a lesser degree than the female ones.
- Code Vein is well known for being a Souls-like RPG set in a post-apocalyptic World of Buxom where practically every female character is Stripperiffic (including the incredibly-customisable player character if you like) and almost half the bosses resemble giant mutated pole dancers (and in the case of the Invading Executioner that is Not Hyperbole in the least). It even provides a number of handsome men for the female players to admire as well. Oh, and one of the facilities in your home base is an honest-to-goodness hot spring where the cast will lounge around in Modesty Towels. Oh, the gameplay and story? Yeah, it's pretty good we guess.
- Conan Exiles was a Survival Sandbox set in the Conan the Barbarian mythos that pitted the player against all kinds of hazards and had them fight for their survival and create their own legend. All of this didn't matter, as what really made news headlines was the fact characters all started naked in Early Access and the option to adjust the size of male genitalia.
- Crusader Kings II is a Paradox Interactive grand strategy game. However, any time an expansion allows player characters to have sex with their sisters in a new way, that is all that anyone will talk about.
Edited by Ayumi-chan on Dec 14th 2022 at 10:30:59 PM
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greatpikminfan
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#80: Dec 16th 2022 at 11:16:36 PM
Foldered for Length
- Agarest Senki: I don't know anything about this, but if it uses it "as a selling point" I think that would fall under the series being fanservice-centric.
- The Apprentice: Sounds valid although I think "obscure" goes against one of the general rules of writing examples, so that word could be snipped.
- ARMS: I'm slightly familiar with the whole fixation on Twintelle and the other characters but I don't know if that really counts for this or if it's just exclusively the horny part of the fandom sexualizing someone and being a Vocal Minority. Unsure, but I'm leaning that that's valid. I'd prefer another opinion though.
- Atelier: Above all else something about this entry rubs me the wrong way. The lead is "attractive?" That's not inherently fanservice (I mean most media involves conventionally attractive characters, it's why Hollywood Homely is a thing), and even if the character is a Ms. Fanservice the bullet point doesn't really say how. This might be valid but it could probably use a rewrite in that case because it honestly just sounds like one troper giving their opinion about finding some characters hot and then projecting that on everyone else. ("It's hard to talk about the game without someone mentioning Ryza's thighs or Lila's chest" in particular.)
- The Battle Cats: "Many" and the fact that they're of a high rarity (from what little I know about Mobile Games) makes it sound like this was the sort of thing it was going for. That aside the entry isn't that elaborate. Just having female characters in general is not fanservice.
- Bayonetta: I know about this one, the fanservice is little in the grand scheme of things and the story can take itself pretty seriously, but it's still used as a major point of the character, and even like a sort of selling point. I don't think this counts.
- BioWare: Having romance quests isn't fanservice by itself, and it's a general example for a whole developer company anyway. I'd say this one is a definite cut.
- Blaster Master Zero 2: Sounds valid.
- BloodRayne: Unsure.
- Blue Archive: Might be valid but the example is poorly-written as it stands. People draw fanart in certain costumes? Are those costumes from the game itself? If "perverted fanart is well-known" counts by itself then by that logic the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokémon would qualify under this reaction.
- Bombergirl: I'm pretty sure this game is trying to be fanservicey, given that it mentions Clothing Damage is a part of it and from the examples of it I read on other pages. The entire last sentence is unnecessary "There's porn of this" complete with chained potholes that sound like gushing over the characters though. (I do think that fanart could probably be used as a metric of, say, if a fanservice-y character is more popular than anybody else, but otherwise it veers on "By the way, porn exists of this character" and there's no reason at all to mention it. That's just my opinion on the matter though.)
- Brain Dead 13: Maybe valid?
- Brutal: Paws of Fury: This also sounds valid.
- Caladrius: I think this one's meant to have Clothing Damage as a major/common part of the game but I don't know. Leaning that this could be cut.
- Code Vein: The example makes it sound like fanservice is meant to be a major draw but I don't know. It's not well-written and even has first-person writing in it so regardless it would need a rewrite.
- Conan Exiles: Seems valid? Starting characters are nude but I know a little about this game and I'm pretty sure the nudity isn't the main focus, the game overall being more "edgy" than tittilating from what I'm aware of. Although with the fact that it has a slider for genital size I'm leaning that the developers might have been trying to get this reaction. Unsure.
- Crusader Kings II: Probably valid?
I'm uncertain about many of these but I'd say Bombergirl is a cut since that was what it was going for, probably Bayonetta too. A bulk of these though could at least use rewrites by someone more familiar with the games and the reactions toward them.
I write stupid crap about naked people.
low-poly Shinri
#81: Dec 16th 2022 at 11:26:44 PM
Should I also put a note about rewrites and a direct to this thread?
#82: Dec 17th 2022 at 7:04:23 AM
The Crusader Kings II example is not valid, at least going by the series reddit that I regularly visit. There's lots of "look at this wacky case of character incest" posts, but they are primarily a meme, not really anything I'd define as fanservice. There's definitely a running undercurrent of suspicion that some people are playing off their real fetish as a joke, but that actually gets a lot of pushback and is one reason why some people hate the whole thing.
greatpikminfan
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#83: Dec 17th 2022 at 8:38:23 PM
Sure thing.
low-poly Shinri
#84: Dec 18th 2022 at 3:55:04 AM
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Removed examples (with your's and nrjxll consesus) and added the thread link at the top of the page, so anyone who want make a rewrite and post it here are welcome.
Now its for Letter D (heh):
Lol
- Dante's Inferno is either about a more action-y take on one of the best known depictions of hell, and quite possibly being the first mass marketed media about the subject for a while, or it's about Lucifer's enormous schlong.
- Darkstalkers is about a busty, drool-inducing, barely-clothed succubus who is sexier than sex, wanders the earth looking for a good time, and appears in most of Capcom's crossover titles, right? And sometimes people remember the Fur Bikini -clad Cat Girl, whose motivation is becoming a star, and some kind of Chinese undead girl who has blue cleavage and attacks with... um... dunno. Morrigan's the sole Darkstalker in four games: Capcom vs. SNK and its sequel, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom; with Felicia tagging along in the other Capcom vs. SNK and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Demitri, who was the series' protagonist before he was displaced by Morrigan, has only shown up in two fighters: SVC Chaos and Capcom Fighting Evolution. However, this only concerns fighting game appearances and Demitri has appeared in non-fighters like Namco × Capcom and Cross Edge alongside Morrigan herself. He also fits this trope in a roundabout way: Demitri himself is known more for his Midnight Bliss attack that transforms male characters into attractive female versions of themselves and females into a more fetishy version of themselves (usually). In fact, most people that play the game these days are Just Here For Morrigan (or Felicia).
- Even though the Dead or Alive series is one of the most refined 3D fighting game franchises in the market on its own merits, the vast majority of the public only remember the female fighters' curvy model-esque bodies and Jiggle Physics, for better or for worse. Of course, Tecmo isn't trying to mask it or anything. They ran straight to the endzone with that knowledge (and zero regret) when promoting Dead or Alive 3
. Even 5, which tried to tone down (and failed miserably) the "doll-like" features of their female fighters and make them more natural looking, offered all sorts of sexy incentives for preorders like fuzzy bunny bikini costumes and squishy mouse pads, and even going back to the roots later on in the game's lifecycle. Also the Xtreme series, as a volleyball/jet ski game, is basically the video game development equivalent of an Excuse Plot. Watch and observe. Did you notice much sports action in that trailer?
- Devil May Cry:
- While most people can tell you it’s a Hack and Slash series, when it comes to specifics the layman will tell you it’s the one with the hot blonde in a corset (Trish) and the hot short dark-haired chick in a school girl outfit (Lady) running around. The laywoman will likely tell you it’s the one where you play as the hunky white haired pretty boy (Dante) with a sword.
- Trish and Lady fall steeply into this for DMC4 and DMC5, any relevance they have in the plot or actions they perform are simply drowned out for a good deal of fans by their Jiggle Physics in the former and being naked and flashing their bare asses in the latter.
- Didnapper is a RPG Maker game with a lot of Bound and Gagged girls and Fanservice but it's better known for its Private Cell mechanic and abundance of possible Game Over scenes.
- Dragon Ball Xenoverse is a fun action JRPG with a Character Customization that lets you kick ass in throughout Dragon Ball Z’s history. Though look at most places on online however and the series is generally more beloved by fans for the simple fact you can make as many sexy female Saiyans and female Majin Buus as you want without the need for DeviantArt.
- Dragon Quest:
- The recurring Dangerous Bikini and its fanservice costume descendants were the subject of many gaming trivia columns and everyone remembers how the sprite of your female party member(s) will change to reflect it being worn.
- Dragon Quest III can be summed up in four words: Female Warrior, Chainmail Bikini. Most of the other female classes are also excessively popular, particularly the Sage, Cleric, and Jester. DQIII did (and still does) have a lot going for it such as the then-big reveal that the game's a prequel to its two preceding entries (you're the eponymous Erdrick/Loto whom the trilogy is named after), and Ramia, the bird your party flies around the map on, even shows up in the eighth game as the Godbird Empyrea, but if there's one thing emblazoned in the fandom's minds, it's the women... and the game encourages this!
- Dragon Quest IV was the first game to have multiple party members with distinctive personalities, rather than use a predetermined party or a team of Player Mooks. Of all the characters, Stripperiffic Ms. Fanservice Maya's artwork is leaps and bounds more voluminous than any other character in the series.
- The Stripperiffic Jessica of Dragon Quest VIII, appearing as the only one who can change outfits on maps and puff-puff the enemies into various states of confusion with her sex appeal abilities.
- Vanillaware's title Dragon's Crown became an example of this pretty much immediately after its characters were revealed. Fans are less concerned about the contents of the title (which, granted, is little to worry about since Vanillaware's releases are consistently decent) and more concerned about how much Fanservice the Sorceress and Amazon provide.
RJ Savoy
#85: Dec 19th 2022 at 5:53:25 PM
Darkstalkers and Dragon Quest look valid (maybe crossing with Breakout Character for the former) but need to be trimmed.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
low-poly Shinri
#86: Dec 19th 2022 at 9:38:49 PM
any potential trimmed rewrites?
RJ Savoy
#87: Dec 20th 2022 at 9:31:44 AM
Maybe (removing entries that aren't clear):
- Video Game/Darkstalkers is a Fighting Game with a roster of varied characters, but is mostly known for its provocative, scantily-dressed succubus Morrigan, and to a lesser extent the busty catgirl Felicia. Morrigan has appeared in nine of Capcom's crossover games, sometimes as the game's only representative, while other characters have only appeared in a few. She also dominates both promotional art and fanart of the franchise.
- Dragon Quest:
- The recurring Dangerous Bikini and its fanservice costume descendants were the subject of many gaming trivia columns and everyone remembers how the sprite of your female party member(s) will change to reflect it being worn.
- Dragon Quest III can be summed up in four words: Female Warrior, Chainmail Bikini. Most of the other female classes are also excessively popular, particularly the Sage, Cleric, and Jester. The game has a proper story but if there's one thing emblazoned in the fandom's minds, it's the women... and the game encourages this!
- Dragon Quest IV was the first game to have multiple party members with distinctive personalities, rather than use a predetermined party or a team of Player Mooks. Of all the characters, Manya with her belly-dancer's outfit takes up most of the artwork.
Overall, there is a problem that editors are trying to "sell" these titles on their non-sex qualities, when what they should do is indicate how much sexual content there is in relation to the total.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
low-poly Shinri
#88: Dec 20th 2022 at 4:28:10 PM
alright, Replaced with those, but what about the other entries?
RJ Savoy
#89: Dec 21st 2022 at 7:50:33 AM
I don't know much about the games, but I have heard of Dante's Inferno and Devil May Cry, and what I've heard is not anything sexual, so I would be fine with cutting them (we've been cutting a lot on the grounds of being pornographic, but this is the other criteria, that the fanservice is not what's best known about them).
I think Dead Or Alive could be cut because it's quite an ecchi franchise anyway.
But I don't know much about these games or their reception. Hope others can chime in.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
the Retromancer
#90: Dec 21st 2022 at 7:55:02 AM
Dante's Inferno and Devil May Cry are action RPG that are famous for ham and cheese edgieness, I don't think they're popular for erotic content (I don't recall the latter having it and the former is just naked demon bosses)
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low-poly Shinri
#91: Dec 21st 2022 at 5:38:52 PM
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and , those entries are nuked. I also kept Dragon Crown, cause I do remember seeing a bunch of raunchy fanart of the sorceress lady. So I think that can be kept (but if its not, then you can remove it)
Alright, Time for E-M
E–M
- The other thing that sets Etrian Odyssey apart from other dungeon crawlers besides its difficulty and mapping mechanics are the cute female character portraits, which cater to many kinds of fanservice.
- The EXA_PICO series is best known among non-fans for two things: its music, and the copious amounts of fanservice - bath towels and pajamas as costume choices, many bath scenes, and downright having the characters power up by stripping off their clothes! - and innuendo-laced dialogue◊.
- Fatal Fury is an iconic fighting game series by SNK that soon became The King of Fighters, however the vast majority of people will likely only know both franchises through Gag Boobs incarnate skimpy ninja girl Mai Shiranui, whose staggering popularity through Fanservice overshadows pretty much most other fighters. Even iconic poster boy Terry often struggles to compete with Mai when it comes to recognition simply because of the latter’s sex appeal.
- Fight'N Rage has been praised as a solid Spiritual Successor to classic 1990s Beat 'em Ups from the arcade days, as well as its charismatic art style, but chances are you first heard of this game because of its incredibly voluptuous female lead, Gal, dressed in a Stripperiffic outfit whose breasts bounce frequently. Those who have actually played her story know Gal is an escapee from being sold into slavery who was given no choice about her outfit. It's also possible she has no name of her own, as all women sold into slavery to the mutants are called "gals".
- Final Fantasy VII. While the game is iconic in many ways. Tifa Lockhart is one of the most notable characters in the entire series, part of it due to her attractive design and infamously large knockers. She got even more attention when a January 2022 ZOOM senate meeting was hacked and a NSFW SFM video of Tifa was shown which had fans adopt her as an unofficial icon of Italy.
- Final Fantasy X-2. The plot? The Guide Dang It! 100% Completion? The triumphant return of the Final Fantasy Job System last seen in Final Fantasy Tactics? It's all overshadowed by the girls' stripperiffic dresspheres.
- To some fans, Fire Emblem: Awakening might as well be called "Super Ultra Waifu Fanservice Simulator 3000" due to its Dating Sim elements and Beach Episode DLC, never mind that it's supposed to be a medieval fantasy Turn-Based Strategy RPG. This is also most likely the reason that Tharja and the grown-up Hotter and Sexier Tiki are the most well-known characters from the game. The next game in the series, Fire Emblem Fates is not faring much better in this regard. From the get-go, a lot of focus was placed on the character Camilla and her... assets. The eventual announcement of more fanservice-y elements in the game, such as the infamous face-rubbing game, hot springs, and the ability to dress your characters in swimsuits have split fans.
- The Golden Axe games are arcade Beat 'em Ups developed by Sega. They are famous for the Amazonian Beauty Tyris Flare in a Stripperiffic Chainmail Bikini, and the shirtless Ax Battler's Heroic Build. They are rendered in enough graphical detail to make them visually and sexually attractive.
- God of War III is infamous for a sequence where you meet Aphrodite and simulate having sex with her.
- When talking about Gotham Knights the general discourse from people is either a Broken Base over whether or not the game is fun despite being a grind-heavy live service title or more commonly how wonderful Batgirl’s ass is in her batsuit. In fact so popular are Barbara’s buttocks, a good number of people cite her as the only reason to play the game at all.
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Three words—"Hot Coffee" Mod.
- Guilty Gear is known for a few things: For fighting game enthusiasts, its intensely face-paced, combo-heavy combat that codified "anime fighters". For series fans, its a ridiculously awesome soundtrack alongside its batshit crazy Animesque worldbuilding. For the rest, its outrageous character designs. You have among them Stripperific Innocent Fanservice Girl Dizzy, sadistic bra-less rocker witch I-No, Bridget, a girl who is actually a boy that everyone is gay for but is a girl now so it goes full circle, and who could forget big titty one-eyed Handicapped Badass samurai, Baiken?
- Regarding Baiken, she has one of the biggest case of disparity of fans between people who are familiar with Guilty Gear and people who aren't. To long-time GG players, Baiken is a character who's both difficult to play and somewhat underpowered for the effort but also frustrating to play against because of her defensive options. She only received a massive surge in popularity after her Fanservice Pack upgrade in Xrd Rev 2, and her most vocal fans tend to be people who aren't very knowledgeable on her playstyle, are beginners and/or are bad at playing her, or don't play the game or touch the genre at all. She became the poster girl for a certain type of character that people main solely for "waifu" reasons, and it got so bad with Baiken that "Baiken Main" became a derogatory term.
- Even its sister series BlazBlue has this, especially within the characters. This is because the game's actually deep and entrenched plot makes casual fans find it hard to enjoy the story, so players turn to the characters and mostly a lot of female characters that bared their backs a lot, or having really big and jiggly boobs. Ask people about Bullet, Makoto, Litchi, Nine the Phantom, Mai, and Es and- probably the first that comes to mind are their boobs (or in Bullet's case, her really really short pants). Which is rather egregious, since when you look past their assets, they are actually solid characters on their own with rounded personality and a strong story arc... yet it's those 'assets' that are highlighted a lot.
- The Last of Us Part II will be remembered for being Naughty Dog's first game with explicit sexual content. Especially the sex scene between Abby and Owen which has reached Memetic Mutation in record time.
- Haunting Ground is a lesser known Capcom Survival Horror on the PS2 and not too many people have played it. Most will however know it as the game where you play as the beautiful blonde with big breasts (that jiggle) who runs around a castle in a short skirt. Actually justified for once though, as Fiona’s intentional sexualisation and fanservice is the whole point of the game, with it really being a horror psycho-sexual deconstruction of the Ms. Fanservice in video games. For that reason some female gamers and critics defend use of the fanservice in the game.
- Hyrule Warriors is largely remembered for A) being a Musou game and B) the Evil Is Sexy villainess Cia and her superb Navel-Deep Neckline. The fact that most Nintendo properties, even spin-offs, rarely feature that risqué level of fanservice only helped matters.
- People with only passing knowledge of League of Legends, from people with zero interest in the MOBA genre to people who actively hate them, may still recognize some of its attractive female champions from its large number of characters.
- This can happen sometimes even with alternate costumes or skins. Ask a League of Legends player who isn't super hardcore into it and only knows about a bit about each champion to tell you about Riven, the Exile, and rather than talking about the warrior woman in ragged armour wielding a gigantic but broken sword, they're more likely to say "Oh, you mean the Playboy Bunny?"note
- Magical Drop is best remembered for The World, who is the scantily-clad mascot character with a bouncy victory animation.
- Metroid: Samus Is a Girl, and when she's not in her Power Suit, she's in her famous light blue skin-tight Zero Suit that really acentuates her figure.
- Mortal Kombat 9 is remembered for two things, being the much needed reboot to the series and moreover the one where every single female character has cleavage you can ski down and have more thongs than a beach in summertime. The fanservice (which has always been present) did get downplayed by the time of MKX and MK11 but it’s still as closely tied to the popularity of the series as the fatalities. Mileena in particular is more known being an incredibly curvaceous ninja girl than the fact she actually has Scary Teeth behind her mask and is ironically supposed to be Fan Disservice.
- Muchi Muchi Pork is known less for the bells and whistles of a Shinobu Yagawa shmup like rank and crazy scoring mechanics, and more for its pandering to plus-size fetishists.
- Muse Dash is well-known for characters who shamelessly (or not) flaunt very revealing costumes, such as Bunny Girl Rin, Joker Buro, Maid Marija, Magical Girl Marija, Little Devil Marija, and The Girl In Black Marija.
- Mystic Warriors is a run-of-the-mill side-scrolling shooter by Konami akin to their earlier Contra and Sunset Riders. Curiously, this game is mostly remembered for the possibility of having Yuri tied up and gagged in the intro of the game.
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#92: Dec 25th 2022 at 5:18:35 PM
bumping
RJ Savoy
#93: Dec 28th 2022 at 5:10:29 PM
Grand Theft Auto, Final Fantasy 7, God of War III, Metroid and The Last of Us Part II are all famous for far more than those things, cut. I would think League of Legends and Guilty Gear are similarly known first for their gameplay and that very contentious case of transgender identity. I would also cut Final Fantasy X-2 for the other reason, with its skimpily dressed heroines and class-change-by-flashing-naked the fanservice is pretty much the entire playing experience, and from our page EXA_PICO seems to be the same. Others I can't comment upon.
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#94: Dec 28th 2022 at 5:37:16 PM
Removed them now.
But can anyone comment of the other entries (besides the one Reymma commented one)?
Edited by Ayumi-chan on Dec 28th 2022 at 9:37:43 PM
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#95: Dec 29th 2022 at 8:49:55 PM
After removing the Guilty Gear example, I want to know if the exmaple regarding its successor BlazBlue is valid.
- BlazBlue has this, especially within the characters. This is because the game's actually deep and entrenched plot makes casual fans find it hard to enjoy the story, so players turn to the characters and mostly a lot of female characters that bared their backs a lot, or having really big and jiggly boobs. Ask people about Bullet, Makoto, Litchi, Nine the Phantom, Mai, and Es and- probably the first that comes to mind are their boobs (or in Bullet's case, her really really short pants). Which is rather egregious, since when you look past their assets, they are actually solid characters on their own with rounded personality and a strong story arc... yet it's those 'assets' that are highlighted a lot.
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#96: Jan 2nd 2023 at 9:27:56 PM
and bumping this
#97: Jan 4th 2023 at 12:31:59 PM
I am getting rather worrisome vibes from tropette. They seem to think since they started the thread they should have final say and I must say that's not how things work on TV Tropes... but I agree the Nisemonogatari example doesnt fit.
EDIT: They didnt even start the thread... My bad.
Edited by AegisP on Jan 4th 2023 at 12:46:23 PM
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#98: Jan 9th 2023 at 6:48:37 PM
thread bumping
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#99: Jan 20th 2023 at 2:05:27 AM
Time for N-R in video games:
N–R
- What Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA- is known for, other than being about Japanese Buddhism, is being noticeably Hotter and Sexier than its predecessor games with rampant bare skin and even Walking Shirtless Scenes and Shameless Fanservice Guy behavior of well-built men.
- The game it's remade from, Namu Amida Butsu!, judging from what traces of it that are preserved online, was apparently even worse – it featured imagery and voices that skimmed the boundary of straight-up eroge territory. Gems include an enemy's causing unstoppable lust in the first chapter, several cards featuring suggestive imagery, one of which is bondage, complete with suggestive dialogues.
- NieR: Automata, for those unfamiliar with the Drakengard trilogy and NieR, is mainly known for having a very attractive Robot Girl as the player character and the fact that you can blow off her clothing with a button prompt and expose her butt.
- Otomedius is best known for being a 'sexy flying girls' clone of Gradius. Oh, there's a little something about guest stars from Life Force/Salamander, Castlevania, and Busou Shinki, but when all the promo posters for the game shove the protagonist and her twin 'fuel tanks' in the audience's face, there's only a couple of things that will stand out for them.
- Overwatch:
- Tracer is known for one of two things: her butt and controversy to it at pre-release; or being the head honcho of the titular Overwatch and a well-rounded character. Either way, nobody is complaining one bit about it...
- Also, the fact that she's a canonical lesbian got a lot of attention and generated even more controversy than her gameplay balance.
- The other women in that game, like Widowmaker and D.Va, among others; also get caught up in a lot of risque fanart, with Blizzard seeming to taking notice of this. They did not take it well, removing videos of rule 34 Overwatch characters at it. Of course, they might as well attempt to stop a waterfall by standing at the bottom of and trying to push the water back with their hands; Overwatch is one of THE most heavily-eroticised games in the history of the medium despite only being out for a few years. There's a reason why Wikipedia has an article about it.
- Tracer is known for one of two things: her butt and controversy to it at pre-release; or being the head honcho of the titular Overwatch and a well-rounded character. Either way, nobody is complaining one bit about it...
- A sad example with Parasite Eve and its titular heroine Aya Brea. She’s a blonde Fair Cop Action Girl who initially wasn’t particularly sexualised beyond wearing a stunning evening gown in the first level with the rest of the game focusing on plot rather titillation. However the two sequels (made by largely different people) dialled up the Fanservice and Male Gaze, giving her gratuitous shower scenes and infamously in The Third Birthday’s case ludicrous Clothing Damage made worse by the reveal you’re actually playing as underage girl in Aya’s body. Now when people bring the series in general discourse, they more likely remember Aya for being a Ms. Fanservice rather then being a great JRPG protagonist.
- P.N.03 received mix reviews upon its 2003 release and was a commercial flop, but even its harshest critics still praised protagonist Vanessa Z. Schneider, for her 3D model, manually-animated seductive dances, and sex appeal. Some critics and fans have quipped that she is more interesting than the game or that the game is all about her butt, which jiggles and shakes erotically in her semi-auto and automatic fire animations for the player's full view. Many reviewers wrote about these "gyrations" and compared Vanessa to a "stripper", especially for her ultimate thong suit. Screenshots, gifs, and webms of Vanessa's dance animations and poses have exceeded the game's reputation, and given the game's subpar reception and cheeky fanservice, calling P.N.03 "ass" takes on literal meaning. Nonetheless, many reviewers consider it a Cult Classic and praise it for being a spiritual predecessor to Bayonetta.
- Prince of Persia: Warrior Within has two characters that put it into this trope: Shahdee, a minor character who gets dispatched not far into the game, yet thanks to her outfit and introduction sequence, many remember her like she was the focus of the game; and Shahdee's boss Kaileena, a beautiful, buxom, scantily-dressed seductress who even gets a fairly racy ending cutscene.
- Inverted with various pornographic Qix knockoffs, where they're remembered more for their blatant copyright infringement and the women turning into abominations such as Pinhead than the actual erotic content.
- Resident Evil:
- The female characters in the games are pretty iconic, but they’re generally likely to be more remembered by their sexiness and often skimpy wardrobe rather than what they actually do in the games. Jill is an awesome character, but most will know her purely for wearing a tube top and miniskirt that one time in RE3 or her wearing Sensual Spandex in RE5 and Revelations. Claire is the heroine of RE2 and Chris’ sister but those traits to most people play second fiddle to her wearing booty shots or bending over a computer in tight denim. Ada Wong is biggest example of this though, she’s less remembered for her mysterious and layered role in RE2 and much more remembered for running around in a red qipao dress that exposes her legs in RE4. Indeed Ada in particular has a massive Fan Art following, despite being a periphery character in the series.
- Fair to note this applies to the male characters as well, with Chris and especially Leon often being more regarded as sex symbols rather dudes who have to deal with horrific biomonsters for a living.
- Fair to note this applies to the male characters as well, with Chris and especially Leon
- Resident Evil Village introduces new kinds of monsters to the series, ranging from werewolves to cyborgs to an extremely tall and curvaceous vampire lady with Naughty Nun daughters. Take a guess which of these gained memetic popularity.
- The female characters in the games are pretty iconic, but they’re generally likely to be more remembered by their sexiness and often skimpy wardrobe rather than what they actually do in the games. Jill is an awesome character, but most will know her purely for wearing a tube top and miniskirt that one time in RE3 or her wearing Sensual Spandex in RE5 and Revelations. Claire is the heroine of RE2 and Chris’ sister but those traits to most people play second fiddle to her wearing booty shots or bending over a computer in tight denim. Ada Wong is biggest example of this though, she’s less remembered for her mysterious and layered role in RE2 and much more remembered for running around in a red qipao dress that exposes her legs in RE4. Indeed Ada in particular has a massive Fan Art following, despite being a periphery character in the series.
- Rust: It's a rare male example, since it's Male Frontal Nudity, but you start balls-out naked, and that's about what half the Internet knows about the game. There's a mosaic by default, but it can be disabled. Pants are a highly treasured bit of loot.
Also bumping this cause I’m still unsure if it fits:
- BlazBlue has this, especially within the characters. This is because the game's actually deep and entrenched plot makes casual fans find it hard to enjoy the story, so players turn to the characters and mostly a lot of female characters that bared their backs a lot, or having really big and jiggly boobs. Ask people about Bullet, Makoto, Litchi, Nine the Phantom, Mai, and Es and- probably the first that comes to mind are their boobs (or in Bullet's case, her really really short pants). Which is rather egregious, since when you look past their assets, they are actually solid characters on their own with rounded personality and a strong story arc... yet it's those 'assets' that are highlighted a lot.
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Since: Jan, 2001
#100: Feb 3rd 2023 at 9:19:15 AM
I started the TRS entry. I don't know what kind of "worrisome vibes" you're getting, but I don't really appreciate being accused of whatever they are.
I can't open the folders in the forums for some reason, but other entries that don't fit:
- Overwatch obviously doesn't fit.
- Nier: Automata doesn't fit — broad cultural popularity (and being optioned for other things) little of which overtly involves fanservice.
- Resident Evil, as a franchise, doesn't fit for the same reasons as Overwatch and Nier Automata. I'm not familiar enough with the individual game mentioned to say whether it does.
- "Pornographic Qix knockoffs" obviously don't need to be there, inverted or not.
- Etrian Odyssey does not fit. The character portraits don't seem noteworthy — what even is the fanservice supposed to be? — and while the mapping mechanics and difficulty are important enough for us to mention it on the game's own page, the supposed fanservice is not. Also extensive news coverage/fan discussion of it, in general.
- Blaz Blue comes closest out of any of these but I still don't think it fits. It isn't an ecchi game, and there is extensive news coverage and social media/fandom talk about it, most of which does not involve anything lewd. The language in the entry gives away the Fan Myopia: "players turn to..." (what players?) "ask people about..." (ask what people?)
In general, a pattern seems to be that individual entries in game franchises are more likely to fit than overall franchises. If something becomes a long-running franchise and it isn't intended to be softcore/ecchi, it's a good indication that there are other things it's being remembered for.
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Well, isn't that how it is with every audience reaction? They apply to the audience. In this case, the audience that watches these anime are the people that matter, in the same way that only the fans of a particular work could have an opinion on The Scrappy or in how we ditched the "man on the street" rule that used to narrow Condemned by History.
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