It's never been a secret that the main reason for doing the UFO Princess Valkyrie series was fan service. And in all its incarnations (except the gawdawful one-ep special, about which the less said the better) they've always included establishing shots inside the Tokino bathhouse.

Just to make sure we know where we are, of course. Establishing shots. Lots of pictures of the patrons, on both sides of the divide.

The pictures on the women's side shows lots of alien women, but mostly they look like young, gorgeous humans with a few accessories such as horns, or odd ears; just enough of a difference to say "alien" without saying "ugly".

On men's side the aliens were usually far more varied and strange. When any humans were shown they were kids or old men. But not on this last DVD. In the fifth episode it's almost like they were sending up their own series. Two NSFW snaps below the fold.

This is a pretty typical image from the women's side, though perhaps a bit more tame than most. But in the fifth episode of the 3rd series, they included this from the men's side:

Eew. Ick. And it serves me right, frankly.

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