Overview:
Wikipedia defines Hentai as "a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation". In Japan it can be used to mean "metamorphosis" or "abnormality". The word "hentai" has a negative connotation to the Japanese and is commonly used to mean "sexually perverted". Now, we all know how sexually repressed Japanese society is. Even Yukio Mishima, celebrated novelist and militarist, was shunned by his own people (the Japanese) because of his alleged homosexuality and a series of photographs that show him posting nude in his garden (acting the role of St. Sebastian, among others). The culture is one of contradictions and double standards. Our Japanese brothers and sisters are able to purchase soiled panties from vending machines but all of their legal pornography has the best bits blurred out. What's even more interesting is that, with the Internet greatly advancing global communications, Hentai has become a highly sought after Japanese export.

You've seen Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, and Astro Boy before, but all of the characters in those shows kept their clothes firmly on, or in the case of Sailor Moon, firmly barely there. What Hentai offers is a unique combination of two major forms of entertainment: one aimed at fans of anime and toons, the other at adults (cartoons and porn - a winning combination). Hentai Key Movie Network is one of a growing number of sites that aims to provide the horny Hentai fan with a staggering collection of video content from which to download some stellar animated fucking.

Hentai Key's tour page gives you a pretty good idea of what they're all about. Your single monthly membership payment provides you with access to over 100 Hentai sites, featuring a collective 5TB+ of content. Yet another claim on the tour page boasts that you'll find over 500 licensed, and more than 200 exclusive, movies. There are comic strips, online Flash-based games, and daily updates. Unless you're a total Hentai-newbie, you'll be pretty familiar with the range of illustrated and animated depravity this kind of entertainment tends to feature. It is not, for example, out of the ordinary for you to be watching a Hentai scene involving a cute pixie girl making out with her just-as-cute pixie girlfriend when, all of a sudden, the girlfriend turns into a drooling, cyclopic beast with half-a-dozen tentacles that each make their way into one of our pixie girl's orifices. Prepare, my friends, for robots, mad scientists, humanoid-fish, and catgirls - lots and lots of catgirls.

The site has been constructed by some very capable designers and coders, who have done a very thorough job of making Hentai Key look very professional and sticking strictly to the Hentai theme. There is so much content here, however, that you're likely to get quite confused on your first visit. It would take far too many paragraphs to explain the various highways and byways of the navigation system so, instead, I'll cut to the chase and just tell you that by clicking on the Updates and GT Sites buttons, both located in a menu bar at the top of your page, you'll find pretty much everything you could possibly want. The GT Sites section is home to another menu bar that gives you more specific browsing options, dividing the collection of sites into the following categories: Hentai, Anime, Movie, Game, Manga, Toons, Artist, and 3D. Most of those are pretty self-explanatory to anyone with even a cursory grounding in this kind of material. This is the place to be if you want to check out the complete range of what Hentai Key has to offer, as there are hundreds upon hundreds of smaller sites, each one catering to a specific niche form of Hentai.

The Updates page quite simply lists all of the recently added original content updates, as well as the licensed updates. The newest original image content hits the modest resolution standard of 721x1024 pixels, and most of the galleries can be downloaded in full (via the provided zip archives) or can be checked out, pic by pic, in the gallery proper. Many of the videos are available in Flash format, as well as WMV and DivX, although it largely depends on what site you're looking at. Really, that's the main problem with reviewing a site like this, it doesn't really function as an individual site as much as it operates as a directory to other sites, while keeping a small collection of content for itself. Without going on obscenely lengthy digressions about each website included in your membership pass, it's hard to impart the depth and variety of both content and quality that's available to Hentai Key members. Suffice to say, almost anything animated that could turn anyone on is hosted somewhere here. I found zucchini-dicked aliens fucking human schoolgirls, octopi that cry out "I wish I were a bird!" while forcibly penetrating androgynous girls with their tentacles, cartoon depictions of heterosexual human intercourse, and a Russian woman giving a double hand-job to some kind of creature before getting bound, blindfolded, and fucked in the ass and throat by some masked men in suits, all the while riding in the back of a limousine. As I said: lots of variety.

Grabbing yourself a membership to Hentai Key Movie Network will cost you $29.95 per month. That's the only pricing option, too; no trial, no multi-month membership discounts, nothing. Before you lay down your credit card numbers, you'd better read the following pros and cons, as you never know what highly important information I might drop in there.

Pros:
- There's an almost inexhaustible collection of content strewn across these many, many sites. You'll never be left wanting for Hentai content again.

- The site is fairly well designed and suits the Hentai theme very nicely.

- Fresh content is added daily.

- The variety of material available on, or through, this site is truly amazing. You've got traditional American cartoons that wouldn't be out of place in Playboy, all the way up to extreme Japanese tentacle movies. It's insane!

Cons:
- One major problem with network passes is that every site you have access to basically functions as a completely independent unit and can therefore dictate its own quality, update and content standards.

- Navigating your way around the vast expanses of Hentai Key can be quite difficult.

- Server speed was pretty disappointing everywhere I went. Downloads came in slow almost every time.

- Many, if not most, of the downloadable videos had DRM protection tied to them. This is a real bummer, man. A real bummer.

Conclusion:
Hentai fans unite! With animated porn becoming more and more popular with every passing day, Hentai Key Movie Network is one place where you'll never feel left behind. They've got a wide range of free sites for you to access, as well as some great content hosted on their own servers. With everything from sweet lesbian schoolgirls in barely-there uniforms, to monsters that pillage small towns filled with gorgeous anthropomorphic characters, you're unlikely to ever get bored with the insane variety of content your membership nets you. Navigation could definitely do with some streamlining, and it wouldn't be a bad idea to start cutting the wheat from the chaff in regards to the sheer amount of sites currently operating. All in all, though, Hentai Key offers such a staggering amount of cartoon, Manga, Anime, and Henati material, you'll be very pleased you dropped by.