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Originally Posted by photon
Yeah old school Dragonball was just weird sometimes, but different time and different culture.
Ecchi is pretty broad.. I've watched series that have an ecchi tag and I have no idea why, or watched series that are and deserve the tag since there's some risque stuff that makes sense in the story but are really great series (My Dress-Up Darling).
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Ranma 1/2 was pretty funny how they played the Echhi card with him changing back and forth from male to female due to hot and cold water. Green Green TV's first episode is one that actually made me burst out laughing.
Then there's other stuff that's basically Soul Calibur body physics or worse and I can't help but wonder why people watch/produce that stuff. Different strokes for different folks, but that area of that genre definitely ain't my stroke. Something like high school of the dead was interesting, but the Ecchi in it was annoying and pointless. I think it does give credence to the formula though as there have been a few recent live action releases from Korea and Japan pulling heavily from that genre of urban zombie survival.
Not all nudity is Ecchi though. There's series like Berserk that throws it in there for a variety of combinations of shock factor and romance in a surprising parallel to something like Game of Thrones.