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 Funny that you call it ""sexualized"" and ""reflective of the character"", while all sorts of media are full of her being ""sexualized"" and Shirow himself even drew her full naked and engaged in sex in the original manga. Way to misunderstand the character. It's not ""fanservice"", it's from the DVD cover. And you even call it ""unnecessarily obscene"", forgetting that Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not censored.   "