User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 281: Malice is Concealed by the Curtain of Night, Review./@comment-4449950-20120505132932/@comment-71.189.43.64-20120505185306

Okay scanned you essay and I just have to say that while I agree this was not fan-service it can still very well be there for no other reason than the authors perverted nature. I think IamjakuhoRaikoben's essay is a good explanation on that.

Now for the reason i am posting, I disagree with you idea that this scene was needed to show the strong and forceful nature of the ST master. Everything else in the scene was showing that and if the striping was removed that should have been enough. If it was not then there are other things that could have been added, the choice of the author to go this route speaks in itself. Striping someone is a show of power over them, I will give you that. Although the one who does it is not just someone who needs to show power(those who need to show power are usually the weak or insecure ones in the end...), or someone who enjoys the humiliation of others. It show more that the master is a sadistic person. Forcing someone to strip is not to show you are powerful, but to show the other and weak and helpless.

Also there was no game of wills, Yukino was completely submissive and obedient the entire time. She did not want to fight, only take what comes. There can be strength to endure hardships, but she did not show that. What she showed was someone trying to cope with what was happening.

In my own thoughts, currently ST looks more like a dark guild than anything. And that can be pick up with out the aid of the striping scene as well. Any chance for another guild war(kidding, that is highly unlikely given the new magic council)?