Nudity on opening themes

hideway

still hiding

8 Dec 2006

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• 31 Jan 2007

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Did anyone else noticed a somehow focus on nudity (usually female nudity) on the opening themes of several animes? I seems to happen all the time, even when the anime itself doesn't have ANY nudity scenes at all or in others where such thing is very rare.

I was wondering if it is suposed to be somehow.. philosofic? Many times nudity is also shown when a character is having somekind of "inner conversation" or auto-reflection, or if it is just to make it more.. appealing?

 

hideto_matsumoto_RIP

X Japan & Kagrra,

19 Dec 2006

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• 31 Jan 2007

• #2

i don't know.....

 

Absolute Zero

Zero's Dark Side

21 Oct 2006

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• 31 Jan 2007

• #3

I know, I noticed the same thing in the opening to Full Metal Panic.

 

aeromaniak

後輩

9 Dec 2006

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• 1 Feb 2007

• #4

hideto_matsumoto_RIP said:

i don't know.....

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dude, WHY would you answer just to say "i don't know", this is the most useles answer and waste of time for everybody who keeps track of new posting...

 

Alma

nature's sweet success

2 Apr 2005

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• 1 Feb 2007

• #5

I just saw opening for 'elfen lied' i really got surprised. although, as far as I know, there is a lot of nudity in the rest of show. but, i believe, i never saw so much in just an opening

 

aeromaniak

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9 Dec 2006

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• 2 Feb 2007

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Bleach opening

during the current ooening of Bleach (rolling star), there is a picture of Inoue holding something bloody in her hand. and she's naked. Does anybody knows what that thing might be?
i have a feeling it could be the little flying guy of hers, Tsubaki (the one who slices hollows in 2). But that guess is only because i watched episode 113 ;-)

 

MeAndroo

先輩

29 Jul 2004

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• 2 Feb 2007

• #7

Perhaps being nekkid suggests a vulnerability, a lack of armor that hints that the characters' emotional state and any barriers play a serious role in the anime.

Or it could imply a complete transformation of self, from an innocent schoolgirl to a defender of truth and justice for example.

Or it's for perverts.

 

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Neko_Shiroi

後輩

3 Mar 2007

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• 3 Mar 2007

• #8

Well, sometimes it's rather lyrical. In the .hack anime, the opening theme includes scenes of Aura in a bubble, like a womb, naked. Then later, as she unfolds, her dress starts billowing around her, like she was wearing it all the time. Very beautiful. And you never 'see' anything.
Also, an example in Digimon, outside the opening theme though, is when they biomerge in the third season. They absorb their d-powers into there bodies while naked, but they are drawn without anything perverse. It's just to show that they are completely giving themselves to their final forms, and allowing the fusion to complete.
That's how I saw it.

 

yukio_michael

後輩

8 Mar 2005

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• 4 Mar 2007

• #9

It's called "fan service..."

 

jeisan

Kongming

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• 4 Mar 2007

• #10

yukio_michael said:

It's called "fan service..."

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correct!

they're tricking fanboys into watching the rest of show with hopes of seeing nudity.