While its credentials of being from the staff behind Bible Black is likely enough to sell it, the show has plenty of merit on its own that warrants a look.

What They Say
When Kumi and her friends play around with a witchboard, they accidentally summon a malevolent ghost. The ghost possesses the girls, using them to steal people’s sexual energy. Soon, Kumi is no longer acting on her own freewill and is unconsciously seeking sex with men. Frightened, Kumi seeks the council of an exorcist, Mia Kakuta. Meanwhile, a rapist with other-worldly powers is on the loose. When exorcist Mia investigates, she finds a man with an insatiable sexual appetite looking to fulfill his lust in death that he couldn’t in life.

The Review:
Audio:
Kitty Media continues to please fans by releasing their adult entertainment in bilingual format. While I’m not a huge fan of dubbed adult anime, I do end up listening to all of them at one time or another and this one is pretty decent. Both mixes are done at 192kbps in two channel form and basically play to a full feeling. There’s really nothing here noticeable in terms of directionality or placement, but the groaning and grunting come across well and the few action moments and music make good use of the left and right channels. Dialogue is clean and clear throughout and we had no problems with dropouts or distortion during regular playback.

Video:
Originally released in 2003, the transfer for this series is presented in its original full frame aspect ratio. The show sports some good production values while avoiding that overly digital “plastic” look that a good chunk of Bible Black had times with things like its school uniforms. The two OVAs on this release look quite good with bitrates averaging in the sevens and eights for most of its run. Colors maintain a solid look throughout with only some minor noise in a few backgrounds. Cross coloration is blissfully absent and there are only a few hints of aliasing during some of the panning or zooming sequences. Overall this is a good looking presentation that shows off the quality of the animation and designs pretty well.

Packaging:
The cover artwork is very appealing as it features Mia on her knees as her uniform has fallen away from her in shreds. That means we get a good look at her bottom, which has a very thin pair of panties on them, and lots of skin without really showing anything. It’s sexy without being porn-blunt with the nudity. The background is pretty simple with sigils and the like and the coloring provides for the dark and eerie feeling without coming off too strong. The obvious plug is there with it being done by the folks behind Bible Black which is the only blemish for the cover design. The back cover goes for the obvious while still hiding these evil nipples as it features several of the girls completely naked with hands appropriately placed. The summary runs through the basics, the Bible Black plug makes another appearance and the production credits round things out. The technical grid is solid as it runs through everything in a clean and very readable form. No insert is included nor is there a reversible cover.

Menu:
The menu design is straightforward as it takes the artwork from the front cover and zooms in on it a bit while applying a bit of instrumental music to give it some mood. The artwork translates well here as it looks richer and more vibrant than the cover itself, though it does feel a bit busy when you add in the logo and the navigation on top of her bottom. The release doesn’t have anything to it besides the show itself and a few trailers for other series so navigation is a breeze and problem free. Not unlike a lot of Kitty Media releases, our player presets are ignored and the disc defaults to English with sign/song subtitles.

Extras:
None.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Sex Craft, based on the original work by Nariaki Funabori, is a two episode OVA series that reaffirms my enjoyment of adult anime. With strong production values, straightforward writing and good sex scenes, it simply serves up everything that I want in a show of this particular genre of the adult world. Sex, magic, and schoolgirls. It’s a trifecta of porn goodness.

The series revolves around a school setting in which we meet up with three girls who are all friends. Not unlike most schoolgirls, they’re chattering away idly about things while dabbling in some playful “magic” by doing a Ouija board event. They’re chastised lightly by Mia, a fellow student who seems to have few friends, if any, and is one of two members of the occult club that the school has. Of course, the trio ends up in more trouble than they expected as they really do call down on something evil when just asking simple questions and that leads to lots of badness. A fox spirit moves into the picture and transfers between two of the girls while playing them up sexually. Mia is, of course, something of a practitioner of the dark arts and is able to save the girls and deal with the mischievous fox spirit that’s infected them.

One of the girls ends up joining Mia in her club because of how she handles herself during the crisis and the way she managed the fox spirit. The second episode brings us an interesting story that’s a bit more detailed as it involves a doppelganger that’s taking advantage of girls that enter the student council room after hours due to the way the original was treated by his girlfriend. There’s a fair mystery to it as it plays out and the way everyone handles themselves is with gusto and apprehension. It’s not all about the girls though as the occult club has a male member as well, though he’s mostly seen as a means to an end to bring about certain things. For instance, when they want to draw out the fox spirit, they need the person infected with it to climax in order to draw it out and that’s what he’s there to do.

Sex Craft is not unlike most mainstream shows that play in the supernatural world inside a school setting. If you took out the sex, you’d easily see it playing out there though without anything that really lets it stand out. The sex, of course, provides the standout moment here for it, but when taken as a whole it’s really quite well done. The character designs are very appealing and they work the supernatural angle well enough without it being over the top. Supernatural related sex shows aren’t unusual but there are plenty of bad ones out there. With what seems to be decent source material and definite know-how in making an adult show, Sex Craft hits all the right marks throughout. The character designs are very strong and appealing as they look sexy without playing to the cutesy “moe” world. There’s some great detail in some of the designs and the costumes themselves aren’t outlandish. While that was a strong sell in Bible Black, this gives it more of an air of realism.

In Summary:
Sex Craft is one of those adult shows where, at the end of the second episode, you really lament that no more were made. It’s not a standout show with its plot or story elements, but it’s very well put together and provided an engaging enough framework for the real draw the sex. There’s lots of sex here that’s quite good, with girl/girl material and boy/girl/girl as well. Some supernatural elements are brought in as well but it avoids going for the truly deranged or strange and that works in its favor. While I don’t know that I’d put it in the couples-friendly realm, it’s certainly one that could be used to test the waters for more intense shows to see how it would work. It’s definitely a show I recommend a lot though as I just found it to be very enjoyable and a lot of fun.

Features:
Japanese 2.0 Language, English 2.0 Language, English Subtitles

Content Grade: B+
Audio Grade: B+
Video Grade: A-
Packaging Grade: A-
Menu Grade: B
Extras Grade: N/A

Released By: Kitty Media
Release Date: January 15th, 2008
MSRP: $29.99
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Video Encoding: 480i/p MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

It’s not easy being a back alley doctor!

What They Say:
In The Patients of Dr. Maro, Hikomaro, better known as Dr. Maro, knows his way around the human body and can stick a thermometer in like a professional. Unfortunately, his medical ethics are seriously lacking, his concept of an appropriate Doctor-Patient relationship is entirely inappropriate, and his common sense is as non-functional as his sense of morality.

When Sakimi and Masashi, a young married couple, come to inquire about a medical issue and to consult on the possibility of having children, what starts as a routine breast exam spirals madly out of control. Then, when Dr. Maro’s far too intimate examination of the blushing bride results in a bashing husband, Maro finds his manual dexterity severely reduced by a pair of casts. Even then, Maro finds a way to come out on top, and to keep the not-so-good doctor from suing her husband, Sakimi must become his VERY personal servant!

The Review:
Audio:
The audio presentation for this property brings us the original Japanese language track in stereo encoded using the DTS-HD MA lossless codec. The show is one that is fairly standard when it comes to hentai in that there’s minimal music, basic sound effects, and lots of “dialogue” throughout it. It’s mostly a center channel based show with minimal directionality to it but it covers things well with a clean and problem free encoding. There isn’t much to work with when it comes to sound design but the moans and cries are pretty well presented and there are no problems to be had with it. It’s not a rich or warm mix but a solid one through and through and we didn’t have any problems with dropouts or distortions during regular playback.

Video:
Originally released in 2015, the transfer for these two OVAs are presented in their original aspect ratio of 1.78:1 in 1080p using the AVC codec. With just one disc to hold it all and plenty of room, the encoding for the Studio 1st production is definitely nicely done. It’s not a high end OVA series with rich colors and details, owing more to the traditional hentai of years gone by. But it has some nicely fluid moments, literally in some cases, and it’s completely uncensored. The show works with bright but not garish colors, solid enough animation without anything really over the top in terms of quality but nothing terrible either, and is fairly average in all the right ways in how it was put together. The encoding brings all that to the forefront so it’s not a show that will stand out but it is one that’s clean and problem free, which is what you want.

Packaging:
The packaging for this release comes in a standard sized Blu-ray case that has a really good reversible cover. The main cover uses the same artwork but with a zoom in thanks to a black border that also gives us some obscured areas of the nudity. Focusing on the two main female characters that we get, they’re piled on top of each other with breasts everywhere, and some nice tuckus raising up high in the background, while set within the office. The logo is cute and simple with some nice design elements to it and as a whole it definitely works well. The back cover is traditional with a black background, a breakdown of the premise, some clean shots from the show itself, and the technical information so that you know exactly what you’re getting. With the reverse side cover, the front is a borderless and unobscured piece that’s brighter and appealing with how weird it is (breasts do not move like that) while the back cover is more traditional porn back cover material as it’s filled with naked imagery and a small technical grid along the bottom. It gets the job done but it amuses me to see it done as “porn-y” as it is.

Menu:
The menu design works a split screen approach where the right side has the cover artwork sans logo, which is bright and colorful, and the left has a blue background that has the logo across it in big font while the navigation is along the lower left. It’s a simple navigation with just the episodes to select themselves and the promo for the release, so there are no submenus. It’s not a deep or rich menu but it basically takes the right elements from the marketing materials they have and sets up the tone well.

Extras:
None.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Based on the visual novel of the same name, the Patients of Dr. Maro is a two-episode OVA series that came out in the spring and summer of 2015 from MS Pictures. The visual novel from ELF Corporation is one that offers up plenty of material and the OVAs are designed so that there’s plenty of setup for a third installment that never happened. Director by Hideta Ooa based on the script by Shinichiro Sawayama, the show is fairly straightforward with what it does and mostly manages to avoid the things that are considered extreme and bother a lot of casual fans. The result is a show that’s not exactly tame but leans a little more in that direction than some others – your porn experience depending.

The premise is one that’s comical enough as we get something of a self proclaimed back alley doctor that has a nice office and doesn’t quite seem to be a back alley doctor. Dr. Maro is seeing one of his patients named Sakimi who has come with her husband to get some advice about a small pain that she has. Maro being the pervy kind of doctor that he is (his face is made up like a clown after all), he begins to examine her by massaging her breasts at first before moving on to other areas and essentially getting her all worked up while her husband watches. He attempts to paint it as a normal kind of examination even though Masashi gets angered by this but it’s Sakimi that normalizes it and says that it’s okay because she wants the help. And it seems like she’s enjoying the copious amount of breast massage that she’s getting. There’s only so much that Masashi can handle before he gets physical and hurts Maro, which is what takes him out of circulation for a bit.

Since Masashi crushed his hands and he’s unable to work, Sakimi’s guilt gets her to come and help out at the office for a while, resulting in them getting pretty close – and her wearing a nurses outfit since that’s all that he has. Suffice to say, their getting close leads to some amusing situations that takes it even further, though this also plays into Masashi coming back after feeling guilty about things as well. Of course, poor Sakimi also ends up in a bad situation when some thugs end up getting into the place later on and Masashi ends up tied up and forced to watch Sakimi being taken advantage of, resulting in it being an incredible turn on for him. Add in a minor subplot that I wanted more of that has Maro getting involved with a woman named Yukina that he actually really has feelings for and what we get is a kind of messy layered two episode show that’s not exactly smooth in hitting up the story points and structure but delivers some decent sex scenes.

In Summary:
The Patients of Dr. Maro has some fun material in it, I particularly liked the time with Yukina that we got and some of the amusing pseudo-cucking that was done early on to Masashi, but it also just suffers from what a lot of hentai does in poor story structure and just plain “weird” elements that make no sense, such as Maro’s pasty appearance. The animation for it is decent, not exceptional and not terrible, and it manages to deliver some fun moments throughout that should let it work as a bit of an entry level show for newer hentai viewers. Softcel’s release delivers us a good looking encoding, solid packaging, and a good presentation overall at a very low price that still surprises considering it’s in high definition.

Features:
Japanese DTS-HD MA 2.0 Language, English Subtitles

Content Grade: C+
Audio Grade: B
Video Grade: B+
Packaging Grade: B
Menu Grade: B
Extras Grade: N/A

Released By: Softcel Pictures
Release Date: June 13th, 2017
MSRP: $19.98
Running Time: 50 Minutes
Video Encoding: 1080p AVC
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

Sex Demon Queen, a simple one episode hentai release, feels much like a lost episode of Excel Saga.

What They Say:
The sorceress Kuri uses her magic to defend herself from perverted monsters and demons, but her partner, Rima, would much rather do perverted things than defend herself. When the two save a woman from a gang rape, they catch the eye of an evil Sex Queen and her dog-demons. When the sex demons release the passions of Kuri and Rima, even the duo’s formidable powers will be useless. Don’t miss it as all four girls redefine the meaning of Doggie Style!

The Review:
Audio:
The audio presentation for this release brings us the original Japanese language track in stereo and an English language dub that’s also in stereo, both of which are encoded at 192kbps. The track features a good stereo mix with some moments of directionality during action sequences with the music and sound effects. Dialogue is nice and clear throughout with no noticeable dropouts or distortions on either language track.

Video:
Originally released in 2000, Sex Demon Queen is a very appealing looking release from the time it came out as it utilizes the sweet skills of AIC and Green Bunny. The materials here are top notch and essentially look flawless outside of some very minor aliasing in a few areas. Backgrounds are very solid, colors are vibrant and cross coloration is non-existent. It may be a standard definition release but it has plenty of room to work with and the end result makes for a very enjoyable viewing session because of it.

Packaging:
The front cover is a dark foreboding piece that features three of the women from the show with the dark image of the demon in the background set against the moon. Don’t miss the little doggies running around either! The back cover provides a few pieces of artwork from the show as well as a good summary of what to expect. The discs features are clearly listed as well as a couple of the main production people. The insert uses more artwork on one side with chapter listings while the back is just box art advertisements.

Menu:
The main menu is a quiet piece of static animation that features some good looking artwork of the main characters and the big bad demon. Selections are quick to load and access times are nice and fast.

Extras:
None.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
One of the things I truly try to do when reviewing anime discs is to avoid referencing other shows. Comparisons are often hard to do or are too simplistic to really convey what they’re like. But I can’t help it with this show. It truly feels like a lost hentai episode of Excel Saga, just without as many in-joke references. You could easily see this being done by them.

Originally released in 2000 and known as Yarima Queen, the show takes place in a fantasy oriented setting, as we learn the tale of long ago when an invading demon was fought off by a group of warriors who have special rings. Well, that’s the tale that gets covered in the beginning, but what we see is a side story adventure of two of the warriors before they learn of their destiny.

We’ve got the blue-haired Cooley and the red-haired Rima traveling through a town, basically just talking about their plans and what the other is like. This all goes to the wayside when they hear a girl scream down an alleyway, and the rush off to help. A few thugs are taking advantage of a green-haired girl named Sour, and they can’t let that go by. While Cooley explains this, Rima zips back and forth in front of her extolling her name and virtues. Each pass produces heat waves you’d see on a racing track, and appropriate sounds follow it.

As they prepare to engage, a number of huge grey-haired balding men appear on a rooftop wearing bloomers and talking about how they defend those who have the rings. As they prepare to help, two yakuza dressed monkeys start shooting them. They drop off like flies.

Once all is said done, young Sour is saved and she’s insistent about paying back Cooley and Rima. So she takes them to the best inn to relax and proceeds to give them untold pleasures. After all, she’s spent her life in a convent and all they learned there were special techniques in sexual pleasure. The flashbacks here are hilarious.

To complicate things, the head demon has sent his beautiful warrior Amibare to try and deal with those who have the rings. Her plans and plots tend to be foiled before she can start though. In one instance, we see her talking about what she’s going to do when she suddenly bursts into pleasure, as one of her servants (a Menchi-like dog) starts going down on her. Or up, given the perspective.

But wait! It’s not really bestiality, because they’re actually demons, just in dog form! They later take on humanoid form and participate in taking out Rima and Cooley, but they retain their cute puppy faces. And yes, they go “ruff ruff” during these scenes.

In Summary:
Sex Demon Queen is much like Excel Saga in that it’s just so damn hard to actually explain it since it’s all humor. The sex is great too. I haven’t laughed this much at an intentionally funny hentai in months. This is another one to add to the crowd showing group. I can’t recommend it enough if you’re looking for something that’s supposed to be funny and sexy at the same time.

Features
Japanese Language, English Language, English Subtitles

Content Grade: A
Audio Grade: B+
Video Grade: B+
Packaging Grade: B+
Menu Grade: B
Extras Grade: N/A

Released By: Kitty Media
Release Date: September 24th, 2002
MSRP: $24.95
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Video Encoding: 480i/p MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

With younger looking designs and playing at the entire incest fetish, Sex Exchange works some of the fringe tastes.

What They Say:
Hikaru has been pining for the girl next door, Mioto. But she’s going out with his friend Hakuro, and he ends up watching the two have sex through a peephole every day. Hikaru has also been sleeping with Akimi, and she walks in on him spying one day. She’ll keep his secret, but on one condition.

Akimi’s always had a thing for Mioto’s boyfriend, and she wants his help to arrange for a little partner swap. But soon he’ll find that the whole thing was a plan between Akimi and Hakuro to get Mioto and Hikaru involved in a four-way orgy

The Review:
Audio:
The audio presentation for this release brings us the original Japanese language track in stereo as well as the English language dub, both of which are encoded at 192kbps. Both this track and the Japanese track are your standard adult mixes which have little in the way of noticeable directionality or placement. Outside of the music, there’s hardly anything besides dialogue and the requisite squishie sounds. Neither track has anything that’s really exceptional here but they both do a good job of representing the source material. In listening to both languages, we didn’t have any problems with dropouts or distortions during regular playback.

Video:
Originally released in 2005, the transfer for the two OVA episodes included here are presented in their original full frame aspect ratio. While the animation quality for this is slightly towards the lower end of the spectrum, the transfer itself looks pretty solid and problem free. Colors look solid and vibrant, flesh tones in particular hold up well without any noticeably blockiness. There’s a touch of softness in a few areas and some of the panning sequences are a bit stilted but most of this appears to be the way the show was made. It’s not low budget but it doesn’t have the smoothness of some of the higher budget shows.

Packaging:
The cover artwork will let anyone with a fetish for green haired girls know exactly what they’re getting into as it features a shot of the trio from the second episode and headshots of most of the girls along the bottom. It’s got lots of flesh showing but manages to not be all that revealing or even too tantalizing. The colors used for the background tend to blend in a bit as they’re soft and in the same range as the flesh tones so there isn’t as much that’s striking here outside of the hair. The back cover is a bit milder and more orange tinted as it has a group of headshots along the top of the non-green haired characters and a few shots from the show. The summary only covers the first episode and provides a decent sized image from it. The rest of the cover is rounded out with the usual minimal production credits and the always solid technical box. No insert or reverse cover is included.

Menu:
The menus are standard for Kitty titles as they use the cover artwork and rework the background a bit to make it all work out alongside the navigation. Add in a bit of the instrumental music from the show and you have what it takes, especially since there’s nothing here besides some trailer for other shows. The navigation is sold if minimal and access times are nice and fast. The disc also correctly read our players’ language presets and played accordingly.

Extras:
None.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Sex Exchange brings a pair of standalone OVAs from the Vanilla line-up with similar themes. The incest fetish is one that’s been prevalent in most forms of adult entertainment at one time or another and shows up somewhat regularly in a number of adult anime shows. Usually, there’s a bit of a twist involved in order to make it a bit more acceptable, but sometimes they just go for it anyway.

The first episode decides to play coy with it by having the four characters involved do a quick small bodied intro stating that none of the siblings involved are actually related by blood ” regardless of how much they look alike. The premise is simple enough as we have the brother and sister pair of Hikaru and Mioto. Mioto is currently having a lot of sex with her boyfriend Hakuro and loving it. Hikaru can’t help but watch through a peephole and get off by it. Hakuro’s sister, the loli-gothish Akimi, decides that she wants Hikaru’s help in breaking them up but ends up getting involved with Hikaru. Then everyone gets to have fun with each other since it’s all just sex and nobody is getting hurt since nobody is really related by blood. There’s no depth here and the plot is paper thin. The character designs are a bit young looking though since they’re pushing a school angle but they look decent and it’s one of those really clean looking shows.

The second standalone story is one that goes for a bit more reality to it with two sisters, Izuru and Kokone. Izuru brings her boyfriend Ayu home on a regular basis and they are just like bunnies that go at it constantly. This drives Kokone insane as she’s just trying to get her homework done and study for tests so she doesn’t fail at her classes. But listening to her sister only manages to get her excited and distracted. Her attempts at complaining only lead to her getting involved with the pair and it all goes downhill… and down from there. Similar to the previous episode, it’s decent animation but nothing exceptional which is something of a given with most Vanilla shows. They do hit up my own particular tastes with a pair of cute looking green haired girls, however.

In Summary:
Sex Exchange isn’t an exceptional title but it is a decent fun little show providing you don’t mind the entire incest aspect of it, real or not. There isn’t much of a plot to either of the episodes that are on here but they do focus on the sex and give you plenty of it. The animation isn’t much to write home about but it’s competent and keeps to the younger looking designs. A plus to this is that at least the characters breasts aren’t bigger than small moons. There is plenty to find appealing here but the basic fetish will be the stumbling block for many.

Features
Japanese 2.0 Language, English 2.0 Language, English Subtitles

Content Grade: B+
Audio Grade: B+
Video Grade: B+
Packaging Grade: B+
Menu Grade: B
Extras Grade: N/A

Released By: Kitty Media
Release Date: November 10th, 2006
MSRP: $29.98
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Video Encoding: 480i/p MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

The Sex Taxi’s coming to town and he’s going to pick you up!

What They Say
Who will be the next fare? What lonely woman can resist the forbidden thrill in the back seat of a taxi cab? As the taxi cruises the back streets what illicit acts could possibly be taking place in the shadows?

The Review:
Audio:
The audio presentation for this release brings us the show in its original Japanese language track in stereo encoded at 192kbps along with the English language dub done in the same form. The show is almost entirely dialogue based other than the sounds of the car coming and going and the music so there’s not exactly a lot to really go by here for directionality. The track is nice and clear though and we had no problems with it in regards to dropouts or distortions during regular playback.

Video:
Originally released in 2002, the first two OVAs in the series are presented here in their original full frame format. The transfer in general looks beautiful with its lush colors and fluid animation sequences but some problems do crop up. During several panning sequences you can see some rather visible cross coloration getting into the tight line work and some aliasing occurs during similar pans up and down. Barring that, which isn’t all that distracting from the bulk of the show, the transfer looks really good and is a pleaser in general.

Packaging:
Going heavily with the taxi theme, we get Satsuki in the back seat of the taxi with the drivers’ hand reaching down for her fare. It’s a good looking shot and the quality of the artwork looks great. The logo used for it also works really well with the heavy pink emphasis mixed in the black and white checkerboard standard. The back cover is very heavy on the pink with a summary and a few pictures across it while a black and white checkerboard along the left brings in various character facial shots. The discs features and technical information is all nice and clearly listed. The insert takes the layout of the back cover and adds in the logo from the front as well as the chapter stops.

Menu:
The menu uses a variant of the front cover by taking Satsuki and putting an actual taxi around her so she’s a bit more obscured by the frosty window. The selections are lined up along the window at an angle and some of the instrumental music from the end sequence plays along to it. Access times are nice and fast and the layout easy to navigate. The disc also properly read our players presets for language.

Extras:
None.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Sometimes the taglines are just too funny. “It’s a long, hard road ahead” highlights the back of Sex Taxi and I have to give it props for not only making me laugh but being accurate at the same time. Sex Taxi takes two of America’s favorite past times, sex, and cars, and melds them both together.

The show focuses on a taxi driver who’s recently started up in a new town. Reflecting on his last town, we see the many conquests he had where he’d find a way of getting dirt on various women and use it against them so he could blackmail them into doing whatever he wanted. Then he’d take them to various places where he and his friends would have his way with them. For reasons undisclosed, he eventually left there and started up where he is now and the show follows him as he searches out the various new targets that he’s going to go after. He’s got a particular taste for high-class college girls in uniforms and this town seems to be filled with them.

The driver, who is nameless and relatively faceless as we never see his eyes as they’re obscured by the shadows of his cap, picks up only his targets and says and does things so as to pull out useful information from them. Since people tend to ignore taxi drivers in general, they’re more revealing about things and he uses that to his advantage also. When he picks up Satsuki, an attractive redheaded daughter of a well to do businessman, he stalks her out and gets a variety of incriminating pictures of her. When revealed to her, she, of course, agrees to do anything to get him to destroy them.

The same happens with a pair of twins, Rena and Sena, of whom one of them is indeed in love with the other. His plans work in much the same way in gathering information and then using it against them so that he can take them to the abandoned school building he’s using as a hideout for his activities. The sex scenes within the two episodes are pretty nasty in their own way. Beyond the obvious of not being really consensual even though they agree to it all, there’s the element of bondage and submission to them as the driver controls them and does whatever he pleases with them. One of them gets treated extremely roughly with a bow and arrow set that goes into the painful direction. There are some really good moments throughout both sex scenes but some of it just gets into the cringing areas once in awhile.

In Summary:
Sex Taxi features great looking character designs, some overall pretty hot sex scenes and even a decent English language track for the main characters. Outside of a few problems with cross coloration and aliasing, this is a title that will appeal to the regular hentai crowd that doesn’t mind toys and other objects being involved and mixed in with some domination.

Features
Japanese Language, English Language, English Subtitles

Content Grade: B
Audio Grade: B+
Video Grade: B+
Packaging Grade: A-
Menu Grade: B
Extras Grade: N/A

Released By: Kitty Media
Release Date: September 28th, 2004
MSRP: $29.98
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Video Encoding: 480i/p MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

It’s best to not burn bridges at work.

Creative Staff
Story/Art: Puniiyu
Translation/Adaptation: N/A

What They Say:
Here it comes!! 100% chance of precipitation. ♥

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Originally serialized in Comic Shitsurakuten from the June 2017 installment, Soaking-Wet Forecast is an eighteen page story from creator Puniiyu, who has two other works on the service. This marked my first experience with this particular creator and it’s definitely appealing when it comes to aspects of the artwork. While they do go over the top with the breast size and movement of them in a way that’s eye-roll inducing, a lot of the material beyond that is pretty good with camera placement and angles as well as the general backgrounds and the like. The only downside for me is that it goes for that whole x-ray vision thing in showing what’s going on inside during penetration and that just doesn’t click for me most of the time and instead takes me out of things.

The story is one that focuses on a work relationship of sorts as we’re introduced to Yasagure, a salaryman who ended up losing his job due to a screwup by his boss that got pinned on him. It’s been a few months since he was let go and that reputation has followed him around which has lead him to not working and drinking a lot. So, on a very rainy day, the woman who trained him ends up crashing into his place to get dry since she remembered where he lived while being out. Nijino is your standard overly busty young woman and she gives Yasagure a lot of grief for his heavy drinking that she realizes he’s been engaged in. There’s a bit of a twist at the end as to how this whole meet-cute works but it’s definitely problematic because of how it all really starts when you get down to it.

Yasagure’s mindset is not good so seeing him pull her top off and start in on her as she pushes him away and tells him no is familiar, as is the fact that he continues anyway even though she hasn’t given consent. Yes, fantasy and all that and I totally get it, but it’s something that just doesn’t work well here since she has such a change (due to the later twist) with her attitude that it’s more about her being caught off-guard by how forthright he is than anything else. But ugh, what an example. Once the two get down to the heavy sexy times where it’s all above board (though it’s easy to imagine it’s all pressured sex due to how it starts, but again, the twist), there are some fun things as they go at it. Puniiyu has some good layouts here and the flow of the action is good as is the design for it all with Nijino’s expressions and all. But at the same time it’s just hard to shake those early moments off because it infects the work as a whole.

In Summary
A story like this will be divisive just based on where you fall within the whole fantasy element of what it presents in terms of consent here, regardless of the twist at the end. It’s something where if it bothers you then this story will fail. If it’s something you know going in it can be a fifty/fifty kind of thing. And if it’s what you’re looking for then it’ll largely deliver. I like what Puniiyu has here with the artwork and layouts, not keen on the internal bits that just detract from the appeal of the sexuality, and wish that the story had been constructed just a bit differently so it could have been more enjoyable and not “ugh, creepy, dude.”

Content Grade: C-
Art Grade: B+
Text/Translation Grade: B+

Age Rating: 18+
Released By: FAKKU
Release Date: November 2016
MSRP: FAKKU Subscription

Some editors really put in the extra effort.

Creative Staff
Story/Art: Chimple Hotter
Translation/Adaptation: N/A

What They Say:
Fresh reference for an author with writer’s block

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Originally serialized in Comic Shitsurakuten from the June 2017 installment, My Naughty Editor is a twenty page story from creator Chimple Hotter, who has two other works on the service. This marked my first experience with this particular creator and it’s definitely a fun one overall. The story is one that’s well balanced even if standard comically improbable material but it has a lightness that works for it within the context that it’s set. It also doesn’t hurt that the artwork is just strong across the board, especially with how the hair is worked, but it also avoids doing the internal shots that don’t do a lot for me. That helps to make the sex scenes across it a lot more interesting.

This chapter is a pretty fun one overall as we’re introduced to Masato, a young man that has a very successful first erotic light novel out but is struggling with the sequel. A good reason for that is that the first one succeeded as he could write it as a virgin with no experience as it was all about the fantasies/wish fulfillment. Luckily for him, his editor has come to help in person to get him on track with some suggestions. Tachibana’s obviously an attractive woman and very confident but she also knows exactly what his problem is. I mean, would it be a surprise if it’s a commonality among light novel authors in general? Of course, how do you get a virgin some experience? Well, Tachibana can’t hire out per se but she can do her part to help him along.

What becomes interesting is that over the course of a couple of weeks she helps him with ways that don’t involve full on intercourse but rather her toying and playing with him to boost his arousal levels and experience things that he never had before without the full on “true” act. These make up several pages and definitely have some good variety to them in designs, acts, and backgrounds to make it feel lived in and fun. But when we get Masato wanting to explore more later on, namely a real topless piece, she’s reluctant and gets a bit overwhelmed by his forcefulness. While that’s a bit problematic things do turn full on consensual and the pair really have a lot of fun with it. Chimple Hotter’s designs for Tachibana are great (Masato is close to being comical in most scenes) as I loved what he does with her hair but also just her overall physicality. Yes, she’s stacked in a big way but there are some great curves here and the expressiveness throughout the chapter drives home the impression of someone that’s really into what they’re doing.

In Summary
My Naughty Editor offers no surprises with its story because you can guess pretty much all of it just from the title. That said, Chimple Hotter executes is very well here with a story that works its page count in a great way with almost a montage sequence before digging into the big sequence. We get some solid setup time, some decent character bits all things considered, and the payoff is just right that it should please most. It’s a pretty good chapter for newer fans to hentai but the design work should please more experienced fans as well. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for more work from this creator in the future.

Content Grade: B
Art Grade: B+
Text/Translation Grade: B+

Age Rating: 18+
Released By: FAKKU
Release Date: June 2017
MSRP: FAKKU Subscription

Wherein Nagi learns the truth of what she wants.

Creative Staff
Story/Art: kiasa
Translation/Adaptation: N/A

What They Say:
Being twisted by stagnant blind love…

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Originally serialized in Comic X-Eros from the June 2017 installment with #55, Debt Default is a twenty-eight page story from creator kiasa, who has four other works on the service. This marked my first experience with this particular creator and it’s one that I’ll likely check out again, though not as a high priority. Kiasa’s artwork is the draw here, at least for the female characters, with some appealing designs and an approach more toward the gonzo end of things than the sweet or simpler. There’s appeal in all different types of material that make it worth checking out from time to time to see what’s out there. Kiasa goes for something rougher here but still tame by a lot of standards when you get down to it.

With a chapter introducing these characters previously that I did not read, we get a quick if confusing recap at the start before it digs into giving us time between Nagi and her current “boyfriend” of sorts, the student council president Aoyama. He’s a domineering type and she wants to please him desperately, which is what sets the stage for later when they take a trip to the beach and discover her childhood friend Touya having sex with Shiraishi in the water off to the side out of view. That gets everyone run up into a tizzy of sorts but Aoyama uses some connections and gets them all a cabin to hang out in so they can enjoy the vacation together. Of course, his bigger goal is to try and expand young and inexperience Nagi’s borders by opting for a swap session, which unleashes a torrent of feelings out of Nagi as she’s pressured into it and discovers more about herself that, should there be future chapters, will likely blow up on both Touya and Aoyama.

Because of the extended page count here we get a number of sex sequences that kiasa really delivers beautifully if this kind of material is your thing. Aoyama and Nagi at first is simple domineering material that works nicely and the initial beach scene is comical as most playing in the water sex is. When it shifts to Aoyama and Shiraishi going at it things get very intense as she’s just a mess from enjoying it all and that plays as a nice contrast to Touya’s fumbling with a nervous and not altogether sure about this experience from Nagi. But it works well as Nagi realizes what a difference it is from her only experiences with Aoyama and begins to crave more experiences, really getting into it and then switching back so that she and Shiraishi are all over each other as the guys bring them to completion. It’s a mess of bodies and fluids that plays to the gonzo style and it works well to show a group of four people that are just all in on the sexuality and experience.

In Summary
With this having started in another chapter I wasn’t exactly on board from the start because the recap was just so weirdly written and didn’t connect well for me. Once it got underway and the dynamic was revealed as the four primary characters got into things it all flowed a lot better and was more enjoyable the second and third time around. Kiasa’s artwork is definitely strong here with some very intense moments and thankfully only a little bit on the whole internals thing. A lot of what we get is just strong and intense sexual encounters that are rough enough that it’ll play poorly for some but be fairly appealing for others. It’s not total hardcore material but it’s not the usual more mildly safe material that a lot of hentai stories are like these days that I end up coming across.

Content Grade: B
Art Grade: B+
Text/Translation Grade: B+

Age Rating: 18+
Released By: FAKKU
Release Date: June 2017
MSRP: FAKKU Subscription

It may not be a mint on the pillow but it damn well works.

Creative Staff
Story/Art: Tajima Particle
Translation/Adaptation: N/A

What They Say:
Juice mixed race communication ♥

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Originally serialized in Comic X-Eros from the June 2017 installment with #55, Elf Village Hospitality is a twenty-page story from creator Tajima Particle, who has one other work on the service. This marked my first experience with this particular creator and it’s one that I’m actively going to be looking for more of. While there’s a little awkwardness in terms of story flow at first, once Tajima Particle gets everything underway it just delivers perfectly. Even more important it looks utterly fantastic with great character designs, intense but tasteful sexual material, and almost nothing in regards to the internals view of things which results in a smooth and really, well, beautiful looking chapter. This is the kind of story where you want more and more chapters of it so you have a full bound book of elf village stories.

The premise is straightforward enough in that we have a cute young human-looking orc that is looking to find some refuge for the night as he stumbles across a hidden elven village. With orcs not exactly popular in any general sense he’s just glad that they’re allowing it since it’s been a long and hard day. He’s greeted by two elven women named Cilya and Clarie who are polar opposites in many ways, particularly since Cilya is all happy to be of help while Clarie is distant and cold toward him. Nora takes it as is and just goes to enjoy one of the secret hidden baths that exists, a massive outdoor space that’s just great to take in, only to be surprised by the fact that both young women have come to pleasure him. Well, just Cilya as Clarie is giving him the evil eye but that just turns out is because she’s shy. She’s the one who thought he was cute and invited him in, resulting in some fun times ahead.

Tajima Particle delivers on the extended sex scene in a great way. With plenty of character build up time first we get Cilya going after him to make him feel good as a weary traveler, which he’s wary of but can’t help to enjoy, and then Cilya reminds Clarie that it was her idea, which gets her to join in and becomes totally into the experience. While Nora is pretty much standard male character that blends into the background outside of the usefulness of his member, there’s a lot to like in how the two women really get into this. Cilya’s all smiles and enjoying every piece of it and Clarie’s hesitancy at first ends up opening her up even more to it with a little urging from Cilya. That it takes place in the water makes it even better with additional splashing, romping, and just so much sex positivity here that it’s pretty damn infectious.

In Summary
Elf Village Hospitality hits up a lot of things that click for me. First, it’s fun. Those types can be few and far between sometimes but hentai manga has a lot more of it than it used to. Second, it has a cute setup that works very well. Third, it has some great character designs that make for a really enjoyable experience. And fourth, well, it delivers some great and enthusiastic sex scenes. The trio are definitely fun to watch here in the way the configurations work and it all leads to a whole lot of good stuff for all involved. The enthusiasm is a big plus but beyond that, the whole thing just feels so well realized that I want to see more of these two elves and more travelers coming through here to experience some top flight hospitality.

Content Grade: B+
Art Grade: A
Text/Translation Grade: B+

Age Rating: 18+
Released By: FAKKU
Release Date: June 2017
MSRP: FAKKU Subscription

That’s one hairless wolf.

Creative Staff
Story/Art: Nijou Katame
Translation/Adaptation: N/A

What They Say:
Fluffy droopy… Beast girl incident. ❤

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Originally serialized in Comic X-Eros from the June 2017 installment with #55, Wolf Warning! is a twenty page story from creator Nijou Katame, who has one other work on the service. This marked my first experience with this particular creator and it’s one that will have me checking them out again, but just to see if they can manage some better story material. Katame’s artwork is definitely appealing here as we get great sex scene material itself and some delicious design work. But that we get a story without enough proper setup, no character names, and some less than enjoyable non-consensual material to start it off with just takes a bit of the wind out of the sails.

The story is one that we’re thrown into very quickly as our Male Lead stumbles across a cute girl at school that’s asleep at a desk. That’s not bad in itself but she has some cute wolf ears on her head and her discovery that he’s seen them has her ready to kill him as she makes it clear, foolishly enough, that she’s a wolf in a human disguise. Our Male Lead takes that in stride and decides that he’s not going to die without at least feeling up a girl’s breasts and proceeds to do just that, which throws her off. Of course, as much as she gives denials at the start of that it doesn’t take long for her to change her mind and want a whole lot more out of him as she’s enjoying it a lot. That opening switch is something that’s standard in a strain of adult material to be sure and it’s something that works within a fantasy context with consenting partners but I’m always a bit wary of it being viewed as “instructional” by some readers.

The sex scenes themselves are pretty decent as we initially just get a whole lot of groping and additional messing around before Male Lead climaxes. The non-consensual aspects keeps it from being totally enjoyable but from a character design and execution with layouts it works very well. Once Wolf Girl gets into things and starts getting more demanding she ends up unleashing the Male Lead in a straightforward way as he gets aggressive, something she didn’t know that she’d actually like. The two click well in this form and while we do avoid the whole internals thing we do get some invisible penis material to give us a better view of it all. The insatiability factor plays well here with the wOlf Girl as she’s engaged in it all fully, which means our Male Lead shrinks to the background a bit, but the scenes are pretty hot considering her character design.

In Summary
Wolf Warning is a fairly standard piece of hentai manga in that it’s not going to be all that memorable. We do get some really nice character design material and some pretty solid sex scenes between the two main characters but it’s essentially the same as a drop-in porn scene as there’s no real story material, the setup is weak, and the non-consensual bits at the start threw it off for me pretty quickly. I’ll definitely check out more of Katame’s work in the future because of the artwork and in hope that some better story material comes with experience.

Content Grade: C
Art Grade: B+
Text/Translation Grade: B+

Age Rating: 18+
Released By: FAKKU
Release Date: June 2017
MSRP: FAKKU Subscription

To save a younger sister…

Creative Staff
Story/Art: Knuckle Curve
Translation/Adaptation: N/A

What They Say:
30 pages of slovenly, lustful festivities!

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Originally serialized in Comic X-Eros from the June 2017 installment with #55, Summer Scars is a thirty page story from creator Knuckle Curve, who has three other works on the service. This marked my first experience with this particular creator and it’s one that I’ll be somewhat wary of returning to. While the artwork is very good with some strong character designs and very enjoyable sex material, the story material itself is of the incest sort and that just doesn’t work well in this setting since it’s not playing coy with adoptive siblings or the like. It also doesn’t help that we get a fair bit of internals shown that just doesn’t do a thing for me, making it a bit less enjoyable on top of the other. This is almost the kind of story where you really don’t want to know what the text says.

The extended length story gets a decent bit of buildup to it as we get Misuzu calling her older brother Takashi who is in school in the big city. She’s revealing to him that she’s going to participate in the harvest festival/parade that the small town has every year and is wondering if he’s going to be there for it. The news that she is gets him to get there damn fast to try and stop it. While the public element of the festival is familiar material there’s also the private after festival event that ties into its past. It’s here that young women of the town that participate in the festival offer themselves up to various men that they might not get to be with otherwise, often mostly virginal young women. Suffice to say, Takashi doesn’t want Misuzu to do that so he’s intent on getting in there with a mask on like the other men and getting her out of there before anything happens.

Naturally, that plan doesn’t go at all as Misuzu, knowing he’s there in the mix, chooses him as she’s been dreaming about it for some time and essentially devours him. While he’s trying to get her out of there she’s got some creams that reduces his will a bit and the incense reinforces that. He knows what’s going on in full but can’t seem to resist (or say anything, the real out to this) and basically gets completely worked over by her before he can’t help it anymore and completely works her over. With the extended page count we get some good time here with the setup but it also makes for some unhurried progress in moving through the sex itself, though there are some pretty intense scenes where they’re really going at it. It’s all very well done and Misuzu fits a certain type for a lot of people with the small body and small breasts but it’s the incest part that’s going to be a big dealbreaker for many.

In Summary
Summer Scars presents a straightforward enough story that if it had worked it as an adoptive sibling I would have enjoyed more because that’s a different kind of taboo. But with it full on incest it just doesn’t work well and hits far too many creepy points throughout it with how Misuzu acts and Takashi’s inability to protect her from the other guys and from himself. Knuckle Curve’s artwork is very good, however, as there’s a lot to like with the flow of the panels, the presentation of very enthusiastic sex, and some great designs that are dynamic and fun. I’ll likely check out more of their work but I’ll be double checking the tags on them going forward…

Content Grade: D
Art Grade: B+
Text/Translation Grade: B+

Age Rating: 18+
Released By: FAKKU
Release Date: June 2017
MSRP: FAKKU Subscription

Going downtown takes on new meanings as the Sex Taxi continues to tour the city.

What They Say:
As the night falls, new opportunities arise. The sex taxi continues its malevolent stalking as it roams the night in search of new fares. The mysterious driver collects more unsuspecting women and adds them to his growing harem of sex slaves. Can the lovely ladies trapped by the sex taxi endure the humiliation and torture of its perverted clientele, or will they succumb to carnal pleasures of fetish and torture?

The Review:
Audio:
The audio presentation for this show brings us the original Japanese language track in stereo as well as the English language dub, both of which are encoded at 192kbps. The show is almost entirely dialogue based other than the sounds of the car coming and going and the music so there’s not exactly a lot to really go by here for directionality. The track is nice and clear though and we had no problems with it in regards to dropouts or distortions during regular playback.

Video:
Originally released in 2002 and 2003, the second set of two OVAs in the series are presented here in their original full frame format. The transfer, in general, looks beautiful with its lush colors and fluid animation sequences but some problems do crop up. During several panning sequences you can see some rather visible cross coloration getting into the tight line work and some aliasing occurs during similar pans up and down. Barring that, which isn’t all that distracting from the bulk of the show, the transfer looks really good and is a pleaser in general.

Packaging:
Going heavily with the taxi theme, we get Yuki in the back seat of the taxi wearing her cheerleader’s outfit while the taxi driver, covered by the logo, gets down to business between her legs. Much like the first volume, the artwork looks really good here, especially with the colors. The logo used for it also works really well with the heavy pink emphasis mixed in the black and white checkerboard standard. The back cover is very heavy on the yellow with a summary and a few pictures across it while a black and white checkerboard along the left brings in various character facial shots. The discs features and technical information is all nice and clearly listed. The insert takes the layout of the back cover and adds in the logo from the front as well as the chapter stops.

Menu:
The menu uses a variant of the front cover by taking Satsuki and putting an actual taxi around her so she’s a bit more obscured by the frosty window. The selections are lined up along the window at an angle and some of the instrumental music from the end sequence plays along to it. Access times are nice and fast and the layout easy to navigate. The disc also properly read our players presets for language.

Extras:
None.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
With the first volume of Sex Taxi, we were surprised at how much of a fun title it was based on the kinds of sex and the general idea behind it. Typically it’s not material we’re terribly keen on but the execution of it here in addition to the great character designs made it work better than the average stuff.

With two more episodes, the plot doesn’t really change much but there are some small movements with some of the characters that are roaming about the show that indicate that the next volume may bring this to a conclusion as the number of missing girls is only increasing and the police are going to start really paying attention. Each of the episodes here opens with an unrelated sex scene, at least so far I’d say, that shows just what kind of things can go on in a taxi cab since nobody pays attention to the driver. It’s a nice prologue that sets each episode well as you get right into some of the basic sex from the start and then it shifts into the actual plot of the episode.

Each episode focuses on one new girl but the girls he’s got trapped are kept in play as well. The first episode here brings in a new girl named Misaki who on the swim team and is trying to secure a place in the upcoming competitions. Her boyfriend is convinced of a few ways to do that which are a bit underhanded, such as photographing the coach of one her opponents with the swimmer to indicate some sort of tryst. Misaki and her boyfriend are pretty hot and heavy and fool around quite a lot, but with the Driver hearing of the plan, he makes his own plans to take advantage of it. While Misaki has doubts about what she’s going to do, the Driver takes advantage of it and her. Misaki’s character is really quite attractive, and it’s not just the green hair!

The other episode has him focusing on a cheerleader, Yuki, who as he learns is tied up into some nasty problems with her parents having faulted on a loan or some such. In order to help them make money, she’s been taking pictures of her teammates naked in the changing rooms and auctioning them on the internet and meeting the guys to give them the pictures, which brings her into contact with the Driver since he takes her to one of these meetings. This gives him plenty of leverage when he figures out the details and starts taking her for another ride and she falls into his grasp as well.

The girls from the first two episodes aren’t forgotten either. In fact, not only does the Driver take the twins out for a drive and lets them be part of an orgy in a park, he brings Satsuki into the room where Rena and Sena are kept, letting them all figure out that he’s been working over other girls and not just them. This turns into one of the best scenes of the series so far as the Driver lays down the rules as always and has the twins taking Satsuki against her will. Once they’re all ready and excited, he gets into the action himself with all three lined up against a low table. All three of the girl’s designs here are very attractive and detailed and I’ll say that the actresses did a great job in both languages. A lot of recent hentai releases have really gotten better with the performances and have become less wooden and more emphatic, resulting in far better performances. Sex Taxi 2 includes a couple of really good performances.

In Summary:
Though there’s a very short scat scene that’s extremely tame compared to what we’ve seen elsewhere and there’s a de-virgining going on in another scene, the sex throughout here is quite good, the characters are well detailed and animated and the plot keeps things rolling along at a good pace. While it’s a dark show by its nature, it isn’t so incredibly oppressive or violent that you get the creepy feeling watching it. It isn’t sunshine and lollipops mind you but what we have here is some good hentai.

Features
Japanese 2.0 Language, English 2.0 Language, English Subtitles

Content Grade: B
Audio Grade: B+
Video Grade: B+
Packaging Grade: A-
Menu Grade: B
Extras Grade: N/A

Released By: Kitty Media
Release Date: November 30th, 2004
MSRP: $29.95
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Video Encoding: 480i/p MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

With one last episode to bring it all to a close, the Sex Taxi makes its final rounds.

What They Say:
There is new prey this time around. One is a young proprietress named Kyoko of a Japanese restaurant, and the other is a cute nurse named Nanami. There’s something about their bodies that excites the men. All the materials have been gathered to blackmail them. They’ll end up being nothing but toys from here on.

The Review:
Audio:
The audio presentation for this show brings us the original Japanese language track in stereo as well as the English language dub, both of which are encoded at 192kbps. The show is almost entirely dialogue based other than the sounds of the car coming and going and the music so there’s not exactly a lot to really go by here for directionality. The track is nice and clear though and we had no problems with it in regards to dropouts or distortions during regular playback.

Video:
Originally released in 2004, the final OVA in the series is presented here in their original full frame format. The transfer in general looks beautiful with its lush colors and fluid animation sequences but some problems do crop up. During several panning sequences you can see some rather visible cross coloration getting into the tight line work and some aliasing occurs during similar pans up and down. Barring that, which isn’t all that distracting from the bulk of the show, the transfer looks really good and is a pleaser in general.

Packaging:
Going heavily with the taxi theme, the front cover has a great shot of the nurse being laid out in the back seat so you can see out her window as she’s been tied up to the ceiling, leaving her legs open and exposed. Like the previous volumes, the layout is just right and the logo and its design is perfect. The back cover is very heavy on the purple with a summary and a few pictures across it while a black and white checkerboard along the left brings in various character facial shots. The discs features and technical information is all nice and clearly listed. The insert takes the layout of the back cover and adds in the logo from the front as well as the chapter stops.

This final volume of the series is released a bit differently than usual in that it comes with a “slot pack” as they call it. This is basically a very thin paper cardboard art box that will hold all three volumes of the series. Each of the sides has artwork from the previous volumes but surprisingly nothing from this volume itself really. It uses the same designs and layouts and really looks great, making me wish that they had charged a bit extra and made it a full on chipboard type. This is in the category of “it’s the thought that counts” though and it’s certainly not a bad inclusion.

Menu:
The menu uses a variant of the front cover by taking the nurse and putting an actual taxi around her so she’s a bit more obscured by the frosty window. The selections are lined up along the window at an angle and some of the instrumental music from the end sequence plays along to it. Access times are nice and fast and the layout easy to navigate. The disc also properly read our players presets for language.

Extras:
None.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Watching the last episode of Sex Taxi is admittedly a bit awkward. It had been two years since the second volume came out and this one wraps everything up. So unless you have a great memory for these shows, a lot of it may not come back all that quickly. Thankfully, I’d actually enjoyed the first couple of releases and the visual of a pink taxi is something that doesn’t exactly stray too far from mind when you see it again.

Being that there is only one episode here and it’s a closing one, there isn’t all that much to it in terms of a real plot or storyline. As we’ve seen in the past episodes, our favorite driver has brought an interesting collection of women to the abandoned building and has made great use of them, both for himself and for others. He’s still got a great thing going and after a recent pickup of a doctor and a nurse, he’s found himself his next target. The doctor has been conspiring against a particular patient in order to receive his wealth and has convinced the nurse to go along with him, but she’s resistant. And as we’ve seen in previous episodes, people do all kinds of things when they don’t believe a taxi driver is really paying attention. With the knowledge he now has, he’s able to pick up the nurse and blackmail her into his clutches. The young woman is the epitome of the fanservice nurse and one who really gets taken advantage of here.

The driver also has another woman, a young restaurant owner, who he snatches up after catching wind that she’s been servicing a popular musician after his concerts in secret. Since this would not only ruin his career but drive her business out completely, she falls into his clutches all too easily. For her though, this isn’t as bad as it was for the others because his entire operation starts to crumble under its own weight and the sneakiness of the young girls he captured some time ago. The restaurant owner is a nice way to close things out though as she brings something of a “classic charm” to her scenes and like the nurse they’re well done and quite enjoyable.

Like the previous installments, the animation here continues to look really good and the sex itself is just a lot of fun, even if it is in the dominated and non-consensual/blackmailed manner. The designs have a very clean look and the colors are just great overall. Unlike a lot of other shows we’ve seen lately, this one avoided looking soft at all and was just a solid piece overall.

In Summary:
The downside of adult series is that you can never be quite sure when you buy into one early on whether they’ll ever really make more of it. Sex Taxi had a good set of four episodes come out during 2002 and 2003 that we saw licensed in 2004 but it wasn’t until close to the second volume being released that they cranked out another one in Japan. That left us sitting here for two years without the finishing episode. And single episodes aren’t the easiest thing to market. Thankfully, Kitty did it right by providing it on the cheap and with an art box to hold it all as well as offering the entire series as a whole for others who didn’t check it out back then. While there are a couple of elements that crop up in the series that aren’t exactly my favorite, Sex Taxi overall is a surprisingly enjoyable dark little show with solid animation, great designs and some fun sex. It’s definitely a recommendation in total.

Features:
Japanese 2.0 Language, English 2.0 Language, English Subitltes

Content Grade: B-
Audio Grade: B+
Video Grade: B+
Packaging Grade: A-
Menu Grade: B
Extras Grade: N/A

Released By: Kitty Media
Release Date: October 10th, 2006
MSRP: $24.95
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Video Encoding: 480i/p MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

The folks at FAKKU made some pretty sweet hentai manga announcements last night. First, the publisher has picked up five new books that will be coming out in both print and digital form that you can find more details about below. There are some really great titles in the mix and for those that love hentai and all its varied material, this is definitely a whole lot of excellent news that supports the original creators.

Honey Pot Style will arrive this month in print and digital as well as Let Your Smile Bloom. The School Love Net title will arriving in the 3rd quarter of 2017 in digital form and 2018 in print while Konna Karada de li no Nara will arrive in the fourth quarter of 2017 with a digital release and a 2017 print release. Finally, Futabu Mix will land in the first quarter of 2018 in both print and digital form. There’s also an untitled MEME50 book on the way in 2018.

While books get a lot of attention, FAKKU announced a bit more than that as well.  The company got things undewray in 2015 with a couple of magazines and then added two more in 2016 and is now set to add three more:

• Comic Bavel – “Comic Bavel is the first magazine from our new publishing partner Bunendo. It’s a monthly magazine that size-wise lands somewhere in-between our current magazines with around 350 pages and 20 chapters each month. Here’s a summary of some of the recent contributing artists as well as some sample images.”
• Comic Europa – “Comic Europa is a sister magazine to Bavel. Much like how Shitsurakuten started out as a sporadically released bonus issue to Kairakuten which later grew into its own monthly title, this is a fairly new bonus magazine from the same publisher. It currently comes out every other month, and each issue is around 130 pages long.”
• Girls forM – “Finally, we have our first ever themed magazine: Girls forM. Akaneshinsha is a publisher known for releasing a large number of themed magazines, and this one is all about femdom. It covers a very wide spectrum, and you can expect to see everything from fairly mild domination to some quite extreme content. If you’re a fan of Dibi’s stories in X-Eros, wait until you see what they can get away with in this magazine!”

Check out the NSFW visuals for all of these here.

Honey Pot Style: E-Musu Aki is one of the most active contributors to our magazines, with their curvaceous madams appearing in both Kairakuten and X-Eros. Because of this, we chose to wait a little so we could bring you the latest title from the artist. This long-overdue release contains over 30 color pages and almost 200 more in black and white, so we hope you look forward to picking up this book when we start pre-orders for it in the very near future!

Let Your Smile Bloom: Let Your Smile Bloom was one of the first series we published on Fakku back with X-Eros #34, and unfortunately, we just missed out on the first chapter (from X-Eros #28). That said, you’re now finally able to enjoy the full experience as we bring you the latest book from Akinosora! Let Your Smile Bloom (the book) naturally includes the previously missing chapter one, revised versions of all the other chapters, along with the standalone Bougainvillea story.

School Love Net: After spending two years grinding our way through the individual chapters, we’re finally geared up to take on the ultimate end-game content! School Love Netby Koume Keito is a full-color compilation of the popular series with the same name. The book contains all 15 parts of the main series (four of which that were never available on here before), a prologue and an epilogue, as well as two bonus chapters. Of course, this day one DLC is included for free!

Konna Karada de Ii no Nara: More monster girls is one of the most common requests we get, but as I’ve mentioned in the past, there’s only a handful of artists out there who draw this sort of content commercially. Nevertheless, we reached out to one of those artists, and we can now announce that we’re bringing you the latest title from Z-Ton!

This is the artist’s debut work, and centaurs are the main attraction here, with a series that spans the first half of the book. After that there’s a bunch of oneshots with various monster girls, like a sheep, bat, mermaid, oni, and many more. The book also serves as a bit of an encyclopedia, and between many of the chapters are pages packed with information and in-depth analyses of the different races and creatures that appear throughout the book. We’re sure even the most ardent monster girl enthusiast can learn a thing or two from this educational piece of art!

Futabu! Mix: When we brought Bosshi to Anime Expo 2015, one topic that was brought up again and again was their popular doujinshi series Futabu. We would’ve loved to work on it back then, but it was beyond our reach at the time, seeing how we had yet to establish a relationship with the publisher, Akaneshinsha.

Earlier today we announced that we’re adding our first magazine from this publisher, Girls forM, to our subscription lineup, and one of our first requests after that was for the compilation Futabu! Mix. Bosshi happily agreed to let us publish it in English, and at long last this highly-requested title is coming to the West!

You’ll have to wait a little longer to get your hands on it though, but I can assure you the wait will be worth it! It’s currently scheduled for release in early 2018.

After plenty of abuse from a department of women in the school, the lone man begins a journey of revenge.

What They Say
As the only male professor in his department, Jyotaro is constantly under fire from Kyoko, Miki, Mayumi, Kaori and Rui. These five gorgeous female teachers are known for being untouchable and unreachable. But when one of Jyotaro’s students, Marimo, stays late for some extra credit, Jyotaro gains a partner in crime. Together, they hunt each teacher one at a time, digging up each one’s dirtiest fantasies and bringing them to life!

The Review:
Audio:
The audio presentation for this release brings us the original Japanese language track in stereo along with an English language dub, both of which are encoded at 192kbps. The shows stereo mix is pretty standard with most of the dialogue being done through the center channel and having a full feeling. There are of course a few moments of directionality as characters are off to particular sides of the screen but overall it’s not the kind of track you really expect much from. Dialogue is good on both language tracks though and we had no problems with dropouts or distortions during regular playback.

Video:
Originally released in 2004, the transfer for this two part OVA series is presented in its original full frame aspect ratio. The series has some very bright and vibrant looking animation which comes across well here and essentially problem free as not even cross coloration shows up here for the most part. Some of the flesh tones in a few scenes, usually during a brief panning sequences, has a bit of fuzziness around it but it’s brief and not all that noticeable. Colors in general are very solid looking and have a good sense of depth to them. The transfer is overall very good looking and captures the animation well.

Packaging:
The cover artwork for this release is rather simple with just a close-up shot of one of the teachers and a student in an embrace as they fondle each other with a minimal background. The character designs for it look good and since it has them both blushing it gives off that light air of innocence to it as well that may entice some. The shows logo along the bottom does a cute job of being written in chalk style along a green chalkboard and lightly covering up some of the nudity. The back cover provides a bit more green for the show’s summary and then gives over the rest of the cover to shots from the show and some large clips of some of the sex scenes. The summary ids decent and the cover does a good job of showing off the art style while still including a good technical grid and the production info. No insert or reversible cover is included with this release.

Menu:
The menu is a very basic piece that has one of the still images of one of the teachers half undressed with a vibrator inside her along the left side while the right has the logo and menu selections written in chalk as the background is your basic chalkboard green. There’s a bit of instrumental music playing along and the navigation is quick and easy to use but it has the feeling of being a very simple job as it looks like there wasn’t much high-quality artwork around for this title. Access times are nice and fast and the player correctly read our players’ language presets for the audio but not for the subtitles as the full subtitle track is the second English listed track.

Extras:
None.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Sextra Credit is a fun little sex revenge title that feels a bit like it’s turning the tables on the people who are involved. Often it’s a male teacher with numerous female students and a female teacher who may find out but for this show, the male teacher is doing something just a bit different in order to have his revenge.

The show revolves around the only male professor in his department, a fairly good looking young man named Jyotaro. His time in the department has been problematic as every other teacher is a woman and they constantly give him grief about everything. At times he’s just so completely emasculated that he can’t even formulate a response. Believing that one of the girls in his class is a snitch who is telling them stories, he tracks her down in the park at night while wearing a mask and hides her away to have his way with her, deflowering her bloodily in the process. It turns out though that the girl, Marimo, wasn’t actually a snitch and she’s rather enamored with Jyotaro even after he rapes her. Knowing what he’s going through with the other teacher’s she’s sympathetic to him and offers to help him get his revenge.

Using Marimo, Jyotaro has her figure out different secrets that each of the teachers have and use them to their advantage to take control of them. One of them, for example, wants to be a stewardess but failed that class so she teaches instead. She’s not a great teacher though and spends a lot of her time in class in the bathroom bringing herself off to thoughts of being fondled by an airline captain. Marimo is able to capture evidence of this and use that to blackmail her into doing Jyotaro’s bidding. Another pair of teachers is particularly perverse in that they catch one student with a skin magazine and sentence him to detention. The detention is private though and he’s forced to strip down to nothing and watch the two female teachers make out. Jyotaro lucks out and actually films that one with a video camera and he’s able to bring the student into play by letting him have revenge on the teachers by actually having sex with them.

Jyotaro and Marimo work their way through the five teachers in different ways and with the help of others at times that works well to keep the show in its two episodes pretty fresh and with a good looking cast of characters. Unlike some shows that keep it down to just a couple of characters and nothing more, Sextra Credit provides some good variety and different situations, most non-consensual, that will surely provide some amount of enjoyment for most anyone that enjoys this kind of material. The character designs are fairly average in that they’re good looking and are just a hair or two above standard designs but combined with the color style and the decent animation it looks good throughout and is fairly entertaining at times. The only problem with this release that comes into play is if you’re listening to it in the English adaptation. Like many other recent releases from the Kitty label, this one is basically on giant dub outtake as the dialogue wildly differs throughout the majority of the show. The plot remains but so many basic lines not involving sexual situations are completely different. There’s even a line that I think almost goes too far by bringing Abu Ghraib into the show.

In Summary:
Though it’s a bit nasty in a few areas, but at least avoids the waterworks, Sextra Credit is a fun little title that’s self-contained in its two episodes. Being more of a teacher versus teacher event with a couple of students being dragged into it, the dynamic feels a bit different than it would otherwise. The designs are good, the animation is solid and the sexual encounters are varied in tone and style. Since it’s all non-consensual that will keep a number of folks away but if you don’t mind that you might find some good material here to enjoy.

Features
Japanese 2.0 Language, English 2.0 Language, English Subtitles

Content Grade: B-
Audio Grade: B+
Video Grade: B+
Packaging Grade: B
Menu Grade: C+
Extras Grade: N/A

Released By: Kitty Media
Release Date: January 17th, 2006
MSRP: $29.98
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Video Encoding: 480i/p MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

One of the crudest phrases I’ve ever heard in life was years ago with, “Rape is great but incest is best.” It’s amazing how much adult anime revolves around these two basic ideas.

What They Say:
Yuji just got himself a new board game and he can’t wait to play. What Yuji doesn’t know is that the game possesses secret powers – sexual powers, to be precise. He and his stepmother decide to give it a try. The game requires drawing cards from a deck that have sexual instructions on them. Though it starts out innocently enough, Yuji soon experiences sexual feelings for his opponent. As the game progresses and the sexual tension escalates, it culminates in a sexual free-for-all with his stepmother and stepsister.

The Review:
Audio:
The audio presentation for this release brings us the original Japanese language track in stereo along with the English language dub, both of which are done up at 192kbps for the encoding. And just like most adult shows, it isn’t one that really has that much of a workout to it as it’s a pretty center channel based mix that doesn’t utilize anything in the way of depth or directionality. With little music to the show, there’s only some basic train background noise at times beyond the dialogue and sex sounds themselves so the mix suits it well enough. Dialogue is clean and clear throughout and we had no problems with dropouts or distortions during regular playback.

Video:
Originally released in late 2007, the transfer for this two episode OVA series is presented in its original full frame aspect ratio. Kitty has done a good job with this release as the bitrate pretty much sits in the mid sevens and peaks into the high eights throughout. The result is a release that is minimal on noise and generally free of issues outside of some light aliasing during various panning sequences. Colors are bold and solid and there’s little to really find fault with. It’s not a standout piece of work with the animation so it doesn’t really shine, but it’s a very solid release with no noticeable issues to it.

Packaging:
Practically begging for a lawsuit, the cover art for this is priceless as it features the two women of the series surrounded by a series of cards floating by done in the classic Trivial Pursuit style. The text on the cards, from what can be read, fits in theme with the show as well and even the logo utilizes the proper playing piece for the X in Sexual. The character artwork is very detailed and gorgeous as well which only makes this a strong looking title on any shelf. The back cover plays up the same elements a bit more with the cards floating around and the basic board layout as well which is done up with shots from the show that don’t show any full nudity but with plenty of obscured bits. The summary covers the basics of the plot, what little there is, in a cute enough way. The remainder is given over to the standard production credits and the technical grid which covers everything in detail.

Menu:
The menu design takes its cue from the Trivial Pursuit game quite bluntly and not the actual game board from the show itself. The main strip down the center with the multiple colors actually contains the navigation elements which work really well alongside the pulse pounding music that runs through the minute long loop. The menu doesn’t have much to it for navigation since it’s just the show, scenes and languages outside of a few trailers for other shows. The menu does look quite good though even if it does fail on the basic language presets as is the norm for Kitty releases since the sign/song subtitle track is the first English language subtitle track.

Extras:
None.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Sexual Pursuit, originally known as Soukan Yuugi or Adultery Game, is a two part OVA series with a very simple premise: A board game makes people have sex. Now there’s a franchise that any company can take to the bank. The show starts off quite strongly, even with a little bit of scat thrown in, but ends up falling apart in the second half by actually avoiding use of the board game for the majority of it. A sin!

The show revolves primarily around three characters. We’re introduced to the somewhat shy and quiet Yuji who has a bit of a mother complex going on, though one that’s more geared towards just general affection than anything else truly serious. He comes home one day with a special board game that he was given by a stranger on the street who was promoting it as something that everyone should try. Dice games are quite outdated at this point in time so it’s sort of frowned upon in general, and even his slightly older stepmother finds it to be that way. When she sees him with it, she doesn’t have any real desire to play but gives in to his request and sits down to play with him. It’s all quite simple as you roll the dice, move the spaces and draw a card if you land on a red square on your journey to the end of the path. Where it goes amiss is that the cards all contain various levels of sexual things to do, from embracing someone, kissing someone or performing oral sex on them. They don’t realize this until they actually start playing the game and are a bit aghast by it. Aoi more so than Yuji since he can’t read most of the writing on the cards.

What makes all of this a problem is that one the cards are drawn, or the game even started, the players are compelled to see it through to the end. Aoi tries to resist the kissing part of it while enjoying the embrace. When she takes a card to strip, she’s able to verbally say she doesn’t want him to watch, but she is compelled to undress. It all goes downhill quickly from there and before you know it the two of them are going at it for the bulk of the episode. Yuji lucks out by getting a card that deals with “continual ejaculation” which keeps his performance up quite well for a first timer who is doing his stepmom.

The second episode unfortunately is a lot weaker overall than the first episode which plays up the relationship between Aoi and Yuji quite well while putting them through awkward sexual situations that both come to enjoy a lot. The third character in the show is Yuji’s sister Yuri, a very attractive slightly older blonde in a sailor suit who picks on her brother constantly. She’s not necessarily mean about it, but she’s established some dominance considering how weak he is. She finds herself having dreams about her brother and her mother, which is basically her seeing what happened in their game, which has her angry and confused but also incredibly aroused. She doesn’t know how to deal with these feelings and is even more angry when she discovers the adult game and confronts him about it. The cards only play into their encounter a little as she’s forced to masturbate in front of him. After that it’s all consensual on their part, at least partially since she forces him to wear her bra and panties.

The first episode runs through some good situations for Aoi and Yuji as he loses his virginity to her, has his first real kiss and experiences a boob job. There is a bit of scat introduced into it early on as Yuji can’t help himself and has to urinate in the heat of the moment. The scat also shows up in the second episode where Yuri gets herself off in the shower and does the same there. The first episode has a much better scene overall as it lasts throughout the bulk of the episode. The second episode unfortunately plays recap for the first few minutes by having Yuri see what happened in the first episode via a dream sequence. Some of it is pure recap while others has her seeing what happened from a different point of view. The lack of the game usage in the second episode is a real downer since it could have made their pairing a lot more intense instead of the weak scene that it became.

In Summary:
Sexual Pursuit is a lot of fun overall even if things do sputter in the second episode. The show has a fun concept that sadly isn’t used all that much since it can put a fun spin on things, both consensual and non consensual. The show overall has some good animation to it but nothing that stands out as too strong or memorable. It’s a bit better than competent and its visual design overall is fairly standard but it all fits in with the setting of the show. Sexual Pursuit isn’t a real standout show but it’s one that you get in and find yourself enjoying more than you would have expected and coming away feeling good about. While it may not be up to the needs of the hardcore adult anime fan who needs the boundaries pushed, this is one that’s good for relatively new viewers and those who are making their way around the block and is an easy recommendation.

Features:
Japanese 2.0 Language, English 2.0 Language, English Subtitles

Content Grade: B
Audio Grade: B+
Video Grade: B+
Packaging Grade: A
Menu Grade: B
Extras Grade: N/A

Released By: Kitty Media
Release Date: May 6th, 2008
MSRP: $29.99
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Video Encoding: 480i/p MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

It’s back to the past as Kitty brings out another NuTech Entertainment license rescue to please its hardcore audience.

What They Say
At a prestigious music academy, famous daughters of respectable families reside in the girls’ dormitory. But their lives are about to take a turn for the worse. The dormitory has a new manager, a letch named Shusaku. And he has plans for these girls — disgraceful, humiliating plans. The girls‘ screams echo throughout the dormitory halls as Shusaku forces the girls to submit to his fiendish fetishes. For Shusaku, breaking their will is only the beginning. Where it ends, one dares not dream.

The Review:
Audio:
Retaining its original Japanese track as well as the original English language dub that was done, both tracks are presented in their original stereo form at 192kbps. Being as old as they are now and the kind of material it is, it’s little surprise that they’re pretty basic stereo pieces that are more center channel based than anything else. With it being dialogue and vocal driven outside of a few musical cues here and there, it serves the material well enough without getting the way or standing out. Dialogue is clean and clear throughout and we had no problems with dropouts or distortions during regular playback.

Video:
Originally released in 1999, the transfer for this three part OVA series is presented in its original full frame aspect ratio. When these were originally released by NuTech Entertainment, it was one episode per volume with a decent bitrate to it but there were still issues with it. Those issues are still here though they feel less pronounced due to the changes in hardware and setups since then. The cross coloration issue in the source material is still strong but not as strong as it was back then, leading to a more appealing experience overall. The cross coloration really remains as the only issue and it is still a problem, but it doesn’t detract quite so strongly. Colors in general look good with some very nice vibrant scenes here and there and a solid looking experience in general with only some mild noise in a few backgrounds. The upgrade to having all three episodes on one disc alone is worthwhile.

Packaging:
While the original release was a three disc set in a flimsy box, Kitty does it up right here with a dark and evil looking cover with lots of black. The logo, at an angle, provides a good balancing point as the top portion features a close-up of Kato’s face and the ominous image of his shadowed form in a doorway. Below the logo is the attractive image of two of the girls in their uniforms in positions that hint at some fun without actually showing anything really naughty. The designs look much more up to date than they do in the show which certainly helps to sell it. The back cover continues to use a heavy amount of black for shadows which works well as the character artwork is bright and clean. One large character shot offsets the text and there are a few revealing pictures through the center as well. The summary covers the basics without much flourish and the remainder is given over to the production and technical information. This is a rare case where orange text actually works for a release. No insert is included nor is there a reversible cover.

Menu:
The menu design for the release is pretty straightforward as it features the artwork from the cover of Kato and Kaori but zoomed in a bit and with more visible detail and color vibrancy. With a light bit of music to it that works well to set the ominous mood, the menu works well in covering what it needs to do while not showing anything really naughty. The menu navigation is simple and I like the addition of the play the movie now feature in the language selection section. With nothing else on the disc besides the show and a few trailers, it’s easy to move around and is problem free. Access times are nice and fast but the disc defaulted to English language with sign/song subtitles.

Extras:
None.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)

Part of the original launch slate from NuTech Entertainment, the Shusaku series finally gets some of the treatment it deserves by coming out on just one disc. This happens after Kitty Media has released a few other Shusaku series in the last few years which in turn lets them finally get the entire brand under their label. For fans of the show, this is definitely a good thing. This series got its claim to fame when several famous voice actresses participated in the dubbing which really didn’t add a whole lot to it but made it easy to market to adult stores. That may have helped the market some for awhile and got hentai into more stores but it didn’t help the show itself. Honestly, if I wanted to hear Asia Carrera climax, I’d watch one of her movies.

Shusaku’s a bit of an odd story, something of a sort that’s not been released here in the past to my knowledge. Each disc contains one episode running about 27 minutes or so, and while there is something of a plot, and it does run through all three episodes, there’s little resolution to it. But really, hentai like this isn’t about the plot. The show takes place in a small all-girls school somewhere. It’s a very strict school with lots of rules, such as white panties only. This particular rule seems to cause the most trouble, and it’s understandable. Realistically, very few women wear only (if any) white panties. These young girls are trying to express their individuality, but find themselves being denied due to the school rules.

The school matron/teacher is the one that catches most of the girls, especially past curfew, and gives them grief over it. She’s somewhat sympathetic at times, but she’s a stickler for rules. And in the end, the rules are set by Kato Shusaku, the man in charge of the Shusaku Music Academy they all attend. And his rules are the law in essence. But like any good schoolmaster, Kato Shusaku has a secret. One he uses on each of the girls. One by one, he uses stealth photography and catches them doing things that they shouldn’t be doing, mostly naughty in nature. He uses these instances to get the girls to succumb to his desires and then makes them turn one of their friends into him for more of the same, indicating he won’t use the photographs. He also makes sure he videotapes each session, and uses that to coerce more from each of them, and shows the other girls the various sessions to his advantage. His big thrill though is to catch them all tinkling on tape.

Frankly, it’s a fetish I just don’t get. And even more frankly, I don’t want to get. And now some seven years after seeing this originally, I still don’t find it appealing in the slightest. I’ve been exposed to more of it in the years since but that just doesn’t do anything for me.

What’s surprising about the Shusaku series is that while it’s very explicit verbally, in the characters telling each other how they feel and what they want, it’s not all that explicit visually. You get the usual shots of the T&A; unclothed, but none of the usual penetration stuff, things that are usually done “creatively” to avoid censoring. This show just doesn’t have it, so it makes it a bit less offensive at times.

So how are the English voice actresses? Well, this is where part of my problem with this release comes into. There are no translated credits anywhere nor are there any English production credits anywhere. I’ve no idea who played what character in either language, or who did the work on the English production side. And while I’m certainly a fan of Asia Carerra, I have to admit I’m not good enough to pick her out of this production. But for the most part the dialogue was decent if a bit stilted at times to match mouth flaps, and the English language version isn’t outrageously different from the Japanese. If anything, it’s just a few bits dirtier than the subtitle script. But honestly, I’d love to know who played who in the English cast here so I can give proper kudos, as some did quite good.

In Summary:
Kitty’s release of this series is definitely the best deal out there. When it first came out in 2001, you could get the singles for $30 a pop or the box set for $60. Now you can get it for $30 list and a fair bit cheaper through discounts and the like and still not take up anywhere near as much space as the original release. Kitty didn’t change much here beyond dressing it up a bit in the packaging and menus and probably cleaning up the subtitles a bit here and there. Shusaku is still a show whose appeal is minimal for me and that hasn’t changed over the years. The animation improves over the course of the three episodes and there are a fair number of girls who are given over to Kato and his devious plans. At this point Shusaku feels quaint after taking in the various sequels, especially the ones that only Kitty released. From a completionists standpoint, this is a no brainer especially if you like rewatching it. Avoiding the nasty disc swap alone merits an upgrade if you’re a fan, as does the slightly improved video quality.

Features
Japanese 2.0 Language, English 2.0 Language, English Subtitles

Content Grade: C+
Audio Grade: B+
Video Grade: B
Packaging Grade: B+
Menu Grade: B
Extras Grade: N/A

Released By: Kitty Media
Release Date: February 5th, 2008
MSRP: $29.99
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Video Encoding: 480i/p MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

Creepy old men back research that makes people hornier than dogs in heat in an interesting hospital of all male patients.

What They Say:
There is a strange epidemic running rampant at the local inpatient hospital. For some reason every night the nurses are feeling an uncontrollable urge. They have no choice but to satisfy it with the patients, the doctors, and even each other. The new resident doctor has his own itch to scratch, as well as a suspicion that someone is behind this impromptu sex ring.

The Review:
Audio:
The audio presentation for this release brings us the original Japanese language track in stereo along with the English language dub, both of which are encoded at 192kbps. The stereo mix for the show is fairly standard adult fare which is that it’s mostly center channel based or full sounding outside of a few areas and the music score. It’s a decent mix overall but nothing terribly outstanding but serviceable. Dialogue is clean and clear throughout and we had no problems with dropouts or distortions on either language track.

Video:
Originally released between 2001 and 2003, the transfer for this three episode OVA series is presented in its original full frame aspect ratio. The materials here look good overall though a lot of the sex scenes seem overly bright, but it appears to be the way it was filmed. Other than that area, the transfer is good looking throughout with solid backgrounds, hardly any cross coloration and only a few areas of noticeable dot crawl. The colors look good throughout and maintain a solid feel, particularly in some of the darker grimy backgrounds but also in the bold sections of color in the characters.

Packaging:
Slave Nurses features one of the girls tied up lightly with just her skirt on her while someone is pouring liquid on them from off camera. With a very dark background, the bright colors of the character’s skin and hair stand out nicely and the mild look of fear in her face lets you know exactly what kind of title this is as if the Slave wording didn’t. The back cover provides a number of character shots and shots from the show together above a brief couple of sentence summary of the premise. The discs production and technical information round out the rest of the cover which is pretty minimal overall. No insert is included in this release.

Menu:
Using the character artwork from the front and back cover, the main menu is a simple static piece with a bit of instrumental music playing along in a decent loop. There’s not a lot here and it’s a pretty basic looking cover that’s decent but unmemorable. Access times are nice and fast and the navigation layout is easy to use. The disc correctly read our players’ language preset and played it accordingly.

Extras:
None.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
If there’s a fetish other than maids that’s definitely worn itself out in the last couple of years from overexposure it’s the nurse category. Slave Nurses thankfully manages to avoid some of the norms of this particular arena but it still falls heavily into others. With three episodes for it, however, it’s able to provide a number of decent sex scenes, something of an actual plot and good looking animation throughout.

The story follows a young man named Yosuke who is taking a part-time job as a male nurse of sorts in a hospital that’s located quite out of the way; when they show an aerial shot of the place it’s reminiscent of those laboratories that are hidden deep in the mountains and there’s no easy access for miles around. The complex is filled with elderly men that are under care there but the staff is entirely female. The manager of the place, an older woman named Saeko, has decided that to help the patients deal with problems that they don’t want to discuss with women is to bring in a male nurse that they can talk to. Enter Yosuke for his month-long gig there.

Yosuke’s arrival goes over fairly well though it doesn’t seem like many if any of the men have anything to discuss with him about their problems. Yosuke ends up wandering around the hospital more with the other nurses who work there, which is mostly made up of part timers that are young women but they live on site. He gets along well enough with all of them and at least one of them, Haruka, has a slight crush on him and tries to help him as much as possible. All goes fairly well during the day but come night is when things start to unravel. Though most don’t seem to realize it, a special music is pumped into the speakers that go into a lot of the rooms and it’s actually causing the people within to react to it.

Yosuke finds himself having very strong erotic dreams while the girls tend to find themselves unable to stop touching themselves. There’s one sequence where one of the younger girls, Miruku, is spending the night there instead of going home and sleeps in Haruka’s room. The introduction of the music just lets her give up all her inhibitions and she simply starts going down on Haruka and seducing her pretty quickly, not that Haruka isn’t willing after some feeble denials. The music continues to wear them down across the line. For his part, Yosuke finds that things are strange in this place even before that as his first night there he’s trying to cool off and Saeko shows up and invites him to her room for a drink, wanting the company of a younger man for once. This leads her to having her way with him and from there it all just keeps spiraling down night after night with different people until the secrets start to come out about the music and the plans behind the hospital.

Though the hook that’s revealed in the final episode is decent and it gives enough of a reason for things, it doesn’t make the fact that I had to watch more naked old bald men going doing on hot looking anime characters any easier. If there’s one thing I don’t want to see in my adult anime features it’s naked old men, particular the bald creepy ones. Or janitors. Or clowns either. The whole thing is just an excuse for a lot of sex scenes anyway and those, in general, are pretty good, outside of the feeling of their being brighter than they should be. The character designs for the girls are all fairly attractive if stereotypical; Saeko is the attractive older woman, Eri is the shy girl with glasses, Mikuru us the young looking one, Natsuki is the tomboy and Haruka is your standard anime female character. None of them really stand out or are memorable but they’re not bad to watch while the show is going on. The animation is mostly consistent throughout the three episodes though a few shortcuts can be seen here and there but it’s not a really bad looking bit overall.

In Summary:
While not the usual entry in either the slave or nurses category, Slave Nurses is a decent if forgettable three episode OVA series that has cute but standard designs and a meager enough plot that it’s easy enough to forgive it as it allows for everything to happen without being an eye-rolling type. There are some good sex scenes throughout and only a few that made me cringe, though they’re all well animated. It’s not a bad way to kill seventy-five minutes late at night but not something that has much repeat value unless you really like the designs.

Features:
Japanese 2.0 Language, English 2.0 Language, English Subtitles

Content Grade: C+
Audio Grade: B+
Video Grade: B
Packaging Grade: B
Menu Grade: B
Extras Grade: N/A

Released By: Kitty Media
Release Date: December 28th, 2004
MSRP: $29.98
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Video Encoding: 480i/p MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Sony PlayStation3 Blu-ray player via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.

Would you take advantage of a girl willing to help all the male students relieve studying stress with her sex appeal?

Creative Staff
Story & Art: F4U
Translation: Various

What They Say
For Curiosity XXXed the Cat we worked with the original source material directly from F4U before Japanese censorship was ever applied. This is the way the book was meant to be read.

The Review! (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Technical:
The front cover is a good example of F4U’s art style. It displays the mangaka’s ability to draw a variety of body types while generally having fun with the story and characters. One character on the cover is playful and fun while the other is a blatant tsundere. This mangaka through follows typical era-manga type art with high detailed male genitals and bland faces. However, there is much more humor involved with the male characters and scenes with SD than normally seen in hentai. All of this makes Curiosity XXXed the Cat a unique and fun read.

Content:
This book covers nine chapters with a few chapters having repeating characters. My favorite stories are “The Prodigy of Hensachi 15 Academy” and “The Summer of the Prodigy of Hensachi 15 Academy” starring Komaneki. In the first chapter, she is focused on making enough money to pay for a top tier cram school, so she starts the “Relief Club”. Basically, she has sex with her fellow students for money. But what makes her character so much fun is that she is really a nympho and loves sex. Not only that, but the various sex she has is widely varied and fun. Komaneki eventually gets the money she needs and starts the best cram school money can buy. But being a fan of sex, she quickly picks up where she left off and gets to know her fellow students intimately!

For fans of the tsundere girls, there are two chapters focused on this embodied in Misaki and the books main story. Misaki isn’t just a girl with a bad attitude, she’s also a punk. She and her friends entertain themselves and fill their pockets by picking on the nerds at school. But when the pick on a scrawny boy and force him to strip naked, Misaki suddenly finds herself conflicted. Normally she would have a laugh and leave, but something about this boy has her out of sorts and she needs to find out why. In awkward fashion, these two find themselves stumbling through foreplay and full on sex.

The rest of the book has a variety of stories ranging from every man’s fantasy of winning an absolute king game where all the boys are kicked to the curb and the girls have to do absolutely everything you order them to do. To a surprise story about a cuckold and another story about everyone getting it on with their old boyfriends and girlfriends at their 10-year high school reunion.

In Summary:
Curiosity XXXed the Cat covers nine chapters with some repeating characters that gives the book a semblance of continuity. I’m a big fan of era-manga books with continuity as i like to see some character growth. Being able to cheer on the same characters for multiple chapters is just more appealing to me than the more common anthology style hentai books with a different story and new characters in every chapter.

This book is a fun read with a variety of sex and funny scenarios. The book is focused mostly on high school kids having sex angle, but there are also some stories with older post-college. The funniest of the stories with older characters is the 10-year high school reunion story. This one is focused on a woman with no sex life with her husband, but attending the reunion by herself lets her relive her slutty youth with her old boyfriend. Entertaining stuff!

Content Grade: B+
Art Grade: B
Packaging Grade: N/A
Text/Translation Grade: A-

Age Rating: Adult
Released By: Fakku
Release Date: March 15, 2016
MSRP: $19.95

The thrills are multiplying!

Creative Staff
Story/Art: Raita

What They Say:
Let me guide you to a dream-like world. ❤

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Originally serialized in Comic Bavel from the June 2017 installment, Heartthrob Girls is a twenty page story from creator Raita, who has no other works on the service. This marked my first experience with this particular creator (and magazine) and it’s one that I can see myself returning to check out more of, though hopeful that some of the content elements aren’t revisited. Raita’s designs work toward the younger side, which isn’t a problem in itself, because what we’re getting here is kind of in the fantastical in a way that lets you move past that. The characters are definitely very well designed and each has a uniqueness about them that also comes across in their performance and the dialogue/enthusiasm so that you’re not just getting a whole lot of the same even though there are half a dozen different girls here.

The story revolves around a man whose wife took their son and left a few months earlier because he’s been such a corporate slave, working long hours and doing all the things he needs to in order to keep the job that pays the bills. He’s been lonely since and has spent much of his time drowning his sorrows but all of that changes when he comes across a young girl he names Shiro on a park bench at night that looks cold. He ends up being kind of parental here in taking her to his house, trying to warm her up with a good shower and a chance to eat, but what he discovers is that she’s kind of clueless. Not stupid but rather new to the world kind of clueless, which lets him be even more parental in giving her a good bath like he used to do with his son. What isn’t like that, however, is that he eventually realizes she’s a pretty hot little thing and he can’t control himself, leading to an awkward rush of sex that has her realizing she wants a whole lot more of it.

A normal setup to be sure but one with a quirk. Every time he climaxes inside of her a new baby of theirs will be born the next day that’s seemingly fully grown (off-page). And that new hot young thing wants him just as bad as Shiro does and every time he lets go in her it creates more the next day. Since it turns into a regular orgy, well, there are a lot of new additions to the family over the first few days and he can’t help himself because they’re all so earnest about it. And that’s what makes this so much fun even if it gets weird with the girls calling him daddy since it’s not exactly a traditional kind of thing in how they came about or even if he really was the cause of it. That said, once you look past that, the story really does have some very good sex scenes as there’s such enthusiasm from the girls and the lead gets into it a whole lot as well. The variety is solid and just a step above plain vanilla material because of the number of people involved but it’s mostly just the very clean designs and the sense of enjoyment that comes from it all that makes it a bit more infectious than I think it would be in lesser hands.

In Summary
Yeah, I can’t say I’m a fan of the whole daddy thing that comes into play here but the situation is just so otherworldly that it’s the kind of thing that a lot of people will be able to gloss over as opposed to something real world that would be far more creepy. Here, Raita’s artwork and the enthusiasm he brings to life through the girls makes it a fun romp through strange territory that has everyone grinning from ear to ear enjoying themselves. And that’s pretty engaging to watch play out because you’re curious to see how far it goes and what the results would be. It’s hard to imagine it truly ending well in the long run, other than overpopulating the world with sex hungry cute girls, but that’s a problem that would be fun to figure out in a goofy kind of way.

Content Grade: B-
Art Grade: B+
Text/Translation Grade: B+

Age Rating: 18+
Released By: FAKKU
Release Date: July 2017
MSRP: FAKKU Subscription

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