Yuribou Guide to Fan Service For Animators

Found on http://www.yuribou.net/blog/

ixthedamned Tim Woo

Reposted without permission and incomplete at time of compilation.

| The Reverse Breast Grab (or RBG) - One of the advanced manoeuvres that can make or break a seasoned fanservice animator’s career.

Hello young animator! You’ve fought through the ranks of artist wannabes and failed otaku sycophants and have finally won your way into the midst of greatness. But the first thing to decide - what type of anime would you like to make?

Fanservice did I hear you say? You choose to walk the thin pink g-string between gratuitous service and softcore pornography? Good choice! Then you’ve come to the right place! Welcome to the Guide to fanservice animation (a Yuribou production). Anyone can draw a cheap pantie shot, but how can you make it appeal to the masses who just shrug this off as just an everyday phenomenon? How do you make your moe super-moe? What differentiates a boring glasses girl from desirable meganekko? When is it appropriate to insert token yuri? And most importantly, how can you make an anime that Yuribou will watch? Granted that last one isn’t too difficult.

We begin with an introduction to the genre with some salient examples of the qualities present in great and classic fanservice productions to date.

There are four things that are the most important in fanservice -

• First and foremost - art quality • Character (both designs and character) • Situations - a good mix of cheap and well planned • Overall storyline and character interactions

Art quality is obviously the most important thing in fanservice. It is always refreshing to see a well thought out scene of fanservice with good art, but then equally an anime with great art and character designs will usually succeed at delivering good fanservice.

| Girl’s Bravo - excellent art and characters. Gotta love the gravity defiance ^_^;;

Case in point - Girls Bravo. Especially in the second season, this anime had surprisingly good character art (although not too surprising, since the manga was rather beautifully drawn anyway) and apart from a few minor things (Kirie’s gravity defying oppai being one of them at times ^_^) was a fantastic fanservice series. Not to mention that the storyline and characters were also memorable.

As a side point, another thing that elevates fanservice scenes is the variability of underwear. I’m sure your audience aren’t the only ones tired of the same old “white cotton pantie shot”. Go on, go wild! Do something with stripes and strings, they’ll appreciate it!

Coming a very close second, characters are extremely important in fanservice. Perhaps not to the hardcore fanservice/moe otaku, but to the general anime fan who is not averse to a bit of fanservice, having an interesting character to follow the story of elevates any fanservice scenes that that character then gets.

Citing earlier on, it is important that you draw a very careful line between fanservice and softcore pornography, since although very close in theory, in actuality they have very different audience implications. Lacking characters with any kind of depth or backstory will most likely devalue fanservice to the level of late night cable preview territory. Fanservice associated with a memorable character is a bit of fun. Fanservice for no reason is difficult to take as a bit of fun. If you want to go all out Green green : Erolutions, then by all means, but beware that there are some things that even hardened fanservice fans will not watch.

| Breasts, Brains and erm…Bonus yuri - fantastic combination…

Case in point: He is my Master - In addition to having great situational fanservice (which we’ll get to in the next point), it demonstrates great characters - with the strong willed (and large chested) Izumi challenging the borders of the tsundere stereotype, the mischievious loli sister Mitsuki and the born again lesbian Anna lending context to fanservice and making this anime very watchable indeed.

Situations is something that we’ll come on to in later parts of the guide, but in reality, there are only a finite number of situations in which fanservice may occur. these include such crude scenes as the skirt/wind flip + panty shot through to yuri-snoggage, onsen scenes and behind breast grabs. It is the duty of the animator and the storyboard artists to make sure that these stereotypical and predictable scenes don’t become boring by adding some spice to set them apart from the rest.

| Magipoka - catering for futanari fans since 2006

Case in point - Renkin 3-kyuu Magical Pokaa~n - The onsen scene later on in the series definitely had something that put it apart from the rest. I’ll leave it to your long term memories/imagination to work out what I’m talking about ^_^

And lastly something that is perhaps not the animator’s responsibility, and relates back to my second point about character depth. The plot of a fanservice anime has similar implications in terms of how the overall feel of the finished product comes across. An animation with a strong overall storyline will buoy up mediocre quality fanservice whereas even good fanservice will not shine when plots are absent.

| Koikoi 7 - I laughed. Only once, but I did laugh. It’s gotta have a redeeming feature ^_^

Cases in point - Koikoi 7 - episode 1 had a great fanservice scene in which the protagonist is being shown around the school and on their way through visiting the various facilities they happen across two girls doing the ditty in the nurses office but shrug it off as just a matter of course. Unfortunately, the overall storyline is so weak that the anime is pretty much unwatchable. (Not to mention the annoying protagonist and awful animation quality). Chokotto Sister would be another good example of this point.

| Zero no Tsukaima - sadly, not a scene in the animation. DAMN YOU.

On the other hand, the half-hearted fanservice in Zero no Tsukaima was sucessfully ofset by a well developing storyline which (thankfully) was further removed from the Harry Potter (R) ™ ((C) JK Rowling) franchise than expected.

And that concludes the introduction to the Guide to fanservice animation (A Yuribou production). Keep a look out for further parts - we’ll be discussing character types, cut and paste situations for easy insertion into scripts and the role of fanservice in different genres, amongst other things, so stay tuned!

Ganbatte kudasai animator-kun!

Character Types Part 1

Author’s note - I have been getting back into the old Infinity Engine RPGs of late - namely Icewind Dale 2, so please forgive this article if it seems a little Dungeons and Dragonsey ^_^

So you’ve worked your way to chapter 2 then have you, young animator? Hopefully by now you will be able to avoid the pitfalls and pratfalls that separate the wheat from the chaff of this cutthroat world we call fanservice. But what is the next step? You must now design a suite of character that will be alluring and appeal to as wide an audience as possible. Or, even better still, invent new character traits never before seen that people will look at and go “wooooahhh that’s new!”.

As anyone who has watched anime for a number of years knows, there are at the moment only a small set of character stereotypes that can describe the vast majority of female characters, although many of these stereotypes overlap and merge to produce seemingly new characters but based along similar lines.

Building a memorable character is very important, but then well worn character stereotypes also make an impact if placed within the guidelines of an excellently written storyline. (Yuki from Haruhi Suzumiya no yuuutsu pops to mind as a prime example) Therefore, always keep in mind that in all probability it is easier to make a familiar personality interesting than an interesting new personality.

Here at Yuribou productions, we like to make things easy for you. We have therefore worked long (20 mins) and hard and produced a chart for personality building - for well established personalities only, of course. You will see that we have included Trait misc. and Accessory misc. for those novel things that just don’t appear often enough to get their own category. This list is by no means exhaustive, and if we get enough suggestions, an updated list will be produced!

Female character personality types creator v1.0

Major personality class

These describe the character’s overriding personality. They are generally exclusive, with characters occupying one distinct type. The excepting to this is “Strong-willed” which is a main character type but may coexist with many of the other major class.

• Normal

|Ohno - your typical normal girl. Otaku girl. Who likes cosplay. Hmm.

No overriding major personality type - just your ordinary girl-next-door type. Likes going out and hanging out with her friends. May or may not have a secret crush on someone - you know the drill. Normal girls make up the staples of fanservice anime as they can have any minor personality traits or accessories and are not limited in terms of storyline potential. It is always orth having at least a couple of normal girls to keep things sane in an animation.

• Tsundere

|Chidori - an archetypal new type tsundere. Beware of the fan ^_^

Although the term was coined fairly recently, tsundere type (violent at first, soft later on) characters have been knocking around in animation for almost as long as yuri itself. Early examples include Naru Narusegawa from Love Hina and Lum from Urusei Yatsura. However, these days, the term has come to include girls who are both violent and soft at the same time (e.g. Kagami from Lucky Star) and so tsundere has become one of the major personality types. Minor traits that go well with this class include “Unexpectedly embarassable (naive)” and “fighter”.

• Energetic +/- Stupid

|Tomo - the first Genki/baka combination personality i happened across. She is very genki and very baka.

The “genki-girl” of the animation - always full of energy and usually associated with sportyness, competition, fighting or some other minor trait involving energy. About half the characters are also lacking in the intelligence department, which is why this category includes the latter part. Other minor traits that go well with this class include “tomboy”, “Unexpectedly embarassable (naive)” and “obsessed with breast size”. Good examples of this class include Tomo (AzuDai) and Excel (Excel Saga).

• Classical lady (ojou)

|Shizuru - the typical evilyuri ojou type. Ahh, if only there were more of those…a man can dream though…a man can dream.

The Classical lady class includes a wide range of personality types sharing the traits of speaking formally or politely, liking hobbies such as tea ceremony and ikebana, plus or minus being rich. Often have a character design 2 or 3 points above other characters in order to denote that they are classically pretty. Naturally like wearing kimonos. This class can work one of a few ways - by taking minors in “dominant” and “gloating” they become the rich iincho type (Ayaka - Negima), by taking “submissive” and “soft-spoken” they become the classical Japanese wife type (Yakumo - School Rumble) or other combinations including “Evil” and “yuri” (Shizuru - Mai Hime). This is a very flexible class.

• Loli (personality)

|Mii-tan - Go on, she’s legal! Hahah I tricked you, you’re going to jail! Loli is included here when strictly it is an accessory, since being a loli character involves both looking and acting like a loli. Having a major class in loli includes talking in an immature fashion (3rd person, for example), having a high pitched voice actor, being predisposed to cry or fall over, calling everyone you meet oniitan or oneechan etc. etc. Naturally goes well with minor classes “Distinctive talking style”, “submissive” and “older than she seems”, loli is a very limited class (it is difficult to make a distinct major class loli as they all feel about the same) Examples include Mii-tan (Popotan) and Nagisa (Strawberry Panic)

• Vamp (Sexual predator)

|Shizuma and Nagisa - an unusual Vamp/Loli combination couple. We need more yuri vamps please!

A rare class that is also very limited in terms of character personality, but can have good potential in terms of character development in a long series. Vamps are characters who are not afraid to show their sexual preferences and who they like and are prepared to do anything in order to get their way. They are most often seen molesting the characters of their choice or causing embarassment by talking about naughty things. A very fun character to write for. Naturally goes well with minor classes “dominant”, “yuri”, “older woman” or “younger than she seems”, good examples of this are Sei Satou (Marimite) and Kitsune (Love Hina)

• Quiet (taciturn/shy)

|Yuki - in addition to being mysterious, she also is awesome. A lesson to all.

The Quiet class includes both taciturn (mysterious) characters and shy characters and so covers quite a lot of the remaining female personality spectrum. Quiet girls can take a range of minor classes and accessories and so are almost as flexible as the Normal class but are limited in that they can never be “Dominant” or take “Sporty” or “tomboy” minor classes. This character can be developed into a taciturn mysterious character (e.g. Tabitha - ZnT) by taking the “soft-spoken” minor class and “uncanny ability (magical/innate)” accessory or into a shy character (e.g. Nodoka - Negima) with minor classes in “studious” and the “weak/ill/previous trauma” accessory.

• Strong willed

|A e ruuuuuuuuu!!!!! BOOM! I’ll never get tired of that caption ^_^

Strong willed may coexist with any of the classes above but is a distinct character type on its own (otherwise all the strong willed characters would have to come under the “Normal” class). Strong willed characters lend themselves well to becoming protagonists or female leads and often have power and strength of mind or body to overcome adversity that may be thrown at them in the storyline. Strong willed characters are not necessarily energetic but they are not usually held down for long and bounce back quickly. They are a flexible class and as well as being paired with the other major classes, can take most minor classes and accessories as well. Good examples of this are Aeru (Simoun) and Shima (Stellvia), a strong willed girl is usually always necessary to round off a group of girls in any series.

Thats the major classes over and done with! Tune in later for minor classes and accessories ^_^

Minor Classes

| So many characters, so few character types - How can you make your character more than just crass otaku fodder? Read on to find out…

Welcome back to the Yuribou guide to fanservice for animators! Have you chosen the main character classes for the girls in your harem yet? If not, then go back to the previous chapter and do so right now! It is traditional to get a good mix of different major types in your harem, but a good storyline and interesting characters can also be gained by using more of the flexible classes such as “normal” and “strong willed” - I’ll leave it up to you to decide.

Now we come to the minor character classes.

These are different to the major classes since any one character may possess any number of these minor classes, and in different combinations. However, some of the minor classes go better together with certain major classes and other combinations are completely forbidden (though with some thought could make a novel new character type!). You’ll see what we mean as you read on…

• Tomboy (Not with class: Ojou, Quiet) - Your character seems to have the urge to do boyish things such as get into fights, wear short hair, participate in contact or track and field sports or protect weaker kids. Although scruffy in appearance they often clean up well. e.g. Tomari Kurusu - Kasimasi • Handy (Not with class: Ojou) - Your character has a penchance for fixing things and building things. Often end up as mechanics or assistants to protagonists. Remember, pretty girls who can dismantle and rebuild a car engine in 30 mins flat are hot. e.g. Winry Rockbell - FMA

| Lilith - Major class - Vamp, Minor classes - Relationship driven/clingy, yuri, ditzy, lazy.

• Relationship driven/Clingy (Not with class: Tsundere, Quiet) - These girls spend their whole appearances hanging off the arm of their respective significant other, whether they are in a canon relationship or not. Often paired with the “Vamp” major class to make characters that persevere for whole series in order to get them to notice them. e.g. Maharu - Girl’s Bravo • Soft Spoken (Not with class: Energetic, Vamp) - Usually implies “voiced by Mamiko Noto” but also includes other characters in which they are not necessarily shy but are either understated or extremely polite. Goes well with the Ojou major type. e.g. Yakumo Tsukamoto - School Rumble • Yuri - Your character likes girls more than boys. Occasionally bisexual. Can be paired with any of the major classes for a wide range of yuri fun. e.g. Anna-chan - HIMM • Evil - Often pretend to be good and are outed at some point or may be the bad guy all along. Usually a badly done class with poor character development but there is a lot of potential, particularly if they turn good at the ends. e.g. Fate Testarossa - Nanoha • Older than she seems - Your character has the body of a younger girl (i.e. jailbait) but is actually older (I wouldn’t go so far as to say legal…) Otherwise known as “Loli - appearance”. Can either be naive or precocious for her age. Often has the “obsessed with breast size” accessory. e.g. Yutaka Kobayakawa - Lucky Star • Younger than she seems (Not with class: Loli) o Tall and Cool - She’s in the same year as everyone else but stands a good foot or so above them. Bust size? Often world class. Underclassmen and classmates adore them, they get love letters from other girls and college boys alike. Often not as cool as they seem. e.g. Sakaki-san - Azudai o Mothering - Your character has a mothering instinct and a heart the size of a blue whale. Often seen squeezing the life out of girls or boys either younger or that look younger than they are. Bust size often J-league. Classically paired with the Ditzy minor class. e.g. Chizuru Naba - Negima!

| Tsuruya - Major class - Energetic, Minor classes - Older than she seems, ditzy, eccentric/random

• Gloating (hohoho) - These girls are full of themselves and always quick to gloat at others’ misfortunes. More often than not belong to the Ojou class but other classes can have this trait as well. They often have a softer side/weakness to a particular thing or else they are just plain evil. e.g. Ayaka Yukihiro - Negima • Ditzy (mamama) - Your girl gives off the impression of her head not quite being at the same altitude as the rest of her. Although they seem like their head is in the clouds, they often have an Uncanny ability or unusual insight into situations and often also have the mothering class e.g. Mutsumi Otohime - Love Hina • Sporty - Good at sports, sometimes unusually good given their body habitus. Don’t necessarily like sports that they are good at. Often of the “Energetic+Stupid” class but can be combined with any class. e.g. Kagura-san - AzuDai • Fighter - Skilled at any or all kinds of martial arts or fighting. This includes ninjas, weapon users, soldiers, magic users, martial artists and swordswomen. An oft used class that is generally overrepresented and if not handled carefully can end up in characters becoming dull. e.g. Hakufu Sonsaku - Ikkitousen • Studious (Not with class: Energetic+Stupid) - Either a hard worker at school, or naturally gifted in intelligence. More often than not paired with the Quiet(shy) major class +/- glasses to create the archetypal meganekko. e.g. Shinobu Maehara (Love Hina) • Lazy - Usually a Vamp class girl whose primary activity is sitting underneath a tree usually on a hill somewhere out back or on a pier overlooking an uncommonly serene lake. Abhors schoolwork and generally unmotivated or just plain lazy. Occasionally has above average talent but loathes to use it. e.g. Sayoko Kurosaki- Mahoraba • Violent - Although an integral part of the “tsundere” major class, other characters can also be violent. Violent minor class refers not to fighters who fight when they have to, but to characters who lash out when it’s generally considered socially unacceptable. e.g. Kaname Chidori - FMP!

| Natsuki Kuga - Major class - Tsundere, minor classes - Tomboy, fighter, unexpectedly embarassable/naive

• Obsessed with breast size (Not with class: Vamp)- Girls with modest breast size that constantly fear the yearly school medical which shows that their bust size has not increased one inch in the previous year. A very common trait and one that can have comedic value if used correctly. e.g. Najimi Osana - Doujin Work • Obsessed with weight - Non overweight girls who are paranoid about putting on weight. Remember, anorexia doesn’t exist in anime O_o. e.g. Koyomi Mizuhara - AzuDai • Submissive (Not with class: Vamp) - Girls who naturally diffuse to the bottom. Some may exhibit strength but are naturally submissive when faced with a dominant character. Also refers to characters who are bound to other characters in terms of servitude or owe a debt of gratitude. e.g. Setsuna Sakurazaki - Negima • Dominant (Not with class: Loli) - The opposite of above. Girls who like to dominate others (or either gender). Often have a pet of downtrodden best friend who receives the bulk of the dominance (often a childhood friend). Often have an unexpectedly softer side. e.g. Takako Itsukushima - OtoBoku • Eccentric/Random - All girls who exhibit completely random behaviour or have a strange personality that makes it difficult to predict what they will do next. This covers a range of different character types such as the outside thinkers (Osaka - AzuDai), the over-the-toppers (Namiko Tsuki - Kasimasi) and the downright insane (Kaolla Suu - Love Hina) • Photographer/stalker - Often a member of the news club or photography club, this type will usually go to any length to get a scoop No matter how many people they hurt along the way. When combined with the “Relationship driven/Clingy” class they become stalkers. e.g. Kazumi Asakura - Negima • Otaku - Unusual girls who are unnaturally obsessed with something (that usually only boys would get obsessed about). Includes anime otaku, cosplay otaku, military otaku. e.g. Kanako Ohno - Genshiken • Sensible/Voice of reason - Generally a girl whose only purpose is to stand beside the protagonist or female leads and bounce arguments back and forth. Instrumental in resolving things when things get ugly but generally in the background. With the correct script and a good choice of other minor traits could make for interesting main characters also. e.g. Ayuki Mari - Kasimasi • Unexpectedly kind - Another archetypal trait of the “tsundere” major class, unexpectedly kind refers to girls who suddenly and inexplicably do kind acts to which they either deny having done them or deny thanks. Usually a symptom of a secret crush or alternatively the kinder half of a girl with the “Gloating” minor class. e.g. Louise Francoise blahblahblah de la Valliere - Zero no Tsukaima • Unexpectedly embarassable/naive (Not with class: Vamp) Whether it’s just talking about kissing or not having read a full yaoi rape doujin before, the blushes on a naive girl learning the ropes is always burning with moe. Usually applied to the “Quiet(shy)” major class but is also amusing in “Ojou” and “Tsundere” type girls. e.g. Kagami Hiiragi - Lucky Star • Precocious (Not with class: Loli) - A girl who knows her way around…well, usually places that are best not mentioned before the 9:00pm watershed. (But are definitely mentioned in those 10 minute cable previews) I think you get the idea. Usually a device that can cause blushing in the oposite (naive) type or something to be used to comic effect. For greatest comic effect, use together with “Older than she looks” or “Ditzy” minor classes. e.g. (most recently) Rin Kokonoe - Kodomo no Jikan. • Scaredycat - Girls who are naturally scared of virtually everything and often cling to others for help when scary things pop up. Example that pops into mind - Hazumu Osaragi - Kasimasi • Other minor trait

That concludes the minor classes. Remember, a character can take any number of minor traits but only one major class (unless that class is “strong willed”) and that there are certain combinations of minor traits that are generally accepted and that others may be more controversial | Name: Kooh. Major class: Quiet(taciturn) Minor class: Older than she looks, sporty. Accessories: Uncanny Ability (Golf), Moe profession (PIRATE!)

And finally we come to the last part for character types in this tutorial. By now, you’ll have your characters pretty well fleshed out, be they an insanely precocious, yet sporty and soft spoken loli or a sporty yet studious tsundere obsessed with her breast size because she looks like a loli. All each character needs now are a few finishing touches to make them special.

I have decided to call these Accessories (for no particular reason), which refers to things that a character has the fortune to have or regularly wears/possesses. i.e. everything else that makes them unique that aren’t character traits. For example, an easily embarassed genki/baka who is good at sports can describe both Sakura Kinomoto (CCS), Akari Kanzaki (Battle Athletes) or Tomari Kurusu (Kasimasi). However, we all know that they’re different - Sakura is a magical girl, Akari is uncannily good at sports and Tomari is…well…she has twintails.

Accessories are used to flesh out an already built character or to add moe value. Clever use (but not overuse) of them can make your character’s figure fly off the shelves! Nothing complements a great character with a compelling storyline better than a miko outfit, nekomimi and twintails ^_^

| Name: Karin Maaka. Major Class: Genki/Strong Willed. Minor Class: Ditzy, Unexpectedly Kind. Accessories: Mythical creature (Vampire), Disproportionately large breasts (World)

• Uncanny ability (Magical/Innate, Competitive, Empathic) - Encompasses all special abilities above and beyond the average such as magical power, fighting ability, athletic ability, proficiency with mechanical things, uncanny insight and empathy, problem solving and evil quelling. • Osananajimi (childhood friend) c.f. Najimi Osana - Doujin Work • Unrequited crush - Female or male e.g. Kaorin - AzuDai • Related - Go for at least 1st degree cousins (1/8 related) unless you want to dredge the deep pits of incest… • Robot/Construct - Usually of Ojou or Energetic class. Also includes computer holograms and shapeshifting constructs. e.g. Jan-puu - Kasimasi • Deadpan - Almost always Quiet(taciturn) and Loli(appearance) • Young girl (loli) - Actually younger rather than looks younger… c.f. Rin Kokonoe - Kodomo no Jikan • Older girl (Sempai/Neesan/Parent) - Beware of incest. Go for MILF instead. e.g. Hatsumi - Tonagura • Rich/secretly well off - Chiyo chan from Azudai springs instantly to mind. • Distinctive way of talking (sentence end/phrase) e.g. Nanoha Takamachi~nano • Weak/ill/previous trauma - Includes both girls weak/terminally ill from birth, those injured in accidents or by acquired illnesses and girls whose hearts are guarded from a previous love trauma and need the kiss of the right prince/princess to break their icy spell e.g. Shizuma Hanazono - Strawberry Panic! | Name: Unagi. Major Class: Loli. Minor Class. Soft Spoken(no speech), Scaredycat. Accessories: Mythical Creature (shapeshifter), Moe Accessory (Unacceptably baggy clothing)

• Mythical creature - Includes ghosts, catgirls, aliens, vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, faeries, elves, time travellers, data creatures, librarians of the universe, familiars, dragons in human form, moon and sun princesses, avatars of murderous gods, angels, angels of death, shinigami and figments of people’s imaginations • Disproportionately large breasts - world or J-league ^_^ • Foreigner/Half - Usually have blonde hair - ’cause all foreigners have blonde hair. Really they do. • Regional accent/informal speech - Kantou accent is teh sexay e.g. Hayate Yagami - Nanoha • Futago (twins) - ref: Futakoi Alternative. • Moe profession (maid, miko, serafuku) • Moe accessory (glasses, twintails, ribbon, plush toy) • Gender bending - Only possible in anime without the ugh factor O_o. e.g. Mizuho - OtoBoku • Unusual Phobia - For some reason, frogs come to mind, though I’m not sure why. Androphobia is a fairly popular one when combined with Quiet(shy) characters • Accessory misc.

Classical Character types - a Reference

As an epilogue to this section in which I have broken down the character traits from all typical female characters in anime, I thought that I would give a concrete classification system for the most well used character types that you will see again and again in anime from now, probably to the end of time. Be aware that I’ll probably be referring back to this list from now on, so it’s in your best interests to remember it!

| Kaede - You don’t need to be a serial killer to be a type 1a…but it helps

Type 1a - Long term contender

Major: Normal Minor: Any. Often: Sporty, Tomboy, Easily embarassed/Naive, Sensible/Voice of reason and Unexpectedly kind Accessory: Related/Osananajimi, unrequited crush Examples: Ichino Yanagida (BAV), Maika Yoshikano (Magikano), Anya (Negima), Kaede Fuyou (SHUFFLE!) Description: Subtly different to type 2 - a “Long term Contender” type girl has always carried a torch for the character in question ever since they have known them, but this has never been realised; rather than a girl who has known a character all their life but recent events cause them to realise they like them. Usually related in some way or a childhood friend, they often lose out to other contenders in the long run.

Type 1b - Ara ara girl

Major: Normal Minor: Ditzy, Younger than she seems (Mothering), Sensible/voice of reason Accessory: Disproportionately large breasts, Uncanny ability (empathy), Older girl (Neesan, usually) Examples: Hatsune Arisaka (Tonagura), Chizuru Naba (Negima) Akiko Minase (Kanon) Description: Mothering girls who seem ditzy but are actually uncannily insightful and usually end up being the unexpected person to solve a personal problem or quell an argument. Needless to say they need large breasts. Cause they’re mothers and mothers have large breasts of course.

Type 1c - Cool fighter girl

Major: Normal Minor: Fighter, Dominant, Sporty, younger than she seems (tall and cool) Accessory: Uncanny ability (fighting), [Disproportionally large breasts] - optional bonus! Examples: Maya Natsume (Tenjyo Tenge), Kanu Unchou (Ikkitousen), Jo (BakuTen) Description: They’re girls who know how to hold their own in a fight and they know how good they are. You can feel their battle aura half a mile away and all the boys lust after them (usually because of their prolific rack!). However, since they tend to be arrogant about their abilities, they are usually defeatable by protagonists with uncanny abilities.

| Louise - NOT Harry Potter. Much hotter in fact. I know it’s hard to believe…

Type 2 - Violently naive

Major: Tsundere Minor: Easily Embarassed/Naive, Fighter/Sporty, Unexpectedly Kind, Submissive (secretly), Violent Accessory: Unrequited crush, Unusual phobia (of falling in love with the protagonist) Examples: Louise blah blah de la Valliere (ZnT), Kaname Chidori (FMP!), Kirie Kosame (Girls Bravo) Description: You don’t want to get on the wrong side of these girls, but then again, it’s fairly difficult to stay on their good sides! Usually paired with a clueless protagonist, these girls try their hardest to deny their burgeoning love for the main character by laying the smackdown whenever something vaguely embarassing happens. I don’t know why, but it’s always infinitely amusing.

Type 3a - Genki magical girl

Major: Energetic/Stupid Minor: Tomboy, Sporty, Unexpectedly embarassable/naive Accessory: Uncanny ability (magic), Mythical creature (magical girl), moe accessory (magical girl clothes, henshin sequence) Examples: Sakura Kinomoto (CCS), Nagisa Misumi (Precure), Komugi Nakahara (Nurse witch Komugi-chan Magikarte) Description: The most common kind of magical girl - the generic genki girl (usually not that great at her studies, therefore allowing as much identification with schoolgirls as possible) who randomly gains magical powers and has to use them for saving the world.

Type 3b - Eccentric Girl Major: Energetic/Stupid Minor: Eccentric/Random, Ditzy +/- Tomboy/sporty Accessory: Uncanny ability (often mechanical but also insightful), Regional accent/informal speech. Examples: Kaolla Su (Love Hina), Tsuruya-san (SHnY), Orihime Inoue (Bleach) Description: Mostly these girls provide us with comedy but they can also provide us with insightful comments, surprising empathy or occasionally a love of smoked cheese

| Takako - Prim and proper girls are always the best to wind up because everyone knows that under that hard surface they just want some hot yuri lovin…

Type 4a - Iincho

Major: Ojou Minor: Younger than she seems, Gloating, Sporty, Dominant, Eccentric/Random, Easily embarassed/naive Accessory: Rich, Distinctive speech (formal)/regional accent, [Foreigner/Half] - optional Examples: Ayaka Yukihiro (Negima!), Takako Itsukushima (Otoboku), Kuriko Kazetsubaki (Maburaho) Description: Rich types who speak formally and like to do impressions of female Santa Claus. They are often easily embarassed and have a degree of Vamp type features (or in the case of Ayaka - are just shotacons). They are great to have in your cast to make fun out of, but they generally do not feature heavily in storylines except as a device to get people from place to place or using their homes as scene settings.

Type 4b - Untouchable Ojou

Major: Ojou Minor: Soft Spoken, Younger than she seems (tall and cool), Idolised Accessory: [Rich/Secretly well off, Previous trauma] - optional Examples: Sachiko Ogasawara (Marimite), Yakumo Tsukamoto (School Rumble), Sakaki (AzuDai) Desription: They seem untouchable since they give out an air of either iciness or serenity and people are generally too much in awe of them to even approach them, let alone ask them out. But generally, given the right protagonist, they are just aching to open up to people and are insecure over their lack of friends. Type 5 - Token loli

Major: Loli Minor: Older than she seems, Ditzy, [Obsessed with breast size, precocious] - optional Accessory: Young girl (Loli), Moe accessory (any), Distinctive way of talking (3rd person/concluding phrase) Examples: Kana Suouin (Otoboku), Tomohane (Inukami!), Mint Blancmanche (Galaxy Angel) Description: Every harem must have a token loli for all the loli-obsessed otaku out there. Add a distinctive talking phrase for extra moe powar (see DiGiCharat for details ^_^). Remember, if you want to bone the loli, you are automatically granted lolipedofin status.

| Shizuru - the most awesomest of all yuri vamps. The sort of girl you want on your side when you’re trying to set up a threesome…

Type 6a - Yuri Vamp

Major: Vamp, Vamp/Ojou Minor: Yuri, Evil, Younger than she seems, lazy, dominant Accessory: Previous trauma, [Older girl (sempai)] - optional Examples: Shizuru Fujino (Mai HiME), Shizuma Hanazono (Strawberry Panic), Sei Satou (Marimite) Description: These girls are gay through and through and will stop at nothing to get the girl that they’ve set their eyes on. But surely there must be some reason that they go through girlfriends like they’re rich tea biscuits? Surely they can’t just be doing this for fun? No, there’s always some kind of previous trauma that the female protagonist must overcome to win this one’s heart.

Type 6b - Sake Vamp

Major: Vamp Minor: Lazy, Dominant Accessory: Older woman, Disproportionately large breasts (J-league), Misc (sake/beer) Examples: Rangiku Matsumoto (Bleach), Tamamonomae (Yamibou), Margerie Daw (Shakugan no Shana) Description: Second only to their love of sake and getting slightly jolly, these women like nothing better than seducing young boys/girls and pressing them into their ample bosom. Not that we mind, you see.

Type 8a - Deadpan loli

Major: Quiet (taciturn) Minor: Older than she seems, Soft-spoken, Sensible/Voice of reason Accessory: Deadpan Examples: Mea (Popotan), Ruri Hoshino (Nadesico), Marie Kagura (Tonagura) Description: Girls of this type will be familiar to most people and are typified as “Rei-clones” due to the popularisation of the Type 8a by Rei Ayanami in NGE. Deadpan girls often provide the voice of reason to the main character or serve to deliver the punchlines in comedic scenes. Although they are often loli, they often act older than their age. Occasionally they can be mistaken for robots/constructs (Mea - POpotan)

| Nodoka - she’s not shy, she just needs some…guidance…yees…guidance…

Type 8b - Shy girl

Major: Quiet (shy)/Strong Willed Minor: Studious, submissive, Easily Embarassed/Naive, Soft Spoken Accessory: Uncanny Ability (empathic), Unrequited crush, [Moe accessory (glasses)] - optional Examples: Shinobu Maehara (Love hina), Nodoka Miyazaki (Negima), Midori Kasugano (Midori no Hibi) Desription: Another staple of Ken Akamatsu-sensei, shy girls are reclusive and often studious but can often help the protagonist through some bad scrapes. They are often secretly strong willed and can also be Relationship Driven as well. Glasses are entirely optional (generally a cheap accessory and not very effective as they can limit who the character appeals to).

Type 8c - Deadpan Robot

Major: Quiet (taciturn) Minor: Soft Spoken, Sensible/Voice of reason Accessory: Robot/Construct Examples: Serio (To Heart), Miyu (Mai HiME), Chachamaru Karakuri (Negima) Description: The most common type of robot girl, they’re everything you would expect Japanese robotics technology to come up with in the future - perfect manners, deadpan and body and legs to die for. Yuki Nagato could well be an exception to the rule, but since she is a data creature rather than a construct, she probably belongs in Type 8a.

Welcome back to the Yuribou Guide to fanservice for animators.

| Wah! Wardrobe malfunction!

I hope that by now you’ve got your cast fleshed out and rearing to go but your storyboard editor is yelling at you that besides the main storyline there really isn’t anything that shows off your unique character’s “credentials”. I think you know what he means.

Fanservice has a long history of utilising stereotypical scenes in order to impart service to the watchers. It wouldn’t be, strictly speaking, realistic, for example, if the heroine flashed her panties at the protagonist in the corridor without any pretext would it?

Fanservice scenes are all about providing an opportunity for characters with a lot of potential to be scantily clad or show off their unmentionables while also keeping it within context. A lot of fanservice scenes are more traditional rather than actually realistic, with fanservice anime using the same scenes year after year to varying effectiveness. Good examples of this include the “ecchi na kaze” and “accidental perverted fall”.

As with character types, it is very easy to fall into thinking that just by including the expected fanservice scenes in an anime you can cover all bases. This is however, not true. Especially with scenes that have been used time and again, these will barely even register with most seasoned fanservice users if used on their own. However, with proper context, even tired old devices take on a shiny new lease of life. For example, with even the simplest “ecchi na kaze (perverted wind)” scene, the subject must be a character that the audience wants to see the panties of, the recipients must be characters percieved worthy of seeing aforementioned panties and most importantly, they must be sexy panties. So as you can see, (apart from the latter point), some story context is required as buildup in order to make a fanservice scene successful.

In this section I will be going through typical fanservice scenes, example scripts for each (acted out by our wonderful Yurivision couples) and important points to remember for each scene:

• 1. Ecchi na Kaze (Perverted Wind - EnK)

o Description: “Ecchi na Kaze” is one of the oldest and most typical fanservice shots. In this simple device, girls walking along unsuspectingly (usually on the way to school) are suddenly oppressed by a strong gust of wind which causes skirt lifting and panty expose. o Example: Probably the most famous one is performed by Asuka Langley Sohryu on NGE (Episode 8 I believe) o For extra service: Girl has no panties ^_^ (e.g. Natsuki - Mai HiME) o Important points to remember: Girl must be a character watchers want to see the panties of, recipient must be worthy of seeing said panties. Panties must be nice/non-existant. o Typical Scene (acted out by Shizuru and Natsuki) o EXT School path, DAY. NATSUKI is walking down the path slowly but noticably keeping her legs together. Cherry blossoms are falling. SHIZURU catches up with her. SHIZURU: Aha, Natsuki, Gokigenyou NATSUKI: Shizuru, now’s not the best time… Gust of wind blows NATSUKI’s skirt up. She is not wearing panties. NATSUKI resembles a certain root vegetable. N: Argh! Ecchi na kaze! SHIZURU nosebleeds out of shot. • 2. Reverse Breast grab (RBG)

o Description: The reverse breast grab is a maneuver that can only be used by girls on other girls (otherwise it will usually be received with ill favour). It involves an unsuspecting (usually submissive, quiet girl with disproportionately sized breasts) girl being suddenly assaulted from behind by another (usually tomboy or eccentric genki girl). The manoeuvre is classically performed from behind but can also be performed from the front (straight breast grab). o Example: Tina Foster and Taeko Minazuki from Ai Yori Aoshi o For extra service: The recipient enjoys it rather too much. Maneuver performed in swimsuits or underwear. Perpetrator’s hands explore rather more than is publically acceptable ^_^ o Important points to remember: The recipient’s breasts must be disproportionately sized or this is less effective. Adding yuri subtext between the two characters beforehand is always a plus. o Typical scene (performed by the beautiful Shizuma and Nagisa) o INT school hall, DAY. SHIZUMA is talking to MIYUKI about something or other. NAGISA is approaching from behind sneakily. SHIZUMA: …And then I shoved it in! MIYUKI: Yes, yes, Shizuma, you told me that story about stuffing the Christmas turkey last week. NAGISA glomps SHIZUMA from behind. There is fondling. NAGISA: On-ee-sa-ma~~~ There is hand wanderage. SHIZUMA makes some unintelligible noises then glomps NAGISA. Hijinks ensue. M: Well..I’ll…just leave then.

• 3. Accidental perverted fall (APF)

o Description: The first of the fictional scenes. WARNING: This never happens in real life. The girls you see are professionals working under controlled conditions, so do not under any circumstances try this at home, as it may result in grievous injury. (Believe me, we have tested it) The APF is another of the classic scenes in which a protagonist runs into/is run into by a girl, the result of which is that a body part of one ends up in contact with a squishy bit of the other. I think you get the picture. o Example: A favoured device of Ken Akamatsu-sensei, it features heavily in both Negima! and Love Hina. o For Extra service: Head in crotch is an oft used variation on the theme. Combine with skirt flip and panty shot for full effectiveness. o Important points to remember: After an APF, the characters are now irreversibly bound together storyline-wise, for the rest of the series. If nothing happens between these two characters, then the APF serves no purpose and has gone to waste. o Typical Scene (performed by the lovely Sakura and Tomoyo) o EXT City streets NIGHT. SAKURA with wand out is running after an unidentified Clow card with Kero in tow quite a way behind. Unbeknownst to her, her best friend TOMOYO is just rounding the corner from her usual late night shopping trip to the red light district. SAKURA: Ahh! The Clow card’s getting away! Come back! SAKURA rounds corner and collides with TOMOYO coming the other way. When the inexplicable dust cloud clears, SAKURA has somehow ended up where TOMOYO’s panties should be. Various MARITAL AIDS are liberally scattered around like an exploded Ann Summer’s pinata. SAKURA: (muffled) Tomoyo-chan, why aren’t you wearing panties? TOMOYO: Oh, Sakura-chan, you’re so bold! Stop for a second, I just have to get out my camcorder! Kero rounds the corner and nosebleeds out of shot. Hijinks Ensue.

Stay tuned for more scenes in the next part of this indispensible guide to the world of fanservice!

• 4. Incidental Changing Invasion

(ICI) o Description: Just like poor Komugi on the previous page, the girl in question gets walked in on while changing. The usual response is a chorus of “Kyaaa! Minai de!!” and a sound kick to the knackers of the person peeping. Of course, if the person peeping is a girl, then violence is averted and yuri can ensue. o Example: Nearly all of Girl’s Bravo o For Extra points: Nice underwear is always good. Forego the usualy pristine white fare for string panties, lowlegs, stripes and perhaps even a zettai ryouki…or just forego the underwear altogether ^_^ Also can be combined with an UYS (see below) for extra effect. o Things to remember: Overuse of this scene in particular can become tiresome. There’s only so many times you can really see the same guy being beaten up after all, so use sparingly. Don’t always feel that violent retribution is the only way to end this, many comic endings have been done and it saves it from becoming overused (ref: School Rumble - Harima and Eri) o Typical Scene (acted out by the wonderful Setsuna and Konoka) INT Girls’ dorm, DAY. Setsuna is changing after a hard days…erm…doing whatever samurai schoolgirls get up to. KONOKA notices that the door is ajar and pokes her head round. KONOKA: Hiii Secchan! Are you ready to come for dinner yet? SETSUNA: (half undressed) Aah! Ojou-sama! Don’t look! K: (approaching SETSUNA) Why not, Secchan? I see you in the bath all the time? S: (Rapidly progressing up the Dulux paint scale) Bb..but this is different, it’s embarassing! KONOKA glomps SETSUNA from behind. The camera view switches to the corridor outside where ASUNA is approaching the doorway. ASUNA notices the voices inside and stops to listen. K (VO): Ah, Secchan, your breasts are so big when they’re not all bound up… S (VO): Aaah. Ojousama! Don’t touch there! Aaah! K (VO): Secchan your moans are so cute! ASUNA leans in closer to the door but doesn’t notice that the door is ajar and tumbles straight through in a big heap. KONOKA is straddling a half naked and rosy cheeked SETSUNA who is frozen in shock. There is a painful silence. ASUNA’s mouth gapes like a venus flytrap S: A..a.a..a..Asuna…It’s not what it looks like! K: (sweetly) Asuna-chan, if you wanted to join us you only had to ask. There is glompage. Clothes comically fly into shot. Asuna’s bear panties sail high and land on the camera. We hear SUSPICIOUS SLURPING SOUNDS and MOANS OF PLEASURE.

• 5. Ground’s Eye View (GEV) o Description: Oh the fun that could be had if only the ground had eyes. Well, now you can see what the ground sees with Ground Eye View! Basically a scene in which the camera view starts from ground level panning up to catch pantie shots and upskirts. o Example: Most of Ikkitousen o For Extra points: Camel toe for extra otaku nosebleed-factor. o Things to remember: Random upskirt shots are generally inexplicable and lack effect. Context for a GEV gives it a better impact and lessens the overall “cheap” feel of the anime. For example, it may be combined with an EnK for multiple upskirt goodness. Ikkitousen is a good example of an anime in which there were far too many upskirts. o Typical Scene (acted out by our lovely Mai and Sayuri) INT School hall DAY. SAYURI is ambling happily down the corridor when she bumps into MAI who is on her way to meet her. SAYURI: Hello Mai! Are you ready to go and eat lunch? MAI: … S: What’s wrong Mai? M: (points under SAYURI’s skirt) …Camera. S: (looks and giggles) You must have left it there last night! Naughty Mai-chan… M: (thoughtful) Sa..yuri. Is like “It’s Yuri”. S: You say the strangest things, Mai-chan.

• 6a. Unexpected Yuri scene (UYS) o Description: You’re just ambling along jauntily in heteroland when suddenly, bang! Out of the blue - Girls loving. o Example: My favourite example is the nurses office scene from Koikoi 7 episode 1 because it’s just so amazingly and completely random. o For extra points: The more random the better for comic value. For hawtness, there should also be some of the “copping a feel” c.f. Yaya/Hikari in Strawberr Panic. o Things to remember: UYS is different from a sustained yuri storyline (which is also a kind of fanservice, but cannot be summarised in a single scene) and should be treated as such. Most of the time it is used as comic effect (either an accidental kiss, mistaken identity or the girl pursuing is just thatrically gay (Kosame from Girl’s Bravo springs instantly to mind)). If there is subtext then it becomes an Expected Yuri Scene (6b), which requires a degree of storyline buildup and maybe even repeat performances (e.g. Shizuma/Nagisa in Strawberry Panic) o Typical Scene (acted out by the incorrigible Kagami and Konata) EXT Street DAY. KAGAMI, KONATA, TSUKASA and MIYUKI are walking to school talking about whatever random stuff they talk about every episode. KONATA has :3 face. Just thought I’d mention that. KONATA: Saa, Kagami. What’s the difference between a “Deep Kiss” and a normal kiss? KAGAMI: (goes red) - I don’t know! Why should I know? Ask Miyuki! MIYUKI: A “Deep kiss” is also known as a “French kiss” in Europe and originally came from…*blahblahblah* *4 hours later* …and that’s why they all smell of garlic. The girls laugh Ko: So…a normal kiss would be like this? KONATA glomps KAGAMI and there is kissage. KAGAMI’s eyes go wide as saucers and she tries to push KONATA away, but KONATA has STRENGTH 19. They separate and KAGAMI gasps for breath. Ko: …and a deep kiss would be like this? KONATA glomps KAGAMI and they fall to the floor. The camera stays on TSUKASA (who is waving a little banner which says “Ganbatte Onee-chan”) and MIYUKI who is saying “Ara ara” a lot and adjusting her glasses. We see KAGAMI’s arm reaching up as if grasping for something. Ka: Someone…help…me…

• 7. Incidental Wardrobe displacement (IWD)

o Description: THere’s a whole host of scenes that would come under this category - Most typically it refers to an accident in which somehow a piece of the victim girl’s clothing gets tangled up in something or other causing a wardrobe malfunction and nosebleeding all round. In special cases it also refers to fights in which exchange of blows leads to clothing ripping/exploding and fanservice exposure. o Example: Ikkitousen again for the exploding clothes, but for simple clothes pulling, the last scene in the final volume of Love Hina is probably the best example of its type. o Extra points for: Sexy underwear underneath (Most notably Negima!) or nothing underneath (do this with yukatas ^_^). One of the people nosebleeding out of shot must be female (I rule it must be so!) o Things to remember: Character type is very important in determining how this scene progresses. Tsunderekko will probably resort to violence or extreme embarassment, whereas MOre mature types (e.g. motherly Ojou (Type 5b)) will probably not be too bothered by the nudity and it will be up to the protagonist’s reaction to provide the comedy (or other characters that may be around). o Typical Scene: acted out by Haruhi, Mikuru and Yuki INT SOS-dan clubroom DAY. MIKURU is in her maid’s outfit serving tea. YUKI is sitting in her usual chair reading “A complete guide to Brassicas”. HARUHI is pondering WORLD DOMINATION. KYON is nowhere to be seen, because he has conveniently disappeared. MIKURU: Hai, Suzumiya-san, here’s your teee-~ahhh! MIKURU falls over comically, dropping the tray. To break her fall she grabs out at HARUHI and somehow manages to pull down her skirt. HARUHI is wearing SOS-dan print panties. MIKURU looks upwards and suddenly rivals rhubarb. YUKI catches the cup out of midair and takes a sip. Because she’s awesome. HARUHI: Mou, Mikuru-chan what are you doing?? Prepare to be punished!! M: (still averting her eyes) Please pull your skirt back up Suzumiya-san! H: Time for your punishment, Mikuru-chan! HARUHI glomps MIKURU and pulls her maid uniform down. MIKURU wails and tries to run away, but HARUHI rugby tackles her to the floor. The camera stays on YUKI as clothes fly into shot. MIKURU’s panties land on her head. YUKI turns to the next page. M: No! Suzumiya-san, not there! H: Yuki, get over here and hold her down! YUKI turns round and the panties drop off her head. She gets up. YUKI: Hai. M: Nooooo… Kyon-kun! Help meeeee~

• 8. “Quick, Hide me!” (somewhere that smells of fish) (QHm!)

o Description: Two characters are doing something innocent (e.g. studying, playing cards, watching hentai) but suddenly, someone knocks on the door and the girl realises that the last thing that she needs is to be found with this guy. Therefore, logically the only thing to do would be to hide him. Under the table. In her panties. o Example: Negima manga shower scene (vol 4 or 5). Many many kotatsu scenes. I can’t seem to recall any specific one at the moment. o For extra points: Rubbing of nose against panties and eliciting of a surprised sound from said girl and a whispered “Ecchi! Shinai de!” o Things to remember: Only really effective once per storyline, since the scene itself is fairly invariant (usually involves a kotatsu). However, there are variations and it is possible to use it more than once if some imagination is put into scene setting (e.g. the above Negima shower scene). Comments on the smell generally do not score points with the ladies ^_^. o Typical scene acted out by Natsuki and Nao INT NATSUKI’s room, EVENING. NATSUKI and NAO are getting friendly around a kotatsu. NATSUKI: Nao, we shouldn’t…Shizuru is due back any minute and she can’t catch you in here! NAO: Oh you’re so uptight! She said she was still in Aries and hour ago, right? It takes at least 4 housr to fly back so… There is a commotion outside the door. The two girls sit bolt upright. There is a knock. Nat: Nao, get under the table! It’s Shizuru! NAO gets shoved unceremoniously under the table. Somehow she ends up somewhere that smells faintly of fish, though it is dark and she can’t quite place where. The door opens and SHIZURU enters. Nat: S..Shizuru! I wasn’t expecting you back so fast! SHIZURU: Oh, I flew back in double time just so I could see my beautiful Natsuki again! (She flounces over and embraces NATSUKI. She tenses and squashes NAO under the table.) Nao: (sotto) Ugh. Smells like fish… S: Did you hear something just now? Nat: (laughing a little too hard) No! No..nothing! Must have been the guards outside! S: (suspicious) You haven’t been cheating on me again Natsuki? Nat: (suddenly serious) O…of course not! Why would I ever do that? SHIZURU smiles and embraces NATSUKI warmly S: I know you wouldn’t, my wonderful Natsuki. SHIZURU leans in and NATSUKI closes her eyes. Suddenly, SHIZURU whips back the cloth on the kotatsu. Underneath is an unconscious NAO with her head lodged firmly between NATSUKI’s thighs. N: I…I…I can explain! She…she was… SHIZURU’s glaive appears. There is a red glint in her eye. S: DIVINE PUNISHMENT!!!

• 9. Suspiciously Sensual Spillage. (S3)

o Description: Something, usually opaque and white gets “accidentaly” spilled all over someone. Usually accompanied by a doe eyed head shot and a “Onii-chan…it’s all over me” or something to that effect. Also covers wet T-shirt fanservice. o Example: Sumomomo Momomo Episode — with the icecream spillage. Loliyuri icecream. Lolikit would be proud ^_^ o Extra points for: Loli or pseudololi (Older than She Seems) always makes it more moe (and paedolicious). Can also be used to get a quick cleavage shot in to cement the deal. For 1 MILLION POINTS have one of the other girls lick it off her in a suggestive manner. And then yurirapage. o Things to remember: None I can think of. o Typical scene acted out by: Yaya and Tsubomi EXT Ichigo-sha gardens, DAY. It is a lovely sunny day. YAYA and TSUBOMI are enjoyinga leisurely walk in the park with ice cream. Unbeknownst to her, TSUBOMI has taken it to herself to seduce YAYA with her WOMANLY CHARMS. TSUBOMI: It’s a lovely day, isn’t it Onee-sama? YAYA: (thinking about Hikari): Mm. TSUBOMI trips rather too well and spills the melted ice cream all down her face and front. T: Aaaa. I spilt it all over my face! Y: (hands her a tissue) Clean yourself up, Tsubomi-chan T: (reiterating) I said, AAH I GOT IT ALL OVER MY FACE! Y: What are you doing, Tsubomi-chan? T: (snatches tissue) Mou, why aren’t you hiding a nosebleed like everyone else I’ve tried this out on? Y: I’m sorry to say this, Tsubomi, but I’m gay. Gay girls don’t really like that sort of thing. In fact, it’s rather repulsive. T: (runs off crying) BAKA ONEESAMA!! YAYA shrugs. o OK, maybe that wasn’t so typical ^_^

• 10. Unnecessary Cleavage enhancement

(UCE) o Description: Covers a whole range of devices, the main purpose of which is to enhance the cleavage of a partisular character for a cheap chest shot. (not necessarily one with disproportionately large breasts, though this is often the case). These include: leaning on the edge of something (e.g. a pool), trying on certain bras or costumes that are tight in the right places and cleavage enhancement using crossed arms, leaning forwards and perverted magic spells (Negima yet again) o Examples: For some reason, the pool scene in episode one of Umisho sprang instantly to mind, but almost every fanservice anime to date, really. o For Extra Points: My personal favourite is a rare scene in which there is a yuri-cosplay attak on another girl and the victim ends up in a rather revealing costume (which leads onto device #12 ^_^), the point of which is that it enances in the correct places. It is the embarassed “minai de hazukashii” expression that makes it win. Obviously “symmetrical docking” also means win, though it is also rare to see. Smothering of other girls’ heads in said chest is always hilarious. o Things to remember: Chest shots without cleavage are fairly useless, fanservicewise. The most poignant example I can think of is the continuing saga of Siesta’s chest in Zero no Tsukaima - Every episode we get a chest shot of her in her maid’s apron, and since that hides the useful contours, it can hardly even be considered fanservice. Kirche, on the otherhand, oozes it. o Typical scene acted out by the sensual Karura and innocent Touka INT KARURA’s room, EVENING. KARURA and TOUKA are drinking sake around the low table. Or rather, KARURA is drinking, TOUKA is drunk. They are having the usual drunken conversation involving two nuns, a transdimensional demon and a moose. KARURA: …and then the moose says - “Whoever heard of a chocolate nun?” TOUKA laughs so hard she falls over backwards. Her ears flop languidly over her eyes. TOUKA: (still lying) Haha.. you know I should never let you get me drunk, if an assassin came in here now I’d be useless. She tries to get up but loses her balance and flops back onto her back laughing. Camera shoots from TOUKA’s eye view. KARURA crawls into shot. Her robe is open and the bandage material she uses as a bra is loose. She leans over and TOUKA gets a look right down her prolific cleavage. TOUKA blushes and averts her eyes. K: Ara ara…see something you like? (she wiggles suggestively and turns TOUKA’s head gently back to its original position) T: Nnn..no of course not! Why would I… K: There’s no need to be shy now Touka-chan…aren’t we friends? Here… She shoves TOUKA’s face between her expansive love marshmallows. TOUKAs arms flail madly to no avail. T: (muffled) Crrrr’t Brrth! Suddenly her arms go limp. KARURA looks down. There is a trickle of blood running down her abdomen. She lets go and TOUKA slumps back onto the floor unconscious. She looks happy. KARURA looms. K: (sensuously) Shall I give you the kiss of life, Touka-chan? TOUKA’s eyes flit wide open to the sight of KARURA’s lips closing in like a love guided kissile. Her scream is quickly silenced.

• 11. Costume Related Epistaxis

(CRE) o Description: (Epistaxis means nosebleed, by the way - just thought I’d get in a tidbit of medicine while I could ^_^) Basically, fanservice related to costume. Usually (as detailed before), the scene involves the forced dressing of the victim by another girl (usually) and the subsequent costume being more revealing and therefore causing haemorrhage. Also covers characters randomly being in revealing costumes (Hatsuki in Tonagura being the one that springs to mind) and swimsuit and bikini scenes. o Example: Pretty much all of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu. Poor Mikuru-chan…Oh, and all of Cardcaptor Sakura, of course - how could I forget that classic… o For Extra Points: Can be combined with a lot of the above to give extra fanservice - for example Cleavage enhancement, Ecchi wind or interesting camera angles are all used to varying degrees to get the best out of costume scenes. o Things to remember: The more embarassed a girl is to be in said costume is exponentially proportional to the moe-factor of the scene overall. As is the revealingness of the uniform, of course. As a rule, no matter how perverted a costume seems to be, there must always be one girl who thinks it is cute. Because I say so. o Typical Scene acted out by the obvious - Sakura and Tomoyo INT SAKURA’s bedroom, NIGHT. SAKURA (18) is modelling the newest in the line of costumes a la TOMOYO which as usualy contains far too much lace, frills and unnecessary layers of material. TOMOYO is buzzing around with her digital SLR enthusiastically taking pictures. SAKURA (sweatdrops) I can’t believe you kept making me costumes after we finished collecting all the cards and everything, Tomoyo-chan. They’re so nostalgic! Some of these remind me of what I used to wear that time… TOMOYO pauses briefly and smiles sweetly at SAKURA. TOMOYO: Of course, I always dreamed of making more adult costumes for Sakura-chan. It’s always been my dream for my clothes to fit every part of your life. S: Ahh, that’s why you had already made me a black funeral dress for when Li-kun passed away when he was accidentally brutally hit by a twenty-tonne articulated lorry and then accidentally brutally stabbed in the head… TOMOYO’s eyes give nothing away. She smiles again T: Of course, Sakura-chan! Now come into the wardrobe, there are lots more costumes I want you to wear! There is a brief kerfuffle in the wardrobe. TOMOYO exts first followed by an embarassed SAKURA. She is covering her chest. The creation she is wearing is an underbust corset dress, definitely more adult, but definitely still Tomoyo with all the usual ribbons and frills. T (sighs) Wonderful, Sakura-chan…it looks great on you! S (crimson) Tomoyo-chan! There’s nothing covering my…you know! (she looks down and blushes deeper) and they look so…big… T (covering her nose with one hand)That’s how it’s meant to be, Sakura-chan…Now go back in and get changed. It’s the last one at the back on the left… SAKURA quickly ducks into the closet. S (VO): There’s nothing at the back on the left, Tomoyo-chan! T: It’s definitely there, Sakura-chan! S: There’s only this big red hair ribbon and some costume tape on a hangar… T: Yes, Sakura-chan, that is the costume! We hear SAKURA sweatdrop from inside the closet. TOMOYO plugs her nose with some tissue paper to stop the bleeding. • 12. Pseudoyuri bust comparison

(PBC) o Description: A distinct entity from the “Unexpected Yuri Scene” in its own right since it appears fairly often on its own without any actual yuri to go with it. This scene involves two girls, not necessarily friends, who for whatever reason decide to measure or compare bust size with the time honoured method of groping. The context is either “Damn you, you’re bigger than me, how the hell are they so big?” or “My my my, hasn’t your chest grown since last time I saw it - let’s give you a grope and see”. o Example: Haruhi Vs. Mikuru in SHnY and I believe that Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru has a scene in which the girls try out Mizuho’s fake chest…for the sake of hilarity. o For Extra Points: The victim enjoys it rather too much. The attacker enjoys it rather too much. o Things to remember: If there is already a yuri subtext between the two characters, it does add extra to this type of scene. However, this scene is mainly used for comic relief rather than advancing a yuri subplot (hence pseudoyuri). Having the entire cast line up to feel the victim up is always the height of comedy. o Typical Scene acted out by the insane Tsuruya and Mikuru INT Changing rooms, DAY. TSURUYA and MIKURU are getting changed opposite each other and the other girls are close by. MIKURU is having trouble doing up her bra. TSURUYA (laughing) Nya haha - Mikuru-chan, did you get bigger again? MIKURU blushes and looks away. MIKURU: Stop looking at them, Tsuruya-san, you’re making it worse! TSURUYA sneaks up to MIKURU and performs the Reverse Breast Grab. M: Aaahn!~ Don’t do that Tsuruya-san! It’s embarassing! T (groping) Ah hah, Mikuru-chan, I think you’re even bigger than last time I did this! M: But you just did that 5 minutes ago! T (pensive, but gripping) Hmm, maybe you’re right, Mikuru-chan! Suzumiya-san yahoo! Come over here! HARUHI: What? T: I’m not sure, but have Mikuru’s breasts gotten even bigger? H (rolling up imaginary sleeves and flexing her fingers) Maybe they have…Prepare yourself Mikuru-chan! There is double glomping. The other girls sidle over to watch, but noone tries to help Mikuru because, well, let’s face it, it’s fairly amusing. MIKURU looks around frantically and spots YUKI. M: Yuki-san! Please help me! YUKI walks calmly over and pins MIKURU’s arms behind her back. Y: Movement will impede accurate measurement. M: Auuuuuu!

Following on from the previous section on scenes, it is also important to know your settings in order that you know what fanservice devices will be available to you in each instance. For each animation it is important to choose a major setting in which most of the storyline will be based on (you can choose more than one if the action is to be split between two areas), and then any of the other settings can be used on an episode-by-episode basis.

For example, most fanservice (and indeed, most normal) anime is based in the school settings. This has many advantages, since it is easy to concoct reasons for people to meet each other and there are interactions between characters on a daily basis. Also, since the target audience is usually of school age, it is easier to empathise with the settings, characters and goings on.

Also, since the school is a multi-use institution, many of the other settings such as “changing rooms” and “swimming pool” are attached to the school by default and so storylines may naturally progress between these settings without any clumsy plot devices.

Other major settings include “town” in general (using school as a minor setting), or any other enclosed social space (e.g. spaceship/station, shop, company building, largish house, shrine or small alternative dimension) as this also shares the advantages of the school setting, but potential sterotypy is reduced. (Since “school” is by far the most popular major setting.)

Here I will not be trying to describe all of the possible settings for all scenes ever, but will first outline the possible major settings for the overall animation then go on to describe the specific settings that may give rise to fanservice and the types of fanservice that are usually encountered in such places.

General (Major) Settings

• 1. School

o Description: Any educational institution, including but not exclusive to - primary schools, middle schools, high schools, universities, magic schools, spaceship schools, sports academies, maiden training schools, all-girls yuri-schools and schools for the training of fatally-wounded-girls- turned-cyborg-assassins. o Exclusive subsettings: School trips, sports festivals, cultural festivals, nurse’s office, after school club-rooms, gym-equipment lockers. o Non-exclusive subsettings: Swimming pool, changing rooms, bedrooms (dormrooms), chapels, gardens, dojos, baths/showers. o Comments: Schools are an excellent setting since they boast several exclusive subsettings and many other linked places which can be used without story devices needing to get your characters from place to place. All of the fanservice devices can be used to varying degrees in the school setting. For example, school changing rooms are an excellent place for a Pseudoyuri Breast Comparison, whereas Just down the school path is a classic place for use of an Ecchi na Kaze. A good all rounder. • 2. House

o Description: A residence of any size, but usually large (e.g. a shrine or a rich person’s house), since it gives characters more room to move around and more scene possibilities. o Exclusive subsettings: Shared shower/bathroom. o Non-exclusive subsettings: Bedroom, garden. o Comments: Using a house as a major setting can be limiting in the long run as the number of characters that can live in a house is limited and the number of linked settings is also small. It is often the case that scenes are split between the House and another major setting (most usually school) in order to improve scene possibilities. The Exclusive fanservice scene that can be done in a house is an accidental walk-in on someone else in the shower (a variant on Accidental Changing Invasion) and the usual result of getting something heavy and sharp edged thrown at their face. For extra fanservice, please refer to the scene in Onegai Twins where Miina somehow ends up between Karen’s legs. Don’t ask me how…

• 3. Company Building

o Description: Since the protagonist works for a living, the anime centres around his/her workplace. Examples that spring to mind include transdimensional police agency and idol/actress management. o Exclusive subsettings: None o Non-exclusive subsettings: None (dependant on occupation) o Comments: Using workplace as a major setting is entirely dependant on the type of work that the main character does as to the available settings and possibilities. Taking the anime “Nurse Witch Komugi-chan” as an example, although the major setting is the agency, most of the scenes stem from her work as an idol and her various jobs such as waitressing, cosplay conventions, Comikets and film/TV; all of which have good fanservice device potential. Failing that, company buildings are often used as a minor setting for certain plot devices to take place.

• 4. Town/minor alternative dimension/space station etc.

o Description: A large, yet hypothetically enclosed social space in which things happen. Superior to school as a major setting, since all other settings can occur within it. o Exclusive subsettings: None o Non-Exclusive subsettings: All. o Comments: This is more of an uber setting in which all other settings can be accessed. The main action may occur in the streets (e.g. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha), yet there are scenes at school, around the shops etc. This also allows any kind of fanservice to occur since there are no limitations to the environment that characters find themselves in. Town based animations are the least formulaic and so need strong storylines to hold them together and stop the viewer getting lost. However, they also offer the most potential both for interesting fanservice and imaginative plotlines.

Specific settings

• 1. Bathhouse/Bathroom/Onsen

o Description: Any facility involving nude women, hot baths, copious quantities of steam and soap suds. o Common fanservice devices: Bathhouses and their ilk are ripe pickings for the fanservice animator, as girls are already naked! Common scene types include the Pseudoyuri Breast Comparison (+/-gropage), Unnecessary Cleavage enhancement, Unexpected Yuri Scene, Accidental Changing invasion and the Reverse Breast Grab. o Here is one example of an appropriate scene acted out by the irrepressible Nagisa and Tamao o INT Changing room, NIGHT. It’s the anteroom to Nagisa’s bathroom. Nagisa’s house is quite small, so her bathroom is as well. Tamao has been invited back for the holidays for the first time. We can see the thinly veiled haze of expectation in her eyes as she nonchalently doesn’t look at Nagisa changing in a looking-at-her-in-the-mirror kind of way. NAGISA: I’m sorry my bathroom’s so small, Tamao-chan. You don’t have to come in with me, you know, it’s a lot less spacious than the ones at school so it will be a bit cramped… TAMAO: No no no, Nagisa-chan, I absolutely must come in with you - I must scrub your back because otherwise Nagisa-chan’s alabaster skin won’t get the attention it requires (sotto) and I get to feel up your naked soapy body N: (innocently) Did you say something, Tamao-chan? T: Oho ho ho, Nagisa-chan, I think you must be hearing things…now in we go! TAMAO pushes NAGISA into the bathroom. It is very small. The bath seems barely enough room for one, let alone two and there is only one shower. TAMAO looks around, satisfied. T:This should do nicely. N: Nicely for what, Tamao-chan? T: Oh, nothing you need concern yourself with Nagisa-chan, now get washed up! TAMAO plonks NAGISA down onto one of the stools and humming, begins washing her all over. She seems to place particular attention to Under NAGISA’s bust and her hand sometimes snakes southwards but staying north of the yurirape-line. Because we all know TAMAO would never yurirape Nagisa, don’t we? NAGISA is now in the bath. TAMAO approaches, sultrily. T: May I come in as well, Nagisa-chan? N: I’m not sure if you’ll fit, Tamao-chan! T: Now now, I’m sure we can sort something out! There is a lot of splashing and awkward contortionism worthy of some kind of soap based lost Indian art form. TAMAO finally manages to squeeze into the bath behind NAGISA. T: Now that wasn’t so bad, was it? N: Tamao-chan, your hands are…No, Tamao-chan, I’ve told you already I don’t like you touching me there! T: That’s because you didn’t give me a chance last time! Now I’ve got you where I want you I’ll show you whatever Shizuma-sama can do, I can do ten times better! Prepare yourself, Nagisa- chan! N: Nooooooooooo! Hijinks Ensue.

• 2. Beach

o Description: Sun, Sea, Sand, Bikinis, Water fights, Melons (in both senses of the word), Ramen, Romance - the list goes on…The beach is a great place for some fanservice, though entire beach episodes can be made without any real fanservice at all. o Common fanservice devices: Unnecessary Cleavage Enhancement, Reverse Breast Grab, Costume related Epistaxis, Accidental Changing invasion and Incidental Wardrobe displacement (of bikini by a particularly big wave). Again, the lack of clothing naturally lends itself to service… o Here is a sample scene, acted out by the anthropomorphtastic Fate and Arf. o EXT Beach DAY. The sun is shining, the birds are singing… Ah, I think you get the picture. It’s a lovely sunny day at a secluded beach on a planet somewhere. ARF (Buxom wench version) is waiting impatiently at the changing room door for FATE to finish changing. She is wearing some kind of stringy contraption more commonly seen on shoes rather than controlling a world class bosom. ARF: Come on Fei-to, what’s taking you so long? FATE (VO): Ah..erm, Arf, I think you brought the wrong swimsuit for me… A: (perhaps not too innocently) Really? What’s wrong with it? F (VO): I…I think you brought the one I was wearing in middle school instead. A: I can’t have done that…Come out here so I can see you! FATE exits, sheepishly. She is wearing a school issue swimsuit with “Fate” written on it. It is now obviously far too small and she tugs at it, embarassedly as it stretches impossibly over her burgeoning chest. ARF snorts steam and holds back a nosebleed. F: See? A: (wiping her nose) Oh dear! I guess you’ll have to live with it for now, let’s go, let’s go! ARF pushes FATE towards the sea rather too hurriedly. FATE’s chest bounces like a kangaroo on honeymoon. As soon as they touch the water a huge wave crashes over them and knocks ARF back. When the wave clears, FATE has acheived FULL-FRONTAL. F: Iyaaaaaa!!!! A: Feitooooo~~ There is a glomping sound. The waves turn a rather fetching shade of pink.

• 3. Nurse’s office

o Description: Ah, the nurses office - not somewhere most people remember as the place of romance in school, but only in anime can perverted things happen within…Usually due to the existence of hawt nurses and the strange Japanese practice of allowing the students to sleep in the room if they feel tired. Wherever there are beds there is romance, I always say. o Common fanservice Devices: Accidental Changing Invasion, Unexpected Yuri Scene. o This time our Yuri scene is acted out by our top Yuri-cruiters Yaya and Hikari with extras! o INT Spica DAY. HIKARI is showing round NEW STUDENT #1. NEW STUDENT #1 is a rather buxom lass for her age because she suffers from a childhood illness that…makes her breasts grow…yes. We catch HIKARI making envious glances at her bustline as she jabbers away nonsensically about the school history and various other small talk while NEW STUDENT #1 nods enthusiastically HIKARI: I’m really glad you decided to choose Spica over the other two schools here on Astraea, New Student 1-chan…As you know we share the same dorms, but you’ll find each school runs things a little differently. Here at Spica we like to take you round and give you a taste of what’s expected of you in your time here as a first year. NS#1: Mm! Thank you for showing me round senpai! H: Now first on our tour is the nurse’s office. Here in Spica it serves many purposes… The door slides open and we hear scuffling inside and the odd muffled shriek. NS#1 is gently pushed inside NS#1: What’s going on in here to make all this noise, Hikari-sempai? NS#1 pulls the curtain back to reveal a half naked NS#2 pinned to the bed by YAYA-IN-HEAT. Clothes lie in haphazard piles around the bed. H: (pouting) Yaya-chan! You started without me! YAYA-IN-HEAT:I couldn’t help it! she’s just so yummy! NS#2: (spots NS#1) New Student 1-chan! Please…help me! NS#1: (confused) Ehh? Y-I-H: Come on Hikari, we don’t have all day, I left Tsubomi tied up at the dorms almost two hours ago and you know how tetchy she gets when her legs cramp up… NS#1: (still confused) Ehhh?? NS#1 spins round as the door slams shut behind her only to be greeted by HIKARI-IN-HEAT HIKARI-IN-HEAT: So…shall we begin? NS#1: (very very very confused) EHHHHH??????? HIJINKS ENSUE

• 4. Changing Rooms

o Description: Changing rooms - the little island of privacy in the bustling world of public life. Whether in school waiting to go out to sports lessons or in a clothes shop trying on underwear or swimsuits, again it is a thinly veiled device for getting the clothes off of our lovely characters and then getting them into compromising situations! o Common Fanservice Devices: Accidental Changing Invasion, Pseudoyuri breast comparison, Grounds Eye view (Interesting camera angle), Costume related Epistaxis. o Here our scene is acted out by the rather ill-matched Ers and Nina: o INT Changing rooms DAY. ERS and NINA are getting changed for PE. Both are in their underwear, as is the point where most changing rooms join in ^_^. ERS can’t help but notice that NINA keeps stealing glances at her ginooo~rmous knockers. ERS: Is there something wrong, Nina-chan? NINA: (suddenly flustered) N nnn no! Nothing! E: (purposely clueless) But why do you keep looking over here? Is there something on my face? N: (mumbles something that sounds like “bruge hests”) ERS starts to walk over to NINA. Her breasts bounce in the way that only fictional breasts bounce - i.e. with sound effects. E: What was that, Nina-chan? No need to be shy N: (still mumbling) I…was wondering how…they got so big. (suddenly shouting) It’s anatomically impossible! All the other girls turn round to look at them and start to giggle. NINA hides her face in the locker. E: Would you like to see? NINA spins round so fast that she leaves burn marks on the floor. ERS has shed the girder like contraption that she must wear in place of a normal bra. NINA fights back the need to explode. E: Not like that, silly, take a closer look! ERS embraces NINA’s head into her ample bosom with a satisfying “pyoing” sound effect. After a few seconds, NINA comes up for air and sniffling back an impending nosebleed N: Soft…like marshmallows… E: Iyaan~ Nina-chan you’re so cute! GLOMPING FADE TO BLACK

• 5. Swimming Pool

o Description: Just like a beach trip in Nazi Germany. Only more fun and with sexier costumes. Honestly, the person who invented the Japanese sukumizu is definitely someone to be praised. Whoever thought that girls would need a hole in the front of the costume between the top and bottom parts is beyond me…Also, all praise names on front of swimsuits! o Common Fanservice Devices: Reverse Breast Grab, Unnecessary Cleavage Enhancement. o Swimming pools are the prime hunting ground for Eri and Yakumo: o EXT Pool DAY. It’s a bright sunny day and ERI and YAKUMO are having a swim. The others are playing close by. YAKUMO notices ERI eyeing her viciously with a scowl YAKUMO: (softly) What are you looking at, sempai? ERI: (swearing) Kusoh! What does that lug see in you anyway? If its breasts or legs I definitely win over you! I mean, look at these! ERI momentarily pulls her swimsuit down to widespread applause and blood loss from her fans. YAKUMO blushes the colour of autumn sunsets. Y: (softly) S…sempai ERI marches up to YAKUMO, well, marches as much as you can when you’re wading waist deep in water. YAKUMO shrinks back E: So the difference must be….here! ERI suddenly lunges and pulls down the bottom half of YAKUMO’s swimsuit, which is unfortunately blocked by the water level. ERI looks taken aback. E: B..b..Brazilian… YAKUMO smiles shyly. Y: (softly) It’s all for you, sempai… YAKUMO guides ERI’s hand back down southwards. ERI is the one who looks rather in shock now. Her hand shakes slightly as it ventures further into pastures unknown. E: W..what are you doing? W….w..what’s this? Some kind of ring? Y: Aahhhn! Eri-sempai saikou! E: (still confused as heck) W..w..what just happened? TENMA wanders over to the semi-embracing pair but can’t quite see what’s going on cause she can only see YAKUMO’s back. TENMA: We’re getting out ahead, OK Yakumo? Y: (suddenly her shy self again) OK, Oneechan, see you later. TENMA and the others leave. ERI has recovered a little now and is blushing furiously since YAKUMO won’t let her recover her hand from her nether regions. Her face has past confusion and now is somewhere between fear and abject terror. YAKUMO leans past her and whispers into her ear. Y: (Mamiko-like) Now let me do you next.

• 6. Bedroom

o Description: There’s a bed. It’s awkward because there’s two people alone with a bed. Hijinks ensue. There’s also a kotatsu - ah, the hilarity that may then happen! o Common Fanservice Devices: Quick Hide me! (somewhere that smells of fish). Accidental Perverted Fall, Accidental Changing Invasion, Unexpected Yuri scene, Suspiciously sensual spillage etc. etc. o Of all the bedrooms we could have gone and spied on, we chose Hazumu’s; and who would happen along but Tomari-chan… o INT Hazumu’s bedroom, NIGHT. It is the last few days in the Manga storyline before Hazumu is forced to choose between them or disappear. TOMARI is waiting, nervously at the kotatsu for HAZUMU to return with refreshments. Just then, HAZUMU appears at the door with tea and snacks. HAZUMU: Sorry to keep you waiting, Tomari-chan She puts the tray down and sits across the table from TOMARI. There is an awkward silence. TOMARI: (sim) Hazumu… HAZUMU: (sim) Tomari… They laugh a little and some of the tension begins to ease. H: You first, Tomari-chan. T: (gathering her wits) Hazumu…I know you would never dream of choosing between us, but I just wanted tonight…alone with you so we could make a memory. Together… She bursts into fits of tears. HAZUMU moves across to comfort her. H: There there, Tomari-chan T: (sobbing) D..d..d.on’t go, H..h.hazumu! HAZUMU doesn’t say anything but ruffles her hand through TOMARI’s hair sadly. T: Would you…(mumbles) kiss… HAZUMU looks down at TOMARI’s determined face and fast approaching lips and closes her eyes. CAMERA refocuses outside the window at the silhouette of the two sharing a chaste yet passionate kiss full of emotion and pent up frustration. They break apart finally, though TOMARI’s arms are still around HAZUMU’s neck. Gently TOMARI pushes her down onto a conveniently placed pillow. HAZUMU is breathing heavily. H: Tomari-chan…what are you doing? T: (shyly) Just showing you what it would be like if you picked me… HAZUMU closes her eyes again as TOMARI closes in and their lips brush for a fraction of a second. HAZUMU breathes out deeply. H: (breathes) Tomari-chan…I… There is a clicking sound. HAZUMU’s eyes abruptly fly open. H: Tomari-chan? What are you doing? What’s with these…handcuffs??? TOMARI is towering over HAZUMU with an evil glint in her eye. In the corner, HAZUMU can see YASUNA waving coyly from behind what looks suspiciously like TOMOYO’s VIDEO RECORDER. She blanches. T: Yasuna-chan and I agreed that there was only one fair way to decide between us… H: W..what do you mean? YASUNA: Kurusu-san and I will take it in turns and the one whose name you call out the most wins! H: B…but Yasuna-chan! I’ve never… T: (already positioning herself) It’s going to be a long night Hazumu, prepare yourself! H: T…t..Tomari-chan? CUT TO Outside the house - a small silhouette on the only lit window. H (VO): TOMARI-CHAN!!!!!!!

This section focuses on all the different types of panties that you will have to choose from. Panty choice is very important, since in a fanservice anime, the viewers will be seeing a lot of them and it is important that not only should they be nice to look at, but they should also fit with the character’s personality may even reveal a new side to a girl who seems the opposite. (c.f. Yue Ayase - Negima, Natsuki Kuga - Mai HiME)

1. Plain/white

The most common type of panty, plain white panties are the mainstay of most girls in schools from elementary right through til the end of high school. All in all, I would say that they are overrepresented in panty shots, since I would guess that Japanese girls, like other girls around the world, would start to buy more “interesting” panties once they reached high school and wouldnt rely on parent bought cheap multipack fare.

However, since they are overrepresented, it is clear that there is an advantage or tradition in having plain white pantyshots. The first would be simply that they are easy to draw and require no thought or imagination in their creation. The other obvious advantage is that they confer a degree of innocence on the girl that wears them, or at least an appearance of dependance on parents. A high school girl still wearing plain white panties would suggest that she hasn’t yet begun to think of herself as attractive to the opposite sex, or that she isn’t too bothered about relationships. In a yuri relationship, however, white panties are often used since they reflect the pureness of the coupling and the lack of male pen0rs.

2. Fancy/White

A variation on a theme really, fancy/white panties describe white panties that are not of the typical multipack bow on front type but of a more adult disposition. Things like lace frills and embroidery can lend a similar innocence bonus as with white panties, but also dissolve the illusion that the girl in question is not out to impress. Again, often used in yuri relationships since white reflects the colour of lilies.

3. Coloured

Coloured panties refer to plain panties that are of a colour other than white. Popular colours are usually of the pastel disposition (pink, green, blue). Though you may think that this would give the girl a more adult feel, coloured plain panties still give off a multipack vibe (they don’t just come in white, you know!) and so still confer a schoolgirl attribute to the wearer. However, it does give the viewer a bit of variety and in a multi-panty shot (such as in an Ecchi na Kaze moment), variety is of the essence, especially when trying to tell girls apart in a crowd! Other than that, coloured panties don’t give the impression of any particular character types. A popular device is to match panty colour with the girl’s hair colour for extra matchability.

4. Striped

Otherwise known as shima-pantsu, stripes have their own following on image boards and amongst fans. Striped panties fit very much into the high school girl niche in that they are different to the plain types, but do not confer any extra sensuality to the character - i.e. she is not out to try and impress with her underwear. Striped panties are often worn by genki/baka type girls as well as tsunderes and certain types of normal girls. They are usually not worn by quiet or ojou types and almost never by vamps since they lack smouldering sex appeal. They are always good to see though..

5. Cute motif (e.g. strawberry)

Cute motifs definitely place a girl in the elementary school column. In some ways, you might say that motif panties come before plain/white panties in acquisition across an anime schoolgirl’s lifetime. Finding a cute motif panty on an older girl suggests that either she doesn’t have enough money to buy new panties (Asuna Kagurazaka - Negima!), she has never really “grown up” (Saori Shikijo - Mahoromatic) that she is trying for “loli appeal” (only if she also has a loli body type compatible with this, obviously!) or that she has an unconditional fetish for cute things (Sakaki - AzuDai). Comon motifs include strawberry print, cats and bears.

6. Lacy

Now we start to get to the real nitty gritty. Lacy panties are the start of the types of panties that are worn with either the intention to impress or because the wearer really has some kind of sexy lingerie fetish (Yue Ayase, I’m talking about you!) Lacy panties do not intrinsically raise the sex appeal very much on their own, but are often linked with a matching bra and/or accessories such as suspenders, basque, stockings and corset. Wearing just lace panties implies that the girl likes to wear something attractive, but is not perhaps mature enough to require/be able to pull off the ensemble; whereas wearing all the accessories and matching underwear is generally the domain of the older woman Ojou types who have the bustline and sultry mannerisms to pull it off. Use liberally, but with caution in mind.

7. Lowleg

Something I am not aware exists outside of anime, lowleg panties are normal or string panties that sit below the hip. Somehow, their construction grants them the ability to defy gravity and they hang there, Wile E. Coyote like, mid thigh, without slipping and causing wardrobe malfunction (unless you wish it, of course). The obvious advantage to using lowleg panties is that you reveal more of the girl’s groin area with the effect that viewers will begin to start to imagine what lies beneath. More often used with smaller girls since on taller girls this just looks obscene. Best combined with a short skirt and zettai ryouki for maximum moe effect. Don’t feature commonly in anime but fairly frequently in artwork.

8. String

String (G-string, thong) panties are the mainstay of most normal girls in the real world around the mid to late teens to later in life, but are generally underrepresented in anime. String panties in anime actually raise the sex appeal of the character significantly (partly because they are so rare, and partly because, well, they’re sex in real life, so they are super sexy in anime (going by the general rule)) and somehow gives the impression that the girl may look innocent on the surface, but underneath is a boiling cauldron of repressed sexual frustration ready to leap out and smother the nearest girl. Did I say girl? I meant person!

9. Bloomers/cycle shorts

Although sexy worn with PE kit or on the outside, sporting bottoms are generally not very sexy when seen in your average run-of-the-mill panty shot, purely because there are no panties to be seen. However, both have the advantage that they are very flush to the skin, and so extra appeal can be gained from flashes of camel-toe - and anyway, there are a lot of people out there that like this kind of thing…

10. None

The not wearing of panties (or no-pan) goes back a long way in Japanese culture. Before they were banned there used to exist “No-pan-kissa” (Short for No-pantsu kissaten or no panty cafe) in which the waitresses all wore no panties and short skirts and the floor was tactfully mirrored. Ah, those were the days, eh? Anyway, no- pan is not usually the underwear that a girl chooses, usually the state in which she finds herself in (unless you’re playing an H-game, of course). No-pan shots are great devices for chaep embarassment scenes or generally increasing a character’s sex appeal, though due to their risque nature they are rarely used outside the realm of hentai (Natsuki Kuga, here’s looking at you kid).

| Approximate anime breast sizes expressed in terms of real life cup sizes (visual appraisal only)

Breast Sizes

Breast size, as most people would imagine, is very important in a fanservice animation. As Konata says in Lucky Star, flat cheasts also have appeal and there are fans for every level of breast size. However, size of breast can define a character and imbue certain character traits. For example, an Ojou with large breasts will tend to either be mothering or gloating whereas tsunderes will tend to have much more modest bust size. More generously endowed girls are also often the object of the flat-chested girls’ jealousy although without a “gloating” trait, they are generally clueless as to why this should be.

The most important aspect of breast size is that, like most things in anime, it is exaggerated with respect to real life cup sizes. Since animations are set in Japan, the average cup size is smaller than most other countries (due to the oriental trait - though reports say that this trend is reversing!). The sizes of chest that you commonly see in anime are therefore exaggerations of actual cup sizes. For example, a C cup in anime would look much larger than a real life C-cup. In this section I go through the different categories that you might like to use and character types that they generally occur with. I have also included conversions. The first, “Real life to anime” is the cup size that is usually quoted as being the character’s. “Anime to real life” gives the approximate range of cup sizes that the character’s chest would correspond to in real life, purely on body to breast proportion.

For those that may be less experienced in these matters (such as myself), I would like to have a short expose on bra sizes. Bra sizes are notoriously different between countries and even manufacturers. The breast size itself is expressed as a letter (cup size), the accompanying number (e.g. 32C) having little bearing on the size of the breast (actually the measurement under the breast). Cup sizes range from AA to Z (provisionally), with single letters referring to 1 inch differences and double letters half inch differences. The largest acheived cup size on human record is XXX (equivalent to Y). The US system starts from AA and contains DD and DDD/E, whereas the UK just use DD.

The result of this is that cup sizes are equivalent up to D before the EU and Japan go one letter in front. In other words, a 30A US/UK = 65A EU/JAP but a 30F US/UK = 65G EU/JAP. Confused? I still am…Prepare yourself!

Loli/Board-flat

• Real life to anime conversion - No bra • Anime to real life conversion - No bra

The domain of true lolis, loli chests are only really applicable to girls who are young enough that their breasts have not developed yet or that are so flat chested that they do not really need to wear a bra. Typical for characters with a loli type personality, and uncommon elsewhere, loli chests are appealing for lolipedofins but otherwise are purely there to enhance the loli personality moe effect. Most effective in sukumizu or school swimsuits

Small/Hinyuu

• Real Life to anime conversion - AA to A • Anime to real life conversion - AA to A

The chest size advocated by Konata Izumi (of Lucky Star fame), small breasted girls have appeal too! Often referred to as “flat-chested”, it is popular to use this feature to give a character a loli appearance, even though their personality may clash with this. Works best with smaller girls, though there are examples of cuteness enhancement when taller girls have breast size-complexes (Minami Iwasaki - Lucky Star). The most common breast size for Genki/Baka girls, strong willed and quiet girls of any type (e.g. Yuki Nagato, Nodoka Miyazaki).

Average/Funyuu

• Real Life to anime conversion - B to D • Anime to real life conversion - B to E US/UK, B to F Jap

As I stated before, the average cup size for anime is probably slightly above the actual average cup size for the Japanese population. Obviously, this should be the case, since the trend of exaggerated features in the art style lends itself to the exaggeration of the feminine traits as well! Also, since it increases the sex-appeal of the characters it would be a wise move in a genre rife with fanservice. Average busts are usually seen on most normal type characters, reserved type Ojou girls and tsunderekkos (though they can also be more flat chested). Girls are imbued with no extra sex appeal, though fanservice devices such as Unnecessary Cleavage Enhancement work a lot better than on hinyuu girls. Work well in bikinis and meido-fuku. Large/Kyonyuu

• Real Life to anime conversion - DD to F US/UK, E to G EU/Jap • Anime to real life conversion - F to K US/UK, G to L EU/Jap

Kyonyuu refers to breasts that are on the upper end of the natural scale (i.e. acheivable without artificial enhancement). Kyonyuu characters are inevitably associated with sex-appeal and are usually portrayed as having more mature personalities such as an “Ara-ara” type Ojou or an older Vamp type, with the obvious logic that older women with sex appeal must have huge mammaries. They are often used to smother protagonists in their cleavage or to produce comic asphyxiation. Other uses are to taunt the main female lead in the fact that her offerings are titchy small in comparison and therefore drive comically jealous rage (c.f. Mahoromatic). On the other hand, though Kyonyuu girls seemingly embody sex-appeal, it is very rare that they win the protagonist’s heart in the end - it is usually the funyuu girls who have the best chances.

Very large/Bakunyuu

• Real Life to anime conversion - G to L US/UK, H to M EU/Jap • Anime to real life conversion - L to S US/UK, M to T EU/Jap

Bakunyuu (explosive breasts) are chests that are impossible (well, improbable) to attain naturally and would normally be acheived via augmentation surgery. The same rules apply to Bakunyuu as to Kyonyuu - usually they are used to give extra sex appeal to a girl normally of Ojou or Vamp type. There are exceptions to the rule, of course - take Nina from Tonagura, for example, who would probably fall into the Kyonyuu category at least. Bakunyuu breasts are more commonly used in hentai where they allow such fetishes as bonyuu (lactation) and paizuri. It tends to be that at the larger end of the scale of size, the exaggeration factor increases exponentially. (i.e. the difference between anime and real life C cup is much much smaller than the difference between G- cups) This is probably due to artist inexperience and the fact that they are mostly male and clueless about this kind of thing (though I would say that at the higher end of the scale, proportions are much more difficult to imagine). Bakunyuu sized breasts are often at the latter end of the alphabet though artists may quote a more modest cup size.

Impossibly large/Chunyuu

• Real Life to Anime conversion - M upwards US/UK, N upwards EU/Jap • Anime to real life conversion - T upwards US/UK, U upwards EU/Jap

Chunyuu refers to breasts that are larger than is usually possible with a single augmentation operation - therefore either “impossibly large” or “stupidly large” and are the sole domain of hentai only. In fact, they have their own fetish - BE (Breast expansion) referring to smaller breasts that somehow expand to unrealistic proportions. In real life they are equivalent to the few dotty women that have had several operations to bring them down to the end of the alphabet (e.g. Chelsea Charms - current holder of the World record), but obviously in hentai they can become much larger since they are not constrained by silly rules such as anatomy, gravity and/or back pain. It goes without saying, of course, that all breasts in anime are natural, yet pert and squashy. Best viewed in impossibly supportive corsets or improbably small bikinis (probably made from steel cable)