To answer the question, ‘What is hentai?’ We first need to establish that the word “Hentai” translates from Japanese and means “pervert” in English.
Hentai is a form of Japanese art that involves pornographic images describing the general concept of sexuality and beauty.
In the anime world, hentai is comics or animated videos, clips or a full-length animated series which include some or many sex scenes.
The origin of hentai is ancient. It appears in the early 18th century and could be even older.
For a better understanding of what hentai is and what it used to look like, have a look at The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife drawn in 1814 by Hokusai. The picture depicts two octopuses covering a woman’s body with their limbs. The big octopus is licking her genitalia while the smaller one is fondling her nipple and kissing her.
Later, the Japanese government banned the painting. By that time, the public had already been introduced to hentai.
When asked “What is hentai and where did it come from?” most people will tell you it comes from some Asian countries, they aren’t wrong, but the correct answer is Japan. People in Japan portray the beauty of sexual intercourse and their unique sexual desire through this kind of art.
The word “hentai” is likely to be unfamiliar with people in the West. Especially people who are not interested in the culture of eastern countries or anime in general.
People in Japan portray the beauty of sexual intercourse and their unique sexual desire through this kind of art.
The word “Hentai” is made up of two words, “Hen” means strange and “Tai,” which means body. A different kind of art, a bit like hentai, that contains less sexually appealing graphics, is called Ecchi.
Hentai animation is similar to a moving picture or cartoon, and hentai manga is more like a comic.
Hentai manga is more popular than animation. And the price for creating a comic is much lower than creating a whole animation video. Even though the manga has fewer interactions than animations, it makes it up with the quantity and quality of each chapter.
The most viewed hentai manga are usually the ones with sharp, realistic, and vivid drawings.
Animation cost lots of money. As such, companies need many resources to develop a good animation for mainstream viewers. Hentai anime creates new opportunities for animators to exercise imagination while attracting viewers and fans.
Animators can use characters from mainstream anime, put them in a sexual situation, and maintain the same look. Furthermore, they can focus on a specific body part to make the characters more unique and stand out even more.
The hentai art greatly varies depending on the artist, leading to diversity of styles for drawing hentai.
Different people have different fetishes. Knowing this, animators take advantage of creating a diverse genre of hentai.
Some fetishes are so unrealistic that they seem to be outrageous. For example, some people find it exciting to watch people with an abnormal body shape having sex.
Many fans of popular anime love to see their favorite characters do sexy things with each other, so they turn to hentai anime to find what they are looking for.
Here is some Hentai if you want to explore it for yourself:
Hentai is considered to be a very special kind of art. Hentai is not just normal sexual content, but it expresses the deepest, strangest sexual desires of the artist. Those desires can be relatable to many different people with the same fetish as the artist.