Hentai will always remain controversial as long as anime as ann industry is misjudged, since hentai will always be misjudged to an even greater degree because it’s animated porn.
Plus a foreign product.
That being said, facts still remain facts.
And these facts about hentai cannot be denied!
1. It’s Stigmatised, But Widely Consumed
Many people seemingly despise, discredit, and criticise hentai, but FACTS don’t lie.
| Search Term | Growth / Rank Info | Growth (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Hentai | #1 search (4th year) | |
| Anime | Rises +4 spots to #7 | |
| Animation | +28% search growth | 28 |
| 3D | +19% search growth | 19 |
| Realistic Animated | +78% search growth | 78 |
| Gay Animated | +23% search growth | 23 |
| Rule 34 Animated | +15% search growth | 15 |
This data above is taken from pornhub for their 2024 review where hentai, as they admit, has been NUMBER 1 for the 4th straight year for search terms on pornhub.
The chart and table above highlight the specifics of hentai terms like:
- Rule 34.
- 3D.
- Animated.
And so on.
Notice how HENTAI dominates?
It’s even more popular than:
- Donald Trump (it spiked during 2016 but dropped far below hentai).
- Elon Musk.
- Pornography (as in, the main kind).
And this is since 2004, making hentai’s dominance loud and clear despite it being stigmatised, criticised, and dismissed in public.
In reality, Hentai is one of the best-kept secrets among people all over the world. Rarely do you hear about hentai being discussed even in private settings, never mind in public.
Only the internet provides a place of refuge for those who wanna talk about it via:
- Forums.
- Social media.
And the like.
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2. It Exists Because of Demand
You can’t get rid of something that has demand by criticising it, isolating it, or pretending it doesn’t exist. And no amount of shaming and insults will change it either (a good or bad thing depending on what it is).
With the rise of the internet, social media, platforms, Google, pirate sites, forums, and the internet becoming more accessible across the world, hentai has only continued to grow as a result.
It’s a beneficial relationship provided by the digital landscape.
And of course, with anime being in demand, which has risen over the years thanks to the internet, hentai benefits from this demand, especially when you realise how big the “hentai fan art” space is, which is taken from anime and its characters.
Technology will only improve and drive more demand for hentai, especially things like VR, AR, and AI (artificial intelligence).
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3. Hentai Has a Massive Global Audience
You don’t need charts to prove this, but it is relevant to the point.
Let’s focus on Ecchi Motivation’s audience on behalf of Anime Motivation, for example.
This country list is pulled from the data of Ecchi Motivation (this website).
It’s not in ranking order, but is used to highlight interest in hentai topics from even countries where hentai is considered “taboo”.
Many muslin countries make the list in spite of what the average person offline would believe (Malaysia, Egypt, etc). And Western countries unsurprisingly make the list as well.
Data may be hard to come across in the hentai industry, but it’s easily proven when talking about Hentai’s massive global audience, considering anime is also the same.
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4. Hentai Isn’t Always About Sex
Ironically, hentai isn’t always about:
- Sex,
- Tentacles.
- Aliens.
- Incest.
And all of the “worst” aspects of hentai people usually reference either for memes or to dismiss it.
Hentai also has more wholesome aspects to it and more often than people think.
Stuff like:
- Vanilla.
- Romance.
And these sorts of hentai are very common and are often recommended by many fans of hentai shows over the more extreme sorts of content the world seems to know it for.
5. Technology and hentai go hand in hand in terms of growth
Where technology goes, hentai will follow. That’s a guarantee.
Let’s start with the internet, The internet blew up many things including entertainment, music, anime, games ventually, and of course porn and then hentai.
With artificial intelligence in 2025 and beyond, hentai will only continue to grow even more as a result. Adding VR to the mix and augmented reality will take hentai further since the genre is about imagination and virtual reality in a literal sense.
The possiblities is too much for horny bastards to ignore, especially in a business context.
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6. Hentai is more ethical than regular porn
This is ironic but true. Hentai hurts nobody in the process of being created, except maybe a few vocal cords when a female voice actress is SCREAMING into the microphone.
You know the kind we’re talking about here.
Then there’s the fact that hentai, despite being arguably disgusting, is all virtual, so nothing that happens is real.
Of course, there are caveats.
Compare this to porn as it stands.
It is regularly caught:
- Exploiting children.
- Taking advantage of teenagers.
- Corrupts many men and women in one way or another.
- Runis lives beyond reputation.
Hentai voice actors and writers get to walk away scot free, get on with their lives, and not have to worry about repercussions. Pornstars can’t say the same thing or those exploiting them.
7. It Pushes Boundaries of Fantasy More Than Most Media
This fact, along with the others in this post, can’t be denied in any way, shape or form.
Hentai is fictional, and the characters are animated. That means artists, creators, directors, and writers can do whatever the F they want.
- They can turn a goat into a woman with goat like features and make her sexy.
- They can have animals in the form of women having sex with each other.
- They can make an Isekai series filled to the brim with naughty scenes.
- Or they can make a wholesome fantasy series where the characters have over-exaggerated features and unrealistic outcomes.
The power of hentai in this way is why hentai is always found in memes, hilarious ones, and why the comedy never dies.
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