Thursday 4 June 2009

Worrysome Animation

I honestly pass no judgement on anyone who uses he internet to look up pornography, because the internet is chock full of it, its hard not to find it just by browsing random topics. If finding deviant acts online and whacking away to it is your only form of release, then go for it, I do not judge.

I like to browse the internet on a whole variety of subjects, and occasionaly I will go onto some sites, normally from word of mouth and other times just from searching. In all honesty it is more out of curiousity rather than for stimulation, I have no need for pornography in my life for sexual release but I go onto the sites just to have a look and sometimes even a laugh. If I had not I would never have heard of the 2 Girls 1 Cup phenomenon that gripped the internet for a brief time. I saw this video, I watched it up to a point and had to turn it down. I wanted to set fire to my pc just on principle but I relented and then spent time watching youtube reactions to 2 Girls 1 Cup.

Also I would never have seen any of the infamous Paris Hilton video, which is actually really funny to watch if you skip ahead through most of the nonsense and watch the night vision scenes as she puts herself in the middle of the frame for a lot of the scenes in it. Making sure she is the centre of the screen and gets the most screen time.

I also had the displeasure of watching another infamous celebrity video during this time, the hideous "1 Night In China" video, which features mannish female wrestler Chyna Joanie Lauer engaging in sex acts with her then-boyfriend Sean "X-Pac" Waltman. Anyone who got turned on watching that movie needs some serious help, but people must have bought it because "Another Night In China" was released, did we really need another night?

But the reason for this post, well its something that is very bothersome to me, I have seen numerous examples of it, but it actually all started with me buying a DVD.

In 2002 I had a DVD player, they had started to come down in price and when in the shop HMV I was browsing the Anime DVDs. There, chopped down in price to £5 was a dvd called "Legend of The Overfiend", and the picture on the front was of a huge monster looming over a city. Also noted on the front of the box was it contained the original Legend Of the Overfiend and the sequel, both on the one disc. Awesome, I like Anime, so I might as well pick it up with it being so cheap. I had never heard of it so I bought it, went home and watched it.

Yeah.....ackward, I had never seen such a thing in my life. The film began with a guy spying on girls changing. Okay so its showing he's a horny teenage, so what? I mean the demon part will come into it soon.

Then we cut to a teen girl being taken into the nurses office by a female teacher, the teacher rips the girls clothes off and then turns into a tentacle monster and performs what the Japanese seem to love, tentacle rape. My eyes, my poor eyes, it was hideous and I don't get what was supposed to be exciting about this whole thing. Well the rest of the movie is actually okay for the most part, a plot about a giant beast that wants to destroy the world and then we discover its because of 2 horny teens, if they do the bag thing then the boy will become the "Overfiend" and destroy the world because he knocked up his girlfriend with the new Messiah. No I am not joking. Remove the explicit sex from the movie and its actually a good plot by Anime standards, but some of the sex scenes were just there for people to whack off to and the fact that the "Overfiend" uses giangantic penises as lasers that destroy the city, well enough said about that the better. The movie ends with the "Overfiend" destroying the world, but the sequel starts off with the world all back to normal, and after watching both movies, I think that the sequel actually fits somewhere in the middle of the first film. But the second film is more of the same, but it involves a nerdy teen boy lopping off his own penis to replace it with a "demon" penis given to him by the devil, again I am not joking. More of the same stuff happens, big demons fight and people die and the world is destroyed.

So yeah I was pretty shocked by the whole affair, but the thing was, it wasn't that bad a movie in all. I am not defending the movie, its abhorrent that you can actually watch it and I advise everyone to stay away from it, because its just a flimsy excuse for animated sex, but at least they put some thought into it. The story of the Overfiend continues through a TV series that was released on VHS in this country. However one episode of the show was never released in Europe or the US because of the sexual acts depicted on the show. I never saw the end of the Overfiend story, but what I saw was fun at points, when it wasn't obsessed with sex, it had some good moments in it, including a post apocalyptic world that is truly horrifying.

What I didn't know is that The Legend Of The Overfiend is a kind of kicking off point to a subculture of porn called Hentai, the depiction of sex in Anime. And that is what this post is about Hentai. A few times I have watched some of this disturbing stuff, it really is just that, disturbing. It makes no sense, the people are no better off at the end of these stories and all that happens is that different girls end up having sex with some truly weird partners. The sex in the animation is truly graphic, to the extreme, more so than Overfiend was because video content over the net cannot be censored by the BBFC, but instead of being arousing the animation is actually more amusing than anything else. Here's an example of how funny this stuff is, the girls on these shows have wacky hair, one girl turns up with bright green hair, so when she is stripped of her clothes, we notice the carpet matches the curtains. So this leaves 2 possibilities folks:

1) Either she was born with bright green hair

or

2) She dyed her pubic hair to match her dye job on top.

Having never seen someone with natural bright green hair, I tend to go with option 2 and considering how batshit crazy the Japanese are, this is probably the most plausable explanation.

There is theme running through the Hentai movies I have seen (movies being about twenty something minutes in length) and that is the women are always embarrased about being.... well women. Men get their cloethes off and remark on how wet their undergarments are or how they look cold because you could tune in tokyo on their nips and the girls always remark that they are embarrased. Then when they actually get down to the squelchy part of it, its REALLY squelchy, the sounds that come from the bodies of these animated characters are certainly not any sounds that come from humans. Do you remember the tubs of slime you used to get as a child, well imagine making a fist and putting it in that tub and then pulling it out again, do that very quickly a few times and that is the sounds coming from the frantic mattress mambo on screen. Now that noise is annoying, but the worst sounds are from the voice actors themselves, the woman moan like they are crying (come on love it may be bad sex, but it can't be that bad) so you get a sex scene that actually sounds like a rape scene. Also the guys who are doing the male voiceovers are no better, they say strange things during sex, maybe its a Japanese thing, but I have never heard anything like some of the things these guys say. I am not going to even type out what they say, track it down for yourself if you really feel you have to.

Speaking of rape (terrible terrible segway), that is a common theme in Hentai, women being forced into brutal sex acts by normally more than one guy at a time, then suddenly horror of horrors, the woman starts to enjoy it. Well done Japan, well done indeed, if this stuff ever becomes mainstream you just set the plight of rape victims back about twenty years. The message you are sending out to people is "don't worry about women that are gang raped, they secretly enjoy it". But not only is rape a big theme, but so is sex with underage girls, not so underage that they are children but old enough to still be wearing a school uniform. The age of the characters are generally never stated but I doubt that the characters are all over the age of 18, its sickeningy perverted to the point that you realise the people that watch this stuff religiously and collect it, need to be monitored. Violence is another huge theme in the Hentai animated world, make sure that women are taken as violently as possible, throw in some blood for good measure and apparently you are onto a winner. Why? Because sex and violence sell apparently. Picture this, and this is a real scene from a Hentai movie, its one of the those things you wish you could unsee, like 2 Girls 1 Cup:
A bank robber, during a bank heist, has taken some women into the women's restroom, he lines 2 of them up over the sinks, he visciously rapes them, then to top things off he forces the end of his shotgun up the rectum of one woman as he rapes the other, then as he reaches his climax he pulls the trigger on the shotgun, giggling to himself as if he did something really funny.
It's horrendous, I watched this entire scene in horror, as the animators went close up on the guy's finger on the trigger I kept thinking "no, no, surely not, they are not that fucked in the head, are they?", I couldn't look away, it was like a car crash, you want to turn your head from the carnage but something locks you entire body into position so you cannot look away.
Its a scene like the one above that shows you Hentai is not a viable form of pornography for stimulation, the people that get off to this stuff obviously have issues.


Another thing that is baffling is the build of the characters in the shows. Have you looked at Japanese women? They are small in stature and generally have a slender shape, they are not exactly busty. However every single chick in Hentai, HUGE knockers, breasts so big that Anna Nicole Smith, if she were still with us, would say "damn those are big knockers". But not only do they have these HUGE, HUGE, HUGE racks, they have the thin waist and flat stomachs as well. These women in Hentai are 100% fantasy and do not exist in real life, so why draw them as such? If your trying to titilate someone, why not draw what a real woman looks like? Wouldn't that be more of a turn on that something you know could never be real? Having never whacked off to animation (does Who Framed Roger Rabbit count?) I am just making a guess, but I think that would be more fufilling for those that smack the one eyed bishop to animated porn.


My forary into watching Hentai also brought to light a strange fetish that exists in Japan and has actually made me rethink my ideas of ever going there. A lot of people in Japan use public transport, trains being the most widely used and the trains get really busy, to the point that there are staff in the stations employed just to push people onto the train and cram as many people as possible into a carriage as possible. Well with everyone crammed together, a big fetish in Japan is random people groping women they don't know. Its a common occurence for a woman to be groped on a train in Japan, the best detterent is to smack the hands away quickly and they wont do it again, but if you ignore it the people doing it take this as an open invitation to keep doing it. I mean, seriously, what the fuck is wrong with the people who do that? I have been on a crowded bus before, everyone jammed into together and never once have I thought to myself "man I just need to grab that woman's ass". Why? Because I am a rational human being who knows the difference between right and wrong.... and also because my wife would kill me (just kidding honestly). Groping women on trains is a huge thing in Japan, so much so that I would be scared to go to Japan and take a train, not for me, but for my wife. The idea that this is acceptable, or if not acceptable, tolerated to a point is just plain crazy. The Hentai animation of this craze took it to the extreme but the fact is, it just took something real and expanded on the idea to appeal to the perverts out there who enjoy this stuff.

Here's another thing, people create these animations, it is meticulously animated and put out there. So people spend time drawing these characters (whether it be hand drawn or from a computer screen) and they spend the time making these animations, hours colouring the animations in, matching up the correct hair colours to the different girls and then hours are spent recording dialogue, first japanese and then if its going to other countries, other voice actors record the dialogue all over the world, then the voices are synced up to the animation, then the sound effects are added, then the music is added. After all this the start credits and end credits are added, then it is pressed onto dvd or video, then it is released. To see it online, someone has to rip it from CD, make sure it is encoded into the proper format, upload it to a website, the website administrators generally have to view the file first to make sure its not kiddy porn, then it is released on the website. To view the file you have to click on it, allow it to stream, so your connection better be good. That entire process is for what? So some saddo can pull their pud to animated boobies jiggling on screen?

Well I better wrap this up, but I think the main thing to take away from this is that if you ever stumble upon this Hentai craze or are even the least bit curious, stay away from it. Like I said before, I have no issue with pornography, pornography is fine, go nuts. During puberty pornogrpahy is a godsend, to hell with our eyesight and on with the whacking was the thoughts of a teenager who gets access to porn. But its hard to clasify Hentai as pornography, the dark themes and graphic sex make this more video nasties than porn and you can't say that it is a valid form of entertainment because most of the Hentai movies I saw end up even darker than they started, you feel dirty and sickened as they come to a close. Maybe its for the Japanese so they feel guilt and shame for watching and possibly whacking off during the movies. The fact is, if you want to make Hentai to stimulate people, then just make the animated version of any porn movie out there. A woman calls a plumber, the plumber turns up, sex ensues, people whack off, everyone is happy. Don't throw in stories about demons, rape and women who magically grow penises (oh yes, that happens).
Well that's my rant over, I did this more out of complete disbelief, as I watched an entire episode of one Hentai movie in horror, unable to look away. After watching one, I figured it was a bad movie, so I decided to look up some more and each one as bad as the one before it. Also during all of these movies I might add there was nary a twitch from the undercrackers region, its animated, its not real, if it turns you on then what the hell is wrong with you?

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