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If you watch anime a lot, it is blatantly obvious when you are watching something in the ecchi or harem genre. However, fan service can be a little less obvious sometimes in other genres, but it is highly pervasive in modern anime. So, for a little fun today, what are some signs that you are watching an anime that is packed highly with fan service? Showing Off Some Skin to Pass Those Boring Dialogue Moments This is a common one but it can be used to varying extent. During those times where exposition is needed, often animators try to keep the audience engaged by showing them something a little more worth looking at. In the worst cases, it will be bouncing cleavage or some glistening skin. In more mild cases, the characters will be dressed more provocatively, hopefully in a way that makes sense for the scene in question. Vastly More Women than Men If your character list has all women and maybe like two guys, you can be sure before even watching the series that there

Story of man, woman unraveling conspiracy threatening city debuts in October The official website for MAPPA's original Vanishing Line television anime revealed character designs for the four main characters on Monday. Tomokazu Seki as Sword, the main character who is a tough guy with a body of steel. In order to expose an evil conspiracy, he is chasing a mystery surrounding the word "El Dorado." Rie Kugimiya as Sophie, the heroine who is searching for her missing older brother. She now lives in an orphanage because her relatives passed away. She meets Sword after a certain incident. Nobunaga Shimazaki as Rook, Sword's partner who is always calm and collected. He has few words, but when he is involved with Sword, it breaks his pace. He is known as a man who brings rain wherever he goes. Ami Koshimizu as Gina, a mysterious woman who seems to be friends with Sword and Rook. However, their connection in unknown. She deceives the men of the world with her beauty. The anime will

Anime premieres on October 3 The official website for the television anime adaptation of Yūki Tabata's Black Clover manga revealed three more character designs and a new visual for the series on Monday. This year's 40th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine had revealed the cast members for the characters on Monday. Kazuki Nakao as Father Miyu Kubota as Sister Lily Ryota Ohsaka as Sekke Bronzazza The previously announced cast includes: Newcomer Gakuto Kajiwara as Asta Nobunaga Shimazaki as Yuno Junichi Suwabe as Yami Sukehiro Kana Yūki as Noelle Silva Jun Fukuyama as Finral Roulacase Genki Muro as Magna Swing Ayumu Murase as Luck Voltia Satoshi Hino as Gauch Adlai Nana Mizuki as Vanessa Enoteca Kiyono Yasuno as Charmy Pappitson Kenichirou Matsuda as Gordon Agrippa Grey (voice cast not yet announced) Toshiyuki Morikawa as Julius Nova Chrono, the Magic Emperor Katsuyuki Konishi as Fuegoleon Vermilion, captain of the Crimson Lion squad Kousuke Tor

The Justice League, or, as it was deemed in its first appearance, the Justice League of America, has been an integral aspect of DC’s incredibly vast universe since 1960. Over time, the League has grown, disbanded and rotated several of its core members throughout numerous tenures in comics and animation. Because of its enduring and rich history, the League and its rotating cast of heroes has undergone a myriad of redesigns. Some of the more inventive recreations are those which push the beloved super-team in a fresh and unexpected direction — Kingdom Come and Justice League 3000, with art by Alex Ross and Howard Porter respectively, are arguably the most well known. RELATED: 15 Insane Fan-Made DC And Marvel Character Mash-Up With art of their own, fans have also explored alternate versions of the League. Many pieces of fan art further grounds the team in today’s modern world, envisioning them in a variety of scenarios. Meanwhile, other redesigns add anachronistic elements to the chara

Anime premieres October 9 The official website for the Wake Up, Girls! Shin Shō (Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter) television anime series revealed a new promotional video, additional broadcast and streaming information, and additional character designs on Friday. The video previews the opening theme song "7 senses" by the Wake Up, Girls! idol group. The anime will premiere in Japan at night on Monday, October 9 at 2:05 a.m. (effectively Tuesday morning) on TV-TOKYO. It will also air on Sendai Broadcasting and AT-X on the nights of October 10 and 11, respectively. The series will stream on animeteleto, d Anime Store, Anime Hōdai/U-NEXT, and JCOM+KDDI on Friday, October 13 at midnight (effectively Saturday morning). The cast for the newly revealed Wake Up, Girls! Shin Shō character designs, from left to right in the image below, are Daisuke Takahashi as Hajime Shiromoto, Isamu Yūsen as Masaki Asatsu, Hiro Shimono as Kuniyoshi Ōta, and Kenta Matsumoto as Ryō Yazawa. All four

Spider-Man is one of the most popular characters in comic book history. And across all the films, comics, TV shows and games we’ve seen hundreds of different looks for the wall-crawler. Some have become just as iconic as the original red and blue costume, like Miles Morales’ red and black suit. In each of the movies, we’ve seen Peter designing his new costume or tinkering with his current one. Because of the type of hero that he is, artists have a lot of free rein with the character. Comics gave us the Symbiote black suit, the Iron Spider costume and then there’s the Spider-Verse, in which resides hundreds of different versions of our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, some great and some not so much. RELATED: A Whole Other League: 15 Insane Fan-Designed Versions Of The Justice League Thankfully, fan artists can create some incredible pieces of work that play up on the different aspects of Peter Parker. For example, many have used the free running/parkour aspect of his heroics and inco

The X-Men have been around for decades fighting for equality and justice for their mutant peers. They’ve resonated with every reader who has felt downtrodden or discriminated against — it’s one of the reasons they’re so popular. The films brought about the new generation of superhero movies. And although there are plenty of timeline and continuity problems, they still hold up as good films, save for a handful of entries that were less than subpar. Okay, they’ve had a few bad films too — but also some excellent ones, such as Deadpool and Logan. RELATED: Web Art: 15 Jaw-Dropping Fan-Designed Spider-Man Costumes Regardless, the ideas from the comics and the films have inspired artists the world over to create their own versions of the X-Men. Some artists have transported them across timelines, or been influenced by other TV series and franchises — the possibilities are endless when it comes to characters with hundreds of stories, costumes, identities and universes. We’d just like to poin

Kazuya Murakami, Miho Ishigami, Naomi Iida, Yōji Ueda reprise game roles The Animate Times website confirmed that the Code:Realize television anime will feature more characters and their voice cast members from Idea Factory's original game. The website also unveiled the characters' anime designs: Kazuya Murakami as Herlock Sholmès, a famous detective entrusted by England's Queen Alexandrina Victoria. (French author Maurice Leblanc coined the name, an anagram of Sherlock Holmes, to include the character in his stories about Arsène Lupin, the inspiration for Monkey Punch's Lupin III character.) Miho Ishigami as Delacroix II, a descendant of a royal vampire family. (His name is similar in Japanese pronunciation to Dracula.) Naomi Iida as Alexandrina Victoria, the Queen of England Yōji Ueda as Rempart Leonhardt, an Imperial Guard corporal sworn to loyalty to the English Queen Code:Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~ originally shipped in Japan for the PlayStation Vita in

Captain America. He’s an iconic character that has captured the hearts and minds of fans, artists and writers for decades. And since pop culture has evolved and expanded, so have comic books. With new genres and new stereotypes giving way to whole new trends – artists and writers can create an amalgam of different genres and styles. But it also gives fans the chance to play around with some of their favorite characters and costumes like a sandbox. RELATED: Web Art: 15 Jaw-Dropping Fan-Designed Spider-Man Costumes Characters like Cap resonate with fans, making him incredibly popular — even more so now that his live action films have become some of the most acclaimed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And just because we have a definitive live action Steve Rogers, doesn’t stop fans from imagining the infinite possibilities and universes that exist in the Marvel Universe. We’ve done our research, and found a whole host of fan-drawn designs that take Steve and others who’ve taken up the Ca

The transition from manga to anime isn't always a seamless process. Projects hire character designers to reinterpret static artwork into something that can be animated in a manageable way. This can mean losing detail or streamlining a unique art style, like Shinobu Shinotsuki's art for Saga of Tanya the Evil's anime adaptation. In a perfect world, these changes lead to a better-looking production overall, but that doesn't mean fans always appreciate the shift in style. Pokémon Sun & Moon You can read Callum May's detailed editorial about design changes to the long-running Pokémon anime over the years, but none of the slight aesthetic changes from each season garnered the amount of backlash as the currently airing Sun & Moon. The simpler, rounder approach was immediately rejected as too goofy and unattractive by a vocal portion of the fanbase. Many of these points were reiterated when Misty & Brock returned for a short episode arc and were also redesigned to match the