User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Monty's action sequences/@comment-25555436-20141228194533/@comment-3257939-20141228211100

The problem lies in the fact that people don't know what service means in the internet. Fanservice is a term used to please the pervert urges of the fans. For example, a pantyshot is fanservice for the male viewers and the anime Free! is pure fanservice for the female viewers.

RWBY has a bit of fanservice. Pyrrha mini skirt and cleavage can be considered very provocative but it's not fanservice unless the show deliberately shows it off. For example: the millions scenes when the boobs physics of the show makes them bounce tons of times could be seen as fanservice, however, those scenes can hardly be noticed and the camera never focuses on that aspect during the scenes so it can't be labeled as fanservice.

Now naked Ren... that IS fanservice. There is no need for Ren to be naked, the only purpose of that was to create a scene where Ren tries to reach for his clothes while Jaune is trying to have a heart to heart which can make the scene look very funny. But there isn't a need to have a naked Ren to give that impression. Knowing RT, there are tons of ways they could have made that scene and still give the same impact but they still chose to show off Ren's body so that scene can be labeled fanservice.