Am I the only one who dislikes ecchi scenes because I want to watch a serious show?

@LSSJ_Gaming

Yeah, but that is exactly that -> Your personal stuff^^

Shows shouldn't be censored. Just because you had an issue, that doesn't mean we should only depict morally good characters, in Anime.

There are horrible guys featuring in this Series. Actual murderers. But you don't have a problem with them, right? It's that one specific thing that happened to YOU, that is bothering you.... It's not real, my girl. And it doesn't matter which topic. Anything goes, in fiction.


It's life. You get to feel uncomfortable, sometimes. Not everything is for everyone. And although I feel sorry for you, I don't think that should impact our entertainment. That would be pretty selfish^^

I feel like in this specific case, it's your own fault. You already had prior knowledge of the artist and their previous works based on the first post. The Neptunia series is full of fanservice. Looking up anything about Date a Live you should be able to tell right away what kind of kind of show it is with the images full of girls and a single generic looking teen guy. It doesn't have ecchi tag but it has the harem tag. Red flags everywhere. Regardless, the show isn't really ecchi, it's way to tame to be, so it won't be tagged as such. I wouldn't categorize it as 'serious' show either.

No, I assure you, you are not. We are a considerable bunch, I bitch about those scenes all the time.

@LSSJ_Gaming

Does Date a Live really ever get especially explicit? I wouldnt know for sure because I dropped it at episode 1, but I doubt it. But anyway its pretty obvious at a glance that it's gonna be that kinda show so I can't really empathize with anyone whos shocked by it.

Except you are actually part of a tiny minority. most anime consumers are unapologetic and have been embracing ecchi since Tezuka

I agree with your sentiment 100%. A lot of the times these scenes are handled extremely poorly and don't add much or have any substance. Pre-transition I kinda ignored that a lot, but once I came out as trans I started to notice the flaws with how a lot of these sexually explicit scenes are handled. Most of these scenes don't really add anything and just exist for titillation, oftentimes at the expense of the plot, tone, characterization, and agency of the female cast members. A big problem I have with a lot of anime aimed at guys is also that a lot of these ecchi scenes generally rely on "hahaha sexual assault and harassment funny" as a punchline which is uhhhh really bad and kinda feels a bit dehumanizing ngl. I prefer sexual stuff to be consensual if it's implemented unless absolutely necessary to cover the topic of sexual assault and harassment. Like when I watch MHA for example, ever scene with that fucking piece of shit Mineta makes me angry to watch cuz he's just perving on all these women and he's training to be a hero. This guy is acting more like a future rapist, not a fucking hero. I notice a lot of series written by women or for women tend to handle sexual content a lot more tastefully in a way that doesn't detract like a lot of stuff written by guys or for guys tend for. There are excpetions on both ends of course but that is just my obeservation

@Merve2Love

I don't mind if the villains do bad stuff but it can get kinda icky when it's a hero doing it to me. I'm not advocating it to be removed from the show since it well...already exists, but ideally I generally prefer stuff like that to be saved for bad guys since it isn't really something that should be taken as lightly as it is. It won't make me stop watching something, but it does generally rub me the wrong way and I'm sure the same can be said for plenty of people. Its just kinda distracting and uncomfortable y'know

@shenro How is Hidden Dungeon "forced ecchi"? it's literally tagged ecchi. You can't go and watch and ecchi show then complain it's "ecchi nonsense".

@Tropisch so is jobless reincarnation...
literally the first 5 min of the show is forced ecchi, "oh hello childhood friend, did you say your head hurts? oh i know, the sage of old would make out with his wife when his head hurt, so let's make out, childhood buddy!".
also every woman in that show seems to be a massive thot, but you can read my thoughts about that in my review.

@shenro Are you missing the part where both are ecchi, so it can't be "forced" or...?

@LostSpectre "it's not forced ecchi if it calls itself ecchi"
lol no, you made that up.
if you don't comprehend the difference between something happening naturally and something being contrived to hell, then i don't know what to tell you, because every show must be of equal quality in your eyes.

@shenro Again, you can't go and watch a show tagged "ecchi" then whine about it being a major focus of the show, regardless of your "happening naturally".

@Paul Regarding Neptunia, i never played the games themselves and i got interested on them because of the character design and i even have a bunch of Neptunia pins on my pinterest (and i think i have a downloaded Neptunia artbook somewhere on my PC)

I wish i could play the games but the current state of western videogame censorship and the fact that unlike retro games, no one fan translates modern games nowadays (maybe because of potential C&D's or just they don't want to promote piracy on recent games) has prevented me to play them, i think the best option is learning japanese and download a digital copy of each game on my PC (and if i had programming skills, i would modify each game's code and translate them with either google translate or AI to english, for personal use at least)

@LSSJ_Gaming

Don't know what to tell you^^

I think it's unhealthy to base your general well beeing on what may or may not be happening in a Cartoon, that was made for children.

I doesn't matter if the character is a hero or not... and if you won't stop watching you're pretty much signing up for this. Don't watch it, if it offends you so much. Don't subject yourself to something that makes you feel uncomfortable. And pleaaaase: Let the rest of us just enjoy the Show without you making us feel bad about it^^

I don't usually complain about ecchi scenes, but some scenes in Mieruko-chan felt a little awkward and unnecessary.

@Serafos you mean the one where the fucking ghost was groping the 16 yr old school girl in broad daylight? Yeah.

Except you are actually part of a tiny minority. most anime consumers are unapologetic and have been embracing ecchi since Tezuka

we always get one of these dumbass threads around once a month, where someone is crying because of ecchi or sexualization of characters. SHUT THE FUCK UP. Ecchi is hot af

getting to see kotori's panties on the first episode was one of the best parts of DAL.

honestly, I think that ecchi isn't really a necessary thing in a harem anime, do non-reverse harem without ecchi exist?