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It's hard to find pictures of Natsuki Kuga (alternatively, Natsuki Kruger) that aren't fanservice
FYI, Natsuki Kuga is a character from Mai-HiME; Natsuki Kruger is Kuga's expy in Mai-Otome.
It's noticeably difficult to find a picture of Natsuki that ISN'T some sort of fanservice, from having her bikesuit half-unzipped, to striking an infamous pose from an episode where she had to hitchhike a ride, to perspective showing far more of her ass than is necessary.
Damnit, people, how hard is it to NOT treat her as a sex symbol?
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Very hard, apparently.
Natsuki embodies several common... archetypes, I guess; a chilly ice princess, the hot biker, and, of course, a lesbian in many eyes.
It's a bit disappointing, because there's a lot more to her character than what fetishistic stuff there is.
Oh yeah, that's right, the other reason it's hard to find any serious fanart of Natsuki is that, while half of her art is fanservice ass and cleavage shots and often improbable poses (and this category includes almost all pics of her in that cool bikesuit (or with it half off, rather)), the other half is her paired with some other girl, of which nine tenths involves Shizuru and about one tenth involves Nao. Then you get a negligible number of other pics such as this: http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=473927
(I'm not counting here the official art pics showing her alongside Mai and Mikoto.)
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fixed that for ya
>Improbable Poses
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^ I think she needs back surgery.
> only nine-tenths
^^^ I get in weird poses like that all the time. It's comfy
...Although it probably helps that I am not a woman who somehow got bitten by a radioactive toothpick...
Is there even any other reason to make fanart of her? Or of Mai-Hime in general?
^^ I can't imagine it's very comfy to push your chest forward and squish your boobs together with your upper arms while pretending to be nonchalant.
^^ Well, I'm not sure about the other characters (apart from Nao), but Natsuki is actually kinda cool, what with her investigative-reporter/special-ops activities and her slightly-pissed-off-at-the-world attitude.
That said, her investigative-reporter/special-ops activities make her stick out like a sore thumb in the setting. The show provides a half-ass justification saying that she's a "truant", but...yeah, the prep school setting is, just like it is in-universe, a cover for something--which would be the storytelling purposes of throwing together a bunch of young, attractive characters and making them engage in romantic drama/hijinx/whatnot.
you know, you can like the character design without necessarily sexualizing it