Smut is actually very different, even at the base levels. The seinen equivalent will be labeled as simply 'mature' because it lacks the mandatory cute stupidity that one always finds in cliche love comedies. Since serious stories rarely make use of this cliche and most shoujo don't put their female characters in such needlessly lewd positions, you can usually find 'ecchi' manga in the shounen romance sections. That known, we can see pretty clearly that the 'ecchi genre' is basically any manga in which a cute, probably busty, girl tells a guy (that she likes but who has a tendency to see her in compromising positions) an 'ecchi' (aka hentai, or pervert). If you search for it on Winny or Share, you'll get nothing but porn. So Ecchi isn't the same genre in English as it is in Japanese. only marginally less offensive than the word nakama being used as if there's no English equivalent). We got the idea that Ecchi was a genre because all of these terrible translators either didn't know that when a girl calls a guy ecchi, she's calling him a sick pervert, or decided that the word was cute so they left it in (a terrible, terrible sin that should never be committed. Granted, not as a genre, but as a description of someone or something. Ecchi is the pronunciation of H, which stands for hentai. I'm going to give a brief explanation of the mis-use of the term 'ecchi' in English anime/manga culture. Join SRoMU Scanlations or visit #SRoMU at IRCHighWay. And ecchi is usually more silly, satirical while smut is loaded with drama.Įdit: Anyways, looked around and found some threads So in the aspect of nudity, smut is more graphic. The breasts and nipples are always shown though. Smut is female-aimed, again why they're only present with the Shoujo and Josei demographics, they usually contain characters kissing/touching/making love with eachother, while having their privates still censored (in some extreme smut, only barely). It might even go as far as a girl topless, but they never show any nipples (usually) unless it's edited it in by some scanlator or something. Ecchi is male aimed, that's why they're only present with the Shounen and Seinen demographics, it usually contains panty/bra shots, awkward positions, etc.
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