Reviewed by Mark Buckingham
 Oh what a site. This reminds me of that hentai site I went to when…wait, actually this one is really the best I've seen yet in terms of quality, consistency and (perhaps accidentally) poking fun at itself. Let's just say some of the text translations are a little…loose. "Do not provide video files to third persons." "[This is] a site that does matter." It's not wrong, per se. It's just not entirely natural sounding to native English speakers. It has a pinch of Engrish thrown in for good measure, which I'm just not sure if it was intentional or not. Either way, it's sure to make you snicker, and fortunately is in no way representative of the rest of the site's assets. They get it DONE here, like I've not seen elsewhere.
 At first, I wasn't keen on their setup of clicking through images (pages from a manga, a Japanese comic book) but soon I realized it was a lot more fluid for what was going on. You're not just flipping through images; you're supposed to be "turning pages" in the comic, pages that are all plenty big enough to clearly make out everything that's going on. Much of the language therein is Japanese, just so you know. Maybe that's common sense to the hardcore, but some might not know. The lazy among us can turn on or off a slideshow setup, so you don't even have to be bothered turning pages.
Also common sense to the experienced is that often times, the genitalia is blurred or boxed out. It's not the case on all of the content here (Americanized hentai doesn't always do it; it's more of a traditional Japanese thing), but just be aware. Sometimes, they seem to play with the rules by putting this tiny sliver of a censorship box over something, just to "have it there," but it's not really covering up anything at all.
 The only thing I would have liked--and this is coming from experience elsewhere--was some kind of "download-it-all-at-once" mechanism, like saving entire comics as zip files. It might save them some bandwidth, but there may be other reasons not to do it that I'm not aware of. I'd just gotten comfy clicking once to get a bunch of stuff. Other places I've been, I've seen short clips hacked apart to feature only the sex stuff. Might be good for people with ADD and slow connections, but I liked having a slightly longer clip with a little context. I know, story is about as important in porn as it is in a Michael Bay movie, but similar to those flicks you can just skip it and get to the goods if you want. Sure, it cost my hard drive a few more GBs (the DivX files can clock in at as much as 300MB apiece), but the picture quality is consistently good, the dubbing/subbing is solid; you can't really go wrong here.
 Outside of the story-driven stuff, you get into the oddities, like girls getting it on with aliens and monsters, the occasional she-male, videogame characters in situations I never imagined, and some fun Flash files that let you play dress-up with some yummy toons. The site's authors were certainly thorough, also bringing several samples of gay (Yaoi) and lesbian (Yuri) Hentai into the fold as well. Then you get to the external site inclusions and all the bonuses, all of which are worth a look. There's some live porn to be had here (real people, not animated), erotic artwork, 3D art, cosplay girls, illustrated stories, fantasy art, and some naughty games (a thong version of Tetris, a game where you make tiles disappear to see the girl beneath, another where you use the mouse to dress and undress people, etc), but the tradeoff on some of these sites is that your right-click menu is disabled. Copy/pasting and saving images for viewing later takes a bit of work, but those of you crafty with Photoshop and the Print Screen key should be able to make it worth your while.
 I've seen hentai before and it didn't do a lot for me. Mangavshentai.com does something different, I'm not quite sure what, but they had me coming back for more and more. I make it no secret that I think Asian girls are cute, and this place scratched an itch I've had for a while. Swing by and see if it scratches yours.
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