History Manga / FutariEcchi

* UglyGuyHotWife: Makoto is portrayed as being no more than average-looking, while Yura is a hottie on all aspects, and characters constantly wonder WhatDoesSheSeeInHim. Rika opines in ''For Ladies'' that his [[GoldDigger significant paycheck]] was a major appeal. (Actual truth: they, you know, love each other and all that.)

* WallBangHer

* TheBabyTrap: Rika tells her boyfriend Yamada, who hates using any kind of protection, that she's pregnant as a way to [[ScareTactics scare]] him into being more responsible about protection. She's lying and admits it when his way of being responsible is to marry her. He takes it back when it turns out to be a fake.

* {{Caught with Your Pants Down}}: A variation; Makoto walks in on Yura watching one of his porn videos. In her defence, she didn't know what was on it.

* NamesToKnowInAnime: Creator/YujiUeda as Makoto, Creator/TomokoKawakami as Yura.

The series is being released in the United States by TokyoPop under the name ''Manga Sutra — Futari H'', and has received a four-episode OVA Adaptation titled ''StepUpLoveStory''. Oh, and they're making a [[TheMovie Live-Action Movie]] out of it, impossible though that seems.

The story follows the inexperienced couple as they fumble their way through the ins and outs of married life. The pair are helped along the way by Makoto's [[BigBrotherMentor pushy older brother]] Akira, Yura's "[[ReallyGetsAround experienced]]" younger sister Rika, their somewhat over-eager parents, and a collection of decidedly quirky friends and neighbors. In the meanwhile, they make friends, make mistakes, make love, and hit upon just about any sexual problem or avenue you might think of (and probably some you wouldn't).

* JapaneseHonorifics: Makoto and Yura refer to each other with the '-san' honorific, despite being married. It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by others how that's strange since they're married. One of Makoto's co-workers, though, says she thinks it's good cause it shows they respect each other.

* LampshadeHanging: Happens several times, particularly when it comes to Makoto's frequent ImagineSpots. He proceeds to imagine Yura in an extravagant costume, like a kimono, to have sex with her in it, proceeds to immediately imagine to undress her and then have sex. One of the narrator-boxes lampshades this by asking, "''What's the point of imaginging her in those clothes if you're just gonna take them off, anyway?''"

* Edutainment: Strangely enough for a manga about sexual intercourse, you might learn something you didn't already know about sex while being entertained simultaneously!

* ComicalOverreacting: Makoto does this ''every single time'' Yura says she doesn't really want to have sex tonight. [[ExtremeDoormat But after she sees his reaction, she quickly says that they can do it, after all]].

* LawOfInverseFertility: In the early volumes there was a plot to get Yura pregnant with Makoto's baby, they actively tried to make one, to no avail, so they decided to wait and take their time together to only then make such a big decision in their lives. After this event, there are small hints of them trying to make a baby again, but it falls on false alarm (the author dropping the plot kind); it seems Katsu Aki plans to make their child the series' climax, as after 50 Volumes Makoto and Yura still didn't get their baby.

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: particularly with Makie, Makoto's coworker who only sleeps with married men and has her sights set on him. She has gone so far as to ''plant'' a LipstickMark on him and trick him into getting drunk to have sex with her.

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: particularly with Makie, Makoto's coworker who only sleeps with married men and has her sights set on him. She has gone so far as to ''plant'' a LipstickMark on him.

* CallingYourOrgasms: Makoto does this so often it's not even funny. Some of the other male characters also do it frequently. The female characters aren't above doing it either, but do it less often.

* ChickMagnet: Several male characters, not least Makoto.

* IdealizedSex: DeconstructedTrope. ''Futari Ecchi'' is about two people who only know IdealizedSex ([[VirginityMakesYouStupid if that]]), and shows, realistically, what happens when they try to apply it.

* TeasingCreator: The Pregnancy plot pops up now and then between a few volumes, with Makoto and Yura deciding now is the time to make one after witnessing an inspirational event, only to stop on their tracks and wait till they're more experienced with their married life. This happened so much in the spam of more than 50 Volumes, it seems Katsu Aki is teasing the readers with Makoto and Yura's possible future kid.

* NamesToKnowInAnime: Creator/YujiUeda as Makoto, TomokoKawakami as Yura.

* NamesToKnowInAnime: YujiUeda as Makoto, TomokoKawakami as Yura.

** [[AllWomenAreLustful All the women are as well]]. Even [[CovertPervert Yura]] has her moments. In her case, it's actually [[{{Reconstruction}} Reconstructed]]; now a wed woman, she can let her sex drive go towards her husband without feeling she's being a whore for being lustful.

** [[AllWomenAreLustful All the women are as well]]. Even [[CovertPervert Yura]] has her moments. In her case, it's actually [[{{Reconstruction Reconstructed]]; now a wed woman, she can let her sex drive go towards her husband without feeling she's being a whore for being lustful.

** [[AllWomenAreLustful All the women are as well]]. Even [[CovertPervert Yura]] has her moments.

* {{Everybody Has Lots of Sex}}: To the point that a young mother, having watched her ten-year-old son's classmate burst into tears and call the boy a jerk, immediately assumes that the kid has '''seduced and then spurned''' said classmate. She even confronts her son about it in [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels no uncertain terms]].

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Chiharu, Yura and Rika's mother, at 46 years old she looks so young that she could pass of as her daughters' sister to strangers.
* AccidentalPervert: Don't know how "accidental" as Makoto gets throughout the series.
* {{Adorkable}}: Makoto. Emphasis on the "[[NoSocialSkills dork]]" bit.

* BigBrotherBully: PlayedForLaughs with Akira, Makoto's older brother. He genuinely wants to help, but keeps butting ''incessantly'' in Makoto and Yura's sex life to give them "advice" that they don't even really want in the first place.
* BuxomIsBetter: Yura's endowment, which fills a Japanese E-cup bra (roughly a D in American sizes), is the target of much admiration, from both sexes, throughout the series.
* TheCasanova: Matsuzaki is definitely a [[JustForPun playah]], though his [[IncrediblyLamePun antics]] [[InformedAttribute usually don't work on several women in the story]].
* CatchPhrase: A "Here I go!" or something similar from Makoto, whenever he is about to, ahh, engage Yura.

* ChristmasCake: Yura Kawada narrowly averts this, as she meets her soon-to-be husband Makoto when she is twenty-five years old. Makoto's cousin Kyouko, however, is firmly entrenched in this trope (and [[GenreSavvy boy does she know it]]). That is, until [[TheCasanova Matsu]][[LikesOlderWomen zaki]] came along.

* DoesNotLikeMen: Miyuki. [[SubvertedTrope Turns out]] she's actually [[SingleTargetSexuality Makoto-sexual]].

* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: [[spoiler:Miyuki]]
* [[FirstGirlWins First Guy Wins]]: [[spoiler:Jun, after having some adventures mentioned below, finally makes an emotional connection with an e-mail pal. It turns out to be her first love, Inoue.]]

* GoodAngelBadAngel: Makoto Onoda had at least one visit from them.
* {{Horrible Judge of Character}}: Jun, Jun, Jun... [[WideEyedIdealist in her search for true love]], she manages to [[spoiler:\\
'''a)''' have a one-night-stand with a man she practically just met (who -- [[SarcasmMode shock!]] -- turns out to have a girlfriend), ''right after'' breaking up with her boyfriend because she feels their relationship has lost the spark,\\
'''b)''' become the (oblivious) fifth sex-friend of an obvious playboy (despite the warnings of her best friend, she is devastated upon seeing him enter a love hotel with another girl) and\\
'''c)''' pursue an affair with a homely middle-aged married man, this time '''mere hours''' after first talking to him. One can almost not blame her father for calling for a family conference about her behavior...]]

* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: Since Yura is inexperienced with sex (and fairly innocent, to boot), her more experienced sister sometimes has to run the euphemism treadmill before she gets the idea.

* IdiotHero: Makoto. (Actually, a lot of the male characters come across this way.)

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Taku Yamada is an extreme case, who will basically only be a nice person if he has no other choice.
* LadykillerInLove: Matsuzaki.

* LikesOlderWomen: also Matsuzaki.

* MyGirlIsASlut: Rika sleeps with other men besides her boyfriend. [[HypocriticalHumor When she suspects her boyfriend to be cheating on her with other women, it is pointed out that she does the same thing]].
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Kyoko is [[ChristmasCake 30 years old]] and still maiden. In a GenderFlipped version of AManIsNotAVirgin, this causes her anxiety.

* NoIndoorVoice: A RunningGag with Akira.

* ObliviousToLove: Makoto, as a flipside to his {{Chick Magnet}}ism.

* ReallyGetsAround: Helloooo, Rika.

* StalkerWithACrush: Matsuzaki has some vibes of this in his efforts to win over Kyoko. The fact that she exploits him as a chauffeur at first just makes their eventual hook-up that much creepier.
* ThanksForTheMammary: Makoto manages to get himself in this position often.

* TheLoinsSleepTonight: You just can't win 'em all, Makoto. (Actually, he can't win most of 'em, because when he ''can'' get it up, more often than not he can't last a full minute. This continues past their first wedding anniversary.)
* ThisLoserIsYou: Makoto, in spades; the "narration" boxes have a particular tendency to make fun of his [[AllMenArePerverts one-track mind]] and occasional bouts of InsaneTrollLogic. Yura gets the same treatment, but [[CloserToEarth she screws up less]].
* ThoseTwoGuys: Makoto's coworkers, Okahama (buckteeth) and Inagaki (sour face). Okohama is absolutely obsessed with Yura and will hit on her, or indicate his desire to do so, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment whenever he appears]].
** There are, of course, aversions as well, such as the chapter 3 claim that every female has a hymen.
* {{Tsundere}}: Makoto's cousin Kyouko. She's just as likely to DopeSlap Matsuzaki upside the head as she is to give him (perfectly genuine) passionate doe-eyes.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:Miyuki]]

* [[{{WeNamedTheMonkeyJack}} We Named the Cat Yamada]]: Rika names her cat after her boyfriend.