2, 2007, Media Blasters announced that they had licensed the OVA series at Anime Expo. 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. 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. The June 2011 issue of Young Animal Arashi announced Futari Ecchi would be receiving both a live-action film adaptation and a live-action web series. 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. It premiered in July 2011 and had fifteen 12-minute episodes created. 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. The film stars Yūri Morishita and Riki Miura as Yura and Makoto, was directed by Kazuhiro Yokoyama and written by Juri Sanemura. The first film was released on June 18, 2011 and received a DVD release on September 2. At an event for the DVD release, a sequel called was announced to begin filming in October. Hikaru Okada replaces Miura as Makoto in the sequel, which hit theaters on December 17, 2011. Just like previously, a third film was announced at the second's DVD release party. The third and fourth films, titled and were both released on May 12, 2012. They were released on DVD on June 15 and August 3 respectively. Reception The Futari Ecchi manga has 29.5 million collected volumes in print as of February 2018; 27 million in Japan, including digital copies, and 2.5 million overseas. Further reading References External links Official live-action web series website Anime News Network review of OVA 1997 manga 2000 Japanese television series debuts 2000 Japanese television series endings 2002 anime OVAs 2002 manga Anime Works Ashi Productions Erotic romance anime and manga Films directed by Kazuhiro Yokoyama Hakusensha franchises Hakusensha manga Josei manga Live-action films based on manga