User blog comment:Leland Davis/Anime less ecchi than manga/@comment-31091428-20150628165013/@comment-7418318-20150628173148

I can't speak for the others, but for me the nudity in the Tartaros arc was not fan-service.

Fan-service is something I can sit back and enjoy. Watching Erza being tortured or watching two people in a prison struggle to free themselves does not magically become fan-service just because they are naked.

Apart from that I never really minded fan-service being there. I only minded if it was misplaced and served to purpose. Like Zirconis' magic for example. That served pretty much no purpose.

Here on the other hand the nudity (which, as I said I do not consider fan-service) does serve a purpose, because it shows just how little regard the Demons have for Humans and that Kyouka will use every dirty little trick to make her victims suffer.