What is the amount of "ECCHI" allowed in Tapas?

[charizard123]

I want to draw a series like "To love ru / HOTD / highschool Dxd" (but without sensor private parts) and monetize it. But I don't know what is the limit of this plataform. In webtoon I was banned and my webtoon with 10k subs ended up in the trash

Please tell me what is the limit here. I have some options, but If you want, you can add more:

ecchi:
softecchi: big boobs with bra is allowed?
soft ecchi+: butt with thongs?

medium ecchi: nipples?

hard ecchi: pussy ?
hard ecchi+: asshole, clitoris, penis?

hentai:
explicit masturbation?
explicit sex?

Can you show me a comic in Tapas that is at the limit of what is allowed please?

Thank you very much!

[CarltonIsaac]

From the TAPAS GUIDELINES -

Mature Content
While Tapas allows a certain extent of violence, profanity and non-sexual nudity as long as it is behind our Mature filter, uncensored depiction of extreme violence and all forms of pornographic sex acts are not allowed in comics. Depiction of genitals or sex acts including penetration is permitted for novels, as long as its primary narrative purpose is something other than erotic satisfaction. Creators with mature content must rate their content as Mature, to warn readers they may be encountering sensitive content.

Providing context and clarifying intent in the content title and description are also very important. For example, depictions of violence, sex, or nudity for diegetic, artistic, or educational purposes are more likely to be allowed than gratuitously graphic ones.

[charizard123]

it's too ambiguous. I would prefer an answer that is not copied without offending and read comments based on what they have seen within the platform

It is not clear which is the limit between the erotic and the pornographic. Or to what extent a nude is considered non-sexual

[joannekwan]

I mean, you can always try and push the limit until someone reports you which the Tapas team will then review your series. At which point they will contact you to try and amend any offending material.

[BeautifulDoubt]

All the sex scenes Ive encountered on Tapas have been sensored.
so i dont think you can show HARDecchi
While people in their panties are allowed behind just marking the content as mature.

[BeautifulDoubt]

You cant monetize porn (uncensored sex, vaginas, dicks and assholes) here, the best ive seen is patreon, gumroad, kickstarter and the like.
so post a comic thats not porn here and get an audience posting the porn on your other social medias that allow it and then go from there.

[CarltonIsaac]

it's too ambiguous.

Those are the SITE GUIDELINES. Interpret them the way you see best and take a chance.
Ecchi and Hentai are just Japanese words for 'Variable ranges of Illustrated Porn', and as the site guidelines state, Pornography isn't allowed on here.

[Dogss]

I've seen some creators simply blur out offending parts and provide links to the uncensored versions offsite or behind a paywall. They seem to be doing ok, their stories are popular

[onyisart]

I think soft ecchi is allowed. Nothing equal to or beyond what they showed in Game of Thrones

[byelacey]

I believe they recently mentioned that you should be censoring all genitalia regardless of whether or not they're in the act of sex so I would be safe and censor anything you wouldn't see on prime time television. I know a couple of folks who post their 18+ work here censored (one pixelates it, the other uses black bars, both seem fine) and offer it uncensored on patreon and both are doing very well for themselves with that model.

[charizard123]

Could you show me their comic please !

[writercynknapp]

I can tell you that WebToons will suppress content that Tapas.IO does not.

WebToons rejected several different case of 'sidelong' exposed flesh. Not nudity, but impling that there was nothing under an open sided gown. Nothing like that here.

Be warned that some platforms suppress content. Tapas.IO pages appear fine on web pages and apps, until it is flagged by the OS and banned.

I have seen some creators say that nudity might not be suppressed if the work is certain types of line art. Line art without physical details.

There is a legal limit to consider too.

[joannekwan]

Here was someone pushing the boundaries, you can read their post and the ensuing thread

When I was researching where to post my adult Mature comic I wasn't sure how far I could "push it" and still meet Tapas requirements. I saw some examples on this forum but they were pretty mild. I posted my comic and it did indeed get flagged, but it was because they felt it was not censored enough. Initially I just had a pixelated blur over everyone's junk but they said it needed to be censored more. So I put solid black bars and the word "censored" on 'em. BUT I did have fun with the censo…

[HGohwell]

I agree the guidelines are massively vague and unhelpful if you've got a certain thing in mind because these things are subjective, but that's their nature, they can't list out every single scenario that might come up after all.

One of the main things is context, definitely. I've got several shower scenes, but there's enough steam to cover everything, the classic anime modesty steam. I've also got one of the character swimming fully naked but carefully placed not to show genitals. I think the prime time example above it pretty solid. You can show sex, but you can't show it too details, you can show violence, but not gore, you can show nudity but not full frontal nudity. I think on you scale, I wouldn't really go any higher than the soft ecchi/+ but at the same time, you can go up to sex without being explicit (it's fairly common to be honest, a lot of higher rated BL have some kind of sex scene to give you an idea).

[ratique]

If you want to be shown on the app:

• No sexual organs, so no penis, no vagina

If you don't want to be removed from the site:

• No penetration, no sexual organs in a sexual context

Using the examples of your list, we don't allow hard ecchi or hentai. If you still post it, your series will be blocked as you risk us being taken down from app stores, which is a major source of income for many creators of our platform.

[blingoxxide]

This chapter was rejected by Webtoons.

I think it was because of 'side exposed flesh'. I appealed the banned, but they replied that I was in offense of the rules.

https://tapas.io/episode/1677000

[writercynknapp]

The girl in the 'phoenix' outfit was banned by WebToons.

https://tapas.io/episode/1752737

[charizard123]

Side expose flesh? WTF but it doesn't show anything ! I can believe it.

[charizard123]

I think tapas deleted that example I can't see it

[joannekwan]

Hm, then I guess the censoring wasn't enough.

I will say that while the genitals were censored in the comic, there was still a lot of visible fluids spurting around, so yeah it was still pretty pornographic.