Hentai is a pathetic attempt at porn? Nope, not at all. Additionally, Anime-Hentai was never an attempt to produce pornographic animation in the first place. Its something that has a considerable amount of history, as well as having quite alot of cultural background.

Unlike reality based and for MANY others “easily tired out” pornographic content, the only limits that Anime-Hentai presents to its artists are their imaginations. ANY type of fetish/situation you can imagine, you can have it and in full varieties of professional artistic designs.

Many people look up Anime-Hentai and just see badly animated clips of what appear to be average porn, but their just not aware of the bigger picture. Hentai just has no limits “whatsoever“ and can be as degrading, immoral, or just plain volatile as it wants to be.

Also “unlike generic reality based pornography”, Hentai can in some areas be incredibly artistic. Notably also, many Anime-Hentai’s can actually supply considerably “again in comparison to generic porn” dramatic/tragic series that are not meant to just merely satisfy its viewers, but provoke their very emotions.
Jack: "Oh my god, that actually made me cry".
Carl: "Well, it is Hentai, not all of it is just something to just jack off to".
by SilentThinker July 19, 2010
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Explicitly sexual pictures, movies, comics, or even games drawn in the Japanese animation style. A common practice in hentai is to stretch the sex acts beyond the beyonds of normal human sex. Hentai is based off of a very old practice of drawing sexually explicit acts in order to aid the process of masturbation and has, actually, a richer history than pornography.
"I have over 1000 hentai pics in my collection*.
by Wallace Asault September 14, 2003
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Your Plan B when you don't feel like seeing real women(or men) doing the deed.
Note that hentai has literally everything you have fantasized about before, you name it, tentacle porn( exactly what it sound like), ganbang( Do i really need to explain this to you?), harem(a group that usually surrounds themselves around the protagonist ), prostitution (where a person does sexual acts for a certain price), pregnancy (if you don't know what this is... GO APOLOGIZE TO YOUR MOTHERS RIGHT NOW!!!), futanari (Female that has a penis) etc...(Keep in mind i coul give you at least another 100 genres, but i'm too lazy to write them.)
WARNING: IF YOU STILL LIVE WITH YOUR PARENTS BE SMART ENOUGH TO USE INCOGNITO!!!
Me: So how come you didn't reply to my text yesterday?
Friend: Uhhhh...
Friend: I was researching... human anatomy
Me: Reeeeeeally?
Friend: (Sweating)Okay, you got me, it was Hentai, but you have to understand, IT WAS TOO GOOD!!!
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guy1: what are you watching?
guy2: hentai
guy1: what the hell is that?
guy2: Japanese porn
guy1: oh, enjoy!
guy2: thanks man
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This is one of your three groups of the sexually explicit genre of anime/manga.

Hentai has a negative connotation to the Japanese and is commonly used to mean "sexually perverted". In slang, it is an insult meaning pervert or weirdo and isn't applied to pornography in Japan. 18-kin, adult manga, and AV are used to indicate pornography.

Hentai anime/manga is focused on sex, the 'yummy parts,' as some may say. It's heterosexual sex, and your homosexual sex is yaoi/yuri.
I would not recommend showing children hentai.
by MisaTange July 9, 2009
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Pronounced "hent eye" but with the "t" sound on the "eye" syllable. Just find a could Japanese text book for clarity.

In Japan this word just means pervert. And is never used to incdicate a genre. To indicate the erotic genre they use "etchi" or "ero." And something they write etchi as the letter "H." Hentai never refers to a genre or a naughty picture. Hentai also means transformation, metamorphosis, abnormality, or formation.

The phrase 'hentai video' wouldn't be used in Japan.

Outside of Japan, it refers to both "pervert" and anime with strong sexual themes. Nudity is NOT hentai. Just simple nudity would be etchi. When something sexual is depicted it's the hentai genre.
Japanese usage: "She thinks I'm a hentai!" (Well, if this were said in Japanese...)

English usage: "I got a cable modem so I can download hentai faster!"
by some girl August 16, 2003
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A Japanese word denoting unfavorable (or favorable, depending on context and circumstances) sexual connotations.
A loose English translation would correspond to words like "perverse."
Contrary to popular belief (and to its usage in America), when used as a noun, this word denotes a person who fits this description and nothing more.
I was accosted by a hentai on the way home from work.
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