Yes, Nintendo Really Is Allowing A Game With ‘Hentai’ In The Title On Switch – Nintendo Life

Sometimes a little zombie killing and demon slaying is all you need, but a dash of naughty flavor to spice things up certainly can’t hurt, right? In Hentai vs. Evil, demons have invaded the city, the suburbs and even the beach, turning the residents into flesh-eating zombies and throwing cute girls into cages. It’s time to stop the madness! Rescue those girls, have them join your ranks as you take down the source of evil in a rain of bullets and look good doing it!

Featuring three playable characters, all customizable to your liking, Hentai vs. Evil offers a hedonistic action experience that prizes freeform fun above all else. Navigate wide open stages on-foot, utilize a variety of weapons to take down your foes, survive by grabbing power-ups and make sure no waifu gets left behind!

– Survive against demons and zombies in free-roaming 3D action!
– Unlock playable characters by rescuing them from cages.
– Customize the girls’ appearances with cute outfits (or less clothing).
– Find and use a variety of weapon types.
– Challenge yourself with alternate play modes!
– Select from multiple difficulty settings.

In Japan, hentai isn’t called hentai , because if you read what I said you would know that isn’t what that word means. You know what they call hentai in Japan? ポルノグラフィー which simply means porn. Because only white people who haven’t been exposed to it on a day to day bias as something completely normalized feel the need to make it something special and different then just normal porn. That fact that YOU think it’s different and odd because of your own cultural values doesn’t mean it’s different and odd in the culture that spawned it.

It’s also impossible in Japanese syntax to call a porn manga hentai. In the WEST you use it like a noun, but in Japan it’s only used an a adjective. So if I pointed at a porn and said “hentai ” I would be saying “this thing is perverted”, not suggesting the thing is CALLED hentai, like if I pointed to a glass of water and said “wet”. I mean I could go on, it’s almost like languages are complex and stuff. If anything, in Japan you would call a porn comic “エッチ, or Ecchi, which can be used as a noun, verb or adjective to mean sex, sexual, sexy time. You wouldn’t use the word Hentai, which can mean perverted in a sexual context seeing it’s base meaning is “abnormal”, unless you specially wanted to call something out as being about abnormal sex acts or fetish. And THAT’S why it’s called Hentai in the west; because marketing misappropriated the word for perverted and applied it to sex comics because they were somehow more perverted then other types of porn and you can’t sell something from Japan without giving it a Japanese-y sounding name!

This is honestly the same as someone flipping the hell out because a card game from an English company was called “Card Hustler” then making the argument that “well because MY limited exposer to this word comes from looking a porn magazines, it’s the PORN MAGANIZE’S fault and I’m perfectly justified in thinking the English word hustle always and only means sex.

No, it’s your fault for using words from other cultures you know nothing about without taking the time to educate yourself.

@HeadPirate Racist, much? Like, imagine thinking skin pigmentation has anything to do with someone’s ability to understand (in this case) Japanese culture.

You call out white people specifically but for what reason exactly? Like…you’ve targeted whites, but I’d be willing to bet that as a group, your average “person of color” (whatever that even means these days) would know probably just as little about the topic of Japanese erotica as any foreigner to Japan – maybe even less (not that it matters).

And although, as Asians, the Japanese and Chinese might live relatively close to one another and even share certain superficial physical characteristics – do you really think that the average Chinese citizen is as well-versed in the proper words for Japanese pornography as you are? I mean, I would highly doubt it.

So, again, why are stereotyping and judging folks who have less melanin in their skin so harshly? Who are you trying to impress? Do you think that just because you happen to be a self-loathingly smug, snarky, and virtuous white person, that that doesn’t mean your comment isn’t horribly racist and bigoted? Well, it is.

But, it’s fine. I’m of the opinion that people are free to stereotype others as they would see fit – I mean, it’s not any skin off my back. Not that you would likely give me the same level of respect and tolerance, but it’s all good ?