Mine’s Chobits - It’s ahead of its time, it has a banger OP, and Sugita Tomokazu is a great comedy MC VA.

It’s a little cheating, however. I liked it for other aspects and it only happens to have an ecchi tag in MAL.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    31·
    17 hours ago

    im an anime fan but don’t do well at keeping up with the lingo so im not sure what ecchi is. I only recently learned what izakie means.

    • Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.socialEnglish
      5·
      15 hours ago

      Ecchi 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.

      • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        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.socialEnglish
          2·
          13 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.

          • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            13 hours ago

            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.socialEnglish
              2·
              13 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,

              • Yoruichi in BLEACH: fanservice
              • a zombie anime where every girl’s chest is as big as their heads and the shirts cling impossibly close to their skin and bullets travel between their individually flapping breasts (Highschool of the Dead): ecchi
              • naked wolf girl with no visible tits in an otherwise grounded story about Medieval commerce (Spice & Wolf): fanservice
              • an entire anime based around gaining superpowers by drinking breast milk straight from the tap (Qwaser of Stigmata): Ecchi
              • beach or onsen episodes: fanservice
              • harem anime where the girls are constantly in states of undress: ecchi

              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.