Darling

Darling is a cute series that deserves mention over other hentai anime. While you can't expect a really complicated storyline with significant development, a unique approach is chosen where the erotic stories that occur are through the imagination of the main character Jun, a porn mangaka.

You might ask how this makes Darling worth watching. The way the series (and I would assume the related visual novel) is set up, it is allowed to briefly cover a broad variety of popular fetishes. As Jun's wife Miyuki loves to cosplay before him to stimulate his imagination, different ideas ranging from a Chinese secret agent, space exploration, student ... in sailor outfit, and a few others provide a good variety of appeals to different preferences. And while several of the stories the author comes up with involve rape, it may be easier to forgive and dismiss these particular cases as humorous when at the completion of each story the setting reverts back to Jun excitedly finishing his work and being brought to climax by Miyuki giving him fellatio.

All in all, Darling presents a nice deviation from what other H anime may usually present ranging from pre-marital sex (Jun and Miyuki are happily married if it wasn't clear), heavy incest, rape, and other controversial situations. But if there is something in particular that interests you in H anime, Darling has a decent chance of providing that for you as well.

To preface, this is one of my first hentai's that I had ever watched. It's not very hot/sexy to me but it never fails to make me laugh my ass off. From stampeding elephants to the classic line of "I'm going to stick a recorder in your pussy!" this show makes me cackle even if everything else can be considered fair/subpar. Like Darling's hair is so ridiculous, no wonder they can only animate her at 2 fps. The sheer absurdity of constantly being in 'hyper erection mode' reminds me a lot of Drawing While Masturbating (girl can only draw while jacking it, comedy ensues) and ... critically it's a pretty bland middle of the road hentai that isn't worth it to jack it to. But hey if you have a couple hours to kill and you wanna laugh at some old hentai then go for it.

The story follows Jun, a man who works on porn manga. Unfortunately, he's been given a project that has a incredibly close deadline, but thankfully he has a special power allowing him to work at hyper speed as long as he is aroused, called "Hyper Erection Mode". Lucky for him, his assistant Miyuki is also his wife and she's ready to give him a hand with work.

Firstly, the character designs are pretty bad. The main characters wife's hair looks like a giant bird taking off, and looks like it's 10 feet wide, with the rest of her looks like one of those awful do-it-yourself ... "Draw Your Own Anime" books where the anime "characters" just look off. I know hentai standards are low, but Jesus Christ, aren't hentai supposed to help someone get off, and by extension, supposed to look appealing on some level. In fact, most of the characters have this look. It's pretty hard to get off to "My first anime design!". Plus the entire reason this is called Darling is that Jun's wife keeps calling him "darling". That might be the laziest reason for a title I've ever seen.

When it comes to the sex, the way the anime gets around it's limitations is by going into Jun's imagination when he's thinking of situations for his hentai manga. I guess it does it's job in that there are a variety of different situations for you to get off too, but all of the sex scenes have been done a thousand times, and they're not particularly well executed here.

The concept for Darling is good enough that I could see a good hentai studio pull something off with it, but we don't get any of that here. Instead we get lame comedy and some of the worst looking character designs that I've seen in a while. "But what about the English dub?" I hear no one asking. It gets close to being a so-bad-it's-good dub a few, but it doesn't quite get to the hilariously awful that some other more infamous dubs do. Sure, you get some amusing lines, such as "Oh yeah, I can feel that 4000 year history" as one character says about another characters pussy as he's fucking her, or "You can do it honey, I can believe in you" as the main characters wife blows him under the table as he's working on his manga.

There are a few memorable lines, such as of the characters fucking up the word manga as "magna", or the main character saying "I can't believe I have such a pretty wife, and on top of that, I have a great opportunity" said incredibly fast to try and fit it in with the lip flaps, or even the use of a sound effect of a can of soft drink opening and pouring it into a cup as the sound Jun coming in his wife, but those are so far and few between that I don't know if I can recommend sitting through this to hear that.

However, I can attest to there is one funny scene, and it's not because it's genuinely funny, but because it came out of nowhere, and that scene is where, in one of Jun's fantasies, the girl plays a flute, then a trumpet with her pussy. It come out of nowhere, and is hilarious. The punchline to this is that the person who hired Jun says that they can't publish this story because "It's too filthy". Considering some of the shit that I've seen a hentai do, a woman playing a trumpet with her pussy is not that unreasonable.

When it comes to so-bad-it's-good media, you're hoping for a complete train wreck, but Darling is more like watching a train set catch on fire. Briefly amusing, but not the spectacle that you want. Plus if you put "Darling Hentai" into google images, you get plenty of Darling in the Franxx porn, which makes for a hell of a better wank session than this thing.