Would you say Devilman: Crybaby has some Hentai component?

MoonDragon72 said:
You're just trolling now, aren't you?

But just in case you're serious, I guess it kinda does? There are some explicit sex scenes in the show

Zuclyn said:
Just try manga Matsuyoi no Oni, I have a hope you'll enjoy :)

Rob7 said:
Do you know what has Hentai component?


Hentai



Which Devilman is not.

r0mewastaken said:
yes.
when i started watching it (so the early episodes before akira turned) I was in school, and some of my friends happened to approach me when those specific scenes were showing and from then on kept their distances.

from that point on I seemed like a regular hentai consumer to them, which even if it isn't false, was devastating.

Stygian_Prisoner said:


Just because your normie friends perceive it as a hentai doesn't automatically make it so. The result would have probably been the same if they had caught you watching shit like Prison School or High School DxD (which, to my understanding, don't feature actual sex scenes at all), and that still wouldn't make them hentai.

AcD4c said:
It has cum if I remember well... if it's about that you're talking about

Stygian_Prisoner said:
I already clearly stated in your HotD thread what elements an anime has to have in order to be considered a Hentai. If you just so happen to have the memory capacity of a goldfish, then that's your problem i guess.

Belsel said:

Well, it is not that simple, otherwise no one would have doubts or wonder if an anime is Hentai or not. Each anime can raise different doubts.

Stygian_Prisoner said:


But it is that simple, though. It's as simple as checking the genre tags right here on MAL, or on any other official sites. Do you see "Hentai" in the genre tags? No? Then it ain't one.

The only people who say anime like HotD or Devilman count as hentai are the normies who are still new to anime and haven't yet learned to discern between that and ecchi.

Belsel said:

Well Im just asking for opinions. I like to know the points of view of all the people and their arguments.

Tags can be very subjective, since on each site you can sometimes find different ones.

Stygian_Prisoner said:


Then i'll make it even easier for you. Forget the tags entirely and just take a look at the anime's legal platforms.

For example, Devilman Crybaby is a Netflix-exclusive title, and HotD was also available on there for a time. Has Netflix ever permitted pornographic or Hentai titles in their widely-available streaming library? No, they haven't.

Therefore, neither of those titles can be considered Hentai. There, debate solved. You're welcome.

Shaya-Udlak said:
Devilaman is not hentai. It's just..........mature

ohohohohohoho said:
"some hentai component" doesn't make any sense. either something is a hentai or it's not. hentai is not a subgenre of anime that can be partially incorporated or infused with others. it's not a genre at all. it is a different type of commodity entirely, created for the purpose of gratifying yourself to it, for which purpose has extended scenes of explicit sexual activity. if you want to jerk off to 15 second traces of at most, partial nudity, then you certainly can, but merely containing traces of nudity and sex doesn't make something hentai. categorizing any nudity or sex whatsoever as a "component of hentai" is just misleading, because while yes, nudity and sex are typically essential to hentai, nudity and sex are not inherently pornographic. when they are employed in hentai they are components of hentai, but outside of hentai they are just nudity and sex, not "components of hentai" that have gone astray.