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Prev PG article bkgnd music module clock properties OK CANCEL DEFAULTS Greyscale Shades of purple Shades of yellow Shades of orange Shades of cyan music module 1 music module 2 disable System clock Clock counter disable Interactive Erotica and Digital Dating 1 --------------- Anime goes interactive 2 ----- The development of erotic games 3 -------------------------- Fighting fit 4 ---------------- The call to adventure 5 ---------------------- Princess making 6 ------------------ How to pick up girls 7 ------------------------ Timestripping 8 ------------------ Sell-by date: 2001? The Erotic Anime Movie Guide 1 ---------------- Listing of Titles 2 ---------------------- Titles 0-# 3 ---------------------- Titles A-C 4 ---------------------- Titles D-F 5 ---------------------- Titles G-I 6 ---------------------- Titles J-L 7 ---------------------- Titles M-O 8 ---------------------- Titles P-R 9 ---------------------- Titles S-U 10 --------------------- Titles V-W 11 ----------- General Guide Format 12 -------------- Glossary of Terms Anime goes Interactive Somewhere during the early nineties, there was an almost imperceptible shift in production statistics. Although there has always been a proportion of original ideas, or remakes of novels, the majority of anime used to be filmed adaptations of popular manga. But the current state of anime is heavily influenced by computer games, which, although not creating a new medium of distribution like the video cassette, have certainly altered the nature and content of many anime releases. Movie producers are always keen to capitalise on trends, be it novels, comics or television shows, but the fad for game cash-ins has left a lot of burned fingers in the Japanese market, especially in the erotic field, where the value of game spin-offs is questionable. The original mathematics appear simple to company accountants: if a game sells a million copies, it is reasonable to expect enough of those consumers to pay for an animated tie-in. But what does their cash really buy them? Novels appeal because of their complex detail, comics because they work as ready-made storyboards for the film version, but many producers fail to realise that the playability of a game is the one thing guaranteed not to transfer across other media. Consider the Streetfighter anime, obliged to make a coherent story out of a game whose prime subject matter is a dozen people hitting each other. In addition to the many problems of crafting a suitable story, which would beset a writer on any project, the game adapter is often forced to break many carefully learned rules of storytelling. Unnecessary subplots must be added to pacify fans of particular characters and, since many of the successful products are fighting games, combat becomes the central point of many anime with this pedigree. In the erotic sector, the crossover brings a different sort of hazard. Many erotic games capitalise on providing the player with a semblance of control, naturally unavailable on the video version. With their multiple endings, they also reward repeat `viewings', a benefit with which a view cannot complete. The erotic Classmates game sold over 100,000 copies in Japan, which left producers fighting for the video rights. Software may be expensive, but lasts on average for fifty hours of game-time. The same kind of money will only but around thirty minutes of animation. To get the same `use' out of Classmates video, the buyer would have to watch it twice a week, every week, for an entire year. Few of the 100,000 buyers of the Classmates game were likely to be as impressed with the anime version, and this factor has influenced long-term production planning. While mainstream television anime might be produced at anything up to twenty-six episodes at a time, many game tie-ins (erotic or otherwise) are now one-shot wonders, so companies can take the money and run. END. The Development of Erotic Games Like the move from vaguely titillating public film viewing to the more-explicit, private accessibility of home video, computer erotica began in public gaming arcades before the advent of the personal computer made private, solo viewing the norm. The earliest erotic games began with oriental variants on poker. The first arcade mah jong game, the imaginatively tiled Mah Jong Game, appeared in 1978. Numerous imitators were soon on the market, and several held the attention of male players by providing a selection of female opponents. Some, like Mah Jong Master, employed photographs of real models, but were limited by memory memory considerations to fuzzy, low-resolution images. Others, like Real Mah Jong Pai Pai, opted to use anime-style images of girls, which saved valuable memory and added to the cartoony aspect of the games. It wasn't until 1986 that such images were put to genuinely erotic use, with the strip mah jong variant Second Love. The behaviouristic laws of pornography, where the titillating supply of virtually nothing creates a demand for just a little more, are perfectly suited to the coin-operated game genre. With a variety of opponents and the requirement to hone one's skills at mah jong, the player is encouraged to return again and again. END. Fighting Fit The mah jong games introduced the idea of reward and punishment to the erotica industry. The consumer was encouraged to keep on paying for replays, with the understanding that the better he became, the more likely he would be to see woman with their clothes off. But mah jong games were merely the first incarnation; soon there were erotic variants on other types of popular mainstream game. In Bishojo Fighter, a Streetfighter clone, the actual combat is done by robots, but the erotic action is provided by the female `puppeteers' who control them. After an animated 2D battle, the victor gets to see a still image of the defeated character removing their clothes. The more special moves the victor uses, the raunchier the images become. There was only a single female, Chun Li, in the original Streetfighter game, although programmers learned that a female character, especially in the mainstream world, is a useful way of subliminally titillating the male viewer without resorting to overt pornography. In Bishojo Fighter, all the characters are female, and designed to appeal to the widest possible brackets of players. As if the sleeve notes' talk of her being `well-brought-up and refined' were not enough of a hint, the Maiden character is called Sophia Rich. The disposable Alien is a Chun Li clone, the martial artists Li Xiaolou. Cris Canberra is a festy Tomboy bedecked in leather and chains, while Miyuki Sonoda is an ice queen in her early twenties, a frigid Older Woman who has denied her own sexual fulfilment. The Child character Mika cannot be shown in an overtly sexual way, and so comes accompanied by her mother, another Older Woman to act as surrogate plaything for any Oedipally challenged gamers. And because the game has a two-player option, there are two Girls Next Door, flagged in the gaming manual as noble, honourable and, above all, nice. END. The Call to Adventure The adventure game genre was similarly exploited in the erotic market. Using an engine still popular today, the simplest versions combine scrolling text with occasional images onscreen. Following the popularity of the strip mah jong games, several companies began producing `adventure' variants, copying the strip-games' policy of anime-style illustration and adding female voices to increase the realism. Many of the actresses employed were secretly (or occasionally openly) moonlighting performers from the anime business, strengthening the ties between games and anime still further. These games also began to establish certain traditions in the field. Instead of a third-person perspective, in which the player watches the action as if a viewer with a camera, the majority of the pornographic adventure games preferred a first-person view. This prevented the male gamer from having to `share' his conquests with a male character in the game. The female voices would address the male player directly, and images of the male character in the game should avoid showing his face, or any other discerning features that could detract from the player's fantasy that it is he who is committing the acts shown. In 1991, two popular games development companies, Just and Kirara, were warned by Japanese police that their games risked classification as obscene publications. Sales consequently rocketed, as did the number of high school boys caught shoplifting games which they were not old enough to purchase legally. The number of companies in the field swiftly multiplied, as did the number of games targeted at teenagers instead of the previously undefined `adult' audience. In an attempt to convince their younger buyers that they were getting something truly naughty, the new games used censorship dots to give the illusion of titillation by `obscuring' non-existent genitalia on the anime-style images. Originally, all adventure games had a single acceptable ending. The hobbit would arrive home, the vampire would be killed or the world would be saved, although if players performed badly at certain points, their characters would be forced to retrace their steps to avoid a fatal error. In 1993 the games Nova and Clan of the Kawarazaki introduced the Japanese player to the idea of not one, but several endings of equal value, a development that would pay great dividends in the erotica business, where a player's personal perference for Older Woman. Tomboys or any other archetypes, could result in a tailor-made story. END. Princess Making There were other developments that did not quite run in tandem with Western gaming. Gainax, better known in anime circles for their high-quality, fan-friendly releases, have also had a part to play in the erotic market. Their accurate animation of bouncing breasts in Gunbuster (known as the `jiggle effect') has been much imitated in the decade since they perfected it. A striptease game, Battle Skin Panic, caused controversy when it was revealed that this strip-poker variant could be purchased in Japan by minors. But it was another, apparently more innocuous Gainax computer game that has had the greatest effect on the Japanese world of erotic interactivity. Princess Maker was a simulation game along similar lines to the American Sim City. But instead of designing and running a city, players were invited to rear a child. Fathers to a virtual daughter, their mission was to ensure that she grew into a well-mannered, well-educated, healthy young woman. In short, they had to create a `princess' among her peers. Princess Maker was to become the boy's toy of an entire generation, even though the whole idea was actually devised by a woman, Kyomi Akai. Each virtual girl has a list of scores that have to be improved or reduced, in order to create the perfect daughter and, by unstated association, the perfect girlfriend. The screen flashes up scores in areas as diverse as body strength, dexterity and general knowledge, and in such spiritual areas as stress, lust and moral fibre. Princess Maker's effects were far-ranging indeed; a direct line of descent can be traced from it to the ubiquitous tamagotchi virtual pets of the late nineties, and their distaff cousins, the virtual pop idol Kyoko Date. More importantly, Princess Maker created a vogue in the computer industry for simulation games that emphasised a sense, however illusory, of control. Similar games have appeared which have taken the control element of Princess Maker a step further. Graduation places the player in the enviable position of a high-school careers counsellor, whose job is to ensure that several female charges make it through school without flunking classes, playing truant or getting pregnant. One of its many spin-offs, Marriage, requires the player to set them up with the right husband. END. How to pick up girls Heartbeat Memorial puts the player directly into the action, so to speak. Instead of merely indulging in the vicarious pleasures of Graduation or Princess Maker, in which boyfriends are threats to one's established parental control, Heartbeat assigns the player to the role of the boyfriend himself. The design of Heartbeat tells us a lot about its intended audience. The `grand prize' is a girl called Shiori; a sixteen year-old high school student. She's not a knife-wielding psychopath or a large-breasted foreign female, instead she is the most average, bland person one could imagine. She is that ultimate in unattainable women, the Girl Next Door. As a player, you must try and steer yourself into Shiori's life and heart, make sure you're around at the right time, say the right things and suggest the right activities. With any luck, your witty repartee will get you her phone number. After that, you have to proceed to the next level, plucking up the courage and calculating the right moment to ask her out. The complex gameplay doesn't stop there; your next job is to keep control of her and get her to fall in love with you, without causing any runctions among her friends. This is not as easy as it sounds, since you are also forced to interact with them. Some of Shiori's friends will be interested in you for themselves. When her feisty associate Yumi tries to drag you out on a date, should you agree and risk getting found out by Shiori, or refuse and risk incurring Yumi's jealous wrath? The morose Miharu can be a valuable ally by putting in a good word for you, but devote too much time on her and she will get ideas above her station and assume that she can have you for herself. Can you keep Shiori's friends as your friends, and yet still get time with her alone? Only the skilful Heartbeat player can walk the tightrope, be it with Shiori or one of her colour-coded friends. No doubt there are those members of the moral majority who would regard Heartbeat as a far better thing to occupy young men's time than shooting demons in Doom. After all, there's no sex or violence, it's all good clean fun and it might even turn a few sad cases into more socially responsible individuals. It is not pornographic in the literal sense, or at least, it is only insofar as it regards woman as objects and men as willing adherents to this principle. Like the worst manual on picking up girls, Heartbeat only tells its audience what to say. Listening to the girls' replies is not about getting to know another human being, it's about looking for behavioural clues for your next mission. Despite the game's concentration on good manners and gentlemanly behaviour, it contains the underlying rationale that the women involved are objects. We know that they are not real people, and that their responses have been reduced to straightforward yes/no replays. With the women in Heartbeat, there is a right answer and a wrong answer, a way to charm and a way to scare them off. Ironically, the fact that their behaviour is part of a computer program turns them into objects, even though they themselves can argue against this, Shiori, for example, will cry foul if she suspects that she is being treated in a sexist manner, but the reduction of human interaction to such rules and cheats is itself an example of objectification. END. Timestripping Many interactive erotic games combine elements of the Heartbeat engine with the more normal adventure game. This development has grown out of fundamental differences in buyer behaviour; adventure gamers want plot and problem-solving, where porn consumers merely want porn. There is little point in making a pornographic adventure game too challenging; the real challenge is giving the consumer that they want. The combination of multiple endings and the yes/no relays of Heartbeat are the ideal solution. Timestripper may appear on the surface like a modern `erotic adventure' game, but it is very different. The basic technology, that of picture tableaux illustrating a text, has remained unchanged since the early days of the home computer, but Timestripper has a radically different reason for existence. As true pornography, it strips away all the `unnecessary' elements of the other games to reveal the sublimated desires beneath. In fact, it is hardly a game at all, so much as a mildly interactive picture book, that only shows certain pictures if players follow the correct sequence of events. The story of Timestripper unfolds in a linear fashion. There is no definite win/lost scenario, since whatever happens, the hero is destined to end up in bed with a beautiful woman. The difference lies in which woman it will be, decided by choice made during the game itself. The gamers' `choices' are actually hidden elements of a personality test. The events unfold in front of the layer, with only a couple of minor subplots relying on the player's own decisions. Even these have no bearing on the ending. The chance decision to take a different route home might allow the player to see a sex scene he might otherwise have missed, but that's about it. Still more decisions are essentially red herrings. They may reorder certain blocks of text in the story, but make no other contribution to the game itself. But among these detours and branches are a few critical questions that will influence the outcome. Certain desicions made during the game provide the computer with yes/no answers to several questions about the player's own character and preferences, such as: Would you cheat on your girlfriend? Would you take pity on a frightened child? Do you prefer one-night stands to long-term relationships? Once the computer has the answer to questions like this, it sorts out the archetype that best matches the player, and tells the story variant with a fitting denouement. The story, and it is an ingeniously complex one, is an erotic variant on Back to the Future, in which two girls, Nonn and Mako, are fighting over the same man in the year 2198. The Alien blonde Nonn travels back to the present day, to wipe out Mako's ancestor, Terminator-style. Mako travels in time to stop her, and enlists the aid of the protagonist Shinji, who is also her boyfriend's ancestor. Nonn decides to seduce Shinji and stay with him, an alteration to history that will net her the man she wants. It also creates a paradox, because if Shinji doesn't marry his high school sweetheart Michiyo, his great-grandson will never invent the time machine and the girls will never be able to travel back to stop him. But the history books don't mention that Shinji is/was an incorrigible womaniser and that he has just been dumped by the exasperated Michiyo. Mako knows that Shinji must propose to Michiyo at the graduation ball, or history will be irrevocably altered. But Nonn has realised this too, and attempts a double-pronged assault, seducing Shinji for herself, and simultaneously introducing Michiyo to the joys of bisexuality in order to ensure that she never wants her ex-boyfriend back. All this is set against the superficially everyday machinations that surround the forthcoming dance. Shinji is on the organisation committee and is supposed to book a singer. If he wants to get anywhere, he'll have to consider seducing the singer's Older Woman manager, but even if he succeeds, the Childish singer will get stage fright and need some hands-on encouragement. Shinji also has to hold down a job at a local bar, where he is conducting a surreptitious affair with a Tomboy waitress, while quietly worrying that the camp barman has a crush on him. Meanwhile, the head of the dance committee is a spoilt rich Maiden who despises Shinji, and is just waiting for him to fail. If you are kind, reasonable and sensitive, the story ends with normality restored, the time-travellers returning to the future and Shinji discovering that Michiyo's experience has turned her into a sex-crazed nymphet. Pragmatism, a realistic outlook and general honesty will net you a happy marriage to the poor little rich girl (gasping for a real man all along), getting a job managing her daddy's company while the time-travellers work in the family mansion as French maids. Indulgence of the idol singer's whims will win you her affection, although you'll have to repay her frustrated manager by having anal sex with her. In this scenario, the time-travellers end up with their own television show. The closest to a bad ending comes if you continuously plump for the arrogant, unfeeling decisions. You will be rewarded with the fickle Alien Nonn, while the heartbroken Mako plots her revenge as a woman scorned. But the star prize is Mako herself, with Nonn on the side when life gets boring. It's happy ending that reveals what the canny reader may have suspected all along, that Michiyo was a false prophet and that the real Girl Next Door is Mako herself. END. Sell-by Date: 2001? The relationship of erotic games and erotic anime is likely to become less important as live-action pornography reduces the number of anime-style games. There are already CD-ROM games on the market that use the same adventure-game/personality test engine, but replace the text and anim-style image with live-action footage. Virgin Kyoko on the Trail of the Crescent Killer pits a nubile female reporter against a serial murderer, with plenty of incidental, live-action porn footage. Midnight Stranger throws the first-person player into a dark, dingy bar with a beautiful foreign brunette. Catch Sight of Figure is a suspense thriller using live-action footage of detection and, of course, seduction. When the games are live action in their original incarnation, an anime adaptation would be a backward step, and is consequently less likely. Ultimately, however, anime-style games will remain for as long as there are anime. In the immediate future, as the live-action games gain greater market share, they will crowd out their anime-style predecessors. The first to disappear will be the modern-day stories that can be easily filmed with live models. As with the `tits and tentacles` genre, the anime-style games will drift into increasingly esoteric perversions in order to justify their existence. The anime remakes that they generate will continue, although with less emphasis on contemporary tales like Classmates, and more on the fantastic elements typified by Timestripper. Eventually, faced with the bolder competition of `real' sex, multi-ending interactive games and digital porn, erotic anime is likely to return, as it continually has done and will continue to do, to cartoon territory in short, staccato compilations of seaside-postcard naughtiness, pitched at an audience just a little too young or impoverished to afford the #live-action, computerised variants. END. Prev PG Prev Article Next Article Next PG Prev PG Next PG (Page / ) ... Anime goes Interactive The development of erotic games Fighting Fit The call to adventure Princess making How to pick up girls Timestripping Sell-by Date: 2001? 0-Z of Titles Titles 0-9 Titles A-C Titles D-F Titles G-I Titles J-L Titles M-O Titles P-R Titles S-U Titles V-W CD-ROM Sources LISTING OF TITLES - # - 801 TTS AIRBATS THE 1001 NIGHTS - A - AD POLICE ADVENTURE KID ANGEL OF DARKNESS ARION ARMITAGE III - B - BODY JACK BOUNTY DOG "BRONZE: DESPERATE LOVE SINCE 1989 - C - CLEOPATRA COUNTDOWN CREAM LEMON 1 : BE MY BABY CREAM LEMON 2 : ESCALATION CREAM LEMON 3 : SUPERDIMENSIONAL SF LEGEND RALL CREAM LEMON 4 : POP CHASER CREAM LEMON 5 : AMI AGAIN CREAM LEMON 6 : ESCALATION 2: FORBIDDEN SONATA CREAM LEMON 7 : DON'T DO IT, MAKO! MAKO SEXY SYMPHONY PART ONE CREAM LEMON 8 : SUPER VIRGIN CREAM LEMON 9 : HAPPENING SUMMER CREAM LEMON 10 : STAR TRAP CREAM LEMON 11 : BLACK CAT MANOR CREAM LEMON 12 : DON'T DO IT, MAKO! MAKO SEXY SYMPHONY PART TWO CREAM LEMON 13 : AMI 3: NOW I EMBRACE YOU AMI CREAM LEMON 14 : NARIS SCRAMBLE CREAM LEMON 15 : SUPERDIMENSIONAL SF LEGEND RALL 2 CREAM LEMON 16 : ESCALATION 3: ANGELS' EPILOGUE CREAM LEMON : AMI'S JOURNEY CREAM LEMON CLIMAX CREAM LEMON KEI AMAKI SPECIAL: CHERRY MELANCHOLY CREAM LEMON SPECIAL - AMI GRAFFITI CREAM LEMON SPECIAL - AMI IMAGE WHITE SHADOW CREAM LEMON SPECIAL - THE DARK CREAM LEMON TO MORIYAMA BEST HIT: `I GUESS SO' CREAM LEMON YOUNG LOVE: ANGIE & ROSE CRYING FREEMAN - D - DANCE TILL TOMORROW DEMON BEAST INVASION DESPERATE LOVE 1989 DEVIL HUNTER YOKO DOOMED MEGALOPOLIS DRAGON KNIGHT DRAGON PINK DYING FOR A GIRL/ALTAR OF SACRIFICE - E - THE ELEVEN BRIDE END OF SUMMER - F - F3: FRANTIC, FRUSTRATED & FEMALE FIRST LOVES FOBIA - G - GHOST IN THE SHELL THE GIGOLO THE GIRL FROM PHANTASIA GOLDEN BOY GUY - H - HANAPPE BAZOOKA HOLEY PANTS: DESIRE ON A STROLL HOMEROOM AFFAIRS HOMOSEXUAL REPORT HOUSE OF KITTENS - I - I GIVE MY ALL - J - JUNK BOY - K - KAMA SUTRA KEKKO KAMEN - L - LA BLUE GIRL LADY BLUE LEGEND OF LYON: FLARE LOLIKON ANGEL: PRETTY GIRL COMIC: SECRET EXPERIENCE LOVE'S WEDGE LUNATIC NIGHT LUST ALIEN - M - MAD BULL 34 MAGIC LIPSTICK MEGAMI PARADISE MELANCHOLY SLAVE MIDNIGHT ANIME LEMON ANGEL MIYUKI-CHAN IN WONDERLAND MY MARIE - N - NEW ANGEL NEW CREAM LEMON AMI - FROM THEN ON NEW CREAM LEMON DREAMCOLOURED BUNNY NEW CREAM LEMON ETUDE: SNOW HEARTBEAT NEW CREAM LEMON ETUDE 2: EARLY SPRING CONCERTO NEW CREAM LEMON PART ZERO NEW CREAM LEMON SUMMER WIND NEW CREAM LEMON THE EVIL DOLL NEW CREAM LEMON TO MORIYAMA SPECIAL 1: FIVE HOUR VENUS NEW CREAM LEMON TO MORIYAMA SPECIAL 2: AFTERSCHOOL XXX NEW CREAM LEMON TWO PEOPLE'S LIFE OF HEARTBREAK NEW CREAM LEMON WHITE SHADOW - O - OGENKI CLINIC - P - PICTURES FROM HIGH SCHOOL PRIVATE PSYCHO LESSON - R - REDDENING SNOW/GIRLS TORTURED WITH ROSES REI REI ROUGE - S - SAILOR MOON SEASIDE ANGEL MIYU THE SENSUALIST SOL BIANCA STREET FIGHTER II: THE ANIMATED MOVIE SURF DREAMING - T - TOKYO PRIVATE POLICE TWIN DOLLS - U - U-JIN BRAND UROTSUKIDOJI I/II: LEGEND OF THE OVERFIEND/LEGEND OF THE DEMON WOMB UROTSUKIDOJI III: RETURN OF THE OVERFIEND UROTSUKIDOJI IV: INFERNO ROAD - V - VARIATION VENUS FIVE VISIONARY - W - WICKED CITY 801 TTS AIRBATS (Eng title for AOZORA SHOJOTAI, lit Blue Sky Girl Squadron) TYPE: OAV series, 3 parts. LENGTH: Each 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1994-96. Dir: Yuji Moriyama, Osamu Mikasa, Junichi Sakata & Tohru Yoshida, Screenplay: Yuji Kawahara (1),Ryoei Tsukimura (2), Ryoichi Yagi (3), Character design: Yuji Moriyama, Music: Seigo Nagaoka. T.Shimizu, Tokuma Shoten, JVC. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1995 on AD Vision, sub; UK video release 1996 on AD Vision UK, sub, Eng rewrite by Matt Greenfield. ORIGINS: Manga by Toshimitsu Shimizu, pub Tokuma Shoten. POINTS OF INTEREST: Shimizu is also the author of the much raunchier Rei Rei. SPINOFFS: A radio drama using the same voice actors. CATEGORIES: P, C, F RATINGS: N, MAINSTREAM OVERVIEW: A charming lushly, coloured and comic take on the future of Japan's defence forces, the strides made by women in modern society and the way human beings can screw up and still come through. Contains mild comic nudity but nothing to outrage the prudish. THE 1001 NIGHTS (Eng trans for SENYA ICHIYA MONOGATARI) TYPE: MOVIE. LENGTH: 128 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1969, Dir: Eiichi Yamamoto. Screenplay: Kazuo Fukuzawa. Anime dir: Sadao Miyamoto. Art dir: Takashi Yanase. Prod: Osamu Tezuka. Prod co: Mushi. Mushi. ORIGINS: The Arabian Nights and Osamu Tezuka's manga based on this work. CATEGORIES: F RATINGS: N, EROTIC OVERVIEW: The fantasies of the Arabian Nights are revamped for an adult audience, featuring a Sinbad who looks a bit like Jean-Paul Belmondo and plenty of exotic encounters with scantily clad houris. END. AD POLICE TYPE: OAV series, 3 parts. LENGTH: Each 40 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1990. Dir: Akihiko Takahashi (1), Akira Nishimori (2 & 3). Screenplay: Noboru Aikawa. Original story: Toshimichi Suzuki & Tony Takezaki. Character design: Tony Takezaki, Fujio Oda & Toru Nagasuki. Anime dir: Fujio Oda (1), Hiroyuki Kitazume (2), Hiroyuki Kitazume & Masami Obari (3). Planning: Toshimichi Suzuki & Shin Unozawa. Prod co: Artmic, AIC. Artmic, Youmex. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1993-95 on AnimEigo, sub, dub, trans Shin Kurokawa & Eriko Takai; UK video release 1995 on Manga Video, dub. ORIGINS: Manga by Tony Takezaki, Eng trans pub Viz (US), Titan Books (UK). POINTS OF INTEREST: Set in the Bubblegum Crisis universe. CATEGORIES: SF, T RATINGS: N, VV, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Three dark and ultimately misanthropic tales featuring violence, sexual perversity and exploitation wrapped up in a cyber-candy coat. Intended as an action-adventure, each story nevertheless has a strong sexual content. The first concerns the disposability of boys' toys. An android, who has been revamped for someone else's pleasure and profit, cannot rid herself of the image of the one human who made a powerful impact on her - by killing her. The second story talks sexual politics, as women have themselves adapted to fit in to the modern world. The third deals with the eroticism of control and the allure of high technology, as a police officer, all but killed in a fatal incident, is finally destroyed by becoming a cyborg. The scientist in charge of the project uses him to indulge her own warped cravings. ADVENTURE KID (US title for YOJU SENSEN ADVENTURE KID, lit Demon Beast Battle Line; UK title ADVENTURE DUO) TYPE: OAV series, 3 parts. LENGTH: Each 40 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1992-1993. Dir: Yoshitaka Fujimoto. Screenplay: Atsushi Yamatoya (1), Akio Satsugawa (2 & 3). Character design: Dan Kongoji (1), Ryunosuke Otonashi (2), Yuji Takahashi (3). Storyboards: Dan Kongoji & Hideki Takayama. Music: Masamichi Amano. Exec Prod: Hideki "Takayama. Prod co: MW Films. T.Maeda, MW Films. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1994 on Anime 18, sub, trans Neil Nadelman; US video release 1994 on Kiseki Films, same version (first 2 %episodes are also available as dubs). ORIGINS: Manga by Toshio Maeda. POINTS OF INTEREST: Scenarist Akio Satsugawa went on to better things, scripting episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The BBFC insisted on the title change from Adventure Kid to Adventure Duo, on the grounds that consumers might buy the tape thinking it was intended for children. Adult-video actress Ai Iijima (Midori), Miki Mayazumi (Eganko) and Chiharu Sato (Saiki) voice roles, but only Mayazumi keeps up with the professional voice artists. CATEGORIES: SF, D, C RATINGS: XX, VV, PORN OVERVIEW: A high school kid is hauled into a demonic adventure via his passion for computers. When an antique machine is unearthed, it triggers a nightmare scenario of rape and revenge from the days of World War Two. Our hero enters a world of raunchy demonettes and lust-crazed hellfiends with a panty fetish, who proceed to follow him back into his own reality for one of the strangest demon high school invasions of all. Listen out for Masamichi Amano's excellent music from Overfiend III, recycled here, as well as the Tristan & Isolde pastiche in part three. ANGEL OF DARKNESS TYPE: OAV series, 3 parts. LENGTH: Each 50 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1990-91. Dir: Kazuma Muraki (1), Suzunari Joban (2 & 3). Original Story: Ran Kotaro. Story: Yukihiro Kusaka. Supervision: Yukihiro Kasuka. Character design: Kazunori Iwakura (1), Yuji Ikeda (2 & 3). Art dir: Kazunori Iwakura (1), Yuji Ikeda (2 & 3). Exec prod. Ran Kotaro. Prod: Jiro Soka. Prod co: Pink Pineapple. Pink Pineapple. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1995-96 on SoftCel Pictures, sub trans Toru Iwakami & Doc Issaac. POINTS OF INTEREST: `Edited' versions of the US release have 5 mins cut. CATEGORIES: P, F RATINGS: NN, XX, VV, SM, G, PORN OVERVIEW: Lesbian schoolgirls, cannibal trolls, small but perfectly formed elves and, of course, multi-tentacled demons in a `story' which sometimes plays like a catalogue for designer bondage gear and sometimes like a St Trinians movie cross-dressing as Little Shop of Horrors. Part one has a pair of schoolgirl lovers fighting the forces of evil, which (like most forces of evil in erotic anime) feed on the `emanations' of schoolgirls. A perverted professor and his S&M mistress are in cahoots with a demon-fiend, which is luring innocent girls with unusual wardrobes into its lair so it can feed. The elves, obviously, are outraged at this perversion of the forces of nature. Part two has the professor rearing demonic plants which need the `bodily fluids' of schoolgirls to survive. In part three, a young woman who has escaped the horror decides to turn her experience to some use when she is abused by a girl gang, and lures them into the professor's murky hideout where, yes, you've guessed it, demons feed on whatever they're calling it these days. ARION TYPE: MOVIE. LENGTH: 120 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1986. Dir: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. Writer: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Akiko Tanaka. Character design: Yoshikazu Yashuhiko. Music: Jo Hisaishi. Prod co: Tokyo Movie Shinsha. Yasuhiko, TMS, Nippon Sunrise. ORIGINS: Greek myth; manga by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, pub Tokuma Shoten. POINTS OF INTEREST: Note the magnificent score by Hisaishi, better known in the West as composer on the films of Hayao Miyazaki. CATEGORIES: F RATINGS: XX, V, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: I call a story whose climax takes place inside a womb erotic, whatever the author's original intention. This dazzling oriental twist on Greek myth is a film of great power and its simmering undercurrents of sex and violence have visceral impact, even though they break the surface only occasionally. ARMITAGE III TYPE: OAV series 4 parts. LENGTH: Part 1 50 mins, parts 2-4 each 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1994-95. Dir: Takuya Sato. General dir: Hiroyuki Ochi. Screenplay: Akinori Endo (1), Chiaki Konaka (1-4). Character design: Hiroyuki Ochi. Opening animation dir: Hiroyuki Kitazume. Anime dir: Kunihiro Abe (1,3 & 4), Koichi Hashimoto (2), Shinya Takahashi (3), Naoyuki Onda (3), Hiroyuki Ochi (4). Art dir: Norihiro Hiraki (1 & 2), Tokuhiro Hiragi (3), Hiroshi Kato (4). Music: Hiroyuki Namba. Exec prod: Taro Maki. Prod co: AIC. Pioneer, AIC. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1995-96 on Pioneer LDCA, sub, dub, Eng rewrite Mary Mason & Quint Lancaster; UK video release 1996 on Pioneer Anime, dub only. POINTS OF INTEREST: A movie version, combining edited episodes with approximately 5 mins of new footage (mainly the finale), was released as Armitage III Polymatrix. Its voice cast included Elizabeth Berkly of Showgirls (Armitage) and Kiefer Sutherland (Ross). A new sound effects track was engineered in Hollywood for the movie version. SPINOFFS: The manga seems based on an earlier version of the script, with baddy D'anclaude renamed Madonna, and a strange early scene in which Armitage is mounted by an amorous dog. CATEGORIES: SF, T RATINGS: N, X, VV, MAINSTREAM OVERVIEW: Another dark future is the setting for this violent but thoughtful drama. The central theme - our attitude to our toys - is underlined with glimpse of sex-slave robots and a human/robot sexual relationship which finally takes the integration of man and his creations a stage further. The violence is considerable, but there's more erotic teasing than sexual action, except for one non-explicit scene where Armitage gets it together with her cop partner. BODY JACK TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 35 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Dir: `Dojiro'. Screenplay: Takashi Tanigawa. Character design: To #Moriyama. Prod co: Bandai Visual. Ross. CATEGORIES: P, F RATINGS: XX, NN, G, PORN OVERVIEW: Weird science as Dr Toyama takes control of the body of beautiful high school girl Komaba with his strange invention. He lets the randy young Asagedani `slip into' her body so he can see how it really feels to be inside a girl. Then Komaba's classmate, the equally beautiful Nakano, surprises him and mistakes his activities for a sexual advance from her friend. They proceed to demonstrate that three into two will go, whatever the law of mathematics say. BOUNTY DOG TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1995. Dir: Hiroshi Negishi. Original story: Takehiko Ito. Script: Mayori Sekijima. Character design: Hirotoshi Sano. Anime dir: Hirotoshi Sano. Art dir: Tadashi Kudo. Music dir: Sho Goto. Prod co: Zero-G Room. Zero-G Room, Starchild, Toho. WESTERN CREDITS: US & UK video release 1996 on Manga Video, dub. ORIGINS: 2 CD drama discs in 1994. CATEGORIES: SF RATINGS: MAINSTREAM OVERVIEW: Three investigators check out a military project on the moon and learn that it's really an alien base full of beautiful cloned women. One of the women is already rather well known to one of the investigators, as they used to have a relationship, but Yoshiyuki is completely unaware of the horror awaiting him and his colleagues on the moon. Unfortunately, Yoshiyuki doesn't know that his ex-girlfriend is a clone, and that there's an entire army of them on the alien base who don't share their sister's warm feelings towards human males. Can the investigation team defeat an army of aliens bent on their destruction? BRONZE: DESPERATE LOVE SINCE 1989 (Eng trans for BRONZE ZETSUAI SINCE 1969) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1996. Dir: Kazuo Yamazaki & Yoshiro Kawasaki. Prod co: Shueisha. Ozaki, Shueisha. ORIGINS: Manga by Minami Ozaki, 1992 OAV Desperate Love 1989. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: N, V, G, EROTIC OVERVIEW: The love affair between Izumo and Koji seems doomed. Koji's father dies and his elder brother seems intent on breaking up the couple. Izumi has the chance to go to Italy and take his footballing career to a new level; the two of them would face terrible difficulties living as a gay couple. But they both learn that they can't give each other up so easily, whatever the consequences. CLEOPATRA (aka CLEOPATRA QUEEN OF SEX) TYPE: MOVIE. LENGTH: 113 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1970. Dir: Eiichi Yamamoto. Screenplay: Shigeru Satoyoshi. Prod: Osamu Tezuka. Prod co. Mushi. Tezuka Production. WESTERN CREDITS: US theatrical release 1971, dub, as Cleopatra Queen of Sex. ORIGINS: Manga by Osamu Tezuka. POINTS OF INTEREST: The US release was the first animated film ever to receive an X certificate. Future directors Gisaburo Sugii and Yoshiaki Kawajiri were among the animators. CATEGORIES: H, SF RATINGS: N, EROTIC OVERVIEW: The renowned Queen of the Nile is visited by time travellers from a future Earth in danger of alien invasion. Can her fabled charms work their magic on an alien commander from the far future? The woman who seduced Caesar and Mark Anthony (but failed with Octavian, perhaps because she wasn't really trying) sets out to make a lasting impression on a man from another planet. Sex, nudity drama and humour are all handled with intelligence and skill. COUNTDOWN (Eng title for YUWAKU COUNTDOWN, lit Temptation Countdown) TYPE: OAV series, 4 parts. LENGTH: Each 35 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1995-96. Dir: Shoichi Masuo & Naohito Takahashi. Character design: Sanae Chikanaga. Prod co: Pink Pineapple. H. Utatane, Fujimi Shuppan, Akane Shinsha, Pink Pineapple. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1995-96 on SoftCel Pictures, sub, trans Doc Issaac. ORIGINS: Manga by Hiroyuki Utatane, pub US by Eros Comics. POINTS OF INTEREST: Edited US versions of all 4 OAVs exist, each 5 mins shorter. CATEGORIES: P, F RATINGS: XX, NN, SM, G, PORN OVERVIEW: Erotic short stories parodying various anime and manga staples. A modern day subway encounter leads to erotic confusion. A sword-swinging macho man meets his match in a girl who can tie anything down. A bride has a last-minute fling before taking that walk to the altar - in fact, right in the vestry, with her groom and her guests waiting in the pews! A policewoman has to deal with a giant statue controlled by a sex-mad megalomaniac, with only her own sex-maniac robot to help out. This latter story features one of the few scenes of gay male sex in non shonen ai anime. CREAM LEMON 1 BE MY BABY (Eng title for CREAM LEMON SERIES PART I BI MAI BABY, lit Flirting Younger Sister Baby. The English pun is quite deliberate.) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1984. Prod co: Soeishinsha. Soeishinsha, Fairy Dust. POINTS OF INTEREST: The first in the long running series and the first adventure of its most successful character, Ami. SPINOFFS: Ami's story continued in Cream Lemon 5. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: XX, NN, PORN OVERVIEW: Ami and Hiroshi, brother and sister, have feelings for each other that no siblings should. When their stepmother goes away on business, they are left alone in the house and can explore those feelings. So they do. And Mum isn't happy when she finds out. CREAM LEMON 2 ESCALATION 4(Eng title for ESCALATION KONYA WA HARD CORE lit %Escalation: Tonight it's Hard Core) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1984. Prod co: Soeishinsha. Soeishinsha, Fairy Dust. SPINOFFS: 2 further episodes for this !storyline, in Cream Lemon 6 & 16. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: XX, NN, SM, G, PORN OVERVIEW: Rie is in bed with her piano teacher when they are surprised by her mother. Exit Rie for a strict Catholic girls' school. Mari is her roommate, but as she settles in, Rie develops a crush on senior girl Naomi. When Naomi invites Rie to room with her, she's flattered, but then she finds that her gloomy, withdrawn classmate Midori is to join them. Naomi draws the two younger girls into an intense relationship based on bondage and domination. So much for Catholic schools. CREAM LEMON 3 SUPERDIMENSIONAL SF LEGEND RALL (Eng trans for CREAM LEMON: SF CHOJIGEN DENSETSU RALL) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1984. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. POINTS OF INTEREST: Absolutely no censorship in this episode. SPINOFFS: A second Rall adventure was released (Cream Lemon 15). CATEGORIES: SF, F RATINGS: NN, V, PORN OVERVIEW: An evil overlord sets out to conquer the universe. The only thing in his way is a half-dressed warrior maid armed with a legendary sword. Parody of all the worst cliches in fantasy. CREAM LEMON 4 POP CHASER '(Eng title for CREAM LEMON: POP CHASER) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1985. Dir: Yuji Motoyama. Character design: Yuji Motoyama. Art dir: Yuji Motoyama. %Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. POINTS OF INTEREST: The director/ designer is Yuji Moriyama of Project 'A-Ko fame, working under a pseudonym. CATEGORIES: SF RATINGS: NN, XX, V, G, PORN OVERVIEW: Lesbian sex, group sex and sex in the pilot seat of a mobile suit all feature in this sci-fi spoof Western with more than a trace of Battle Beyond the Stars in both its story and its general air of cheerful cheesiness. The relationship of tough girl Rio and ditzy Mai is considered by many to mirror that of A-Ko and C-Ko in Project A-Ko (and it's true that we don't see A-Ko and C-Ko's first meeting in the original movie and OAVs...). Great fun. CREAM LEMON 5 AMI AGAIN (Eng title for CREAM LEMON: AMI AGAIN) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1985. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: A sequel to the first Cream Lemon OAV. SPlNOFFS: Ami returned in Cream Lemon 13. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: Ami is devastated when her stepmother sends her brother Hiroshi to London, ending their incestuous affair. Her friends try to cheer her up with a night out, but unfortunately she gels completely drunk and falls into bed dreaming that she's spending a wild night with Hiroshi once again. She wakes up next morning to find it was no dream, but her partner isn't Hiroshi... CREAM LEMON 6 ESCALATION 2: FORBIDDEN SONATA (Eng trans for CREAM LEMON: ESCALATION 2 KINDAN NO SONATA) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1985. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: A sequel to the second Cream Lemon OAV. SPINOFFS: The story continued in Cream Lemon 16. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, SM, G, PORN OVERVIEW: It's only when you leave school that you realise how much you miss your friends and the daft games you used to play together. Senior student and bondage queen Naomi has now graduated from her Catholic boarding school. She invites her old room-mates Rie and Midori, now seniors themselves, to her mansion for the weekend. They arrive to find that they are not the only guests, and that even though Naomi has joined the grown-up world, she doesn't intend to give up all her old hobbies. CREAM LEMON 7 DON'T DO IT, MAKO! MAKO SEXY SYMPHONY PART ONE 2(Eng trans for CREAM LEMON: IKENAI MAKOCHAN - MAKO SEXY SYMPHONY ZEMPEN) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS:1985. Dir: Toshihiro Hirano. Character design: Toshihiro Hirano. Art dir: Toshihiro Hirano. $Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. POINTS OF INTEREST: Hirano is the director responsible for such atmospheric chillers as Iczer-1 and Vampire Princess Miyu. SPINOFFS: Mako's story continued in Cream Lemon 12. CATEGORIES: P, F RATINGS: NN, XX, G, PORN OVERVIEW: Sixteen year-old Mako can't bear the thought of sex or any form of physical contact. She won't even contemplate wearing a short skirt, and does all she can to get out of school swimming classes. Obviously this isn't helping Yu, a love-struck classmate who is trying to get to know her better. But then a beautiful, ethereal girl shows up. Is she some kind of demon or vampire, or is it just that Mako's own feelings, repressed since childhood, have taken on physical form in a desperate effort to break free? CREAM LEMON 8 SUPER VIRGIN (Big title for CREAM LEMON: SUPER VIRGIN) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1985. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: A different leading lady named Mako with a very different agenda this time, in a tale of high school lechery and girl power. The Super Virgin Group is a psychic girl gang whose aim is to keep the boys in line. When one of their number falls in love and starts to see that male lust has its positive side, the scene is set for gang war. CREAM LEMON 9 HAPPENING SUMMER .(Eng title for CREAM LEMON: HAPPENING SUMMER) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1985. Dir: Ayako Mibashi. Character design: Ayako #Mibashi. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: At the start of the summer holidays, teenage girls plan their boy-hunting strategy. Yuki already has a guy who fancies her, Koji, but he is around her own age, clumsy, without much to recommend him - a real geek. She dreams of a much more sophisticated man, her older sister Keiko's boyfriend, Akira. Akira turns out to be not quite the dream lover she imagines, but of course she has to go a long way to find out. CREAM LEMON 10 STAR TRAP *(Eng title for CREAM LEMON: STAR TRAP) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1985. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: A parody of Star Trek and Japanese SF TV shows. CATEGORIES: SF, C RATINGS: NN, XX, G, PORN OVERVIEW: Dyke defenders of the galaxy Kanaka and Lan are off to investigate the disappearance of several ships in a distant quadrant. Lan is superstrong, Kanaka is a shapeshifter, and both are completely nuts. All resemblances to the Dirty Pair are probably intentional, and look out also for the many other film and television references. CREAM LEMON 11 BLACK CAT MANOR ((Eng trans for CREAM LEMON: KURONEKOKAN) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1986. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. WESTERN CREDITS: Edited for US release by Excalibur Films as part of Pandora: An Erotic Triology. CATEGORIES: H RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: Student Masaki Murakami heads out of Tokyo seeking refuge from the bombings in the winter of 1941. In the mountains he finds a strange old house, empty but for the widowed mistress Saiko, her daughter Arisa and their maid Aya. The strange atmosphere of the old house makes Masaki feel uneasy, but that does not stop him embarking on an affair with Saiko. !CREAM LEMON 12 DON'T DO IT, MAKO! MAKO SEXY SYMPHONY PART TWO 1(Eng trans for CREAM LEMON: IKENAI MAKOCHAN - MAKO SEXY SYMPHONY KOHEN) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1986. Dir: Toshihiro Hirano. Character design: Toshihiro Hirano. Art dir: Toshihiro "Hirano. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. $ORIGINS: A sequel to Cream Lemon 7. CATEGORIES: P, F RATINGS: NN, XX, G, PORN OVERVIEW: Mako has changed. She has gained confidence and will spend time with her classmate Yu, but she still hates to be touched, which isn't helping him get the romance going. Then the strange girl who seemed to change Mako's attitude comes to see Yu and tells him that two entities are fighting for control of Mako's body and mind. Unless she can balance her sexual attitudes, one or other of them will possess her soul and all hope for a happy, normal relationship for Mako and Yu will be gone. Now it's up to him. CREAM LEMON 13 AMI 3: NOW I EMBRACE YOU AMI 3(Eng trans for CREAM LEMON: AMI III IMA YORETE AMI) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1986. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS:Follows on from Cream Lemon 5. SPINOFFS: Ami's story continued in Cream Lemon: Ami's Journey. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: Big brother Hiroshi comes back from London for a few days and arranges to meet Ami, but all he wants is to end the relationship telling her that it will only damage both of them since the world can't accept an incestuous love. To try and forget her brother, Ami calls the guy she met "in her drunken fling at the disco. CREAM LEMON 14 NARIS SCRAMBLE 0(Eng trans for CREAM LEMON: NARISU SCRAMBLE) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1986. Dir: Ayako Mibashi. Character design: Ayako Mibashi. Art dir: Ayako Mibashi. %Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. CATEGORIES: F, C RATINGS: NN, XX, V, PORN OVERVIEW: A superdeformed heroine in battle armour and a giant mecha piloted by three wannabe Nazi lesbians slug it out for control of a local high school, parodying not only other anime but many of Cream Lemon's own cliches along the way. CREAM LEMON 15 SUPERDIMENSlONAL SF LEGEND RALL 2 0(Eng title for CREAM LEMON: SF CHOJIGEN DENSETSU 1RALL II - LAMO RU NO GYAKUSHU, lit Cream Lemon SF +Superdimensional Legend Rail 2 - Lamo Ru's Counterattack) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1986. Character design: Nekoda Nyan. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. "ORIGINS: Sequel to Cream Lemon 3. CATEGORIES: F RATINGS: NN, XX, VV, PORN OVERVIEW: The evil demon lord is still up to his old tricks, and it's not just the galaxy he wants to conquer - no female is safe from his wandering attentions. Carol takes up the magic blade of Rivers and gets on with the story, which has quickly moved from being a parody of the tired stereotypes of fantasy to being a #tired stereotype of fantasy itself. CREAM LEMON 16 ESCALATION 3: ANGELS' EPILOGUE )(Eng trans for CREAM LEMON: ESCALATION 3: TENSHITACHI NO EPILOGUE) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1986. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. "ORIGINS: Sequel to Cream Lemon 6. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, SM, G, PORN OVERVIEW: Tying up the first series, the story resumes as Rie, Mari and Midori are about to graduate from their high school. The girls are invited once again to Naomi's mansion for a party, and they initiate Rie's young friend Arisa and other junior girls into the same lesbian bondage pleasures Naomi introduced them to two years earlier. CREAM LEMON: AMI'S JOURNEY 1(Eng titie for CREAM LEMON: TABITACHI AMI SHUSHO, 0lit Cream Lemon: Ami's Journey, Final Chapter) TYPE: MOVIE. LENGTH: Approx 90 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1986. Dir: Bikkuri Hako. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: Follows on from Cream Lemon 13. SPINOFFS: Cream Lemon Special Ami Image White Shadow followed. CATEGORiES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: Cut off from her beloved brother Hiroshi, Ami's friends try to take her mind off the separation by going on a birthday trip to Hokkaido. It cheers her up a little bit, but Ami is shocked to discover on her return home that her father and stepmother have divorced... CREAM LEMON CLIMAX 3(Eng titie for CREAM LEMON CLIMAX ZENSHU, lit Cream Lemon Climax Compilation) TYPE: OAV series, 5 volumes. LENGTH: Each 50 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1988. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: Compiled from episodes of #the popular Cream Lemon OAV series. CATEGORIES: P, SF, D, C RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: Compilation tapes of the series. CREAM LEMON KEI AMAKI SPECIAL: CHERRY MELANCHOLY (Eng trans for CREAM LEMON KEI AMAKI SPECIAL: CHERRY NO YUTSU) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 40 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1989. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Amaki, Fairy Dust, Pony Canon. ORIGINS: Manga by Kei Amaki. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, X, PORN OVERVIEW: Young girls desperate for a man bump into each other on the street and decide to improvise. "CREAM LEMON SPECIAL - AMI GRAFFITI ,(Eng title for CREAM LEMON AMI SOSHUHEN: AMI 2SEISHUN GRAFFITI, lit Cream Lemon Ami Compilation: Ami Youth Graffiti) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 80 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1986. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: Compiled from the Ami episodes of the popular Cream Lemon OAV series. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN 'OVERVIEW: If you couldn't afford all of 'Ami's adventures, this tape compiles the lot (up to 1986), including some of the naughty bits. CREAM LEMON SPECIAL AMI IMAGE WHITE SHADOW 1(Eng trans for CREAM LEMON AMI IMAGE SHIROI KAGE) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1986. Dir: Bikkuri Hako. Character design: Yuko "Kurata. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: Follows on from Cream Lemon: Ami's Journey. SPINOFFS: The mini series New Cream "Lemon Ami - From Then On followed. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: N, X, PORN OVERVIEW: Left alone in a cruel world, Ami embarks on a career as an idol singer. Set before Ami - From Then On, this episode takes Ami on a trip to London for a secret meeting with Hiroshi. CREAM LEMON SPECIAL - THE DARK ((Eng title for CREAM LEMON SPECIAL DARK) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 47 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Original story: Nicholas Lloyd. Character design: Mako Nitta. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. WESTERN CREDITS: Edited for US release by Excalibur Films as part of Pandora: An Erotic Trilogy. CATEGORIES: D RATINGS: NN, XX, VV, PORN OVERVIEW: Two young men, one a priest, seek shelter in a castle in the middle of a dark, dense forest. The lady of the castle offers hospitality, but during the night she seduces and kills the priest. Using tricks from Western horror films and stories, this is a modern version of an old oriental horror story. Christian priests taste just as good as Buddhist ones, it seems. CREAM LEMON TO MORIYAMA BEST HIT: `I GUESS SO' (Eng trans for CREAM LEMON TO MORIYAMA BEST HIT: `SO KA MOSHINNAI') TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 35 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1989. Dir: To Moriyama. Character design: To #Moriyama. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: A young boy finds a gun while out walking in a park one night. and uses it to coerce a girl on the tram into giving him a blow job. This OAV also features public confessions, under-the-table masturbation scenes in a coffee house and some nasty uses for the casting couch at a television station. %CREAM LEMON YOUNG LOVE: ANGIE & ROSE 1(Eng title for CREAM LEMON AOI SEI ANGIE & ROSE, 7complex pun on `aoi': blue-pornographic, green-verdant, 6green-fresh/young, and `sei/saga': sex/custom/nature.) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1992. Character design: Mon-Mon. Prod:Kazuya Miyazaki. Prod co: Studio Soft. Fairy Dust, Studio Soft, Japan Home Video. POINTS OF INTEREST: There is an astronomical number of possible translations for this title; we have plumped for the bland option above for alphabetical and chronological reasons. As part of the marketing for Angle & Rose, Fairy Dust offered 3 phonelines at 100 yen a minute: `Dear Ami', `Cream Lemon Theatre' and `Lemon Confessions'. CATEGORIES: P RATING: N, PORN OVERVIEW: When he accepts his uncle's offer of a summer job, a Japanese boy spends a hot summer in the sensual maelstrom that is Canada, witness to the adventures of his blonde aunt, the experienced Rose, and her eldest daughter, the sultry rebel Angie. Somehow out of place in the nineties, this spinoff seems created more as a bonus item for the laserdisc retrospective than as a genuine !attempt to jump-start the series. CRYING FREEMAN TYPE: OAV series, 5 Parts. LENGTH: Each 50 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1988-92. Dir: Daisuke Nishio (1), Nobutaka Nishizawa (2), Johei Matsuura (3), Shigeyasu Yamauchi (4), Takaaki Yamashita (5). Screenplay: Higashi Shimizu (1,3 & 4), Ryunosuke Ono (2 & 5). Anime dir: Koichi Arai. Art dir: Masahiro Sato & Mitsu Nakamura. Music: Hiroaki Yoshino. Prod co: Toei. Toei Video. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1993 on Streamline Pictures and 1994-95 on Streamline Plctures/Orion Home Video, dub, Eng rewrite Gregory Snegoff; UK video release 1994 on Manga Video, dub. ORIGINS: Manga by Kazuo Koike & Ryoichi Ikegami, Eng trans pub Viz Communications (US), Titan Books (UK). POINTS OF INTEREST: The anime character designs follow the manga almost line for line. SPINOFFS: A successful 1997 live-action movie, directed by Christophe Gans. He has announced that his next anime inspired production will be Patlabor 2. CATEGORIES: P, T RATINGS: NN, XX, VV, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: A violent video with lots of sex scenes and some of the perviest bad guys (and gals) in anime. Crying Freeman is a Chinese assassin who rises to head the 108 Dragons clan with the aid of his wife, the only one of his intended victims ever to survive. The various trials and tribulations of criminal life involve a mad Barbie clone who wants to make him her personal sex toy and an African gang queen who believes in cutting right to the bone. The leading man gets his kit off - frequently - but otherwise most of the gratuitous nudity is female, and all of it is vague in the genital area. Not digitised, just not there. END. DANCE TILL TOMORROW (Eng title for ASATTE DANCE, lit Dance the Day After Tomorrow) TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1990-91. Dir: Teruo Kigure (1), Masamune Ochiai (2). Screenplay: Sheila Nakajima (1), Tomohiro Maruyama (2). Character design: Jiro Sayama. Music: Tetsuya Nakamura. Prod: Satoshi Nishino. Prod co: Knack. Yamamoto, Tokuma Japan Communications. ORIGINS: Manga by Naoki Yamamoto, serialised in Big Comic Spirits. Eng trans pub Viz (US), serialised in Pulp magazine. CATEGORIES: P, C RATINGS: N, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Women are only after one thing, unless that is, they stand to benefit from your inheritance. Another entry in the `unwelcome guest' stakes, not because our hero can't have sex with his roommate (he can, and does), but because he has to decide whether the gorgeous Aya really is the girl for him, or just a gold-digging sneak. DEMON BEAST INVASION 9(Eng title for YOJU KYOSHITSU, lit Demon Beast Classroom) TYPE: OAV series, 6 parts. LENGTH: Each 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1990-94. Dir: Jun Fukuda (1,2,5 & 6), Juki Maki (3 & 4). Screenplay: Joji Maki (1 & 2), Wataru Amano (3-6). Character design: Mari Mizuta (1 & 2), Hisashi Ezura (3 & 4), Toshikazu Uzami (5 & 6). Monster design: Junichi Watanabe. Art dir: Naoto Yokose. Music dir: Teruo Takahama. Prod co: Daiei T. Maeda, Daiei. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1995-96 on Anime 18, sub, trans Moe I.Yada. ORIGINS: Manga by Toshio Maeda. POINTS OF INTEREST: Features porn actresses in the main voice roles. Translator's pseudonym `Mo iya da' means `I can't take any more'. CATEGORIES: P, H RATINGS: XX, NN, VV, SM, PORN OVERVIEW: Why do invasions of demons always start in Japanese high schools? In fairness, this time the demons aren't invading - they're coming home. An ecological disaster drove them from Earth aeons ago and now they want the old place back. And of course, they have to mate with human women (preferably high. school girls or nurses, but they're not all that fussy) to create a new hybrid that can get the planet in good shape for Grandma and Grandpa's return. The Interplanetary Mutual Observation Agency is there to stop them, but not before lots of demonic tentacle rape scenes. DEVIL HUNTER YOKO .(UK title/trans for MAMONO HUNTER YOKO [pun on 6YO-bewitching. KO-child], US title DEVIL HUNTER YOHKO) TYPE: OAV series, 6 episodes. LENGTH: Part 1 45 mins, parts 2-6 each 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDlTS: 1991-95. Dir: Katsuhisa Yamada. Script: Yoshihiro Tomita. Character design: Takeshi Miyao. Anime dir: Tetsuro Aoki. Art dir: Takeshi Waki. Music: Hiroya Watanabe. Prod co: Madhouse. NCS, Toho Video. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1993-96 on AD Vision, sub, trans Arakaki & Dwayne Jones; UK partial video release 1995 on Western Connection, sub, trans Jonathan Clements. CATEGORIES: D RATINGS: N, V, X, EROTIC OVERVIEW: All men, the theme song tells us, are devils in disguise. Sixteen year-old Yoko is about to discover the truth for herself. Will she stay a virginal demon fighter in the tradition of the women of her line, or will she duck out of her responsibility and play around while she's still young and giddy? The demons who are invading the human world will do anything to diminish her powers, including enlisting the aid of a possessed classmate to try and `persuade' her to abandon virginity by fair means or foul. With the help of good advice, good friends, a bit of luck and sheer determination, Yoko navigates the perilous world of love %and magic and keeps her options open. DOOMED MEGALOPOLIS (Eng title for TEITO MONOGATARI, lit [Imperial/Capital] City Story) TYPE: OAV series, 4 parts. LENGTH: Each 50 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1991-92. Dir: Kazuyoshi Katayama (1), Kazuyoshi Katayama & Koichi Chigira (2-4), Kazushige Kume (3 & 4). Supervising dir: Taro Rin. Screenplay: Akinori Endo. Character design: Masayuki Goto. Anime dir: Koichi Hashimoto. Art dir: Hideyoshi Kaneko. Music: #Kazz Toyama. Prod co: Madhouse. H.Aramata, Toei. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1993-94 on Streamline Pictures, dub, Eng rewrite Ardwight Chamberlain; UK "video release 1994 on Manga Video. ORIGINS: Novels by Hiroshi Aramata, pub Kadokawa Shoten. POINTS OF INTEREST: Ardwight Chamberlain is the voice of Babylon 5's Ambassador Kosh. The Kanto earthquake also features in the Legend of the Overfiend. SPINOFFS: A live-action version is also available in the UK from Manga Video. CATEGORIES: P, D RATINGS: XX, NN, VV, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Incest and its impact are creepily portrayed here, and black magic is for once genuinely scary. It's not the sort of story you expect to end with a rendition of `All You Need is Love', which comes as something of a surprise. Part one has a strong turn-of-the-century opening with everything from a resurrected sorcerer plotting to take control of Tokyo's guardian spirit to the beginning of the incest subplot which is finally resolved in part four. Part two takes us up to the devastating Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and sees evil sorcerer Kato producing his own demonic offspring after the rape of an innocent girl. Part three introduces two new elements - the building of the Tokyo subway after the earthquake, disturbing ancient dragons, and the arrival of a Shinto priestess determined to save Kato's daughter from being sacrificed to further her father's lust for power. The final part is heavy with Shinto symbolism, but the demonic Kato is redeemed by the power of love, and the dark secret within the family is brought out into the open. DRAGON KNIGHT TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Part 1 40 mins, part 2 50 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1991-94. Dir: Jun Fukuda (1), Kaoru Toyo'oka (2). Screenplay: Akira Hatta. Original story: Masato Hiruda, Original idea: Dr Pochi. Original concept: Yoshinori Nakamura. Character design: Ako Sahara & Akira Kano. Anime dir: #Yuma Nakamura. Prod co: Polystar. Polystar, elf RPG, All Products. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1994-95 on AD Vision, sub, trans Ichiro Arakaki & Dwayne Jones. ORIGINS: Adult computer game by elf (Masato Hiruda). CATEGORIES: F RATINGS: X, N, V, SM, PORN OVERVIEW: A disappointment to those who liked the monsters in the RPG, this has plenty of unclad girls to take the edge off their sense of loss. Armed with sword and Polaroid, Takeru is a knavish knight rescuing girls in distress only to cop a peek at their charms. True love and friendship redeem him in the end, but not soon enough. DRAGON PINK TYPE: OAV series, 3 parts. LENGTH: Each 35 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1994-95. Dir: Wataru Fujii (1), Hitoshi Takai (2 & 3). Prod co: AIC. Iyotoko, Pink Pineapple. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1994-95 on SoftCel Pictures, sub, trans Doc lssaac. ORIGINS: Created by Iyotoko, best known in Japan for computer RPGs and garage kits, based on one of his games. POINTS OF INTEREST: Edited US versions of all 3 OAVs exist, each 5 mins shorter. CATEGORIES: F, C RATINGS: X, N, V, SM, PORN OVERVIEW: Its getting to the stage where `dragon' is a codeword for `large breasts' in anime. Sex slave Pink and her sword-slinging master wander a D&D universe losing battles, treasure and clothing, helped by their friends Pierce the elf and Bobo the warrior. Very silly. #DYING FOR A GIRL/ALTAR OF SACRIFICE (Eng trans for NANNICHI-KO NO SHINDE MO II/IKENIE NO SAIDAN) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1984. Original Story: Fumio Nakajima Prod co: Wonder Kids. F.Nakajima, Wonder Kids. ORIGINS: The first Wonder Kids Lolita Anime release was Reddening Snow/Girls Tortured With Roses. SPINOFFS: The later Variation is a direct sequel to Altar of Sacrifice. The next release in the series was House of Kittens. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, X, PORN OVERVIEW: The second Wonder Kids Lolita Anime release, and the last to include two short stories instead of one longer one. Dying for a Girl features a student who secretly admires the senior who is helping her with her tennis swing. Her desires find an opportunity when he rescues her from a would-he rapist in the park. Altar of Sacrifice, despite the Overfiend-soundalike title, is a tale of lesbian awakening, featuring two girls putting antique statues to novel uses. THE ELVEN BRIDE #(Eng title for ELF NO WAKA OKUSAMA, lit A Young Elven Bride) TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1995. Dir: Hiroshi Yamakawa. Original story: #Kazuma G-Verslon. Prod co: AIC. Kazuma G-Verslon, Mediax, Pink Pineapple. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1996 on AD Vision, sub, trans Kuni Kimura, Eng rewrite Matt Greenfield (1), Autumn Rowe (2). POINTS OF INTEREST: Milfa's uncanny resemblance to Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War. CATEGORIES: F RATINGS: N, X, PORN OVERVIEW: Elves mature slower than humans, so when Milfa marries the human Kenji, there's a slight proportional difference in their anatomical development. After self-help in part one doesn't entirely solve the problem, Milfa goes to a doctor specialising in interspecies relationships - who is also an incubus and a grade-A lech. END OF SUMMER (Eng title for DOKYUSEI NATSU NO OWARI #NI, lit Classmates: End of Summer) TYPE: OAV series, 4 parts. LENGTH: Each 55 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1994. Dir: Kinji Yoshimoto. Screenplay: Yuhiro Tomita. Character design: Ryunosuke Otonashi. Character concepts: Masaki Takei. Prod: KSS. Prod co: Pink Pineapple. elf, Pink Pineapple, Cinema Paradise, Hero. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1994-95 on AD Vision, sub, Eng trans Ichiro Arakaki & Dwayne Jones (1 & 2), %Masako Arakawa & Chris Hutts (3 & 4). ORIGINS: Based on the computer game "Classmates by elf (Masato Hiruda). POINTS OF INTEREST: Note the presence $of Plastic Little's Kinji Yoshimoto. SPINOFFS: The sequel, Kakyusei, was "released in the US as First Loves. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: XX, N, PORN OVERVIEW: Wataru really loves Mai, but with other girls throwing themselves at him all summer long, what's a boy to do? The typical teenage boy dream; lots of gorgeous women just falling into your lap, and a Girl Next Door who believes you when you say you couldn't help yourself. The artwork is really lovely. You can observe the artists' skill with flesh tones in some detail. F3: FRANTIC, FRUSTRATED & FEMALE /(Eng title for NAGEKI NO KENKO YURYOJI, lit The .Lament of an Otherwise Perfectly Healthy Girl) TYPE: OAV series, 3 parts. LENGTH: Each 35 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1994-95. Dir: Masakazu Akan. Character design: Kaji Hamaguchi. Anime dir: Kaji Hamaguchi. Planning: Kinya Watanabe. Prod co: Pink Pineapple. Wan Yan A Gu Da, Pink Pineapple. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1995 on SoftCel Pictures, sub, trans Ichiro Arakaki, Eng rewrite Matt Greenfleid. ORIGINS: Manga by Wan Yan A Gu Da, pub Fujimi. POINTS OF INTEREST: The script backtracks on the incestuous characters of part 1, later claiming that they only look as if they are related. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: XX, NN, G, PORN OVERVIEW: Hiroe seeks all kinds of aids for her feelings of teenage frustration, from the appliance of science to a lesbian biker bash with her mum and sister. All this is supposedly to help her achieve orgasm, without which she won't feel fulfilled by her boyfriend. But all she's really looking for is the `right' man to ring her bell (ie the viewer), turning this sapphic satire into the logical extremes of the Abba song `The Day Before You Came', in which a woman catalogues how dreary her life was before the arrival of her perfect lover. Immortal dialogue like `I'll shoot you all with my cannon of love' shows Matt Greenfield's editorial hand at work; his apparent insistence on cheesy American vernacular certainly !pays dividends in the porn genre. FIRST LOVES -(Eng title for KAKYOSEI, lit Underclassmates) TYPE: OAV series, 4 parts. LENGTH: Each 18 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1995. Dir: Koichi Yoshida & Kan Fukumoto. Screenplay: Yu Yamamoto. Character design: Yuji Takahashi. Anime dir: Yuji Takahashi. Storyboards: Kan Fukumoto & Hiroshi Yoshida. Prod co: Pink Pineapple. Pink Pineapple. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1996 on AD Vision, sub. ORIGINS: Based on Classmates, $released in the US as End of Summer. SPINOFFS: There is now a special `elf' edition of the series, for those %who like their porn with pointy ears. CATEGORIES: P RATlNGS: XX, N, PORN OVERVIEW: The protagonists in this sequel to End of Summer are younger high school kids, though the American version points out that they're not legally minors. Kakeru follows Wataru's lead, trying to make it with his dream girl (his first) but getting distracted here and there, through no fault of his own, of course. FOBIA TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 47 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1995. Dir: Shigenori Awai. Screenplay: Naruhiko Tatsumiya. Character design: U-Jin. Anime dir: Yoshinobu Yamakawa. Art dir: Junichiro Nishikawa. Sound: Noriyoshi Matsuura. Prod to: Gaga. U-jin, Leed, Tec, Gaga. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1998 on Anlme 18, dub, trans Kevin McKeown. ORIGINS: Manga by U-jin, pub Leed/Read Comic. CATEGORIES: P, H RATINGS: NN, XX, V, PORN OVERVIEW: The drama group at Enoshima College is disrupted by the murder of a potential leading lady Mutsumi suspects his fellow student Sato, but Sato has been possessed by repliniods from the future who feed on the blood of Japanese schoolgirls. Luckily Mutsumi's best mate turns out to be a time-travelling warrior princess who has come back from the year 2112 searching for a hero to wield a magic sword and fight the beasts. That hero is Mutsumi, a geek who gets an erection every time he's worried. He certainly wouldn't get one watching this slow, moronic, repetitive junk which takes recycling of footage and ideas to new depths. END. DESPERATE LOVE 1989 (Eng trans for ZETSUAI 1989) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1992. Dir: Takuji Endo. Script: Tatsuhiko Urahata. Anime dir: Tetsuro Aoki. Art dir: Shinichi Uehara. Storyboards: Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Prod Co: Madhouse. Ozaki, Shueisha. ORIGINS: Manga by Minami Ozaki, serialised in Margaret magazine. SPINOFFS: Another OAV, Bronze: Desperate Love Since 1989, was produced in 1996. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: N, XX, G, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Izumo is a gifted young sportsman with a terrible secret in his past. Koji Nanjo is the son of a wealthy family who despise his career as a rock singer. When he and his friend Katsumi Shibuya enter Izumo's life, they change his entire future. Neither of the young men would describe himself as `gay', yet they find themselves falling for each other. Their love is too strong to resist and they become emotionally and sexually involved in an affair which could end both their careers. Prime shonen ai material. GHOST IN THE SHELL $(Eng title/trans for KOKAKU KIDOTAI) TYPE: MOVIE. LENGTH: 75 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1995. Dir: Mamoru Oshii. Screenplay: Kazunori Ito. Character design: Hiroyuki Okiura. Mecha design: Shoji Kawamori & Atsushi Takeuchi. Music: Kenji #Kawai. Prod co: Production IG. Shirow, Kodansha, Bandai Visual, Manga Entertainment. WESTERN CREDITS: US & UK theatrical release 1995, video release 1996 on Manga Video, sub, dub, trans Taro Yoshida & Paul C.Halbert. ORIGINS: Manga by Masamune Shirow serialised in Young Magazine. SPINOFFS: A sequel to the manga is now appearing in Japan. CATEGORIES: SF RATINGS: N, V, MAINSTREAM OVERVIEW: Oshii's film is richly sensual, with a visceral score and wonderful, almost subliminal detail. Ito wisely simplifies Shirow's right-wing manga down to the bare bones of a romantic metaphor, but the result is still powerful. Motoko Kusanagi and her colleagues in an elite government squad are on the track of a cybercriminal. As they learn more about him and his origins, Kusanagi questions the basis of her world and her own existence. She is largely a machine yet has a human consciousness; she wants to be free of the confines of the physical world, yet feels the need for ongoing relationships and contacts. The so-called cybercriminal holds the key to a new way of living, and Kusanagi wants to find out the truth about him. Interestingly, all the female shells in this story are just that, mere disposable dolls made to serve a function, with the exception of Kusanagi herself. The only character in the story who talks about a `normal' relationship, with a wife and daughter, turns out to be a deluded low-life parroting the fictions fed to him by a superior intellect. The only relationship which challenges Kusanagi's loyalty to her team is the one which will enable her ultimately to shed her female shell and swim free in the currents of information which now circle the world as relentlessly as any ocean's. THE GIGOLO 4(Eng title for DOCHINPIRA: ONNA DAISUKI!, lit Vulgar Punk: I Love Women!) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1993. Dir: Hiromitsu Ota. Screenplay: Amano. Art dir: Shigemune Kikoyama. Storyboards: Hironobu Saito. Prod co: Studio Kikan T.Doko, Seiyo, Jackpot. WESTERN CREDITS: UK video release 1994 on Kiseki Films, dub, trans Ryoichi Murata. ORIGINS: Story by Makio Hara & Tetsumi Doko. POINTS OF INTEREST: This title was among the UK top 20 selling anime videos for over 18 months after its release. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: XX, NN, V, SM, PORN OVERVIEW: It isn't often you get two for the price of one, but here you can have cheap and nasty in one video. Jin is a young man who drops out of college to make a living selling his body to bored rich women in Tokyo. A life of hanging round bars and shopping malls suits him to perfection despite the occasional rough client, but he gets involved with the wrong woman and finds himself up to his neck in gangland warfare. The plot, script, characterisation and pacing are all so banal and predictable that you could get more of an erotic charge out of watching paint dry. THE GIRL FROM PHANTASIA (Eng title for FANTASIA) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 40 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1993. Dir: Jun Kamiya. Character design: Kazuya Kise, Art dir: Kazuya Kise. Music: Toshiyuki Watanabe. Prod co: Starchlld Records. King Records, IG. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1994 on AD Vision, sub, trans Ichiro Arakaki. ORIGINS: Manga by Akane Nagano. CATEGORIES: C, F RATINGS: X, V, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Everyone thinks magic makes life easier. But when Akihiro buys a new rug for his student digs, hoping it will help him seduce his girl by providing a comfier setting for his advances, he finds that's not always true. The gorgeous female sprite who pops out of the carpet might not be a problem in herself (though his girlfriend is unlikely to agree), but the rug is a gateway to another dimension and there are much less soft and cuddly things waiting to emerge. As evil spirits start to pour out of the rug and into our world, Akihiro has two big problems - get them back before they do any harm, and stop his girlfriend from finding out about the good-natured generous, uninhibited and underdressed Malon (who is just one vowel away from being a pun on her own anatomy). All the jokes have been done before, so that's quite enough about shag piles at the back. GOLDEN BOY TYPE: OAV series, 6 parts. LENGTH: Each 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1995-96. Dir: Hiroyuki Kitakubo & Tatsuya Egawa. Character Design: Toshihiro Kawamoto. Anime dir: Toshihiro Kawamoto, Yasuhito Kikuchi, Masa Honda & Michiyo Suzuki. Art dir: Tatsuya Kushida & Yuji Ikehata. Prod Design: Hiroyuki Kitakubo. Storyboards: Hiroyuki Kitakubo. Music Joyo Katayanagi. Prod co: APPP. T.Egawa, KSS, Shueisha. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1996 on AD Vision, sub, Eng rewrite Matt Greenfield. ORIGINS: Manga by Tatsuya Egawa, pub Shueisha. POINTS OF INTEREST: Egawa is also author of the manga Magical Talruto-kun (also a TV series) and Be Free. CATEGORIES: P, C RATINGS: NN, X, EROTIC OVERVIEW: The amorous adventures of a young man who sets out on his pushbike to seek the university of life, where all the professors seem to be female and gorgeous. Kintaro is a voyeur with a beast fetish almost as serious as his passion for computers, and he's given to practices Western males may find a little strange - sniffing toilet seats after ladies have used them, for instance - alongside the normal lechery and groping. Amazing art and some humour. GUY 3(Eng title for GUY: YOMA KAKUSEI,lit Guy: The Demon /Awakes, & GUY SECOND TARGET OGON NO MEGAMI HEN, 4lit Guy Second Target Chapter of the Golden Goddess) TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 40 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1988 & 1992. Dir: Yorihisa Uchida. Character design: Yasuhiro Makino (1), Yorihisa Uchida (2). Mecha design: Yukio Tomimatsu (1), Eiichi Akiyama & Eiko Murata (2). Monster design: Masami Obari. Music: Nobuhiko Kashihara. Prod co: Friends. Media Station. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1993 on AD Vision, sub, trans Ichiro Arakaki & Dwayne Jones; UK video release 1994 on Animania, dub. POINTS OF INTEREST: The US version of part 1 retains the sequences edited from the UK release. However, there is also an edited version available in the US. CATEGORIES: SF, H RATINGS: XX, NN, VV, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Schlock horror porn for the wannabes of the MTV generation. It's trying very hard to be cool, but can't wipe off the drool. The infamous gun rape sequence of part one is the bit most likely to give offence to any thinking person (any thinking person who hasn't yet borrowed it for their own live action thriller, that is), but the whole premise is largely based on mindless titillation and spares no "stereotype in pursuit of its goal. HANAPPE BAZOOKA TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 55 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1992. Dir: Yoyu Ikegami. Character design: Fujio Oda. Art dir: Fujio Oda. Prod co: Studio Signal. Koike, Nagai Dynamic Planning, Nippon Crown. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1996 on AD Vision, sub, trans Ichiro Arakaki; UK video release 1997 on AD Vision UK, sub. ORIGINS: Manga by Kazuo Koike & Go Nagai, pub Shueisha. POINTS OF INTEREST: A more serious study of the same themes can be found in Nagai's Shutendoji. CATEGORIES: P, C, F RATINGS: NN, XX, G, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Teenage loser Hanappe has a wildly disinterested (not to say dysfunctional) family and is constantly getting beaten up by a gang of bullies. Then his life changes for the worse. Two demons - one male, one female - arrive from the netherworld and give him the gift of irresistible sex appeal. Like all demonic gifts, though, the catch isn't clear until you read the small print. But Hanappe's sweet nature and kind heart win over the demons, and the girl of his dreams. All he really wanted was a happy family and a nice girl, and after lesbian bondage, demonic sex parties and hordes of rampant old ladies have disrupted the fabric of space-time, that's what he gets in the end. HOLEY PANTS: DESIRE ON A STROLL -(Eng trans for PANTS NO ANA: MANBO DE GANBO) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Dir: Nobuyuki Kitajima. Original story: Pants no Ana. Gakushu Kenkyusha, Soeishinsha, Pony Canyon. ORIGINS: Stories and letters in Bomb! magazine. POINTS OF INTEREST: Supposedly written, directed, cast and scored with the aid of fan comments and questionnaires returned to the production company. CATEGORIES: P, C RATINGS: N, EROTIC OVERVIEW: The ad blurb claims that this is a sweet, humorous look at teen worries, born from the real-life concerns of correspondents with Bomb! magazine. An excellent excuse to blame the audience if a project is unsuccessful. Since there were no follow-ups, we can assume that the experiment was a failure. HOMEROOM AFFAIRS 4(Eng title for TANIN NO KANKEI, lit Human Relations) TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1994. Dir: Osamu Sekita. Screenplay: Hiroyuki Kawasaki. Character design: Minoru Yamazawa. Art dir: Akira Furuya. Music: Hiroyuki Takei. Prod co: JC Staff. Arima, Hakusensha, Jam Creation, JC Staff. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1994 on Star Anime Enterprises, sub, trans John T.Carr III. ORIGINS: Manga by Ichiro Arima, pub Hakusensha. CATEGORiES: P, C RATINGS: X, N, V, EROTIC OVERVIEW: This constantly promises more than it delivers in erotic terms. Just as the heroine can't decide whether she's really a bad girl or just a confused child in need of a strong man to look after her, so the script and direction can't decide if they're a soft porn flick or a tender romance with bits of sexual titillation. Through a series of wildly unlikely coincidences, a young man in his first teaching job finds himself living with one of his pupils. It's all innocent, despite her best efforts, but he'd get sacked if he was caught. Then her ex shows up, there's a bit of trouble, and Teacher gets beaten to a pulp saving her from a gang rape. In the end there's a proper engagement, with a wedding planned for when she graduates. HOMOSEXUAL REPORT (Eng trans for OKAMA HAKUSHO) TYPE: OAV series, 3 parts. LENGTH: Each 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1992-92. Dir: Teruo Kigurashi. Screenplay: Ippei Yamagami (1), Sheila Yamazaki (2 & 3). Character design: Teruo Kigurashi. Music: Jiro Takemura. Prod co: Knack. Knack. ORIGINS: Manga by Hideo Yamamoto, serialised In Young Sunday. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: N, G, EROTIC OVERVIEW: A gay man troubled by his own uncertainties decides to test out his feelings by approaching his close friend's girlfriend in this contemporary tragicomedy. HOUSE OF KITTENS !(Eng title for KONEKO-CHAN NO IRU MISE, lit Where the Kittens Are) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1984. Original Story: Fumio Nakajima. Prod co: Wonder Kids. F.Nakajima, Wonder Kids. ORIGINS: The previous Wonder Kids Lolita release was Dying for a Girl/Altar of Sacrifice. POINTS OF INTEREST: According to the Newtype Animesoft compendium, this was the most popular of the Lolita Anime series. SPINOFFS: Variation was the next release in the series. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: N, PORN OVERVIEW: The third Wonder Kids Lolita Anime release, in which two schoolgirls catch their teacher in the act and decide to experiment with each other. Another girl fantasises about what sex would be like with an older man, circumventing censorship restrictions by assuring us it's all happening inside her head. I GIVE MY ALL (Eng trans for MINNA AGECHAU) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Dir: Osamu Uemura. Character design: Masashi Tsukasa. Storyboards: Osamu Uemura. Prod: Minoru Takahashi. Prod co: Animate Film. CBS Sony. ORIGINS: Based on the manga by Hikari Yuzuki. CATEGORIES: P, C RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: Yuno is a bored girl from a good family who spends an afternoon snooping from her bedroom window with a pair of binoculars and catches a young neighbour engaged in manual activity with a pornographic magazine. Taking pity on his solitary state, she drops round to see him, and finds that #he has problems only she can solve. END. JUNK BOY 3(Eng tItle for THE INCREDIBLE GYOKAI VIDEO JUNK BOY (lit The Incredible Trade Video Junk Boy) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Dir: Katsuhisa Yamada.Screenplay: Tatsuhiko Urahata & Hiroyuki Fukushima. Character design: Hiroshi Hamasaki Chief animator: Hiroshi Hamasaki. Special Animation by: Yoshiaki #Kawajiri. Music: Takashi Kudo. Y.Kunimoto, Futabasha, Victor Entertainment. WESTERN CREDITS: UK & US video release 1996 on Manga Entertainment, !dub, Eng rewrite George Roubicek. ORIGINS: Manga by Yasuyuki Kunimoto, pub Futabasha. CATEGORIES: P, C RATINGS: NN, XX, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Ryohei is a nerd and a creep with an overwhelmingly obvious interest in sex and correspondingly fashionable baggy pants. He talks his way into his dream job as dogsbody on Potato Boy magazine, where he has to evaluate photos (of naked girls), do investigative journalism (concerning naked girls who work in the sex trade) and attend celebrity photoshoots (with famous naked girls). Oh, and he gets to have a close encounter with his boss's underwear drawer. Reviewers with enough sense to know better have described this as amusing, sweet, or even inventive and sexy; the authors think it's a colossal yawn and would #be offensive if it weren't so dumb. KAMA SUTRA 1(Eng title for TOKKYO NO SEX ADVENTURE KAMA SUTRA lit Ultimate Sex Adventure Kama Sutra) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 43 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1992. Dir: Masayuki Ozeki. Screenplay: Seiji Matsuoka. Character design: Shinsuke Taresawa. Art dir: Chihata Miyazaki. Music: Ken Yajima. Prod co: Animate. Go Nagai, Dynamic Planning, Toho Video. WESTERN CREDITS: UK video release 1994 on Western Connection, sub; US video release 1998 on Kitty Media, sub. ORIGINS: Ancient Hindu erotic text; manga by Go Nagai. CATEGORIES: F, C RATINGS: X, N, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Another of Nagai's saucy postcards, this time from India. A nineteen year-old virgin (whose girlfriend can't wait to remedy the situation) is on an archaeological dig when he discovers a beautiful Hindu princess who has been frozen for centuries, along with a magic cup which can give both endless pleasure and eternal life to those who drink from it. Of course, first the cup has to be filled with the right mix of bodily fluids. A harmless bit of smut with Nagai's characteristic good humour. KEKKO KAMEN 1(US title for KEKKO KAMEN; UK title KEKKOU KAMEN) TYPE: OAV series, 4 episodes. LENGTH: Each 27 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1991-92. Dir: Nobuhiro Kondo. Screenplay: Masashi Sogo. Character design: Tomo Hirayama. Opening animation dir: Koji Morimoto. Music: Keiji Ishikawa. Exec prod: Go Nagai & Genji Hiruta. Prod: Kenji Nagai, Yoshinaga Minami & Masaharu Takayama. Prod co: Studio Signal. Go Nagai, Dynamic Planning. WESTERN CREDITS: UK video release 1995 on East2West on 2 tapes, dub, trans Jonathan Clements; US video release 1995 on AD Vision, sub, trans Masako Arakawa & Chris Hutts. ORIGINS: Manga by Go Nagai. POINTS OF INTEREST: Note Memories' Koji Morimoto as director of opening animation. SPINOFFS: A feature-length live action version directed by Go Nagai in 1991. It has been released on video in the US and stars Chris Aoki, Japan's Playmate of 1990. CATEGORIES: C, F RATINGS: NN, XX, V, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Go Nagai didn't single-handedly make sex funny, but he knows how to bring out the humour in any sexual situation. He points out the silliness of sex with a heart-warming absence of malice. Kekko Kamen, the `Warrior of Love and Justice', fights to defend the innocent - no, make that hapless - Mayumi from the various perverts and sadists who make up the staff of her high school. The episode one torture scene, in which a girl is tied to a giant rotating swastika, was not popular with the British censor. LA BLUE GIRL ,(Eng title for INJU GAKUEN LA BLUE GIRL, $lit Lust-Beast Academy La Blue Girl) TYPE: OAV series, 6 parts. LENGTH: Each 45 mins except part 6, 60 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1992-94. Dir: Raizo Kitakawa (1), Kan Fukumoto (2 & 3, 5 & 6), Rin'o Yanagikaze (4 & 6). Screenplay: Megumi Ichiyanagi. Character design: Kinji Yoshimoto (1), Rin Shin (2-6). Art dir: Bibimba Miyake (1), Taro Taki (2-6). !Music dir: Teruo Takahama. T.Maeda, Daiei. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1995-96 on Anime 18, sub, dub; UK video certificate refused by the BBFC, 1996. ORIGINS: Manga by Toshio Maeda. POINTS OF INTEREST: The censoring digitisation imposed for the Japanese %market was removed in the US release. SPINOFFS: A sequel series entitled Lady Blue. A live-action version was also released in Japan. CATEGORIES: F, H RATINGS: XX, NN, VV, SM, PORN OVERVIEW: High school girls Miko Mido and her sister are heirs to an ancient ninja clan. Clan rivalry exposes them to attack by lust-crazed demons. It turns out in the end that the girls are half-demon themselves, which technically speaking throws incest into the mix as well. The ongoing adventures of Miko mix family problems, high school friendships and girl rivalries with sequences of multi-tentacled demonic rape which, if they do nothing else, will put you off eating squid for the rest of your life. LADY BLUE TYPE: OAV series, 4 parts. LENGTH: Each 60 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1996-97. Dir: Kan Fukumoto. Script: Megumi Ichiryu. Character design: Rin Shin. Art dir: Shoji Hitachi. Storyboards: Kan Fukumoto. Exec prod: Rusher Ikeda. Prod: Smally Izumi & Kento Maki. Prod co: Daiei. Toshio Maeda, Daiei. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1998 on Anime 18, sub, trans Kevin McKeown. ORlGINS: Manga by Toshio Maeda; sequel to La Blue Girl. POINTS OF INTEREST: The digitisation imposed for the Japanese market was removed in the US release. CATEGORIES: F, H RATINGS: XX, NN, VV, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Miko Mido is in college and falling in love for the very first time, much to the jealousy and frustration of her ninja sidekick Nin-Nin. But an ancient curse, the result of a love affair gone tragically wrong, puts her would-be boyfriend in danger. Thanks to the BBFC, the people of Britain will be forever protected from lines like: `The flute strangely resounds through the Shikima and forebodes the revived hatred of the Anti-Shikima stemming from an incident that happened 400 years ago'. And who can forget: `ln this world the flute makes a strange, intoxicating sound that brings forth an amorous rapture in young women'. LEGEND OF LYON: FLARE )(Eng title/trans for LYON DENSETSU FLARE) TYPE: OAV series, 2 episodes. LENGTH: Each 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1986 & 1990. Dir: Yorihisa Uchida. Character design: Yorihisa Uchida & Yakihiro Makino. Prod co: Media Station. Media Station. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1994 on AD Vision, sub, trans Doc Isaac (sic). POINTS OF INTEREST: Described by one US reviewer as `Urotsukidoji's drooling Idiot cousin'. CATEGORIES: F, H RATINGS: X, V, NN, SM, PORN OVERVIEW: Once again, the tentacled alien hordes are invading and they want our women. Luckily for the monstrous rapists, psychic lovely Flare doesn't use her considerable powers until after most of her friends have got closer to the calamares than they would have liked. Aided by her sword-slinging sidekick Neris, Flare finally makes sushi of the monsters. In part two, however, she learns that something is lurking in the woods and has to start the whole process again. Some people never learn, whether they're tentacled monsters or anime buyers. LOLIKON ANGEL: PRETTY GIRL COMIC: SECRET EXPERIENCE $(Eng trans for LOLIKON ANGEL BISHOJO COMIC HIMITSU NO AJI) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. "JAPANESE CREDITS: 1985. Prod co: !Pumpkin Pie. Japan Home Video. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: N, G, PORN OVERVIEW: One of the Cream Lemon clones rushed out to cash in on the lolikon fad, this one is a thinly plotted excuse to get three underage girls under a shower together. Even the normally timid Newtype comments that: `while there may be hard lesbian action, the animation and storyline are considerably below standard'. LOVE'S WEDGE (Eng trans for Al NO KUSABI, can also #trans as Ties of Love, Loving Bond) TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 60 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1992 & 1994. Dir: Akira Nishimori (1), Kazuhito Akiyama (2). Script: Naoko Hasegawa (1), Reiko Yoshihara (2). Art dir: Yoichi Nango. Prod co: AIC. Yoshihara, AIC, Magazine. ORIGINS: Novel by Reiko Yoshihara illustrated by Katsumi Michihara, pub June magazine. CATEGORIES: SF RATINGS: XX, N, V, G, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Set in a future in which teenage `Pets' are sex slaves to wealthy and powerful adults, this powerful shonen ai tale of doomed love, corruption and nobility is elegantly animated, though with major differences in style between the two episodes. LUNATIC NIGHT TYPE: OAV 2 episodes. LENGTH: Each 35 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1996-97. Dir: Fuyumi Shirakawa (1), Teruo Kigure (2). Screenplay: Shinji Nishiyama & Haruka Kaio. Character design: Kiginmaru Oi. Gen prod: Seiichi Nishino. Prod: Shigeyuki Hasegawa & #Noriko Nishino. Prod co: Knack. Mii, Mediax, Knack. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1998 on Anime 18, sub, trans Kevin McKeown. ORIGINS: Manga by Akira Mii. POINTS OF INTEREST: US version removes the censoring digitisation, giving the characters infantile genitalia to match their infantile behaviour. CATEGORIES: P, SF, F, C RATINGS: NN, XX, SM, PORN OVERVIEW: Seemingly written by four drunken hacks taking turns on each page, this script begins on a moonlit night when college boy Kanzaki gets a sex-crazed girl for a pet. She's there to remind him he's the lord of Atlantis and final incarnation of Krishna, forced to fight his satanic schoolmate Mutsuki for control of the world amidst innumerable jokey references to classic manga and anime like Babel II, Giant Robe and Striker. Watch in particular for V-girl, a robotic minion who is an evil, whip-wielding dominatrix when her batteries are inserted the wrong way round, but becomes a shy virginal schoolgirl when you follow the instructions in the manual. In part two, overindulgence has turned all Atlantean men into penises and incredible power awaits the man who can pass the trials and give Queen Estelle the orgasm of a lifetime. Kanzaki also has to pleasure a giant Amazon who drowns him with her breasts and prompts the meaningful quote: `She's huge! I could stick my whole head in there.' We would like to apologise for making this sound a lot more interesting than it is. LUST ALIEN 0(Eng title for INJU ALIEN, lit Lust-Beast Alien) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1997. Dir: Norio Takanami. Character design: Ryu Tsukiyo. Storyboards: Shin Taira. Prod co: Pink Pineapple. Pink Pineapple. CATEGORIES: SF RATINGS: N, V, PORN OVERVIEW: A thousand light years from home, and without a man in sight, an all-female space crew resorts to lesbian sex to slake their sensual thirst. But when the ship is attacked by a multi-tentacled alien monster with a craving for female flesh, the scene is set for many tits and many tentacles, in what is supposedly an original contribution to the genre because it doesn't take place in a high school. END. MAD BULL 34 TYPE: OAV series, 4 episodes. LENGTH: Each 60 mins except part 4, 50 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1990-92. Dir: Tetsu Dezaki. Screenpiay: Toshiaki Imaizumi Art dir: Nobutaka Ike. Music dir: Katsunori Shimizu. Prod co: Magic Bus. Koike, Inoue, Shueisha, Pony Canyon. WESTERN CREDITS: US & UK video release 1996 on Manga Video, dub, Eng rewrite John Wolskel. ORIGINS: Manga by Kanzuo Koike & Noriyoshi Inoue, pub Shueisha. CATEGORIES: P, T RATINGS: X, V, SM, MAINSTREAM OVERVIEW: One man's exotic location is another man's home beat, but he wouldn't necessarily recognise it as such. The New York of Mad Bull 34 is a white trash homeland of run-down brownstones inhabited by pimps, junkies and hookers with hearts of gold, where corrupt cops run the city and wet-behind-the-ears rookies find out that they're really the good guys, whatever police academy may have told them. The mentor character Sleepy `educates' his young partner on the mean streets through such romps as transvestism in the course of duty and running a hospital fund for hookers. The sub-standard animation was bad enough. The dub makes it worse. MAGIC LIPSTICK (Eng trans for MAHO NO ROUGE LIPSTICK) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1985. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Akushinsha. CATEGORIES: P, F RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: Yuma is given a magic lipstick with which she can transform herself into a grown woman. In this stunningly beautiful form, she decides to seduce her brother. MEGAMI PARADISE 4(Eng title for MEGAMI TENGOKU, lit Goddess Paradise) TYPE: OAV series, 2 episodes. LENGTH: Each 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1995. Dir Katsuhiko Nishijima. Screenplay: Mayori Sekijima. Original Story: Akihiro Yoshimi. Scenario: Koji Shimana & Masaki Kawato. Character design: Noriyasu Yamauchi. Anime dir: Noriyasu Yamauchi. Art dir: Yoji Nakaza. Storyboards: Ko Matsuzono (1), Katsuhiko Nishijima (2). Prod co: Animate. Megami Takada, Kensetsu linkai, Media Works, King Record, MOVIC. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1996 on AD Vision, sub, trans Ichiro Arakaki. ORIGINS: Video game and subsequent manga, pub Dengeki PC Engine magazine. CATEGORIES: F RATINGS: N OVERVIEW: Like the original game, this is an excuse to see girls in skimpy, see-through or collapsing outfits. There's an apology for a plot about the lovely shrine maidens having to defend the realm of peace and light from the followers of the Dark Goddess, but if you expect it to make much sense you've come to the wrong place. MELANCHOLY SLAVE 1(Eng trans for AI DORU, lit Melancholy Slave, but 'also pun on `Idol' and `Love Slave') TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: Each 38 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1997. Dir: Raizo Kitagawa. Screenplay: Yuri Kanai & Naomi Hayakawa. Original story: Naomi Hayakawa. Character design: Aidoru Project. Storyboards: Kazumasa Muraki. Prod co: Raishin Film. Hayakawa, Raishin, JVC. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: SM, N, PORN OVERVIEW: Bereft at her mother's death, Rachel goes into a convent, only to discover that the contemplative life is not quite as she imagined when she is bound, gagged and sexually assaulted by lust-crazy lesbian nuns. MIDNIGHT ANIME LEMON ANGEL TYPE: TV series, 47 episodes. LENGTH: Each 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987-88. Art director: Yuji Moriyama. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Aichi. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: N, G, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Three lovely teenagers - and the three actresses who provide their voices - share their midnight confidences and fantasies with the television audience. MIYUKI-CHAN IN WONDERLAND 4(Eng title/trans for FUSHIGI NO KUNI NO MIYUKl-CHAN) TYPE: OAV series, 2 episodes. LENGTH: Each 35 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1995. Dir: Masuo Maruyama. Prod: Masahiro Otake. #Prod co: Mad House, Animate Film. CLAMP, Sony Music Entertainment, Kadokawa, MOVIC. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1997 on AD Vision, sub, trans Ichiro Arakaki. ORIGINS: Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass; the manga #Miyuki-chan in Wonderland by CLAMP. CATEGORIES: F RATINGS: NN, G, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Miyuki is an ordinary teenager who finds herself pulled into all kinds of strange situations when she follows a white rabbit and then again when she passes through a mirror - or has it all been a dream? All the scenes have some link with Alice, all seem to involve clothes falling off and all are played entirely by and between saucy young women. Light-hearted fantasy with gorgeous art. MY MARIE (Eng trans for BOKU NO MARIE) TYPE: OAV series, 3 episodes. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1996. Dir: Satoshi Mochizuki. Prod co: Studio Pierrot. Pierrot, Victor Entertainment. CATEGORIES: P, F RATINGS: MAINSTREAM OVERVIEW: A boy has a robot girl as companion and toy, the perfect fantasy of a woman at his beck and call. Allegedly, she's a surrogate little sister, there to help him woo another Marie (the girl next door). Read into that what you will. NEW ANGEL (Eng title/trans for SHIN ANGEL) TYPE: OAV series, 4 parts. LENGTH: Parts 1 & 2 each 50 mins, parts 3 & 4 each 35 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1994-95. Dir: Kaoru Toyo'oka. Screenplay: Koji Sakakibara. Character design: Rin Shin. Chief animator: Masato Ijuin. Prod co: Pink Pineapple. Studio Angel, U-Jin, Pink Pineapple. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1995-96 on AD Vision, sub, trans Masako Arakawa, Chris Hutts & Doc $Issaac, Eng rewrite Matt Greenfield. ORIGINS: Manga Angel by U-Jin. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: XX, NN, PORN OVERVIEW: Erotic adventure of Keisuke, a young wan who always manages to pull something good out of an encounter with a girl - even if she's dead, like the young lady in the first episode, or nude and suicidal, like the one in the second. Not tasteful, not tactful, but well !animated with lots of sex scenes. "NEW CREAM LEMON AMI - FROM THEN ON 0(Eng trans for SHIN CREAM LEMON AMI SOREKARA...) TYPE: OAV series, 4 parts. LENGTH: Each 40 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1988-90. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: Follows on from a Cream %Lemon Special Ami Image White Shadow. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: This four-part series is considered by Smet to mark the end of the lolikon era. All the characters are in their twenties and Ami, the innocent who was seduced by her older brother in the first ever Cream Lemon story four years earlier, is now nobody's baby, but a young woman in control of her own destiny. The quality of art and animation is generally good, and certain stylistic similarities with City Hunter raise questions about the identity of some members of staff. NEW CREAM LEMON DREAM - COLOURED BUNNY /(Eng trans for SHIN CREAM LEMON YUME IRO BUNNY) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. CATEGORIES: F, C RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: The hapless Takumi is forever hanging round his local pet shop to ogle the girls who gather there to coo at the cute little animals. One day the pet shop owner tells him that if he's going to keep chasing customers away, he'll have to buy something himself. But the pet Takumi buys isn't your run of the mill bunny. She's got white ears, so he calls her Milk. She also has a few hidden talents. Super-deformed parody with no respect for anthropomorphics whatsoever. %NEW CREAM LEMON ETUDE: SNOW HEARTBEAT 4(Eng trans for SHIN CREAM LEMON E-TUDE YUKI NO KUDO) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. SPINOFFS: A second episode featuring the same characters followed. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: When fragile, beautiful Yurika, the child of a wealthy family and a brilliant classical pianist, falls in love with Ryo, her father isn't pleased. Ryo is a biker and plays with a jazz band, not at all the lover he had in mind for his little girl. When Yurika's health begins to suffer, Dad tries to break them up by telling Ryo it's because of the strain of their affair. He could well have a point. NEW CREAM LEMON ETUDE 2: EARLY SPRING CONCERTO %(Eng trans for SHIN CREAM LEMON ETUDE II SOSHUN CONCERTO) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1988. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: This is a sequel to New #Cream Lemon Etude: Snow Heartbeat. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: Yurika has been very sad since her break-up with Ryo. With her father away on business, her mother invites a childhood friend along on the school music club's summer trip, in an attempt to matchmake. Meanwhile Ryo has embarked on another passionate affair, with the singer in his jazz hand. NEW CREAM LEMON PART ZERO 4(Eng title for SHIN CREAM LEMON ESCALATION SOSHUHEN, +lit New Cream Lemon Escalation Compilation) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1988. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, G, PORN OVERVIEW: A compilation of scenes from two original Cream Lemon episodes, with less censorship. NEW CREAM LEMON SUMMER WIND ,(Eng trans for SHIN CREAM LEMON SUMMER WIND) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. CATEGORIES: P, F RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: Yo's girlfriend died a year ago. On holiday, he meets a girl called Mina and they decide to spend the rest of their vacation time together. But there's something strange and melancholy about her, and the affair begins to take on an aura of mystery. NEW CREAM LEMON THE EVIL DOLL )(Eng trans for SHIN CREAM LEMON MANINGYO) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Dir: Ayako Mibashi. Character design: Ayako #Mibashi. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. WESTERN CREDITS: Edited for US release by Excalibur Films as part of Pandora: An Erotic Trilogy. CATEGORIES: P, D RATINGS: NN, G, PORN OVERVIEW: A classy, classic horror tale of the possession of a young man whose only mistake is to perform an act of kindness, then allow himself to be sucked into a web of dark fascination. This haunting modern fairy tale really belongs more in the horror genre than the erotic. NEW CREAM LEMON TO MORIYAMA SPECIAL 1: FIVE HOUR VENUS 3(Eng trans for SHIN CREAM LEMON GOJIKANME NO VENUS) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Dir: To Moriyama. Character design: To #Moriyama. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: Manga serialised in Penguin Club and Loli-pop magazines. POINTS OF INTEREST: To Moriyama is the pseudonym of manga artist Naoki Yamamoto. SPINOFFS: A second episode featuring the same characters followed. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, G, PORN OVERVIEW: When she was younger, Shimeji starred in a porno video because she needed the money. Now she's blackmailed to model nude for an art class, but is there more to it than that? With the help of her friend Yachio, Shimeji finds out what the true intentions of the art teacher are. NEW CREAM LEMON TO MORIYAMA SPECIAL 2: AFTERSCHOOL XXX .(Eng trans for SHIN CREAM LEMON HOGAGO NO XXX) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1988. Dir: To Moriyama. Character design: To #Moriyama. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: A sequel to Five Hour Venus. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, G, PORN OVERVIEW: Shimeji has been blackmailed herself, so she knows just how Asuka feels, and naturally she wants to help. But those naughty pictures of Asuka are just too cute to resist, and besides, Shimeji and her friend Yachio have their own plans for one of the pictures. NEW CREAM LEMON TWO PEOPLE'S LIFE OF HEARTBREAK (Eng trans for SHIN CREAM LEMON FUTARI NO HEARTBREAK LIFE) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: Magical girl genre TV shows, especially Creamy Mami. POINTS OF INTEREST: Look for the version of the MGM lion. So far, they haven't sued. CATEGORIES: F, C RATINGS: NN, XX, PORN OVERVIEW: Ruri has no interest in boys her own age. She's crazy about Koji, but he's madly in love with pop idol Saito Konami. If only Ruri could be in Saito's shoes... Then she meets a little blue fox and suddenly she can step right into the singer's body, getting exactly what she wants while giving Koji a chance with the girl of his dreams. NEW CREAM LEMON WHITE SHADOW .(Eng trans for SHIN CREAM LEMON WHITE SHADOW) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Prod co: Fairy Dust. Soeishinsha. POINTS OF INTEREST: Not to be confused with Cream Lemon Special Ami Image White Shadow. CATEGORIES: P, D RATINGS: NN, XX, VV, PORN OVERVIEW: Demons from another dimension are trying to enter into our world. When Shota gives a present to a girl he wants to impress, one of the demons uses it as a way to take over the girl's body, and thanks Shota in a way he never envisaged. Now she's going after his rival - and anyone else who crosses her path. OGENKI CLINIC '(Eng/Jpn title, lit Good Health Clinic) TYPE: OAV series, 3 parts. LENGTH: Each 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1991-92. Dir: Takashi Watanabe. Character design: Takashi Watanabe. Art dir: Hitoshi Nagao. Prod co: AC Create. Inui, Somei Entertainment. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1998 on Kitty Media, sub. ORIGINS: Manga by Haruka Inui, serialised in Play Comic. POINTS OF INTEREST: A well known British company allegedly asked for the BBFC's `opinion' on this title several years ago. They were advised that submitting it would be a major waste of time. Each Japanese laserdisc is a minute longer than the video. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: XX, N, PORN OVERVIEW: Everyday life in a sex clinic is never dull. Patients come to have their problems solved, but the doctor and nurse have a big problem of their own - how are they ever going to get married while her mother thinks he's not good enough for her? END. PICTURES FROM HIGH SCHOOL (Eng trans for KONAI SHASEI) TYPE: OAV series, 3 parts. LENGTH: Each 40 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1990-92. Dir: Toshi Sakurai (1 & 2), Takamasa Ikegami (3). Screenplay: Toshi Sakurai. Original story: U-Jin. Character design: Yuji Moriyama (1 & 2), Kinji Yoshimoto (2), Satoshi Urushihara (3). Music: Takeshi Yasuda. Prod: Hisashi Yoshida. Prod co: Studio Fantasia. U-Jin, Soeishinsha. ORIGINS: Manga by U-Jin, serialised in Leed/Read Comic. POINTS OF INTEREST: Several famous voice actresses on the cast list, without pseudonyms. CATEGORIES: P, C RATINGS: NN, X, PORN OVERVIEW: Compilation of short erotic stories with a comic edge. The first tape includes `Luck on the Long-Distance Commute', `The Little Match Girl' and `High school Nurse'. The second tape includes `Take Me Back to My Childhood', `How to Get a Free Pizza', `Sailor-suited Akko-chan vs the Giant Dirty Old Man' and `Qi Gong Girl'. The final tape contains `Silver Lining', `Back on Form', `Aim for the A', `The Scariest Story' and `Come for World Peace'. PRIVATE PSYCHO LESSON 1(Eng title for KOJIN JUGYO, lit Personal Tuition) TYPE: OAV 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 35 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1996. Dir: Tetsuro Amino. Script: Nagareboshi. Character design: Makoto Takahoko. "Prod: JC Staff, Blue Mantis. U-Jin, Shogakukan, Gaga Communications. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1997 on Anime 18, sub, trans Kevin McKeown. ORIGINS: Manga by U-Jin, pub "Shogakukan in Young Sunday Dynamo. POINTS OF INTEREST: Amino also directed the anime version of Starship Troopers. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: XX, NN, G, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Sara Iijima of Stunford University (sic) is a psychotherapist who gets into a state of sexual excitement, rotates her breasts in opposite directions to hypnotise her patients and then regresses them to the point of trauma. This scholarly sex-solves-everything school of analysis is very popular, and makes her extremely successful - she travels to assignments in her own helicopter gunship and disciplines inadequate teachers with a few hundred well aimed bullets. Interesting in terms of anime erotica because it makes the disposable Alien/Older Woman the central character, as she becomes a journeywoman sexual initiatress for Boys and Girls Next Door. The script's treatment of rape, especially as a punishment for bad Japanese girls, dealt out by foreign men, is particularly distasteful. REDDENING SNOW/GIRLS TORTURED WITH ROSES 1(Eng title for YUKI NO KOGESHO/SHOJO BARAKEI, lit 4Blushing Snow in Scarlet [pun on `rouge' and `shame' 5and visual image of blood]/Girls Tortured With Roses) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1984. Original story: Fumio Nakajima. Prod co: Wonder Kids. F.Nakajima, Wonder Kids. POINTS OF INTEREST: The first erotic OAV released in Japan. Torture with Roses is the title of a 1960 compilation of erotic photographs by Eiko Hosoe, featuring the author Yukio Mishima as a modeL SPINOFFS: The second Wonder Kids Lolita Anime release was Dying For a Girl/Altar of Sacrifice. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: X, V, SM, PORN OVERVIEW: Two short and distasteful stories of rape and sexual abuse. In the first, a girl is subjected to sexual assault by a gang of boys, including the one who secretly adores her. However, that doesn't stop him taking his turn. The second features older men introducing young girls to the pleasures of bondage. REI REI 3(Eng title for UTSUKUSHIKI SEI NO DENDOSHI REI REI, +lit Li Li the Beauteous Sensual Evangelist) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 60 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1993. Dir: Yoshiki Yamamoto. Screenplay: #Mitsuru Mochizuki. Prod co: KSS. T.Shimizu, Shonen Gahosha, Pink Pineapple. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1995 on AD Vision, sub, trans Ichiro Arakaki & Dwayne Jones; UK video release 1997 on Kiseki, sub, trans Jonathan Clements. ORIGINS: Manga by Toshimitsu Shimizu. POINTS OF INTEREST: Edited US version available, for people who want to pretend they live in the UK. CATEGORIES: F, P RATINGS: NN, XX, V, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Relationship counselling courtesy of an undefined otherworld and a sexy superbeing called Kaguya. A real treat for psychoanalysts; listen carefully for the sound of Freud spinning in his grave. ROUGE ((Eng title for LADIES COMIC VIDEO ROUGE) TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 40 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1998. Original story: Haruko Kanzaki, Mizuki Iwase, Kei Mizugi, Chiga Taniguchi et al. Prod co: Komine. Authors, Takeshobo, Komine Communications, TDK Core. ORIGINS: Stories in Comic Rouge magazine. CATEGORIES: M, F RATINGS: NN, X, SM, PORN OVERVIEW: Bereaved strangers lose themselves in a sordid double life of prostitution, but find love in each other. A loveless marriage blooms through bondage. A trainee gets more than she bargains for when the head nurse takes a biology lesson to the limit. And a male beautician uses unorthodox methods to put colour in a make-up artist's cheeks. Four erotically charged tales animated for a female audience. END. SAILOR MOON $(Eng title for BISHOJO SENSHI SAILOR %MOON, lit Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon) TYPE: TV series, 46 episodes. LENGTH: Each 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDTTS: 1992. Dir: Junichi Sato. Music: Takanori Arisawa, Tetsuya Komuro & Kazuo Sato. Prod co: Toei. Takeuchi, Kodansha, Toei, Bandai. WESTERN CREDITS: US TV syndication 1995, dub, Eng rewrite Mycheline Tremblay. "ORIGINS: Manga by Naoko Takeuchi. POINTS OF INTEREST: The OAV Venus Five is a porno-parody version of Sailor Moon. SPINOFFS: 4 more TV series and 5 movies followed. CATEGORIES: F, P RATINGS: MAINSTREAM OVERVIEW: No sex, but passion and romance in bucketloads, from the apotheosis of the magical girl genre. Loved by millions of girls all over the world, Sailor Moon speaks Portuguese, Polish, Spanish and a whole linguistic institute of tongues as well as Japanese. The story of klutzy Usagi (known in the English-language version as Serena), her school chums and their destiny: fighting to save the world through the power of love and make-up. Luckily. the mysterious Tuxedo Mask is on hand to help the girls when the going gets tough, and with friendship on their side they'll always manage to win through somehow or (in a shock ending to the first series which was severely bowdlerised for the American audience) die trying.If the Famous Five had been played by Barbie dolls, this is how it might have looked; yet the heart of the series is pure, honest gold, a love story which is so genuinely touching that when our heroine finally finds words to tell the hero that she loves him, it reduces grown translators to teary-eyed mush. SEASIDE ANGEL MIYU "(Eng trans for MIU SEA SIDE ANGEL) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 60 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1985. Original story: Fumio Nakajima. Prod co: Wonder Kids. Nakajima, Wonder Kids. %ORIGINS: The previous Wonder Kids !Lolita release was Surf Dreaming. POINTS OF INTEREST: Miyu also `stars' $in Surf Dreaming & House of Kittens. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: X, PORN OVERVIEW: The sixth and last of the Wonder Kids Lolita Anime releases. A clever multiple-bind in this show helps the makers salve their consciences about producing child pornography. The animated heroine Miyu broadcasts a radio programme from Earth orbit, where she listens to the `confessions' of various respondents who claim to have had their first sexual experience before reaching the age of consent. This makes the paedophilia animated, fictional, otherworldy and confessional, with the ultimate get-out clause that the callers might be lying. There is also an interesting montage, interesting because it is the most boring anime footage ever. For four minutes, nothing happens except still images of Miyu on the screen, presumably to bore underage viewers into turning off before they get to the action. The action itself is a show-reel of sequences from the other Wonder Kids releases, ending with the `bonus' scene of Miyu having carnal relations "with the captain of her spaceship. THE SENSUALIST 4(Eng tItle for IHARA SAIKAKU KOSHOKU ICHIDAI OTOKO /lit Saikaku Ihara's The Life of an Amorous Man) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 53 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1991. Dir: Yukio Abe. Screenplay: Eiichi Yamamoto. Art dir: Yukio Abe. Music: Keiji Ishikawa. Prod co: Groupier Productions. Groupier. WESTERN CREDITS: UK video release 1993 on Western Connection, sub using the spotting list (a very rough, invariably incomplete translation) %provided by Japanese release company. !ORIGINS: Novel by Saikaku Ihara. POINTS OF INTEREST: A sister-novel to the original, The Life of an Amorous Woman, was made into a live-action film by Kenji Mizoguchi, released in the West in 1952 as The Life of Oharu (aka Diary of Oharu). CATEGORIES: H RATINGS: N, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Merchant Yonosuke takes pity on a simple yokel who has been conned into making a very unwise bet - that he will sleep with a top courtesan on first meeting. Any sophisticate could have told him he was onto a loser because the best geisha simply don't sleep with clients straight away, even if the client is important, wealthy or well connected. Luckily Yonosuke is an intimate friend of the lady in question and he appeals to her good nature to help the poor fool. Saturated in rich colour and languid atmosphere, each frame of film glows like a perfectly cut jewel. The pace is very slow and the sexuality subtle and erotically charged - this isn't a story for those looking for `action' in the usual twentieth-century sense of the word, but it's absolutely beautiful. SOL BIANCA TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 60 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1990-91. Dir: Katsuhito Akiyama (1), Hiroki Hayashi (2). Script: Mayori Sekijima. Character design: Naoyuki Onda. Mecha design: Atushi Takeuchi. Anime dir: Naoyuki Onda. Art dir: Shigemi Ikeda. Music: Kosei Kenjo. Prod co: AIC. NEC Avenue. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1993 on AD Vision, sub, trans Ichiro Arakaki & Dwayne Jones, dub forthcoming. UK video release 1995 on Kiseki Films, sub, trans Jonathan Clements. ORIGINS: Concept by Toru Miura. CATEGORIES: SF RATINGS: V, MAINSTREAM OVERVIEW: A clever space pirate tale with excellent characterisation and design. The original was a landmark lesson in non-sexist casting, but the second episode features a pathetically gratuitous excuse to get everyone's clothes off, purely (we assume) for some bra-and-panties shots to use in publicity photographs. A sad betrayal of an otherwise bold experiment in writing for female characters, by many of the crew who would later sell out completely on Tenchi Muyo. %STREET FIGHTER II: THE ANIMATED MOVIE !(Eng title for STREET FIGHTER II) TYPE: MOVIE. LENGTH: 90 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1994. Dir: Gisaburo Sugii. Screenplay: Kenichi Imai & Gisaburo Sugii. Prod co: "Group TAC, AIC, O Productions. Capcom. WESTERN CREDITS: US & UK video !release 1995 on Manga Video, dub. ORIGINS: Computer game. SPINOFFS: Manga, Eng trans pub Viz (US), Titan Books (UK). A TV series, Streetfighter II V (for Victory) was made in 1996-97. CATEGORIES: F RATINGS: N, V, MAINSTREAM OVERVIEW: A formulaic game-play story is enlivened by Sugii's directorial expertise. Hero Ken sets out to save his friend Ryu from the sinister Shadowlaw organisation, while Chun Li and American major Guile set out to crack their drugs and crime cartel. Lots of one-on-one combat, as you'd expect, the best of which is a chilling fight between Chun Li and Vega (Balrog in the Japanese). The whole sequence carries a huge erotic charge thanks to Sugii's skilful direction, which shows very little of the fight itself. It starts out in the shower (Chun Li without any clothes on, the dream of millions of game-freaks world-wide) and moves through a bloody and genuinely frightening ballet with the blond Hispanic psycho whose main concern is to keep the beautiful face behind his mask unscarred. SURF DREAMING TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1984. Original Story: Fumio Nakajima. Prod co: Wonder Kids. F.Nakajima, Wonder Kids. ORlGINS: The previous Wonder Kids release was Variation. SPINOFFS: The next, and final Wonder $Kids release was Seaside Angel Miyu. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: N, PORN OVERVIEW: Young love blooms between two teenagers who meet on a beach in this, the fifth Wonder Kids release. Essentially an erotic encounter, with the adult parts `played' by two childish actors, allegedly to thwart the censorship restriction (still powerful at the time) against depicting pubic hair. Nevertheless, sex between consenting children for the entertainment of adults is still paedophilia, however you try to dress it up. TOKYO PRIVATE POLICE %(Eng title for TOKIO KIDO POLICE, lit Tokio Mobile Police) TYPE: OAV, 2 episodes. LENGTH: Each 30 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1997. Dir: Moriichi Higashi. Screenplay: Yu Yamato. Character design: Harunaga Kazuki. Mecha design: Satoshi "Teraoka. Prod co: Dandylion. Hakage, Dandylion. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1998 on Kitty Media. ORIGINS: Pornographic novel allegedly inspired by Patlabor. CATEGORIES: SF RATINGS: N, X, PORN OVERVIEW: The year is 2034, and Tokyo is beset with a crime-wave of giant robots. Section One of the robot division is on hand to deal with the problems, but they spend a lot of time screwing each other in the office. Much of the drama in Patlabor came from the suppressed emotion: Goto's doomed adoration for Nagumo,or Izumi's purely platonic friendship with Azuma. Tokyo Private Police just lets it all hang out, as new recruit Kazuko succumbs to the temptation to get off with the rest of her team on day one. There goes the suspense. TWIN DOLLS (Eng title for INJU SEISEN TWIN ANGEL, "lit Lust-Beast Crusade Twin Angel) TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 50 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1994. Dir: Kan Fukumoto. Original story: Oji Miyako. Script: Oji Miyako. Character design: Shin Rin. Art dir: Manami Matsumoto. Music: Teruo Takahama. Exec Prod: Rusher Ikeda. Prod: Kento Maki & Smally Izumi. Prod co: Dandy Lion. Daiei. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1995-96 on SoftCel, sub, Eng rewrite Matt Greenfield. CATEGORIES: P, D RATINGS: XX, NN, VV, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Demons want to invade Earth and rape our women. Luckily, two priestesses turn out to be the descendants of an immortal, and are appointed guardians of the child messiah, whether they like it or not. The Immortal Dialogue Sampler came up with: `Feel the love nectar flow, gushing from your trembling vagina', and `It's a treasure trove of tits and clits'. Real historical/mythical figures lie buried beneath the tits-and-tentacles plot, which is more concerned with the incestuous allure of twins, the rejected woman's quest for power through sex and the worship of His Majesty the Baby. U-JIN BRAND TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1991. Dir: Osamu Okada. Writer: U-jin. Original idea: Hideo Takano. Chief animator: Yumi Nakayama. Music: Nobuo Ito. Prod co: Coconut Boy Project, Animate. U-jin, Seiyo, Animate Film. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1994 on US Mange Corps sub. ORIGINS: Manga by U-Jin. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: XX, NN, PORN OVERVIEW: Short stories based on U-Jin's manga, similar in tone and style to New Angel, Visionary and Pictures from High School. There's the tale of a songwriter who produces hit after hit for teenage idol singers, but can only work if he really, really gets to know the girl. Seducing girl after girl, he still cherishes a secret love for the innocent Akiyo. So what will happen when he and Akiyo have to work together? Then we meet Sachiko, who made the common mistake of believing her boyfriend when he said he'd still love her just as much afterwards, only to find that he firmly intends to marry a virgin. Now he's dating the seemingly innocent Hitomi. The jilted Sachiko hires a renowned seducer, Toyama No Benbo, to get her revenge on her ex and find out if Hitomi is really as pure as she pretends to be. Lastly, a young man is trapped in a relationship with Tomoko, his boss's nymphomaniac daughter. Iwata really wants to marry sweet, gentle Kyoko, but he can't just dump the girl who holds his career prospects in the palm of her hand. More business for Toyama No Benbo as he's called in to sort out the insatiable Tomoko. UROTSUKIDOJI I/II: LEGEND OF THE "OVERFIEND/LEGEND OF THE DEMON WOMB 0(Eng title for CHOJIN DENSETSU UROTSUKIDOJI, lit -Legend of the Overfiend: The Wandering Child) TYPE: MOVIE/OAV series: 5 OAVs, 2 movies. LENGTH: Part 1 45 mins, parts 2-4 55 mins, part 5 50 mins. Movie versions: Legend of the Overfiend 108 mins, !Legend of the Demon Womb 88 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987-91. Dir: Hideki Takayama. Screenplay: Noboru Aikawa & Goro Sanyo. Music: Jeffrey Jackson & Masamichi Amano. Prod co: $JAVN, Angel. Maeda, Westcape Corp. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1993 on Anime 18, as edited movie versions of OAVs 1-3, (Legend of the Overfiend) & 4 & 5 (Legend of the Demon Womb), dub, Eng rewrite Michael Lawrence, & as Urotsukidoji Perfect Collection, all 5 OAVs unedited in a box set, sub; UK video release 1993 on Manga Video, movie versions only, dub. ORIGINS: Manga by Toshio Maeda. SPINOFFS: 2 more OAV series, largely thanks to the overwhelming response from the Western market. CATEGORIES: F, D RATINGS: XX, NN, VV, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Violent and sexually explicit in the extreme, the video series was edited for movie release in Japan before the British censors got their hands on it. Overfiend has moments of real grandeur and terror heavily mired in enough schlock to sink a battleship, but it merits attention as much because of our own attitudes to it as because of its content or form. UROTSUKIDOJI III: RETURN OF THE OVERFIEND 1(Eng title for CHOJIN DENSETSU UROTSUKIDOJI MIRAI /HEN, lit Legend of the Overfiend: The Wandering Child Future Chapter) TYPE: OAV series, 4 parts. LENGTH: Part 1 60 mins, parts 2-4 50 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1993. Dir: Hideki Takayama. Screenplay: Noboru Aikawa (1), Hideki Takayama & Yasuhito Yamaki (2 & 3), Gonzo Satsuka (4). Character design: Rikizo Sekime & Shiro Kasami. Monster design: Sumito Ioi. Art dir: Kenichi Harada. Music: Masamichi #Amano. Prod co: Jupiter Films. Maeda, Jupiter. WESTERN CREDITS: UK video release 1994 on Kiseki Films, dub, trans Ryoichi Murata (1 & 2), Jonathan Clements (3 & 4); US video release 1994 on Anlme 18, same version. ORIGINS: Manga by Toshio Maeda, 1987-91 OAV series. POINTS OF INTEREST: A 120-min, edited version with Eng subtitles is available as Urotsukidoji III: The Movie. SPINOFFS: A further series was made 2 years later. CATEGORIES: F, D RATINGS: XX, NN, VV, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: Amanojako follows the Chojin's search for his nemesis, the Kyo-O, through a devastated wasteland, clinging desperately to the hope that all the violence and suffering he has witnessed will lead to a better world, When humans like Caesar and Munchausen behave as badly as the bestial makemono, this seems unlikely, but there are still some rare (if futile) expressions of love in the midst of chaos. The poignant and foreboding passage in episode four, where little girl Himi unleashes the Kyo-O's Light of Judgement on the world, lingers in the mind more powerfully than the gross images of rape and torture which precede it. UROTSUKIDOJI IV: INFERNO ROAD 3(Eng title for CHOJIN DENSETSU UROTSUKIDOJI INFERNO 0ROAD, lit Legend of the Overfiend: The Wandering Child Inferno Road) TYPE: OAV series, 3 parts. LENGTH: Each 40 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1995. Dir: Hideki Takayama. Screenplay: Nobuaki Kishima. Storyboards: Hideki Takayama. Character design: Keiichi Sato & Tetsuya Yanagisawa. Anime dir: Tetsuya Yanagisawa. Music: Masamichi Amano. Prod co: MW Films. Maeda, Jupiter Films. WESTERN CREDITS: UK version on Kiseki, trans Jonathan Clements, certificate refused by BBFC; US video release 1996 on Anime 18, sub. ORIGINS: Manga by Toshio Maeda, 1987-91 and 1993 OAV series. POINTS OF INTEREST: Kiseki are still attempting to get a UK release for the series. CATEGORIES: F, D RATINGS: XX, NN, VV, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: The end of the Overfiend saga is literally its beginning, as the meeting of the Chojin and the Kyo-O turns time back on itself and restarts the cycle. Maeda drives home his message that the only escape from the self-centredness of childhood is the clumsy self-gratification of adulthood. In a world in which the only way to win is to die before your dreams, Amanojaku's ending is the saddest one possible. END. VARIATION (Eng trans for HENSOKYOKU) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 25 mins. JAPANESE CREDlTS: 1984. Original Story: Fumio Nakajiwna. Prod co: Wonder Kids. F.Nakajima, Wonder Kids. ORIGINS: The previous Wonder Kids release was House of Kittens. Variation is a direct sequel to Altar of Sacrifice, the story that followed Dying for a Girl in the second Lolita release. SPINOFFS: The next in the series was Surf Dreaming. CATEGORIES: P RATINGS: NN, XX, SM, PORN OVERVIEW: The fourth Wonder Kids release, in which a young girl interested in art gets more than she bargains for when she accepts the art teacher's invitation to dinner. One of the most distasteful of the lolikon genre, because it seems less like fantasy than a beginner's guide to statutory rape. VENUS FIVE "(Eng title for SAILOR SENSHI VENUS %FIVE, lit Sailor Soldiers Venus Five) TYPE: OAV series, 2 parts. LENGTH: Each 45 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1994 Dir: Kan Fukumoto. Screenplay: Wataru Amano. Character design: Rin Shin. Art dir: Shoichiro Sugiura. Exec prod: Rusher Ikeda. Prod: Smally Izumi & Kento #Maki. Prod co: Daiei Co Ltd. Daiei Co Ltd. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1996 on Anime 18, sub, trans Moe I. Yada. "ORIGINS: Parody manga by Jin Ara. CATEGORIES: F, P RATINGS: XX, NN, V, PORN OVERVIEW: A Sailor Moon parody in which a team of heroic schoolgirls are granted mystical powers to battle the evil invader Necros and her team of tasty young men. Of course, Necros and co are really nasty vicious slimy alien things in disguise, so there are lots of tentacles, and even a scene of bestiality (bringing new meaning to the phrase `pussy-licking'). Set in the kind of cod-classical rooms you expect to find in places decorated by people with more money than taste, and larded with cod-classical references on the same level, the stories are patently absurd and serve mostly to remind us that nobody watches this kind of tape for the story. VISIONARY TYPE: OAV series, 2 episodes. LENGTH: Each 20 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1995. Dir: Teruo Kigure. Script: Toyohiro Ando. Gen prod: Seiichi Nishino. Prod: Shigeyuki Hasegawa & Noriko Nishino. Prod co: Knack. U-Jin, Shiberu Publishing Co, Knack. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1997 on Anime 18, sub, trans nDa Language Services. POINTS OF INTEREST: The android catgirl from the future has a name which is very close to that of the robot cat Doraemon - most of whose original audience are now old enough to buy both nostalgia and porn. CATEGORIES: F, C RATINGS: NN, XX, SM, PORN OVERVIEW: Nineteen year-old geek Ujita has no luck with women and gets grief from the local bully, until he hits the wrong key on his computer and the sexy Doreimon pops back from the future. (No, you can't do that with Windows 95.) Although Doreimon can give Ujita experiences beyond his wildest dreams, everything doesn't always go according to plan. WICKED CITY 6(Eng title/trans for YOJU TOSHI, aka MONSTER CITY, aka SUPERNATURAL BEAST CITY) TYPE: OAV. LENGTH: 90 mins. JAPANESE CREDITS: 1987. Dir: Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Screenplay: Kisei Cho. Character design: Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Art dir: Yuji Kaeda. Music: Osamu Shoji. Prod co: Madhouse, Video Art. Japan Home Video. WESTERN CREDITS: US video release 1992 on Streamline, dub, Eng rewrite Greg Snegoff; UK video release 1993 on Manga Video, same version; also limited US & UK theatrical release 1993/94. $ORIGINS: Novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi. SPINOFFS: A live-action version was made in Hong Kong and released on video in the UK by East2West. CATEGORlES: P, H RATINGS: N, X, V, SM, EROTIC OVERVIEW: The human and demon worlds have enjoyed an uneasy truce for centuries, but now the deal is up for renegotiation and some don't want it renewed. In Kikuchi's tale of horror-political intrigue, representatives from the human and demon secret services are assigned to guard an interdimensional ambassador. But the human male and the demon female don't realise that they are being set up for a dynastic marriage to secure the union of opposites. The romantic angle is unintentionally ruined by the `Oh, Maki', `Oh, Taki' dialogue. END. ACE OF SPADES OS/PLATFORM: Windows 3.x/95/98 CATEGORY: Card game DEVELOPER: LOVEGUN OVERVIEW: Anime Strip Poker and Blackjack. DIVI DEAD OS/PLATFORM: Windows 95/98 "CATEGORY: Erotic-Horror Adventure DEVELOPER: C's Ware/Himeya Soft OVERVIEW: You play the part of Ranmaru Hibikiya and you begin your first day at Asao HighSchool where there are strange happenings on campus and by the students themselves. You are sent to spy and investigate by orders of your uncle, who is also dean of the school. While investigating, Ranmaru discovers a connection between the student's unusual behavior and a mysterious incense spreading around campus... NOCTURNAL ILLUSION OS/PLATFORM: Windows 95/98 CATEGORY: H-Adventure DEVELOPER: RCY America OVERVIEW: `You are Shinichi Kashiwagi, age 22, the lead role in this game. A junior in the Law Department of Toshima University, you are a fairly handsome young man with a good personality - although you don't have a steady girlfriend. Taking advantage of the long summer break, you decide to spend some time in rural Japan by yourself to reflect on your life. You are caught in a storm, however, and barely survive. This is going to prove a turning point in your life...' WELCOME To PIA CARROT 2 OS/PLATFORM: Japanese Windows 95/98/ 3.1 CATEGORY: Love Simulation $DEVELOPER: Cocktail Soft/Ides' Soft OVERVIEW: You apply for a part time job at PiaCarrot, the second one. Your friend Shinji who also applied for the job couldn't pass but you did. After you move into the PiaCarrot dormitory (what a restaurant.. it's own dorm...) your life gets little more interesting. RETURN TO PARADISE HEIGHTS OS/PLATFORM: Windows 95/98 CATEGORY: H-Adventure DEVELOPER: Foster Software, published by Otaku Publishing Ltd. OVERVIEW: `Keigo's landed himself a job at a toy company and finally has taken his first steps on the corporate ladder. The chairman likes him, and a bright future awaits. So whats the catch? Down at Paradise Heights, Misa's gone off to study abroad and now the tomboyish Miki is in charge. Kayo and Ayako are still living there, but now they have to share with new girls Suzuko, Tamami and Harumi. And Keigo's usual romantic exploits get very difficult, because these three new girls just don't live together, they work together! At Keigo's company! And Suzuko is the chairman's daughter! Can Keigo get them hot and keep them sweet? You'll just have to see. Welcome to Paradise!' RING OUT OS/PLATFORM: Windows 95/98 CATEGORY: H-Adventure DEVELOPER: ZyX Software, English version by Otaku Publishing Ltd. OVERVIEW: When Aya got up this morning, she was an average 18 year old high-college girl. Sold to the mob when her parents can't pay off their debts, she is forced into a sordid life of lesbian wrestling, where women wearing very little clothes beat each other up quite a lot. And in the game, whoever comes first, LOSES! Can Aya hang onto her virginity? Well, there's not much chance of that. But you can guide her through her rites of passage in this manga role-playing game. Will Aya be the champion? A slave? A quivering wreck? Will she end up in the game... or on it? RUNAWAY CITY OS/PLATFORM: Windows 95/98/DOS CATEGORY: H-Adventure DEVELOPER: Jast, English version translated by Jast USA. OVERVIEW: `I have the power of Good Luck. It's true. I win at pachinko whenever I play, and when it rains and I'm stuck without an umbrella, some girl appears out of nowhere to lend me hers. Then there's Fujiko, my luscious grown-up girlfriend, whose always at home, waiting for me, when I go on one of my visits for education.' SEASON OF THE SAKURA OS/PLATFORM: Windows 95/98/DOS CATEGORY: Romance Adventure DEVELOPER: Jast, English version translated by Jast USA. OVERVIEW : The Sakura's are in blossom this year. This is the first year of high school for a new comer like you. Your life back then was less fortunate. Now you enter high school as a new student who does not care about anything anymore. Because excelling the others in middle school got every to hate you. Now is time to start over, to start over with like the Sakura's... THREE SISTERS' STORY OS/PLATFORM: Windows 95/98/DOS CATEGORY: H-Adventure DEVELOPER: Jast, English version translated by Jast USA. OVERVIEW: Your father commits suicide after his business falls and your mother dies shortly after from too much stress. You and your older brother (Eiichi) are separated and after a couple of years, you meet up with him. He had discovered who was responsible for your father's death and your brother vowed for revenge. A man named Shoji Okamura. Eiichi wanted you to help him and you were more than willing to do so. Your job is to obtain information and basically spy on the Okamura family, and when Shoji Okamura has three daughters, $things can get pretty `Interesting'. TIMESTRIPPER MAKO OS/PLATFORM: Windows 95/98. CATEGORY: H-Adventure DEVELOPER: Foster Software, published by Otaku Publishing Ltd. OVERVIEW: Shinji Nakayama's in trouble. Trouble with his girlfriend, trouble with all his women. He's always late for work. He's always skipping classes. He's got to book the entertainment for the weekend concert, and it's the most important decision of his life. It's not just his chance to win a bet with the snooty homecoming queen, it could be his last chance to hook up with the love of his life. But Shinji is caught in the crossfire from two time-travelling nymphomaniacs. Nonn's here to terminate the future, and Mako's here to protect it. And Shinji? Shinji has to make sure the inventor of the time machine will be born, and that means proposing to the right woman, at the right time. He knows she'll be there, is a historical moment. If he makes the wrong decision, he'll destroy a whole timeline, and leave Mako trapped in the past. In his bedroom, in fact. And Mako just HAS to get back to the future. Or does she...? TRUE LOVE OS/PLATFORM: Windows 95/98/DOS CATEGORY: H-Adventure DEVELOPER: Foster Software, published by Otaku Publishing Ltd. OVERVIEW: You're in change of a gang of girls on the rampage. Can you find out their secret desires and match them to their ideal man (or even woman) before their last summer of freedom is over for good? And keep a look out, because their school teacher is on the prowl. TRUE LOVE might take place in modern Japan, but it's a quest in the classical mode. Each item you get can work its powers. Some will get you out of trouble, and some can get you into it! Accessories to make yourself more beautiful, but be careful you don't attract the wrong kind of attention... END. MAY CLUB OS/PLATFORM: Windows 95/98 CATEGORY: V.R. Dating Simulator DEVELOPER: RCY America. OVERVIEW: It is the year 2023. The revolution in communications and human-interface technology that began in the late 20th Century has culminated in the ultimate virtual reality experience: a sexual V.R. simulator that makes mere reality pale by comparison, a virtual-space where every fantasy can be realized. May Club is a true `dating simulator' in which you enter a virtual reality land in search of your true love, the girl who's right for you. There are eight different characters to interact with, from the shy and lovely Akiho to the brazen Reiko to Kirara, a girl with a secret. HENTAI-SOFTWARE SOURCES KWARNING: Most Anime products contain extreme violence or extreme sexual Kcontent, therefore you must be at least 18 to purchase a product unless otherwise stated. ANIME NATION URL: http://animenation.com/ E-MAIL: sales@animenation.com DRAGON SOFTWARE #URL: http://www.dragonsoftware.com/ #E-MAIL: dragonl7@dragonsoftware.com HENTAI WORLD JAPAN URL: http://www.hwj.net/ E-MAIL: hwj@hwj.net HIMEYA SOFT INC. URL: http://www.himeya.com/ E-MAIL: hansen@himeya.com JAST USA %URL: http://www.jastusa.com/jast.html E-MAIL: info@jastusa.com support@jastusa.com sales@jastusa.com J-LIST $URL: http://www.jlist.com/jlist.html E-MAIL: peter@jlist.com OTAKU PUBLISHING URL: http://www.otaku.com E-MAIL: alexmcl@otaku.com %H-GAME REVIEWS, SOFTWARE PATCHES etc. ANIME DENSETSU URL: http://www.densetsu.com/ THE H-GAMER'S GUIDE 0URL: http://www.mcs.net/~spirit/games/index.html E-MAIL: spirit939@aol.com LI'S FUN HOUSE *URL: http://home.istar.ca/~lisun/index.htm E-MAIL: lisun@istar.ca URL: E-MAIL: TYPE: LENGTH: JAPANESE CREDITS: WESTERN CREDITS: ORIGINS: POINTS OF INTEREST: SPINOFFS: CATEGORIES: RATINGS: OVERVIEW: OS/PLATFORM: CATEGORY: DEVELOPER: OVERVIEW: © HReleased on 21/08/99. Anime-X is an electronic magazine which features: 2 - an A-Z listing of over 100 erotic anime titles 6 - articles of computer games and interactive erotica - adult anime PC-CDROM games KThis new production contains major rework and enhancements over its -predecessor `Anime-V' (released in 01/05/96). KAnime-X was designed to fit onto a single 880k floppy disk. Please note production and there will be no further updates for the Amiga. KCreditz: Anime-X was designed and coded by Bubblegum (prev handle: Amida). 9 The `About Carnage' section was compiled by Kei. J Articles were taken from the book `The Erotica Anime Movie Guide' M by McCarthy & Clements. Please buy the book if you like this E-Zine. = Music Module 1: mod.awareness by Xtd / Mysitc & Trsi 4 Music Module 2: mod.finale :Bubblegum ^.- (You can contact me on Bubblegum@valise.com) Carnage stops here KAs of November 1998, the Amiga scene group Carnage finally decided to call Kit quits after being around for ten years. `Its time to move on to 3something new' was Kei's final words on the matter. 'High Heaven aka CyberDreams aka Carnage 1988 - 1998 The group KBack in 1988 I (Kei) started an Amiga group called High Heaven which Kreleased cracked Amiga software, namely games and compiled them onto one Kdisk with a coded menu. This became tedious and I started to teach myself Khow to code and in 1993 I formed CyberDreams. The new group actually Kreleased software as part of the Amiga demo scene. In late 1994 it changed its name to Carnage. KI won't bore you with its history. It was just something that I enjoyed Kbeing a part of. The Amiga scene though is far from what it is was and Ktherefore we finally decided to call it quits so that we can get on with our lives. )You can check out the Carnage website on: /http://www.geocities.com/TimeSquare/Castle/4500 Greetz 0I'll like to send out greets to the following... KAlesis, Andy Bolt, Anf!, Aztec, Bootblock, Braindead, Bubblegum, Cabal, KCage, Carp, ChaZzy B, Choomy, Chris, Chris A, Conan, Corn, Curse, Dave KDiamond, Denzil, DJ, Dooba, DT214, Dune, Eon, Falcon, Flyagaric, Fell, KFireball, Freak, Freeman, Gop, Goz, Hijaak, Hobbit, Horror, Hyperdriver, KIceman, Jam, Jay, Jinx, Karl, Kenco, Killit, Kooky, L8-X, Loony, Maffia, KMammoth, Mayhem, Mean Mr.Mustard, Mentor, Mercenary, Merrdyn, Mr.Magoo, KMumphie, Muppett, Mythos, Neon Dsns, Pazza, Pink Panther, Progen, Ruiner, KShade, Shooter, Silver, Sirius, Slate, Slim Jim, Soma, Sonic, Sparhawk, KSpicoally, Spin, Stelf, TFT, Thrust, Tummo, Violator, Vodka, Watts, 8Wavelength, Wizz, Wookie (RIP), Wraith, Zebedee, Ziploc. Soz if I forgot anyone! A quick word... ..to ex-crew members JKei and Bubblegum are working on a CD (ISO Joliet) featuring all group Kreleases, plus unreleased work, internal magazines and texts and Kco-productions. If you have anything that Kei may not have a copy of (be Kit Gfx, music, code..) and you think it deserves to be on the CD, get in 3touch by emailing Kei on Keiofcarnage@geocities.com What we still need: Old issues of CDMN and CID Animations done for the group %Rendered and pixeled group name logos Music modules B(Do you have the missing Wookie mods? Only 103 recovered so far!) 4Work-in-progress (unreleased unfinished productions) Your words to Wookie texts 4(some never reached me and deserve to be on the CD!) KCrew members can reserve copies of the CD by contacting Kei via email. It Kwill only cost the price of a blank (TDK) and postage and may serve to wet your nostalgic appetite in the future. Kei GLOSSARY OF TERMS KWe tried to keep our use of Japanese terms to a minimum. Hopefully you Kwon't have to refer to this page very often. Here is a short list of terms /that you will encounter throughout this E-zine. KANIME: The Japanese word for animation. In Japan this means animation of Kany kind; foreign fans use it to distinguish Japanese animation from that of any other nation. ;BI: `Pretty'. Often found as a prefix to SHONEN or SHOJO. KDOJINSHI: Amateur fanzine. The material can be original or based on Kpopular ANIME, comics or novels. (Some dojinshi circles also put real-life Kcharacters in their work. One SHONEN AI fanzine in the mid-nineties Cchronicled the fantasy of life as a roadie for boy-band Take That.) KECCHI: Abbreviated form of `HENTAI' (`H'). signifying a mild level of perversion. GHENTAI: Perverse, pervert, person interested in explicit erotic story. KJUNE: (Two syllables.) The name of a magazine devoted to SHONEN AI .material, another term for this kind of story. KLOLIKON: Also transliterated as rorikon - abbreviation for `Lolita Kcomplex', used for material featuring girls who appear to be under the age of consent. -MANGA: Comics. `Comics' is also often used. KOAV: Original Anime Video, ie first appearance on video not television or film. KOTAKU: In Japan, a derogatory term for someone obsessed by any hobby, Kcorresponding to fanboy/anorak. Some fans view the label as a compliment, especially in the West. KSHOJO MANGA: Girls' MANGA, directed at elementary and junior high school Kage groups where the main character is female. Stories usually have Jromantic themes. Shojo is not acrually erotica, but there are grey areas. KSHONEN AI: A category of entertainment written for women where the main Kromantically involved characters are male, especially BISHONEN `pretty Bboys'. These need not always be explicitly homosexual characters. 4SHONEN MANGA: Boys' MANGA. Compare to SHOJO MANGA. ANIME: BI: DOJINSHI: ECCHI: HENTAI: JUNE: LOLIKON: MANGA: OAV: OTAKU: SHOJO MANGA: SHONEN AI: SHONEN MANGA: GENERAL GUIDE FORMAT .TYPE: | A movie/series or other. 0LENGTH: | Duration of the animation. 1JAPANESE CREDITS: | Credits for the production. 1WESTERN CREDITS: | Credits for the production. 3ORIGINS: | Original author or publisher. .POINTS OF INTEREST: | High-points of the film. 2SPINOFFS: | Info. on further production. "CATEGORIES: RATINGS: *P | Present Day N | Mild nudity -H | Historical NN | Lots of nudity 0D | Horror X | Sexually explicit 5SF | Science Fiction XX | Very sexually explicit F | Fantasy V | Violent +C | Comedy VV | Ultraviolent 2T | Thriller/crime SM | Elements of bondage + G | Gay elements KMAINSTREAM: A work in which sex and eroticism are not important factors, although they may still appear. @EROTIC: A work in which sex has a major influence on the story. @PORN: A work in which the story has minor influence on the sex. TYPE: LENGTH: JAPANESE CREDITS: WESTERN CREDITS: ORIGINS: POINTS OF INTEREST: SPINOFFS: CATEGORIES: RATINGS: MAINSTREAM EROTIC PORN 1 : : Do you wish to quit (Y/N)? (Page / )