Type of Site: Cartoon
Address: www.mangavshentai.com 
Price: 
$5.95/3-day trial; $34.95/month
Date of Review: 
December, 2005
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

Manga, for all of you who don't follow these things, is the name of a giant Japanese monster awakened from its sleep at the bottom of the Pacific by nuclear testing. He has spiky ridges on his back and fires this weird sort of radioactive death ray out of his mouth. Hentai is a giant Moth creature. When the two meet in combat it looks something like this:

Manga vs. Hentai!

Anyway, what we have here is a site full of both Manga and Hentai. As the title bar tells us, this is "a site that really does matter." Thank God. We were getting sick of reviewing all those porn sites that really don't matter. We also liked it when they told us that "the past is gone, the future is yet to come!" Sure, you may think that the passing of time inevitably leads to such an obvious conclusion, but every now and then we feel the need for reassurance.

Manga vs. Hentai is put out by the same people who brought you All Porn Comics and Fetish Artworks, and it's kind of surprising they wanted us to review this one, seeing as we thought both those other sites kind of sucked. But of course we were very professional when we came to this one and checked any preconceptions we might have had at the door. 

First impressions: Same insane price as the other 'toon sites these guys do. Ridiculous for an archive of non-exclusive content. Terrible writing (so bad it's actually misleading in places). A really fucked up bunch of categories. Here's the list:

Hentai/Anime: "hentai" is sexually explicit or adult-oriented anime (or animation, as we say over here). Apparently the word literally translates as "abnormal" or "perverted." This section doesn't actually have any anime. It's mainly screenshots and pics from hentai movies. 400 galleries.

EU/US Manga: "manga" is Japanese for comic, and it is not necessarily adult-oriented (though if you're paying for it on the Internet, chances are it is!). So this section is a bunch of manga comics in English for EU/US members. Over 400 titles. Not bad.

Manga, Doujinshi, Yaoi: no, as a matter of fact we don't have a fucking clue what those other words mean. The category header helpfully informs us that this section contains "some Japanese art." Great. So . . . this section is pretty much more of the same stuff you saw in the first two sections. It has some comic books but they're in Japanese. 150 galleries. 

Sailor X: weird. Sailor Moon seems to have become the Hello Kitty of the porn world. This is a collection of Sailor-inspired art, and some photos of people dressed up in Sailor costumes. Also has several pages of very short clips (some only 2 seconds!). Not our thing.

Comics, Cartoons, 3-D Art: just a grab-bag of stuff, some of it really poor quality. Galleries have names like "Gay" and "Erotic Art #11." Not a lot of comics. But then there were already comics in a couple of the other sections. You see what a mess this is. 

Artists: galleries of artwork from various names. Some interesting stuff.

Video Archive: OK, here's what we came in for. Looks like about 25 full movies. And we mean full movies: Most seem to be around 45 minutes long. They come in one of two formats, 320x240 mpgs and 640x480 .avi (DivX) files. Playback is solid and you should be able to enjoy the .avi stuff full screen. Unfortunately you have to download everything in complete files, and some of them are up to 350 megs. Thanks!  

Titles come with a good synopsis and a bit of critical background. Not what we were expecting, but a nice surprise. As far as content goes, there isn't much of the tentacle stuff. It's mostly "reality" hentai. Whether it's your thing or not is personal preference. We downloaded something called Weather Girl 2. What a fucked up piece of work. Something about a sexy weathergirl and her power struggle with the news anchor. But where was the sex? This movie was 45 minutes long and it had maybe--maybe!--fifteen seconds of pussy-licking in it! And most of the time the pussy in question is wearing panties! Huh? Is this what Japanese guys have to get off to? No wonder they think Sailor Moon is sexy.

Under each movie thumbnail there is a link that says "Review Movie." Since we like to think of ourselves as reviewers we thought we'd click on this link and add our 2 cents ("This movie sucks!"). Unfortunately the link only starts the download. Ha-ha! What they meant to say is "View Movie"! The joke was on us! We are such dumb fucks!

The videos also come with a special warning. You know it's special because they say "Attention!!!" with three exclamation marks. Apparently you can only download four video files per day. If you try to download more your membership will be blocked for 24 hrs. 

Why do we say "apparently"? Well, after downloading Weather Girl 2 we were denied re-entry because we were over our limit. We'd only downloaded one file! Argh! How do you say "fuck you" in Japanese?

Games: yeah, whatever. And you also get some bonus content and plug-ins.

OK, so in the Manga vs. Hentai cage match, who wins? Manga. This is a decent collection of manga comics. The videos are good quality, and they have a nice little selection, but it's not a huge archive and the download limit is a pain in the ass. Otherwise this isn't a very special site. There's only one comic they have that's semi-exclusive (it's also at All Porn Comics). The rest of the material will look pretty familiar to fans of this niche. We couldn't tell what the update schedule was because nothing was dated. In fact, when we visited (December, 2005) the only item under "News" was this less-than-comforting message:

News: Dear Valued Clients,
Our support team won't be available starting from 8 to 20 december. Our support service site cs-centre.com  will be working in automatical regime. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Automatical regime. Is that a good thing? Probably not, but we don't really speak the language.

Bottom line: There's some OK stuff here, but most of it is pretty shopworn, the presentation is a mess, and the membership is much too expensive unless you get the trial.

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