Manga
Written and illustrated by Katsu Aki, Futari Ecchi has been serialized biweekly in Hakusensha's manga magazine Young Animal since December 1996.[6] Its chapters have been collected by Hakusensha into individual volumes, with the first one released on August 29, 1997.[7] As of January 29, 2026, 94 volumes have been released.[8] In December 2002, a side story called began serialization in Silky, running for twelve chapters until its conclusion in October 2004.[9] It focuses on the women in the series. The individual chapters were collected and published into two volumes by Hakusensha.[10] Another side story titled began in Young Animal on June 23, 2017 and ended on November 24, 2017. It commemorates the series' 20th anniversary and is written by Monkey Chop and supervised by Katsu.[11] It was compiled into one volume. There are also two sex manuals and an art book, entitled Yura Yura.[10]
Tokyopop licensed Futari Ecchi for an English-language release in North America under the name Manga Sutra - Futari H in 2007, with two volumes of the original Japanese release combined into a single volume. However, before the release of the first volume, which was published in January 2008, several major retailers had announced they would not carry the title due to its content.[12] A representative of Tokyopop also said that the volumes were expensive to produce.[13] They planned to release the first ten Japanese tankōbon in five volumes, but only four were released, the fourth published in January 2009. Tokyopop ceased all manga publications in 2011.
Radio drama
From January 5 to March 30, 1997, a radio drama was broadcast on Nippon Cultural Broadcasting. The roughly 30 minute program aired on Tuesdays at 1:00am and was later released on two CDs, by Bandai Music, as Futari Ecchi: The CD Show (ふたりエッチ THE CD SHOW).
Original video animations
Beginning in 2002, a four-volume original video animation series was produced by Chaos Project. It is split into two stages; the first two episodes, released on July 26 and September 7, 2002, make up one, and the last two, released on November 27, 2003 and January 22, 2004, make up the second.
On July 2, 2007, Media Blasters announced that they had licensed the OVA series at Anime Expo.[14] They first released it as Step Up Love Story on two DVDs, each containing two episodes, on November 27, 2007 and January 29, 2008. On December 30, 2008 it was released in a box set, which was re-released on July 10, 2012 as part of their Anime Works Classic line.
Another three episode OVA, telling an original story, was released on October 10, 2014 by Production Reed.[15][16]
Live-action
A three-part live-action mini-series adaptation of Futari Ecchi aired on the pay-per-view channel Wowow in 2000. They were titled, and , and all directed by Gen Yamakawa.
In May 2011, it was announced that Futari Ecchi would be receiving both a live-action film adaptation and a live-action web series.[17] The web series was streamed on Ustream and stars Nana Nanaumi and Shinnosuke Fukushima as Yura and Makoto with Takaso Kase as Akira Onoda and Sasa Handa as Sanae Onoda.[17] It premiered in July 2011 and had fifteen 12-minute episodes created.[18] The entire series was released in DVD and Blu-ray box sets on September 16, 2011, with three additional episodes and a bonus DVD with a making-of feature.[18]
The film stars Yūri Morishita and Riki Miura as Yura and Makoto, was directed by Kazuhiro Yokoyama and written by Juri Sanemura.[17]
