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Wikipe-tan, a personification of Wikipedia, wearing a swimsuit, an example of typical "fan service". Fan service (ファンサービス, fan sābisu), fanservice or service cut (サービスカット, sābisu katto) [1] [2] is material in a work of fiction or in a fictional series that is intentionally added to please the audience, [3] often sexual in nature, such as nudity.
Japan Animator Expo is a collaborative series of standalone anime shorts with the support of various directors and studios. Aiming to expose new animators to a worldwide audience, these small works offer a glimpse into the future of the industry, featuring rising talents, cutting-edge techniques, and experimental aesthetic designs.
The list of modern fan conventions for various genres of entertainment extends to the first conventions held in the 1930s.. Some fan historians claim that the 1936 Philadelphia Science Fiction Conference, a.k.a. Philcon, was the first science fiction convention ever held.
When anime and manga are translated into English by U.S. companies, the original work is often edited to remove some of the fan service to make it more appropriate for U.S. audiences. Mike Tatsugawa explained this change as a result of a difference between cultural values of Japan and the U.S. [ 6 ] [ 11 ] In fact, some anime seem to feature ...
The Shin Japan Heroes Universe (シン・ジャパン・ヒーローズ・ユニバース, Shin Japan Hirōzu Yunibāsu, abbreviated as SJHU) is a Japanese collaborative project between Toho, Khara, Tsuburaya Productions, and Toei.
Elfen Lied (Japanese: エルフェンリート, Hepburn: Erufen Rīto) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Lynn Okamoto.It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from June 2002 to August 2005, with its 107 chapters collected into twelve tankōbon volumes.
The district of Akihabara in Tokyo, where there are maid cafés featuring waitresses who dress up and act like maids or anime characters, is a notable attraction center for otaku. Akihabara also has dozens of stores specializing in anime, manga, retro video games, figurines, card games, and other collectibles. [31]
Fan service may or may not have originated in anime, however it now has a much broader and more widely used meaning that has very little to do with sexual stuff, i.e. stuff that is blatantly shoe-horned into movies just to please the fans, e.g. almost everything in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie ;) 81.135.72.147 15:44, 12 October 2019 (UTC)