Seven Mortal Sins
For better or worse, Seven Mortal Sins is the epitome of ecchi anime.
The Testament of Sister New Devil
As my wife puts it, “This is every bad, neckbeard cliché about anime come true.”
Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid Blurs the Line Between Fanservice and Hentai
How on earth do you review Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid without coming across as either a leering perve or a sneering prude?
Full-Fledged Fanservice: To Love-Ru Darkness 2nd
The fourth season of To Love-Ru takes fanservice to the extreme.
High School DXD BorN
Someone decided that a frothy fanservice anime needed to emulate Neon Genesis Evangelion’s labyrinthine seriousness. Someone was wrong.
Maken-ki! Two is Sexy, Silly, Self-Aware Fanservice Fun
Maken-ki!’s second season is densely packed with boobs, innuendo and more boobs. It’s trashy, but it’s a whole lot of fun.
Melon Monsters and Nice Guys: The Strained Sexual Politics of Motto To-Love-Ru
Those who’ve followed this site for a while will have noticed that all the coverage of contemporary cinema is periodically punctuated by reviews of fanservice anime. In my first such review – of Ikkitousen’s third season – I made a serious attempt to grapple with the politics of a genre operating in the vein of…
So I Can’t Play H! Amplifies the Sexism of Fanservice Anime
So I Can’t Play H! is a fanservice anime. Or maybe the fanservice anime, given how shamelessly it’s calibrated to accommodate animated depictions of the naked female form. Here’s its premise: a slender Grim Reaper named Lisara (Aya Endo) strikes a deal with perverted high-schooler Ryosuke (Hiro Shimono), wherein he will supply her with ‘energy’ that…
Highschool DXD New
The first season of Highschool DxD distinguished itself from its fellow fanservice anime series through sheer ambition. To describe it as an impressive artistic achievement would be an overstatement, undoubtedly, but in a genre that’s generally content to cobble together panty shots and inadvertent nudity into perfunctory, predictable plotlines it was refreshing to see Highschool…
