hentai

Noun

Meaning

hentai (countable and uncountable, plural hentai)

A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.
Hypernyms: anime, manga
Hyponyms: yaoi, yuri
Coordinate term: ecchi

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Any perverse or abnormal act could be hentai, such as committing shinjū (love suicide). Source: Internet

English adopts and uses hentai as a genre of pornography by the commercial sale and marketing of explicit works under this label. Source: Internet

Classification Yuri Futanari Yaoi artwork depicting a seme (left) and uke (right) couple The hentai genre can be divided into numerous subgenres, the broadest of which encompasses heterosexual and homosexual acts. Source: Internet

Continued interest in "hentai seiyoku", resulted in numerous journals and publications on sexual advice which circulated in the public, served to establish the sexual connotation of 'hentai' as perverse. Source: Internet

By the 1950s, the "hentai seiyoku" publications became their own genre and included fetish and homosexual topics. Source: Internet

He also asked if a Japanese student answered a question wrong because the teenager had been "watching too much hentai," a reference to animated pornography, and made an apparent reference to masturbation during an experiment that involved black rods. Source: Internet

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