The timeline below shows where the term Hentai appears in A Tale for the Time Being. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part I, Chapter 1: Nao
...the café. She doesn’t want her reader to think she’s “a nasty girl or a hentai” (a sexual pervert). She hopes that the reader isn’t a hentai either—a hentai would find...
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Part III, Chapter 3: Nao
...panties on an auction site; Nao was creeped out by the number of bids that hentais were already placing on it.
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...day the bidding ended on her panties, she was sickened at the thought that some hentai would soon own them. To cheer herself up, she went shopping at a boutique, where...
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Part III, Chapter 4: Ruth
...calls him a “sicko.” Oliver is surprised—he says that Haruki only wanted to stop some hentai from buying them. He says that Ruth must be “the sicko” to think that Haruki...
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Part III, Chapter 9: Nao
...get out. Then, Babette proceeded to set her up on a date with the “creepy hentai” who was a regular at the café—the same man who used to stare at Nao...
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The hentai was waiting for Nao in the reception area, and in the crowded elevator, he groped...
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Nao’s phone rang while she was with the hentai, and she began to cry because she thought it might be Jiko, who she missed...
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