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'''''Futari Ecchi''''' is an [[Seinen|adult]] [[Manga]] by author Katsu Aki (''[[
Yura Kawada and Makoto Onoda are two young adults who met recently at a [[Arranged Marriage|match-making service]]. After falling in love at first sight, Makoto proposed to Yura soon afterwards... and she accepted! Now with the ceremony behind them, the two eager newlyweds are looking forward to their wedding night. However, there is just one problem: both are [[Their First Time|twenty-five year old virgins]], and neither one of them have a clue about what to do in the bedroom.
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The story follows the inexperienced couple as they fumble their way through the ins and outs of married life. The pair are helped along the way by Makoto's [[Big Brother Mentor|pushy older brother]] Akira, Yura's "[[Really Gets Around|experienced]]" younger sister Rika, their somewhat over-eager parents, and a collection of decidedly quirky friends and neighbors. In the meanwhile, they make friends, make mistakes, make love, and hit upon just about any sexual problem or avenue you might think of (and probably some you wouldn't).
While ''Futari Ecchi'' is an [[Exactly What It Says
The series is being released in the United States by [[Tokyo Pop]] under the name ''[[Manga Sutra]] — [[Futari H]]'', and has received a four-episode OVA Adaptation titled ''[[Step Up Love Story]]''. Oh, and they're making a [[The Movie|Live-Action Movie]] out of it, impossible though that seems.
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* [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male]]: particularly with Makie, Makoto's coworker who only sleeps with married men and has her sights set on him. She has gone so far as to ''plant'' a [[Lipstick Mark]] on him.▼
* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: Both male and female. In Yura's case, complete with a survey and pie chart of how women feel afterwards.▼
* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: Chiharu, Yura and Rika's mother, at 46 years old she looks so young that she could pass of as her daughters' sister to strangers.
* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Don't know how "accidental" as Makoto gets throughout the series.
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* [[Big Brother Bully]]: [[Played for Laughs]] with Akira, Makoto's older brother. He genuinely wants to help, but keeps butting ''incessantly'' in Makoto and Yura's sex life to give them "advice" that they don't even really want in the first place.
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Yura's endowment, which fills a Japanese E-cup bra (roughly a D in American sizes), is the target of much admiration, from both sexes, throughout the series.
* [[The Casanova]]: Matsuzaki is definitely a [[Just for Pun|playah]], though his [[Incredibly Lame Pun|antics]] [[Informed Attribute|usually don't work on several women in the story]].
* [[Catch Phrase]]: A "Here I go!" or something similar from Makoto, whenever he is about to, ahh, engage Yura.
* [[Caught
** Though played straight when Yura walks in on Makoto masturbating, though she does convince him to never do it again.
* [[Christmas Cake]]: Yura Kawada narrowly averts this, as she meets her soon-to-be husband Makoto when she is twenty-five years old. Makoto's cousin Kyouko, however, is firmly entrenched in this trope (and [[Genre Savvy|boy does she know it]]). That is, until [[Casanova|Matsu]][[Likes Older Women|zaki]] came along.
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* [[Coming of Age Story]]: Of the "late bloomer" variety.
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Miyuki is the "beneficiary" of one with Makoto.
▲* [[A Date
▲* [[
* [[Ecchi]]: While some of the explicit scenes in the [[Manga]] series are borderline [[Hentai]], for the most part it falls squarely into the [[Ecchi]] category.
** It ''is'' [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Erotic Eating]]: [[Visual Innuendo|Chocolate Covered Banana]]. Played with when Yura just eats the banana at first.
* [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex]]: To the point that a young mother, having watched her ten-year-old son's classmate burst into tears and call the boy a jerk, immediately assumes that the kid has '''seduced and then spurned''' said classmate. She even confronts her son about it in [[This Is Wrong
* [[The First Cut Is the Deepest]]: {{spoiler|Miyuki}}
* [[First Girl Wins|First Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Jun, after having some adventures mentioned below, finally makes an emotional connection with an e-mail pal. It turns out to be her first love, Inoue.}}
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: The playboy that Jun meets has various tricks for overcoming her initial reluctance and distrust and winning her heart (or at least the part of her that he's more interested in). One of them involves meeting her at the top of a long staircase, at which point Jun trips right before she gets to him, lands in his arms, and is left thinking that her heart is beating fast because of him rather than the stairs. How he could predict that she would trip at the right moment is anybody's guess.
* [[Hollywood Sex]]: [[Deconstructed Trope]]. ''Futari Ecchi'' is about two people who only know [[Hollywood Sex]] ([[Virginity Makes You Stupid|if that]]), and shows, realistically, what happens when they try to apply it.
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Jun, Jun, Jun... [[Wide
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Basically the whole point of the series.
* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]]: Since Yura is inexperienced with sex (and fairly innocent, to boot), her more experienced sister sometimes has to run the euphemism treadmill before she gets the idea.
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Makoto. (Actually, a lot of the male characters come across this way.)
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* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Though being a sexualy explicit manga series, it has its share of this. Yura thinks Makoto is cheating on her with Rika when they were making noises. Turns out, they were both playing a fighting game.
* [[It's All About Me]]: Makoto tends to focus on his own pleasure when in bed with Yura, at least partially because he doesn't actually know what else to do (justifying the existence of the work itself). Yamada, on the other hand, has no excuse for his refusal to use a condom regardless of any pregnancy potential. Rika eventually calls him on it by staging a pregnancy scare.
* [[Jerk
* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Matsuzaki.
* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]: In the early volumes there was a plot to get Yura pregnant with Makoto's baby, they actively tried to make one, to no avail, so they decided to wait and take their time together to only then make such a big decision in their lives. After this event, there are small hints of them trying to make a baby again, but it falls on false alarm (the author dropping the plot kind); it seems Katsu Aki plans to make their child the series' climax, as after 50 Volumes Makoto and Yura still didn't get their baby.
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** Makoto exercises it on occasion as the series progresses, but out of stupidity rather than malice.
* [[My Girl Is a Slut]]: Rika sleeps with other men besides her boyfriend. [[Hypocritical Humor|When she suspects her boyfriend to be cheating on her with other women, it is pointed out that she does the same thing]].
* [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]]: Kyoko is [[Christmas Cake|30 years old]] and still maiden. In a [[Gender
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: A [[Running Gag]] with Akira.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Very much averted.
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Makoto, as a flipside to his [[Chick Magnet|Chick Magnetism]].
* [[Oh Crap]]: A particularly good one is in the first episode of the OVA when Makoto walks in on Yura accidentally watching one of his videos, but both do get it in both anime and manga versions.
* [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]]: Makoto and Yura meet at a Japanese ''omiai'' at the beginning of the series, providing a successful example of this trope. It's however even pointed out by other characters that this is kind of unusual in this time.
* [[Playboy Bunny]]: Book 30 of the manga put most of Makoto's female coworkers in this costume. Which gives ideas to Makoto, who brings home a bunny girl outfit for Yura.
* [[Porn
* [["Previously On..."]]: The second episode of the OVA starts, after the "stay back from the TV" message, with Makoto narrating over a fast-forward of the previous episode.
* [[Public Service Announcement]]: Though not government-sponsored, [[media:Futari_Ecchi_v01_002.jpg|this is the premise of the manga]]: a love manual that covers everything from the first time, fights and making up, to how love grows and new positions you can try. It comes complete with instructions (with cut-away diagrams!) and with statistics and surveys for reassurance.
* [[Purple Eyes]]: Yura. Also [[Green Eyes]]. Seems to [[Shrug of God|depend on the cover]].
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* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Makoto and Yura, in sharp contrast to the often-abrasive relationships around them.
* [[Spin-Off]]: ''Futari Ecchi for Ladies'' was also written.
* [[Stalker
* [[Thanks for
* [[Teasing Creator]]: The Pregnancy plot pops up now and then between a few volumes, with Makoto and Yura deciding now is the time to make one after witnessing an inspirational event, only to stop on their tracks and wait till they're more experienced with their married life. This happened so much in the spam of more than 50 Volumes, it seems Katsu Aki is teasing the readers with Makoto and Yura's possible future kid.
* [[The Chikan]]: Briefly referenced when Yura was fondled, though justice was very swift with there being an undercover cop only feet away.
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* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: {{spoiler|Miyuki}}
* [[Virginity Makes You Stupid]]: Both characters, though Yura at least has "[[My Girl Is Not a Slut]]" to justify it. (And even then, the attitudes of the characters around her suggest that, even if only among the eccentrics, it's becoming acceptable in Japan for women to be knowledgeable co-participants in bed.)
* [[Wall
* [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"|We Named the Cat Yamada]]: Rika names her cat after her boyfriend.
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