Urotsukidouji: Legend of the Overfiend is probably the genre defining media property when it comes to the world of hentai tentacles. It did for adult anime and manga, on a worldwide basis, what Akira did for mainstream science fiction and action manga. While a considerable success back home in Japan, the hentai video broke quite a few sales records abroad as well. It was, for a long time, one of the top selling anime videos in Europe, beating out many mainstream titles. It was, for America, the big introduction of the hentai tentacles genre to the country, and the video saw massive sales in that market as well. Read more…
One of the advantages of hentai tentacles as a genre is that is skirts around the Japanese law requiring censoring of genitalia. A tentacle is a tentacle after all. Still any depictions involving penetration of the female will still have to be censored. The interesting thing to note, though, is that the original artwork is not created with this in mind. For presentation outside of Japan, or possibly even on some pirate boards, the artwork can be seen totally uncensored. Many websites catering to the western audience make a point of offering up totally uncensored hentai tentacles for their viewers. Read more…