A Milky White Christmas Recommendation

Merry Christmas! Happy Festivus! Happy Holidays! Have a great whatever the fuck it is that you celebrate!

The holidays are hectic as always and between spending time with my family, cooking, and taking turns with the other adults babysitting the younger cousins so they don't set the house or each other on fire, I haven't had much time to work on my Japanese pornography blog. Shocker, I know.

I couldn't get any of the posts I planned for the end of the year out on time. To make up for it, I decided to just do a quick recommendation post. Won't be in-depth like a review, just talk a little about a h-manga series I enjoy and, as a Christmas gift to you readers, I'll also leave a download link to the full thing. Don't get used to it, this isn't really intended to be a file-sharing blog. But hey, it's Christmas, and my beard is starting to get a few white hairs anyway, might as well play Santa for a day.

Getting right down to it, I'm talking about Milk Mamire, also known as Milk Drenched, a series by Fukuyama Naoto that's all about lactation, sexual training, and turning idols into sex slaves. I now realize I'm talking about another Idol thing right after Kegareboshi, but not only the vibe of this one is entirely different (no NTR in sight, for starters), the heroines' status as idols is more of a background thing.

Fukuyama Naoto is pretty well-known to fans of ahegao and lighter, not fully consensual but not super hardcore sexual slavery. I decided to go with a softer recommendation because I think it fits the mood of the season better. Plus, sometimes it's nice to see women guided towards slavery by light pushes and sweet nothings instead of just high-impact sexual violence. Sometimes.

Milk Mamire centers around a college student called Makinaga who ends up recognizing (by the shape of her tits) one of his classmates as the super popular half-Japanese idol Arisa Himemiya. They also discover each others' embarrassing secrets: Arisa has lactating breasts that swell and ache if not milked, while Makinaga produces huge amounts of sperm. As this leads to a sexual encounter where they discover they're pretty compatible, they make a deal to help alleviate each other's stress through sex. But just that, no dating, no kissing. This seems like a pretty great situation to find oneself in already, but Makinaga isn't satisfied with just that and decides he'll use their stress relief sessions as a means to train Arisa's body to make it more and more responsive until she is consumed by her own lust and agrees to become his sex slave.

While Arisa is still blissfully unaware of his intentions, she introduces him to Botan Satsuki, an idol from a traditional family who never interacted with men very much and wants to make male friends. Seeing this as the opportunity to corrupt another beauty, Makinaga teaches her all the wrong things.

From there on the manga follows Makinaga's training of the two girls, developing their bodies as they walk towards their inevitable enslavement.

With a lot of focus on breasts and balance between a tsundere girl and an innocent yamato nadeshiko girl, this is a really nice and laidback read. Makinaga doesn't use drugs, doesn't have supernatural powers, this is good old "can't win against the cock" stuff. His training features things like having them go to work with vibrators under their clothes, teasing their nipples, anal development and so on. Fukuyama Naoto draws amazingly soft bodies and hot, crazed expressions.

Arisa and Botan's breasts get bigger as their training progresses

While the core series is focused on the two girls, there's two extra chapters at the end (one a proper epilogue, and one that takes place between the end of the main series and the epilogue) that focus on Makinaga expanding his harem and enjoying his two main slaves alongside the new catches - which includes rival idols, family members, and younger idols who took inspiration on Arisa and Botan. These girls don't have as much focus as the main duo, with their whole training process recorded on a few pages, but they add variety and the feeling of having a lot of women under the protagonist's power, which is always nice to me.

The series has been partially published in English by Irodori, and by partially I mean they only published the extra chapters leaving all context and the main story out. I don't get it either, but the rest of the manga has been fan-translated, including some of the Japanese store bonuses.

The link below contains the entire series (sans one bonus that has only ever popped up translated in Chinese, not even in Raw form) in .cbz format. That's a digital comic format. If you don't like using digital comic readers, you can simply extract like a zip file (or even change the format to .zip) to get the full-resolution images, as the .cbz format is just that, a readable zip folder. Some of these archives just came in this format so I compacted the ones that were just an image folder so everything is nice and organized. I also put a numbered order to avoid confusion given that there are extra chapters that aren't clear from the name where they go. They are in release order.

Click here to download

Please notify me in the comments if there's anything wrong with the files or the download link.

I will see you guys in 2024, either with the next Hentai Glossary post or talking about my favorite Winter Comiket releases, whatever comes first.

[Ero Manga Review] Kegareboshi by Satou Kuuki

Satou Kuuki (@Twitter, @Pixiv) should be a familiar name for those into Corruption and NTR who care to keep tabs on artists' names. Known for his distinctive art style and penchant for turning innocent and delicate maidens into devilishly sexy and cruel sluts, complete with figure-hugging clothes with a nylon or latex-like sheen. He posts standalone art frequently and has done art for a couple of eroge (one of which was covered in an earlier post about translated mind control games), but what he's most known for is his ero-manga, having published both independently and in magazines.

What we're here to talk about today is one of his doujinshi (independent works), a 4-part series published between Comikets 99 and 102 called Kegareboshi, which can be translated in a number of ways such as "Dirty Star", "Disgraced Star", or, my personal pick, "Corrupted Star". J18 and HMarket recently released the first chapter of the series (Kegareboshi: Ao) under the title "Falling Star: Azure", a less literal but catchier name that still gets the idea across. Nice job. Since it remains to be seen whether they follow through with the release of the rest of the series, for the purpose of this review I will be sourcing images and terminology from an existing fan translation by biribiri, referencing the original Japanese text wheneer necessary.

Kegareboshi is about Asaba Ibuki and Shirosaki Koharu, members of a rookie idol group called StellaResta, who are steadily rising in popularity under the guidance of manager Matsunami Wataru. As StellaResta's first anniversary approaches and they prepare for their first solo live event, things take an unexpected turn as Ibuki finds herself blackmailed by big fish producer Kurozuka Atsuya, who composed some music for the duo in the past and has since been looking to get his hands on her voluptuous body. Kurozuka found evidence that Koharu and Wataru are romantically involved, something that, if leaked to the press, could destroy both of their careers and skin the idol group along with their small agency, Seven Arts. To protect StellaResta, Ibuki decides to endure Kurozuka's depraved requests. But there is more to the situation than it meets the eye and soon Ibuki will find herself drowning in a world of corruption, betrayal, and pleasure that exists in the underbelly of the entertainment industry.

This is probably a premise you heard before, as it's the way idol corruption stories usually develop, with Satou Kuuki himself having penned similar scenarios before in his Idom@ster doujins. But it's precisely that experience with the genre as well as the even more polished artwork that makes Kegareboshi stand out, and each chapter adds a new twist or shifts the perspective to another character, making the story of StellaResta's downfall retain the reader's interest even if it's well-trodden ground for those familiar with this kind of story. There's also the fact that for a series of four chapters with a total page count of 134, it's quite ambitious. Not only it uses original characters instead of relying on an existing IP as most Idol doujinshi do, but it also develops their personalities through their corruption arcs, adding backstories and motivations as necessary. It's not without its faults though, as while I certainly appreciate a doujinka with loftier goals than just making a one-off 20 pages book for Comiket, it also raises the bar the content has to meet and, I assume, some stuff may just shift in the creative process of a series with a biannual release schedule.

To explain what I mean, let's talk about the books individually. I'll do a mini-review for each one, containing spoilers. If you want to avoid spoilers or just want to get to my overall thoughts on the series as a whole, feel free to skip to Conclusion.

[News] Musou no Haramase Onaho Kishidan - The Princess Knight Series that Kickstarted Miel's Fantasy High Makes a Comeback

Miel is an eroge company with a bit of a reputation. That their games are repetitive, that they're not satisfying as mindbreak games because the girls become perverts after their first scene, and that there is way too much peeing in them. Anyone familiar with the studio's work (localized in the West by Cherry Kiss Games) has seen people voice these complaints or thinks this to some degree. They're also known for their comically long subtitles.

A brief overview of Miel

It's not wrong to say that Miel games do often adhere to a formula and that with rare exceptions you know exactly what you will get before going in. But the thing is, I think that's fine. Miel isn't a company with lofty ambitions seeking to revolutionize the eroge industry. It's a small studio that knows exactly the kinds of games they do - small-scale, short nukige featuring mind break and sexual slavery, usually with a tone that swings more fun and light-hearted than dark and twisted (even though the acts portrayed tend to be pretty hardcore or, as they like to describe it, erohidoi, something like "pervy and cruel"), by way of having the mindbreak process happen over the course of only one scene for each girl (which is called sokuochi, "instant fall") and the rest of the game consisting of debauched fun with eager slaves. They have a niche and they provide to it almost monthly, and pretty cheaply too - most of their games cost between ¥1000 and ¥2000 (and often go into sale for way less), with only brand-new releases with one of their main artists at the helm going over the ¥3000 mark. I can respect the commitment, honestly. Other companies on a similar size and price range I can think of, like Appetite, take the "throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks" approach and as a result nothing really feels genuine about their games. You can say what you want about Miel's games, but you can't deny they have passion for what they do. I have played my share of their games to know for a fact that even if the scenarios can be derivative, there's no script recycling going on. Someone who writes different stuff for the same basic premise over and over again is a true pervert and I salute them.

Now that the introduction and my little bit of apologia is out of the way - it's the first time I bring up this company on the blog, I had to throw my two cents in -, let's get to the heart of the matter.

Miel today is mostly known for their fantasy harem titles, both of Isekai and non-Isekai varieties. Almost always following some variation of a down-on-his-luck or slimy protagonist getting his hands on a power that allows him to subjugate and enslave the most powerful women around. While the focus on sexual slavery and hardcore sex have been core parts of the company's content since its beginning, Fantasy settings were a secondary thing for a long time, featured on only two or three games, as their big thing before was school setting harems, and before that, Netori. What caused the two shifts of focus were games that were big hits and helped expand their audience. Not that they abandoned the previous genres entirely - they still do school and other modern-day settings, and they still do slower corruption netori-focused games on occasion. It's just that their big tentpole titles, what they're known for, what gets localized the fastest, are the fantasy games. And the game that started this shift was one Saikyou no Haramase Onaho Kishi-dan, released in 2016.

Onaho Kishi-dan Series

Onaho Kishi-dan is a reincarnation-type Isekai where the protagonist was reborn into a country that had been cursed so that all males would become impotent, so the population is declining and women occupy the positions of power. The protagonist is not only immune but also finds a way to channel his sexual frustration (he was a virgin his entire original life + reincarnated life) into magic and do all sorts of perverted things to the knights and princess of his country, finally marching into enemy territory and taking down the evil queen by making her one of his slaves. This game is not original but it's pretty well executed with good sex scenes, and more importantly, it was at the right time and place as this kind of Isekai was starting to soar in popularity. Since then, Miel was able to remain attuned to the genre to ride its many trends - they've done nukige using more gamified settings with classes and cheat skills, villainesses-focused ones, so on and so forth.

But Onaho Kishidan itself only had one sequel, Muteki no Haramase Onaho Himekishi-dan, which was seen as vastly inferior. It has sex scenes, not helped by Ishii entering a period where his art declined for a while before getting much better than it ever was. Whether it was some undisclosed health issue, creative block, or simply the growing pains of an artist experimenting with his art style no one knows. What matters is that since this second game, the name has been put to rest.

Until now, as Miel announced Musou no Haramase Onaho Kishi-dan ~Tsuyoi Mesu o Jutsu De Kuppuku Sasete Erohidoi Koto Yaritaihoudai no Zettai Chuusei Harem o Tsukuru!~ (I told you the subtitles are hilariously long. I spared you from the previous two. This one translates to something like "Peerless Pregnant Onahole Knights ~Build an Absolutely Loyal Harem by Subjugating Strong Females with your Powers and Doing All the Perverted Things You Wish~").

Summary and My Expectations

What catches my attention here is that the last time Miel decided to dust off the name of a long-dormant series with their Kimomen series, they hit a home run with one of my favorites among their modern releases and have since maintained a bar of quality within the revived series. So what I'm hoping for here is a similar treatment. Miel has been teasing this game since August, which for their standards is a damn long time, so I'm intrigued, to say the least. Of course, I don't expect anything out of the norm, but I expect some good quality norm. A quality beef burger instead of the usual McDonalds, so to speak. I'll have to wait and find out I guess.

Now sharing a bit about the game itself, it harkens back to the original Onaho Kishi-dan in a lot of ways. The protagonist this time is not isekai'd (at least the official site doesn't mention it), but a native of the fantasy world who had his home country destroyed by the sadistic Knight Queen Carla, and now lives in a forest as an exile. He resents all the lady knights for fighting all over the land in their struggle for power, and upon finding a cursed sword, realizes that his desire is not only to defeat them but also to dominate them and turn them into his slaves and sex toys. He forms a pact with the sword which gives him the power to carve a crest of lust on his targets' bodies and enslave them through sex, and starts his journey. His first target is fellow exile Princess Erica, who fights as a knight to reclaim her country from Carla's clutches.

Womb tattoos are a staple of Miel games, but this time they're a literal representation of the protagonist's power over the girls' bodies.

The Heroines

What's a nukige without the ladies we'll get to rape and enslave, amirite? So let's have a quick look at the 5  Knights and what we can expect from them.

[JAV Review] Sennou Drill Motor Show Campaign Girl Hen

I've been wanting to make a post about a JAV for a while, and what better opportunity than the release of a new entry in one of my favorite series?

Well, when jumping in to review a recent release (this came out last Tuesday) you win some and lose some. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start with a quick rundown.

Original Title: 洗脳ドリル モーターショーキャンペンガール編 俺を見下した小娘達には中出し再教育が必要なんだよ…
JAV Code: SDDE-709
Maker: SOD Create
Label: SENZ
Series: Sennou Drill
Director: Morikawa Kei
Actresses: Honda Momo (本田もも), Usami Mion (宇佐美みおん), Anzai Sora (安西天)

Synopsis: Hajime, a camera boy who chases after a Campaign Girl called Momo is at it again today photographing her at an event. However, he's so infatuated that he ends up waiting for her on the way home. Strongly reprimanded and made fun of by her co-workers Sora and Mion for being a creepy stalker, fury and humiliation swirl in Hajime's heart as he takes a Brainwashing Drill out of his backpack...

Hentai Glossary A to D

There is a lot of terminology that gets thrown around when talking about Japanese porn. Be it tags that show up on doujins on your favorite websites, keywords that you keep seeing on game and JAV titles or people getting into really angry arguments over Japanese words you don’t have any idea what they mean.

So I thought a glossary would be a fun and informative little series of posts to have. I don't know what the periodicity of these posts will be but the goal is one a month.

Full disclosure, this idea was taken from the good fellow at Dark Eroge (in Spanish), but I'm expanding on it a bit and trying to focus on the kind of stuff that I cover in the blog, with some more generalist entries that I feel like talking about included. 

The glossary will be organized in alphabetical order, with each entry's title having the Japanese word in Western letters first with its Japanese writing between parenthesis, followed by the closest equivalent terms used in the West, if any. 

This is the first long-form post series here at the Dorei Cafe so I'm pretty excited about it. Any kind of comment, positive or negative, would be appreciated.

In this first post, I bring 8 entries, ranging from the letters A to D. From commonplace hentai terminology like Ahegao and Doujinshi to more niche stuff more directly related to our interests such as Choukyou and Dogeza.

Ahegao (アヘ顔)

It’s a facial expression meant to display extreme pleasure. Traditionally, the woman will have her eyes rolling back or crossed (exposing a lot of the white of her eyes), the tongue hanging out of her mouth. Usually accompanied by body shaking in ecstasy, squirting, blushing, tears, drool, sweat, and other stuff associated with rough sexual intercourse and maddening pleasure.

There are variations, such as no tongue hanging out or even clenched teeth as if trying to hold the pleasure in (this second kind in manga and eroge often happens right before the more classic one), and these may have their specific niche names I’m not aware of, but for simplicity’s sake, I’m lumping them together with Ahegao.

Top: Ochiru Hitozuma, Kegareboshi Kuro, Teacher Taming!
Bottom: Manatama Plus, Enkou JK Aherase Supple, Cara the Blood Lord

Akuochi (悪堕ち)/Corruption/Moral Degeneration

“The more beautiful and pure a thing is, the more satisfying it is to corrupt it.”

This aphorism has floated around the internet since at least the early 2000s, and is still the most succinct way to describe the appeal of this fetish. At its core is the idea of twisting the victim into the opposite of her original persona through her originally neglected or repressed sexual needs. Prim and proper maidens turned into scantly dressed sex maniacs, strong-willed women reduced to masochistic slaves, and heroines of justice becoming slutty pawns of the Evil they once fought.

There is usually an escalation of both pleasure and despair/guilt as the heroine tries to deny her feelings and keeps being tormented by her corruptor, leading to a breaking point where the woman is admits to her own sluttiness, embraces it as her true self and discards her prior loyalties. The end result depends on the setting and plot. It may result in a sex slave, a prostitute, a demon, and so on.

In most cases, there is some visual change to the heroine, sometimes obvious – like the full evil makeover of a corrupted magical girl, or something more subtle like slightly heavier makeup and sluttier clothes. Sometimes there may be no physical change at all, only in her personality.

The Japanese term 悪堕ち (akuochi) literally translates to “Falling to Evil”, and is strongly associated with the idea of corruption by a de facto evil force such as a tokusatsu-esque evil organization or demonic corrupting force. But 堕ち (ochi) on itself, which means just “fall”, is combined with many other words to mean the corruption by or of whatever it’s combined with. 侵蝕 (shinshoku, lit. erosion) is also used sometimes for corruption of the moral degeneration variety, but more often than not you’ll find it under other terminology.

Left to right: Himekishi Do Gehin Haiboku Jinsei, Ma Oji (top), Noumiso Sponge Deku Ikusei Idol Gasshuku (bottom), Soukou Seiki Ysphere, Akushin Shinshoku

JAV examples:

JAV codes: STARS-197, STARS-323, SDDE-621, STARS-916, HYPN-025

Bakunyuu (爆乳)/Kyonyuu (巨乳)

This one is easy. Large breasts. Big boobs. Huge tits. Enormous Bazoonga- Ok you get the idea.
爆乳 (Bakunyuu) literally means "exploding breasts", conveying the idea of breasts so big they're jumping out of whatever clothing is barely containing them. 巨乳 (Kyonyuu) is a more general term for big breasts, and some people will argue a hierarchy where Bakunyuu are bigger than Kyonyuu, but in practice, they are interchangeable, since what is considered big enough to be categorized as one or the other will depend on the artist's taste and if it's a commercial product, a studio's marketing decisions.

The only thing to keep in mind is that the breasts are not meant to be abnormally or inhumanly huge in the setting. That's another tag we'll get to another day. For now, just enjoy some pictures from games and h-manga that prominently feature big-breasted heroines.

Top row: Kyonyuu Princess Saimin, Lady Maid ni Otsu, Dekachichi Muchishiri BBA Kishidan
Bottom row: Bakunyuu Saimin Onna Kyoushi, Shimai X Choukyou, Saimin Joushi

CG

The term CG is used to refer to drawn (or very rarely pre-rendered) artwork, usually not divided into panels, organized in a sequential manner. Most CG sets make heavy use of variations of one single image, that is, making use of layers to change parts of the image while maintaining most of the drawing. Also called simply イラスト (irasuto, illustration), it has its origins in illustrations created for games, particularly Visual Novels/Adventure games, which is still where most CGs come from, but today a lot of artists make CG sets to with text to sell on their own, as the variation technique can make CGs less expensive and time-consuming to produce than manga.
This entry doesn't have an illustrative image because most of the images in this article are CGs. Due to being more readily available and needing less cropping than a manga page to fit the format I'm using. Which I guess speaks to how convenient CG can be even for non-intended uses.

Choukyou (調教)/Sexual Training

Choukyou is a Japanese term that means training, but only when referring to animals (usually horses, and it can be accurately translated as "breaking in" the horse in that case). The implication of using it for humans is that it is dehumanizing. In the context of hentai, it means harsh sexual training and conditioning meant to break the will of the target until she becomes a willing slave of her trainer.

The contents of the training can vary wildly. It may involve physical pain if the story is going down the route of degrading the heroine into a masochist. It may be mostly centered around emotional manipulation, threats, and gaslighting in a story involving cheating. It may involve technologically advancing body remodeling to enhance sensitivity. It really depends on the setting and the kind of story being told. That said, it does usually involve at least some use of sex toys and humiliation play, often veering into BDSM territory.

What's important is that there is a trainer, who is doing sexual acts to a woman with the explicit objective of training and molding her to fit into his desires with no regard for her thoughts on the matter and breaking down any will to resist. Usually, the result of such a training process will be either an obedient and adoring slave who has been tailored to her master's ideal or a broken husk that may be either lifeless or single-mindedly seeking sex.

Many titles also fall somewhere between these two extremes, having a woman go through intense training that results in enslavement but having the girl keep the mental stability to be able to maintain a normal life and a facade of being the same despite now living to serve her master.

Thinking of what to put as the image for such an important entry gave me a stop. Since Choukyou is so contextual, tied more to the writing than the visuals, there's really no way to convey it the same way as with Corruption or Ahegao (Big tits didn't need an illustration either but what sane person would pass on the opportunity to include more big tits in their encyclopedia article??). But it would feel wrong to not put an image for Choukyou. So I decided to make one that all source material is focused on or heavily features sexual training. This means that there's no mind control, cheat skills, body remodeling tech, or anything of the sort. Just sexual skill and the use of regular tools (and sometimes aphrodisiacs) to break in unruly women.

Top row: Kan'ochi x Netorare Kazoku, Baiin Reijou, Captive Market
Bottom row: Zettai Fukujuu Princess, Mesu-domo no 4 Page Choukyou Kirokushuu 2, Ura Kyoushi

Dogeza (土下座) 

Dogeza is a form of prostrating oneself in reverence to someone of higher status, in apology or begging for something. It comes from ancient Japanese etiquette and similar rituals (often referred as kowtowing) have been observed throughout East Asia.

In the modern day, it's more common in fiction than in reality but still happens. Think of it like groveling at someone's feet or begging on your knees from a Western perspective - it's not something that happens to everyone, but it does happen. One example people often bring up when variety shows and such ask around in city centers is apologizing to a spouse after getting caught cheating or when they can't pay back a debt. Forcing someone to dogeza is a crime in Japan, to prevent situations of abuse of power inside companies and such.

In porn, dogeza almost always shows up as a form of sexual humiliation and submission, and it's often performed naked, which is referred as naked dogeza (全裸土下座), and may involve the person doing it putting their clothes and belonging sin front or around them in a sign of complete surrender.

Dogeza can be done willingly or forced. If willing, the character is usually a sex slave of some sort and likely to beg for sex or training, apologize for previous "foolish" behavior towards him or express gratitude for being turned into his slave. If forced, she may do all that as well and just be very angry about it, an attitude that will usually be met with mockery and punishment. Stepping, ejaculating or peeing on a character performing dogeza is also fairly common in hentai.

Top row: Kyonyuu Onna Senshi Dogeza Saimin, Teihen Yomuin Fukushuu Sennou, Chijoku no Seifuku
Bottom row: Ochihime, Hypno App Fantasia, Tomodachi no Galge Mitai na Gikazoku o Musabori Nettote Haramaseta

Dorei (奴隷)/Slave

A Slave, or more specifically, Sex Slave (性奴隷, seidorei) is exactly what says on the tin. Someone who has given up their personhood to be owned by a master and dedicates her life to servitude in both sexual and non-sexual ways. I chose to go with the more generic term in the glossary despite meaning specifically sexual slavery because it's how it will often be found in Japanese titles, by itself or combined with other Japanese words, creating variations like 雌奴隷 (mesudorei, lit. "female slave"), 肉奴隷 (nikudorei, lit. "meat slave"), マゾ奴隷 (mazodorei, lit. "masochist slave") and many, many others, so often searching just for "dorei" and seeing by context if it fits your interest is more productive than strictly sticking to "seidorei".

While sexual slavery can be entirely consensual as part of BDSM play, in the context of the kinds of works I cover here it almost invariably starts as either non-consensual or consensual in name only (for example, a woman forced into slavery by debt or political gain of her family, but still being rebellious, forcing herself to perform her duties while feeling openly disgusted, or even in an openly antagonistic relationship with her master); and through sexual training, mind control or other means gets turned into a "true" slave over time.

General identifiers

There are a number of accessories and imagery that usually indicate that a woman is a sex slave. These are of course not ironclad rules, but at least one of them tends to find its way into most works depicting sexual slavery.

- Slave collar: usually a regular leather leash, sometimes a metal collar or even some magical gadget. The gist of it is that a woman in a collar belongs to someone else.
- Genital piercings: Piercings in the nipples, clitoris and/or anus, sometimes linked by decorative chains, also emphasize the lack of ownership of her own body but also denote its status as a plaything, something that exists for her master to toy with.
- Slave Tatto: A tattoo placed usually either in the crotch area or on the hearth,  with designs varying from hearts to barcodes, it's used to indicate the woman's status as a slave. It's usually seen as a permanent connection and proof of her ownership by her master.
- Perverted clothing: A less common one, but often slaves will not be merely scantly dressed, but instead be dressed in completely obscene ways. Embarrassing outfits featuring phallic decorations, mockeries of her old uniforms or wedding dresses that leave her breasts and pussy out for everyone to see, and so on. It crosses over a bit with what we've seen in Akuochi above, only it doesn't necessarily correlate with the evil part, understood as a state of moral corruption beyond just sexual perversion.
- General confinement and BDSM imagery such as pillory, chains, handcuffs, harnesses, latex and leather gear, and so on may also feature heavily in sex scenes involving slaves.

Top row: Ane Ane X Saimin, Kangoku Academia, Hakoniwa ni Saku Mesu no Hana
Bottom row: Yakata ~Kannou Kitan~ Koukaku no Ai, Victim Girls 9: UnderCover Working

Doujinshi (同人誌)

Doujinshi are self-published works. Western anime fans usually equate the term with hentai manga, but the term actually refers to any self-published fiction, not only manga, and not only erotic. Conversely, not all hentai manga are doujinshi. In fact, the majority of originals (not based in any existing character or series) are published in magazines and thus by definition not doujinshi. Doujin games are essentially what we in the West would call indie games. Famous examples of Doujin games would be Touhou and Higurashi (the original release of it), both sold at the fan event Comiket, which has entire venues dedicated to selling doujin work.

I think it's important to make that distinction. H-manga or Eromanga or even just porn manga are the appropriate term for the media. Doujinshi refers to a form of distribution and probably doesn't include many of the titles you have in mind. There are doujin eroge too, lots of stuff on DLsite are self-published, and there are some freeware titles floating around elsewhere.

And so we conclude our very first Hentai Glossary. All and any feedback would be appreciated, from criticisms of things that could improve or even suggestions of entries you guys would like to see covered. See you next time.

5 Recommendations: Translated Mind Control Visual Novels

So far, I've only talked about recent Japanese releases here at Dorei Cafe, because that's what I've been playing recently. However, I do realize a good chunk of the people reading don't read Japanese. I'm not that stupid.

Fortunately, there is a good number of translated games, of varying quality and genres, just waiting to be played. I plan on making proper reviews or just an article rambling about some of them in the future. But for now, as this blog is still in its early days, getting visitors in the double digits when I'm lucky, I think a good old list is in order. Is this me shamelessly doing a popular post format to help get my blog out there? Yes. But I also think lists of recommendations are genuinely helpful.

Now, while Dorei Cafe is about sexual slavery and things that lead to it as a whole, I have no qualms saying my main fetish is mind control. From that jumping-in point I opened my horizons to other ways of enslaving women such as sexual training and conditioning, mindbreak, and so on. So, it's only fair that's the first topic I'll do a dedicated recommendations post on.

I tend to split Mind Control in erotic media into two main categories. One is hypnotic induction, where the victim is put into a trance and given commands and triggers that take effect once they're awake, and the other is brainwashing, done through sci-fi tech or magic sources to directly tamper with the victim's brain and gradually rewrite their personality. Technically any long-term change caused by mind control methods is brainwashing, but for keeping things distinct I like using this little convention. At least to me, "hypnosis" evokes the image of a person in a trance, while "brainwashing" brings to mind the image of someone attached to a chair or with a weird helmet or visor on their head.

Of the 5 recommendations I bring, only 2 involve hypnotic induction, and neither is by the traditional method of using a focus object (like a swinging pendulum) to put a person under. That isn't as popular in Japan as it is in the West. In eroge, induction through sound is pretty popular, like subliminals hidden on white noise or music, specific sound frequencies that act as triggers, etc. This is largely due to the influence of early 2000s hypnosis eroge like the Saiminjutsu series. When there's visual induction, it's usually using a screen pattern (this is what most of the "hypnosis app" type stories do) to instantly shut down conscious brain functions and put the victim in a trance, which most western hypnotic induction fans really dislike. Lastly, there is inducing trance through smells, usually either chemical or magic in nature, that make the victim suggestionable. That also used to be really popular in the 2000s and it's still seen today from time to time. That is not to say there aren't eroge traditional, magician-style hypnosis out there. There are, they're just few and to my knowledge, none is translated. Saimin Yuugi is probably the best of the bunch, for those willing to venture into untranslated games.

I don't think brainwashing is necessarily more popular, it just so happens that some very popular artists and bigger studios have worked on brainwashing games while more traditional hypnosis is in nicher more specialized studios. Hypnosis tends to be its own thing and dominate the game while technology or magic-assisted brainwashing goes well with sexual training and body modification, casting a wider net, as we'll see. So, due to wider appeal, they get picked for translation more often.

Let's get to the recommendations. They're not in any order of quality, just in the order I felt like presenting them.

Kangoku Senkan (series) - Anime Lilith

I said there were 5 recommendations, not 5 games. Easily the most well-known of the list, most Mind Control enjoyers have heard about the series, if not because of the games themselves, thanks to the h-anime adaptation of the first game directed by one Murakami Teruaki.

The series takes place in a sci-fi setting with some pretty clear Gundam inspirations (to the point of the heroines of the first game being dead ringers for the two hot commanders from Gundam Seed, Murrue and Natarle), where mankind expanded to space and eventually war broke between an Earth-based faction and a Space Colony faction. The big difference is that the space faction, the New Solars, ended up on top and became the leading power, while Earth and its allied colonies, the Neo-Terrans (or Neo-Terrors, depending on the translation) have weakened influence.

In the first game, Kangoku Senkan ~Hidou no Sennou Kaizou Koukai~ (something like "Prison Battleship: Voyage of Inhuman Brainwashing and Remodelling), Neo-Terran officer Donny Bohgan is escorting two New Solar higher-ups Lieri Bishop and Naomi Evans in what is supposed to be a diplomatic mission to tighten relations between the two factions. In truth, he has been tasked with using the voyage to Earth to brainwash them into double agents and sex slaves with the cutting-edge brainwashing and body modification equipment hidden in the spaceship, while Lieri and Naomi themselves were tasked with uncovering the secrets of Bohgan's battleship, which New Solar intel points to likely have some kind of hidden facility or weapon.

The second game, Kangoku Senkan 2 ~Yousai Toshi no Sennou Kaizou~ (Prison Battleship 2: Brainwashing and Remodelling in the Fortress City) sees Bohgan, under the fake name Dino Dirasso, infiltrating the neutral space colony of Cordelia, a city estate orbiting Uranus, to brainwash the New Solar-leaning next in line for the seat of Archduchess, Maya Cordelia, as well as her legal guardian and army commander Alicia Viewstream into slaves who will hand over the colony to the Neo-Terrans-or maybe even, to himself.

Kangoku Senkan 3 ~Nessa no Sennou Kouro~ (Prison Battleship 3: Brainwashing Route of the Boiling Sand) sees Bohgan bare his fangs against Beatrice Kushan, a Neo-Terran admiral gone rogue, and her daughter Kila, who now lead the "Kushan Army" and rule over Mars as warlords.

The heroines of the trilogy

The three games follow a similar formula: Bohgan abducts the girls and takes them to machines that modify their bodies and brains. The body modification is pretty mild and mostly focused on increasing sensitivity and libido and turning body parts like the mouth into erogenous zones. Meanwhile, the brain is programmed with new (sexual) knowledge and a new personality is nurtured with each session. During the day, the victims are their normal selves, though they may notice something unusual with their bodies, they will have no memory of the kidnapping. When a specific trigger goes off (usually, at nightfall), several common-sense alterations activate, such as believing servicing the male crewmembers is the duty of ambassadors, or that the process of validating the post of granduchess involves sex. This altered state of mind is used for intense sexual training and further brainwashing. As time goes on the sexual activities become more extreme, the excuses more flimsy and due to the extensive modifications the heroines get really suspicious during the day, and it's up to the player to make the right choices to avoid getting caught until the process is completed and the slave personality is ready to overwrite the original, and also to reach the ending they want out of the three or four each game presents.

A mix of brainwashing and body modification is the cornerstone of the Kangoku Senkan series.

All in all pretty solid games that are classics of the genre for a reason. Today they may not be anything groundbreaking but that's because, alongside Alicesoft's Haruka/Escalayer and some other games, they popularized the genre conventions for this kind of brainwashing. But execution is where it shines and they are still some of the best this particular kind of mind control has to offer.

Besides the three main titles, there's also Kangoku Academia, a spin-off with art by Sian (instead of series alumni Kagami Hirotaka) and writing handled by a newer team at Lilith-soft. Many fans refuse to give it a chance due to the different art styles and not having the same protagonist, but I'll vouch for it. It takes place a few years after the main series, with a new protagonist, Albert Payne, who holds a grudge towards two New Solar officers, Julia Bloodstone and Eliza Perlman, and uses their short tenure as lecturers at a New Solar Military Academy on Planet Hermes as an opportunity to brainwash them into debauched whores and slaves as his and his comrades' vengeance. Despite the different team handling it, this game is true to the spirit of the series, bringing in the same focus brainwashing and body modification to assist hardcore sexual training, and is pretty closely tied with the lore the first 3 titles built upm feeling like a very natural continuation while leaving the doors open for an eventual Kangoku Senkan 4 (if Lilith ever gets out of Gacha Hell, that is). Plus, the quality of the CGI is just great, having some pretty creative scenes along with some recreations of scenarios from the earlier games. Julia and Eliza leave nothing to be desired when compared to the girls of the previous games. This is definitely a title that deserves to stand alongside the main series.

A fair warning is that, for those who want exclusivity, in Kangoku Senkan it's pretty common for the protagonist to let his subordinates use his girls. Some games allow the player to pick a favorite for himself and let the boys have fun with the other in different routes, while some will have the protagonist's use of gangrapes and other extreme activities making the "sharing" unavoidable. The protagonists of these games hate the heroines and want to see them destroyed. I'm of the opinion that, since the protagonist is in control of such activities, it's fine. A pimp is not a cuck and all. But I'm not here to have this discussion, feel free to disagree with me on that.

Since I'm giving out warnings, the games can also have some hardcore content from time to time. Some ryona with the girls getting punched in the belly (often leading to the excretion of an enema), bukkakes, and very rarely (I think only two instances in all 4 games), even scat. 

Some of the punishments Bohgan and co. inflict on the girls can be pretty cruel.
And yes, that is a cyborg horse on the bottom left.

All four games have complete fan translations, all of them pretty good, but some terminology may vary between them as they were all done by different groups.

Shikijou Kyoudan - Orcsoft

If she asked you to lead her sex cult,
would you?

Some may find it weird to find this game on this list. At first glance, it doesn't seem to be related to mind control at all: the premise is that the protagonist, who recently became homeless after losing his job, is invited by a beautiful and mysterious woman to become a stand-in for the recently deceased leader of the religious cult she represents. Since very few people ever saw the leader's face (he stays behind a curtain during ceremonies), and his height and body shape match, he will make for a suitable double. And this cult just so happens to preach about, among other things, sexual liberation as a means to illumination. Win/Win.

The mind control element enters the story almost immediately once you actually start playing. The Hishin no Kai, the religious organization the protagonist finds himself becoming the leader of, uses incense with strong hypnotic effects during ceremonies to induce a state of religious fervor. Moreover, when (rich) members of the faith ask for personal counseling audiences with the Founder, he may use it to take advantage of them (especially because our protagonist doesn't know jack shit about giving life advice!).

The protagonist isn't completely stupid of course, and he is very wary of Itsuki (the woman who invited him) and her true intentions since she's clearly the one truly in charge of the Hishin no Kai. Among the questions floating around the protagonist's mind are: what were the circumstances of the previous Founder's passing? How can he secure more of the hypnotic drug without Itsuki knowing? who is the angry woman who keeps snooping around the temple's premises? But while the answers don't come, he can have fun with some followers who caught his eye.

An unfulfilled housewife, a charismatic young gyaru, a popular idol, and the boss woman herself. 

Shikijou Kyoudan (which translates literally as "Cult of Lust", but was localized as My Life as a Cult Leader) is rather light on plot, but the few twists and turns it has in reserve are interesting and I want to avoid spoiling them. There are multiple endings. One thing I should note is that, while the mind control element is everpresent, unlike every other game in this list there is no common sense alteration or direct puppeteering of the victims. Instead, the mind control drug puts the people who inhale it into a state of relaxation and openness that makes them highly suggestible, and that's more often than not used as a facilitator for sex and also to reinforce certain ideas the protagonist wants the girls to nurture going forward (like for example, for the housewife to continue having more and more worries about her marriage). It's a more chill kind of hypnosis and more fitting to the "drug-induced religious experience" the game's cult setting asks for.

Some girls may need some convincing, but the cult can be very persuasive.

While it's not a light-hearted game, and there are some harder scenes here and there, its atmosphere is much more sensual and steamy than something more hardcore like KS, which is why I chose to talk about them back to back.

Shikijou Kyoudan has an official translation by Kagura Games, and while I didn't play the entire thing in English, it seemed pretty well done.

Shinsou Seiki Elementia - Pin-Point

Shinsou Seiki Elementia ~Kutsujoku no Sennou Saimin~ (Something like Divine Armored Princess Elementia ~Hypnotic Brainwashing of Humiliation~) is the simplest and most straightforward title on this list. It's exactly what it says on the tin, it's a kinetic novel with only one ending, and it is the only game in this list to have a machine-assisted translation instead of one 100% done by a person. Why is it in the list then? To put it simply, because I really like this game.

This is a Tokusatsu-themed game, with Element Venus, the main character, drawing inspiration from transforming heroes like Kamen Rider and Super Sentai. It's fine to think of her as a Magical Girl as well, especially taking into account more technological takes on the genre like Symphogear, as well as her relationship with the only other hero in the setting being reminiscent of magical girls with (often useless) male warriors as love interests.

When evil space invaders that exploit underdeveloped planets for their resources and sell their populations as slaves reached Earth, Element, a power that can be said to be the spirit of the planet itself, chose the young Kisaragi Nozomi to become Element Venus and fight the invading force, led by a man named Genom. Venus single-handedly holds back the invasion, and later even gets a sidekick, Element Knight, who is Nozomi's boyfriend Sakamoto Tohru.

Fighting evil by moonlight ♪
Winning love by daylight ♫
...I'm sorry.

Hard-pressed to get results, and also itching to get his hands into this mysterious Element power source, Genom concocts a plan to capture and brainwash Venus into his evil female executive and sex slave. Taking advantage of her weak point (Knight), he manages to capture her and the usual song and dance of the steadfast heroine of justice who declares she'll never succumb to evil and the villain who will toy with her mind until she becomes his plaything begins.

The method of brainwashing used in Elementia is very reminiscent of Kangoku Senkan (as well as heroine corruption games by the forefathers of the modern incarnation of the genre Maika and Alicesoft), with a helmet reprogramming the brain and several needles and tendrils modifying the pain receptors of the body to turn them into erogenous zones. Between sessions, Nozomi has her common sense toyed with, doing extremely perverted actions with Genom's mooks while believing to be delivering justice, or sucking delinquents cocks as part of her duties as Student Council President.

Elementia wears its genre influences on its sleeve.

Meanwhile, Knight is desperately searching for her, but Genom is keeping tabs on him and makes sure he's always too late to meet Nozomi, who is returned to the safety of Genom's lair after he's done playing for the day, feeling completely humiliated by what she was unknowingly made to do. It's a race against time as Knight tries to locate her before Genom's programming completely erodes Nozomi's resistance and turns the pure paragon of justice into a perverted slave of evil.

The Holy Princess of Justice, everyone.

The sexual content is rather tame in comparison, mostly keeping to exhibitionism and a gangbang or two as far as sex scenes themselves are concerned. There's a strong Netori undercurrent throughout the game, as you play from Genom's perspective and one of the main obstacles keeping Nozomi's hope from crumbling is her love for Tohru. It goes as you'd expect. The brainwashing process leads to not only Nozomi's sluttification but also her corruption to evil, with a new twisted version of her heroine costume to match.

For those wondering why I said more spoiler-y stuff about this game than the others, well it's because it uses the standard plot for heroine corruption stories. You know what is going to happen, the interesting is the moment-to-moment of how Genom toys with Nozomi's mind for that training session, the gap between pre and post-corruption Nozomi, and the excellent art by Satou Kuuki.

As for the translation, as I mentioned it's partially machine-translated, with a translator working on some of the script and just "brushing up" other parts. While far from ideal, it's also readable and nowhere near the level of mistakes that come to mind when people think of Machine translations. The game's plot is simple enough that the poor translation doesn't hinder your understanding and Nozomi's voice actress does the job of carrying the emotion the often dry translation doesn't.

Saimin Gakushuu: Secret Desire - Dark One

Saimin Gakushuu (which translates to "Hypnosis Study", not to be confused with Saimin Gyakushuu which is another game entirely) was the first game by Dark One, bringing together Saiminjutsu series writer NATORI Ika and artist Aiue Oka, of Ijirare: Fukushuu Saimin (Bullied: Revenge Hypnosis) and Saimin Seishidou (Hypnotic Sexual Counseling) fame. So there were a lot of expectations around this game. It's hard to live up to this kind of hype especially when the game gets developed during the height of the covid-19 pandemic.

Well, here's the thing: this game is good, just not outstanding. The artwork is the strong suit, Aiue Oka is a great artist. All the girls are sexy, there's a good variety of scenes and sex positions, some with pretty creative framing that probably come from Oka's experience with manga, and there's a decent amount of endings. On the downside, the game could certainly be longer, and while NATORI and Oka are both huge names in Mind Control hentai, I think they're not a particularly good match (as in, Oka's sex is too vanilla in nature for NATORI's ideas).

What makes this game special, particularly in the context of translated mind control games and this recommendation list, is that it has the best example of traditional hypnotic induction. Which was to be expected given the writer. I feel this is the one the people who are into hypnosis itself and not just the power trip of mind-controlled slaves will enjoy the most (hell, most of the routes result in a loving, if twisted relationship rather than a master-slave one). Though fair warning, the game's short-ish length does make some things progress a bit too fast for the kind of hypnosis it's using. That may be an issue or a boon depending on taste.

The protagonist in this game is enrolled in a school that is far above his capacity - or rather, his willingness to study, and as a result he keeps bringing the class averages down. From his classmate Natsuki to his homeroom teacher Ayako to the student council president Tsukino and her mother and headmistress Suzuka, everyone treats the protagonist as a liability and an annoyance.

Desperate people don't make the smartest choices, so, the protagonist goes online and purchases a sketchy gadget that claims to teach during your sleep through hypnotic subliminals. Just pop in the memory card with the recordings of the subject you want to learn, turn the device on, relax and it will put you into a trance and transmit the knowledge straight to your brain. With zero expectation this will actually work the protagonist tests it out... And it works. And soon one thing leads to the next and the protagonist starts to think of the possibilities a hypnotic device like that can open up to him beyond not fumbling his exams. He sets up a few experiments in the nurses's office at school and wouldn't you know it, while he's pretending to be asleep with the device ready to go under one of the other beds, who walks in if not the beautiful student council president. Once she's relaxed, the frequency puts her into a trance, and the protagonist starts experimenting with giving her commands...

From there on it's just the protagonist using his device to put suggestions in the minds of the four women, give them instructions, and reshape their common sense. It's not that the mind control progresses slower, but compared to the other games in the list (except Shikijou Kyoudan) the suggestions the protagonist gives are less extreme, the game feels more relaxed by comparison. It's more mundane and that can be a good thing. And that doesn't mean no variety, on the contrary, between teaching the high-strung Student Council president to masturbate (and making her film and send videos to a private server while believing it's a biology assignment), humiliating the annoying classmate in front of the class, or get into an adulterous affair with the headmistress, and more, there are plenty of fun scenarios to explore here. It should be noted that while Ayako and Natsuki have their share of scenes (and Natsuki has one of my favorite endings for the sheer irony of it), the focus of the game is on the mother and daughter duo Tsukino and Suzuka, and they get the lion's share of the content.

Why study when you can bang the school's authority figures instead?

The translation is by Kagura Games and it is pretty good.

Cara the Blood Lord - Anime Lilith

Love me some evil women,
especially when they're under
my command

I pondered for a while whether or not to include this game. Not only have I already included THE Lilith-soft Mind Control series, Kangoku Senkan, but the mind control element in this game is pretty superfluous, to the point some accuse it of being just a plot device: the heroines are implanted with a parasite that, once reaches the brain, will bond them to the protagonist and make them his willing slaves. That's it, no triggers, no conditioning (outside of being unable to act against the protagonist or reveal the existence of the parasite), no common sense alterations. But in my book that still counts as mind control, since the victim's brains are being rewired, there's the usual cue of empty eyes/eyes losing their highlights, and they act deliciously evil and subservient.

There's also the fact that this is an often overlooked game. Lilith has Taimanin as its most well-known series, and it overshadows everything else they did. Some niche fanbases will know some of the other games, like mind control fans with Kangoku Senkan, but Cara is one of those games that falls through the cracks. It shares the mind control elements with Kangoku Senkan and the more general atmosphere (mixing magic, demons and slightly futuristic technology) and violence with Taimanin, and ends up overshadowed and outclassed by both. But this doesn't mean this is a bad game, not by a long shot. This is golden age Lilith soft and peak Kagami material. There is much to be enjoyed and the mere fact people just pass this game by because it's not from one of the Big Two Series is enough for me to put this recommendation here. I slept on this game for years before giving it a chance and the more people I can help not make this mistake, the better.

In the world of Cara the Blood Lord, there was a longstanding and open conflict between humans and vampires for centuries, but now the world has entered a new era of peace between the two kinds thanks to the previous King of Vampires and his daughter and current Queen, Cara. There are still groups of Vampire supremacists who look down on their fellows who stopped drinking human blood and want an end to the peace treaty. Among these was Gram, Cara's uncle and leader of an underground human trafficking ring. His business was brought to light and he was killed by Cara and her bodyguard Marika. Except, of course, not. He's our protagonist after all. Using the forbidden art of manipulating bugs (think the crest worms of Fate/Stay Night) he managed to survive and build himself a new body, and now plans revenge.

Cara is staying for a while at the Hayato School of Magic, Japan's foremost school of magic and exorcism, led by Cara's long-time friend Kitae, the strongest human mage. The school is protected by a barrier that keeps out any non-invited vampires, so the students can learn without worry of attacks from the supremacist faction. Cara will be staying there for security reasons before she goes to an important political summit between humans and vampires. Gram, of course, found a way to infiltrate the barrier and now wants to turn Cara into his slave before the summit so he can not only have his vengeance but also deal a blow to the peace between kinds.

To this end, like I said before, he uses a special bug that spreads through the victim's body, taking over and overwriting their nervous system into one that stimulates sensitivity and makes pain pleasurable. It feeds off sexual energy (or actual semen, it's been a minute since I played), growing until it reaches the brain and permanently bonds the victim to Gram's will. Kitae is the first to fall victim to this, becoming Gram's loyal slave who gleefully helps him plot the demise of her former friends.

Cara's closest human friend only thinks of her Master now.

From there on the game splits into two routes depending on which targets the player chooses to be brainwashed next, as besides Marika, Cara is also guarded by Azuma, a vampire hunter and teacher at the school. This is something I really like in mind control stories and no other game in this list offers: the heroines you already have under your control actively help you get the next ones. Kangoku Senkan has that across multiple entries, but I mean in the same game. Cara does this really well, to the point I'd say this is the thing that makes the game for me, along with the art. Seeing the girls fight the pleasure only to become evil at the end and then help trick and capture their allies is great. If Saimin Gakushuu is for fans of plausible hypnotic induction this is for fans of being evil.

The fan translation of this game was made by RunQ and it's really good.

And that concludes my recommendations. I'm sure there are plenty of translated Mind Control Eroge that I left out due to ignorance or bad memory. Feel free to leave your own suggestions in the comments.

At some point, I plan on making recommendation posts about translated games of other genres but for now, I already have other things lined up to post, including a review and the start of another longform post series. So stay... Tuned? God no, I feel old saying that. Check the blog once in a while will ya?!