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Hentai target for females

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Targeted towards an adult female audience, Josei hentai typically features female protagonists along with multidimensional, conventionally attractive male characters. Through refined artwork and emotionally driven plots, these works cater to women's fantasies and center on authentic depictions of female pleasure and experiences.

note This tag is for mangas that are targeting the female audience. There are lots of them in this website yet arent labeled

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Unfortunately I was unable to participate in creation of this tag, therefore I must express my gratitude to everyone responsible for its making All I can say now is: Gem alarm

Gonna seed this like crazy with my list

I reckon the potential doujinshi with this tag will hit in the thousands, but hey, we have all the time we need.

YAYYYYY we got it at last!! GG everyone let's seed this mf <3

This is taking foreva to get approved man

Pray for this to get approved soon! I can't believe this has been taking so long, almost 2 months already...

I NEEDDDD ITTTT

Well my original description did just that lol "Targeted towards a female audience, josei hentai works have well-written and often attractive male characters, and more authentic depictions of female pleasure and experience, catering more to women's fantasies rather than men's. It commonly features female protagonists, well-drawn elegant art, and emotionally driven plots." But I like yours as well Ikemenslayer (maybe actually the best version so far!) Heck I like all yall's ♡ (My edit of Ikemenslayer's version: "Targeted towards a female audience, josei hentai typically features female protagonists along with multidimensional, conventionally attractive male characters. Through refined artwork and emotionally driven plots, these works cater to women's fantasies and hone in on authentic depictions of female pleasure and experiences.")

Good work on the description everyone <3 @40-sai archwizard Considering how exhaustive our comments had to be to even introduce the concept of this tag to some, I was hoping an extra sentence in the description wouldn't bother too much, as @Stuffy Bunny suggested a while ago. But to give an alternative in case the wording is too subjective, I would propose to switch some of the adjectives (and do a little word tetris): "Targeted towards an adult female audience, Josei hentai typically features female protagonists along with multidimensional, conventionally attractive male characters. Through refined artwork and emotionally driven plots, these works cater to women's fantasies and center on authentic depictions of female pleasure and experiences. "

Josei hentai are works that are targeted towards adult female audiences, have well-written and often attractive male characters, and have more authentic depictions of female pleasure and experience, catering more to women's fantasies rather than men's. It commonly features female protagonists, well-drawn elegant art, and emotionally driven plots. There, two sentences.

"Targeted towards adult female audience. Josei hentai works have well-written and often attractive male characters, and more authentic depictions of female pleasure and experience, catering more to women's fantasies rather than men's. It commonly features female protagonists, well-drawn elegant art, and emotionally driven plots" That's three sentences lol. DESCRIPTIONS - Short and factual. ONE OR TWO sentences. Say what the tag means. Keep opinions out.

Final proofread of the description: "Targeted towards adult female audience. Josei hentai works have well-written and often attractive male characters, and more authentic depictions of female pleasure and experience, catering more to women's fantasies rather than men's. It commonly features female protagonists, well-drawn elegant art, and emotionally driven plots" Fingers crossed for the approval

Thank you 8d and Osamu! You are correct, it should be "catering more to"! My bad, English is not my first language. (Also, I purposefully kept "adult" out because of teens' love etc., but I'm happy either way ^_^)

Yeah I like that @Osamu09 !

@8d I believe the actual word was supposed to be "catering" and not "pondering". So it would be "Targeted towards adult female audience. Josei hentai works have well-written and often attractive male characters, and more authentic depictions of female pleasure and experience, catering more to women's fantasies rather than men's. It commonly features female protagonists, well-drawn elegant art, and emotionally driven plots"

@ranchdong I believe @aelter's description is quite good, except it would be better if it was " Targeted towards adult female audience. Josei hentai works have well-written and often attractive male characters, and more authentic depictions of female pleasure and experience, pondering more on women's fantasies rather than men's. It commonly features female protagonists, well-drawn elegant art, and emotionally driven plots." And if anyone wants to proofread it or add something missing the stage is yours !

Also, so happy the mod is finally back and we are closer to approve the tag than ever! omg its been a month of debating and slow but steady progress but hope will be worth it :3

I guess the answer for @VScode is a lot of comments ago but is always good to revise the basis of the tag. It obviously is female audience centered, but let's not forget is a HETEROSEXUAL female audience, so it as a stronger focus on the male partner during the course, mainly by his physique and personality, treating the female protagonist more of a reader insert rather than the central piece like male audience intended hentai. A detail that I also notice is the different from the male audience focus that instead of just the female character with sometimes a faceless guy as the cover, Josei usually shows in the cover both the male and female characters, strengthening the point of man being the center piece, not the center audience. also, quoting what 8d for the more emotional part: "[...] With emotional depth where detailed scenes stem from plot and romance, including workplace relationships or slow-burn dramas, making the emotional bond equally vital as the physical intimacy.[...]"

Exquisite recommendations everyone, appreciate your work 🍷

My question is how is this determinated? I see the need for the tag, and I approve it, but I don't see a clear criteria, is it the style, dialog, design of the male characters, is it the big hands? Like what's the line?

whatttttttttt, so there's also female reader out there? i don't know this, i just think that female wouldn't love something like this

+1 if admin @ranchdong decides on an adjusted def. I have no suggestions but glad this looks like it'll be approved and a working def is on the right track. This is a bit of a tangent, but pornhub has the 'popular with women' category— but that's actually based on a concrete measure of the most popular content and user profiles identifying as female. nhentai doesn't have that functionality, but that's kind of how I think the prospective jōsei tag functions and of course, jōsei manga exists, so thus to a hentai counterpart. Good WP article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josei_manga

First off, I have a lot of respect for 8d. They suggested this 32 days ago, their comments are good and valuable, and their taste is impeccable. (That approval on #637475 | I Am The One Who Gets To Love Small & C… | 6,446 is like a real medal lol) Below you'll find my description suggestion where I borrowed heavily from IkemenSlayer, MonoChromatic, 8d, and Stuffy Bunny. "Targeted towards a female audience, josei hentai works have well-written and often attractive male characters, and more authentic depictions of female pleasure and experience, pondering more to women's fantasies rather than men's. It commonly features female protagonists, well-drawn elegant art, and emotionally driven plots." Personally I would add something at the end that mentions a prerequisite for markets, along the lines of "If unsure, check where it was sold" (but better lol). But I think I am alone in that, so I skipped it.

yeah I agree, @8d complete description is too narrow and doesn't reflect most josei @ikemenslayer's description is good except for the "emotionally evocative storytelling". I think that's just a bit too much

I personally really like @MonoChromatic's suggestion and tweaked it a little with our previous talking points : “Stories targeted towards an adult female audience, characterized by a greater focus on conventionally attractive male characters, realistic depictions of female pleasure, and emotionally evocative storytelling." English isn't my first language, if someone can iterate on that so it's not such a run-on, that would be amazing lmao

At the risk of being annoyingly pedantic and contrarian, I will say I'm not quite sure about that description! I feel like it would be excellent for josei smut, but josei hentai has evolved and broadened so much over the past decade that it now includes pretty much every kink there is, including non/dubcon (ex. ##412335 | JK's Tragic Isekai Reincarnation as the… | 7,578 ) , monsters (ex. ##297873 | Junai | Pure wet love | 10,803 ), and even unrealistic anatomy (with all the ginormous dicks and extremely tall men, ex. ##431342 | Muttsuri Akazukin-kun Kara wa Nige Rare… | 11,412 ). Artists also try to be as inclusive as possible to all genders, since men tend to be the biggest spenders, so I feel like we would be shooting ourselves in the foot by having such an exclusionary description. Some men would definitely downvote the tag suggestion like "wdym specifically for women, ts was peak so i'm definitely the target audience"

@Ranchdong, @8d While waiting for the answer, I'm pretty sure they meant the full text "Josei hentai is explicit, adult-oriented anime or manga designed specifically for a female adult audience. In contrast to conventional adult material aimed at men, it places significant emphasis on the narratives focus on the desires, comfort, and mutual consent, featuring more realistic anatomy and elegant art. With emotional depth where detailed scenes stem from plot and romance, including workplace relationships or slow-burn dramas, making the emotional bond equally vital as the physical intimacy. It theme frequently depicts the actual experiences of adult women, merging daily life or romantic fantasies with adult themes." as description. (Great work everyone btw, think how glorious if we were to be gifted this soon...!)

So should I go with "Josei hentai is explicit, adult-oriented anime or manga designed specifically for a female adult audience." @8d?

@fasouly ironically one of the elements that made me realize I was trans. I could rarely imagine myself as the guys in erotica, but imagining myself as the girls came really easy, especially when the story was from her PoV

We absolutely need this one

I also found those just by searching favs with yandere. TS is definitely a trend

Honestly not sure if this counts but I really enjoy josei/otome type stories. Usually over 30pages with story/plot. Female protagonist. Handsome (typically, but not always) yandere male. Also somehow always given covers unlike the usual first page start. Examples ##400033 | Yandere Ouji ga Shachiku Onna no Watash… | 7,571 ##644810 | Delusion story book | 2,424 ##585732 | Consecutive Orgasms through Loving and… | 3,929 ##585186 | The Lustful Curse Mark: Reincarnated Pr… | 3,890 ##584983 | Majutsushi no Henai 2 - BADRōte - | A M… | 3,116 ##584277 | Majutsushi no Henai 〜 Baddo ED Tensei A… | 4,057 ##573153 | Otonari no Ai ga Omo Sugi Yagami-san wa… | 4,140 ##572958 | Zense o Omoidashita Akuyaku Reijou wa F… | 4,464 #546337 #514848 #514967 #514955 #486203 #479928 #472979 #456322 #438763 #435995 #436140 #403680 #400201

@MonoChromatic it's not gay to fantasize about being the man having sex with the female mc. I'd say go ham on that!

Wait we don't have a tag for this yet?? I just a dozen of these the other day

FUCK IT! I’m a (straight) guy who LOVES (wholesome) works that have big, buff, brolic, domineering MEN going to TOWN on women (in a loving and consensual manner)!!! I ain’t gay, trust 🙌!! But seriously, there’s so many works in my Favorites that easily fall into this category.

“Stories targeted towards a mature, female audience (or at least inclusive to such [cus u got peeps like me]). Characterized by their common inclusion of conventionally attractive male characters and more mature themes within the story.” Is how I’d describe it.

There are some examples of josei in my favorites, which you can literally see the difference between any manga and josei manga

To address the whole situation of the vague note/ description from my end where I thought I could edit my submission.. I'll write a better and cohesive description. Josei hentai is explicit, adult-oriented anime or manga designed specifically for a female adult audience. In contrast to conventional adult material aimed at men, it places significant emphasis on the narratives focus on the desires, comfort, and mutual consent, featuring more realistic anatomy and elegant art. With emotional depth where detailed scenes stem from plot and romance, including workplace relationships or slow-burn dramas, making the emotional bond equally vital as the physical intimacy. It theme frequently depicts the actual experiences of adult women, merging daily life or romantic fantasies with adult themes.

For anyone interested, there is another useful tag called "faceless male" that's being suggested. Not all works with at least decent-looking men will be josei, in which case using that tag will help narrow your search results.

Omg @ikemenslayer read my mind, I was about to comment that lol But i wanted to add a extra thing: To be honest, most of the “too vague” issue can be solved by adding some of the details that others and I have already pointed out in previous comments (Ikemenslayer really helped here putting all in one comment). It might make the tag description a bit longer than usual but if it helps prevent misuse, why not? That’s still better than ending up with another tag:"dilf" situation just because people can’t do a basic search before tagging.

@Metroscope The counterpart of this tag does exist, it's seinen, the term for media targeted towards men. The reason it's rarely (or ever) used as a category in hentai is because, well, most hentai is targeted towards men lmao. The josei tag would simply help those of us who want an easier way to find works in which: 1. The protagonist is female (most of the time) 2. At least half of the focus is on a conventionally attractive, straight male character (with a face!!) 3. There's an emphasis on more realistic depictions of female pleasure (ex. having her cum from cunnilingus during foreplay, as opposed to her inexplicably squirting hands-free from the blowjob she's giving and call it a day) I know a lot of men appreciate josei hentai too, the tag isn't meant to be a male exclusionary tag, know what I mean?

this applies more for anything story heavy, or a parody of a josei series. honestly for anything 20-30 pages or less it would be almost impossible to tag this accurately unless there's like heavy stereotyping/art style going out of its way to invoke josei tropes, would be interested to see people's examples for original works they have in mind for this

I think we reached a consensus on which term to use. While "josei" might not be the most appropriate word, it's still a widely known term and it's used for pretty much the same things (just in different contexts). We also have enough material to write a decent description. I do think there's some subjectivity to it, but I guess I'm no expert so I can't say for sure. But either way the voting system is more than enough to deal with it

I don't feel like "hentai targeted for females" is something accurate enough, feels kinda vague IMO. Even if you can "check" as previous comments said, you would need to do a full in depth investigation to see which kind of audience the doujin targets, which is not practical at all. Also, the existence of this tag would imply the existence of it's counterpart; which in this case is redundant because there's only female or male targeted audiences, but still, for consistency it should also be created in case this becomes relevant in a future. Adding to that, in the examples provided by previous comments, I don't see a difference where that "target audience" is a relevant feature.

Ok, I had to stop and research to finally put an end to the naming discussion, and in the end, I guess it is better to maintain "Josei" based on my findings: "Josei is anime and manga intended for women older than high school age. Josei means “women”. It is made for an older female demographic than shōjo." "(otome)'乙女' is rarer and is commonly translated as maiden. You would find this in certain stilted novels, poems, lyrics, literature, and such. It focuses on girls' innocence." "all otome is joseimuke, but not all joseimuke is otome" Maybe we can add the "muke" (which means "intended for ...; oriented towards ...; aimed at ..."), but I guess it is easier to have a simpler name for the sake of searching and use. Sources for all the stuff I quoted: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josei https://www.quora.com/In-Japanese-what-is-the-difference-between-Otome-%E4%B9%99%E5%A5%B3-and-Shoujo-%E5%B0%91%E5%A5%B3 https://otomeniki.wordpress.com/2021/06/01/defining-joseimuke-and-attempting

We desperately need this tag!! And although I do agree with Aelter's first order logic for the proper tag name, I still think "josei" would be preferable in this case, mainly because "otome" is typically associated with otome games specifically (at least in the west!) I'm also pretty sure it's considered a subgenre of the Josei category, which encompasses any media made for the female gaze; so it would be kinda neat to have as a broad, easily populated tag imho :) And I think Stuffy Bunny's description is perfect!

Omg, you’re right! So, let’s change the name to “otome” and make the description something like: “Manga or manhwa aimed at a young adult female audience.” We could also add some of the suggested recurring features, just to avoid people misusing the tag or applying it incorrectly. And I think that’s it, we’re done! Hope the administrators check this soon so it can finally be added :)

Additionally, this made me remember the proper tag name finally! 'otome' You can read more on the 乙女系 article on Japanese Wikipedia. Ofcourse I'm not saying the tag has to be named 'otome'! Whatever the majority likes is fine by me. I'm just so thrilled we'll be able to read more from this excellent category with it's beautiful art, characters, and stories! If all goes well <3 Thank you 8d, Stuffy Bunny, and everyone who is contributing!!

So that is what I mean, these works are usually marketed to women with bold letters, and sold in "female sections". If you've ever been to Japan maybe you've been to a hentai store that has a "Otome floor" that is filled to the brim with "girly" hentai, yaoi, otomege, and a bunch of Japanese ladies browsing the selection, as is their goddamn god-given right!! So maybe that should be given consideration when creating the description. IMHO it would be an excellent prerequisite for having the tag, as it's impossible to debate. (Ofcourse, excellent exceptions exist, and they should also have the tag. (There is no rule without exceptions.))

@Stuffy Bunny: This is a perfect example actually. Go to page 134 in the gallery you linked, look at the Fantia link. If you go there ( https: //fantia.jp/fanclubs/276 65 ) you can see the circle has two DLsite links where they sell their manga: 【DLsite(男性向け)】https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/circle/profile/=/maker_id/RG38109.html 【DLsite(女性向け)】https://www.dlsite.com/girls/circle/profile/=/maker_id/RG38109.html The "女性向け" means "For women". Click that one. There you can find the manga in question. It's sold in the Garumani version of DLsite that is targeted to girls, you can even find "girls" in the URL. In the profile box you can click the "Otome" link, which is the page you are already on. The page has manga focused on the female fans, with good looking boys on the covers. In contrast the 男性向け page has no male faces on the covers. The work itself is sold here https://www.dlsite.com/girls/work/=/product_id/RJ01017639.html and has the Otome tag.

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