Quote Originally Posted by Lord Celebi View Post
Like you, I'm also a huge Lupin fan. I loved the show. As far as I was concerned, they got everything right. The only thing I would have liked more of would have been Lupin himself (and maybe less boobs).
Fan service does tend to lower the quality of an anime. I feel like the japanese version of high school of the dead would have been a lot better without boob and panty shots every five seconds. The subbed version took itself very seriously and the fanservice distracted from the seriousness. The english dub, on the other hand, made very effective use of it. The english dub wasn't serious AT ALL. They added the f-Bomb every five seconds to couple with the fan service and added so many jokes that you couldn't take it really seriously. The fan service helped amplify this. Sure it was still VERY distracting (especially given that all the girls lack the invention known as a bra and each breast seems to have its own physics engine from the matrix) but it was funny by that point.

I haven't seen Lupin so I can't give my opinion on the fan service in that particular anime.