Line #81 Main/AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles


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2	[[caption-width-right:320: This trope as lampooned by a [[FunTShirt T-shirt]].]]
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4	->''"I think I love you more\
5	Than the Japanese love tentacle porn\
6	And we should dance, dance, dance, d-d-d-d-dance\
7	To these stereotypes!"''
8	-->-- '''WebAnimation/YourFavoriteMartian''', "The Stereotype Song"
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10	A specific exception to the AnimationAgeGhetto, and a form of PublicMediumIgnorance: the belief that all {{anime}} (or in some cases, every work of fiction from Japan) features/consists of sexually explicit material, grotesque sexual fetishes, and illegal pornographic material such as [[PaedoHunt child pornography]] and [[BestialityIsDepraved bestiality]]. Since the recess of the [[AnimationAgeGhetto Ghetto]], this continues to be a relatively common belief these days, along with the idea that all Western adult animation is AnimatedShockComedy.
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12	This {{trope}} began in the early [[The90s '90s]], on account of the western release of {{anime}} such as ''Manga/{{Akira}}'', ''Legend of the Overfiend'', and various works by Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri and Creator/ShoAikawa. Since most purveyors of imported media back then were either undersexed, nerdy collectors specifically seeking out "mature" fare, or huckster distributors looking to make a fast buck on said collectors, the more "shocking" examples of the medium tended to be the ones that got priority for localization. Glorified rape stories are easily the most visible, and due to ValuesDissonance, [[GirlOnGirlIsHot lesbian porn]] is actually quite rare and generally featured alongside straight sex... or rape. There are some cases where this idea wasn't brought about by ignorance, and instead was also a way to slander the growing medium as a whole by reducing it to creepy fetish material.
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14	By the TurnOfTheMillennium, however, this trope had largely died down, as anime had become more prevalent in the mainstream, largely thanks to the success of family-friendly franchises such as ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. However, it never truly became a ForgottenTrope, as it is still quite common for one to assume that a good chunk of modern anime is still dirty tentacle porn, or at least heavily sexualized. More recent variants on the trope are "All Anime is LoliconAndShotacon" or "All [[NostalgiaFilter Modern]] Anime is {{Moe}}".
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16	Outside of works in the [[YaoiGenre yaoi]] or [[BaraGenre bara]] genre, most {{hentai}} is actually ordinary heterosexual porn. NaughtyTentacles were mostly a fad around the end of The80s and early in The90s, and currently they're at best a throwaway joke on some FanService shows. Even hentai that plays the Naughty Tentacles straight usually takes place in a fantasy setting, so the cliche "he was a squid, she was a schoolgirl, can I make it any more obvious?" setup is actually extremely rare. Somewhat related, even among anime fans, there's a misconception that all {{Doujinshi}} are pornographic, even though a good chunk of doujinshi made are all ages works, and some are even in mediums that can't even possibly be pornographic, such as instrumental music. VisualNovels have a similar reputation of all being eroge, or at least always being dating sims.
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18	See also {{Hentai}}. Contrast {{Phonymon}} and SailorSenshiSendUp — if a Western anime parody isn't based on hentai, it's usually going to be based on ''Pokemon'', ''Sailor Moon'', or other MerchandiseDriven children's series instead.
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20	!!Examples:
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24	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
25	* A DiscussedTrope in Creator/OsamuTezuka's introduction to the ''Manga/AstroBoy'' story ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Count Bat]]'' in the collected edition of the classic manga. Tezuka describes his difficulties with censors both in Japan and overseas and how Japan and the Western world's differing attitudes toward cartoon violence has shaped these cultures' opinions of each other.
26	* The infamous hentai series ''Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend'' is the posterboy for this trope, as it is considered not only THE quisessential tentacle hentai[[note]]Granted, tentacles weren't actually featured all that much[[/note]], but for also giving a lot unsuspecting Americans the wrong impression of what anime is, due to having sexually explicit content and [[{{Gorn}} ultraviolence]].
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29	[[folder:Comic Books]]
30	* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': Uderzo clearly believed this to be the case, and expressed his dislike for anime by making the villains of ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky'' a race of {{animesque}} (and racist) YellowPeril aliens. It is one of the main reasons this particular issue is considered the worst entry in the series, and [[FanonDiscontinuity fans would rather pretend it doesn't exist]].
31	* The ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' feature "If Truth in Advertising Laws Applied to Comic Books" described a Japanese imported series as "something to do with a boy who fights a giant squid." The illustration showed a boy with an enormous grin standing in front of a bunch of girls, all with [[PantyShot panties exposed]] due to being grasped by tentacles.
32	* One of the stories from ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 #600]] has the Amazonian princess, ComicBook/PowerGirl, and ComicBook/{{Batgirl\|2000}} against a tentacle-mustached Chang Tsu (AKA Egg Fu). The battle is won, and Power Girl compares Fu’s look to disgusting “manga monster appendages”. Diana is confused and asks Power Girl what a ''manga monster'' is.
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37	* ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'': Mistral (the Asia equivalent) is infamous for tentacle hentai, and most of the characters act like it's the only thing the country produces at all. It doesn't help that there's a Grimm creature running around with CombatTentacles, which everyone mistakes for NaughtyTentacles, and no one will tell Jaune or Ruby what tentacle hentai is.
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41	[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
42	* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': Or rather, All Manga Is Hentai. In the comic book store scene where a despondent Elijah causes a ruckus with his wheelchair, one of the clerk's first lines when he notices that Elijah has been hiding in the back for a while is "You better not be jacking off to the Japanese comics, I swear to God". When he later reappears in ''Film/{{Glass}}'', he's still quick to accuse someone of it with zero prompting, echoing himself almost word for word outside of an example of what he considers lurid Japanese smut; Freakin' ''Franchise/HelloKitty''.
43	* ''Film/CyberSeductionHisSecretLife'': If you look closely, there's at least one piece of anime art in Justin's collection. Thankfully, this being a world where porn only constitutes to FullyClothedNudity, we don't see anything too messed up.
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47	* ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'' described the mission patch of the NROL-39 spy satellite (which depicts a giant octopus over the Earth) as "one terrified schoolgirl away from being a very popular comic in Tokyo."
48	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' has made endless jokes with this trope, including to seedy gas stations having "Violent Animated Asian Porn" videos for rent a few times. The jokes really ramped up when they'd get their hands on a Japanese movie: "Oh no, so is this gonna be a super-violent porn cartoon?" "Heh, they're swinging in for some violent porn comics." [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E19InvasionOfTheNeptuneMen The episode]] featuring ''Film/InvasionOfTheNeptuneMen'' has a joke where Crow suggests Japan stop being represented by "blonde, gun-toting, big-eyed pre-pubescent girls" with Mike calling Franchise/SailorMoon that. The Netflix era ''really'' veers away from this trope.
49	** This has filtered into spiritual successor Podcast/{{RiffTrax}}.
50	* In ''Series/YesDear'', when Greg's father becomes a comic book fan, the normally prudish Kim asked, "[[AnimationAgeGhetto Normal comics like for kids?]] Or those Japanese porno comics like ''Overfiend'', where young women are taken against their will by demonic monsters?" Later in the episode, it's stated he should hide his Japanese porn better.
51	* Parodied in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' and ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' with the ShowWithinAShow ''Oshikuru: Demon Samurai'', which is implied to be this despite its deceitfully cheery opening.
52	** Keep in mind, ''Charlie'' wrote that opening song, without having ever read the source manga. When Jake, who is a fan of the series, berates him for the SoundtrackDissonance, he actually checks it out and writes a more serious and appropriate replacement, but [[ExecutiveMeddling the network]] prefers his first submission and runs it anyway.
53	* While it predates anime by several decades, Crabtree's reaction to an [[TakeOurWordForIt unseen]] item of Japanese erotica in the ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' episode "Virtue and Vice" is "What this woman and this octopus are trying to achieve, I have no idea."
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56	[[folder:Video Games]]
57	* There are two parody {{anime}} trailers on [[Radio/GTARadio the radio]] in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''; one is HumongousMecha, the other, ''Princess Robot Bubblegum'' is this. However the full episode of the later, which is viewable in the ''Ballad of Gay Tony'' DLC, is more of a general parody of shoujo and seinen shows. It does have lots of innuendo, but this is typical of pretty much ''all'' TV shows in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' universe.
58	* In ''VideoGame/ComicJumperTheAdventuresOfCaptainSmiley'', the manga-themed world of "Cutie Cutie Kid Cupids" takes place at a high school called [[PunnyName "Hent High"]], whose school team is called the Tentacles.
59	* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' after helping a Japanese demon hunter girl kill a Hengeyōkai, you have to option of quipping "I'll bet you're glad that thing didn't have tentacles, huh?"
60	* One of the Bewitchments in ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' is "Naughty Tentacles", and considering the game's sense of humor is almost certainly a reference to this trope.
61	* ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'': When Iwanka hangs out with MC and his best friend Erik, she'll insist on seeing one of Erik's hentai films, about a fisherman's daughter who has sex with an octopus. Then she gets so turned on that she gives MC a blowjob.
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64	[[folder:Webcomics]]
65	* ''Webcomic/DorkTower'' once had Ken [[CharacterFilibuster ranting]] to Igor and Carson about how [[SturgeonsLaw most]] {{anime}} is absolutely terrible and he has no idea why it sells...at which point he was enlightened by the phrases "let's all take our clothes off now" and "where did all these tentacles come from?" emerging from the TV.
66	* Parodied in ''WebComic/MenageA3'', where Yuki starts as a [[DoesNotLikeMen fanatical man-hater]] (even though she's bisexual), because [[FreudianExcuse her father drew hentai manga and shot pornographic films for a living, and was less than thorough about keeping his work away from her]]. This led to a psychosis wherein the mere sight of a penis (even a cartoon one) causes her to imagine NaughtyTentacles sprouting from the guy's body, prompting a GroinAttack reflex. She eventually undergoes CharacterDevelopment in regards to this, though.
67	* ''WebComic/SomethingPositive'' once showed Jhim and Peejee watching hentai:
68	-->'''Jhim''': Why is it, in hentai, the tentacle monsters only rape barely legal schoolgirls and never men?\
69	'''Peejee''': Better question; why are we watching a cartoon about a squid sexually assaulting anyone? It's like that nightmare I had where Series/IronChef added sex scenes.
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73	* ''Platform/GaiaOnline'' has [[PlayedForLaughs played this for laughs]] numerous times. One print ad for the website featured avatars dressed up like schoolgirls being chased by avatars dressed up as squids, with the squids being chased by avatars dressed up like chefs. The ill-fated short-lived adults-only sister site was also called Tentacl. [[SelfDeprecation Keep in mind that this is an Animesque site, and these ads were ran in anime magazines.]]
74	* ''Website/TheOnion'' [[https://www.theonion.com/japan-pledges-to-halt-production-of-weirdo-porn-that-ma-1819570544 on the topic]].
75	** Another snide little comment from ''The Onion'', this time in their ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' review, contends that Miyazaki is the only Japanese animator who has avoided the "unsavory excesses of his {{anime}} counterparts." Notable in that, while the other examples listed here are typical of the publication's nothing-is-sacred, pull-no-punches brand of humor, this review comes from its AV Club site, which generally strives to be a bit more serious.
76	** And ''yet'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPfVkuPmpc8 another one]] (skip to the very end).
77	** Even the TV Show [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ig3CXmanBs got in on it]] (Skip to 2:02).
78	%%* A one-panel parody of ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' showed a scene which (???) is described as: "Oh no! She’s being stripped and molested by some kind of slimy, tentacled ... Oh, right, she’s a Japanese schoolgirl. This is normal."
79	* [[http://www.askmen.com/top_10/dating/top-10-perverted-behaviors-to-stop_3.html AskMen.com's Top 10 Perverted Behaviors to Stop, #3: Being open about your love of anime and cosplay]]:
80	-->"Your love of {{anime}} is less an appreciation of art and more a display of your love for massively chested women and the possibility those cartoon cuties might get it on at any minute."
81	* Website/{{Cracked}}:
82	** [[https://www.cracked.com/article_18346_the-6-most-horrific-ways-pop-culture-has-misused-santa-claus.html This]] article tells us that Japan "has long had a, let's be charitable and say, "obsession" for the trappings of youth and innocence, what with their schoolgirl {{anime}} (read: porn)". Accompanying this sentence is a picture of Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya. [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer Not... quite, Cracked.]]
83	** Cracked's contest ''18 Classic Movies, If They'd Been Made in Japan'' had dozens of submission that featured tentacle porn. [[https://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_159_18-classic-movies-if-theyd-been-made-in-japan/ And they did have one of them featured in the winner's circle.]]
84	* [[Creator/{{Dropout}} CollegeHumor]]:
85	** In the "His Netflix is F*cked Up" Sketch, the girl discovers that the guy watches anime, commenting that all anime looks pervy to her. Also Invoked since the anime section in the sketch is filled with {{Hentai}}. [[HePannedItNowHeSucks Though keep in mind that the website itself is NOT anti-anime]], since they also produced some anime-themed sketches such as "If Miyazaki Movies were like other anime".
86	** In "Tumblr CEO: No More Porn", the disgruntled CEO comes across animated octopus porn when searching under the cartoons tag.
87	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCgx8zM3woQ The Stereotypes Song]] says in the chorus the Japanese all Love Tentacle Porn.
88	* The WebVideo/HonestTrailers for ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' referred to [[KrakenAndLeviathan the kraken]] as "a Japanese porn star" when they listed the "stars" of the films.
89	* ''Podcast/RiffTrax'':
90	** In its parody track of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' had the Asian guy greeting Bella as she entered her new school that they had everything, including, in the riffed version, "Tentacle {{Hentai}}".
91	** In their take on ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}: Salvation'', Kevin [[MondegreenGag mishears]] "enemy movements" as "{{anime}} movements." "Like tentacles and stuff?"
92	** And in the ''Fast and Furious'' riff, when one character mentions heading for Japan to check out some really wild stuff, Mike is quick to quip "Tentacles like you wouldn't believe, man."
93	** And again in their treatment of ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', a satellite is being taken over by tentacle like entities causing the riff, "Hide your anime girls!".
94	* [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ive-seen-enough-hentai-to-know-where-this-is-going I've Seen Enough Hentai To Know Where This Is Going]] is a common expression on the internet that is used in images that include tentacles or something reminding of tentacles.
95	* At times, Website/{{Bogleech}} seems to be under the assumption that every anime that is not made for kids and/or features young girls ([[LoliconAndShotacon and even then...]]) as main characters is automatically sleazy and/or made just to appeal to horny male nerds. Not even widely acclaimed series such as ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'' and ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'' are spared from these accusations.
96	** It should be noted that he only has an issue with [[LoliconAndShotacon sexualized underage characters]] and has praised and even considers himself a fan of quite a few adult-oriented manga and anime, though they're mostly vintage titles. [[http://www.bogleech.com/log.html He's also gone on record saying that most anime fans are NOT horny male nerds like you'd expect, and if anything, women "own" the subculture]].
97	* ''WebVideo/JobbyTheHong:'' Discussed in his review for Toys/{{Figma}} [[Manga/{{Guyver}} Guyver II F]], where he says that when he calls the ''Guyver'' anime he saw as a kid for adults, he doesn't mean tentacles, but that the anime the figure for the review is from ''does'' involve tentacles for the main character's TransformationSequence. He starts to show a clip from the anime where tentacles are about to wrap around the heroine before deciding that he will be demonetized for it, only to remember that the video's opening skit had him thrown his pants off (with his crotch pixelated) at the figure, so he shows a brief snippet (albeit with nothing NSFW being shown off) of her having the tentacles wrap around her.
98	* WebVideo/MarioTehPlumber attacks anything with an anime artstyle, most frequently Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog's design from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' onwards, as "hentai", taking this trope to what even xenophobic MoralGuardians would consider ludicrous extremes.
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102	* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
103	** Parodied. When Anime/SpeedRacer joins NASCAR, he's sponsored by the creators of Japan's number one {{anime}} series, translated as ''The Many Tentacled Rapists From Hell Conquer the Innocence of Schoolgirls'', with his car getting a very smutty (and censored) ad for the show.
104	** There is also a skit where a Tentacle Monster phones up a Japanese Schoolgirl he apparently had... uh... relations with. He messed up his chance for a 2nd date by jumping the gun a little bit.
105	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'' has Sparks flipping through certain Japanese movie titles on his monitor, each one more and more vulgar while referencing tentacle porn. The last movie is called "Seriously Japan, What the Hell!?"
106	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' lampshades this with Krieger's anime collection, which includes such titles as ''Fisherman’s Wife'' and ''Fisherman’s Wife II: The Retentacling''. It is also worth noting that Krieger has a [[VirtualGhost holographic]] [[RobotGirl girlfriend]] designed in anime style.
107	** GeniusBonus, this is actually a reference to the infamous 19th-century woodblock print ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife]]'', a genuine piece of early {{Hentai}}, tentacles and all.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "The Blind Side" (s10e11).
109	-->Hey, you want to see a movie?\
110	No, we're Japanese, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QswPVas5Qhw let's watch a schoolgirl bang an octopus.]]
111	* Ling-Ling, from ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', manages to be a case of both this ''and'' {{Phonymon}}. On the one hand, he's cute. On the other hand, he's the most depraved and excessively violent of the main characters (and considering he shares the show with [[PsychopathicManChild Captain Hero]], that's saying a lot). In other words, he embodies ''both'' of the ways anime is seen by Americans--as MerchandiseDriven kiddie fluff and as raunchy adult material filled with violence and sex.
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115	* Microsoft Word Processor's dictionary definition of {{anime}}: "a Japanese style of animated cartoon, often with violent or sexually explicit content." And their definition of manga: "a Japanese style of comic books or animated cartoons, often very violent or erotic."
116	* Tentacle Grape is a novelty brand of grape soda often found at anime conventions. Take a wild guess as to what's on the label.
117	* When was asked to the director of the Brazilian children's TV channel Gloob why the channel doesn't broadcast anime, he said [[http://archive.is/sdQGX "we don't broadcast violent animation"]]. And later they used to broadcast various anime-influenced series like ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', but never an actual anime.
118	* Author Kurt Eichenwald posted a screenshot where the URL to a Hentai manga was accidentally visible. When the expected roasting by the internet and media outlets started, [[DiggingYourselfDeeper Eichenwald stated he was showing his family how easy it was to find tentacle porn on the internet.]] Fox News, of all people, pointed out that the particular hentai in question did not contain tentacle porn and clarified that most hentai is not tentacle porn.
119	* In Russia, anime is often jokingly referred to as "kitayskie pornomultiki" ([[InterchangeableAsianCultures Chinese]] porn cartoons).
120	* Parental control software Net Nanny has a content filter for 14 categories, one of them being anime; alongside things like drugs, death/gore, gambling, suicide, and pornography.
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