Female characters in action scene= fan service?

Kyanbu The Legend · 11-03-2009, 05:44 AM

Hopefully the title didn't freak you out. I made this tread to talk about how hard it is to include female characters in fights scenes similar to bleach and DBZ and still keep a PG-13 rating. To me it's impossible, as a female character can not have an intense fight scene without it turning into strip show. (probably why most of the female fights in bleach seem tamed unless poison is involved). Grant it some shows are able to pull this off with going to far namely the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series (which uses energy barriers while still keeping it's gundam/DBZ like battles) and of course Bleach.

Maybe it can be pulled off as long as they only use guns/lasers. But anything like a sword would lead to the fight going one of 2 ways.

1. Character with sword only lands blows that impale the target while all slash like attacks will get blocked or dodged.

or

2. Random Male character(s) shows up and take(s) over the fight.

Why am I even bothering to try and start a discussion about this? Because I find it funny how the Male characters get cut and riped up to hell in battle with there armor in shreds while the females seem to only get brushes with a few stab wounds.

Meh maybe I'm make to big a deal about it. What do you guys think?

11-03-2009, 05:44 AM	#1
Kyanbu The Legend Local Rookie Indie Dev Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New Jersey Posts: 5,497	Female characters in action scene= fan service? Hopefully the title didn't freak you out. I made this tread to talk about how hard it is to include female characters in fights scenes similar to bleach and DBZ and still keep a PG-13 rating. To me it's impossible, as a female character can not have an intense fight scene without it turning into strip show. (probably why most of the female fights in bleach seem tamed unless poison is involved). Grant it some shows are able to pull this off with going to far namely the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series (which uses energy barriers while still keeping it's gundam/DBZ like battles) and of course Bleach. Maybe it can be pulled off as long as they only use guns/lasers. But anything like a sword would lead to the fight going one of 2 ways. 1. Character with sword only lands blows that impale the target while all slash like attacks will get blocked or dodged. or 2. Random Male character(s) shows up and take(s) over the fight. Why am I even bothering to try and start a discussion about this? Because I find it funny how the Male characters get cut and riped up to hell in battle with there armor in shreds while the females seem to only get brushes with a few stab wounds. Meh maybe I'm make to big a deal about it. What do you guys think? __________________