Comment on [Discussion] What is your favorite ecchi anime?
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 11 hours agoEcchi comes from the romanization of how the Japanese pronounce H, which is used to denote more-or-less explicitly sexual tones and themes – I cannot say with certainty the cultural context of the word in Japan but generally I think it would be equivalent to an MPAA R-rating (where most anime would fall under PG-13 equivalent ratings), as actual hentai/porn is considered a step or three above ecchi.
As a side-note, I think you mean isekai, not izakie. Isekai is also a direct romanization of the Japanese word meaning “another world”, so if you ever come across pedantic arguments over what “counts” as isekai, it’s because of that.
thanks. yeah im an atrocious speller even in english. so can something be ecchi if there is no nudity? LIke I think a lot of harem type stuff is very sexually suggestive but sorta remains clean a lot of times. Im trying to recall if high school double D’s even had any.
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 9 hours ago
Yeah, and as a matter of fact I think most ecchi anime don’t even show nipples (tho panty shots are often frequent). The furthest most ecchi anime will ever go is showing nipples, but generally you’re going to see things that are purposefully towing the line (barely-there swimsuits, groping, shirts/towels/hair just conveniently hanging down to cover important bits, references to sex toys and/or BDSM, et cetera.). The point of an ecchi is to be sexually arousing first, rather than just having a naked dark-skinned cat girl in an otherwise fairly serious action show about soul people with sentient swords. Most ecchi anime tends to be comedy as a result.
yeah then im thinking ecchi for me practically means anime because like it was the large majority of what I saw back when I had to go to conventions and anime clubs to see stuff and even now feels about half of it.
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 8 hours ago
Okay, I see where the confusion lies: fanservice is what that T&A in most anime is called. Ecchi is when that’s the main focus of the show. Again, it’s like how in a PG-13 movie they’re allowed a certain level of “suggestive themes” like an implied sex scene, but if they’re too blatant/obvious/frequent they’ve got to go up to an R rating.
So, like,
The anime community (especially in the West) has had a bad reputation about making the fanservice front-and-center (for various reasons I won’t get into here) but I think one should make a clear separation between what you see at fan meetups and what the actual content of the anime is.