Futari Ecchi

Futari Ecchi
Manga
Written by	Aki Katsu
Published by	Hakusensha
Anime

Futari Ecchi (ふたりエッチ Futari Etchi), or Step Up Love Story, is a manga series by Katsu Aki (克・亜樹, a pen name).

Futari Ecchi is a story about a newlywed couple in their mid-twenties. Both virgins when married, the story chronicles their sexual explorations. The manga combines both pornographic elements as well as factual and informative elements. The title Futari Ecchi ("two person ecchi") is a play on a slang term for masturbation, hitori ecchi ("single person ecchi"). A four-episode anime OVA series was produced in 2002 and 2003.

Futari Ecchi tells the story of Makoto and Yura Onoda, newlyweds in Tokyo. Many comedic complications get in their way, from nosy relatives to interfering co-workers, but they do love each other very much. So far, there are 30 volumes released. They are released in Young Animal magazine.

There is one issue completely set around the sexuality of women called Futari Ecchi for Ladies and an artbook with the title Yura Yura. There is also a short OVA series.

In Germany the series is known by the title Manga Love Story

Characters

• Makoto Onoda (小野田 真 Onoda Makoto) is a 25-year-old junior salaryman. He was introduced to Yura through an omiai. He is very critical of his own sexual abilities.
• Yura Onoda (小野田 優良 Onoda Yūra) is Makoto's bride. Also twenty-five years old, Makoto is the first man she has ever had sex with. She is loving but extremely naïve on sexual matters and too shy to try something new by herself.
• Rika Kawada (河田 梨香 Kawada Rika) is Yura's younger sister. Experienced and promiscuous, she constantly teases and goads both Makoto and Yura into improving their "night life."
• Miyuki Kikuchi (菊池 みゆき Kikuchi Miyuki) is a secretary at Makoto's office. She had a long-standing crush on Makoto while he had been working as her home tutor but never told him. She has attempted unsuccessfully to seduce Makoto on at least one occasion, and has met Yura at least twice.
• Kyoko Omiya (大宮 杏子 Ōmiya Kyōko) is Makoto's second cousin and an obstetrician and gynecologist. At the request of Makoto's mother, she moved in next door to the Onodas to encourage them to reproduce. She is thirty years old and still a virgin, and worries that she may be "running out of time."
• Akira Onoda (小野田 明 Onoda Akira) is Makoto's older brother. He is very nosy, and frequently pesters Makoto about his sex life.
• Jun Onoda (小野田 淳 Onoda Jun) is Makoto's younger sister. There was a one-chapter 'side-story' of sorts showing her sexual exploits with her boyfriend.

Style and theme

There are many scenes in the series that look like they are actually happening but are then revealed to be the sexual fantasies of Makoto or another character. This means there are many scenes of Makoto having sex with other characters, while in truth he only has sex with Yura.

One of the fetishes explored in the series is cosplay.

External links

• Futari Ecchi Reviews (in English)

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