Because, as we all know, All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles.
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A–D
- If you're aware of Albegas, it's either for two reasons: 1) you're curious to see what would have happened if it made it to the final cut of Voltron or 2) you want to see breasts getting groped.
- Outside of the Black Butler fandom, the series is often known for the corset scene and the scene where Ciel was Disguised in Drag. That dress is his Iconic Outfit despite being only worn once.
E–M
- Most dismiss Franken Fran as some weird medical fetish manga, judging by the covers. Nevermind the horrific versions of each cover on literally the next page or the fact it's actually a horror-fueled Black Comedy.
- The only things most people seem to remember about Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet are the scene where Amy dances for Ledo in a skimpy outfit and the Beach Episode, despite the fact that the rest of the series has about as much fanservice as a Disney movie.
- Flint the Time Detective is a pretty harmless series about a cave boy who travels through time to find creatures known as Time Shifters. In Episode 21, Flint and his friends travel back to ancient Greece to find a shifter who grants superhuman strength to whoever he touches. During the episode, the Shifter comes into contact with one of Flint's companions, which causes her to become giant. What more, after suffering Clothing Damage, she's given a fitting playboy costume to wear for the rest of the episode. This episode is perhaps the most well known one in the series, and is likely what has kept it from being forgotten.
- Gantz is about a group of people about to die that are cloned by a spherical machine and forced to hunt aliens whom live secretely on earth in return for their "new lives", being full of moments of thriller and drama because of that. However, most people likely know it for two reasons: first, the extreme violence and gore; second and last, the large amounts of nudity and sex. The fact that the manga also features random and almost naked women in its chapters covers doesn't help.
- Gunbuster: Gunbuster is Hideaki Anno's first directorial work. While it's a decent precursor to Evangelion, sharing many of the same themes of PTSD and alienation from others, the OVA series is mostly known for having multiple gratuitous breast shots as well as scenes of full nudity, gaining the nickname "Bustgunner" in anime circles.
- Discussed In-Universe in I Got My Wish and Reincarnated as the Villainess (Last Boss)!. A major part of The Saint and the Four Knights' popularity comes from the cut scenes where Karen heals the (usually) male romantic options and then proceeds to strip them to make sure she got everything. This is the one thing Elizabeth wasn't prepared for when she was on the receiving end.
- Japan Animator Expo is a series of shorts organized by Hayao Miyazaki (the brains behind Studio Ghibli) and Hideaki Anno (creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion). They're a means for names in the anime business to create things without interference from production committees or studio censors, and what gets produced are hugely varied in themes but always visually amazing, whether it's sweet, action-packed, breathtaking, humorous, profound, depressing, or anything else. However, the only short that gets a lot of talk, besides the Evangelion ones, is "Me! Me! Me!
" a music video about an otaku's fever dream that consists largely of identical crowds of the same woman gyrating half-naked or fully naked eager to jump (and eat) his bones, set to pulse-pounding techno/rap. - Killing Bites's finale had a scene where the muscular, shirtless Leo pins Yuuko to a wall and tells her she's his slave now. It lasted about two minutes and both the characters involved were minor... but to this day, every thread discussing the show inevitably includes a screenshot of that scene.
- La Seine No Hoshi: Nowadays it's mostly known as "that one show with the female character in a latex suit and uses whips", especially due to all the fanart produced on New Grounds.
- Lyrical Nanoha:
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha only had fanservice manifest in a Hot Springs Episode, very early in the series, but it's the reason most commonly cited (right before the Transformation Sequence and Homoerotic Subtext) by people who don't want to watch it.
- Later seasons proudly fly the fanservice banner, making Nanoha known pretty much as a Yuri series with magical girls in it. It's one of the few to have adult females in an (ambiguous) relationship and even rarer in that they adopt a daughter.
- Magical Pokaan was a Cute Monster Girl version of Galaxy Angel, but what everyone seems to remember most is Stripperiffic wolfgirl Liru, who went on to become a Breakout Character. Other memorable incidents include Yuuma's occasional Marilyn Maneuver due to Chunky Updraft and a Furo Scene featuring overdeveloped tanuki "girls".
N–R
- Mention Negima! Magister Negi Magi and most people will inevitably think of Fanservice or Clothing Damage. Yes, the manga has a lot of fanservice, but it also has a ton of Character Development, an epic plot, and a ton of awesome fights. Still doesn't keep the fanservice from overshadowing just about everything else in the popular perception of the series. It doesn't help that the early volumes were more fanservice-heavy than later ones. To make matters worse, a lot of people's only exposure is the first anime, which is severely lacking in a lot of the more combat oriented storylines. Ironically, the second anime lacks any fanservice what-so-ever.
- In-universe, Takane D. Goodman is remembered by others for getting naked a lot (although never by her own choice) and little else, except for her co-workers, who try to console her about that.
- In fact, Takane is so used to it that, when she challenges Negi (and loses) in chapter 345, when she ISN'T stripped of her clothes (which is how Negi usually and accidentally wins against her a lot), she's insulted, and DEMANDS that he undress her.
- Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary primarily makes use of fanservice through the title character's boobs, but it also notoriously treads across miles of fanservice territory with the wild post-puberty changes of both students and staff. Both are even discussed in-universe.
- Occultic;Nine is a paranormal mystery series where one of the characters is a huge-breasted genki girl. Lovers and haters of the series focus on her breasts and ignore everything else about the show.
- The seventh One Piece movie The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle is an adventure involving a golden crown, giant robots, a giant turtle, and a (non-canon) explanation for how Luffy got the name for his Gear power-ups. All of that is brushed aside for Nami and Robin's breast enhancements, constant bouncing, and fetishistic outfits.
- Certain episodes from Pokémon: The Series are more well-known for characters wearing fanservice outfits than the stories and important events that unfolded.
- In Pokémon: The Original Series, the episode "March of the Exeggutor Squad" has Ash's Charmander evolve into Charmeleon and the episode "The Misty Mermaid" has Misty's Horsea and Starmie departing from the main cast. But these events were barely remembered by fans because those episodes also feature Misty in fanservice outfits, the Goldeen showgirl leotard and the Magical Mermaid costume respectively.
- In Pokémon the Series: XY, the episode "A Pokévision of Things to Come!" is best known for Serena wearing a Fennekin bare midriff outfit and Ash reacting with surprised confusion, fueling Amourshipping teases for the fans. The rest of the episode, however, is mostly about Serena trying out Pokévison and bonding with Fennekin, and she mostly wears conventional dresses and cooking outfits.
- The short lived Shonen Jump manga Rookie Policewoman Kiruko-san is this trope to a T. The titular character is a green-haired, busty, hyperactive cop who caught the eye of fan artists all over, resulting in an explosion of fanart for her after only a few chapters were published. Unfortunately, this wasn't enough to keep the manga going, as it was cancelled after only six months of serialization.
- The anime adaptation of Rosario + Vampire is much Hotter and Sexier than the manga, with breast and panty shots galore, which has caused some backlash from certain parts of the fandom, but usually not to the point that it ruins the series for them. At least not until the 2nd season, which largely discards the plot in favor of even more fanservice to the point that most Establishing Shots include someone's panties.
S–Z
- So, I Can't Play H! has a fairly intricate plot concerning the balance between the human world and Grimwald. It also features gorgeous art and character designs by Kanai Yuuko, with animation by Studio Feel. Yet, if you go by most forum discussion, you'd swear the series was nothing but boobs and Lisara being stripped semi-nude in all of her fight scenes.
- Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie had a prominently large proportion of male viewers watching it only for Chun-Li's Shower Scene. Apparently fanservice-loving Masami Obari noticed and provided respective shower scenes as well on the Fatal Fury and Battle Arena Toshinden spin-offs he directed.
- Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale: Fans most talk about the scene where a bathing Asuna climbs out of the tub with her nipple and butt visible. Which wasn't in the theartical cut (the bath scene was there, but not the nudity), only in the home release.
