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>> Anonymous
>>162675

Go Back 2 /h/!!!

Don't know the difference between ecchi and hentai???

There's no sex (at least no semen or PENIS) in ecchi... It can be a girl masturbating... wuteva...

/h/ is great too, I just don't want u to enjoy ur b&... so post /h/ in /h/
>> Anonymous
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Whats funny is just how few people really understand the difference.

Ecchi is meant to be arrousing without being overt about it. Innocent girls wearing inappropriate clothing, maybe some breasts, and thats... really about it. It isn't about the skin, its about the theme.

Hentai, meanwhile, is meant to give you the goods. Anything below the waist would be hentai, done deal.

Sexy outfit = ecchi. Boobs are borderline. Snatch is hentai.
>> TheDarkEye
Whats funny is the japanese usage for ecchi and hentai..."to do ecchi would mean to do sex" ^^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecchi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentai
>> Anonymous
More like, /h/ = sex and /e/ = sexy.
Pic showing sex = /h/
Pic showing sexiness = /e/, above/below waist, boobs or not doesn't matter
>> Anonymous
These are Western anime fan distinctions. Ecchi is the name of the Japanese equivalent of the letter "H". It is the first letter in the word "hentai". They pretty much mean the same thing. When a female anime character says "ecchi," of course, she is not claiming the male character who just peeked up her skirt is being sexy. She's saying that he is being perverted.

For a long time now, western fans have been using the words to distinguish between what they consider softcore and hardcore. What you consider hard and soft is subjective. Neither ecchi or hentai are western words, and they don't have any real, agreed upon meaning in the West. Fans tend to agree upon very little, and the line between ecchi and hentai moves all over the place. Having said that, damn near everyone in anime fandom agrees that the graphic depiction of sex is hentai rather than ecchi.
>> Anonymous
>>162865
tl;dr
read the FAQ
>> Anonymous
>>162866
forgot the link:
http://www.4chan.org/rules.php#e
>> Anonymous
>>162866
I've read the FAQ. I wasn't commenting on the rules. I was commenting on the way people were defining the terms differently in this thread.
>> Anonymous
>>162865
100% truth.

But the error is so ingrained into the majority it's pointless to try and correct what has been misconstrued for so long that it's become accepted as fact.
Which if you look at the history of human ignorance, it a rather common occurance of 'if the majority says so, it must be right'.

Meh lol
>> Anonymous
>>162881
You can say whatever the hell you like about reality, these "western distinctions" drive what get you the ban hammer.
>> Anonymous
>>163016
Very perseptive Captain Obvious.

You have guided us to yet another blatantly undeniable fact. Your job here is done.