The word “Shounen” refers to a particular age group that consists of young boys in their teens. There is also the well-known weekly magazine known as “Shonen Jump,” which is targeted to this particular audience.
Shounen is also one of the most famous genres in anime for its content, focusing more on friendship and values in life.
As we are here to discuss Ecchi, there are some enjoyable Shounen Ecchi anime for those who treasure both these genres equally.
So, let’s begin with the list of top 10 shounen ecchi anime.
10Rosario + Vampire
Rosario + Vampire displays a human’s journey filled with mishaps in a school of monsters.
Rosario + Vampire
Air Date: January 3, 2008 Status: Finished Studio: Gonzo No. of Seasons: 2 No. of Episodes: 26Youkai Academy is an institution where monsters learn to coexist with humans. For that reason, every monster disguises themselves as humans.
But no humans are allowed in the school, and if found, they are immediately executed. Tsukune Aono, unable to get into any proper high school due to his grades, gets enrolled in Youkai Academy by his parents.
He meets a beautiful girl named Moka Akashiya on the first day of school. But after witnessing Moka as a vampire, Tsukune’s unexpected life in a high school of monsters begins.
9Love Hina
Love Hina delightfully portrays Keitaro’s life as a manager of an all-girls dorm filled with enchanting beauties.
Love Hina
Air Date: April 19, 2000 Status: Finished Studio: Xebec No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 24After promising a girl in his childhood, Keitaro Urashima has failed to fulfill the promise to meet at Tokyo University when they grow up. He goes to his grandmother owned hotel to continue his studies while staying there.
But after reaching there, Keitaro was shocked when he was left with the duty of maintaining the hotel turned all-girls dorm as the manager. Surrounded by five lovely girls, Keitaro finds it hard to study besides maintaining the all-girls dorm.
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8To Love Ru
To LOVE-Ru is a sweet rom-com with a little bit of spiciness in it.
To Love Ru
Air Date: April 4, 2008 Status: Finished Studio: Xebec No. of Seasons: 4 No. of Episodes: 62Rito Yuuki is a 16-year-old boy who has infatuation on Haruna Sairenji, his classmate, since junior high but has yet to confess his feelings.
His situation becomes even more challenging when an alien princess suddenly appears before him while bathing. To avoid an unwanted political marriage, Lala Satalin Deviluke, the alien princess, is even ready to marry him.
7Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs deals with Fuyuzora, who wants to help a beautiful spirit to pass on to heaven without any regrets.
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
Air Date: July 14, 2018 Status: Finished Studio: Xebec No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 12After being possessed by an evil spirit, Fuyuzora Kogarashi is broke and ends up living in Yuragi-sou for its cheap rent, knowing it is haunted.
Ready to confront the spirits in the boarding house, Kogarashi finds out that the spirit known to be evil is actually a beautiful silver-haired girl named Yuuna.
Accompanied by many eccentric residents with supernatural abilities, Kogarashi wants to help Yuuna pass on to heaven by fulfilling the regret she is stuck in this living world for.
6Sankarea: Undying Love
Sankarea: Undying Love illustrates the consequences of crossing the fine line of obsession into the world of insanity.
Sankarea: Undying Love
Air Date: April 6, 2012 Status: Finished Studio: Studio Deen No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 12Chihiro Furuya cannot think of living his life devoid of everything zombie. He is so much into the world of zombies that he wants her girlfriend to be a zombie.
Soon, he notices a girl named Rea Sanka screaming out her regretful life as a human, listening to which he asks if she is interested in leaving human life.
Thinking of a way to die, she agrees, but after drinking the potion given by him, she was unexpectedly turned into a zombie. With no place to return, she lives with Chihiro, whose dream has come true, while Rea fulfills her unfulfilled wishes.
5Heaven’s Lost Property
Heaven’s Lost Property portrays the life of Tomoki after meeting the girl from the sky.
Heaven’s Lost Property
Air Date: October 5, 2009 Status: Finished Studio: AIC A.S.T.A. No. of Seasons: 2 No. of Episodes: 25Since his childhood, Tomoki Sakurai has always woken with tears after having a dream about an angel. Being worried, his friend Sohara Mitsuki asks Eishirou Sugata for help, an eccentric sky maniac.
Sugata concludes that Tomoki’s dream is connected to the New World, a floating aberration unfamiliar to scientists. Following that, Tomoki encounters a girl who fell from the sky and started to call him master.
4Air Gear
Air Gear brilliantly portrays human’s desires to fly in the sky.
Air Gear
Air Date: April 5, 2006 Status: Finished Studio: Toei Animation No. of Seasons: 1 No. of Episodes: 25Air Trecks are motorized skates are the newly developed skates that have changed the world of skating.
But a group of skaters named “Storm Rider” is tinkering with these Air Trecks to use them in the underground battles with their pride as a wager. The winner gets to Rule the Streets.
Itsuki Minami is a reckless boy who engages in street fights along with his friends Kazuma Mikura and Onigiri. But soon after getting his hands on a pair of Air Trecks in his house, he finally realized his desire to dominate the skies.
3Nisekoi
Nisekoi displays the value of a promise in the emotion called love.
Nisekoi
Air Date: January 11, 2014 Status: Finished Studio: Shaft No. of Seasons: 2 No. of Episodes: 32Trying to lead a normal life instead of being the only heir of a Yakuza family, Raku Ichijou has nothing but a pendant with a lock, whose key is with the girl he played with during his childhood.
But his peaceful life soon comes to an end when he is forced to pretend to be in love with the American Bee Hive Gang’s daughter, Chitoge Kirisaki, to maintain the peace of their city as well between the two gangs.
Their undesirable relationship begins to change when other girls from Raku’s past barge in.
2The Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins uniquely displays the flaws of the mightiest warriors simultaneously with their overwhelming strength.
The Seven Deadly Sins
Air Date: October 5, 2014 Status: Airing Studio: A-1 Pictures, Studio Deen No. of Seasons: 5 No. of Episodes: 93The Kingdom of Britannia was protected by the Holy Knights, who were capable of using magic. But after the betrayal of a few Knights, the kingdom was in chaos until the Holy Knights saved it from being overthrown.
The deeds that seemed to be heroic soon turned into evil when the saviors betrayed the King and took the throne for themselves. Following which the rumors of the “Seven Deadly Sins” being alive spread across the kingdom.
Trying to bring back happiness to the kingdom, the former princess, Elizabeth, embarks on a journey to find the Seven Deadly Sins.
1Food Wars
Food Wars is God’s gift to humanity.
Food Wars!
Air Date: April 4, 2015 Status: Finished Studio: J.C.Staff No. of Seasons: 5 No. of Episodes: 86Since his childhood, Souma Yukihira has helped his father as a sous chef in his own family restaurant. Souma has developed a passion for entertaining his customers with his culinary creations.
He has a dream to become the head chef and own his family restaurant. But his father suddenly decides to close the restaurant and sends Souma to Totsuki Culinary Academy, an elite cooking school where only 10% of students graduate.
The institute is famous for it’s “Shokugeki” or “Food Wars” where students face off in intense and high-stakes cooking showdowns. Soon Souma and his friends struggle to survive the extreme lifestyle of Totsuki while greater challenges await them.
Honorable Mentions
There are some other Shounen Ecchi anime that are worth watching, they are:
Trinity Seven, Highschool of the Dead, Ao-Chan Can’t Study!
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