Bleached Underpants/Anime and Manga

Anime based on H-Games

• Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru started as an H-game, which is ironic, given how shy Mizuho is in the only slighty ecchi anime.
• SHUFFLE!, openly—somewhere around episode 10, an R-15 warning was added to the television broadcast, after which the Ecchi content was upped... occasionally.
• Popotan originated as an H-game, and seems to have clung to its roots, despite the development of a serious and gripping plot. This led to a number of tense, dramatic scenes shot from inexplicable and jarring upskirt angles.
• The anime adaptations of the TYPE-MOON adult Visual Novels Tsukihime (as Shingetsutan Tsukihime) and Fate/stay night with the erotic content mostly toned down. It's noteworthy that sex is actually a mechanic that's important for the Nasuverse's magic system, so it's not THAT easy to do in practice.
  • In the Play Station 2 port of Fate/stay night, this was done by downplaying or removing many if not all references to sex, replace the Deus Sex Machina scenes themselves via having Magic Crest transplants performed on Shirou in Fate and UBW or having Sakura drink Shirou's blood (which also provides mana) in Heaven's Feel, and toning down Shinji's comments regarding Sakura (albeit that creates a bit of a plot hole, sice Sakura's Rape as Backstory IS an important part of her route. The Updated Re-releases for Steam and Nintendo Switch did more or less the same.
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and its related series Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～ have their roots in a Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～ H-game, though both Anime series have hardly any scenes of an even vaguely sexual adult nature. (There was, however, a hentai OVA of the first Triangle Heart game.) Of course, Nanoha is based around a character from the game who didn't have any H-scenes (given that she's the original protagonist MUCH younger half-sister).
  • On a related note: Nanoha was the first project of animation studio Seven Arcs which was not pornographic.
• Leaf, developers of the classic Bishoujo Game To Heart, initially released its game on the PC with explicit adult content, but re-released the game for the Playstation home console with adult content excised (then re-released that version on the PC with some more extras), expanding its following dramatically (in conjunction with the release of a clean TV adaptation). With the sequel, To Heart 2, Leaf reversed the bleaching and released a completely clean original on home consoles, then added adult content for the PC release, titled To Heart 2: X-Rated. The anime adaptation of To Heart 2 was clean. And *then* an eroge of To Heart 2 titled "To Heart 2: Another Days" was made just last year by Leaf with new characters,
  • LEAF / Aquaplus also produced Utawarerumono, initially an adult game. Its huge success lead to an anime and a Playstation 2 game, both 'clean' to the point of often lacking fanservice ( at least of more conventional sorts, though it does occasionally come up ). However, the anime, while leaving out the sexual aspects entirely, still left clear points in its plot where the story would have gone in an adult direction. The Playstation 2 version followed the original, adult game much more closely, to the point of cutting off on the brink of an H-scene then picking up afterwards. Only the original, adult game however, so openly blind-sides the player with the revelation that Dorii and Guraa are actually male. The others just kinda leave you unsettlingly uncertain.
  • Again from LEAF is Tears to Tiara which originated with an adult PC game. Later remade for the PlayStation 3 with (what is generally regarded as) superior character design. The anime then took the PlayStation 3's take on things.
• As noted above, Key Visual Arts' games Kanon and AIR were originally H-games, but the anime versions and later releases of the games were clean, and many people thought the hentai actually detracted from the story. (And was oddly placed. See Mai's arc in Kanon, where they go to the school to fight demons, but take a break to eat supper and do it on the desks. I suppose they were courteous demons. Though in a way, this KINDA make sense given that the demons were manifestations of Mai's power...
  • Eternal Fighter Zero
• While in the subject of Key/Visual Arts, like Leaf, they also reversed the Bleaching with Little Busters! visual novel. Initially released as a clean visual novel with a gripping plot, followed by a manga adaptation, they now re-released it as Little Busters! Ecstasy as...well...an adult version of the original one (plus extras).
  • The same goes for Clannad, except that the unbleached game is a Gaiden Game sequel to one of the routes in the original (Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life).
  • Although the Key 10th Anniversary Box edition is ero-free version of Extasy.
• Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito was based in a H game and while the anime still carries plenty of fanservice with Schoolgirl Lesbians to boot it is far from being hentai.
  • There is also Touka Gettan, which is distantly related to Yami Bou, that features this trope on two fronts: it's based off of an erotic visual novel that, in turn, is a spin-off of the erotic visual Hentai series KaoNoNaiTsuki.
• Gakuen Heaven is a pretty good example of this applied to the Boys Love. The original PC game included sex but didn't show any penises. The sequel and the Play Station 2 port both toned down the sex to just suggestion. The anime cleaned things up even further until the original game's rapist seme was reduced down to sexual harassment by elbow licking. The manga versions of things keep much closer to the original source material.
• Demonbane is based on a series of eroge for the PC, but removing the adult content doesn't impact the mecha/Lovecraft story much.
  • Notable in this anime is that it spawned THE BIGGEST MECHA IN FICTION!
• Another Yaoi example is the popular Dating Sim Sukisho. The Shotacon and H scenes aren't present in adaptations from the game (At least not in the anime and OVA).
• The hentai game series Green Green was adapted into an anime that started off pretty clean, but eventually added back in the nudity, but never had the sex of the games.
  • Until episode 13. The one that was never licensed in the U.S.
• They Are My Noble Masters started as a H-Game but when the anime came out, it was filled with TONS of Shout-Out to different series.
• The twelve episode series Soul Link is based on the game. Plot is almost the same, some characters were added, but the H is toned down. There is still lots of sexiness and one or two bed scenes.
• Princess Lover, based on the same named eroge from RICOTTA. Most of the elements from the visual novel were kept for the animated adaptation; however, RICOTTA wasn't entirely satisfied with just a broadcast release, thus averted this trope by releasing an H-OVA for one of their heroines. They plan on doing this again for another heroine.
• Yosuga no Sora plays this trope straight with its manga adaptation, but surprisingly averted this with its animated release...on broadcast television, by going the entire way of showing explicit sex scenes at the end of each heroine's arc.
• Magical Canan, based on Terios Company's game and hentai OVA Magical Kanan, is developed by totally different developers (AIC) and has totally different art style.
• Prism Ark
• Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na originated as an H-game, but the anime adaptation and Play Station 2 port have the sex scenes removed.

Anime whose artists were Hentai Doujinshi creators

• Gravitation and its source manga are not hentai, but the original artist continued to release hardcore yaoi doujinshi—even of the series itself—while it was running.
  • Its sequel, Graviation EX, seems to be pushing the envelope even further. And the mangaka still seems to be releasing extremely explicit doujinshi of her own characters.
• Ken Akamatsu, the author of popular teen series Love Hina and Mahou Sensei Negima, is said to have gad his start in hardcore Cardcaptor Sakura doujinshi. In reality, he only drew one CCS short before moving on to Love Hina. It shows how one small brush can affect an artist's image, though; people now think the half-hearted four pages he drew at the end summarize his entire doujinshi career.
  • On a somewhat related note, an assistant of Akamatsu is behind the Cu-Little series of doujinshi. Certain people continue to argue the very similar art style is proof that Akamatsu himself is behind the books. This does not appear to be an issue in Japan, where they can read the credits and the assistant's website.
• Kohta Hirano, creator of Hellsing, started out writing freelance Hentai featuring characters that eventually became the cast of the aforementioned work. In fact, one of his works, Legend of Vampire Hunter, is identical in plot and character design to the first book of Hellsing—except, of course, that the busty police officer is only threatened with rape in the latter work. Hirano being Hirano, he lampshades this all the time in the author's notes in the first volumes. Other Characters used in previous Hentai titles that were roped into the Hellsing series; Alexander Anderson from the short comic "Angel Dust", and Pip Bernadette from "Coyote".
• Rikdo Koshi, the original creator of Excel Saga, introduced Excel, Il Pallazzo, and prototypes of the Daitenjin team in a Hentai doujinshi. The anime version subverted this trope by dragging the doujinshi into Rikdo's — and the audience's — faces.
  • This was actually averted with Rikudo, who never stopped producing H manga or made any attempt to cover it up. And then it's subverted by Watanabe in the final episode "Going Too Far", who after chomping at the censorship bit for so long envied Rikudo's relaxed creative constraints. Watanabe looked forward to the chance to push every limit of broadcast standards, and is quite pleased with himself for doing so.
• Oh! Great, creator of Tenjho Tenge and Air Gear. He still produces hentai manga and his mainstream work isn't too far from it. Some of the hentai work has seen release in the US under the title Sex Files.
• Kiyohiko Azuma, the creator of Azumanga Daioh and Yotsuba&!, headed his own doujin circle, "A-Zone", and even professionally published one H-manga under a pseudonym, before creating Azumanga Daioh and hitting the big time in a big way.
• The creators of Tactics, probably aware of the ambiguous undertones between the male leads have created created a series of Doujinshi that are yaoi spin-offs of the main narrative.
• The action manga Gunslinger Girl started out as a series of mostly loli doujin (by the same artist), and the final chapter of said series was an epilogue where the characters who were the prototypes for the eventual protagonist and her handler run away from the agency together and have gratuitous, statutory sex.
• The artist who drew the sequel manga of Blood: The Last Vampire, Tamaoki Benkyo, also did several short stories for hentai anthologies.
• Shirow Masamune, the creator of Ghost in the Shell started out as an H-artist, perhaps unsurprising considering the rife Fan Service in both the manga and anime and the outright lesbian scenes in the manga. Most of his famous work was written while he was still an H-artist. He might not have ever stopped being one either. Most of these works can be found in the "Galgrease" artbooks, and are fairly old.
• Hobby Japan, the anime-related merchandise company, who authored Queens Blade, hired many artists and designers to create the girls for the line of battle books; some of these artists were (and others still are) renowed Hentai artists, the most notable being Oda Non, Koume Keito and Kuuchuu Yousai.
• Masaki Kajishima, creator ofTenchi Muyo! started out with several H doujinshi, and has made several borderline titles set in the Tenchi Universe.
• Kazuya Minekura, the creator of Saiyuki and Wild Adapter, started out drawing yaoi Doujinshi. It's pretty apparent in her later works. In fact, Wild Adapter was officially published as yaoi in Japan (although not in the US).
• The manga team Kaishaku, who even after being quite successful still do hentai doujinshi, even of their own work (one of them being a mix of Kannazuki no Miko and Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto, the latter is totally non-fanservice...)
• The creator of the manga Bastard!!, Kazushi Hagiwara, works with his doujinshi circle "Studio Loud in School" to produce hentai doujinshi. Some of these are of the characters in Bastard!! and offer hentai scenes to the storyline that couldn't be put into the "regular" version, or pornographic retellings of scenes that are just borderline dirty originally. He sells these on his website. And they even advertise them in the back of volume 25 of the manga.
• Ryuta Amazume got his start doing original H-manga, before eventually moving on to the almost-but-not-quite-H-manga he makes today, like Nana to Kaoru and Toshiue no Hito. Interestingly, he specializes in using ero-manga tropes and letting reality happen.
  • For those uninformed, Amazume Ryuta's pen name when making explicit stuff is "A Roman Gaman" (a Kanji Pun that can be read as "eromangaman"). He is particularly known amongst Lolicon fandom, despite his more serious works featuring grown women.
• Konno Azure's probably best known work is Koe de Oshigoto!, which is incredibly Ecchi due to the protagonist's job as an Eroge voice actress. But look around and you'll find some straight up hentai works like Puberty Crazies.
  • One of the games they do voices for, "Miko Crazies", is actually Puberty Crazies but with less pornographic camera angles, or a character may be partially clothed. The dialogue, however, is exactly the same.
• Semi-example: Even critically acclaimed creator Makoto Shinkai is not immune. While he is most known for singlehandedly producing Voices of a Distant Star, and made critically acclaimed works such as The Place Promised in Our Early Days and 5 Centimeters Per Second, he also is responsible for creating the opening movies for Eroges Ef a Tale of Memories, Wind -a breath of heart-, and Haru no Ashioto. Given that these games are all Porn with Plot with highly praised plots, it's probably nothing to be ashamed of.
• Inversions: some artists are more known for their ero-works than mainstream, but have also released mainstream works:
  • Naruko Hanaharu got his start drawing Hentai for Comic Kairakuten, stopped only long enough to create Kamichu!!, then went right back to Kairakuten once it was done. The schism between the two bodies of work is not nearly so great as one might think.
  • BLADE, famous for some lolicon-ish mangas, also known as illustrator to Macademi Wasshoi.
  • Oyari Ashito aka NOCCHI, for illustrating Kita He~Diamond Dust Drops~. More known as illustrator of Porn with Plot game Girlish Grimoire: Littlewitch Romanesque.
  • Takeda Hiromitsu, he is more known for his hentai manga and doujinshi works, fame earned by his style of drawing women climaxing, the ahegao style, and some notable Netorare Genre works; he authored a mainstream work, Maken Ki, still it his first non-ero work and already got an animated adaptation, only time will tell if his resume will invert, to a mainstream mangaka who was once known as a hentai mangaka.
  • Toshihiro Ono is the well known creator of the manga The Electric Tale of Pikachu, the first official manga of the Pokémon series, as well as the first 2 volumes of Crest of the Stars. He's also Kamirenjaku Sanpei, artist of Anal Justice and other Futanari and Shotacon serieses using the same art style. (This surprises few people who have seen the original Japanese manga's Misty art—the girl runs around in a micro-tubetop and pants that would make Daisy Duke blush.)
    • It definitely surprised a few casual American readers, though. In one of Ono's other comics, an Author Avatar of him is at an American convention, and he gets asked by one person about his porn work. He just replies "Sorry, you're confusing me with someone else. And I don't know why it's called that either."
  • Tony Taka is the main illustrator for many of eroge developer Ciel's works such as Genmukan Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro and After. He is also the main character designer of Shining Tears and Shining Wind and Shining Hearts (oddly enough, he was not part of the Animated Adaptation Shining Tears x Wind).
    • For some reason, Tony Taka rarely does the art for the anime/H-adaptations of the games he's worked with. His fame is so great that some adaptations falsely advertise him as the leading artist.
  • Another big name: Satoshi Urushihara, who does the cover artworks for H-manga anthology Tenma Comics, drew the characters in the Growlanser and Langrisser series. Not to be confused with Kawarajima Koh of ero-doujinshi circle Henreikai, who is a different example of someone more famous for his doujinshi than mainstream illustrations.
  • Yonekura Kengo is more well-known for her ero-manga, but she did design the characters for a rather famous Eroge - Kana: Little Sister.
  • Nozomu Tamaki, a fairly known H-mangaka, with such Porn with Plot titles as Don't Meddle With My Daughter, Midnight Panther, Ne-To-Ge and Koneko under his belt, released a marginally more palatable but still pretty awesome (if you're not turned off by the amount of loli Fan Service) action thriller Dance in the Vampire Bund, adapted by the Studio Shaft.
• Rei Hiroe, writer and artist of Black Lagoon, produces doujinshi under the name TEX-MEX, one of them being a beach-themed book featuring Black Lagoon characters.
• Mine Yoshizaki, creator of Arcade Gamer Fubuki and Keroro Gunsou, got his start doing video game doujinshi.
• The Character Designer of Luminous Arc Shibano Kaito worked on the game-cg of the H-Game Born Freaks (A game where you turn your clone of a sister to a Petting Zoo Human so you can bring your real sister back from the dead.)
• Takahashi Tensugi, artist of Puella Magi Kazumi Magica, has drawn a fair amount of Shadow of the Colossus fanart, much of which is flat-out porn.

Other Anime

• Even Osamu "Father of Manga" Tezuka indulged into this. Not only he did make the very racy movies Senya Ichiya Monogatari and Cleopatra Queen of Sex, plus mangas like Ayako and Apollo's Song with different degrees of quite screwed up sexual contents... but when his desk work was unlocked by his daughter Rumiko in 2014 (around 25 years after his death), he was discovered to have drawn LOTS of mature-themed art. Including stuff that can only be described as "furry porn"
• While a lot of the works by the also legendary Go Nagai are rather racy, he'd done his fair share of outright erotica. Even stuff based on his mainstream works such as Mazinger Z.
• One interesting, if odd example, is the anime series Mezzo, a decent action anime series that would be of little note except for the fact that it is based on a hentai OVA called Mezzo Forte.
  • Curiously, each of the two Mezzo Forte episodes only has a single two minute sex scene—and it's easily edited out without any plot impact, as was done in some US versions. Japanese contractual obligations to add hentai material, meet overseas distributor underpants bleaching! The followup TV series was also non-hentai.
  • Too bad it's the pornographic original that had noteworthy animation, fight choreography, and tighter writing that the low-budgeted TV series fails to deliver. A very odd case where the clean, serious incarnation lacks the integrity of the hentai.
  • Mezzo Forte was not supposed to be porn at first, but the producer bankrolling it believed it was the only way it would make money and forced the team to add in the gratuitous nudity and sex. Basically, Mezzo was what they had really wanted to do all along (once they found a different publisher.)
• Similar to Kanon and AIR, Project A-ko was originally produced as part of the Cream Lemon hentai series, but the producers thought the comedy was too good to be broken up with sex scenes. They left plenty of suggestiveness in, though.
• Fans of the Lupin III anime and movies are likely to be scandalized by the manga, which is full of nude girls, innuendo, and barely-censored sex scenes. The franchise has gradually become more and more family-friendly over time. For example, the first anime series was dark and serious, the second was Lighter and Softer, and the third was just silly.
• Keito Koume, the illustrator for the manga version of Spice and Wolf, drew the H-manga Kafun Shojo Chuiho AKA The Pollinic Girls Attack.
• Dream Hunter Rem started life as a one-shot hentai OVA. Due to popular demand this one-shot was re-edited and rereleased with a newly made episode as a mainstream title and eventually spawned four sequels.
• Daily Life with Monster Girl is part of the Monster Girl Encyclopedia universe, which is a very explicit Web Original Monster Compendium.
• Many voice actors take up works in Hotter and Sexier media like hentai anime, hardcore BL anime / manga/ games, etc., but use pseudonyms to avert any troubles. i.e, the whole cast of School Days went under "artistic names" in the original visual novel (which has explicit sex scenes), but used their real ones in the anime (where sex does happen but isn't as directly shown)

Manga

• Ever read My Lovely Ghost Kana and Ai-Ren? Yep, they're huge Tear Jerkers alright. Well, their creator, mangaka Tanaka Yutaka mostly creates ero-mangas aside from his few ecchi mangas. His work ranges all across the spectrum of explicitness with Ai-Ren on the R-Rated end, and Virgin Night solidly in the "explicit" side of the spectrum. Worry not as even his more explicit works are worthy Hentai With Lots of Plot.
  • Even Virgin Night was pretty softcore; there was only a few panels showing the genitals and those were as softcore as you can get while showing genitals. This also applies to the other short stories within Virgin Night that are not the titular short story.
• Omamori Himari, with its plot dangling between Porn with Plot, excessive (barely)SFW Fan Service with some Fetish Fuel, you know what you're into. And to no surprise, the author majorly draws H-mangas, and some pretty interesting ones at that.
• Arguably Virgin na Kankei's author Takumi Kobayashi, but seeing the content of the mentioned manga, you definitely can't be surprised.
• Aki Sora, created by the same author of several H-mangas. In fact, aside of an Air doujin and a Kimikiss adaption, Aki Sora is among 2 of the only non-H original works of Itosugi Masahiro.
• Little known to everyone, Black Cat and To Love Ru's author YABUKI Kentaro has a history of drawing Hentai works, albeit with a different penname.
• Tinkle, a CG Artist, has worked on a few H-games aside from 3 short manga serializations
• Name any Light Novel series at Media Factory Bunko J (Hidan no Aria for example) and the artist who did the illustrations for the artwork and there is a very likely chance they did either the illustration for a H-game or was a doujin creator if the artwork in the anime/manga is risque.
• As if the Hellsing examples weren't enough, the creator of And Shine Heaven Now bleached three more characters from Kohta Hirano's hentai manga: Nina, admittedly wasn't bleached much (she went from a catgirl that had sex with Hitler to a succubus that switched bodies with Schrodinger and then fought Alucard), but the characters Natalie and Pip (the prototype for Hellsing's Pip Bernadette) from the hentai manga Coyote were lightened up, the only signs of the hentai background being a scene where Natalie is chained up. They turn out to be Pip's grandparents.

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