We're back for another edition of the Hentai Glossary, this time with 8 entries. Click here if you missed the first post in the series or want to know what it's about.
Eroge (エロゲ)
Eroge are erotic games. Simple as that. Contrary to what many people think, that isn't limited to only Visual Novels, any game focused on sexually explicit content in Japan is called Eroge. They can span pretty much any genre, have grahics that range from pixel art to drawn CG assets to pre-rendered or real-time 3D models. I don't want to delve deeper into the subject because frankly, even wikipedia has a decently in-depth article about it, and there's English language academic material written on the subject for those wanting to delve deeper into the history of erotic games in Japan.
Here on Dorei Cafe the focus will be almost entirely on Visual Novels with the occasional RPG and Simulation game being brought up, simply due to a matter of taste and availability. It's rare to find an eroge of other genres that cater to my fetishes.
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Futanari (ふたなり)
Oh geez, this is a controversial one. In the context of fictional pornography, Futanari refers to a character that has both (functioning) male and female genitalia, while their body shape and presentation is female in all other aspects. The word Futanari (which can be written in kanji in a number of manners, as it is a surprisingly old word) means "dual form" or "[to be of or to belong to] the two kinds". It is technically a word for both hermaphroditism and androgyny but you'll only see it used to refer to that in old texts. There are more appropriate modern words for both, and Futanari isn't really used to refer to anything but the porn trope anymore, even in Japan (even if someone is trying to be offensive there are newer words that are far more hurtful).
Futanari, as seen in erotic works, are not (and were never) supposed to represent hermaphrodites, trans people, or any other form of real word gender-bending. There is a discussion to be had about the cultural context that led to such a specific idea (a woman that has both a vagina with working ovaries and a penis that produces fertile sperm), but we are not getting into that since 1 - I'm not an anthropologist or a gender scholar and 2 - this is a silly blog about Japanese digital puppet theater.
Do not confuse with feminization or otokonoko/crossdressing/femboys in general, as a futanari isn't simply a male presenting as female, it's someone who has both genitalia (though the balls are optional, and more likely than not absent).
One English term for futanari that saw a lot of use in years past but that I haven't seen for a while is "dickgirl". I think as familiarity with the Japanese term grew it just fell out of use, kinda like tentative translations for bukkake and ahegao faded over time.
Futanari can just exist as something normal (if highly unusual) to the world, or, more commonly in works with the themes we explore here, be made through body modification (which will have its own entry in the glossary another time) or corruption of a female heroine, or sometimes a male character.
The image below includes examples of both. The top row has natural futanari, bottom row has futanari born from the transformation or remodeling of a female.
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Top row: Éclair Milk Cream ~Onani x Onani~, Senrei no Kan, Wafuu Seiso na Kurokami JK wa Do Hentai Futanari Do Mazo
Bottom row: Taimanin Asagi 3, Fall of Mermaids, Tokumu Sentai Colofrful Force |
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Ganimata Pose (ガニ股ポーズ)/Fukujuu no Pose (服従のポーズ), Pose of Submission
Here's a really niche one. You may have come across it but never realized it had a specific name This is a pose resembling a squat, where the person spreads her thighs but keeps the rest of the leg straight. Ganimata literally translates to "crab crotch", because the position of the leg resembles that of a crab's... I guess.
This is an actual thing used in gymnastics and yoga and stuff, and while the translation used for the tag in places like Pixiv is "bowlegged pose", a cursory search indicates that is an entirely different pose in Western gymnastics, so I refrained from using it in the title.
So why the hell is this yoga pose here? In porn, it's performed usually by women, with the hands behind the head to indicate submission. I have to assume this comes from either the Japanese BDSM scene or from some internet joke that got out of control (like another fetish we'll talk about today), but I couldn't find an answer. I lean towards the former. It's closely related to the 服従のポーズ (Fukujuu no Pose, lit. Pose of Submission) which is lying on the back with the belly up like a dog, and the hands in a paw-like position. Seen mostly in petplay, over time this evolved to also mean squatting while mimicking a dog (usually with the addition of the tongue being out, like a dog panting) and also became a synonym of the Ganimata pose. Searching for Fukujuu no Pose will net you a mix of the three versions, with the latter two being the most popular.
Most of the time this pose will be seen as degrading and something only a slave or shameless pervert would do on their own, therefore it's seen during sexual training to humiliate the target or, more commonly, during oaths of servitude by sex slaves.
It's also pretty popular in JAV, so I included some examples as well.
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Top row: Sanbiki no Mesubuta, Kyonyuu Hitozuma 3P Saimin, Milk Mamire
Bottom row:Kyonyuu Gunjin Shihai, Bakunyuu Hitozuma Senshi Pure Maiden, Chijoku no Seifuku |
JAV examples:
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Top row: SDDE-555, STARS-423
Bottom row: KIRE-052, SDDE-660 |
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Gyaru (ギャル)/Gal
Gyaru is a Japanese fashion subculture born in the 1970s and that saw its peak in the 1990s and 2000s, with resurgences every once in a while as with any fashion trend. There are many permutations and subcategories inside style, it's commonly associated with tanned skin, dyed hair, and accessorized clothing and nails, not fitting the usual ideal of Japanese beauty. I could go on about it, but if you're interested in Gyaru as a fashion movement and an urban subculture, there is enough material in English for a cursory Google search to satiate your curiosity.
In Japanese pornography, gyaru tend to follow the stereotype of being loud, flaunting their looks and are often sexually active and promiscuous, having sexual experience and/or multiple partners. Often gyaru characters engage in enjo kosai (compensated dating) or downright prostitution. The other common archetype is a gyaru that gives off the impression of being lewd and does flaunt her beauty as part of her style but is actually sexually inexperienced and pure-hearted.
Sometimes, the transition from an innocent-looking, conservatively dressed heroine into a gyaru is a part of moral degeneration or corruption stories, but that is not a rule, lots of stuff have heroines that just happen to be gyaru (both of the lewd and of the secretly innocent varieties) before any shenanigans start happening. It depends on the artist's tastes.
I mentioned there are several substyles under Gyaru, and a few worth mentioning are Kogal, which is Gyaru fashion applied to school uniforms, almost always with shortened skirts and loose socks, often lacking the tan or dyed hair; Ganguro, which has more emphasis on the tan and the contrast between the dark skin and the brightly colored hair and clothes. There's also gyaru-o, basically male gyarus, men with tanned skin and bleached hair who are often portrayed as delinquents and instigators of corruption in the kinds of story we deal with here.
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Left column: Kimi no Omoi, Ie o Tamariba no Suru Dekapai Gyaru-tachi o Kyochin de Wakarase!
Center column: Kyonyuu Gal MC Kousai, Saimin Dosei
Right Column: Namaiki Oshiego o Kachiku ni Shichae, Furyou ni Hamerarete Jusei suru Kyonyuu Okaasan, Namaiki Sports Shoujo no Gal Choukyou Kiroku |
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Gokkun (飲精)/Semen Eating
Refers to the act of eating or drinking semen, usually in large quantities. The most common application for the act seen often in JAV and sometimes in hentai as well of eating from a bowl or cup where the semen was previously collected, often from many partners, but it can also be applied to just eating one load taken directly from the source. "Gokkun" is an onomatopoeia supposed to represent the sound of semen being swallowed.
There's really not much else to say about this one.
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Top row: Meikoku Gakuen Taidou Hen, Ochiru Hitozuma, Megami-gari
Bottom row: Sanbiki no Mesubuta, Netorarenai, Saimin Seikyouiku |
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Haigure (ハイグレ)
Haigure is a very niche and very curious fetish. A woman is mind-controlled into wearing a high-cut leotard and doing an embarrassed pose with her legs apart and the hands around the crotch while chanting "Haigure! Haigure" endlessly, usually in a state of bliss or constant arousal. This comes from a Crayon Shin-chan movie, of all places. "Crayon Shin-chan The Movie: Action Kamen vs Haigure Maou" is the first Shin-chan theatrical movie, in it he finds a rare Action Kamen card and ends up transported to a parallel world with his family where they must help fend off an alien invasion by the Haigure Demon and his leotard-clad soldiers, who turn regular humans into fellow Haigures. They all do the embarrassing pose and chant Haigure, but obviously, it's just supposed to be ridiculous, crass and funny, not really sexual. I have absolutely NO idea how this became a fetish. I mean, I certainly see the appeal of Haigure. I'm not in the hater camp for this fetish at all. But the process by which a silly dance from a Shin-chan movie became a porn niche is one I'm afraid only Japanese netizens of the early 2000s would be able to tell.
The pose the Haigure humans do is also called the Comanechi pose, after gymnast Nadia Comaneci, who wore a high-cut leotard herself. Comedian Beat Takeshi (and later many, many others) would do the pose (while wearing normal clothes) that indicates the cut of the leotard while saying "Comaneci!" as a punchline to some jokes. It's just weird Japanese humor. Shin-chan took that pose, stuck people in actual high-cut leotards, and had them say Haigure instead (I didn't mention, but Haigure is derived for High-leg, how Japanese refers to the high-cut leotard).
Another aspect that is almost always present is, as the girls get turned into "Haigure humans", they trick, betray and attack their former friends to help brainwash and show them the wonders of Haigure. This is also an element that can be dated back to Shin-chan, when one of the characters hanging with Shinnosuke's group reveals herself as a spy by taking off her clothes and revealing the leotard underneath.
Haigure in doujin is fairly rare (standalone pictures have always been more common) but it's increasing in number, with a longform series called Daybreak being released by circle ROM no Hito. Haigure has also spread to JAV, with a pretty long-running series by ROCKET and some standalone JAVs by other companies. In JAV it is pretty common to see the characters (students, office workers and so on) resume their routines after becoming Haigure Humans, which makes for pretty good gap.
Now, some artists make up their own poses instead of using the Comanechi one, or create their own chants, or do away with the leotard, and those are not really Haigure, but it's clearly inspired by it. I included one such example below, but it's far from the only one. It is essentially the same fetish with a different coat of paint.
As a curiosity, recently, the games Pokémon Scarlet and Violet released a DLC storyline where the characters get mind-controlled by a Pokémon that makes them dance in place with their arms to the side and repeat "mochi mochi" (or kibikibi in japanese, because the pokémon feeds people kibimochi to control them). Like the Shin-chan example, this is comedic in nature, and the Japanese audience did find it hilarious if postings about it on the internet are to be believed, but our weird corner of the internet also picked up on it very fast and there's already art doing of it with tags on pixiv and everything.
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Top row: Mazaki Anzu Haigure Sennou, Daybreak Haigure ni Somaru Nichijou
Bottom row: Zundoko Sennou Isshu Hen, Haigure Sennou de Kanzen Haiboku!! Precure ga Haigure Sennou ga Haigure Seijin ka no Akuochi shichau |
JAV examples:
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Top row: RCT-742, STARS-317, RCTD-473
Bottom row: RCTD-546, RCTD-502, RCTD-148 |
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Harem (ハーレム)
Pretty self-explanatory, a harem is a group of women in a consensual relationship with the same man while knowing about the other lovers - sometimes developing into full-blown polyamory where the girls get it on with each other too. The word Harem has an interesting history as the original meaning has little to do with how we interpret it today, but I won't bore you with it.
Harems are pretty common in hentai and particularly common in Eroge, where most games that feature a group of heroines will have at least one harem ending, though sometimes it can feel a bit tacked on. In darker eroge usually the idea of conquering your harem and bending to your will women who would reject an exclusive relationship with the protagonist, let alone a polygamous one, via sexual skill, training, or mind control powers until they become harem sex slaves.
Often only present at the climax of the storyline, harem scenes tend to have the girls doting on the protagonist and/or acting submissive to him, naked or scantly clad. Competing for the attention of the master is also a common trope, though one I'm not particularly fond of - I like when the harem mates get along.
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Top row: Shikijou Kyoudan: Dekachichi Muchishiri BBA Kishidan, Jutaijima
Bottom row: Kazoku ~Haha to Shimai no Kyousei~, Mesu Kyoushi ~Injoku no Kyoushitsu~, Hanazono no Mesudorei |
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Honyou (放尿)/Shouben (小便)/Piss Play/Watersports
The act of peeing as part of sexual play. In any form, from golden showers to piss drinking to simply a character peeing as an act of submission or humiliation, these tags are associated with it. Both Honyou and Shouben are just words for the act of peeing, not sexual by themselves but combined with other R18 keywords or just being punched into an adult site, it will yeld results. While the anglophone equivalents are strictly sexual.
It will usually show up as part of humiliation play during slave training, either with the female being forced to urinate in public or simply having incontinence during sex. Alternatively, after a heroine has been broken, peeing can be a show of submission, shamelessness, or even a show put on to entertain her master's proclivities. On rare occasions, a corrupted heroine may pee on her former friends or partners as a form of showcasing her own degradation and new allegiance.
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Top row: Kyonyuu Onna Senshi Dogeza Saimin, Kangoku Academia, Hitozuma Keiji wa Moto Mahou Shoujo
Bottom row:Kanochi x Motoyan Zuma, Victim Girls 7 - Jaku Niku Kyoushoku dog-eat-bitch, Tanetsuke de Hame Ana Kagu ni Naru Namaiki Ojou-sama-tachi |
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And with that we finish the second entry in our glossary. Sorry for the wait, the holidays got in the way a bit. Lots of entries in this list required context or explanation too, which made things a bit harder for me. Thankfully the next batch is looking easier, so it should be out sooner.
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UPDATE 01/14/2024 - Some stuff I didn't know about the origins of the Haigure pose were pointed out to me and I added them to the article. I also took the opportunity to add another exemple of a variation that surfaced since I originally published this post thanks to Pokémon.
