Hentai

Analyses of Japanese hentai works: aesthetics, representations of desire, narrative codes, media formats, and their place in Japanese pop culture.

This category brings together my analyses, critical readings, and reflections on hentai works, their forms, their characters, their media, and their place in the visual memory of Japanese pop culture.

Here, I examine both their aesthetics and what they reveal about a period, about ways of relating to desire, about certain genre conventions, and about how these works have marked, unsettled, or endured within particular imaginative worlds.