I mentioned this series on passing in a previous post, and I think it's a good pick for a review since it has just two entries and they have some pretty significant differences.
Sennou Ring, or Brainwashing Ring, is a series by SOD, as most mind control JAV I'll be discussing in the future, really, both by a matter of taste - their directors tend to make the kind of mind control movies I enjoy -, and due to SOD being such a centralizing company in the current JAV market some accuse it of monopoly. But that discussion is neither here nor now.
And now that the core concept has been explained, let's get into the specifics of each film.
Sennou Ring ni Shinshokusareteiku Konkatsu Josei-tachi "Watashi-tachi, Unmei no Danna-sama Goshujin-sama ni Deaemashita"
The Marriage-seeking Women Corrupted by the Brainwashing Ring "We Met Our Predestined Husband Master"
Production Number/"JAV code": SDDE-671
Release date: 2022/04/21
Maker: SOD Create
Label: SENZ
Director: Dazai Chinpo (太宰珍歩)
Actresses: Yuuki Nono (結城のの), (Kobayakawa Reiko (小早川怜子), Misono Waka (美園和花)
Runtime: 125 minutes
The JAV opens with two office ladies working, played by Yuuki Nono (who I learned while working on this post has since retired from JAV to work as a regular talent, a jump not many can make. Good for her!) and Misono Waka. Like most JAV, the characters share their actresses' names, so unless I specify I'm talking about the actress, I'm referring to the character. Hopefully, that doesn't get confusing.
The focus of this first part is squarely on Nono, who is the main female lead, or rather, the main target of the soon-to-be-introduced male protagonist. While she works, she thinks about how from a young age she adopted a mentality that women can succeed in the workplace not just as well as men, but better, and with that mindset she applied to a first-rate company and has been outdoing her male co-workers for a while. She also admires her senpai, Waka, for also being a high-ranking woman in the company, but Waka doesn't share Nono's distaste for men and in fact, wants to marry. However, her standards are high (she wants someone of a higher social standing than her, nice, from a good family, etc), and from Nono's very biased and sapphic perspective, Waka is a goddess and there must be almost no men worthy of her, aside from a few CEOs out there. At the same time, she also thinks to herself that if she was born a man, she would definitely be able to make Waka happy. Of course, given the kind of porn this is, Waka is going to get knocked down a peg from her lofty ambitions and Nono is going to get a bit of a paradigm shift, so to say.
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| Nono (left) and Waka (right) |
Waka frequently participates in activities and services meant to introduce people who want to marry, a very East Asian thing as far as I know that sometimes raises some eyebrows in the West. I really don't find it too dissimilar from using dating apps to search for partners, just with another focus. Nono accompanies Waka in many of those, as is not uncommon to attend such things in group, even though she obviously has no intention of getting married. This is what leads them to Kobayakawa Reiko, who works at a company that offers this kind of matchmaking service, and she's able to quickly discern what kind of image they want to send out to potential suitors. However, while they were there, Waka and Nono caught the eye of Watanabe, a member of the board of directors of the matchmaking service's parent company, who forces Reiko's hand into arranging a meeting between him and the two women, much to her dismay. It goes as well as you'd expect, with the two women laughing off Watanabe's attempts at flirting and leaving after verbally humiliating him.
The old man returns the next day to Reiko's meeting room and says that she'll become a sacrifice for him to get those women back, taking a Brainwashing Ring out of his bag and clasping it around her neck. Reiko is first forced to stay awake but unable to move her body while Watanabe explores it with his hands and tongue. Reiko Kobayakawa is a great erotic actress and has lots of experience with mind-control movies, so she's able to sell the idea she can't move very well by combining stiff body language and very wide-eyed, slightly exaggerated expressions. When Watanabe switches gears to the Puppet Training mode, her expressionless act is also flawless, only showing reactions when it's appropriate, like when Watanabe turns the character's tongue into a second clitoris and stimulates it with his fingers and later penis. The shots of Reiko with her mouth agape and drool trailing off her tongue when he takes her from behind are just great.
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| Reiko's training scene is pretty lengthy and involves more than just these 4 positions, but these get the idea across |
Then it goes to the usual song and dance of, after playing/training Reiko enough, Watanabe reawakens her consciousness just to tell her that her brainwashing will be complete when he cums inside her, much to her despair. As you might have noticed, this is all standard fare for mind control JAV, and there's nothing so far that makes the use of the titular Brainwashing Ring special or any different from countless mind control app stories or even SOD's own Sennou Drill series. This first one does play things safer, but it gets more interesting when we get to Waka. So I'll fast forward to that.
When Watanabe arrives, we see Reiko perk up (we see throughout the movie that a mindless, expressionless state is the "idle" state of the brainwashed slaves when they're not in the presence of their master, and the monotone, robotic way she was acting is how they follow instructions while idling) and go back into her "onahole Reiko" personality established when her brainwashing was concluded in the previous scene, very polite towards Watanabe, very eager and always begging for rewards and attention, but also never questioning his dismissals or orders to wait, just a slave who knows her place and fulfills her master's wishes with a smile on her face. Beautiful thing to see.
And I said that things get more interesting because, while Waka is in puppet mode, Reiko helps Watanabe "puppeteer" her around. Reiko undresses her, Reiko makes her lower herself and get up as Watanabe demands, Reiko even moves Waka's head during the blowjob scene and helps her body keep the bouncing rhythm. Reiko knows exactly how her master likes it and she's helping ingrain that in the new girl's training.
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| There's something deliciously twisted about having brainwashed slaves help train the new targets that I just can't get enough of |
Waka's consciousness is still woken up for the final stretch when Watanabe cums inside her, and awakens her new slave personality as well. Also, during this scene we learn that Watanabe's main target is Nono, and Waka was just a stepping stone, but now that he got a go with her he decided she's a pretty good woman and worth keeping as a pet too. Good for her..?
Since I gushed about Kobayakawa Reiko's acting a lot, I'd be remiss to not mention Misono Waka also does a really good job, particularly in the mindless scenes. And if this sounds like faint praise ("oh, she's good at playing an empty doll, such good acting lmao"), it's not. It's hard to actually get the mindless, "lights are on but no one's home" act well, as anyone who watched enough mind-control porn (or even mind-control scenes in regular stuff) can easily attest. So props to her. Her acting falters in that her character's slave personality lacks the maniacal devotion Reiko conveys (Waka's range seems more limited), despite being supposed to. So when they're together on the same scene trying to butter the main lead up, the gap between them becomes really apparent.
There's also a blowjob and paizuri scene in this part as Waka extracts the "sauce" to season her lunch with. She later erotically eats the cum-covered sausages in front of Nono. This JAV has these little moments I just find hilarious.
Obviously disturbed by what happened, Nono follows Waka and finds she and Reiko servicing Watanabe wearing the clothes on the movie's cover. She tries to call the police but Reiko pins her from the back while Waka snaps the Brainwashing Ring around her neck.
After rewarding his two slaves for their good work with a little kissy, it's time to work on Nono. There's the standard "your tongue is as sensitive as your clitolis" scene all the girls got, but then we get something more unique. Using the phone app that controls the collars, Watanabe transfers Nono's mind to Reiko's body so she can watch him play around with her body. Kobayakawa gets to display some more of her range by mimicking Yuuki Nono's mannerisms and voice tone, it's pretty fun. Pretty interesting scene, but also sort of goes nowhere after this, as the training resumes as normal. Keep a pin on that for the next part of the review.
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| It's still a good training scene, with both Reiko and Waka assisting Watanabe |
Brainwashing Ring does a really good job of building up Nono's character, so it's incredibly satisfying to see her finally fall and become a lowly slave along with the other two. The closing scenes of the movie aren't anything out of the ordinary - four-way kisses, triple blowjobs, body worship and "one girl gets fucked, the others kiss and lick the guy's nipples" stuff, with every girl getting her turn but the focus being Nono, of course. So while not my favorite scene of the movie by a long shot, the sense of satisfaction it left me with helps elevate it. Lots of mind control JAV like to throw shitty twists right at the end and while that doesn't sour the experience, it can be eye-rolling. So it's nice watching one just wind down with a victory lap after the main target has finally been conquered.
If I have to point out a fault in the last third of the movie is that Nono's crush on Waka should have been brought to the forefront at some point to really twist the knife. I feel more could have been done to both drive in her despair and to further accentuate her change once she gives in. There is an attempt at that, as Nono keeps crying out for Waka when she's conscious in her training scene (and Waka is the one to collar her and later, at Watanabe's request, the one to use the collar's control to briefly give Nono's her mind back before it's gone forever), but that just reinforces my opinion that they could have done more with it. Still, in the greater scope of the picture, it doesn't really matter, as the focus is on Nono's fall.
All in all a really good mind-control movie that I appreciate even more after a rewatch. I'll say right now this is the better of the two, both in quality of content and, at least in my opinion, choice of actresses. If you're looking for a recommendation of a good mind-control JAV to watch, this is it.
Pros:
- Tight script with setups and payoffs, the girls' respective training scenes feel consistent without feeling repetitive.
- Good sex scenes all around, but especially good group sex scenes
- Good acting from all 3 actresses helps sell all stages of the brainwashing proccess
- Excellent use of costume, makeup and acting to make sure the characters give a different impression before and after their brainwashing
Cons:
- Lighting and camera placement can make some of said excellent costumes harder to appreciate before they come off. The "corrupted OL" looks in particular suffer from this. And yes this is horribly biased.
- They could have done more with Nono's feelings for Waka
- The step-by-step of the training is pretty standard SOD mind control fare, and that can be a turn off to some.
Score: 9/10
Sennou Ring no Shinshokusareteiku Uta no Onee-san-tachi! Saa. Minna. Onee-san-tachi to Issho ni Ochinpo no Taisou no Jikan Dayo~
The Young TV Singers Corrupted by the Brainwashing Ring! Come On, Everyone. It's Time for a Dick Workout with Big Sis~
Production Number/"JAV code": SDDE-699
Release date: 2023/06/27
Maker: SOD Create
Label: SENZ
Director: Dazai Chinpo (太宰珍歩)
Actresses: Miyazawa Chiharu (宮沢ちはる), Yuuki Rino (結城りの), Sunohara Miki (春原未来)
Runtime: 127 minutes
