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did mal invented the genre erotica to define pure or hardcore ecchi?

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will you call pure or hardcore ecchi the word erotica from now on because of mal?
Feb 4, 5:34 AM
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so ye title says it all and dont forget to vote in the poll

and this is not the first time mal as a website and source defined a genre too like a lot of anime fans thinks shonen, seinen, shojo, josei are genres because mal in the past label them as such

so thoughts on this?
Feb 4, 5:49 AM
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I think it's a way to define softcore pornography.
Feb 4, 5:55 AM
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I think it's a way to define softcore pornography.
@tchitchouan soft porn in this case is considered vanilla hentai imo and mal does not have that genre

plus looking at the list of erotica like interspecies reviewers there is no explicit sexual intercourse scenes so i would not call it porn or hentai yet
Feb 4, 5:58 AM
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@tchitchouan soft porn in this case is considered vanilla hentai imo and mal does not have that genre

plus looking at the list of erotica like interspecies reviewers there is no explicit sexual intercourse scenes so i would not call it porn or hentai yet
@deg softcore porn does not show genetalia explicitly, it does show physical sex but does not show the genitals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcore_pornography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotica
Feb 4, 6:00 AM
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Erotica just means smut manga. Yeah they are extremely ecchi manga with no explicit genitals but s*x scenes are present. I guess that's what truly differentiates them from Hentai. Maybe the serialisation magazine has to play a role in it as well.
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Feb 4, 6:02 AM
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@deg softcore porn does not show genetalia explicitly, it does show physical sex but does not show the genitals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcore_pornography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotica
@tchitchouan ah ok point taken well there then
Feb 4, 6:02 AM
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Anyways I find this category to be much better and helpful especially if one is using some popular pirated sites.
It is much more better than whatever romantic subtext is.
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Feb 4, 6:02 AM
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I watched Queen's Blade back on 2010 or 11 I think and some comment called it a soft hentai so I use that term for shows with mild sexual content between ecchi and hentai ever since.
Feb 4, 6:13 AM
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@tchitchouan ah ok point taken well there then
@CaptainKenshiro no, that is incorrect QB is not a soft hentai by virtue of not having any on-screen physical penetrative sex.
@deg I think the classification goes a little something like this.


Feb 4, 6:42 AM

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Erotica here seems to be borderline H as well as eroanime/eromanga targeted at josei demographic. I'm not sure Japan really has much consistency on genres to begin with. Ecchi isn't even really a genre in Japan it seems at least not by that name.

エッチ (H) とは性的にいやらしい様、またはそういう人を指す日本語の俗語。アルファベットの H の古い日本式発音[注 1]に由来する。類義語に「エロ」(エロスの略)がある。1980年代頃からは、性行為の婉曲表現の意味でも使われるようになっている。

その語源は変態 (Hentai) の頭文字「H」である[1]。古くは明治20年代から、性的な隠語として女学生の間で使われた[2]。大正時代には、同性愛者を意味する隠語であった[3]。

英語圏の国々、特にアメリカ合衆国においては、「エッチ」 (ecchi) という言葉は、日本製の漫画やアニメ、ゲーム作品の中で、性的な内容・表現を漠然と含むものに対して用いられている。具体的にはヌード、セミヌード、パンチラなどの描写を含むが、登場人物が直接的な性行為にまでは及ばないような漫画・アニメ・ゲーム作品、またはそれらを模したものを指して "ecchi" と呼ぶことが多い。これに対して露骨な性描写があるような作品については、「ヘンタイ」 (hentai) と呼ばれ、区別されている。 また、セックスと言わずにエッチと言って表現をかえることもある。[20]

英語では、`perv`や`dirty`などで意味が通じる[要出典]。


Etch (H) is a Japanese slang term that refers to a person who is sexually obscene. Derived from the old Japan pronunciation of the alphabet H[Note 1]. A synonym is "ero" (abbreviation for eros). Since the 1980s, it has also come to be used in the sense of a euphemism for sexual acts.

The etymology of the word is the initial letter "H" for hentai. In the old days, since the Meiji 20s, it was used among female students as a sexual jargon. In the Taisho era, it was a secret word that meant homosexual.

In English-speaking countries, especially the United States, the term "ecchi" is used to refer to manga, anime, and video games made in Japan that contain vague sexual content or expressions. Specifically, it includes depictions of nudity, semi-nudity, panchira, etc., but it is often called "ecchi" to refer to manga, anime, and game works in which the characters do not extend to direct sexual acts, or those that imitate them. On the other hand, works that contain explicit sexual depictions are called "hentai" and are distinguished. Also, sometimes the expression is changed by saying naughty instead of sex. In English, it makes sense with 'perv' and 'dirty'[citation needed].

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Feb 4, 8:32 AM

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Erotica seems closer to hentai than ecchi, but contrary to hentai it doesn't explicitly show genitals, which actually makes it better, because the genitals would have to be pixelated, which is an eyesore.
Feb 4, 8:57 AM

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i honestly don't get the difference between erotica and ecchi.

My only surmise is that ecchi is just extra fanservice and erotica is when they show sex but aren't explicit with it. Like Kiss x Sis or qwaser of stigmata.
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Feb 4, 9:29 AM

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@CaptainKenshiro no, that is incorrect QB is not a soft hentai by virtue of not having any on-screen physical penetrative sex.
@deg I think the classification goes a little something like this.


@tchitchouan Yeah I figured it might be innacurate, but is the one I've been used ever since and will keep using on that.

After all, it is not like I watch ecchi nowadays.
Feb 4, 10:30 AM

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animegamer245 said:
Neither is Hentai. Both are Japanese words for perverted.

That's eroanime/eromanga but I do suspect it may be those terms possibly might not be solely reserved for 18+ stuff or not, I am not sure on that part.
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It's a very useful tag for manga searching, but the anime category sort of doesn't exist.
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