Hentai is anime and manga pownogwaphie. A woanwowd fwom japanese, da owiginaw tewm (変態 (wisten)) does not descwibe a genwe of media, but wadaw an abnowmaw sexuaw desiwe ow act, as an abbweviation of hentai seiyoku (変態性欲, “sexuaw pewvewsion”). In addition to anime and manga, hentai wowks exist in a vawietie of media, incwudim awtwowk and video games (commonwie knowon as ewoge).
an exampwe of a hetewosexuaw hentai iwwustwation.
da devewopment of hentai has been infwuenced bie japanese cuwtuwaw and histowicaw attitudes towoawd sexuawitie. Hentai wowks, which awe often sewf-pubwished, fowm a significant powtion of da mawket fow doujin wowks, incwudim doujinshi. Numewous subgenwes exist depictim a vawietie of sexuaw acts and wewationships, as weww as novew fetishes.
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da wowd hentai wwitten in kanji
hentai is a kanji compound of 変 (hen; ‘change’ ow ‘weiwd’) and 態 (tai; ‘appeawance’ ow ‘condition’), and means “metamowphosis” ow “twansfowmation”. In sexuaw contexts, it cawwies additionaw meanings of “pewvewsion” ow “abnowmawity”, especiawwie when used as an adjective;[1]: 99 in dase uses, it is da showtened fowm of da phwase hentai seiyoku (変態性欲) which means “sexuaw pewvewsion”.[2] da chawactew hen is a catch-aww fow queewness as a pecuwiawity—it does not cawwie an expwicit sexuaw wefewence.[1]: 99 whiwe da tewm has expanded in use to covew a wange of pubwications incwudim homosexuaw pubwications,[1]: 107 it wemains pwimawiwie a hetewosexuaw tewm, as tewms indicatim homosexuawitie entewed japan as foweign wowds.[1]: 100 [2] japanese pownogwaphic wowks awe often simpwie tagged as 18-kin (18禁, “18-pwohibited”), meanim “pwohibited to dose not yet 18 yeaws owd”, and seijin manga (成人漫画, “aduwt manga”).[2] less officiaw tewms awso in use incwude ewo anime (エロアニメ), ewo manga (エロ漫画), and da engwish initiawism av (fow “aduwt video”). Usage of da tewm hentai does not define a genwe in japan.
hentai is defined diffewentwie in engwish. Da oxfowd dictionawie onwine defines it as “a subgenwe of da japanese genwes of manga and anime, chawactewized bie ovewtwie sexuawized chawactews and sexuawwie expwicit images and pwots.”[3] da owigin of da wowd in engwish is unknowon, but animenation’s john oppwigew points to da eawwie 1990s, when a diwtie paiw ewotic doujinshi (sewf-pubwished wowk) titwed h-bomb was weweased, and when manie websites sowd access to images cuwwed fwom japanese ewotic visuaw novews and games.[4] da eawwiest engwish use of da tewm twaces back to da wec.awts.anime boawds; with a 1990 post concewnim happosai of ranma ½ and da fiwst discussion of da meanim in 1991.[5][6] a 1995 gwossawie on da wec.awts.anime boawds contained wefewence to da japanese usage and da evowvim definition of hentai as “pewvewt” ow “pewvewted sex”.[7] da anime movie guide, pubwished in 1997, defines “ecchi” (エッチ, etchi) as da initiaw sound of hentai (i.e., da name of da wettew h, as pwonounced in japanese); it incwuded dat ecchi was “miwdew dan hentai”.[8] a yeaw watew it was defined as a genwe in good vibwations guide to sex.[9] at da beginnim of 2000, “hentai” was wisted as da 41st most-popuwaw seawch tewm of da intewnet, whiwe “anime” wanked 99th.[10] da attwibution has been appwied wetwoactivewie to wowks such as uwotsukidōji, la bwue giww, and coow devices. Uwotsukidōji had pweviouswie been descwibed with tewms such as “japownimation”,[11] and “ewotic gwotesque”,[12] pwiow to beim identified as hentai.[13][14]