Stores selling CDs, VCDs, DVDs along Hang Bai street, in Hoa Binh Market, and particularly along Yen Bai 2 street are always crowded. These stores supply all kinds of things, including porno animation.

A scene from an animation entitled Tanin.

Teenagers are the major clients there. When they ask for pornographic animation, store owners will go somewhere to get the disks. Looking at the covers, nobody can know that these disks are sex animation because they feature portraits of famous singers.

A porno animation disk is priced from VND20,000-35,000, 35-40 minutes long. This kind of disk contains short sex animation sequences copied from sex webs. However, they are dubbed in Vietnamese language.

Characters in sex animation are characters in familiar animations or cartoons to Vietnamese children, for example Moon Sailor, Fantasy, Famous Detective, etc. Some sex animation is based on Japanese cartoons.

Teenage seem to favour a “stronger” and “hotter” kind of sex animation, named Hentai, originated from Japan. Four years ago, Hentai cartoons and Hentai computer games, which depict sexual relations, spread out among teenage people. In Hentai games, players can control their characters to conduct sexual relations as they want. This black computer game is available on the Internet.

A father in Long Bien district, Hanoi, was shocked when learning that his son, 14, was addicted to sex animation when he took the boy’s computer to a computer shop for repair. The computer had viruses.

Visiting some websites that the boy frequented, the father was numbed seeing 3D sex animation.

An official from the Hanoi Market Control Department said they had inspected, seized and fined many disk stores for selling black disks but some continue selling this product.

VietNamNet/ANTD