Definitive Navigation & Recommendations: The Ultimate Ecchi Viewer’s Guide
Welcome to the ultimate ecchi roadmap! This guide is structured in two parts. Part I helps viewers explore titles where ecchi blends with strong plot, action, or comedy. Part II is dedicated to connoisseurs, focusing explicitly on anime where ecchi is the primary attraction.
Part I: Curated Tiers for Genre Exploration
This section is for discovering anime that feature strong ecchi elements alongside other well-developed genres.
Gateway Series: Your First Taste
- Food Wars! (Shokugeki no Soma): A young chef enrolls in a hyper-competitive culinary academy where students settle disputes in high-stakes cooking battles, with delicious food causing euphoric, clothes-shredding reactions.
- High School DxD: A perverted high school student is killed on his first date, only to be resurrected as a devil and forced to serve his new master in the ongoing war between angels, fallen angels, and devils.
- Kill la Kill: In a totalitarian high school, a vagrant schoolgirl wielding a giant scissor blade and a sentient, power-granting sailor uniform challenges the iron-fisted student council to find her father’s killer.
- Prison School: Five male students admitted to a formerly all-girls school are sentenced to an on-campus prison for voyeurism, leading to a tense and hilarious battle of wits against the sadistic Underground Student Council.
- Rosario + Vampire: An average boy accidentally enrolls in a high school for monsters, where he must hide his human identity while attracting the attention of several supernatural female classmates.
- Sekirei: A down-on-his-luck student encounters a superpowered girl known as a ‘Sekirei,’ becoming her master in a deadly survival game where 108 Sekirei and their masters must fight.
- Trinity Seven: After his town is destroyed by a magical phenomenon, a boy enrolls in a magic academy to become a mage and rescue his cousin, recruiting the help of the school’s seven most powerful female mages.
- Date A Live: A high school boy is recruited by a secret organization to seal the powers of dangerous supernatural beings called ‘Spirits’ by making them fall in love with him and kissing them.
The Classics: Genre Cornerstones
- Girls Bravo: A shy high school boy with a severe phobia of girls is magically transported to a world where men are a rarity, forcing him to confront his fears amidst a sea of eager women.
- Golden Boy: A brilliant, perverted, and perpetually-learning 25-year-old travels Japan on his bicycle, taking on various jobs and studying everything he can, especially the beautiful women he meets.
- Love Hina: A well-meaning but unlucky young man attempts to fulfill a childhood promise by getting into Tokyo University, becoming the landlord of an all-female dormitory in the process.
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: Two foul-mouthed angel sisters are kicked out of Heaven and must earn their way back by slaying ghosts, using their lingerie as weapons.
- Heaven’s Lost Property (Sora no Otoshimono): A peaceful boy’s life is turned upside down when a winged ‘Angeloid’ falls from the sky and calls him her master, fulfilling his every perverted desire.
- Shuffle!: In a world where gods and devils live among humans, a high school student finds himself the object of affection for the princesses of both the god and devil realms, among others.
Modern Staples: Genre-Blending Hits
- Redo of Healer: (Warning: Explicit content) A healing mage who was brutally exploited uses his ultimate spell to rewind time, seeking vengeance on those who wronged him with cruel and poetic justice.
- Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!: A quiet college student’s solitary life is constantly interrupted by his boisterous, well-endowed underclassman who is determined to keep him from being lonely.
- World’s End Harem: (Warning: Mature themes) A young man awakens from cryogenic sleep to a future where a virus has wiped out most of the male population, making him a priceless resource for humanity’s survival.
- How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord: A socially awkward gamer is transported into his favorite MMORPG as his all-powerful Demon Lord character, with the two girls who summoned him now magically enslaved to him.
- My Dress-Up Darling: A shy high school boy who loves making traditional dolls finds an unlikely friend in his popular, beautiful classmate, who ropes him into helping her create amazing cosplay outfits.
Hidden Gems: Unique & Overlooked
- Punch Line: A boy’s spirit is ejected from his body, and he discovers that if he gets too excited by seeing panties, a meteor will destroy the Earth, forcing him to solve a mystery to save the world.
- Shimoneta: In a dystopian Japan where all lewd material is illegal, a boy is blackmailed into joining a terrorist organization that spreads ‘dirty jokes’ to fight censorship.
- Tsugumomo: A boy’s life is changed forever when his cherished kimono sash transforms into a beautiful spirit girl, dragging him into the world of supernatural exorcists and cursed objects.
- We Without Wings (Ore-tachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai): Follows the intersecting lives of several young people, blending slice-of-life drama, comedy, and romance with mature themes and a complex narrative structure.
- Yamada’s First Time: B Gata H Kei: A high school girl sets a goal to sleep with 100 guys, but finds her plans complicated when she develops feelings for a normal, average classmate.
Part II: The Ecchi-Primary Collection
This section is dedicated to titles where the primary and central feature is ecchi. Fanservice is the explicit focus and main appeal.
Comprehensive List of Ecchi-Primary Anime
- Absolute Duo: In a school where students manifest their souls as weapons, a boy whose soul manifests as a shield must form a partnership with a silver-haired princess to learn how to fight.
- Aki Sora: (Warning: Mature content) A controversial drama focusing on the taboo and intimate relationship between a pair of twin siblings.
- Battle Girls: Time Paradox: A modern high school girl is transported back to Japan’s Sengoku period, but finds all the famous historical warlords are now beautiful women.
- Bikini Warriors: A short-form comedy that parodies classic RPG tropes, following four female adventurers in ridiculously skimpy armor as they go on quests.
- Chu-Bra!!: A slice-of-life comedy centered on a group of middle school girls who are obsessed with and determined to learn everything about underwear.
- Dog Days: A boy from Earth is summoned to the fantasy world of Flonyard to serve as a hero in a war where battles are fought like athletic competitions with no casualties.
- Eiken: (Warning: Extremely exaggerated ecchi) A boy enrolls in the mysterious Eiken Academy, only to discover he’s the only male student in a school filled with girls with comically large breasts.
- Hensuki: A high school boy receives an anonymous love letter with a pair of panties, forcing him to investigate which of his female acquaintances is his secret ‘Cinderella’ with a hidden fetish.
- Highschool of the Dead: (Warning: Intense fanservice) As a zombie apocalypse suddenly breaks out, a group of high school students and their school nurse must fight for survival in a world overrun by the undead.
- Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia: (Warning: Mature interactions) A boy with a unique power must perform ‘lewd acts’ with elite female fighters to replenish their energy and power them up for battle.
- Ikkitousen: Modern-day high school students, who are reincarnations of ancient Chinese warriors, battle for supremacy, with their clothes being destroyed in spectacular fashion during combat.
- Interspecies Reviewers: (Warning: Extremely explicit content) A group of adventurers travels the land to sample the services of various monster-girl brothels, giving detailed and critical reviews of their experiences.
- Joshi Ochi!: (Warning: Explicit situations) A man’s life gets complicated when a girl falls through the ceiling of his apartment from the floor above, leading to absurd and intimate situations.
- Kanokon: A country boy moves to the city for high school, where he is aggressively pursued by a beautiful fox spirit and a wolf spirit who both want him to be their mate.
- Keijo!!!!!!!!: A parody of sports anime set in a world where a popular all-female sport called ‘Keijo’ involves competitors fighting using only their breasts and buttocks.
- Kiss x Sis: (Warning: Taboo themes) A middle school boy preparing for his high school entrance exams is relentlessly seduced by his two beautiful, non-blood-related older stepsisters.
- Ladies versus Butlers!: A boy from a common family enrolls in a prestigious academy for the upper class, where he decides to become a butler and must navigate the advances of the school’s haughty ladies.
- Love Love?: A short-form romantic comedy following the chaotic lives of a group of high school students involved in a script-writing club, leading to many bizarre scenarios.
- Maken-Ki!: A perverted teenage boy enrolls in a former all-girls academy, discovering that students use magical items called ‘Maken’ to fight each other.
- Manyuu Hikenchou: (Warning: Mature comedic themes) In an alternate Edo period where breast size determines social status, a master swordswoman rebels against her clan’s cruel ideology.
- Megami-ryou no Ryoubo-kun (Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory): A down-on-his-luck middle school boy becomes the dorm mother for a women’s college dormitory filled with eccentric older girls.
- Mouse: A young art teacher leads a double life as ‘Mouse,’ a master thief who pulls off daring heists with the help of his three beautiful and devoted servants.
- My Girlfriend is Shobitch: A studious high school girl confesses to a boy, but her understanding of romance comes from misguided sexual education, leading to hilariously blunt suggestions.
- My Wife is the Student Council President!: A boy becomes vice president of the student council only to discover that the new president is his fiancée, who promptly moves in with him.
- Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!? (Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher!?): A high school student repeatedly finds himself in unbelievably compromising situations with his notoriously strict female teacher.
- Oku-sama wa Joshi Kousei: A romantic comedy about a high school girl who is secretly married to her physics teacher, and their struggles to keep their relationship a secret.
- Omamori Himari: On his 16th birthday, a boy discovers he is descended from a demon-slaying clan and is now protected by a beautiful and powerful cat-spirit samurai.
- Ore ga Ojousama Gakkou ni “Shomin Sample” Toshite Gets Sareta Ken: An ordinary boy is kidnapped and forced to enroll in an elite all-girls school to serve as a ‘commoner sample’ for the sheltered students.
- Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time: (Warning: Mature comedic situations) After being crowned the world’s strongest warrior, a man is relentlessly pursued by women of various monster races who want his ‘seed’.
- Queen’s Blade: (Warning: Highly explicit) In a fantasy world, a tournament is held to determine the most beautiful and powerful queen, with female warriors fighting in revealing armor.
- Recently, My Sister is Unusual: (Warning: Mature supernatural themes) A girl becomes possessed by a ghost who forces her to be affectionate with her new stepbrother to pass on to the afterlife.
- Seikon no Qwaser: (Warning: Provocative content) In a school where alchemists battle, ‘Qwasers’ gain power by drinking a special milk-like substance called ‘Soma’ from women.
- Shuudengo, Capsule Hotel de…: (Warning: Explicit romance) After missing the last train, a woman spends the night at a capsule hotel with her attractive boss, leading to an unexpectedly intimate evening.
- So I Can’t Play H!: A high school boy makes a contract with a grim reaper, sacrificing his ‘perverted spirit’ to fuel her power, which unfortunately leaves him unable to get aroused.
- Triage X: (Warning: Mature themes and violence) A secret organization of vigilantes targets the city’s most dangerous criminals, with its female members using their combat skills and heavily armed bodies to deliver justice.
- Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid: (Warning: Explicit yuri themes) On an isolated island, girls infected with a virus can transform into weapons when sexually aroused, requiring them to partner up to fight.
- Yosuga no Sora: (Warning: Highly explicit drama) A pair of orphaned twin siblings move to a remote rural town, where they confront their past trauma and explore a deep, forbidden bond.