Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. erotic, lascivious, lewd, naughty, sexy, suggestive
- n. uncountable A genre, especially of anime and manga, featuring playful, tongue-in-cheek usage of sexualized imagery and situations such as double entendre or flirtation, while remaining non-pornographic. Often used to differentiate from hentai which features overt sexual themes.
- n. uncountable blanket term used to describe such media
- n. rare, countable A situation within a story, especially anime and manga, which ventures into the ecchi genre.
Examples
“As an aside, that's why I decided not to call this a fan service show and use the better fitting term "ecchi".”
“Tokyo Reporter, has an interview with a couple of great hentai (or maybe just 'ecchi'?) manga artists,”
“It's full of animated nudity and astonishingly nasty violence, blended with an cutesy anime tradition of sweet little girls who love their papa, blended with hi tech action gunplay, with dollops of morally dodgy but hilarious scenes which draw upon the ecchi tradition of anime (basically, soft porn.)”
“While it retained the standard ecchi elements of a harem anime, nothing felt inappropriate.”
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“Knowing the history of the hentai / ecchi genre in meticulous detail, down to the minutiae of translation artefacts?”
“Air Gear - A stylistic blend of shounen with an ecchi side that will keep you screaming "PERVERT!”
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“As for the watermelon boobies, to be honest, I was much more offended by the full on ecchi fan-service in the episode of Rosario + Vampire my friend sent me this week.”
“In other words, the wrestling focuses on ecchi rather than training, hardwork and perseverance with ecchi sprinkled in”
“Yet, i can't ignore the creativity of how the ecchi in this show is presented.”
“I expected a fair amount of ecchi, but ultimately a focus on the wrestling aspect.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ecchi’.
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hColleen's Words
kirikirimai, sensual, soothe, sensate, magistrate, yuuyami, ame, goof, apple, yaoi, oyasumi, ima ga imamade and 17 more...
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The Form and Function of Genres
wuxia, dramedy, bildungsroman, blaxploitation, sexploitation, tokusatsu, epic, cyberpunk, mystery, romance, fantasy, drama and 21 more...
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