A scene that plays out similarly to a potential fanservice scene but completely lacks all of those queues and on the contrary makes it incredibly obvious you are meant to hate what is being done to Momo and hate the fuck out of those aliens is absolutely not fanservice even if some loser out there enjoys it.

It's like. I don't know, I think author's intent matters a lot here. Are all scenes depicting feet fanservice for foot fetishists too? Frankly I think calling this scene fanservice in any capacity is either absolutely gross or just indicative of no media literacy because it genuinely couldn't be more obvious that you're meant to be deeply uncomfortable.

The nessie arc takes it too far but even that isn't particularly fan service and more just. A joke. Which is why I don't like it at all, it doesn't land with me, and I even think it does invalidate the point of episode one a little bit.

Sorry for how angry I was in the original draft of this reply but genuinely I am just so sick of hearing it be called fanservice at all to anybody, and if I hear one more person point to the scene in episode one and go "gooner anime", I'm gonna blow