The Hardcore Hentai

Hardcore hentai seems to have taken the internet by storm. It is estimated that there are more than ten million adult websites out there in the wired, and it would not likely be an outrageous guess to say that a good percentage of them are either devoted to or contain some measure of XXX hentai material. Just a few years ago, adult anime and manga work was a fringe item, hardly on the online adult entertainment radar. It consisted mainly of users ripping the art from Japanese hardcore hentai games and posting them on USENET or various websites. No real efforts were made to bring over manga, which was likely all still in print form, and companies hadn’t even begun to translate adult anime videos. Read more…

Lesbian works aren’t as widespread as some might expect in the world of hardcore hentai. Before becoming a genre of its own, called “yuri”, the most one might see is a short lesbian scene in more mainstream hentai comics or videos. Early works in the genre were hardly groundbreaking, usually depicting a character that was, in every way, the typical hero, but as a female. This character would invariably rescue a damsel in distress type and the two would end up together. While this facet hasn’t necessarily disappeared from the genre, on the whole things have expanded quite a bit beyond those early attempts. Read more…

If there ever was an industry known for escalation in all things, it is the Japanese animation industry. This escalation not only applies to technical aspects like the quality of images, sound and music, which have improved greatly over the years, but also to creative elements like explosions, fight scenes, violence and even sex. If one show does it bigger, the next show seems to have to top it. In the world of hardcore hentai anime, this same pattern can be seen, and in some ways it can even be viewed as somewhat over the top by comparison to mainstream animation. Read more…