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As you might have guessed, the website you are browsing is an adult blog dedicated to gay porn with male toons. Even if you are familiar with gay comics in print or online, you may have a hard time understanding all the specific terms that come with the new media formats like computer generated 3D models, animations, or the fascinating world of the Asian comic culture that has become also hugely popular in the western world. Here are a couple of frequently used terms along with a brief description of what they mean.
The Japanese word Hentai means abnormal, sexually perverted in Japan, whereas in the western world it is often used to describe sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation of Japanese origin such as anime, manga and computer games. It can also refer to comics, cartoons, etc. by western artists that use the typical hentai style, for example Global BL or American Yaoi. Hentai works that feature mainly homosexual interactions are known as yaoi and yuri, where yaoi refers to male homosexual pairings. Yaoi is a Japanese acronym (Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi = no climax, no point, no meaning) and describes male-on-male sexual content. A joking alternative explanation is Yamete, oshiri ga itai = “Stop, my butt hurts”. Popular erotic yaoi hentai types include gei comi, menslove (ML), bara (for masculine gay men), boizu rabu or boys’ love (BL), and shonen-ai.
An animation produced in Japan, or conforming to an “anime style” characterized by large eyes, long limbs, speed lines, exclamatory typography, etc. is called Anime, sometimes also Japanimation. There exist also anime music videos (AMV), video clips from an anime series arranged to fit a musical piece playing in the background. Adult anime, or hentai anime, is anime that relies primarily on sex. Manga are Japanese comics, you could them also describe as the book form of anime, like a story board. Manga-like comics originating outside Japan are referred to as original English-language mangas (OEL manga), international manga, world manga, American manga or Amerimanga. Adult manga, or hentai manga, is manga designed for purely pornographic purposes.
Doujinshi or dojinshi are self-published Japanese works that use famous cartoon characters, often in the form of a parody, and usually portraying them in sexual situations. These adult dojinshi (or H dojinshi, ero manga) are mostly done by amateurs. It is sort of an amateur manga or similar to a fanzine in the western world.
