[Eroge Review] Ane Ane W Saimin ~Saimin Souchi de Kyonyuu Anedomo ni Kyousei Nakadashi, Kichiku Netori de Haramasete yaru!~

 姉姉Ｗ催眠 ~催眠装置で巨乳姉どもに強制中出し、鬼畜寝取りで孕ませてやる！~
Developer: POISON
Release Date: 2016/08/26
Platform: Windows
Director: Hiromori Sakana
Scenario: Sakamoto Seinichi
Artists: Kobapyon and Tamaru Makoto
Language: Japanese
Voice Acting: Fully Voice Acted Female Characters
Censorship: Mosaics
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Some time ago, I tried starting a new series of posts here called "Eroge Play Report" where I would post updates of games I was playing, and my choice for a first game was this one. Needless to say, that series didn't pan out the way I wanted and died out with only two posts. It was a mix of not having enough to say and not having a regular enough playing schedule to do consistent updates. It was just an ill-conceived idea from the start. Still, I eventually played (or rather, replayed) this game in full and now I bring a full review for both the people who read those posts back then and got curious about it and people who never heard about it.

Premise

Ane Ane W Saimin is a mind control visual novel where the protagonist, Kenji, uses a hypnosis device to gradually brainwash and enslave his brother's wife Kumiko and her younger sister Yuka.

Kenji is a college washout who lived his entire life in the shadow of his brother Junichi. He's smarter, more handsome and more accomplished than Kenji in basically anything, and he's not only become a high-ranking executive of a huge company but managed to capture the heart of the CEO's beautiful daughter, Kumiko.

 Kumiko is a sheltered young woman with innocent ideals about love and a bit of a clean freak side to her. They married and moved to a big house in a rich neighborhood that also houses most executives from the company Junichi works at. Kumiko spends her days as a stay-at-home wife cooking, cleaning and having tea parties with the other housewives of the neighborhood, who act nice towards her but are actually pretty mean-spirited. Kumiko's younger sister Yuka also lives in the house. She's a headstrong and prideful college student who wants to have her own career and path in the world. She loves her sister a lot and shows a bit of a childish side around her.

And then there's Kenji. He also lives in Junichi's house and while Kumiko tries her best to treat him as family, Yuka makes her hatred of him pretty clear. Kenji is creepy, unhygienic, lazy, everything she dislikes in a man, and she refuses to acknowledge him as family. On Kumiko's part, she also finds Kenji creepy and dirty, but she wants to be welcoming for Junichi's sake. With Junichi taking an extended trip to Brazil to take charge of the company's branch there, Kenji is left to live alone with the two women, which fuels his desire. He masturbates to them, steals their socks, that kind of thing.

And so Kenji's bitter daily life of living with two beautiful women who are beyond his grasp continues, until one day he stumbles upon a strange website with promises of a revolutionary invention that can change people's minds and bodies to suit his desires. An app-controlled mind control device with speakers that uses subliminal sounds below the range the human mind can consciously register to make gradual changes to the victims. The website puts an outlandish price of 100 million yen, but also says select people can try it out for free. Thinking it's a scam but it may be funny contacting them, Kenji uses a burner account to contact the admin on social media. The admin talks through an avatar called YAMI, and strangely enough, Kenji can hear a voice in his head (a condescending little girl voice) despite not having any text-to-speech function turned on. They talk at length about how the app works and Kenji ends up convinced, while YAMI decides that Kenji's "yami" (typed with our alphabet, so it could mean either darkness or sickness) is strong enough for him to qualify for a free run.

When the device arrives, - consisting of a custom-made tablet to control it and a bunch of speakers -, Kenji installs the speakers in the shared spaces of the house, as he has no access to Kumiko and Yuka's rooms, and waits for the subliminal to take effect. It takes over two weeks, to the point he starts wondering if he did fall for a scam after all. Of course, it's for real as one day the tabled sends a notification and he finds Kumiko in a trance in the living room, and he even gets to feel her breasts before the time is up. Filled with dark desires, Kenji aims not to turn his life around and earn their love or anything so sweet, but instead to make the two his slaves and steal everything his brother has.

[Eroge Play Report] Ane Ane W Saimin, part 2 - Forks in the road

When we last left off, Kenji had decided to use the Hypnosis Device more subtly, just nudging Kumiko into trusting him more instead of turning her into a puppet. And we saw that even when Kenji isn't around, the device is doing its work on her head. I also took the opportunity to talk about how I think mind control can be compelling and erotic even outside of sex scenes, so check out the last post if you want to catch up. Now, we finish the introduction proper, entering the first route we're going to do.

[Eroge Play Report] Ane Ane W Saimin, part 1 - Mind Control is More than an Instant Sex Button

Introduction

Today I am starting a new series. In Eroge Play Report, I take an untranslated game and post about it as I play, in a mix of discussion and storytime. It's intended to be more casual than a review and also allows me to focus on smaller details that would get skipped over in one. In hindsight, this first post still felt a bit stunted because I had to introduce the game, its characters and so on, but future installments will jump straight into discussing the game itself.

The first game I'm covering in this series is Ane Ane W Saimin (read as Ane Ane Double Saimin), a 2016 game by POISON with art by Tamaru Makoto (mostly known for his work on Ikusa Otome Valkyrie) and Kobapyon and writing Sakamoto Seinichi and Surounin. These two are familiar names in eroge featuring Sexual Training/Choukyou, Sexual Slavery and Corruption, though almost always as secondary writers in bigger projects or helming smaller titles. And neither was particularly connected to the Mind Control genre specifically before this game.

So it's surprising to me that this game came out so remarkable in how it utilizes hypnosis. Don't get me wrong, it's not some groundbreaking, never-seen-before use - it's using subliminals to alter the target's behavior over time. But the writing is concerned with the rules and boundaries of the hypnotic induction, it manages to maintain a sense of stakes and risk for the protagonist, and the way the girls respond to the subliminals feels realistic in the sense that it doesn't switch off their minds and robs them entirely of their agency, but it's a constant fight between the brainwashing and their increasingly deteriorating common sense. They may even act on the subliminals in ways the protagonist didn't expect. This is a step beyond several mind control eroge that just use mind control tech is basically omnipotent, able to wipe and reprogram the mind with extreme ease - not that these kinds of scenarios can't be hot as well, they can, but more often than not in eroge, they're used as a crutch in stories that barely feel like they're about mind control. Ane Ane W Saimin reads like a mind control story first and foremost.

At least the parts I played. As it's obvious, I have played this game before and hold it in high regard. But I have never completed it. I played two of its routes and saw 3 of its endings, but something or other always kept me from really diving deep and doing all the content in a single playthrough. In part, it's because often the ending I reached left me satisfied. Plain bad luck also played a role - I couldn't buy it years ago, and getting its crack to work can be annoying. I happened to lose a laptop mid-playthrough and the game simply refused to agree with my next machine. I've been meaning to replay it since early last year, but something or other always got in the way. In part, that's why I'm starting this series, so I can maintain focus.

Now that I introduced the game and my history with it, let's start.

Hypnosis App? Seriously?

This text was translated from several promotional materials.

First things first. I know a lot of people are rolling their eyes at the mention of a "Hypnosis App". It is a tired concept. But, not only is this game from 2016, before the concept really exploded in popularity in its current form, but the app is also completely different from what you're probably imagining. We're not talking about a phone app that puts people into a mindless trance instantly. It's a set that consists of a bunch of small speakers that look like wiretaps that the protagonist has to hide in the house that send out subliminal signals tailor-made for each target, and a customized tablet with the Hypnosis App, effectively a tool to make the subliminals and manage this network of devices. 

The signals are a mix of the user's heartbeat (sounding akin to how a baby hears the mother's heartbeat from inside the womb, meant to create a sense of security and comfort related to the user) and the subliminal instructions to be imprinted on the victim's mind. It initially takes a long time for the effects to manifest, but with continuous exposure it takes less time and eventually, lasting changes can be made. In addition to the mental changes, the body can also be messed with, as long as its something that can happen through a placebo or hormonal activity. Stuff like changing the target's sense of taste and smell, lactating without being pregnant, and feeling sexual pleasure during urination are possible, while making one's penis bigger or regenerating a wound faster are not.  

While the pseudoscience of how it works is just bullshit and far from realistic hypnotic induction, the slower and more involved process makes for a more engaging story than just waving a smartphone in front of a woman and turning her into a puppet. As I said before, the limitations of the device, how the girls may react unexpectedly to certain instructions dictate the tension of the story.

Not the usual approach for Hypnosis App stuff.

Comiket haul, JAV schizo ramblings and what Eroge I'll cover next.

 Happy New Year everybody.

Today I want to highlight some doujin that came out in the last Winter Comiket, as well as talk about the next series of posts I'm planning on doing.

Winter Comiket 2023 (C103)

I don't live in Japan, so my access to Comiked is rather limited. Nowadays, a lot of stuff comes out simultaneously in digital form, and if I can, I support the artists I like. If I can't or if there's no digital version, I depend on some good soul scanning the works and uploading them. It's been only a couple of days, so there's probably stuff under my umbrella of interests that I'm not even aware exists yet due to not being uploaded and me not following the artist as closely as I follow some others.

Still, here's a brief summation of the stuff I got my hands on so far.

[Asanagi] Kijouin-sensei no Eromanga Nou

Asanagi jokingly described his upcoming doujin as a "pure love" one, and after reading, I get what he means. This is a mind break manga but it's much lighter than the usual for Asanagi. The characters are eromanga artists, with the titular Kijouin being a female manga artist who draws hardcore works. The protagonist is a veteran who is now experiencing a decline in his career, and is immensely annoyed by Kijouin's success as her work is heavily inspired (and he suspects, traced from) his own. In a party with fellow manga artists she gets drunk and, after a bit of matchmaking by another mangaka named Nanami, they end up going home together. However, the protagonist (I forgot his name. Every character having a real name and a pen name doesn't help) has noticed that Kijouin isn't actually drunk and is just fooling around with him, and already pissed from the work situation, loses it and slaps her. And of course, Kijouin is a huge masochist. From there things escalate to rape and mindbreak, with Kijouin becoming his willing onahole by the end of it. Kijouin has been drawing manga for just 2 years (while the protagonist has been in the business for over 10 years) and before that she was a cosplayer. When pressed about whether she even liked his stuff, a flashback does show that she found his manga when she was in middle school and became a complete masturbation addict, with her interest in cosplay coming from wanting to dress like his characters to masturbate. After that point, she does a lot of erotic cosplay amateur porn with him. It's all really good stuff, both the mindbreak scene at the start and the lewd costplay in the second half. The main leads relationship leans more towards consensual BDSM than the usual cruelty in Asanagi works, but it's still nice. Seeing Kijouin change from a manipulative and cheeky slut to a sex slave is also great. By the end she's even suggesting raping and enslaving a cosplayer friend of hers too, who in the last few pages is revealed to watch Kijouin's porn videos while masturbating. It seems the cycle is perpetuating itself at its point, as is the nature of females in Asanagi's work.

Asanagi doing what he does best

[Neromashin] Omae no Kaa-chan Ikutoki no Kao Sugee Busu da zo w 2

A sequel to his work from the Summer Comiket. Like the first, it's about a gang of ugly shotas sexually training a MILF until she breaks and becomes a depraved sex slave. There was also a dash of NTR in it, Mom NTR more specifically, as the ugly kids are targeting Yukie, the mom of a meek boy named Yuuto. By the end, Yukie is a complete wreck without any dignity left, and the bullies made a deal with Yuuto: if he brings them another hot woman, they'll let him fuck his mom. And lo and behold, the first chapter ended with Yuuto bringing his grandma (on his father's side, therefore Yukie's mother-in-law) Fumiko home.

This second chapter is all about the training of Fumiko as well as Yuuto getting his reward. As usual with Neromashin, the heroines get degraded really hard. They're also on the meatier side, which may not be to everyone's taste, but to me it compliments the mature figure very well. The ahegao and other orgasm expressions are very extreme (the title of the series translates as something like "Yo mama's orgasm face is fucking ugly, lol"), and, since this is Neromashin, there's a bit of scat. It's like he has some sort of contract with a cosmic entity that he needs to draw at least one page of scat in everything he does. But as usual, it's just that one page.

The whole book is sex, nothing really to talk about as far as plot and character goes: it's just two milfs becoming sex-crazed sluts. By the end, both are swearing to become Yuuto's cumdumps.

Worth noting that this isn't the end of the series. On the last page, Yukie's husband, who's working away from home, receives a message from his wife, and when he checks it, it's just a photo of Fumiko (who again, is his mom) getting bukkake'd while doing a peace sign ahegao, along with a "To be Continued". I'm curious to see where this goes, and how much lower Yukie and Fumiko can go. Neromashin isn't afraid of utterly destroying his girls, so I'm looking forward to the sequel (hopefully) next Comiket.

[Chouzetsu Bishoujo mine] Gehenna no Meushi

While the last two were original works, this one is a doujin based on an IP: Blue Archive. There's a lot of Blue Archive doujins this Comiket, the game is really surging in popularity, which makes me happy since I like it a lot (though I haven't touched it in a few months...). If you ever thought the game may be interested but the fact it's a gacha drove you away, don't worry, what really matters is the story content and they're completely separate from gacha stuff, sorta like Priconne. But I'm not here to evangelize about Blue Archive, I'm here to talk about this lactation doujin.

I'm not familiar with the artist and circle, but a cursory look through their previous work seems to indicate lactation is a common theme with them, so I'll definitely keep an eye from now on. With a title that translates as "Gehenna's Cow" (Gehenna being one of the factions in Blue Archiv- ok you don't care), this doujin features Amau Ako, a serious and efficient student council girl who suddenly starts lactating, blames supplements Sensei gave her as a g as the cause, and once it's proven it had nothing to do with it, he takes advantage of the situation to milk her.

Some classify this doujin as mind break and some do not, it doesn't really matter, it still goes pretty hard with Ako trying to deny and resist Sensei teasing her tits but succumbing to the pleasure of being milked and fucked. What caught my attention here is how good the expressions are, coupled with lactation it made for a very hot and still fairly hardcore doujin even if strictly speaking it isn't mind break or corruption (I still count it as sexual training though).

I got some other BluAka doujins this Comiket but they're more on the vanilla side of things, so I won't get into it.

Some other things

Not released on Comiket (it's a commercial work) but still released around this date was Fukuyama Naoto's Ore Isekai de Mahoutsukai ni Naru 5, the final chapter of a series (also known as "I became a Mage in another world", released English by *sigh* Irodori) I honestly considered abandoned at this point. With over 70 pages, this is the conclusion to the series and while I have not had the time to read it yet, it seems the usual for Fukuyama - the last resistance of the girls getting eroded and then a lot of harem sex, topped by pregnancy. This series made use of the protagonist's ability to carve Lust Crests on the bodies of the heroines to make them hornier and more obedient to him, and the previous chapters were pretty good. It's also Oyakodon, as it starts with two girls and then their mothers join the fray. This will probably be officially translated and released since the previous 4 chapters were.

Finally, the thing I was looking forward the most this Comiket I have yet to read. Kegareboshi no Kakeratachi, the epilogue to Satou Kuuki's Kegareboshi series (and also the name of the tankobon it comes in, collecting the Kegareboshi and Netokano series) which I have already reviewed, released only with physical copies, with a digital release promised to "somewhere in January or February", but nothing official yet. Since the chapter only exists as part of the tankobon, it may take a good while for it to be scanned, if at all. So all I can do is wait for a hero to upload it, or for the digital version to actually release. As a silver lining, a PV promoting the new chapter was made, showing off several scenes, and it really seems to be what I wanted - more of Ibuki's perspective on her new life, showcasing more of her slutty new self, a few months after she became Kurozuka's slave. The PV can be watched on Melonbooks, and below are some screencaps.

A JAV I'm interested in coming... Sometime, maybe.

I don't know how the JAV industry works, but sometimes works get announced months ahead of time and other times, they just show up, like it happened with Sennou Drill Motorshow Campaign Girl Hen, recently reviewed here on Dorei Cafe. And it usually takes months between filming and it actually being released.

So that's why I say there's a JAV of interest coming... Soon, probably. A few months ago, the pictures below were posted on the Twitter accounts of several actresses (Ayase Maina, Nonose Ai, Arisu Mai and Mizuhata Asami), and it's obviously from the shooting of a mind control JAV by SOD. My guess is that it's a third installment of the Sennou Ring series, but I could be, as I often am, wrong. Either way, I'm really looking forward to it. The actresses are really hot and I like the choice of slave clothing. One of the performers mentioned that it would be available in around 4 months. That would mean either late January or (most likely), February. Once there's more news I may report on it, or take the opportunity to talk about the series it turns out to be a part of as a whole (if it's part of a series at all, SOD does some one-off mind control JAV every once in a while and they tend to be among their best). Time will tell, for now check out the pics and a comparison to Sennou Ring.