@ chresto -> Hmmm Yes I know that but how come if less then 50% of titles have any kind of fan service, can we go to the point of generalizing that it's something that's on "all" titles? I think statistics actually matter for us to talk about how we see fan service in anime, because it will tell if we are seeing it biased, get my point? ^_^;;
That also matters when you see people quoting individual titles and discussing general anime fanservice. We cannot judge all anime industry based on one or two titles, can we? So statistics are important to let us know how much of this characteristics is present, and to what extent, and then we can go (or not) into generalization
that's my opinion though, and I don't know if I expressed myself clearly there -_-
I also think that fanservice deals more to attract male public to a given title. Lots of titles that feature fanservice
will concentrate it on early episodes, and then drop it (or reduce it), for instance Mahoromatic have some serious ecchi
on early episodes, then they drop it, clearly trying to get the attention of ecchi-addicts ;)
That more or less works ... I guess ... though people like me see it as a plot flaw to go to that length to attract fans ;)
My personal opinion on the matter remains: I don't think there is too much fanservice nor violence on anime titles. If one watch only the ecchi/violent ones, it's natural for them to think so, but if you get the general picture (statistics included), one cannot argue that.
Though I'll grant that the more popular titles usually DO have fanserve and/or violence, but then we would get into human nature ;)
