#newsflash they are still super fun to draw

[madootles]

12 year old ed verbally assaulting the librarian

#edward elric #alphonse elric #newsflash they are still super fun to draw #im not super happy with these so maybe i'll fix them up later idk #fma #just imagine 12 y o ed trying to check out 20 books at the library.... someone is getting verbally assaulted by the time he's through #hilarious #I wanted to color these a little but I am very tired so here #cos #pink sketches #fma03 #should I make these black line instead of pink//.... eh #fullmetal alchemist #fan art #sketches #ponytail al #cos al #;)

[aideyn]

I’m gettin’ reaaaal sick of this idea that “anime are just sexual/include fanservice sometimes, you should get over it” mindset.

Newsflash, I have no problem with sexually charged anime, Kakegurui is super sexually charged and I’m enjoying it’s twisted humor and story (Also, I have a netflix account, so can’t make me feel bad about watching it when netflix won’t put it up for a year, they’re still getting my money). 

My problem is that Ballroom was set up like a sports anime-- which traditionally *don’t* have a lot of fanservice. Since they’re mostly male (Unless it’s aimed at horny women, then there’s lots of being shirtless, which is meh, but no different than ladies walking around in swimsuits) When a woman is included, THEN fanservice is then included (because of course it is), but Ballroom didn’t establish that it was that kind of show in the first episode, instead it made me think that it’d be along the lines of Haikyuu, with beautiful art, great characters and a niche but intriguing premise. I mean-- it’s the same studio, and it started off so well, who wouldn’t have thought that they’d treat the two shows the same?

Except they didn’t, because a boring 10 second fanservice shot was more important than anything else they could have been doing with the 2nd episode. (That and 10 seconds of the fat lady’s tits bouncing at the beginning of the episode, because that’s *hilarious*)

I called it invasion of privacy in a comment before, but honestly because it’s preplanned by the creators, it stinks of closer to sexual harassment. Because if you plan on going into a changing room while someone is undressed to look at them, that’s sexual harassment. The character’s innocent but the creators are not. It’s gross.

If you’re going to include a scene like this, why not.. put any amount of effort into subverting it at all? She was gone for .2 seconds, what if he’d just walked in on her taking her shoes off, or starting to unbutton her shirt. Less creepy, more realistic. Also-- have you ever walked in on someone? I have, you throw your hands over your eyes, turn your head, say sorry about a hundred times. But yeah-- as I discussed from posing and clothing defying gravity before, realism ever a goal for that bit.

Like, if a show’s main draw is fanservice, it lets you know in the OP usually, Ballroom’s OP is so fucking beautiful, with no hints of fanservice, not even in the second half of the song. It took them 30 minutes to get to the fanservice shot that was made fun of a year ago for being included in two generic harem anime in the same season. 

So if it’s not a fanservice show, the only conclusion I can draw from them resorting to tired non-subverted fanservice trope #2 in the second episode is that it doesn’t think it has enough substance to keep fans interested. And if it thinks that about itself? Well, then I’m inclined to believe and not waste my time.

#personal #rant