THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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"Dystopia in utopia."
Hentai generally bores the living hell out of me, part from the occasional but rare "pure yuri hentai". More often than not the art and animation will be mediocre, nothing special and being one of those who prefer artistic and trippy art, I sure as hell won't find it in the hentai section. On top of that, the voices will often make my ears bleed, accompanied by piss-boring music and soundscapes. But I guess none of this is the point of hentai to begin with…
But every now and then, there are hentais that will capture my attention. This one did, as an honestly tragic hentai seemed like big fat lie to me. Most rape-hentais are tragic God damn it, depraved* to some degree; so I wasn't expecting much, but people kept talking about "sob moments" and such so I gave it a shot…
Was it worth my time? Both yes and no; the thing is that I love the concept and I’d much like to say that it’s an extremely rough diamond. A manga or anime built from the ideas this anime (and manga, I suppose, I won’t go through the trouble of finding the manga though…) lays forth could easily deliver an extremely depressive journey and undoubtedly this anime tries to venture that path… But hey, it’s hentai… It doesn’t do it so well, due to the constant focus on sex and rape…
It will never happen, but it would be cool to see this concept in a less erotic/sex-aimed view; because this dystopia-concept (or is it a utopia? I guess that can be heavily discussed) have great potential. All it needs is to be put in a less sexual-view, let the characters and the world evolve more. Shit, just think how many ways you can question a viewer’s moral in a fictional world such as this one, people would go insane!
But what did I think of the actual hentai? Jack shit, to be honest. The only thing that interested me was the main-characters philosophical view on the world and that a “relationship” might very well spawn in such an environment (and this wasn’t even the point of the hentai, I suppose). As I’ve already pointed out, it’s an extremely rough diamond and could be so much more if they just dropped the whole focus on “hentai” and focused more on what you actually could do with the concept; there’s a lot of potential here, I’m sure of that. But sadly, that will never happen and if it did, the anime/manga would fluke hard and would probably be considered too controversial for the mainstream… Even if the subject would be interesting to bring to the public, make them think for a change… Not that anyone does anyway…
* I’m judging you if you like “rape-hentais” but lets just face it, they are very depraved most of the time. But nothing wrong with that and it’s actually good to know that you turn your focus to manga and anime instead of the real thing ;) |