E621 Review
E621: Fetish Dude visits
Howdy there. E621 is a hentai porn website offering you access to free adult images: something that I'm sure a hell of a lot of you love the sound of. Trouble is, it's always hard to know for sure whether spots like this are able to deliver something that can match the best spots on the web that focus on a similar topic. In this review, Fetish Dude is going to explore all of E621, write up his full views on the topic and then let you know if you ought to check it out for yourself. Sound like a plan? Well, continue reading and we'll get to the bottom of what E621 is all about!
First thoughts on E621
When you land on the homepage here, you're presented with a fairly nondescript lander that gives you the ability to search for something immediately if you so desire. As much as I love the concept, E621 doesn't really give great results when you type in a generic search in the way that most people would. What I mean by this is that, let's say, you type in a request for 'Riven', a character from League of Legends who's pretty popular when it comes to doujinshi and hentai. Well, after entering those characters and pressing enter, nothing will show up in the result section, nor will any suggestions be given to you of what you did wrong. This is really quite confusing, right? You came for some Riven hentai and you got kicked away immediately. Is the search feature broken? What on Earth is going on with E621!
Well, as it turns out, E621 is quite strict with regard to what will render whenever you search for something. It has to match a tag, and in this case, the associated tag is riven_(lol). If you activate the search on the left-hand side of the page, you'll see that it gives a few suggestions to you after typing in a keyword. This is a good feature, I guess, but why isn't it available on the homepage? The assumption appears to be that I've already used the platform before and I know exactly what structure the content I want is in. That's silly though, and I really think they ought to fix this up and completely restructure the homepage if the search is going to suck.
A look at the posts page of E621
To me, it makes a lot more sense to just go ahead and use the 'posts' section of E621 in order to show people around the project. When clicking on this button, you'll be presented with a huge number of uploads, sorted chronologically, with the latest material dumped right at the top of the page. Note that since E621 isn't actually a producer of any content, everything that you come across here will provided by various third parties and moreover, the uploaders aren't typically the ones creating the artwork either. E621 is a library of sorts, but people come to the library voluntarily and bring books that they think other people ought to read. It's not the most intuitive of setups, but I be lying if I said that it didn't have at least some appeal. This is part of the way that they manage to bring really crazy content to the world – you'll always be able to come to E621 and no matter what it is that you like, chances are someone else is in the same boat as you and loves doujinshi that falls into the exact same category. It's a good world to live in, right? Everyone who loves hentai is going to have an absolute blast here!
Tags on E621
One of the biggest benefits of a spot like E621 is that if you know exactly what you want, you ought to be able to get your hands on the goods with very little issue. The reason for this is because of the tags feature, which once you wrap your head around is actually quite useful. The use tags here for all different types of things, including characters featured in the content, themes that you'll see and the source of inspiration in terms of series or shows. This last one is quite key, because if you want to look at rule34 material from stuff such as Path of Exile, Bleach, Pokemon or something else, you can do so without any issues whatsoever. As you're no doubt aware, I'm a big League of Legends fan, so being able to look through thousands of posts for the likes of Ahri, Soraka, Riven and Irelia was a dream come true. Hell, there's even a few thousand posts for Janna – a hot ice slut that everyone wants to get blown by.
The problems with E621
In the interests of balance and order, I think it's a good idea for me to talk a little bit about the parts of E621 that are less than perfect. Firstly, the landing page as I've already discussed isn't all that incredible for accessing hentai. On top of that, most of the videos here are just short clips, which you can see for yourself by checking out the WebM tag on the main archive. I also read that during April of 2020, they had some issues with connectivity from various parts of the world as a result of Cloudflare caching. In some instances, you might need to flush your DNS or fiddle with a VPN to access the site directly from the United States.
My conclusion on E621
Fetish Dude had a pretty good time exploring E621: despite its flaws, you'll still find a lot of great pornography here that's going to appeal to a number of people. As a result of this, I feel like it's both reasonable and prudent to suggest that if you like this type of content, you should head on over and get the job done sooner rather than later. It's fantastic to explore the goods they have to offer and their library of rule 34 imagery is one of the best in the business. So, in short, Fetish Dude is fully endorsing E621 and he recommends you check it out for yourself. Thanks a bunch and have a great day: I've got more stellar hentai websites to review, so I'm out!
- Great hentai database
- Lots of good tagging
- Regular new releases
- Fast loading speeds
- Some caching issues
- Average homepage
- Search could be better