Sparked by a comment of a classmate while watching Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia” (”Is that a woman?” during the men’s triple jump) and the discussion of possible fandub projects by my anime club like Tenchi and Ouran, my mind started to ruminate about general dualities that exist in anime. The first three that came to mind are harems and reverse harems, traps and reverse traps, and tsundere and deretsun. I tried to think of another solid pair and came up with two contrasting forms of fanservice: pantyshots and intellectual.
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