Definition of Hentai - Japanese & English
Hentai is a Sino-Japanese compound term widely used in modern Japanese to designate a person, action or state that is considered queer or perverse, particularly in a sexual sense.
Apart from this general use of the term hentai, it can also be used to designate a specific genre of Japanese manga comics and adult animation / cartoons that features extreme or perverse sexual (XXX pornographic) content and it is in this sense that hentai has become well-known among western fans of Japanese popular culture.
In Japanese both 'H / etchi' and 'ero' (erotic) can be used to refer to manga and anime with sexual content, hentai is only used to refer to unusual or perverse sexual situations - e.g. gang rape, or bizarre partners as in aliens or monsters or illicit partners as in children. Hence in the Japanese case, hentai manga/anime is a subdivision of the much broader category of ero manga whereas in English hentai has come to signify the genre of ero manga as a whole.
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