The Oxford Dictionary Online defines it 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 AnimeNation's John Oppliger points to the early 1990s, when a 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. Hentai is defined differently in English. Usage of the term hentai does not define a genre in Japan. Less official terms also in use include ero anime ( エロアニメ), ero manga ( エロ漫画), and the English initialism AV (for "adult video"). : 100 Japanese pornographic works are often simply tagged as 18-kin ( 18禁, "18-prohibited"), meaning "prohibited to those not yet 18 years old", and seijin manga ( 成人漫画, "adult manga"). : 99 While the term has expanded in use to cover a range of publications including homosexual publications, : 107 it remains primarily a heterosexual term, as terms indicating homosexuality entered Japan as foreign words.
The character hen is catch-all for queerness as a peculiarity-it does not carry an explicit sexual reference. In sexual contexts, it carries additional meanings of " perversion" or "abnormality", especially when used as an adjective : 99 in these uses, it is the shortened form of the phrase hentai seiyoku ( 変態性欲) which means "sexual perversion". Hentai is a kanji compound of 変 ( hen 'change' or 'weird') and 態 ( tai 'appearance' or 'condition'), and means "metamorphosis" or "transformation".
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