As buttcentric as those outfits were, I still had a disdain for them.
I still find the 'female empowerment' thing to be BS...Don't even think about posting that stupid tumblr thing either. Sure, there was plenty of symbolism and what have you but a message like that I find questionable.
Plenty of people liked how the outfits looked and that was enough for them to whether watch the anime or make/fap to porn of it.
but enough ranting about KLK again, to answer your question, around the time KLK came out someone mentioned that the outfits were way more revealing in the Witchblade anime. I did a Google search and by god, the outfits were so revealing, that on the TV version, the Witchblades were in bodysuits for the sake of censorship.
I watched Witchblade for whatever reason and it was decent (Still on hold because I suddenly stopped watching one day and forgot where I was). A compare and contrast of the censored and uncensored outfits.