I☆Can

No Spoiler Review:

First, let's get this out of the way. Episode 3 really has to be viewed separately from episodes 1 & 2. More on that later.

Episodes 1 & 2 are excellent. If you like NTR, mind break or stealth sex, you'll love this series. PoRO girls tend to look really similar but Miyu really stands out and you'll get plenty of action with her. The voice acting is good and compared to other hentai, so is the dialogue. Even if you don't like NTR, there's enough great stuff here you can over look it.

Episode 3 is really a prequel ... and also an alternate history of sorts. It's not a perfect comparison, but think of episode 3 like all the different Oni Chichi incarnations. The characters and the setting are the same, but the stories don't quite mesh together. At any rate, episode 3 is all Reina and no Miyu. So if you were upset that Reina didn't get enough attention in the first two episodes, here's your big pay off. Reina looks great in it, but episode 3 is just lacking. I don't think one episode was enough to tell the story they are trying to. It just feels rushed. This story really needed the 2 episodes the first story got.

Like episodes 1 & 2, episode 3 contains NTR, mind break and stealth sex. However, the NTR is a different kind of NTR. For more on that you'll have to read the spoiler part of the review. Suffice to say, the style is enough of a departure from the first two episodes that some fans will be disappointed while others might actually enjoy it even more.

Bottom line, don't miss episodes 1 & 2 as they are some of PoRO's finest works. Episode 3 is rushed, but depending on your tastes concerning NTR, you might enjoy it the most.

SPOILERS:

Episode 1 & 2 is really great because of it's slow burn mind break. In Miyu's first scene, she really doesn't like it, but there's hints of her being curious and liking it a bit. Scene by scene she slowly starts to like it and by the last scene you finally get the pay off and she's totally broken and honest with her self. You hardly ever get anyone willing to take an entire 2 episodes to go through a full mind break arc for one character, but when they do it's excellent and I Can is no exception.

The difference between the NTR in episodes 1 & 2 compared to episode 3 is actually a pretty big deal. Ryouta is NTRed in both, as the boyfriend of both Miyu and then Reina, but in the first two episodes the NTR really focuses on Miyu. Yes, Ryouta is involved and he's upset about what he thinks or knows (it's not exactly clear) is happening between Miyu and Derada, but he's not the focal point. In episode 3, Ryouta is front and center once he discovers the affair. He's actually present in both the last two scenes of the episode. He even holds Reina's hand through a door while she's having sex with Derada in both the last two scenes. During the final scene she tells Ryouta to masturbate while he holds her hand through the door, which he does. So while episode 1 & 2 focus on Miyu slowly being mind broken and sneaking around Ryouta, episode 3 is about Ryouta catching them and him being devastated while watching Reina cheat on him. That's a huge difference. It really just depends on if you like NTR that focuses on the girl or the guy that's being cheated on. Personally, I don't like Ryouta finding out and being present during the sex, it totally ruined episode 3 for me. However, I know there are some people that like that sort of thing.

Episode 3 isn't a true prequel because it's story doesn't quite connect with the others. While it does explain Reina's relationship with Ryouta, why Reina is worried about Ryouta and why Miyu doesn't like Reina hanging around with Ryouta (who would want their boyfriend hanging out with their ex?), it doesn't explain why Ryouta is meeting Derada for the first time, again or why he wouldn't suspect Derada would be trying to seduce Miyu like he had done with Reina. That's why it's really more of an alternate history. It just doesn't add up as a true prequel.

Another quick note, this series really needs to be re translated. As of this review, there is only one translation out there and it has major mistakes in both the final scenes of episodes 1 & 2, which is a shame because they're probably the two best scenes in the whole series. In episode 1 the final scene has a subtitle that is repeated 3 times for about 4 different lines of speech, and the final scene of episode two has a fairly long section of dialogue that just doesn't quite make sense, it's just a bad translation. Obviously I'm happy we have any subs at all, but it would be great to have this fixed one day.

Finally, I was happy to see we got Reina's back story in episode 3 and I thought that was a decent choice to continue the series. However, I was more disappointed we didn't get a true sequel to episode 2 as I think there's a lot more there to continue with. I wanted to see more of Miyu after she was broken. They could have advanced Miyu's story side by side with flashbacks to Reina's. Then ultimately do what what the final scene of episode 2 teased, a threesome with Miyu and Reina.

Episodes 1 & 2 are two of my favorites of all time and maybe the best mind break hentai ever and while episode 3 was a disappointment in my eyes, it didn't effect my ratings too much because I really view them separately.

The story doesn't stand out for its originality, it must be said, but it does focus on something that unfortunately happens in the world of famous people. I'm not a fan of netorare or non consent, but it wasn't clear to me what was going on. Like at the beginning the two girls refuse to do it with the manager but because of blackmail they allow themselves to be penetrated, but then it's like they like him and cheat on the main character. ANYWAY.

---> Story 2/10. Nothing special, didn't really hook me. Basically at first the manager fuck the girls because of emotional blackmail and ... end they end up liking him to the point that he is the only one who can satisfy them, leaving Ryota out as well.

---> Art & Animation 6/10. I love the design of Miyu and Reina, the hair is amazing and I think they managed to make Reina's design a bit more original than the rest with her fringe. I've fallen in love with the hair of both of them, for real. But regarding the main character nothing to highlight, normal guy. The manager meh, beard, sunglasses, you know (not my type).

---> Sound 4/10. This is something very important for me and it's usually what gets me the most or makes me get into the story. I didn't like the voices at all. Reina's is fine, but I couldn't stand Miyu's voice, it's too shrill. I give it a four because it plays a melody that I liked at the beginning of chapter 1.

---> Characters 4/10. I don't know what to say, there's nothing original, it revolves around the world of schoolgirls and idols. There's not much character development, which I think is normal in a hentai like this. Ryouta, Miyu's boyfriend, is like all hentai protagonists, he doesn't do anything. And the manager's a bastard.

---> Enjoyment 4/10. As I said, I'm not a big fan of this genre, so the only thing I enjoyed was the design of the girls.

So, overall is a 4/10. I don't know if I'd recommend it, probably I won't.

It's a shame there's a fetish for hentai like this. I never understood the appeal of a girl cheating on her loving boyfriend with some rapist. The characters in this hentai are very annoying and unlikable. Nobody ever thinks of calling the police after Miyu gets raped. Her boyfriend just looks at Terada angrily as if that makes anything better. At first you feel sorry for Miyu after her rape but then hate her once she begins to enjoy it. Standard hentai cliche but still. None of the characters really stand out except Terada who looks like Gendo Ikari. The music is forgettable ... and the art is only ok. Nobody is likable in any way so this hentai is just one big fail.