Here at Recommend Me Anime, we don’t do manga series in our recommendations, just anime. However, that doesn’t mean that anime fans don’t also like to lie in bed and read a few good chapters of manga every now and then.
And besides, where do many good anime series come from in the first place – The pages of manga.
If you want to read some good ecchi manga, and want to be someone who can potentially say you enjoyed a good series before it was all cool and animated, then check out these great ecchi manga recommendations that don’t have anime adaptations – yet.
Best Ecchi Manga With No Anime
Famidol!
One day, a girl asks Shouta to take a picture of her with Enoshima in the background. However, she is so cute that he gets embarrassed and runs away after snapping it.
He later discovers she is an actress filming in his home town. In order to get ready for her role, she suddenly asks Shouta to be her boyfriend.
Ai Kora
Where most young men lust after the whole woman, Maeda only likes specific parts of a woman. When he moves to attend school in Tokyo, he finds himself in a dorm with five unique girls, each one having a trait he likes.
Whether it is beautiful blue eyes or “bullet train” breasts, can he keep a straight head around these ladies?
Pastel
Heartbroken after his girlfriend moved away, Mugi takes a summer job at a beach snack bar. It is there that his friend sets him up on a date with Yuu who is less than perfect but a good rebound.
To his surprise, when he sees Yuu, she is the cutest! Unfortunately, Mugi walks in on her in the bath accidentally and discovers the next day that she has fled. He vows to find this super cute girl again!
Hetakoi
To celebrate his 20th birthday, Shizuka goes to the hot springs. There, he ends up seeing a naked woman who was passed out drunk.
He flees, but when he enters college, he is convinced to join the Hot Springs Club. Not only is this club dominated by girls, but he ends up meeting that girl he saw at the previous hot spring.
Nana and Kaoru
Kaoru is pure, but has a bit of an S&M fetish. He has always dreamed about trying it with his childhood friend Nana, but they have drifted apart.
One day, Kaoru’s mother gives away some of his S&M stuff to Nana. She accidentally tries on a leather one piece, ending up stuck without a key.
When Kaoru lets her out, Nana confesses that she may have more interest in his hobby than she thought.
Change 123
In order to cope with her father’s intense martial arts training, Motoko has developed different personalities. Each one is unique and with their own martial arts specialty and various quirks.
Sundome
Hideo is an apathetic young man. His world is turned upside down when an assertive and mysterious girl named Kurumi transfers to his school, joins his club, and basically invades his life with her hands and other body parts.
A Peephole
Technical school student Tatsuhiko Kido discovers a hole in the wall of his school’s dorms. Next door, he spots his neighbor Ikuno Emiru having a little… private time, but he is caught peeping.
When he tries to play it off by reporting the hole to her, she tries to shut him out. While pursuing her, she catches a picture of him in a compromising position and begins to blackmail him… into stripping.
Anedoki
After sharing his ice cream with a high school girl, she promises to take care of 13 year old Kouta while his dad is on a business trip.
As she treats him like a child, he’s not thrilled. However, she ends up inspiring him to save his school’s idol from a few punks (with her beating up the punks) and he ends up welcoming this high school girl into his home.
Minamoto’s Story
In middle school, the feminine-looking Terumi Minamoto was bullied by girls in his school after a popular boy declared him the prettiest girl of them all. After developing a fear of women, he is still trying to change himself as he enter college.
This becomes complicated when his father brings home a pregnant woman and declares her to be his new mother. Making things worse, she is also a teacher at his college with a reputation as a man-hater.
However, after she discovers that he suffered due to his looks, his new mother aims to “raise” him into the perfect lover, just like Genji from The Tale of Genji, a work that is her research thesis.
IO
Taiyo is finally going down to Okinawa in search of diving adventures and pretty girls. However, when flirting with a girl, she surprises him by saying he killed her mother.
He is pretty sure he has never been to Okinawa, but as he spends time with the girl and her sisters, he uncovers a series of mysterious childhood memories.
Hammer Session
Yazama Yuu is an escaped prisoner wanted for racking up theft as a con man. On pure accident, he manages to hide himself as the new teacher at a junior high school.
There, under his new assumed name, he uses his skills as a con man to help his students.
Maga Tsuki
Yasuke has finally worked up the courage to confess to his childhood friend, Akari. As he will have dinner with their family at the shrine, he rushes through the daily rituals and ends up breaking a sacred mirror.
Now, a goddess curses him and states he will die if he is separated from this goddess. Unfortunately for him, she is a goddess of misfortune.
Saru Lock
Yataro Sarumaru only has girls on his mind, but very little luck with them. However, working with his father, a locksmith, he uses his newfound locksmithing skills to solve local mysteries and help pretty ladies.
Umi no Misaki
Goto Nagi is traveling down to the island of Okitsushima to see the striking cape, Umi no Misaki. However, when he gets there, he finds a wondrous view and something not quite right with the locals.
More Manga Recommendations
There are literally thousands of more ecchi manga series out there that haven’t been animated yet. Do you have any more manga recommendations? Let ecchi manga fans know in the comments section below.
What’s the name of the manga in the header?? I’ve been looking all over for it!!
kono shima ni wa midara de jaaku na mono ga sumu
you probably have found this already, but there you go anyway
Nozoki Ana (Peephole) is ecchi, but also so much more, although I first read it from a hentai oriented site. It is a long story with good plot, about a quite lovely relationship in the end, and Emiru is definitely waifu material (even with her personality and quirks 🙂 ).
omamori himari already had the anime version, long ago… like… really long ago
“A Peephole” already has an animated adaptation, though. o_O