With nose bleeds and moments that make us say “aw” here is our Top 15 Best Ecchi Romance Anime of All Time that shows that romance comes in all shapes and sizes.
Ecchi romance anime gives us a bit of comedy, pervy innuendo and old-fashioned romance with enough love and tenderness to warm our hearts.
Ecchi anime has enjoyed such a rapid rise in popularity because of sub-genres like ecchi romance anime with its counterbalance of romance and comedy, creating a deeper and more emotional experience that makes the characters more relatable.
Here are the Top 15 Best Ecchi Romance Anime of All Time in no particular order! Let’s get started:
15. Love Hina
Episodes 24 + OVA | Aired Spring 2000 | Produced by Xebec
Love Hina is one of the series that popularized the Harem and Tsundere genre. With lots of humour and romance, this series is a definite must-see.
Summary
Keitaro has had great difficulty getting into the university of his choice and no luck in meeting women. In a desperate effort to go into seclusion and study for his entrance exams, he volunteers to take over running his grandmother’s hotel. His plans are ruined when he discovers that the “hotel“ is actually an all-girls dormitory… and some serious distractions ensue.
Love Hina is funny and always kept me entertained. It has a charm and humor that is hard to find in any anime these days.
14. Nazo no Kanojo X (Mysterious Girlfriend X)
Episodes 13 + OVA | Aired Spring 2012 | Produced by Hoods Entertainment
Not often will you find an anime which revolves around drool, which is rather bizarre but the series is really good. If anything I think the weirdness added to the originality of Mysterious Girlfriend X.
Summary
One day, a strange transfer student appears before Tsubaki. Urabe Mikoto is an antisocial girl, whose hobby is just sleeping during class-breaks. One day, Tsubaki goes to wake her up and accidentally tastes her drool… And gets hooked on that! After that, he starts going out with her and gets to know her better. Her second hobby, as it turns out, is carrying around scissors in her panties and cutting paper into flowers…
Mysterious Girlfriend X is an unorthodox anime but its a series that is realistic in its approach to love and relationships. Teaching you about love and how real love can be like.
13. Prison School
Episodes 12 + OVA | Aired Summer 2015 | Produced by J.C.Staff
Prison School manages to tell an interesting story with hilarious comedy and incredibly lewd ecchi scenes, but still be suspenseful and more than just another eechi series.
Summary
Hachimitsu Private Academy was a revered and elite all-girls’ boarding school on the outskirts of Tokyo…once upon a time. But with the new school year comes a revision to school policy: Boys are to be admitted into the student body for the first time ever. But on his first day at Hachimitsu, Kiyoshi Fujino discovers that he’s one of only five boys enrolled at the school. Their numbers overwhelmed by the thousand girls in the student body is it heaven or hell that awaits these five (un)fortunate?!
Prison School is an anime with a very unusual combination of genres and styles, and an even rarer case of one which actually does it successfully. Watching Prison School was definitely never a dull moment with a lot of genuinely hilarious scenes and touching moments.
12. Highschool of the Dead
Episodes 12 + OVA | Aired Summer 2010 | Produced by Madhouse
Highschool of the Dead is an anime that is much more than just an ecchi romance anime and was very enjoyable overall, with thought-provoking episodes.
Summary
A mysterious illness is spreading rapidly through the halls of Fujimi High School. In a matter of hours, the campus is transformed from a place of learning into a hive of nightmares, as the infected students collapse and are reborn as flesh-hungry zombies! Only a handful of students escape the initial outbreak — among them Takashi Komuro and his childhood friend, Rei. He manages to protect Rei from the initial onslaught, but how long can Takashi and the other students hope to survive when the whole school – maybe the whole town — is out for their blood?!
Even if you are not into ecchi romance anime there is enough action, comedy, suspense and some interesting characters to make it enjoyable on that aspect alone.
11. Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry (Chivalry of a Failed Knight)
Episodes 12 | Aired Fall 2015 | Produced by Silver Link., Nexus
Chivalry of a Failed Knight is an ecchi romance anime that seem generic at first glance but is an incredible series with a simple straightforward plot and amazing action sequences that make it a gem.
Summary
In a time and place where one’s soul can be morphed into a weapon, there are modern-day magicians called Mage-Knights. Although Kurogane Ikki is a student at an institution that trains Mage-Knights, he has no particular talent in magic and is labeled the “Failure Knight” or “Worst One.” Getting way less than average marks in the scorings, he was forced to repeat a year. But with the arrival of a new head of the institution, a new rule was created: knights whose abilities are compatible, as decided by the board, must share rooms and attend practice and training together throughout their school years to bring up their abilities to the max. It is a rule to implement the absolute verdict of ability.
Ikki’s roommate, Stella Vermillion, turns out to be a princess of another foreign country. Stella is a Rank A knight: the type of genius in magic who only appears once a decade. When Ikki walked in on her while she was changing her clothes, it caused a huge misunderstanding (since neither yet knew of the new rule) which eventually ended up in a duel between the two of them. The punishment (or as some might see it, the prize) of the losing side is Eternal Submission to the winning side.
Forced to live the same room and practice magic together throughout all their school years, how will Stella and Ikki’s relationship evolve?
Chivalry of a Failed Knight is a series I would recommend to anyone who likes battle tourney trope, romance and ecchi. It definitely has a little bit for everyone to love and enjoy.
10. High School DxD
Episodes 49 + OVA | Aired Winter 2012 | Produced by TNK (latest season produced by Passione)
High School DxD at first glance doesn’t stand out much but it’s more than just another harem or fanservice anime, it has emotion, drama and an interest plot.
Summary
Hyoudou Issei is an ordinary yet lecherous highschool student who is killed by his girlfriend, Amano Yuuma, during their first date. Yuma is revealed to be a fallen angel named Reinare who was sent on a mission to eliminate divine weapons. Issei is later reincarnated as a devil by his senpai Rias Gremory; who in return will serve under Rias in fighting against the fallen angels.Then Soon he was turned out to be user of the one of the 13 longinus possessor of a red dragon emperor residing in him as Boosted Gear
High School DxD has amazing art, plenty of character development, and makes me reminiscent of the awkward high school days.
9. B-gata H-kei (Yamada’s First Time: B-gata H-kei)
Episodes 12 | Aired Spring 2010 | Produced by Hal Film Maker, TYO Animations
Yamada’s First Time: B-gata H-kei is not purely fanservice, there is actually a very funny story, with moments that make you laugh. It has the right balance of comedy and seriousness.
Summary
It’s about a high school girl, who is always having pervert fancies her dream was to have casual sex with 100 men. One day, she sets her eyes on a plain-looking boy to begin her dreams.
There’s only one small problem, the boy doesn’t know anything about sex or the ancient art of seduction, meaning her quest to conquer him will be a difficult one.
Yamada’s First Time: B-gata H-kei is amazing to watch and has a bit for everyone even if you are not an ecchi fan, you will still enjoy yourself. It’s an anime that deals with silly insecurities that we have or had that we can relate with on some level.
I completely agree! The chemistry between the leads in ‘That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime’ is undeniable. It’s one of the reasons why I love this anime so much.
I completely agree! The chemistry between the leads in ‘That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime’ is undeniable. It’s one of the reasons why I love this anime so much.