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Did Gantz give fanservice a bad reputation since it overuses it in a very unpleasant manner?

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Feb 27, 2023 8:41 AM
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Considering Gantz gets overfocused on fanservice in a random and poorly executed manner such as the first episode showing students naked with Kei's vision and a
, episode 2 has a dog licking Kishimoto's vagina and later episodes show borderline H sex. Most of these scenes were very unnecessary and out of place for a series about fighting aliens in a survival game. Did this cause fanservice a bad reputation or no? 
Feb 27, 2023 8:53 AM
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There's no logic behind the idea that a single show has any impact behind how fanservice is viewed as a whole. 

There's also much trashier fanservice than this...
If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that.
Feb 27, 2023 10:03 AM
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AkihitoZero1224 said:
Considering Gantz gets overfocused on fanservice in a random and poorly executed manner such as the first episode showing students naked with Kei's vision and a
, episode 2 has a dog licking Kishimoto's vagina and later episodes show borderline H sex. Most of these scenes were very unnecessary and out of place for a series about fighting aliens in a survival game. Did this cause fanservice a bad reputation or no? 

I don’t think enough people actively care/cared about Gantz for it to have had any sort of impact. The scenes were intense but like, the show’s relevancy is super low. Honestly l give the show a lot of credit for showing the sx outright. The rword and dog thing is not part of that tho, that’s nasty
Feb 27, 2023 10:07 AM
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Kurono (at least in the anime) is your average horny teenager. In as much as that first scene wasn't necessary it still fits and makes sense and sets the standard for the rest of the story "This story shows the dark human reality at it's low point".

Gantz is giving it to you straight - no petty censorship. They lay human nature bare. So while the fan service isn't necessary it does add another element to the story. So it depends on how you look at it. Personally, no. It doesn't give fan service a bad rep.
Mar 4, 2023 6:18 PM
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Don’t you need fans to give fanservice? I love Gantz, but I don’t think it’s pandering to the masses. It’s deliberately gritty and makes for uncomfortable viewing. Even the sex scenes aren’t exactly sexy.
It’s more that it highlights the relentless and irrational drives of humanity. Our need to use each other, dominate each other etc. But it’s not a pessimistic story overall. Even these flawed and selfish beings are capable of heroism. Kurono and Sei’s relationship is based on mutual selfishness at the beginning, yet they come to care about each other before the end.
That’s the moral of Gantz, I believe. That our goodness is found in the same wrappings as our wickedness. We are human, all too human. And that’s all we need to be. Kato is the only morally good man in the story, and we learn that ultimately his views are flawed. It is the lustful Kurono who saves the world. His lusts are his “will to live”. He has the strongest lusts, the strongest jealousy and the strongest fear. Hence why he is the strongest overall. It’s a very Nietzschean story.
Mar 6, 2023 1:54 PM
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AkihitoZero1224 said:
Considering Gantz gets overfocused on fanservice in a random and poorly executed manner such as the first episode showing students naked with Kei's vision and a
, episode 2 has a dog licking Kishimoto's vagina and later episodes show borderline H sex. Most of these scenes were very unnecessary and out of place for a series about fighting aliens in a survival game. Did this cause fanservice a bad reputation or no? 

poor little gen Z is always upset about everything. watched the anime years ago, didn't think anything of the "fanservice" didn't even think of it as such. It just shows how sensitive and weak people have become now to be upset by such mundane things
Mar 7, 2023 12:42 PM
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AkihitoZero1224 said:
Considering Gantz gets overfocused on fanservice in a random and poorly executed manner such as the first episode showing students naked with Kei's vision and a
, episode 2 has a dog licking Kishimoto's vagina and later episodes show borderline H sex. Most of these scenes were very unnecessary and out of place for a series about fighting aliens in a survival game. Did this cause fanservice a bad reputation or no? 

poor little gen Z is always upset about everything. watched the anime years ago, didn't think anything of the "fanservice" didn't even think of it as such. It just shows how sensitive and weak people have become now to be upset by such mundane things
Wow fucking asshole! I love ecchi and fanservice but this is when stuff like Gantz goes too far with it. Do you seriously think people like to see a Yakuza randomly attempt to rape a woman for fanservice and a dog lick their vagina?! No they wouldn't! In fact Gantz is actually sexist and yes I'm not an SJW it really is that in the beginning. Also Gantz used to have the fanservice women to be weak or death fodder.
Apr 3, 2023 12:59 AM
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tomdelasker22 said:
Don’t you need fans to give fanservice? I love Gantz, but I don’t think it’s pandering to the masses. It’s deliberately gritty and makes for uncomfortable viewing. Even the sex scenes aren’t exactly sexy.
It’s more that it highlights the relentless and irrational drives of humanity. Our need to use each other, dominate each other etc. But it’s not a pessimistic story overall. Even these flawed and selfish beings are capable of heroism. Kurono and Sei’s relationship is based on mutual selfishness at the beginning, yet they come to care about each other before the end.
That’s the moral of Gantz, I believe. That our goodness is found in the same wrappings as our wickedness. We are human, all too human. And that’s all we need to be. Kato is the only morally good man in the story, and we learn that ultimately his views are flawed. It is the lustful Kurono who saves the world. His lusts are his “will to live”. He has the strongest lusts, the strongest jealousy and the strongest fear. Hence why he is the strongest overall. It’s a very Nietzschean story.


I agree wholeheartedly with all of this.

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