What are your thought on Ecchi anime?

They just work as sex comedies but usually lack on the sex. Comedy aside they fail at being properly sexy most the time to anyone that has any exposure to sexual things. They can be pretty enjoyable for their comedy or romance and for some action but the rest leaves one in desire for better. I actually like it more than I used to though since I had some bad ones ive seen in the past that really bored me.


Which you dont get anymore because no one in the west pays for porn and too many companies are too cowardly for anything but vanilla these days. If only Japanese politicians would realize painting the human body as unfit to be shown and schools banning students from dating is why they are losing their population.

Fanservice doesn't get in the way of the story any more than humour or slice-of-life scenes do — partly because it's very often a component of the aforementioned scenes to begin with. There are very few series out there that are nothing but serious business at all times, and many of those that are possibly handicap themselves with their lack of tonal variation.

Giving the viewer something stimulating to look at on occasion can be a effective way to maintain their attention, and remind the viewer of how attractive and alluring the characters are.

Emphasis on "can be", depending on the individual viewer and the nature of the scene itself. Ecchi adds an extra element to a scene that can both maintain and heighten existing absorption in the watch. There's little point in trying to attribute a post that was clearly written in the third-person (distancing the author of the post from it) to me, unless you were deliberately looking for a pretext to jump on some sort of reductionist straw man.

When did I mention the relevance of meaningfulness (however this is interpreted) in relation to ecchi scenes? Their primary purpose is to elicit some nominal level of lust that translates into entertainment, not to progress the narrative itself, as per my original comment. There are ecchi anime out there, such as Yosuga no Sora, that have scenes like these carry significance to both characterisation and future plot events, but they're by no means a requirement for ecchi to serve its purpose.