fanservice
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Elements added to a television program or similar entertainment that appeal to avid fans but are of little interest to outsiders.
Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "For as much as the game is about Grady, it's also about tying up loose ends from the other games. If you're a veteran, prepare to be in hog heaven with the fanservice present."
- "The key to success for Minecraft or other films based on video games, says the veteran studio executive, is “fan service”—paying attention to the details that attracted the audience in the first place and resisting the temptation to force it into the conventions of a traditional movie."
- "And because of that soy sauce, girls can get one of the few fanservice shots made for women in the entire history of the Ranma 1/2 series."
- "Fanservice is when group members interact with fans by taking their phones, accept gifts thrown on stage and acknowledge the people in the crowd."
Etymology
Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ファンサービス (fansābisu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from fan + service.