Type of Site: Cartoon 
Address: www.hentaikey.com 
Price: 
$29.95/month
Date of Review: 
March, 2006
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

Hentai Key isn't really a separate site but an AVS or network pass. It describes itself as "the first, the only, and original Hentai network." Of course if you're the first then you're automatically the original, and if it's the only Hentai network then the rest hardly matters, but it sounds impressive. They've been around since 1999. Think of it as being like the Deluxe Pass of Hentai. Membership gets you into over 800 Hentai-related sites.

Wow! But are they all quality sites? What a silly question. Actually, we don't think any of you really asked that. Of course they aren't. Some of them, as the saying goes, "suck shit big time." There were some dead links. Some links took us directly to the members area and others made us log in again. Some sites were just a couple of preview galleries for another site. Some were all text links, without even box covers much less thumbnails to judge whether we wanted to bother downloading the clips. Don't know about you folks, but a link to "Kokowaemono 2" doesn't mean shit to us. For that matter all the Japanese writing (if it is real Japanese script and not just decorative) that they have tossed around might say "Join Now!" or "Hentai Key" or "Enter this site if you like to eat hairy man-ass!!" 

But, as we've said before, we don't really "get" Hentai. Maybe it's a cultural difference. So much of it just seems weird: the zany sense of humour, the fantasy/science fiction elements, the non-stop panty fetish, the faces with huge fishbowl eyes and tiny dart-like noses, the almost expressionistic artsy touches like the slowly falling drop of water juxtaposed with a dildo screaming towards a guy's asshole . . . sure it's weird and different, but do people get off to it? Is this stuff really so popular, even in Japan? Maybe there's some sort of dietary explanation for all the tentacle stuff, but beyond that we're at a loss.  

Of course if you're reading this you're probably not interested in such speculation. You're a Hentai fan and you want to download some movies. There are also a lot of artwork and comic pages/sites as well in this network, but movies is what you're paying the big bucks for.

Well, in that case you've come to the right place. Yes, some of the 850 or so sites they have suck. And yes there is duplication, as with any network. But you will find a shitload of content here. The main problem is navigation. Good fucking luck finding your way around, or doing a search. It's just not going to work. You pretty much just have to keep browsing, browsing, browsing. Your best bet is to troll through the separate sites. The top menu bar doesn't seem to work that well. The sites are either Free (which is to say, not very good), or "GT." We must have missed what GT stands for, if anything. But they are the premium sites. Once you find what you want it's usually pretty good quality (videos are typically 640x480, in various formats), though be forewarned that the files are usually very large and download speeds can be an issue (as the other reviews below also testify). Some of the movies are in Japanese, some have subtitles, and some are dubbed. It's really a mix.

Extras include a lot of picture galleries and games, some of which are actually worth checking out. Given that it is a network we were confused by what the actual update schedule was and how much stuff was "exclusive." But we're not sure it matters.

Kind of hard to fix a mark on this. Like a lot of networks it's a mess, and the meat of it basically consists of the over 130 DVDs they've burned (and which the tour lists for you). On the other hand, it does have a lot of stuff, in good formats, and the fact is the other Hentai sites out there really blow. If we were big Hentai lovers (which we aren't), this would be the pick of the crop. Maybe that means they're getting such a high mark based on their position relative to the rest of this niche, but we can't blame them for that.

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