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If you watch anime a lot, it is blatantly obvious when you are watching something in the ecchi or harem genre. However, fan service can be a little less obvious sometimes in other genres, but it is highly pervasive in modern anime. So, for a little fun today, what are some signs that you are watching an anime that is packed highly with fan service? Showing Off Some Skin to Pass Those Boring Dialogue Moments This is a common one but it can be used to varying extent. During those times where exposition is needed, often animators try to keep the audience engaged by showing them something a little more worth looking at. In the worst cases, it will be bouncing cleavage or some glistening skin. In more mild cases, the characters will be dressed more provocatively, hopefully in a way that makes sense for the scene in question. Vastly More Women than Men If your character list has all women and maybe like two guys, you can be sure before even watching the series that there

Online matches still available The official Tumblr page of Nintendo's Splatoon game announced on Tuesday that Nintendo will permanently shut down the SplatNet (Ikaring in Japan) service for its Splatoon Wii U game on September 30. The game will still be playable online, but players will no longer be able to access the SplatNet site, which allows players to view various statistics including weapon usage and performance. The sequel game Splatoon 2 also features a counterpart SplatNet 2 service, accessed via the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app. Nintendo released the first Splatoon game for the Wii U in May 2015. The game centers on "Inklings," who are beings who can transform between human and squid form. The game pits players in a fight for territory as two teams fight to cover their battlefield with their respective paint colors. The Splatoon 2 sequel shipped for the Switch on July 21. [Via Otakomu]

Designs of Master also revealed for new game in Fate/Extella series The official website of Type-Moon and Marvelous' new Fate/Extella game updated on Wednesday to reveal the new game's title, Fate/Extella Link, and designs for a new Servant and the Master. The newly revealed Servant is Charlemagne of the Saber class. His Noble Phantasm is Joyeuse Ordre, The Twelve Shining Swords That Encircle the World and Point to the Hero King. The site also revealed the design for the Master, the game's protagonist and player character of the game. As with previous games in the series, the player is free to make a name and choose the Master's gender. XSEED Games and Marvelous released Fate/EXTELLA: The Umbral Star for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in North America and Europe in January. The game launched for the same platforms in Japan in November 2016. Marvelous released a Nintendo Switch version in Japan on July 20, in Europe on July 21, and in Nort

Wii U, 3DS service that debuted in 2012 ends on November 8 Nintendo announced on Tuesday that it is ending its Miiverse social network service in Japan on November 8. Wii U Chat and Nintendo TVii services will also end in Japan on the same day. Nintendo of America also announced that the Miiverse service will end at 1:00 a.m. ET on November 7. Ninendo of Europe will discontinue the service on August 11 at 6:00 a.m. GMT. Nintendo will remove Miiverse features from compatible Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games in Japan. The affected games will include more than 70 Wii U titles and more than 20 Nintendo 3DS titles. Players will be able to download their Miiverse posts for a limited time. Nintendo launched Miiverse for use with the Wii U console in November 2012. A web-based version for smartphones, tablets, and PC debuted in April 2013, followed by a Nintendo 3DS version in December 2013. The service is not available for Nintendo Switch, the company's most recent console. [Vi

Roye Okupe is building an African superhero universe, one graphic novel at a time. Okupe grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, watching American superhero cartoons, and when he moved to the the United States 14 years ago, he saw an opportunity to create a new comics universe that reflected his own culture. His initial plan was to make animated movies, but raising funds proved to be difficult, so he switched gears: He started writing graphic novels, and he hired African artists to illustrate them. In the past two years, his YouNeek Studios has published three graphic novels and an art book, with plans to publish four graphic novels a year going forward. RELATED: EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Malika: Warrior Queen FCBD 2017 YouNeek started out with the two-volume E.X.O., a superhero story set in Lagos in the near future. In March YouNeek released the art book WindMaker: The History of Atala, and on June 6 published the graphic novel Malika – Warrior Queen, a historical fantasy about a 15th-century West Afr

Mark Evanier’s 2008 Eisner Award-winning book Kirby: King of Comics has just been reissued in a softcover edition from Abrams Books with new material, in time for what would have been Jack Kirby’s 100th birthday — Aug. 28, 2017. Maybe this doesn’t need to be explained on a comics website, but Jack Kirby was not just one of the great creators of American comics, but one of the visionary creative figures of 20th century American culture. The creator or co-creator of hundreds of characters, he started working professionally as a teenager. After serving on the European front during World War II, he returned to comics where he worked in just about every genre. He will always be associated with superheroes, though, and invented a lot of the vocabulary that continues to define the genre. With Aug. 28th marking the Jack Kirby Centennial, CBR caught up with Evanier to talk about the book, ask about the full-length biography he’s been working on in recent years, a

In a world where humanity has vanished and eroded away, their legacy is the setting of Angelic, an all-ages series at Image Comics from the creative team of Si Spurrier (Godshaper, X-Men Legacy), Caspar Wijngaard, Jim Campbell and designer Emma Price. While fog pervades around the abandoned and overgrown high-rises, the surviving animals have evolved and developed their own societies, with culture, language — but also with religous-based barriers and an enforced class system. Angelic is an all-ages series, but one told with the distinctive creative voices of Spurrier and Wijngaard. The series will focus on Qora, a teenage winged monkey whose place in her society has already been dictated by her elders. When she starts to question their faith, however, it leads her on a wonderful and — you’ll be expecting this part — weird adventure through their world. In the first of two interviews with the creative team, CBR spoke to writer Simon “Si” Spurrier in-depth — as he puts it, “a classic S

Clueless is back — in comic book form. BOOM! Studios surprised fans this past March with the announcement of an original graphic novel based on Amy Heckerling’s 1995 classic teen comedy Clueless, specifically telling the first official follow-up since the TV show that ran from 1996 to 1999. Titled Clueless: Senior Year, the book revisits Cher, Dionne and Tai, and tells the story of, you guessed it, their senior year of high school; picking up where the movie left off. RELATED: Clueless Comic Book Adaptation Lands at BOOM! Studios Clueless: Senior Year is written by Amber Benson (a writer/actor best known for her role as Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who actually auditioned for a role in Clueless) and Sarah Kuhn, the author of Heroine Complex. Together with artist Siobhan Keenan and colorist Shan Murphy, they were tasked to replicate the very distinct mid-’90s world of Clueless, while pushing the characters into new territory. With Senior Year now in comic book stores, CBR talke

Down in Savage Town, the gangs of Limerick gather on pub doorsteps and side streets. Spitting, scratching and slurring in a constant struggle to try and become the new top dog, their form of gang warfare might not be Tommy Guns and fedoras — but the consequences are just as permanent. This is the world introduced by Declan Shalvey, Philip Barrett, Jordie Bellaire and Clayton Cowles in the pages of the new graphic novel Savage Town at Image Comics, releasing this September. It isn’t glamorous, but it sure is gritty, with a distinctly Irish approach to the crime saga. Following Jimmy “Hardy” Savage out for himself in a town where even his mates are now after him, the book is a wickedly sharp take on low-level street criminals, and their ability to create the worst out of a bad situation. And with the book only one month away from publication, CBR decided to brave the streets and talk to Barrett and Shalvey about their distinctive graphic novel. CBR: You don’t tend to associate

Perhaps one of the most interesting things about super heroic fiction is watching how the exploits of some costumed champions impact others. In 2011, Marvel Comics fans got a chance to see how the legacy of the company’s flagship hero, Spider-Man, inspired a Brooklyn-based teenager with special abilities of his own. In the pages of Ultimate Spider-Man, Brian Michael Bendis and Sarah Pichelli introduced the world to Miles Morales, an adolescent with spider-powers who takes up the mantle of Spidey after his world’s version of Peter Parker perishes. In the aftermath of 2015’s multiverse altering Secret Wars event, Miles was brought to the Marvel Universe-proper, where he continues his adventures as Spider-Man with the blessing of the still-living Peter Parker. RELATED: Secret Empire #7 Reveals Whether Miles Morales is Destined to Kill Captain America With his place in the Marvel Universe now firmly established, the time is right to bring Miles into other worlds and med