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Many characters have a past connecting them back to a previous sometimes-unwholesome work.
This often happens from being derived from early drafts of other works of the authors, especially creators who worked in the doujinshi industry: limited runs of small-release fan comics. Some kinds of doujinshi happen to feature original characters and also be outright pornographic in an attempt to gain some quick capital with fans, creating the potentially unsettling feeling the character started in the mind of the author with an unsavory tone. For some artists, this can be a little awkward, but the attempt to hide (as voice actors do under an assumed name) it is pretty futile in practice. Some professional artists go the other route, and may continue to draw doujinshi distinctly separate but still featuring their own characters.
Bleached Underpants is most common in bishoujo series, since most of them do assume the fan knows they were openly based on hentai games, but is obviously cleaned up for broadcast. While keeping the porn might stay true to form, it's much more lucrative to get the monies from TV while they can. In many cases, this removes the only thing worth watching. In others, the sex was an incidental or intrusive addition to make the early story more enticing, and reduces the amount of Selective Squick fans might have for the series. This is especially popular in "pure" moe fandoms that feed back into themselves, where later adaptations of the Bleached Underpants adaption also feature no scandalous scenes.
Because of the different attitude toward such things in Western society, this can be a shaky prospect, as many artists become well-remembered for their racier art, and often make attempts to distance themselves from it.
(If you still haven't gotten the title, it's a pun on "dirty laundry". "Dirty laundry" is something you're ashamed of in your past, so clearly cleaning up something you're ashamed of would be metaphorically "bleaching your underpants")
See also Old Shame, Rule Thirty Four. Hotter And Sexier is often the opposite of this trope. Playing To The Fetishes is a more different kind of opposite.
Examples
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- 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.
- We should note that episode 10 is the Beach Episode of the series.
- 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.
- Also the PS 2 port of Fate/Stay Night
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and its related series Triangle Heart 3 Sweet Songs Forever have their roots in a Triangle Heart 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.
- 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.
- I must also add that there's an eroge of To Heart 2 titled "To Heart 2: Another Days", made just last year by Leaf with new characters, as well as some familiar ones from the original novel along with a new male protagonist. Among the HC Gs in its content there is a threesome scene involving Tamaki, Konomi and the male protagonist.
- 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 ( Or So I Heard from a friend who played it ) 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 PS 3 with (what is generally regarded as) superior character design. The anime then took the PS 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.)
- Given that the demons were manifestations of Mai's power...
- It gets pretty sad in Eternal Fighter Zero. It's pretty hard to take the fighting seriously when you realize at least 90% of the characters have had canon sex scenes.
- While in the subject of Key/Visual Art's, 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 School Girl Lesbians to boot it is far from being hentai.
- Gakuen Heaven is a pretty good example of this applied to the Boys Love genre. The original PC game included sex but didn't show any penises. The sequel and the PS 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. Luckily, 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.
- Another Yaoi example is the popular Dating Sim Sukisho. From what I hear the Shotacon and H scenes aren't present in adaptations from the game (At least 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.
- 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.
- Akamatsu Ken, the author of popular teen series Love Hina and Mahou Sensei Negima, got his start in hardcore Cardcaptor Sakura lolicon doujinshi.
- 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.
- 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. His 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 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.
- Sadly unsurprisingly, the action manga Gunslinger Girl started out as a series of borderline-Lolicon 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 creator of Blood The Last Vampire, Tamaoki Benkyo, also did several short stories for hentai anthologies and published the extremely graphic Lolicon series Tokyo Akazukin.
- Not the creator. Tamaoki was just hired to draw up the sequel manga, Blood: The Last Vampire 2002. But it is part of his 'rise' from regular porn artist to hardcore action guro guy.
- The creator of Ghost In The Shell started out as an H-artist, perhaps unsurprising considering the rife fanservice 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.
- 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, Or So I Heard. 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.
- 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.
- 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 Five 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.
- Inversions, artists more known for their ero-works than mainstream, but 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 Plot With Porn game Girlish Grimoire: Littlewitch Romanesque.
- Toshihiro Ono creates many doujins and H-mangas such as Anal Justice under his penname Kamirenjaku Sanpei. He also drew the first 2 volumes of Crest of the Stars and Pokemon Electric Tale of Pikachu, the latter's artwork having to be edited in America (and supposedly a little bit in Japan in the reprints!) to cut down on the fanservice.
- Probably the more known name: Tony Taka. Did ero-works such as Genmukan; Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro; After, etc. Also the main illustrator of Shining Tears and Shining Wind (but oddly, not the anime adaptation Shining Tears x Wind).
- Another big name: Satoshi Urushihara, who does the cover artworks for H-manga anthology Tenma Comics and is part of a (still active) ero-doujinshi circle Henreikai, drew the characters in the Growlanser and Langrisser series.
- Yonekura Kengo is more well-known for his ero-manga, but he did design the characters for a rather famous Eroge - Kana: Little Sister.
- In the case for Yui Haga (see below), he/she is releasing an ongoing, very ecchi manga called Lotte no Omocha. Considering his artstyle is very close to Disgaea's art style as well as an active illustrator for h-games...yeah
- 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.
- 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.
Comic Books
- In a rare US comics example, Ben Dunn, author of the manga-esque Ninja High School, at the same time wrote a satirical adult series entitled NOT Ninja High School.
- One of the unique things about NOT Ninja High School is that several artists from regular Ninja High School projects did stories. Artists who've done Not NHS stories include Bob DeJesus, Takeshi Suzuki, Fred Perry... and... er... This Troper.
- Another rare Western example is Fred Perry, who got the idea for his comic Gold Digger while drawing pin-up art for his fellow soldiers during the First Gulf War.
- Start? Check his Gold Digger commissioned works. He's STILL doing his own hentai doujinshis!
- (Not So) Surprisingly, Chuck Austen stirred more controversy with his nipple-free mainstream work (X-Men, Superman), than his early underground porn comics. (There's also some rather noticable thematic similarities between his X-Men dialog and the dialog in his X-rated comic, Strips. Or so I've been told...)
- Fables creator Bill Willingham wrote and drew the pornographic fantasy comic Ironwood earlier in his career, although he had also done gaming art and some comics before that.
- Colleen Coover has become quite well known for doing the cute, funny back-up strips for X-Men: First Class. Her first published comic was a "girly [lesbian] porno comic", in her own words.
- The artist of the Bazooka Joe comics was apparently an artist of Tijuana Bibles, short pornographic fan comics.
- 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. But worry not, his works are mostly the Plot With Porn type.
- Omamori Himari, with its plot dangling between Plot With Porn and Excuse Plot, excessive (merely)SFW Fanservice 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 surprise.
- 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.
- This Troper was rather surprised to see Mikoshiro Nagitoh, most well known for his rather over the top Sado-maschocistic series "St. Margareta Gakuen", doing Yousei Ningyo Shoujo Kurumi (aka Fairy Doll Girl Kurumi), a rather tame (in comparison) Ecchi combat-meets-nudifier. Then he realized he was reading a work by Mikoshiro Honnin. Yeah, real original there, bub.
- Fred Gallagher, artist and currently sole author of Megatokyo, has drawings of young women (maybe girls) in varying degrees of undress that still circulate the internet. While not identical to his current characters, the Gallagher-style resemblance is apparent. For several reasons, he disavowed making them for a good few months after their discovery.
- Oddly enough, the chapter that followed was almost entirely about characters taking their clothes off. With the eventual count of five major characters featured in their underwear by the end it seemed suspiciously self aware.
- One of the longest running current furry webcomics, Sabrina Online, is drawn by Eric W. Schwartz, who has been known to draw furry pornography, and in fact currently runs a furry porn pay site. However, he wrote a F.A.Q. defining exactly how his characters could be used in fan, basically saying please don't draw Sabrina porn. However, a few atrocity tourism sites, especially Crush!Yiff!Destroy!
 , claimed that he himself was using other people's copyrighted characters in his pornography, under the pseudonym TDK, making him not only a furry pornster, but also a hypocrite. At this point, Schwartz has put out a "blanket denial," and it nothing has ever really been proven either way.
- It's been proven that TDK has an art style extremely similar to Schwartz's, at the very least, and that they have both posted to message boards and listservs from Amiga OS computers from the same IP within an hour of each other. They're roommates who happen to draw identically, at minimum.
- Not to mention that several supporting characters started off as characters in various porn pics, by Schwartz and others (In particular, Tammy, Zig Zag, and Darke Katt {ZZ Studios' janitor})
- Girl Genius writer and artist Phil Foglio was previously well known for his erotic comics (they're quite good, Or So I Heard), although he makes no attempt to hide it - he's been seen at conventions wearing a pin or nametag reading "Gentleman Pornographer".
- His wife, Kaja, was a collaborator in both XXXenophile and What's New With Phil & Dixie, an RPG-based comic that used to run in gaming mags (and is rerun on the Foglios' website). Not to mention they both openly admit she models Victorian underwear of the type frequently featured in GG.
And not always for the sake of the comic.
- Wendy, one of Josh Lesnick's best remembered characters (or character templates) began as the focal character of The Wendy Project, a site showcasing tons of pinups of Wendy and her friends (which, according to the artist's retrospective, were rather badly drawn). The characters would eventually star in the increasingly more wholesome comic bearing Wendy's name, and Wendy's character design was later reused in the filler series Cute Wendy, which became a runaway success and spawned its own sequel/spinoff Girly. Despite the Old Shame involved, Josh has continued to produce short pornographic comics on his Slipshine subscription service to this day, some of which still feature Wendy prominently, although slightly better drawn now.
- As if the Hellsing examples weren't enough, the creator of And Shine Heaven Now bleached two more of Kohta Hirano's characters: admittedly, Nina wasn't bleached much (she went from a catgirl who had sex with Hitler..don't ask) to a succubus who swaps bodies with Schrodinger, but Pip's grandfather was recently shown in a flashback. He's the Coyote from the hentai manga of the same name.
Memetic Mutation
- The fangame Nanaca Crash borrows characters from the H-game Cross Channel.
- The original of the Caramell Dansen meme features a short dance loop from the above mentioned Popotan set to Swedish pop-song.
- Miko Miko Nurse, Miko Miko Nurse, elder sister hexagon, Miko Miko Nurse!
- The character Suzuran from the H-Game Suigetsu appeared on Image Boards so many times with the catchphrase "Waha!" that people took to calling her Waha instead.
Other
- The great Italian painter Francesco Hayez (currently best known for "The Kiss") also did some sketches which can only be described as straight-up hardcore porn. They're towards the bottom of this gallery. (Not, obviously, safe for work.) Hayez lived in the nineteenth century, making this one Older Than Radio at the very least.
- Picasso too made such sketches, which have even been the subject of their own exhibition.
- This was not uncommon among some of the older masters. Of the top of his head, this troper can remember a Rembrandt etching of a couple having sex, and a Da Vinci sketch of a man ejaculating into a woman... drawn in cross-section!
- Phillip Jackson, one of the concept artists for Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, is also the author of the webcomic Sequential Art... and also a fairly well known (at least on deviantART, under the name "Jollyjack") drawer of very busty furries and furry transformation sequences. And he sells them over the internet to make an extra buck. The fact that some of them are outright porn doesn't help.
- Noizi Ito is perhaps mostly known for her illustrations for the Suzumiya Haruhi light novels (which were used as the base for the anime), but she has also has done extensive work for various hentai games.
- L0cke wrote and published hentai doujinshi before working on Gaia Online.
- Takahiro Kimura, a character designer whose credits include Gao Gai Gar, Godannar, and Code Geass, also did the designs for the Viper series of H-games. Though considering Godannar could get pretty Fan Service-y at times...
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While no evidence has been found, the art style of Disgaea series is disturbingly close to what Yui Haga draws, considerin he/she draws very explicit variations of Disgaea characters. That or Yui Haga really is a superb copycat to the Disgaea's original character designer. Jossed, but interestingly, the original character designer, Harada Takehito does doujins under the name Haradaya, so...
- Why does Barbie, a children's doll unconnected with superhero comics, have the Most Common Superpower? Because she's based on "Bild Lilli", a doll marketed to adult men in Germany. Lilli herself originated as a bawdy character in a German comic strip in the 1950s.
- Now, why some of Ryoka Yuzuki's roles are a Ecchi and Hentai in nature? It is because Ryoka-chan used to be a nude model prior to becoming a seiyu. But without the Rule34, though. Or so I thought.
- The Japanese woodcut master Hokusai created what is generally considered to be the Ur Example of tentacle porn. Google "Dream of the Fisherman's Wife."
- The Muppet-popularized song "Mah Na Mah Na" originated on the soundtrack of an Italian porno.
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