Re: RJ168585 シスターセリンの奮闘記
And that makes you a anime porn!
It's slightly cringey really. Like when person A asked person B what's hentai?
Person B would always answer it's anime porn.
Nonono it's wronggg!!
Ironically, even the Chinese got it wrong, they would also call it anime porn if they don't understand the japanese language. That's even though the word is written the exact same way and has the exact same meaning in Chinese, although the difference is it's pronounced differently.
What's sake?
Japanese rice wine. (「日本酒」 to a native Japanese speaker)
What's a katana?
Japanese samurai sword. ｢日本刀」
What's anime?
Japanese cartoons. 「日本のアニメ」
What's hentai?
Anime porn. 「日本からの18禁アニメ、漫画、ゲームなど」
What's 「酒」？
Any alcoholic drink.
What's 「刀（かたな）」？
Any single-edged sword or long blade.
What's ｢アニメ」？
Any form of animation.
What's 「変態」？
State of aberrancy or change. In a sexual context it refers to sexual deviancy, i.e. perversion (or a perverted person). (It also has other uses, like referring to a malformed shape or metamorphosis.)
Japanese loanwords change in meaning once they're borrowed into the English language (or any other non-Japanese language, really). They take on a more specific meaning reflecting the origin of the word they're borrowed from.
So, yeah, when somebody asks "what's hentai", in English, the correct answer is indeed anime-styled porn.
They're not speaking in Japanese after all.
Now, DLsite tags are another matter entirely, in which case you're right that it just means "pervert", as the description was written in Japanese for a Japanese audience in the context of a porn game.
