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Both meanings can be distinguished in context easily. In Japanese, the term describes any type of perverse or bizarre sexual desire or act it does not represent a genre of work. Internationally, hentai is a catch all term to describe a genre of anime and mangapornography. English adopts and uses hentai as a genre of pornography by the commercial sale and marketing of explicit works under this label. The words narrow Japanese language usage and broad international usage are often incompatible. Weather Report Girl is considered yuri hentai in English usage for its depiction of lesbian sex, but in Japan it is just yuri. Download How To Train Your Dragon Cartoon Hq. The definition clash also appears with the Japanese definition of yuri as any lesbian relationship, as opposed to its sexually explicit definition in English usage. Phonetic of terminology. Hentai or  listen helpinfo is a kanji compound of hen change, weird, or strange and tai appearance or condition. It also means perversion or abnormality, especially when used as an adjective. It is the shortened form of the phrase, hentai seiyoku which means sexual perversion. The character hen is catch all for queerness as a peculiarityit does not carry an explicit sexual reference. While the term has expanded in use to cover a range of publications including homosexual publications,1 1. Japan as foreign words. Japanese pornographic works are often simply tagged as 1. Less official terms also in use include ero anime, ero manga, and the English initialism AV for adult video. Usage of the term hentai does not define a genre in Japan. Hentai is defined differently in English. The Oxford Dictionary Online defines hentai as a subgenre of the Japanese genres of manga and anime, characterized by overtly sexualized characters and sexually explicit images and plots. The origin of the word in English is unknown, but Anime. Nations John Oppliger points to the early 1. Dirty Pair erotic doujinshi self published work titled H Bomb was released, and when many websites sold access to images culled from Japanese erotic visual novels and games. The earliest English use of the term traces back to the rec. Happosai of Ranma and the first discussion of the meaning in 1. A 1. 99. 5 Glossary on the rec. Japanese usage and the evolving definition of hentai as pervert or perverted sex. The Anime Movie Guide, published in 1. H, as pronounced in Japanese it included that ecchi was milder than hentai. A year later it was defined as a genre in Good Vibrations Guide to Sex. At the beginning of 2. The attribution has been applied retroactively to works such as Urotsukidji, La Blue Girl, and Cool Devices. Urotsukidji had previously been described with terms such as Japornimation,1. Etymology. The history of word hentai has its origins in science and psychology. By the middle of the Meiji era, the term appeared in publications to describe unusual or abnormal traits, including paranormal abilities and psychological disorders. A translation of German sexologist Richard von Krafft Ebings text Psychopathia Sexualis originated the concept of hentai seiyoku, as a perverse or abnormal sexual desire. Though it was popularized outside psychology, as in the case of Mori gais 1. Vita Sexualis. 2 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. Any perverse or abnormal act could be hentai, such as committing shinj love suicide. It was Nakamura Kokyos journal Abnormal Psychology which started the popular sexology boom in Japan which would see the rise of other popular journals like Sexuality and Human Nature, Sex Research and Sex. Originally, Tanaka Kogai wrote articles for Abnormal Psychology, but it would be Tanakas own journal Modern Sexuality which would become one of the most popular sources of scholarly information about erotic and neurotic expression. Modern Sexuality was created to promote fetishism, S M, and necrophilia as a facet of modern life. The ero guro movement and depiction of perverse, abnormal and often erotic undertones were a response to interest in hentai seiyoku. Following the end of World War II, Japan took a new interest in sexualization and public sexuality. Mark Mc. Lelland puts forth the observation that the term hentai found itself shortened to H and that the English pronunciation was etchi, referring to lewdness and which did not carry the stronger connotation of abnormality or perversion. By the 1. By the 1. The late 1. Japan that continues to exist today through publications such as Bessatsu Takarajimas Hentai san ga iku series. History. With the usage of hentai as any erotic depiction, the history of these depictions are split into its media. Japanese artwork and comics serve as the first example of hentai material, coming to represent the iconic style after the publication of Azuma Hideos Cybele in 1. Japanese animation anime had its first hentai, in both definitions, with the 1. Wonderkids Lolita Anime, overlooking the erotic and sexual depictions in 1. One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and the bare breasted Cleopatra in 1. Cleopatra film. Erotic games, another area of contention, has the iconic art style first depicted in sexual acts in 1. Tenshitachi no Gogo. The history of each medium itself, complicated based on the broad definition and usage. Origin of erotic manga. Gratuitous illustrations of panties are a typical form of fanservice. Depictions of sex and abnormal sex can be traced back through the ages, predating the term hentai. Shunga, a Japanese term for erotic art, is thought to have and existed in some form since Heian period. From the 1. 6th to the 1. Shunga works were suppressed by shoguns. A well known example is The Dream of the Fishermans Wife which depicts a woman being pleasured by two octopi. Shunga production fell with the rise of pornographic photographs in the late 1. To define erotic manga, a definition for manga is needed. While the Hokusai Manga uses the term manga in its title, it does not depict the story telling aspect common to modern manga, as the images are unrelated. Due to the influence of pornographic photographs in the 1. However, Osamu Tezuka has helped define the modern look and form of manga, and was later proclaimed as the God of Manga. His debut work New Treasure Island was released in 1. Ikuei Publishing and sold over 4. Tezukas Astro Boy, Metropolis, and Jungle Emperor manga that would come to define the media. This story driven manga style is distinctly unique from comic strips like Sazae san, and story driven works are now dominating shjo and shnen magazines. Mature themes in manga have existed since the 1. Tezuka. 1. 9 Early well known ero gekiga releases were Ero Mangatropa 1. Erogenica 1. 97. Alice 1. The distinct shift in the style of Japanese pornographic comics from realistic to cartoon cute characters is accredited to Azuma Hideo, The Father of Lolicon. In 1. 97. 9, he penned Cybele, which offered the first commentary on unrealistic depictions of sexual acts between Tezuka style characters. This would start a pornographic manga movement. The lolicon boom of the 1. Lemon People and Petit Apple Pie. The publication of erotic materials in America can be traced back to at least 1.