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I have no problem with fan service, but fan service wasn't the meat of the contention I took with Grimgar. There were far deeper issues with the way it treats women, and, despite dropping it on the first episode, I watched two more out of morbid curiosity, and, as I suspected, it didn't get /any/ better about its treatment of women.

And I don't think their reaction to things is realistic at all. They have amnesia, but they clearly have defined personalities, and react to /other/ things with more realistic emotions. But, excepting the first time they do it, they treat the killing of a clearly sentient being as if it were nothing, and that's just not realistic. The anime doesn't have to grind to a halt to show that they are falling apart over it, but it should be something that weighs heavily on their minds, and it should be a source of guilt, shame or even disgust, unless they are all sociopaths or something equally insular in emotion. But they don't seem to be anything of the kind, and that makes it pretty unrealistic that they wouldn't have stronger feelings about killing something that clearly has emotions, society, the ability to communicate and attachments to others, while it struggles with every last bit of its strength not to die while fighting a much stronger aggressor.

Basically, I feel like the women are written terribly, and the treatment of them is pretty justifiably termed "sexist," and that the anime doesn't handle the emotions that these characters should be feeling realistically. At the very least /some/ of them should have more of a reaction, but every last one of them immediately gets over it after the first time. Not even hardened soldiers act like this, and these are untrained kids. After having a few days to think about it, and after watching a few more episodes, I am not less sure in my review -- I'm more sure in it. And it has nothing, at all, to do with "fan service."