stuff anime fanboys like: #6 tentacles
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A slimy subject, to be sure.
Stuff Anime Fanboys Like: #6 Tentacles
In comedy, a commonly used prop when the writer needs a catalyst to generate laughs is slapstick. It is the art of tossing a pie into someone’s face or kicking someone’s groin. Likewise, in 2D erotica from Japan, there is a catalyst similar to how pies in slapstick are used: the tentacle.
The tentacle is the swiss army knife of sexual situations. It can be used in a variety of ways, including holding, grasping, pushing, pulling, defiling, restraining, groping, and other more explicit motions. However, there is a conundrum in how the tentacle managed to attain its lofty status in anime and manga sexual situations. In most standard earth cultures, tentacles are excess limbs that are generally stereotyped as being gross, slimy, and disgusting. (Though this might actually be a charm of a tentacle used in certain situations, like in ravaging a shrine maiden.)
In some cultures, tentacles and tentacled objects are valued as prized food ingredients. Other yet treat them as trophies for athletic competitions. However, fanboys is one such culture that treats them as prime devices for sexual stimulation, and this is not constant with real world usage (the extremely rare octo-pr0n aside). In most standard anime, tentacles are used primarily as methods of restraint, usually for female characters. There might be something sensual implied with a moan or the squeezing of clothes, but that’s usually as far as it goes before the tentacles release or the trapped character is rescued. How did such tentacle titillation implications make their way into standard fare anime?
However, such light fate does not come to characters involved in the seedier side of anime fanboys. Explicit hardcore pr0nographic anime called “hentai” utilize tentacles in ways to will make Larry Flint blush. It is a culture where tentacles run wild and do as they wish. It stems to reason that the reason why tentacle jokes and symbolism make it into normal, non-explicit anime is because the person writing or producing that PG-rated anime knows that the anime fanboy is familiar with the darker hentai arts and thus the symbolic appearance of tentacles could achieve its meaning without the full-on hardcore content. Just keep that in mind next time you see tentacles in Pretty Cure, Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha, or Shugo Chara!.
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Tentacles came into animation (forgive the pun X_X) due to Japan’s post-war censorship laws. “They’re not Freudian! Really!” And I hope that I forget that before I see the next episode of “Shugo Chara.” ;_;
Two tentacle gags that I’d love to see:
* Playing jump-rope with tentacles.
* Someone or something eating tentacles the way we humans eat spaghetti (as a way of turning the tables).
Oh dear: Jason likes long phallic objects? And no Mai-Otome reference?
Haha groping. Its got to be one of the best words in the English language.
I’m sure in the future when men have Chii robots, women will have to rely on manufactured tentacle monsters for satisfaction.
“Tentacles came into animation (forgive the pun X_X) due to Japan’s post-war censorship laws. ”
thats true, they were not allowed the depiction of penis or something (yet somethow a tentacle apendage is ok)… but even before that, the source for the inspiration was “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” showing that the tentacle will stay here for generations to come…
“Oh dear: Jason likes long phallic objects?”
That are as flexible as a contortionist, apparently. :/
And what about Mai-HiME, Haesslich? :P
I actually dont find tenetacles to be the most arousing thing. It was just interesting to watch it in Tower of Druaga though.
Hell yes, Fatima … better that Traitor-Chan …
I hate tentacles more than anything else in anime ever.
TV Tropes has a fairly good article on this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw.....yTentacles
“Some demons have nothing on their minds but sex. They want it, they want it in quantity, and they want it from nubile young women.”
Mmm.. Tentacles.. I like them^^
I thought the Mai-Otome pool episode was better for illustrating the whole ‘tentacle’ thing than, say, Shiho’s hair…
The Japanese were interested in tentacles a long time before the advent of anime. There’s an ancient wood block print called “The Dream of the Fishman’s Wife,” which depicts a woman being … uh, deflowered, by a squid.
It’s not anime, it’s tradition!
hmmm, freshly cut octopus! The moving tentacles go very well with warm soju, which is Korean equivalent of sake. Too bad it would cost me arms and legs to enjoy them in USA.
pic from?
to w4: I’ve heard the genre called spaghetti breakfast actually. Q_Q
I don’t like tentacles. Turns me off. I can never understand why people will like tentacles.
Although i will admit i was strangely amused in the first episode of Druaga…
The horrors that is derailed by darry. I’m more broken day by day.
@kaze: Considering some of the “plots” in hentai anime, “spaghetti breakfast” can be very fitting in ways that not even Lovecraft would touch with a ten-foot pole.
That’s it. On this day, I hereby proclaim that anime shall stop using tentacles. Instead, they shall use ducks.
Instead, they shall use ducks.
Princess Tutu?
Damn…it makes me remember the time when I was lured on the dark side of the H…La Blue Girl and Orotsukidotchi(?) comes to mind. Good times, good times…^_~
It completely derailed me in ways beyond what otaku’s usually experience…I remember my friends looking at me weirdly when they saw me laughing at a James Bond movie entitled Octopussy…or was it Austin Powers??…hahaha…^_~
I’ve only seen the Shrine Maiden-Tentacle combo on a H manga once…the more common ones are the Experimenterd Tentacle Man-slash-Escapee that assaults “unsuspecting” victims and being defeated by hot bombshells lesbian ninja/cops…^_~
Jason, a little more push and you’ll get to the domain of hot nympho-nurses that gives enema and other “services” to their patients…^_~
“Jason, a little more push and you’ll get to the domain of hot nympho-nurses that gives enema and other “services†to their patients…^_~”
is that even possible?…
You know… I’m still not over what Futurama did. Weird enough that they decided to start in on what can only be called an OAV series, but then uh… yeah. They went there. Even admitted what they were doing. Truly a sight to behold.
Could any one be kind enough to tell me from what series is the second pic from?
People have already mentioned this, but yes, Tentacle pornography has been around since the Edo period and can been seen in the woodcut: Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (Image courtesy of Wikipedia.) If you’ll notice that woodprint also contains writing, which would be the erotic story behind the depicted situation.
But you are right in that tentacle porn in hentai grew popular as a result of censorship laws. While they weren’t allowed to depict the male phallis, they did not have to censor tentacles, no matter how similar they looked to the phallis. Also, with a tentacle violating the girl you’re fawning over, its not nearly as threatening as another male (even if that’s the protagonist of the story you’re watching/playing).
But yea, it’s amazing what some tenticles can do… how on earth do they come up with some of those things…
Wasn’t there a tentacle monster in the famed episode 4 way back when?
O.O Fatima… There’s just something about tentacles
@bandidas I’m pretty sure it’s Ai from Magical Girl Ai aka Sexy Magical Girl. A fine example of some of the extremes tentacle hentai can reach.
WOW!
It has been almost ten years since I saw my first hentai with tentacle rape on it. I guess for some of us “La Blue Girl” was something necessary (for those who watch hentai of course) to see. I’m not a fan of the genre, but that doesn’t mean I dislike it.
Damn it, I got nothing more to say. Ja ne!
Oh crap, that was the worst decision ever… I checked the comments for this post, and THEN read Sixten’s Jason doujin…
Now I can’t stop thinking of a twin-tailed neko-mimi Jason-ko about to be violated by tentacles…orz
“Now I can’t stop thinking of a twin-tailed neko-mimi Jason-ko about to be violated by tentacles…orz”
My EYES!!!
>Now I can’t stop thinking of a twin-tailed neko-mimi Jason-ko about to be violated by tentacles…orz
I can’t help but feel slightly responsible for this.
In other news, the goggles did nothing. Excuse me while i grope on the floor trying to find my eyeballs.
>>Now I can’t stop thinking of a twin-tailed neko-mimi Jason-ko about to be violated by tentacles…orz
….Sixten, you think you could…no never mind..
Never.
Wow, I don’t know whether to be proud or ashamed at what my mind’s delusions have done to everyone else. At least I’m not alone anymore XD
Noooo thank you. Tentacles are not for me and I certainly don’t consider them to be a moe mode.