Just had to second that. Great film, but once was enough.
In this post, I’m trying to use fanservice in the general sense, not the ign’ant “=titties” sense.
Of movies, I wouldn’t exactly characterize anything in Windaria as fanservice. It’s visually surreal, not visually “here’s the thing you’re looking for.”
I would guess that Belle & Sebastian was without much fanservicey, though it’s been a long time since I watched that.
Hmmm. As a huge fan of Shaman King & One Piece, I guess it’s true that in both of those series there’s relatively little of either the sort of standard repeated scenes for the fans that plague so much TV anime, or big “here’s a good look at this,” scenes. The fact that they’re very closely based on manga (the print versions both run in Shonen Jump!, which you can get, translated, in the USA) may have an effect there.
Those who think fanservice means cute girls in general may think Nami in One Piece is “fanservice,” but if you think that, you are going to have a real hard time not finding cute characters in any animation with remotely human characters. OTOH, Nami’s sister is … um … really top-heavy.
And Twilight of the Cockroaches was too out there to be fanservice. Of course, that’s a movie again, & somebody claimed that didn’t count…?
Yay! Someone got the reference. Thanks, Bosda. Gatchaman, in its Americanized guise as Battle of the Planets, was the very first anime I ever saw. I think I was about 8. I fell in love with it because it was so thoroughly unlike any other cartoon I’d ever seen. Finally, they’re going to release the uncut Japanese series on DVD. Only the first season, alas.
My first Anime was Marine Boy.
I’d say the same, but I’m thinking Pirotess is bordering on the fanservice line. It is one of the fundamental rules of anime - any dark elf chick has to provide fanservice. And if you count Reina (sp?) from the TV series…plus the Lady of Pharis manga has a main character who spends the entire books naked and panting.
Eh? Winrey Rockbell? (You keep fanservice in your way, and I’ll keep it in mine. 
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Anyway…
•Barefoot Gen (well, some bare breasts, but they might actually be non-gratuitous nudity)
•I haven’t seen them myself, yet, but I’m guessing Goodbye little Hippo and Zoo Without an Elephant wouldn’t have much in the way of fanservice.
•Weren’t there a few seasons of Transformers released only in Japan? What about them? (The seasons released in the US in the 80s were animated in Japan, at least.)
•Actually, you could probably squeeze in shows like The Real Ghostbusters, G.I. Joe, and Dennis the Menace on a technicality. (A technical victory…the most evil of all the victories!)
Cat Soup
And yes, there is the detail that “fan service” can be whatever may be fetishized.
But sticking to the homina-homina-homina version, that’s a good catch above on how almost everything produced by Team CLAMP that does not have cute chix has a vast prettyboy component.
I was going to come in with Gasaraki, but I see someone beat me to it. (BTW, I actually liked it - it’s slow and rather mixed, but not boring. Just mostly political.)
And Starship Troopers, the anime, didn’t have female fanservice. (From what I can recall. It was fairly faithful to the books, and therefore, not particularly good cinema.)
As there being no fanservice in Studio Ghibli movies, I beg to differ:
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[li]Porco Rosso - When Fio runs into Porco’s lagoon to swim, it’s very tastefully done, but it’s fanservice, dammit! [/li][li]Spirited Away - Sen and Lin are talking on the balcony after the River God’s bath: Lin is shown without her her top on, just a sort of half-camisole thing. And you see from her neck to her crack. Again, very tasteful, but an extremely erotic pose. (IMNSHO)[/li][/ul]
Thanks for the welcome. And yeah, I’d disagree that Sakura’s costumes are fan service.
If we’re going for only a sexual definition of fan service, then pretty much everything Studio Ghibli has put out lacks it. Even when they’re bathing together in Ghibli movies, no one’s meant to get turned on.
If we’re going for the broader definition – anything that makes the fans drool – then it pretty much includes any translated anime of any quality, since the stuff that doesn’t make the viewers drool (for sex, or beauty, or wonder, or magic, or high-tech toys, or imaginiative storylines, or pretty scenery) is unlikely to make the necessary leap over the Pacific.
I didn’t see OtakuLoki’s post above when I posted. I’ve never seen Porco Rosso, but I really didn’t see anything in Spirited Away that I thought qualified.
Hamish, no worries. I know my examples were quite possibly subjective. 
There was an episode(not aired in North America) with Jesse, Misty and James (:eek: ) all in bikinis. Surely that qualifies as fanservice.
Thats why I added the smiley. I knew it had to be in there somewhere.
And James was in drag as a female, and was the best-looking of the three. So obviously it was very tongue-in-cheek.
My nominees:
Maison Ikkoku - About as bland and sexless as Takahashi-san gets; even Akemi’s is pretty toned down. Oh, and as for the, er, hotel scene near the end, that’s by far the blandest, most nondescript such scene I’ve seen in my life…I see them the day after, and I’m like, “So, uh, was it good for them or what?”
Kimugure Orange Road - So plain-vanilla nondescript, it almost doesn’t feel like anime at all. Kyosuke and Madoka have all the eroticism of a boulder.
Record of Lodoss War - C’mon, scantily clad elf women like Pirotess and Deedlit?
Ummm … Mouse?
No, not really …
How about … G-Taste …
man I suck at this.
Yeah, I thought of those immediately.
And although I’ve only seen a bit of the first episode, does Serial Experiments Lain have any? Didn’t think it was in its style.
Does Ulysses 3000 count?