Kunoichi Bakumatsu Kitan

this was a really good hentai i thought, with great potential but was sadly unfinished with only 2 episodes made. it is not often you find a hentai with a decent plot, but this was one of them. i notice that all the reviews for this anime have been rated down. why? i fully expect mine to be rated down too. nevertheless, here goes...

the art is lush, the characters are very attractively drawn, including the men for once, which adds to the appeal of the hentai scenes. the sex scenes are explicit (in the first episode ... - the second ep. is censored, and i'm sorry to say, done in very crass way with huge mosaics that completely ruins the art) and shows the men as well as the women enjoying themselves, which was refreshing. with one exception all the sex is consensual, and are acts of love between people who care for each other.

the storyline is set during the time of the shinsengumi, so there is a lot of political intrigue, which i found a little hard to follow as with only 2 eps there wasn't time to further expand the plot. there was some swordplay also but that was limited which is a bit of a negative.

this is well worth a watch; a political drama with a feminist element and appealing characters. what a darn shame this series did not continue.

The Last Kunoichi is one interesting hentai title because it attempts to insert into Japanese history a story about three female shinobi.

Story - 10/10
It was interesting to see how the studio used some aspects of Japanese history such as the Ikedaya incident and the assassination of Ryoma Sakamoto and placed the story of the three main protagonists. You can clearly see the effort to make a good enough narrative to keep the viewer hooked not only to the sex scenes but to the story as well.

Art - 10/10
I really liked the animation in this one especially how Kaede, Kikyoo and Ayame's faces and bodies ... were drawn. The muscularity of the male characters made the sex sequences all the more erotic. There is a consistency on how the character models are all drawn.

Sound - 9/10
There were some good music pieces and the sounds of katanas and short swords clashing were spot on.

Character - 9/10
It was quite fascinating to see the studio's take on famous Japanese figures. Aside from the Shinsengumi and Rebels, I liked Kaede and Kikyoo among the three kunoichis. It's a shame that Kaede did not get a scene with Toshizo Hijikata who she built a good relationship with.

Enjoyment - 8/10
History and sex. Yep, I enjoyed.

This has got to be one of my favorite hentai titles of all time and I'm asking myself why I only made this review now. I wish there were more episodes so we could *ehem* explore more of Kaede's story after what happened to her two colleagues. A major disadvantage to appreciating the story in my opinion is that the second episode was both censored (in contrast to the first episode) and did not have any English subtitles--meaning this was released only in Japan and the American studio that published the first episode did not do the same for the second. If you have not watched enough anime to understand Japanese, you'd be lost in the dialogue and may possibly affect one's opinion on the title as a whole. Still, The Last Kunoichi is one of the best yet underrated hentai titles out there.

Do yourself a favor and watch it.

I first found a short clip of this hentai on a rondom webblog. I've been on the hunt for it since then for like 2 weeks. Had high hopes and expectations for it. And for me to be completely honest? quite a bit of a let down. Granted it's quite a nice hentai, but certainly not the top one's I would recommend.

It looks either quite an old anime or just low budget on animation. The only character I liked was the red head ninja, and the best scene was when she got raped but the grey skin samurai. The story I say isn't that brilliant, ... too complex and there's no real connection between every sub plots and events. On the brighter side? I'd say it's a good "overall" but no real peak in any particular points and factors. I liked the whole theme with ninjas and the ancient Japan, alot of good animes made fortunes on that subject. Maybe it's quite a let down since I've expected more from such a good base. I reckon if this is remade perhaps? get a better artist on the job of animation and picture quality, a better story with connections and less complex, and finish that rape scene! I was actually expecting the grey samurai to return in episode 2, but it never came.

But to be fair, I'd say if you don't have as much expectations as much as I did, you might actually enjoy it! It's a good 7/10 overall from me!