Foreigners Like Netorare More than the Japanese
The online store DLSite has released its results of the most popular genres among Japanese and foreign audiences, and I believe that for the first time we have had a change in the netorare ranking.
Until now, netorare always appeared very high in the Japanese ranking (and well, it still is high), but the Japanese have always preferred netorare more than foreigners, but that has changed!
Foreigners Like Netorare More than the Japanese
DLsite revealed which were the Top 5 categories of hentai works most popular among Japanese and foreign audiences. Below you can check out both rankings.
Japanese Ranking
- Small Breasts
- Submissive Man
- Netorare
- Vanilla
- Futanari
Foreign Ranking
- Small Breasts
- Netorare
- ASMR
- Submissive Man
- Battle Fuck
I have no idea what “Battle Fuck” is, and it is also worth mentioning that “small breasts” won both in Japan and abroad, it seems that otakus are united in this. I was surprised to see ASMR in the foreign rankings, my personal opinion is that I imagined ASMR was more of a Japanese thing.
But the point here is to see that Netorare is now more popular outside of Japan, although it is still extremely popular within Japan as well. The reaction of otakus was one of surprise, seeing that the rankings revealed this change in popularity.
However, one thing that confused me is that further down in the rankings, there is a section where otakus had to choose between two genres, and as you can see above “If you had to choose between these two genres, which would you choose? Pure Love or Netorare?”
And as you can see, 79% of people chose Pure Love against 21% who chose Netorare, so I am very confused. You can see all the results here.
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