Man, the losers are gonna swarm this thread. Waitaminit...

*runs away*

Uhoh, a wierd boobies link, BEWARE OF BrianVan

Mosaics. Why bother?

LOL @ InternetSecurityGuard

Wait a sec, if this hentai chic isn't real, then why does she have a name? Am I missing something here?

GIS for stupid.

OK, what the hell. Maybe Espertron's pic is distracting me. (I hope not)

question - since this is pretend art of pretend people - do the guys who get off on this pretend to pull their pretend peckers?

What? No NSFW tentacles?

You could have at least thrown in a cat-girl shemale robot maid. This stuff is about as hentai as Dick and Jane...

... which ironically enough is only published in hentai form in Japan.

Go figure.

Goddammit! Why is hentai making the main page? Ugh, what's next, a FURRY tag?

You see for me Hentai's saving grace has always been that it is absolute pure fantasy. When you look at a hentai drawing or anime you're not wondering if the porn star you're watching being triple penetrated and whiped with a lamp cord is some underaged crack addict being exploited simply to get the money for her next fix. It's nothing but pen and ink. For just about everything you see take place in a hentai video there is an equivalent form of live action porn out there somewhere. Unlike the live action stuff in Hentai no real people are degraded, exploited or hurt.

So before you judge the Hentai fetishists think about all the sick shirt that takes place in real porn to real people. Suddenly it doesn't seem like the Hentai fetishists should be judged all that harshly, does it...

... except for those scat hentai freaks. They're sick fvcks!

legopowa

Yes, yes it did.

FredGarvin

I like to look at this one:


http://www.goddesspost.com/today/index.asp

By the way, it's not hentai. Sorry.

Well I for one love hentai. Especially rape hentai. I even like playrape in real life. I enjoy pornorgraphy that most of you would consider anywhere from mildy disturbing to disgusting to WTF?! I love porn. Midget, trannies, rape, bondage, cosplay, EPE, exhibitionism, voyeurism, etc. It's all good. I'm comfortablt with who I am, and more than that, proud of it. And you think you can judge me? Ha.

2003-06-29 05:21:31 PM Greg Proops

Ghastly: Why do you have to watch ouchie porn at all? There is non-cartoon pornography out there where the ladies actually appear to be enjoying themselves. Hentai, however, rarely has a positive vibe and usually has depressing piano music while some old guy or hellish beast takes advantage of a wimpering underage-looking girl. I'm sure some mentally balanced hentai exists, so why don't you support that and not defend the usual unhappy hentai nonsense?

Actually, believe it or not I've only ever seen one hentai anime in my life. It was a video called "Dragon Knight" and it had written on the cover "Based on the hit videogame!". I had just finished playing Dragon Warrior for the old NES that week and when I read the the title on the video box I read it as "Dragon Warrior" and I thought "Cool! I didn't know there was a Dragon Warrior anime."

Needless to say I was pretty surprised when I got it home and found out it was based on a Turbo-PC hentai game. It was still pretty funny though.

But I stand by my original point, wether owie hentai or owie live action porn I still say the hentai is far less exploitive.

Dottore

Real nerds get all the best ass. You're simply jealous of that and our raging healthy libidos. If you can't get yourself hard, that sure isn't our problem.

ZZZZzzzzzz.....

Holy necktie! Greg Proops is a farker with a low user number! This far eclipses the Wheaton hotness.

Proopdog: You are a very funny man. Your wit actually compelled me to watch Rendez-View frequently.

On topic:
Hentai is a victim-less kind of porn, and it's not that depressive, girl meet tentacle monster, girl gets raped, girl uses super-power, girl learns the pleasure of tentacles... Mostly...

This from a guy called "boogiepop." (Cool anime btw) I guess your otaku bias allows you to overlook the frequent rape scenes in Urotsukidoji, which is pretty much the established classic of the genre.

I admit to watching some hentai with the same sick fascination that I hold for a car wreck, but it is definitely creepy. It may be a victimless medium (animation), but that doesn't mean that hentai doesn't have dangerous and even criminal themes.

Personally, I can't spank it to cartoons... I'll just stick to my interracial zoophile midget porn.

2003-06-29 09:29:41 PM Greg Proops

Which has got me thinking, the Japanese hentai artists must have some issues. They're the ones in control of the content of their art. At least live action porn has some female input. Hentai is all from the mind of some Japanese guy who likely has some... issues.

Oh well that's a given.

From what I've heard, and I don't know how true this is, most Japanese hentai manga artists are actually virgins. I got asked by this japanese fan of my comic once if I was a virgin and if I knew if Hard, of Sexy Losers was a virgin. He then told me that most Japanese hentai mangaka are virgins.

I told him I can't speak for Hard but as far as I'm concerned I'm not a virgin. If I am a virgin then my wife has a lot of explaining to do in reguards to where my children came from.


Um... just to check, a guy's no longer a virgin once he's put his penis in a girls vagina and rubbed it around in there until he ejaculates, right? I just want to make sure I've got this right because I've been ticking the "NO" box on the "Are you a virgin?" question on my tax form for some time.

I think the rules are slightly different for Catholics but that shouldn't apply to me.

Boogiepop
I actually try to pull all of catchy phrases out of 50's info films.

You surmised correctly that I meant rape is the dangerous/criminal theme in Overfiend.

I'm not saying that hentai leads directly to rape, or trying to argue that censorship is ever appropiate. The whole media/violence issue is a chicken/egg type of thing that we could discuss for weeks without a concrete solution. I am only saying that there is something creepy about getting off to images of rape.

To be fair, not all hentai is as disgusting as Urotsukidoji.

2003-06-29 09:58:32 PM Boogiepop

Hentai is a victim-less kind of porn, and it's not that depressive, girl meet tentacle monster, girl gets raped, girl uses super-power, girl learns the pleasure of tentacles... Mostly...

Actually, I'd just like to point out that the whole tentacle monster genre is only one slice of the hentai pie. Hentai (and I'm using "hentai" in the western context because what we call "hentai" isn't what the japanese call it) has a whole spectrum of different kind of genres, everything from gay male hentai ("Shounen-ai" and "yaoi") to romance hentai to bondage hentai to comdey hentai (lots of comedy hentai actually) to the nasty demon tentacle rape hentai. Pretty much anything tame to depraved that exists in live action pornography exists also in the anime/manga form that we in the west call "hentai".

But while we're on the subject of women and hentai I notice a lot of the bashing is along the lines of "you guys are losers" with nothing at all being said about the sizable population of women who are into hentai.

One of the things that struck me when I first started drawing my comic was the huge amounts of e-mail I got from female readers. I didn't think I'd get any female readers. I've gotten thousands of e-mails since the start of Ghastly's Ghastly Comic from female readers many of whom wrote to tell me in quite graphic detail about their own personal "tentacle monster" fantasies and fetishes. Not only was I amazed by the large number of women who enjoy hentai but I was completely take aback by the large number of women who enjoy tentacle monster hentai. Who knew!?

Most of the women who have sent me e-mails detailing their own hentai fantasies have pretty much said what I said, they like hentai over live action porn because it is pure fantasy and no real people are exploited. They can watch it without feeling "dirty" afterwards because it's nothing but pen and ink.

So it's not just lonely basement dwelling males out there jerking off to pictures of Hello Kitty being sodomized by Pikachu (arrrgh! you can claw out your eyes but you can't claw out your mind's eye!). There are also a lot of female hentai fans out there as well.

Personally, I love anime, I'll admit it. But for my social graces I fear I too would be an otaku. I like the more "adult" anime series like Cowboy BeBop and Grave of the Fire Flies and Mobile Battleship Nadesico and other more mature stuff rather than Pokemon and Sailor Moon and other anime series aimed towards the kid's market. The hentai anime I've never really been into. As I've said, although I've watched anime that has had graphic sex in it I've only watched one movie that we in the west would call "hentai". Luckily it was a comedy.

I know it seems odd that a guy known for drawing a hentai comic strip would have seen so little actual hentai and not really be into it but the truth is the only stuff I'm into in terms of the hentai is the comedy stuff. Sexy Losers is probably the most brilliant example of hentai comedy. It is naughty, disturbing, twisted but funny as all hell.

So there's a lot more to "hentai" than just "Legend of the Overfiend" and other "owie" hentai.

2003-06-29 10:56:39 PM Chuckman

There is a God, and his name is "There is a sizable population of women who are into hentai".

The problem is you can't exactly walk into a room and yell "Hey, anybody here like hentai? How about you over there?"

Well... it would depend on what kind of anime convention you go to.

Of course I wouldn't know too much about that having not really experienced an anime convention (or any other kind of convention for that matter). The only convention experience I have is about an hour at Anime North when I took the kids one day. We mostly just hung out in the dealer's room because my kids are too young to be into watching subtitled japanese animation. They bought some Yugi-oh cards, Beyblades, and my daughter bought a Hello Kitty purse and then they wanted to go home. It was a pity because I really wanted to experience more of the convention and check out the artist's alley more.

Unfortunately I was terrified that someone would come running up to me while I was with my kids screaming "Dude! You're Ghastly! You're the guy who does that sick and twisted comic strip about tentacle monsters and the women who love them!"

Of course the beauty of internet celebrity is A)hardly anyone knows what you look like, and B)being "big on the net" means being almost completely and totally unknown in real life (internet celebrity Wil Wheaton excluded, of course).

This August I plan on attending the entire three days of CN Anime without the wee ones so that I can enjoy the whole experience, meet with some readers and not have to worry about my kids asking me "what's a tentacle monster?"

Yepper, CN Anime is going to be all Daddy time!

2003-06-29 11:03:26 PM WaxDragon

Maybe Ghastly could setup some kind of dating service..

;0)

Hey, feel free to use the forum on my site for all your socializing needs. Of course I cannot guarentee that all females on my forum have a vagina. Heck "famous shemale fetish icon extrodinaire" Tara Emory has even posted to my humble forum.

2003-06-29 11:09:16 PM AlienOmega

Since Ghastly is here, I'd like to ask, why has the comic not been updated?

You may be loading the old comic from your cache. This week's comic is titled "It's 40 Below And I Don't Give A Fvck."

If that's not the comic you're seeing hit your reload button.

I should also point out that there are an awful lot of female hentai artists out there so it's not all stuff being drawing by twisted japanese male virgins.

2003-06-29 11:56:20 PM AlienOmega

You know, Ghastly reminded me of something odd I saw at JACON 2001. A group of girls with matching shirts that said "Yummy Yaoi" on the back of them. Which leads me to ask, why do girls like yaoi? A friend of mine said that she thought that "yaoi is cute". But it that true for all the fangirls who like yaoi? Can anyone clear this up?

I've asked the "Why do girls like Yaoi so much?" question myself of many of the female fans who write me anytime I do something Yaoi-ish in my strip and I think the best answer I've gotten is "Why do guys like Yuri so much?" ("Yuri" is the name for the genre of girl-on-girl hentai anime and manga. The word "yuri" means "lily" in Japanese. I think you can figure out why that would be applicable without the need for me to draw you a picture).

Over 90% of Yaoi is drawn and written by women for an audience of women. There are gay men who are into yaoi too, but there are also some who find it offencive due to it's inaccuracy in portraying a typical homosexual relationship.

Personally I believe when it comes to the realm of fantasy anything and everything that turns your crank is fine by me as long as nobody gets hurt and nobody gets exploited. Our minds should be our own playgrounds to indulge in whatever fantasies we wish. However, I definetly don't believe that every fantasy should be made reality. As long as you keep it in your own mind or between conscenting adults and nobody is hurt and nobody is made to do anything against their will go for it.

If any girls out there want to have a yaoi party where they all sit around in their naughty undies, watching yaoi hentai and touching themselves and each other, who the bloody hell am I to judge?

All I ask is that you please hook up a webcam and give me the URL.

Please!

The word "yuri" means "lily" in Japanese. I think you can figure out why that would be applicable without the need for me to draw you a picture).

No, I think a picture is definitely neccesary. And I like yaoi better than actual gay porn.

There was supposed to be a line break between those two sentences. To give it a better sense of flow. Now when I read it it just seems like I'm randomly streaming thoughts together as they come out of my overworked head. I have a hat full of waffles and syrup in my pants.

Nothing like a little ass love with some carbon molecules.

Ass lovin' carbon molecules make the baby Jesus cry.

He wouldn't if he would use more lubricant.

Hahah, oh that's good. Ghastly, you rock man.

Well here's hoping that when that thesis is written they contact me. I can put them in touch with a lot of women who dig the tentacles.

Actually, Something Awful said all that needed to be said about people and their hentai thing and for once I am in full agreeance.

My brother likes that stuff and he is a wreck around real people. All he ever does is download or order Sailor Moon crap and play everquest (he's 22).