Yesterday I got an e-mail alerting me to a young woman named Heidi who is a PhD candidate at CUNY and is researching (dun da dun!) hentai! She is seeking men age 18-25 who view hentai to participate in a survey for her research and also requests suggestions on resources to help her get a view of the popularity of hentai in general. If you’re interested (and especially if you live in New York City), go ahead and e-mail her.
Now, of course, I wanted more information, so I dropped her an e-mail and asked a few questions. Here are the answers:
Gia Manry: How did you come to be interested in this particular topic in an academic setting? Are you interested in Jpop culture outside of academia?
Heidi Baez: I became interested in hentai in the past couple of years. I had known about it a while back, but a friend brought it back to my attention in the past years when we were in Chinatown looking at DVD’s. I do not have an extensive knowledge of anime or jpop culture, but have on occasion gotten into some of the more popular anime series and films and know only a few things about jpop culture from personal exposure and from friends who have traveled to Japan. Read more…
This video is only safe for work if panty shots are allowed at your work!
You know, the expression “I like 2D girls better!” gets kind of confusing when you start having 3D animation, eh? A new ‘game’ called 3D Custom Shoujo (link decidedly NSFW) made me think of it. And no, it’s not a make-your-own-shoujo-manga program.
Instead you can make your own custom anime girl. Give her the hair, eyes, outfit, and accessories (…wings? bandages? armor?) you find hot, and it’ll let you conduct a sex scene with her and a slightly transparent, single-color male body. Or with just herself. I can’t tell if you can make two girls have sex with each other, though…but I AM downloading the demo. The full game comes out June 13th!
Alright, alright, GodLen has crowed triumphantly over having posted about this first, even though I decided not to post about it when I first came across it a couple of days ago. And I see quite a few people getting all “ZOMG ADULT CON = HENTAI CON!” about it.
So, let me point out why I didn’t post about it. On the official website for the con it states: This limited registration event will feature academic, professional, and industry-related events. I dunno about you, but to me that kind of implies that “the only hentai-related panels we might have will deconstruct why people like 2D porn and/or how the adult anime industry works.” Now, both of those sound like interesting panels to me, but neither is a porn-showing panel per se.
But yes, Providence Anime Conference is running a convention October 3-5. I may go if I can, but I get the feeling it’s more 21+ so that events that might not appeal to the main audience of congoers (squeeing teens) can happen, not so that they can show porn 24/7. But hey, I could be wrong.
Randall will cry if I don’t link to his very first podcast, a review of eromanga Please Miss Yuri (not safe for work or my under-18 readers, obviously).
Okay, you guys may have figured out by now that I am an entertainment junkie. Anime is my crack cocaine but I’m willing to dabble around with meth (movies) and heroin (TV) and ecstacy (games) and whatnot.
So Entertainment Weekly is a favorite magazine of mine, the only one I actually have a subscription to.
Every once in a while my loyalty is rewarded with a little something extra. In this week’s issue there’s a blurb feature on page 14 called “GAME ON?” which is a few satirical suggestions on what kind of video game adaptation the movie Juno should get (a response to some rumors that a game was in the works, which were apparently due to gamespot reading too much into things).
Anyway, the third game suggestion?
A hentai-style, digitally enhanced Juno defends herself against activists who pelt her with Blan B pills. Bonus Points for: Combo attacks with the help of sidekick boyfriend Paulie Bleeker.
…I dunno about you, but this somehow makes me think of Nanaca Crash. I’d totally buy it.
Also, I tentatively dug around to see if there had been much (or any) anime-style fanart of Juno, and instead I found this, which makes me giggle.
ActiveAnime has a press release up from the Anime Jungle shop in SoCal, promoting a special hentai event for “grown-up friends” tomorrow night. The 18+ only event starts at 8pm and features DVDs, posters, manga, and “even some Doujin-shi.” Man, and I’ll be stuck in San Francisco.
It’s amazing how much harder it is to be incessantly devoted to posting news when someone isn’t paying you a living wage to do it!
That said, it’s time to play more catchup. This time, though, just the fun/cool/weird shit. Here goes.
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure creator Araki Hirohiko managed to score a gig drawing the cover of an American science journal, says Canned Dogs. Career high or career low? You decide.
A manga anthology created by a bunch of comedians ends publication after something like seven issues, to the surprise of…um, not me?
Just because many warez sites contain porn ads doesn’t mean the porn industry approves of copyright infringement. In fact, when it’s of their own material, companies will fight for the right to orgy.
Virginal loli magical girl + foul-mouthed military devotee tomboy = match made in heaven.
Aaand Motorou Mase’s manga Ikigami, which is centered around a guy who delivers an “Ikigami” paper to a person, who will then die in 24 hours, is getting a movie. The manga is about what these people do in the 24 hours they have left. Sounds kinda neat.
So a while back a guy got in trouble in Canada for having a bunch of kiddy porn, including some lolishota manga. During this time, a newspaper briefly defined all anime as Japanese animated porn. Oops.
Now Perth Now, an Australia-based news site, has done the same thing. A Singaporean man has plead guilty to importing child pornography and “anime pornography depicting sexual violence,” and their article says…
“Anime” is a Japanese form of animated pornography.
One user has already jumped on the error and demanded a correction, but man, how many times is this going to happen? Admittedly, I’m biased since this genre is my hobby and sometime profession, but as a journalist I can’t imagine how this kind of mistake gets made– and missed by editors and factcheckers.
