Celebrating the most hyper-inflated breasts since Benny Hill, Steven DenBeste has been discussing Divergence Eve a lot lately and posting plenty of captures. Well, this prompted a letter from a female fan named Kacie, who wrote:
1. Ouch! Don’t those things HURT?
2. Ewww… and they bounce like jello, too. That’s so disgusting.
3. Do men really like that sort of thing? The male characters on the show look like they could DROWN in those things! Look, hers are bigger than his HEAD!
Well, I figured there should be a male response forthcoming, and since I had nothing better to do….
1. I repeat my last comment I appended to an earlier post: “At least we know that in the future, chiropracters are miracle workers. None of these girls ever complain of backaches.”
2. Speaking as a male, I find the fact that they bounce far more attractive than the ones that don’t move AT ALL. I mean, big is nice to look at, but if the San Andreas could rip the big one, and you could hang onto her set for safety because you know they ain’t moving at all, then they’re definately over-inflated rocks.
3. No, no, that’s not really what you saw; it’s just the light from Venus reflecting off some swamp gas . . . . (This is how we know the writer really was female. . . . I mean she looked at something else!)
Still, gratuitous bounces and huge breasts can detract. Watching the fansub of Witchblade, ep.1, there’s a scene where Masane, the new wielder, has been drugged and is crawling along on her hands and knees, slowly changing back to normal. Supposed to be tense and dramatic… and then her boobs make this little jump. Not swaying natually, like they should if they were real; they just sort of…. jump. Horizontally bounce. Utterly gratuitous.
Sigh. Definately breaks the tension.
I suspect the finger-like design of the breast (un)covers are deliberate. Or my libido just drowned my aesthetic judgement. Or both. No, wait, the character designer’s libido overrode his aesthetic judgement. (First, that is.)
No argument there . . . . And the Witchblade appears to have gained a few powers in 200 years. (Though I was never a fan of the American series, so I’m not really sure.)
Texas “Hold’em” anyone? (Arrrrgh! Someone scrub my dirty mind, please!)
In normal clothing, sailing into Tokyo, (or what’s left of it).
One of the odd twists to this show is that Masane is like two seperate people. In normal times, she’s like this. Ditzy as they come; the kid has more sense. When the Witchblade activates, she’s a completely different personality–but one that remembers she’s the child’s mother, so they’re not totally seperate. I never watched the American TV series, so I don’t know, but I didn’t think it was like that. Seeing as the series follows the manga, which was set 200 years in the future (and in Japan, of course), the rest of the changes shouldn’t be a surprise.
Since I never watched the original TV series and don’t read manga, I’m approaching this series pretty fresh, and since I didn’t see any previews, I didn’t hunt it up specifically for the fanservice. So my pretty-much unbiased opinion is that the fanservice is a net negative here. In fact, it’s so negative after that over-the-top bounce, that I have to wonder if the show is going to be worth my time. There’s mysteries, bad guys, good guys, in-the-middle guys, and a child in danger from a seemingly paternalistic (at best) but actually damned evil government agency. It ought to have all the necessary elements, but after seeing that, I feel as if I’m about to be fed fanservice as a cover for lack of plot and characterization. I could use about three less cup sizes and three more helpings of story. (Edit: for those that care, this is a Gonzo production. I’m sure, that for some fans, this is an indication both that it sucks, and why.)
I really have very little interest in watching further episodes, in fact. Is that a sign I need Viagra, or just good taste?
