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alt title(s): Loveable Sex Maniac
Italy: Nii-san, what is this "intercourse?"
France: Hahaha, Italy, you don't know? It's something you do with someone you like!....So, Italy....DO YOU LIKE ME?
The ethics of Anime-land are often lackadaisical at best, and nowhere is this more evident than in the case of the Lovable Sex Maniac. This uniquely Japanese form of Casanova goes above and beyond the average sleaze, engaging in the full spectrum of perversion — from dabbling in pornography to blatant sexual advances to outright molestation, sometimes of severely underaged characters. In the real world, of course, (even real-world Japan) such behavior will land you in court — but in anime, the worst you'll get is a whack from a Hyperspace Mallet. The only thing that keeps the Lovable Sex Maniac from being a truly disturbing antihero is that his antics are always played for laughs — and the odd thing is, it usually works.
A Bottle Fairy can double as the Lovable Sex Maniac with, interestingly, very little change just because she's female, especially if the lack of men forces her to chase after women. Also compare the Chivalrous Pervert.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
- Hatake Kakashi of Naruto takes the intentional handicap to its extreme by engaging in hand-to-hand combat while reading Make-out Paradise. While this particular series seems to be little more than trashy romance novels, Fanfic authors take the same glee in writing lurid "excerpts" from the books that professional writers seem to take in coming up with fictitious porn titles.
- Also, Hatake Kakashi has one of the more perverted jutsus, the 1000 Years of Death, which is just a very hard ass poke.
- "Ass poke" underplays it. He sticks his fingers UP YOUR RECTUM!!!
- Orochimaru, in the same series, is quite likely a pedophile, but because of his good looks, he has actually acquired a large fan base — who often pair him in Fanfic with 12-year-old Uchiha Sasuke.
- Jiraya. He wrote all the Ichi ichi books and was a terrible letch.
- Come to think of it, most of the really powerful characters in Naruto are to some degree Lovable Sex Maniacs — in fact, Jiraiya, the author of Kakashi's favorite porn, is one of the most powerful ninja in the world.
- And let's not forget the title character is known for a Gender Bender jutsu with (literal) Vapor Wear, and actually manages to use it as an effective combat tactic sometimes.
- And he calls Jiraia a perv... though to be fair, he comes up with that tech because he knows "older people" will react to it. It isn't later that he becomes a letch.
- Allielle from El Hazard The Magnificent World is Princess Fatora's nymphomaniacal lesbian lover, and while Fatora is missing she manages to hit on almost every other female character in the series. So great is her love of women that when male Makoto disguises himself as Fatora it turns her on almost instantly.
- Ryo in City Hunter.
- Ataru in Urusei Yatsura.
- Lupin from Lupin III, although his line with the ladies is more akin to a hit-or-miss James Bond; he also generally confines his amorous attentions to his female partner in crime, Fujiko.
- Takeshi (Brock) from Pokémon is a G-rated version of this trope, who falls in love with every girl he meets (including every Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny) and has to be pulled away by Kasumi (Misty) or Masato (Max), usually by dragging him by his ear. In the Diamond and Pearl series, his Croagunk uses Poison Jab on him when he does this. (Curiously, Kasumi, Haruka (May), and Hikari (Dawn) are three of the few girls he does not fall in love with. Perhaps because they're not yet... shall we say... "ripe"? In the original Kasumi is twelve, Haruka and Hikari join the cast at ten.) He seems to be aware of this, to the point where the one time he didn't fall for a Nurse Joy, he mused something was wrong; said Nurse Joy was actually Musashi (Jesse) of Team Rocket in disguise. Interestingly, the one time he did try to settle down with a single woman (a Pokemon professor in the Orange Islands), the result is a mysterious, deeply-scarring incident that he refuses to tell anyone about and drove him into a depressive slump whenever someone mentioned it. He seems to have gotten over it since, but the exact details are still unknown.
- May models bikinis for him. She's only 10 but she looks 16. The biggest piece of jailbait from any anime.
- Actually, Misty is only a few months older then Ash, so she is also ten.
- Tadao Yokoshima, from Ghost Sweeper Mikami, is the lovable sex maniac male lead - who dares to climb up to the fifth floor to be a Peeping Tom, went through a well pre-planned route to furtively watch naked women in order to power up to win the tournament, and skirt-chased almost any female (human, non-human alike) when he had a chance.
- Ban Mido of Get Backers crosses this line often, though it's mostly an excuse to include lots of Fan Service, usually in the form of large panels depicting HEVN's physics-defying breasts.
- Subversion: Kei Kurono of Gantz is about as Unlovable a Sex Maniac as one can get short of casting a verifiable rapist as the protagonist. He's a selfish, amoral jerk, but fortunately one who is forced to experience real loss and takes a level in Badass as a response.
- Though Kei looks like a saint compared to Kuwabara Kazuo, an Osaka Gantz member who is so sexually obsessed and crazed he will rape female looking aliens "because that's not against the law". When confronted with the freakish alien boss whose morphing abilities eventually cause it to turn into A GIANT NAKED WOMAN MADE OUT OF NAKED WOMAN, his solution once being grabbed by is...well, I'll save you the images.
- Master Roshi from Dragonball was certainly a pervert. Constantly commenting on women, asking them for a look at their panties in exchange for a Dragonball or something. He once was nearly defeated after someone threw a pair of panties on the ground near him, making him dive for them and forget all about the battle he was in. Perverted personality notwithstanding, he is a genuinely kind grandfather figure who looks out and cares for the young Z-Warriors like his own grandchildren. Old Kaioshin near the end of the series is a would-be sex maniac except he never actually gets to grope any girls.
- Oolong likes to give as well as take, though. The less said about his Puff-Puff scene with Muten Roshi, the better.
- Sanji from One Piece. He will do just about anything for any woman and cannot bring himself to even hit one, even if his opponent is really a male shapeshifter masquerading as a girl and he knows as much. He will, however, take any chance he gets to ogle a woman, to the point that he used to dream about eating the Suke-Suke Devil Fruit, which would grant him invisibility and make it possible for him to peep on naked women.
- Also deserving of a mention is Brooke, who, upon being introduced to a woman, will ask to see her panties. Remarkably, he seems to drop the issue immediately after being denied, and has so far never brought it up twice with the same girl.
- Not to mention Brook makes these requests in such a gentlemanly fashion.
- To be fair, he did ask Nami a second time...although instead of asking to see them, he simply asked what sort she was wearing that day. Also, Brook made a point of being several hundred meters underwater in a submarine before asking. In a remarkable display of self-control, he managed to not ask hot pirate lady Shakky at all in the original manga.
- It's also rendered horribly sad by the implication that his behavior is mostly due to the years of isolation atrophying his sanity/social skills/self-control. (Although he seems to be steadily improving.)
- Ral from Blue Dragon: Ral Grad. Having grown up to the age of 15 without any sort of human contact, he becomes enamored with the very concept of "boobs" the instant he sees Mio (his female instructor for those 15 years.) He then swears to protect the world exclusively for the benefit of women, on the off-chance they'd let him grope their boobs. Or, as he puts it, "tit for tat." The other characters only put up with this because he's a brilliant strategist, a formidable fighter, and is actually a good and kindhearted person (and he has the most powerful Shadow in the kingdom, natch.)
- Albireo Imma of Mahou Sensei Negima practically embodies this trope. Always ready with a plaster smile and eyes closed to hide his true intentions, he's hard not to love for being able to spout an irritatingly bad joke even while being strangled. And like the trope dictates, he's not shy about outright lechery. It's best to assume that he's being perverted when his face is obscured via his hood (the smile is only for when he's trying to appear innocent)
Albireo: Don't worry, I'm not planning anything devious.
Kaede: Can I trust you on that?
Albireo: (smiles) I swear to god on my name
Kaede: That's a pretty difficult-to-trust smile de gozaru~
Albireo: I get told that a lot...
- More recently is another member of the Ala Rubra Jack Rakan, said to know no bounds with women even went so far as to remove one of the enemies' underwear during battle. He did it so fast that she never noticed till he showed her. She was reasonably horrified.
- The only reason he didn't do it to both enemies is because one of them was going commando. He also won the battle by constantly flipping their skirts up until they surrendered. Yeah.
- Are we forgetting about "Chichigami"? Paio II? Chapter 235? Who's actually a loli?
- What about Chamo? His introduction involves sneaking into a swimming pool with the 3-A girls and pulling their bathing suits off. And pretty much getting away with it, because he's an ermine. (At least until Asuna shows up.)
- Kaoru from Zettai Karen Children. Note that Kaoru is a 10-year old girl...
- At first this is limited to large-breasted women, but once Kaoru grows older she also shows interest in her classmates, to the point where everyone calls her a dirty old man. Since she focuses on girls (including the other two Children), this really leads to just one conclusion...
- Tina Foster from Ai Yori Aoshi.
With the sole exception of Mayu, she's "playfully" groped every member of the cast...including Kaoru.
- Kintaro Oe, from Golden Boy. Sex maniac? Oh yes. Lovable? In spades. Everyone who meets him, even those who know he's an incorrigible pervert, either love him or think of him as a true hero. But then, he's also amazingly kind, noble, and will work himself to the bone helping anyone who needs it.
- Miroku from Inuyasha regularly asks women to bear his children, as well as constantly groping
Sango any reasonably attractive woman within reach.
- Urusei Yatsura, an earlier work by the same author, has three of these. Shuutaro Mendo is one of these, as well as a Lord Error Prone Spoiled Brat- however, his suave, debonair nature makes him the most successful, arguably bumping him into Handsome Lech territory. Minor character Nagisa Shiowatara is a pretty ordinary example of the trope... bar the fact he's a crossdressing Bishonen martial arts master (of sumo wrestling, no less, despite not having the build) who was dead for several years and who consequently retains some of his ghostly powers, allowing him to infiltrate gatherings of girls with great ease. And then there's male protagonist Ataru Moroboshi, who is such a flirt that he can become a Determinator if there's a pretty girl involved, and who wants nothing to do with his unintentionally gained fiancee, the beautiful alien princess Lum. However, he's quite heroic and generally likeable compared to his spiritual successor...
- Happosai. Functionally, Happosai is more of a Fair Weather Mentor version of the Old Master, spliced with the Dirty Old Man, but the way his perversions are treated in the series qualifies him for this. While he does often get treated as the villain, that's more because of his habit of A: throwing temper tantrums to try and break Ranma to his will, and B: stirring up trouble that Ranma and company have to solve then because of his lechery. Not only is he focused on groping and voyeurism, but he's also a Panty Thief- in fact, he's literally addicted to being a pervert, and goes into actual withdrawal symptoms if he doesn't get to sate his desires often enough.
- Bleach: It seems like everyone associated with Urahara Shop or the Vizards fits this trope. Urahara and Yoruichi both have a tendency to behave rather, er, shamelessly, especially around minors. It's also worth mentioning that there is strong circumstantial evidence to suggest that they may be at least friends with benefits. All I can say is: Renji had better be careful about knocking before entering while staying with them. And don't get me started on the time Ichigo woke up in bed with Tessai. Ururu and Jinta have yet to present, but give them time and I'm sure they'll blossom. Also, Shinji claims practically every girl he meets as his "first love" (watch him introduce himself to Orihime), Lisa openly reads pornographic manga, and Mashiro has been known to randomly grope herself.
- Urahara and Yoruichi are shameless, sure, but they have nothing on Chizuru's pure lechery.
- Don't forget Kon. He finds benefits in being a plushie...sometimes. Justified (?) in that he was stuck in a pill with the fear of death for who-knows-how-long, only managing to survive by a fluke and Rukia's good will. Which sort of explains (though does not justify) why he acts in such a way. If YOU where rescued from a I have no mouth and I must scream scenario, wouldn't YOU be a little grateful to whoever let you out? As for the sex-mania...he was in the pill for a LONG time.
- Kurz Weber from Full Metal Panic.
- Grandpa Danbei from the new Cutey Honey animated series is a perfect example, taking any opportunity to get a look at the heroine in various states of undress. This isn't hard as every second fight scene and transformation leads to the heroine's clothes falling/blowing away.
- Imadori Kyosuke from School Rumble.
- The Elder from Chrono Crusade, who also happens to be a Dirty Old Man. He makes a game out of catching Rosette off guard and sneaking a peek under her skirt (the score at the beginning of the series is 10 wins, 4 losses) and then has the audacity to complain that her choice of underwear isn't sexy enough. He also sneaks into the women's dorm at the Order and steals their panties, and one time even sneaks into the women's bathroom to watch them shower. Did I mention he's a prominent member of a religious organization and all of these women are nuns? So Yeah.
- No idea why, whether it's the irony factor or what, but Japan likes to target clergy (originally Buddhist, but now any kind) for this type of gags. See also Miroku.
- Nene from Hyakko qualifies as a female version. No girl around her is safe from her ogling eyes and she has no qualms asking a cute girl out on the spot. She doesn't do it quite as much to guys, even though she claims to be bisexual.
- France from Axis Powers Hetalia is this trope incarnate. He goes around groping various countries regardless of gender and frankly shouldn't be trusted around children
 . Then, there's the Christmas Episode.
- Rin Kokonoe of Kodomo No Jikan is highly flirtatious and likely possesses more carnal knowledge than most adult males, despite being a 9-year-old schoolgirl.
- Kanokon has Chizuru, a va-va-voom high school girl who is interested in Kouta, the most timid, girl-like boy in recent anime history. Assertive and sex crazed, Chizuru comes across as being stupidly over the top for a high school girl until you discover she's really a 400 year old Kitsune. ... And then you meet her mother.
- In a weird variation, Side Burn of Transformers Robots In Disguise spends much of his onscreen time chasing red sports cars, even though he presumably knows they're not sentient. The woman usually driving said car finds this seriously unnerving, and has more than once crashed as a result.
- Onizuka in Great Teacher Onizuka is an interesting case of a loveable sex maniac who's also, by his own admission, a virgin. Apparently all that ogling and fantasizing leaves too little time for any actual sex.
- He had a chance with one of the girls in his class during his training. After what she put him through, he didn't trust it, and when it was too late for him to act on it, she proves her willingness by showing him that shes not wearing panties. He promises to come back when he has a chance.
- Two similar characters in this trope are Keita from Inukami and Kakeru from Akikan. Both of them are absolutely shameless in their behavior, but they don't end up with much success either, often being struck with Amusing Injuries.
- Note that in both cases their Magical Girlfriends are at least somewhat excepted from their antics. At least initially. Also, in Akikan, Yurika and Otoya also fits this profile.
- Spirit Albarn, shameless flirt and fan of all things female.
- Ms. Yoshinoya in the Hidamari Sketch manga. She's able to suggest going nude at the drop of a hat, and commented that Yuno's small butt looks cute. Understandably, most, if not all, such references did not make it to the anime.
- The titular character of Iono The Fanatics, whose favorite pastime involves enthusiastically trying to make her large lesbian harem even larger.
- Sei from Maria-sama Ga Miteru is clearly having the time of her life as the one fully outed lesbian at an all-girl institution, filled with lovely students.
- As is Kanako from Maria Holic—or she would be, if she wasn't always being bullied by Mariya, and getting Nosebleeds so bad they put her in the hospital at the mere sight of panties or boobs.
- Hayate Yagami of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, who the Sound Stages reveal to have a more perverted side that really likes breasts, even back when she was a 9-year old Ill Girl, much to the horror of Signum. Remember, it's not sexual harassment, it's fun skinship between girls.
- Jouji "George" Koizumi from Paradise Kiss is a less comedic version, and his loveable perversion is played mostly seriously. Right after his first kiss with Yukari in his car, he conversationally asks her where she prefers to be taken to lose her virginity (the options being a cementery, a rooftop, and last his bed). He also makes constant comments about his friend Arashi's ass (he once nudges it with a pool cue), boasts about his proficiency with knots and offers to tie Arashi's girlfriend Miwako up in front of her boyfriend.
- Yuria is the very definition. She can't help it though, she's just programmed that way.
- Futana is a Genderbending example. Whether male or female, she'll go after Anything That Moves. In one chapter, she goes up against a male example who always beats her to cute girls because she has to go off and change. And her room is covered floor-to-ceiling with pin-up posters
Comics
- 'Killer' Diller, from the newspaper comic Beetle Bailey. He was a lot more successful with the ladies in the past back when the comic was deemed sexist.
Literature
- Western G-rated example: Bingo Little from Jeeves and Wooster is infatuated with every woman he meets and, having the attention span of a moth, forgets them as soon as the next skirt shows up (though eventually he settles down and gets married).
Live Action TV
- Western example: Dennis Finch in Just Shoot Me.
- Jack Harkness from Doctor Who and Torchwood.
- Jason Stackhouse from the HBO series version of True Blood. His antics constantly get him into trouble, but he's not portrayed as a bad person, just. . . dumb.
- Barney from How I Met Your Mother is set up as this, but in a more reasonable way — the audience loves his antics, but his friends tend to find him crude.
- Patrick from Coupling. Most of the characters qualify to some extent, but he's the most extreme.
- Dean Winchester. Dude returns from 40 years of unspeakable torment in Hell and one of the first things he does is check out the porn rack at the convenience store.
- Copélia from the Brazilian Sitcom Toma Lá, Dá Cá practically is this trope given flesh, to her daughter's chagrin. She's the principal source of sexual jokes in the show, and is prone to tell stories of her past lovers and their adventures. Thing is, she's way past her age, being at least on her seventies, and still kicking.
- Fez from That70s Show definitely qualifies: he has been caught peeping onto characters having sex many, many times, but nobody seems to dislike him for it.
- Joey from 'Friends' talks openly and often about his many, many sexual conquests, at one point admitting to deflowering an intern on the set of his television show. His love of pornography is also the target of numerous jokes. Phoebe is also a candidate; she is almost as promiscuous as Joey, and is prone to inappropriate comments (e.g., upon catching a glimpse of Chandler's member in the bath, she comments cheerily 'Mazel tov!')
Professional Wrestling
- Obligatory Professional Wrestling example: Jerry Lawler. Despite being old enough to be the father — or, in some cases, grandfather — of the female wrestlers, still inevitably leches over them on commentary, often to a disturbing degree. Even his broadcast partner is uncomfortable sometimes. Oddly, none of the women seem to watch the tape and complain about his behavior in public... you think that story arc would write itself...
- Some say he's actually like that in real life (to a lesser degree anyway).
Real Life
- Bon Scott. At least, according to his discography.
- Russell Brand, considering he actually suffers from a sex addiction.
Video Games
- Margus from the RPG Rondo of Swords. If it looks female, he'll flirt with it. When the party hears at one point that a girl has been kidnapped, Margus presses the witness for some very important information: was she hot?
- While Shiki from Tsukihime does not go around openly being a pervert, he is so very much a sex maniac it's kinda scary. Since he's so badass though, he qualifies as lovable.
- Shadow Rise in Persona 4, though it's debatable exactly how lovable she is, being evil and all. She does seem unable to say anything that isn't an innuendo, so I guess it counts.
- Haken Browning from Endless Frontier is this trope, though considering bloody near every woman in the game (even the flat chested ones and the lolis) are always some form of walking (and often fighting) Fetish Fuel, one would wonder about his sexuality if he didn't act like this, and despite him being adopted by John Moses it's also In The Blood.
- Interestingly enough, a minor NPC gets into a bit of one sided Ho Yay with him, and despite the fact he's clearly not interested, he's also pretty even tempered about it.
- Zelos Wilder of Tales Of Symphonia, who even has a special in-game skill that lets him flirt with female NP Cs for free items and money. He earns a special title for flirting with every girl in the game. There are also many (hilarious) Z-skits about his womanizing, including one where he thinks about hitting on Celsius.
- Morte in Planescape Torment, being a disembodied skull, can't do much to act on his lecherous streak, but that doesn't stop him from admiring and making passes at female bodies, living or dead. The Nameless One can set him up with a prostitute for a gratifying skull-polishing, or send him to learn new obscenities from a dominatrix.
Webcomics
Web Original
Western Animation
- Glenn Quagmire from Family Guy pretty much sums this up to a T, although the increasingly explicit hints at outright rape have thrown the "lovable" label into question.
- Also Herbert the old perverted man who lusts after Chris Griffin.
- Oh, Boomhauer.
- "Yeah man, I tell ya what, man. That dang ol' Internet, man. You just go on there and point and click. Talk about W-W-dot-W-com. An' lotsa nekkid chicks on there, man. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. It's real easy, man."
- Vinnie from Biker Mice From Mars.
- Zan from Amazing Adrenalini Brothers.
- Pepe le Pew, people!
- Comic: "I Luv Halloween" Take out lovable, and you got Mr Kitty, a young trick or treater dressed as a cat who loves to ogle at womens' cleavages. In the first volume, his head actually explodes when he witnesses a teenager flashing her bowling-ball sized breasts in anger.
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