ecchi
English
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editFrom Japanese エッチ (etchi, “dirty; perverted”), which is derived from English aitch (“name of the letter ⟨H⟩”), which is an initialism of the romaji of Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).
エッチ (etchi) is not a genre in Japanese; this is a development in English.
Adjective
editecchi (comparative more ecchi, superlative most ecchi)
- (of Japanese animation) Erotic, lascivious, lewd, naughty, sexy, suggestive.
Noun
editecchi (countable and uncountable, plural ecchi)
- (uncountable) A genre, especially of anime and manga, featuring playful, tongue-in-cheek usage of sexualized scenes and situations such as double entendre or flirtation, while remaining non-pornographic. Often used to differentiate from hentai which features overt sexual themes.
- The manga fan was disturbingly proud of his extensive ecchi collection.
- (rare, countable, chiefly proscribed by fandom slang) A situation within a story, especially anime and manga, which ventures into the ecchi genre.
- There was a moment of ecchi for comic relief in the otherwise serious story.
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