In fact, hentai is the perfect medium for the “dislocated and disembodied nature of cybersex, [it] expresses a sexuality separate from and transgressive of the person, the body, and everyday life” (Waskul 205). As observed Dahlquist and Vigilant, hentai is “better than the real. Hentai is a pure simulacrum, a better unreal experience than other unreal experiences. There is no ‘real thing’ to simulate. It exists for its own purpose as an erotic phantasm of the strange and the teratological” (95). Hentai, as a postmodern sexuality, stresses ambiguity: “is she a girl or a boy? is it a man, machine, or a cyborg? [...] hentai thrives on ambiguity, difference and nomadic identities”, breaking the boredom of pre-cybernetic pornography (Dahlquist and Vigilant 99).

The Lewd Machine - the cultural logic of hentai and the deep vernacular weeb - Transcendental Tantra Research Unit 2020