Released in 2007, Dragon Destiny was- as far as I’m aware- the first anime to have nude fanservice specials on DVD. Usually whenever you see any “first” in anime, it’s not all that impressive, but in this case we are treated to fanservice specials that are as good or better than most fanservice specials even in recent seasons.
The first season of Ikkitousen (animated by JC Staff!) was a groundbreaking series. It mixed nudity and battles, at the same time. It was the first non-OVA anime to do this. This particular blend of “combat nudity” would influence ecchi anime for years to come.
GoHands is an amazing company. This, THIS, came bundled with a manga!? Two years later and the aforementioned fourth manga volume still hasn’t been scanned, probably because everyone that bought it was too busy fapping to this incredible OVA to do anything else.
Though this anime has a distinct “Slayers” feel and was marketed as such in North America, the wonderful truth is that it is all window dressing for this pure fap-fest of a fanservice series. When hot babes have to take their clothes off to fight the bad guys, you know you’ve found a winner.
This 2011 fanservice vehicle is pretty under-rated in my opinion. Few shows did panty shots this well, and though the character designs are kind of clunky, they are true to the original. And of course, most of these girls are quite huge where it counts. K-cup? Are you fucking kidding me?
It’s amazing to think now, but Rosario to Vampire was fairly daring for TV show standards back when it first aired. Most mainstream fanservice anime avoided nipples like the plague at this time, instead opting for blank boobs. Rosario to Vampire took things further, particularly in season two.
This was an odd one to say the least. It was part random humor, part seemingly serious storytelling, part weird for the sake of being weird, part nude fanservice, all while being (intentionally?) incoherent throughout. Anyway, the service actually gets pretty intense at times. Good stuff.
Widely thought to be the best ecchi series in the last couple years, DXD did something few ecchi series could- appeal to mainstream anime fans while still shoving fully exposed bare breasts in our faces at every turn.
Yosuga no Sora doesn’t just give us fanservice, it goes where so very few ecchi series venture: sex.
What we think of as modern day ecchi basically began with Ikkitousen and Girls Bravo back in 2004. There had been ecchi series before then, but not quite like this.
