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Jyakotu (i'm referring to your post on page 517)
Well, DOA is hated about it's "huge amount of sex appeal" that feminist can judge as "disrespectful" toward womankind (even if the main hate come from ignorants). I can understand this point of view.
To that i can answer :
-Firstly, it's a fighting game. In this kind of game, there is always a lots of sexualisation of the characters. Men tend to be ripped like hell and aggressive looking (#testosterone) and women more appealing. It's all due to the fighting and the need of visible hormonal excess needed to make it coherent.
-Secondly, as i said earlier, in fighting game, we have most of the time shirtless sexy men fighting. And it's damn stereotyped ! It's also fan-service and it's helping identification for the boys AND give some exiting-service for girls (and for some boys). There is never anybody bitching about guys being bodybuilder, but when it come to woman sex appeal... It's a sensitive topics.
My point is that while a women act slutty in underwear to make you buy perfume, you can feel revolted because it's not justified and unfair. But in a fighting game sexualisation is kind of justified and apply to both gender.
-Thirdly, you can consider that the fan service is the main point in DOA, which make you an ignorant. Of course it's a bit too much sometime, but arguing that DOA can't be taken seriously due to the fan service is either stupidity or ignorance.
All the hate about DOA is unjustified, whatever your argument is. All fighting games does nearly the same things. DOA just always did it more shamelessly.