Controlling Bodies: The Body in Pornographic Anime

Abstract

Before beginning the discussion about sexually explicit anime (what will be referred to as the pornographic genre here) it should first be understood that, while not totally mainstream, pornography is nevertheless a major current within the world of anime. Contrary to Western stereotypes, Japanese pornographic anime is both thematically wide-ranging and narratively complex. Although enveloped in a hardcore sexual framework, the pornographic anime goes beyond the sexual in terms of plots, themes, and settings. Often, sexually explicit situations are integrated into dense narratives that are usually related to the fantastic, the occult, or science fiction. As such, pornography not only brings up obvious questions of gender construction and interaction, but also less obvious ones as well, such as the relation of gender, power, and control to technology, tradition, and transition.

The womb is the source of all energy and life for a female ninja. If you control the womb, you control the woman.

La Blue Girl

I’m going to change.

Cutey Honey