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  • adjective erotic, lascivious, lewd, naughty, sexy, suggestive
  • noun uncountable A genre, especially of anime and manga, featuring playful, tongue-in-cheek usage of sexualized imagery and situations such as double entendre or flirtation, while remaining non-pornographic. Often used to differentiate from hentai which features overt sexual themes.
  • noun uncountable blanket term used to describe such media
  • noun rare, countable A situation within a story, especially anime and manga, which ventures into the ecchi genre.

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