Strike Witches was among the 1st of the new wave of ecchi series. It aired during summer of 2008, one season after Kanokon (aired in Spring %u201908) and during precisely the same season as Ikkitousen season 3 (Great Guardians). Ecchi had a quick start during the early 2000s but for some reason sort of vanished in the year 2006 and 2007. 2008 maybe it wasPer-centu2019s comeback.
The entire year 2008 was a pretty big one for ecchi and helped spark a wave of momentum to the genre. Ecchi is continuing to grow and gained popularity recently, even Funimation and Viz (Blood lad) have learned to become pretty agressive at licensing ecchi genre regardless of the ever decreasing sales power of anime and video entertainment generally. As popularity has grown, animation studios have gotten bolder and bolder using ecchi content- trusting everyone you can eat it. Right this moment is the better time to be an ecchi fan, along with the huge success of Strike Witches played a reasonably large part because.
