Hentai.xxx

Hentai.xxx is a premium hentai porn site that prides itself on its massive collection of high-quality hentai films imported straight from Japan. The site isn’t one of the forerunners of this genre of porn in the west, but it’s no newcomer either—they’ve been uploading videos since 2012 at a fairly quick and consistent rate, and show no signs of slowing down. New videos are uploaded at least weekly, and the entire collection is available for unlimited DRM-free downloads.

A slight majority of the site’s content is in undubbed and unsubtitled Japanese, though there’s enough subbed and dubbed content to satisfy most viewers who prefer to have at least some grasp on the dialog. The average video runs about half an hour long, though some are closer to the ten-minute average scene lengths that are more common western porn, while others approach and even exceed an hour or two in length.

Finding The Fantastic

The members’-only landing page of Hentai.xxx is as attractive as any porn site can get. The majority of the page is dedicated to DVD cover art of the site’s most recent releases. Although you can’t view actual thumbnails or video previews from this page, the art is almost always well-produced and representative enough of the content that it works better for its purpose than any preview could. Also available here are the translated video titles and the run times of each scene.

At first, just a dozen of the site’s most recent videos are presented here, but you can click to reveal more just about indefinity. Or, if you’re looking for a different way to browse Hentai.xxx, you have one other option: what Hentai.xxx calls “Niches,” or, essentially, the site’s categories.

You can see a grouping of sixteen niches under the tab of that name. Unfortunately, these don’t seem well-selected, as some of the few chosen categories have relatively few videos within them. There are many, many other niches, but they can only be found from the playback page of a video in that niche, and aren’t comprehensively listed anywhere. This somewhat limits their usefulness, as it would be very helpful to have a centralized category list, but it’s still better than nothing.

Unfortunately, Hentai.xxx is missing a few other basic and necessary navigational methods. There’s no way to sort the collection by rating, view count, or any method aside from in chronological order, nor can you filter in any way aside from via the niches. On a site with less consistently good content, this could ruin the user experience. Thankfully, the videos on Hentai.xxx are good enough that it doesn’t do so—instead, it just prevents the site from reaching its true potential for greatness.

The page for video playback is close to perfect. The player takes up a large portion of the screen and can be made full-screen if that isn’t enough. The resolution can be changed, and the videos load quickly. The English-language descriptions are surprisingly well-written, and each video contains links to all of the niches contained in it. On top of that, links to download, bookmark, and rate the scene are easily accessible.

Most videos aren’t available in 4k or even 1080p, but the art-style of hentai means that this matters far less than it does with live-action porn. Many scenes max out at 480p, but this is nowhere near as big of an issue as your typical non-animated porn viewer might expect. You might notice some slight artifacts or pixelization, but the videos should be far more watchable than their typical equivalents at the same resolution.

Since all of the metadata on Hentai.xxx is on point, the recommendations engine follows and is equally excellent. By using the titles, niches, and synopsis as raw material, each video page contains a selection of similar recommendations which, more often than not, should be relevant. Likewise with the site’s search: a porn search engine lives or dies based on that data attached to each video, and on Hentai.xxx it works perfectly.

There are advertisements on Hentai.xxx, but as ads go they’re fairly unobtrusive. The side of most of the site’s pages have a few small ads, as does the bottom of most pages, but the header and body are ad-free. This means that while there are links on the site that redirect you elsewhere, they don’t disrupt the flow or experience of the site itself. Small and off to the side, they’re relatively easy to ignore—and, they tend to be primarily relevant ads for other exceptional hentai sites, so they get a pass in this respect, too.

All of the above is as true on the Hentai.xxx mobile site as it is on a desktop computer. No matter where you are and no matter which device you’re using, Hentai.xxx works just as well and looks just as attractive.

If you’re getting tired of hentai, Hentai.xxx also offers a seemingly entirely unrelated collection of live-action porn under its “Bonus Content” tab. These videos have nothing to do with the site’s main collection—they’re not even Japanese adult videos but rather standard western professional porn—but they’re of surprisingly high quality.

Not Cheap, But Not Overpriced

Hentai.xxx’s fabulous selection of varied choices of videos is not quite matched by its somewhat anemic options for obtaining membership. You have three choices to access the members’-only portion of the site where all of Hentai.xxx’s content is locked up. There is a one-day trial membership for a dollar, which renews automatically at a whopping forty dollars per month.

Alternatively, you can choose to sign up for a month at a cost of about thirty-five dollars, or three months paid in one bill for the equivalent of just over twenty-three dollars per month. These are your sole choices—there is no rock-bottom-priced full-year plan like at so many other sites, or even a middle-of-the-round six-month plan. While none of these prices are hugely expensive, it’s a shame that you can’t commit to a long term in exchange for deep savings like you can at so many other porn sites.

The signup process only allows you to make payments via credit card, but billing is done discreetly through a third-party payment processor. Make sure that you pay attention to the fine print, though—about halfway through the process a few checkboxes will appear that by default will sign you up for a trial membership to a different porn site. Though the trial in itself is reasonably priced, the overpriced automatic renewal is not—so make sure that you’re aware of what you’re getting into.

To somewhat soften the blow of this substandard pricing, your access to Hentai.xxx will let you unlock a huge number of other porn sites, Asian and otherwise, for reduced prices. While the price of the site still could be improved on, the value does go up substantially if you use your membership as a way to unlock these additional savings.

A Flawed Masterpeice

Parts of Hentai.xxx are perfect, and others are perplexingly poor. What matters most in porn, animated or otherwise, Hentai.xxx succeeds in. The videos are numerous and excellent, and the site experience isn’t so terrible that you’ll be completely unable to find a high-quality video with relative ease.

But the site has some missteps that prevent it from reaching its potential. The sorting tools are laughable, the category listing is incomplete, and the video resolution isn’t quite up to modern standards. On top of that, the price, though not a complete rip-off, isn’t quite as good as it could be.

But, none of these issues go so far as to ruin Hentai.xxx. The site isn’t perfect, but it’s not terrible either. Despite all of its flaws, its large library of hard to find Japanese animated porn makes it worthy of consideration. People who aren’t interested in hentai and maybe even some casual hentai fans can safely give it a pass, but dedicated hentai aficionados will find enough to love on Hentai.xxx to warrant the site getting a recommendation from Pornsites.com.