

In several anime, a character will yell this on despise to something
perverted. It even shows up in non anime media like Yakuza Kiwami 2. What’s
the origin of this phrase?


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Where does the phrase ecchi sketchy one touchy come from?


My Japanese is not great, but the link supplied by W. Are,
[https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/エッチスケッチワンタッチ](https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B1%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%83%E3%83%81)
does give an explanation.

Apparently it's a phrase commonly used by school children in the 70's, but
it's unknown where exactly the phrase comes from. The page lists several
different theories, though my Japanese is not good enough to quite get all of
the theories. One is that "touch" is what kids say when playing tag (instead
of "tag, you're it"), another is there was a product by the company Glico
called one touch curry. But at any rate, it's a phrase that caught on because
of the sing-song, rhyming sort of sound to the phrase, and from what I gather
from the article, similar to the kid nonsense sayings of western culture, like
"circle-circle-dot-dot now I have a cootie shot."


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