Oh, dear—fifteen years later, and you can still find people arguing about sub versus dub. Personally, I'll take the sub pretty much every time, but then I was exposed to a fair number of bad dubs from the days of VHS. I also read fast enough that I don't have to rewind the video unless the subber decides to embed a multi-line translation note or something.
As for ecchi, there seem to be several factors that control whether or not it bothers me:
-Is it at least superficially integrated into the plot or characterization, or just plonked there for no reason at all?
-Are only females targeted, or do we occasionally see males displaying questionable areas of their persons?
-Is the character on display doing it by choice, or are they being forced/tricked/filmed from an angle no sane person would consent to?
-How old is the character on display? The implications change a bit if it's an adult.
There may be other factors that I'm not consciously aware of, but you can see why I'd be more tolerant of Strike the Blood or Unbreakable Machine-Doll (in both cases, the fan service is there for plot/character reasons, and the characters have the ability to choose) than I am of, say, the purposeless panty shots in Freezing.
New shows: I'll be keeping Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta and Sekai Seifuku - Bouryaku no Zvezda, at least for the present, and dropping Wizard Barristers because certain elements of the setting make me feel uncomfortable (Psycho Pass had a bit of the same problem, but for some reason it's worse here). Three more shows and 1-3 slots, and since ZX Ignition is supposedly a steaming pile of excrement, the chances I'll be keeping Nobunagun are improving.
As for ecchi, there seem to be several factors that control whether or not it bothers me:
-Is it at least superficially integrated into the plot or characterization, or just plonked there for no reason at all?
-Are only females targeted, or do we occasionally see males displaying questionable areas of their persons?
-Is the character on display doing it by choice, or are they being forced/tricked/filmed from an angle no sane person would consent to?
-How old is the character on display? The implications change a bit if it's an adult.
There may be other factors that I'm not consciously aware of, but you can see why I'd be more tolerant of Strike the Blood or Unbreakable Machine-Doll (in both cases, the fan service is there for plot/character reasons, and the characters have the ability to choose) than I am of, say, the purposeless panty shots in Freezing.
New shows: I'll be keeping Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta and Sekai Seifuku - Bouryaku no Zvezda, at least for the present, and dropping Wizard Barristers because certain elements of the setting make me feel uncomfortable (Psycho Pass had a bit of the same problem, but for some reason it's worse here). Three more shows and 1-3 slots, and since ZX Ignition is supposedly a steaming pile of excrement, the chances I'll be keeping Nobunagun are improving.