Glossary and explanation of the words 
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15 April 2007
(40 votes, average: 4.35 out of 5) Loading ...Maybe you are new to erotic japanese comics, so if that’s the case, you’ll be flooded with weird uncomprehensible words.
My two cents : a very small explanation.
- Hentai : basically, in japanese that means “something with sexual content”, stands like a synonym for “perverted”, today that refers to japanese-style erotic works drawn by hand or with a computer, displayed on video or on a paper.
- Manga : any drawn printed work, you would call that a comic.
- Mangaka : the artist that draws mangas
- Original manga : originally, that is a manga that isn’t inspired from anything else, that is a real original creation. Most of the rest of the time, the meaning has gained one addition, the name “original” manga now also implies it is written in japanese language and has no translation. I hesitated for a long time as to which meaning to chose, I picked the first one : not a parody = a manga.
- Doujin : also called Parody. Now, that means a manga drawn to imitate something already known, like a TV serie, or another manga (for instance Gundam). In the origin, that meant a non-professional, non-commercial work.
- Anime : a video japanese cartoon (hentai or not). For instance, Card Captor Sakura can be seen in manga (paper comic books) and as an anime TV (cartoon).
- CG, Computer Graphics : most hentai works are drawn by hand, or mainly rely on hand work, even if photoshop helps. But the japanese are fond of hentai games, with totally computer-made pictures. Those hentai computer-generated pictures are ripped off the games to become CG pictures.
- Ecchi (letter H pronounced in japanese) : softcore hentai content. Also refers to “in a sexual mood” : «you’re so H»
- Yaoi : gay hentai content, softcore or not.
- Yuri : female homosexual (lesbian) content, softcore or not.
- Futanari : girls with a dick, also called dickgirls, “DG“. That is rather popular in japanese comics, it seems many readers find that exciting. Definitely not my cup of tea, personally. I’d recommend you read that discussion about “real” dickgirls, that’s interesting !
- L, Loli, Lolicon : underage girls in hentai relations. The japanese seem to be immune to some taboos, and interest in underage girls seems to be one of those. If you don’t mind, i’m going to puke.
If you are a lolicon lover, this is entirely your right, just as expressing loudly I dislike it is my own right, no discussion, and it’s legal as long as it is mere drawings. Please then, just also accept the fact you should also be capable of saying out loud “I masturbate to the idea of having sex with girls that aren’t even ten years old”, unless you are incapable of facing your own hypocrisy. (“Troll Of The Year Platinum Grade”)
- BB, Big Breast : what makes great hentai :P
- Bakunyuu : japanese word for hentai with BIG tits, cf above :P
- Censorship : Until this decade, japanese law prohibited showing human hair and female sexual parts. This is why the hentai mangas are so different from western porn comics, the drawers were forced to learn how to make a drawing attractive and exciting without revealing a wide open vagina, a giant dick or even a pubis. That is why female hentai girls can be so exciting even with half of their clothes on, their body is beautifully drawn, their position is exciting, the art of suggestion and to place the reader in the fucker’s position is perfectly managed.
Now, I don’t know if the law still exists, but nobody respects it anymore in hentai mangas, even if it’s still respected in most hentai animes.
- Tent, tentacles : the abreviation I hate most. When you can’t represent a dick, you are allowed to represent tentacles. Japanese legislators can’t think of everything, can they ?
- OL, Office Lady : Japanese women who work in company offices wear very strict clothes, sometimes a company uniform or else “business clothes”, not very sexy but always rather fitting, with stockings. 90% of japanese men dream of ripping apart these clothes before proceeding to the next step. 0.x% of men will finally do that, but their consolation is groping the asses of the OLs in the overpopulated trains and metros (more info). OLs are reputated for not daring defend themselves, and suffer humiliation in silence. Why doesn’t it work like that in Europe or America ? :-(
- Incest : the most successful theme EVER in hentai. The stats don’t lie, every of my posts with “incest” in the title will be watched 6 times mores, and archives for those posts will be downloaded four times more than the rest of my uploads.
I don’t know what makes people love this theme, since I don’t feel interest for this myself, I can only make some simple observations and suppositions. About mother incest, 90% of the mothers in incest mangas make the first step and almost push their boys into doing it. About sister incest, 90% of the sisters are depicted as almost braindead stupid chicks devoured by a desire their lack of brains won’t allow them to satisfy correctly.
Fill in the gaps, that adresses the two main problems for the average internet-using teenager, japanese or occidental : lack of experience and difficulty to find a girl willing to have sexual relations with a good for nothing nerd sitting before his screen instead of having social relations.
- Guro : not all hentai is beautiful and sane. There are freaks who will enjoy seeing torn bodies, extreme sadistic behaviour, blood, internal organs that shouldn’t have been exposed to the outside. That is “guro”, not anything related to grotesque, even if that’s the origin of the word. You want an example ? “Killer Panda” is a manga in which a panda-monster kills women, dismembers their bodies and rapes the body parts. Ew.
- Scenario : atomic physicians desperately try to find if photons have a mass or not. Hentai readers are roughly in the same questioning position when they read translated hentai works, only they don’t care about quantum physics but about the existence of a real scenario behind the fuck scenes.
You will sometimes find a real scenario, nothing is impossible. You will even find sometimes a scenario in an incest-based hentai manga : really, nothing is impossible.
- Rape (hentai rape) : this is when a girl makes her best to hide she totally enjoys being fucked without permission. Please, do NOT make the confusion with real life rape, in which an asshole deserving ablation of the balls destroys the life and psyche of a woman in exchange of a 5 seconds long orgasm : hentai rape only exists in hentai comics and videos. Here’s an illustration picture.
The artist Black Dog is a specialist of hentai rape, for instance.
- Tsundere : oh sweet hentai goodness ! Tsundere refers to girls with a violent, irritable and ready-to-explode character, who will suddenly become soft, sweet, and incredibly cute. That’s one of the key ingredients to easily create a pleasant and funny hentai scenario.
- Yandere : in hentai mangas, this term refers to mentally unbalanced girls who are crazy (litterally speaking) for sex with another precise person. They’re potentially violent, unpredictable, but incredibly passionate when they have sex. This is scary, fascinating, and super hot.
You may appreciate a graphical yandere-tsundere disambiguation.
- Meganekko : a girl wearing glasses. Hot by principle.
- – Nekomimi : basically, a japanese-style catgirl. That implies cat ears, a weirdly bent wrist, and telling “nya” (Japan’s “meow”) from times to times. Hot by principle.
- Tankoubon : this term refers to a full manga as you can buy it anywhere, with good paperback quality and good printed pictures, as opposed to low quality magazine prepublications.
Just in case you don’t know the japanese market : there are several hentai and non-hentai manga magazines, in which artists publish short stories of all sorts. Their paper is thin, their censorship mostly heavy, and their printing quality is average in the best case. The most popular artists (there are customer polls) are welcome to come back in the next issues. And very popular artists who have created a long enough stream of popular works can publish a tankoubon (the “official manga” as us westerners know it) version of their works, with much better picture quality and a few edits if they feel like making them, it pays them best.
I suggest you discover the (non-hentai) manga called Bakuman, it shows the life of young mangakas just starting working in the professional mangaka scene, it is extremely interesting to have an insider’s view onto the Japanese manga market.
- Imouto : younger sister. Hot by principle. She’s going to discover very soon that she loves to have sex with her Onii-chan~ (big brother).
- NTR (Netorare) : my definition isn’t perfect, but let’s say it means “ugly treason of the partner’s trust”. A woman’s adultery while the husband is killing himself to earn money for his wife is NTR, for instance, whereas the husband happily lending his wife to a group of pervs while he enjoys the show isn’t NTR. Simply cheating on one’s boyfriend would be NTR already, if that boyfriend is the candid trusting type begging to have his dreams crushed. OK ?
NTR may lead to “rage hentai”, stories that make you wish you could kick the characters in the face, or, to the contrary, put you in a solid depressive state for a pair of hours. Or leave you unconcerned.
I feel that NTR is the closest to “real” fiction (as ugly as real life, while the rest of hentai puts the real world at bay), and the closest to offering you a good old catharsis.
- ABPEA : THE hentai newsgroup that allowed me to really discover hentai. I don’t even know if it is still active to this day, but I can tell you that, a decade ago, you could find ten new complete untranslated mangas per day, scanned and entirely available, with an active community taking part in discussions and all. I remember Max Bigfoot, now a member of Rapture Scans, was the biggest contributor 
If you’re into newsgroups browsing, the full name is alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime , try it !
- Shinsouban : a term you’ll be seeing more and more. Shinsouban can be broken down to “shin”, “sou” and “ban”. They mean “new”, “cover” and “edition” respectively : this is the re-edition in much better quality of an old manga only available, so far, in ugly quality, with potentially improved details, scenes re-made, better dialogues, etc.
You might want even more information here or there.
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on December 1st, 2007 at 2:24 am
Thanks for the definitions!
Very helpful. Now I just need to learn all the furry slang that’s out there. :\
on January 28th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
haha, omg i hate gore and all but just once i would like to c that “killer panda” manga to c if ur joking…or not
on June 15th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Killer Panda is really on the light side guro wise actually, from what I saw. I only skimmed a bit at the beginning, because there was a random panda, and hey, fountains of blood! Honestly, I was more traumatized watching Elfen Lied. On the other hand, I didn’t bother getting to the Panda fucking the corpses.
Guro isn’t my thing, but it certainly is hypocritical to condemn people as freaks because they like Guro if you enjoy something like, say, “Hentai Rape.” Just as there’s no problem as long as we’re all coherent enough to not actually consider hentai rape the reality of the world, so too is it fine if people like guro-as long as they don’t go out killing people and having sex with their corpses. It’s like the people who like loli or something, but then decide that furry lovers are the lowest form of human existence. It’s ridiculous.
on June 15th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
You seem pretty confused yourself about real life rape. But it’s not your fault, the myth of the systematic destruction of the life and psyche of the victim is much more prevalent and widespread than the one about their secret enjoyment. It’s a social necessity.
Rape itself is not a sufficient help to maintain women’s oppression in non-religious societies. In france, there’s “only” one women in ten who has been sexually assaulted. And generally, the assault hurts not enough, as often the asshole don’t bother to kill or torture the victim.
And oppression doesn’t need usual victims of usual aggressions. It needs absolute victims. An usual victim is allowed and encouraged to change its condition : justice is done and the victim disappears. That is not oppression.
So there is a need to separate the social meaning of rape from its individual realisation. There is a need for a myth. The sexual aggression of sexually dominant human (a man) on a sexually dominated human (a woman or a child) can’t be escaped. By time first : as for murder (but that depends of another oppression system), the “life and psyche” of the victims are expected to be utterly destroyed. By physical means also : many rapes are perpetrated without any resistance from the women, not because they couldn’t, but because they didn’t even thought of it.
This means the myth is not just a idea : it has consequences on the reactions of implied people. The judges and juries, and all those people (family, close friends also…) from which the victim expects support apply always too often the reverse of their theorem : “if she isn’t destroyed by what happened, she must have been somehow consenting” (and then “she must be a slut” / “she deserved all that”). Many of the rape victims who are still sane and living a normal life (yes, they exist), there is a real shame for being strong enough to cope with it, and with the shame of the sexual abuse itself, it is the reason of the silence that cover most of the aggressions.
Women are natural-born victims the men have to “protect” or unsubmissive sluts who have to be silent about their insolent sanity. That is oppression. And that is the relief of many an asshole (rapists in a case and judges in the other).
Oh, and I rarely speak english, sorry if i was not clear enough.
on June 30th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Hi there!
Belive it or not, in México we love Hentai, at least I do. Thanks for the space n’ all the definitions, all of’em r’ totally helpfull, with this I can understand a little bit more of what I read n’ see. Thnx again.
Angelito
on September 18th, 2009 at 7:47 am
nice use of ablation
on September 25th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
What an useful topic this is!Thanks now I feel more wise about the Hentai world!
on January 7th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Forgive me, but I laughed so hard reading through your definitions and comments, especially the Nekomimi one. But they are very accurate to what the word means, so kudos for that!
on February 9th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Perhaps you could add terms like Paizuri or Nakadashi
on February 24th, 2010 at 7:54 am
Thanks for the link to OM, that manga sounds interesting.
on March 21st, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Personally I love incest, but it got nothing to do with family bonding whatsoever. I just LOVE MILF! Mature not that old women are the best! but i do like a lot other genres as well.
on March 21st, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Personally I love incest, but it got nothing to do with family bonding whatsoever. I just LOVE MILF! Mature not that old women are the best! but i do like a lot other genres as well.
on March 23rd, 2010 at 10:57 am
From following the link under "tankoubon", I started reading Bakuman , and I seriously could not stop reading it for at least a full hour. I finally had to tear myself away from it.
Awesome suggestion. It is certainly one of the better mangas I have read (although I have to admit I am not *extremely* picky…though that only means I have a fair amount to compare it to).
on August 26th, 2010 at 8:32 am
@ Saikyou – For noobs, this is just more of the manga world
Oppai – Boobies
Paizuri – Boob sex
Nakadashi – Creampie or cumming inside (approximation)
Manko or Ma*ko (Often used as censorship) – pussy or cunt (approximation)
Chichi – Boobies (this is used as a variant)
Nyuu – Boobies (this is used as a variant)
Onee-san/Nee-chan – Older sister
Kaa-san/Okaa-san – Mom