R18 Hentai

R18 Hentaiis a premium hentai porn site that primarily sells ownership and streaming privileges to hentai videos. The site is based in Japan and has been in operation since 1999—though it has only begun to target English-speaking markets in the last decade or so.

The site is perhaps the world’s largest completely legal distributor of hentai porn. They work with the Japanese producers to offer uploads shortly after each film’s domestic release date, and in doing so have put together a very large and quickly growing collection. Not only are a majority of the videos in Bluray-quality high definition, but they’re also nearly universally excellent in art style, animation, and eroticism.

A Master Class

R18 Hentai’s site design is nearly perfect, and could be used as an example for nearly any porn site to look up to. By default, the content is sorted by release date and presented in an array of titles. From this page you can scroll through the DVD covers, favorite prospective scenes, and even click the play icon to jump to a short preview trailer where available. The list can also be sorted by popularity and price, as well as filtered to only show titles in a certain price range.

This, even though it might be sufficient on its own and already surpasses some of the worse sites, is only the beginning. The Categories tab first presents you with a short list of the most popular categories, allowing you to quickly jump to your favorite section in many cases, while also allowing you to click through to a comprehensive directory of each of the nearly fifty categories on the site. Not only are they grouped into subcategories for easier navigation, but, since the content on R18 is hand-picked rather than user uploaded, the categories are applied accurately and comprehensively to the videos, making them a nearly perfect way for looking through the R18 Hentai catalog.

Each series on R18 Hentai is also grouped similarly, and can be accessed by clicking on the Series tab. The series themselves can even be sorted, too, by popularity, release date, or in alphabetical order. When you do find a series you like, you can even click to follow them, to ensure that you stay on top of any future releases.

Similar functionality is available under the Studios tab, which splits the site’s content up according to each scene’s producer. But things only start to truly come together when seen holistically. R18 Hentai has a powerful advanced search function that allows you to filter any combination of categories, studios, and series to zoom through its catalog with ease. If, for example, you’re in the mood for an episode of your favorite series produced by your favorite studio that includes blowjobs, anal, and big tits, you can do that in just five or six clicks.

If there is a drawback to R18 Hentai, it’s that the site’s authentically Japanese porn is in some cases not perfectly adapted to Western markets. Much of it is censored, which may make or break the site for some viewers, but tends to come with quality hentai, so this may be expected by others. Another potential issue is the fact that a vast majority of the content is neither subtitled nor dubbed, leaving non-Japanese speakers clueless as to the meaning of the dialog. Again, some viewers may expect this or may be happy to ignore dialog in favor of the visuals of the porn, but if this is something that bothers you, keep it in mind.

The site is nearly completely ad-free. The only ads you will see are for discounted videos or discounts to third-party porn sites, and they’re so well-targeted and tantalizingly cheap that they’re really more of a pro than a con. Yes, in the technical sense they are advertisements, but they’re infrequent and unobtrusive ads for something that you might want to consider purchasing, so its hard to see this as a negative.

Premium Content at Premium Prices

As you might have expected, there is a drawback that comes with a porn site this nearly perfect up to this point. The videos on R18 Hentai are typically purchased a-la-carte. How much the videos cost varies greatly. The average hovers around ten dollars per scene, but this increases and decreases wildly depending on the title. A handful of videos cost over twenty dollars, though the huge price here is often matched by a longer runtime. One full-hour production on the site even costs a whopping seventy dollars, though thankfully this is the exception rather than the rule.

If this is out of your price range, there are about a hundred videos currently offered for under five dollars, and close to five hundred for under ten. With an average run-time of about thirty minutes, these videos might be far more expensive than most premium porn sites, but they’re still an affordable treat.

The limited-time sale section will likely be your best bet. Though the selection will never be as vast as the main site, there’s often enough content to choose from at incredible prices to find something worth viewing.

The purchase price here includes streaming on desktop, mobile phone, and even Roku TV, as well as the ability to permanently download the video. And, as an alternative to ownership, many videos can also be rented for a week, at a cost that’s usually about half of the price to own.

If you’re totally opposed to any sort of a-la-carte porn storefront, there are two other options offered by R18 Hentai. The most affordable is the Hentai Anime membership. It costs what appears to be a reasonable nearly thirty dollars per month, but this is somewhat deceptive. It only gives you access to a fraction of the site’s catalog: just over three hundred videos, with about four new ones being unlocked every month. While this price might be reasonable if it gave you streaming privileges for everything R18 Hentai had to offer, it’s a bit of a stretch for the reduced catalog.

Getting access to every single R18 Hentai video is possible, but it certainly isn’t cheap. This is referred to as a prime membership—and while it will allow you to stream over a quarter million films not only from R18’s hentai catalog but those starring real-live women too, with over a thousand new scenes being released each month, the membership costs a bit over eighty dollars per month. The prime membership does have an optional two-day trial, but due to the huge monthly cost that will continue automatically if you don’t cancel, be extra careful to watch your time before it runs out.

On one hand, this might be the most expensive porn subscription around, but on the other, it may also be the best—for a specific audience. While not everyone should consider dropping such a serious chunk of cash on R18 Hentai Prime, hentai aficionados might find its unique combination of a massive high-quality catalog on a perfectly-built site too good to pass up.

The Good, Bad, And Ugly

R18 is the best at what it does. The award-winning content consists nearly entirely of excellent hot hentai straight from Japan, and it’s presented on a website that makes finding what you’re looking for a breeze. The site is intuitive, powerful, and nearly ad-free, and it hosts a huge collection of some of the best porn—hentai or otherwise—that you’re likely to ever find.

But, it’s not cheap. You can easily spend far more money than you would on just about any all-inclusive premium porn site, and the membership plans that are offered are either somewhat limited (in the case of Hentai Anime) or are hugely expensive (for the Prime membership).

That being said, the site is so good that it overcomes this potentially massive drawback. Nearly any other site could be easily ignored for demanding this kind of price, but R18 Hentai is so wonderful that it still deserves consideration. Casual hentai fans might want to explore the catalog and purchase a video or two, while, in Pornsites.com’s opinion, the most hardcore and dedicated fans of the niche should even consider breaking out the wallet and purchasing one of the most expensive—and one of the best—streaming subscriptions in porn.