{"id":685,"date":"2003-05-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/20\/ask-john-why-is-fan-service-called-fan-service\/"},"modified":"2003-05-20T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-20T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-why-is-fan-service-called-fan-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-why-is-fan-service-called-fan-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Why is Fan Service Called Fan Service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhy is fanservice called fanservice? I know exactly what this is, but when a friend of mine asked me this question, I couldn&#8217;t answer him.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nFan service got it&#8217;s name because it&#8217;s literally a &#8220;service&#8221; for fans. In Japan, where English words and phrases are often used in &#8220;creative&#8221; ways, the word &#8220;service&#8221; often refers to &#8220;a favor&#8221; or something given for free. For example, if you come up a few yen short on your dinner bill, the Japanese waiter may wave it off with the phrase (like Mistao of Evangelion), &#8220;Service, service.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Why is fanservice called fanservice? I know exactly what this is, but when a friend of mine asked me this question, I couldn&#8217;t answer him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}