User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 355: Song of the Fairies, Review./@comment-201.124.15.103-20131011041706/@comment-201.124.15.103-20131012050935

Sorry for being Anon, I'm super lazy to log in. Honestly Evan, if you could at least be bothered with reading what people said, you'd know 1. That I've been reading FT from the beginning and 2. That I don't inherently hate fanservice. It's just like Carrot says in a comment above, it's hard to take this "demon guild worshipping devils with the book of Zeref" thing seriously when the biggest panel on screen is Erza's ass.Last week's Flare boob scene was even more stupid because it was supposed to be a climactic moment of deep emotional outbreak and bam BOOB IN YOUR FACE JUST IN CASE THIS WON'T SELL ENOUGH. And yes, I /do/ care if my mom thinks I spend 20+ hours a week watching Japanese pornographic cartoons, and it has nothing to do with me being even remotely "shielded" (I'm an adult FYI).

FT may not be "family-friendly" in your eyes, but it's a kids show in Japan. It aired in morning timeslots and is most definitely aimed at younger audiences. Just because people actually bleed it doesn't mean it's some dark adult series like Higurashi, and it uses simple themes of friendship, courage, camraderie, adventure and never giving up. Maybe I wouldn't show it to little kids, but I generally wouldn't hesitate in showing it to 8-10 year old children -heck, how many didn't grow up watching DBZ or Saint Seiya, which have sustantially higher levels of violence than FT

Like I said the first time -obviously you didn't pay attention- I'm not complaining about fanservice in general, but about the horribly bad placed (here, have a big plot reveal with BOOBS), forced, tacky and tasteless kind of fanservice that Mashima's been using this past few chapters. Once again, I should not have to stop reading a manga with a charming story and great characters just because the author can't stop thinking with his dick