Discussion thread for Boku no Hero Academia 2 episode 19. Aired Saturday, 12-Aug-2017 17:30:00 JST.
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Kind of a meh fanservice episode. I guess they want to be more respectable than fairy tail or dragonball.
I wouldn't call it fanservice or filler. They simply care about all the individual characters. That's why they also keep displaying names and quirks. Considering how many characters having things going at the same time, such episodes are totally reasonable.
In the next episodes preview of the previous episode they said this episode was anime original about froppy, which is code word for filler/fanservice.
Falling victim to a tentacle monster is a common way to do fanservice.
Just shows all the more that they don't want to neglect other characters.
Also if a frog person doing work on the sea is getting attacked by an octopus person in a world full of strange individuals without it looking like some sexualized approach, then fanservice is the last thing that comes to my mind.
I'm sure the idea behind it is that classic fanservice moment, but the point is that the execution simply makes sense and in the end brought you the character of Froppy closer without having any intentions of trying to please the viewers in a way you make it look like. But you're free to lump everything together on the basis of some superficial definitions.