User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 366: 1000 Souls, Review./@comment-7418318-20140109161904/@comment-7418318-20140109170004

Let's disregarding the tentecle monster, since that was a really bad choice, I definitely agree on that, but are you really saying that it'd makes sense for Erza to be provided with clothes in the previous chapter?

She was wearing armor and naturally can't be tortured in armor, so the armor had to come off. Since she was unconscious and woke up in chains, she couldn't possibly dress herself and with her magic sealed couldn't re-quip either. So the consequence is that at some point Kyouka must have stripped Erza (to get her out of armor).

Now would it really make sense to you for a sadistic Demon, who intends to torture Erza, to graciously provide a change of clothes and personally dress her victim in them before chaining her up?

And I don't think I'm doing too little analyzing here. Most of the time I am upset by stupidly placed fanservice and was very outraged (and among the most vocal about it) by "Lucy's naked odyssey", but the scene in question is no fanservice in my opinion.

Rather than me doing too little analyzing, I get the feeling that some people immediately jumped to conclusions because they were so convinced that Mashima was using Erza as fanservice here, rather than viewing the scene in context with an open mind.

If I'm wrong about this then I apologize, but answer me this honestly: Did you really think it through completely and only start complaining afterwards, or did you immediately jump to the conclusion that it was fanservice and only began looking for arguments when someone else disagreed?