[News] Tentacles and Magical Girls in New Valkyria Game

Tentacle rape and Valkyria go like peanut butter and jelly, it's one of their main staples. So, it's really no surprise that their newly announced title, Denma Zecchou☆Mahou Shoujo Suzuha ~Kagaku to Mahou to Shokushu Inshun~ goes back to that familiar well.

Literally, the title translates to Lightning Demonic Orgasm☆Magical Girl Suzuha ~Magical Girl of Science and the Crawling Tentacles~, but as one would expect, there's a double meaning with "Denma" being a made-up word that also implies a mix of technology and magic. Not sure if Zecchou can also have a double meaning here. I digress.

The game premise is simple: Earth is invaded by an alien lifeform known as Barbaroi, a mass of tentacles that is impervious to all conventional weaponry. With mankind driven to the brink of extinction, the Earth's essence (in the form of a condescending fairy-like creature called Kyupii) chooses a girl called Sono to be a Magical Girl and fight them off. Two years pass, and life returns to a semblance of normalcy while the magical girl imbued with divine powers fights off the invaders. A sense of apathy sets in and people treat Sono's life-and-death battles like a spectacle, much to her dismay.

That's when a girl called Suzuha witnesses her weeping and, deciding the way people are treating her is wrong, decides she wants to help. This is when she meets a scientist who gives a hi-tech battle suit called Magical Dress that can mimic the powers of a Magical Girl through science. And thus, the Magical Girls of Divinity and Science stand together against the alien menace. Which of course means they'll get raped over and over again by endless hordes of tentacles.

One interesting thing is that the character profiles highlight Kyupii's sense of self-preservation a lot, which makes me think the little slimeball will sell out the magical girls to the invaders in at least one ending.

On top of that, there's also a mysterious shadowy figure that appears to be the leader of the Barbaroi. A tentacle girl, of course.

I'm usually not that big into tentacles and have not played many of Valkyria's tentacle games, but this one caught my attention. First, magical girls with rocket boosters are my religion, and second, the setup and dynamic between the two heroines, with Suzuha wanting to help Sono and Sono pushing her away, thinking of her as a fake magical girl while herself is cracking under the pressure of defending the ungrateful masses, sounds interesting, I want to see them broken and twisted.

Art is done by C.R, an artist I'm not familiar with, but I like what I see in the previews.

There's not much else to say, really, just wanted to highlight this game. Mahou Shoujo Suzuha is scheduled to be released on July 26.

[News] New Kyousei Shihai Previews Draw a Clearer Picture of the Game

Last time I talked about Bishop's upcoming title, I translated and shared my impressions on the official website's character profiles. Over a month later, the Features page of the official site has been updated with lots of new information, and like I promised back then, I'm covering the most relevant and interesting parts of it.

Since this is the first Bishop game I get to cover on the Dorei Cafe, let's start with the basics of the basics: the game flow.

As with most Bishop games, Kyousei Shihai has each in-game day split into several sections (three, in this case) where you choose a heroine to interact with from a map screen, advancing her individual scenario, unlocking her h-scenes.

The game has a limited number of days you can spend training the various heroines, and as you advance their events, you turn them into sex slaves. After they've surrendered you unlock an ending for that girl, or you can train her further with more intense versions of previous h-scenes, commonly called "retraining" scenes by the fanbase. According to the site, by corrupting all heroines and doing their retraining scenes within the time limit, you unlock the harem ending. Pretty straightforward stuff.

A solo ending for each heroine and a harem ending for all of them is a staple of Bishop games

As the story summary explains, the protagonist has the power to control the "lewd chi" inside his targets' bodies and use that to stimulate their erogenous zones and not only enhance the feelings of pleasure during training, but also develop those regions, giving them engorged nipples and clitoris, permanently increasing their libido, and even making their breasts lactate. I was quite surprised to see that lactation seems to be something that every heroine will have, something that Bishop has done before, but that was loudly advertised as a focal point the last time (in 2020's Reijo Kanritou). I really like how Biship handles lactation so I'm pleasantly surprised. I was even more surprised to see stomach inflation making a comeback. As in some past titles of the company, the protagonist can cum large amounts of semen and make the heroines' bellies swell at the climax of a sex scene.

I've seen some backlash to the protagonist having special powers to stimulate the girls sexually, instead of just relying on straightforward mindbreak, but I feel that tying his powers to these small body modifications makes it pretty interesting. It's also something previous Bishop protagonists did with drugs, so there's no real difference narrative-wise.

It's also worth noting that heart pupils, which have been a staple of retraining scenes for a while now, will show up during regular sex scenes as well, as an indicator of when the heroines lose control of themselves to the pleasure induced by the protagonist's lewd chi control, something the game calls "training frenzy". This will be accompanied by pink-colored dialogue. On top of that, ahegao, which is something that had been sadly relegated to optional cut-ins in recent years, is something the art is fully committing to again, much to my delight. Bishop games felt incomplete without properly integrated ahegao.

Honestly, the combination of these elements makes this game feel like a nice callback to those late 2000s/early 2010s Bishop games which had stuff like cumflation, engorged nipples, lactation and ahegao on the forefront. This isn't the first time Bishop returns to any of those things, but I don't remember one that brings it all back at once.

Hentai Glossary K to M

 

Glossary Index

This entry of the Hentai Glossary gave me trouble. There's some troublesome entries here, in terms of how to structure the article. Like for example, Transformation. I decided to employ subcategories to give some examples of transformation, because there's no way I could ever make an exhaustive list of types of transformation. And it doesn't take a genius to notice they're mostly from specific subgenres. Because they're the ones I have familiarity with. At the end of the day, the Glossary is limited by stuff I have familiarity with. It's why I often ask for input on tags or tropes the readers would like to see covered as entries, so it can grow beyond my rather limited scope of interests. I had a similar issue with Time Stop in the previous Glossary post, but I had a friend who's more into it give me some recommendations and also discussed the appeal of the genre with him.

At the same time, my biases show in the other direction when I have separate entries for Mesubuta, Mesuinu and Mesu Ushi, all three of which, as presented here, can be considered forms of demeaning pet play. But not only a "Mesu" tag would make little sense, I have more to draw from for each of these.

So, with the mask off on how biased this series really is (lmao), let's get to today's entries.

Kimo Otoko (キモ男), Kitanai Ossan (汚いおっさん)/Ugly Bastard, Dirty Old Man

Often the one doing all the raping and mindbreaking we talk about in this blog, the ugly bastard is one of the stock characters for the role of corruptor.

To my knowledge, there isn't a single term equivalent in usage to "ugly bastard" used in English-speaking circles, but the closest approximations would be the two above, as well as KimoOta, meaning Ugly Otaku. The unifying factor is that the man is supposed to be disgusting. Kimoi doesn't carry only the connotation of being physically ugly, but also creepy, and repulsive. Their presence in mindbreak and mind control stories is often a means of increasing both the feeling of perversion (as the broken woman will be debasing herself for the affection of a grotesque man) but also the gap between the disgust she displays at the beginning and her eagerness and love once the process of sexual training, brainwashing or whatever transpired is complete.

On the other hand, some people find the mere presence of this kind of character to completely take the momentum out of any scene and avoid works featuring one, which can be a bit hard in darker genres.

Top Row: Shinsou Seiki Elementia, Jutaijima
Bottom Row: Kagachi-sama Onagusame Tatematsurimasu Kai, Jokyoushi Reiko

Kyosei Henshin (強制変身), Henka (変化)/Forced Transformation

I briefly touched on the subject of transformation in the entry about Corruption, but this is the most generalist version. When someone is transformed into something else as setup or result of sexual content (or is transformed during the sexual act), it falls under this category.

While in English we generally use Transformation as a catch-all term, in Japan Kyousei Henshin (Forced Transformation) is the more catch-all term, with Henka (Transformation) usually showing up in titles and tags together with what the character is being transformed into. For searching purposes, the most efficient way is combining the second kanji of the word 変化 with whatever the victim is being transformed into, as those portmanteaus are popular in tagging systems and as genre names, more commonly than  Kyosei Henshin. Some notable examples include:

- Jotaika (女体化): Male characters being transformed into females. Also called TSF or Feminization. Usually involves an involuntary body transformation leading to a mental transformation that progresses the more sex the character has. 

Magia Witch Iori
Nyotaika is surprisingly common in Magical Girl Akuochi works

- Kaijinka (怪人化): Transforming into a (usually humanoid) monster. Kaijin is a word that invokes the imagery of tokusatsu monsters, which in the early Kamen Rider series that popularized the term were modified and brainwashed humans. This one crosses over with Akuochi a lot, with heroines becoming more monstrous in appearance with different skin colors and appendages in their bodies instead of just evil costume changes.

Left:Kaijin Henka Akane
Right: Stardians ~Saigo no Hi~

- Sentouinka (戦闘員化): A variation of the above where instead of a Kaijin, the girl is transformed into a combatant, the rank and file mooks of the evil organization that often look like a person in a bodysuit or leotard wearing a mask, and has an overexcited personality, screaming words of praise to its masters all the time (when they can speak, that is. More often than not, combatants don't speak, only vocalize weird screams). Haigure stuff often overlaps with this.

Chouetsu Senki Prime Ranger

- Inmaka (淫魔化) and Mamonoka (魔物化): Transforming into a demon or, in the case of inmaka, a specifically a succubus. Mamono is the general term for demons and monsters used in Japanese fantasy, especially JRPGs.

Top: Isekai Choroine wa, Itomo Kantan ni Otosareru
Bottom: Inma ka Sugoroku

There are other, more niche kinds of transformation, like Shokushuka for someone turning into tentacles, for example. Generally. throwing 化 at the end of a word and searching for it is a good way to see if there's transformation porn for that specific thing.

Mesubuta (雌豚)/Sow

雌 (mesu) means female, but it's used only for animals. So, Mesubuta (雌豚) literally means female pig, or sow. Calling someone a sow in Japanese porn usually carries the meaning of being dirty, perverted, and lustful in nature. It is very offensive, and anyone who isn't some sort of broken slave will be appalled and furious to be called that. On the other hand, corrupted heroines will think of it as high praise.

While it can stay as just something the male character calls the woman to highlight her sluttiness, it often also manifests as pet play, with the heroine donning a pig costume, nose hook or, at the very least, doing pig sounds - either saying buhi, the onomatopoeia for a pig noise in Japanese, or more guttural cries that resemble the actual animal.

Top row: Saimin Eyedrops, Bad End Heaven 4
Bottom row: Junshin de Hito no Tanomi o Kotowarenai Yui-chan ni Boku Dake no Nakadashi Onaho ni Nattemoratta, Tanezuke Bokujou Gakuen

Mesuinu (雌犬)/Bitch

Bitch, as in a female dog. This is another petplay trope. Unlike Mesubuta where the pet play aspect is optional, this one always shows up accompanied by it - from just pretending to be a dog (usually doing the Fukujuu no Pose discussed in a previous Glossary) to wearing a costume.

Not much to elaborate on here, the degrading aspect is the same as Mesubuta - often emphasizing the "horny animal in heat" aspect -, just with a different animal.

Top row: Shihai no Kyoudan, Kyonyuu Hitozuma Onna Kyoushi Saimin
Bottom row: Mesuinu Haramase Oyakodon, The Animalm@ster Vol. 1

Meushi (雌牛), Mesu Ushi (メス牛)/Cow

Another animal-related one, but this time it's a bit different. Here the main feature is the large breasts and often, lactation.

While full-on costumes with a headband with little cow ears and an anal plug tail are ideal, a micro-bikini with a cow pattern or a simple bell around the neck are also enough to signify the girl's status as a cow.

As expected a lot of attention will be given to the breasts, often reducing the heroine's entire sense of worth to them and their use for the male's sexual pleasure. 

Victim Girls R - Watashi wa, Makemasen; Reijo Kanritou; Tomodachi no Kyonyuu Mama wa Zenbu Ore no Mono! 

Mesugaki (メスガキ)

A term that has gained popularity in recent years. It's a young girl (usually a middle schooler or younger) who acts in a bratty way, full of herself, making light of adults. You might have come across the meme "grr, damn brat, needs correction" at some point, and that's basically the gist of it. Mesugakis tease their elders and often get punished for it. At least in the kind of stuff I cover here. I'm sure there are works out there with more dominant mesugaki who just keep teasing endlessly without the mighty penis of correction ever coming their way, but I don't know of any.

Often Mesugakis are presented as fashionable, mixing cuteness with sex appeal, often with some kogal or jirai-kei fashion inspirations.

Mesu-domo no 4 Page Choukyou Kirokushuu 2

And that concludes our Hentai Glossary for the day. As for what's next, I can't think of any tags starting with the letter N that are known to spark heated arguments and controversies, so the next Glossary should be fun.

[News] New Nukige Coming Soon from Silky's Sakura, Guilty, Anim, Tryset and Miel

 It's been a while since I reported on upcoming eroge. And checking on VNDB (mostly by looking at upcoming releases and reading the titles, tagging on that site is dead) and EGS I found a few titles slated to release between now and June that have the potential to be interesting - and also the obligatory Miel game of the month. These are probably not all mindbreak, choukyou and etc games to be released in this timeframe and if you know of any others, please leave a comment, I'd like know of them, since I'm looking for new stuff to play myself, not just for covering here.

As usual, let's go through them by release order.

April

Gyaru na Kyonyuu Mahou Shoujo-tachi ni Itsukarete ~Uchi o Tamariba ni Suru Mesu-tachi o Haramase Onaho ni Suru Seikatsu~

Developer: Miel

Release Date: 2024/04/26

Artist: Ishii Akira

Focus: Sexual Slavery, Magical Girls, Gyarus.

Official Site

VNDB Page

The latest game by Miel, and the premise is as cliche as you'd expect. Three cheeky gyarusi have made the protagonist's place their hangout spot and treat him like trash. Unbeknownst to him, the three are also the magical girls protecting the town from monsters. as fate would have it, the protagonist's sexual energy is needed for them to power up. Just once, they need to have sex with him. Of course, this is a Miel game, one dicking is all it takes to break and degrade them into his personal sex slaves and onaholes.

Like I said, the usual. Anyone looking forward to this one probably knows what they're getting into. If you never heard about Miel, I made a lengthy post on them recently where I talked about what their formulas and usual cliches are, as well as recommend some games from their ridiculously extensive catalog. 

May

Inma Inkan ~Shokushu to Gattai Shite Omoidoori ni Yarikaesu~

Developer: Silky's Sakura

Release Date: 2024/05/31

Artist: Yoshino Keiko

Focus: Tentacles, Revenge

Official Site

VNDB Page

Yasuharu is a high school student is relentlessly bullied by his classmates, led by Yuuka, a charismatic gyaru with her hair dyed blond. The class' teacher, Nao, turns a blind eye because she has no passion for being a teacher and would rather not get mixed with her students' problems. And so, Yasuharu is driven to despair and, while searching for a way to painlessly kill himself, he finds a site on demon summoning with the tantalizing prospect of "if you want to die anyway, take revenge". So he decides to summon a demon to take revenge on his his bullies in exchange of his soul, but something goes wrong and instead of a demon, he summons a tentacle monster (who came from a fantasy isekai, right before being slain by the Hero). Scared, the protagonist flees and ends up hit by a car. Since both him and the monster are in bad shape, the monster offers to fuse together. Now, the protagonist has the means to take revenge on the two women he perceives as the root cause of his bullying.

Interestingly, the character profiles note that there are more than meet the eye to Yuuka, as she has poor communication skills and doesn't even particularly dislike Yasuharu, bullying him because it's what everyone else does, as a means to affirm herself before the class. As for Nao, she wants to get married, but doesn't have a partner in the moment. I'm really interested to see how that goes.

From the previews available it doesn't seem like the game will be particularly hardcore, which is disappointing, and it seems to rely a lot on the ability Yasuharu has of making the tentacles invisible. I'm not the biggest fan on invisible molestation as a trope, so despite the good premise I have my reservations about this title and will probably wait for user reviews and CG rips before deciding whether or not I'll play it. 

Kyousei Shihai

Developer: Bishop

Release Date: 2024/05/31

Artists: Mizushima Oonari, Kurono Tomoaki, Yoshino Keiko, Kinmedai Pink

Focus: Choukyou/Sexual Training, Sexual Slavery, High School Girls

Official Site

VNDB Page

I have spoken at length about Bishop's newest game here and here, and no new information has come out since (There aren't even any new previews to show, check out the second linked article for them). The cliffs notes version is: the protagonist is a health teacher with the power of stimulating "sexual chi" inside others bodies, and he used that to have his way with students in his previous job. He got caught and fired, but since the whole thing got covered up to avoid a scandal, he managed to get a job in another school and tried to keep a low profile there. Despite his efforts, a threatening letter came in demanding his resignation if he doesn't want his past to come to light. Deciding that if he's going down he might as well go with a bang, he goes after the girl he suspected sent the letter and raped her using his power to stimulate her orgasms. But turns out it wasn't her. But now that the dam burst, there's no stopping him and he goes after the girls in school that caught his eye, using his powers to make them his before the deadline given in the letter (the end of the trimester) comes.

It's the standard Bishop fare (raping and sexually training schoolgirls within a time limit) with a spin, once again anyone who played a Bishop game before should have a good idea of what they'll be getting here. I haven't played a Bishop title in a few years so maybe I'll give this a go, who knows. Maybe I just pick one of their new-ish titles I haven't played instead. Still, few companies do the sexual training part of choukyou as well as them, definitely recommended.

Eroge Kaisha no Kindan no Sekuhara Jijou ~Nerawareta Shinjin Illustrator~

Developer: Tryset Break

Release Date: 2024/05/31

Artist: Sekimatsu Minoru

Focus: Choukyou/Sexual Training

Official Site

VNDB Page

Tryset Break is a company I've been meaning to familiarize myself with for a while. Their games are on the short and cheap side, but some seem really up my alley. Judging from the previews, this seems to be one of them, and the main heroine's design really clicked with me.

Iwasaki Asuza is a young woman who came from the countryside and failed to get a stable job in the big city, instead working part-time at a family restaurant. One day she sees on the internet that an eroge company she admired for a long time (she learned about eroge and has been into them since her school days) is hiring and goes for it. She gets hired as an illustrator but there's something off about it. The "company" is just the President's private apartment. And speaking of him, she feels very uncomfortable with the way he keeps leering at her. But she can't sweat the small stuff, this is the big break she wanted, and at the company of her dreams. As the official description puts it, this was the beginning of her nightmare.

What my mind immediately goes to when the  game
 highlights a mother complex but the girl is younger
than the guy

The boss fits the bill of an ugly bastard to a T and his character profile mentions a couple of times that he has a mother complex, which makes me wonder how that will play out given Asuza is younger than him. I mean, with a body like that I can see why some men would want to call her mommy, but still, weird thing to highlight there and nowhere else.

The official site also highlights that the focus is on the power imbalance and how inescapable her situation is as the president uses of his power to harass and train Asuza.

I'm keeping my expectations tempered since it's a company I'm unfamiliar with and I know their games are short, but it does sound right up my while. Love me some big breasted innocent maiden getting corrupted by her boss.

Tomodachinbou de Midara na Shiru o Afuresaseru Haha no Ureta Mitsuana ~Kyonyuu o Yurashi Mimodaeru Kaa-san no Aegigoe wa, Tonari no Boku no Heya made Hibikiwataru~

Developer: Anim.teamMM

Release Date: 2024/06/28

Artist: Un Tabetarou

Focus: Mom NTR, Moral Degeneration, Straight Shota

Official Site

VNDB Page

This one I debated whether to put on the list because it isn't clear whether corruption and sexual training will play a large role in the game or not. As it is first and foremost a NTR game. I decided that it's worth at least keeping it on the radar until more previews come out.

The title and story setup sure indicate a strong vein of moral degeneration going on, with a protagonist in love with his own mother, who then gets manipulated by his neighbor into believing that it's just pent-up sexual frustration, which he then goes to explore with a girl their age, unknowingly leaving his mom all alone with for the fake friend to take. It has the usual trappings of the genre with a few twists (the presence of a girl the same age as the two shotas is a surprise, though so far there's no indication whether or not she'll be involved in the sexual content).

It's already a pretty depraved setting and the art is good, but I'm not really interested in consensual Netorare. But Mom NTR is rarely not accompanied by some form of corruption, and that's what I'm expecting here. As samples come out in the coming months the tone of the game will probably become clear and then a more informed decision can be made. As I said, for now it's something worth keeping on the radar at least.

Toriko no Urara ~Otoko no Sono ni Magirekonda Ichirin no Akai Hana~

Developer: Guilty

Release Date: 2024/06/28

Artists: Akatsuki Hijiri, Noba, Saitou Tsukasa, Teeta J

Focus: Moral Degeneration, Choukyou/Sexual Training (possibly)

VNDB Page

And for the last game, one we have barely any info on. Guilty is a company with a long history but I'm wholly unfamiliar with their recent work (and by recent I mean anything in the past decade and a half). This game doesn't even have its own page on their site yet, there is a banner, but it links to a store page where there is a story summary and the image below.

The story follows Tsubasa, a girl whose sister went to work as a teacher on a boys-only boarding school and suddenly disappeared. With her best friend Sei's help, she investigates the school and discovers a lot of unsavory rumors surrounding it. And so, she disguises herself as a boy and infiltrates the school in order to find out what happened to her missing sister. As she reaches closer and closer to the truth, meeting other teachers and students, her secret is discovered by a certain someone who has deep ties to the school's dark side, and now she's soon in a situation where she has to obey him (why, we're not told in the summary).

It sounds really promising, but I'm not a big fan of what I've seen of the art. Also, it's worth mentioning the game can be purchased in a bundle with a re-release of Wanna. ~Spartan Sex Spermax!~, an older title of theirs that shares a similar concept of a heroine disguised as a boy being discovered and trained, which is why I put Choukyou as a possible focus. As for the moral degeneration, the summary is pretty clear that Tsubasa may end up corrupted by the "Garden of Men" that is the school's underbelly.

More information on this will surely come out as the months go by. The fact there's an special version with "extra/extended content" besides the regular one also has me worried. As I said I'm not familiar with Guilty but hopefully it's not one of those games that gates content behind pricier editions.

And that's it for today. Until next time.

[Review] Valdana - The Fall

 

We're doing something slightly different today. While the Dorei Cafe is focused first and foremost on Japanese media, I did say in the past that sometimes I may cover something of Western make. This is the case today with Valdana - The Fall, Western Erotic Game that draws heavy inspiration from Kangoku Senkan.

In part, that inspiration is why I chose it to be the first Western game talked about here. It mixes those roots with some aspects of mind control and body modification that I really enjoy so in a way it feels really tailored to my tastes. Another factor is that it uses Honey Select 2 for its graphics - which means that visually, the game is still closer to what we're used to in Japanese works (at least for those of us who play 3D erogames). I know what you want to say. "Using Illusion games for graphics is about the cheapest way to go about making a game". While I don't disagree, this game is completely free and has never been part of any crowdfunded "drip feed for 10 years" project that this kind of game is associated with. Rather, developer Tjord made a habit of releasing feature-complete games and only having optional payment on Itch as a means of monetization. Honestly, if I were to ever try making an erogame and provided I couldn't pay an artist, I'd go with Illusion assets too, so I won't be throwing stones at this particular glass ceiling. And I have played stuff made by Japanese people using 3D Custom Girl back in the day, it's not like this is a Western-only phenomenon, so if anyone happens to be on a high horse, please get down so we can talk porn games. Who knows, you may be positively surprised.

Basic Premise

Valdana takes place in the far future where making developed faster than light travel and colonized the galaxy, though Earth itself was lost. Mankind has since broken down into two major factions, the Alliance of Free Planets, which champions democracy and the progressive values of old Earth under a centralized government, and the Confederacy of Nova Terra (whose citizens are called Neo-Terrans, just like in KS), which is aristocratic in nature and a firm believer in concepts like racial superiority and social Darwinism, as well as being strongly patriarchal, with females being seen as having more of a role as breeders than as active members in politics or military - though that does vary depending on the faction in question. That's one of the cool things about this game, the inner workings of the Alliance and Confederacy are explored enough the player can get a sense of depth for the geopolitics of the world, something that the New Solars and Neo Terrans of KS lacked, in my opinion. 

Amidst this war, there are several neutral planets and systems not allied to either faction. One of them, Valdana, is led by Queen Victorica, also known by the monicker of The Blaze Queen, who is known for her military prowess (having deposed her tyrannical brother 10 years ago) and enjoys overwhelming popularity among the masses and military, with only some members of the aristocracy being nominal opposition to her. Scheming against the queen is our protagonist, Fritz Villers, Archbishop of the Loptr Church, a corrupt institution that serves as a front for a slaver ring and enjoyed power and prestige during previous Kings' rules, but now languishes with its business reduced to smuggling goods between Nova Terra and local nobles while pretending to support the Queen (an act she doesn't buy). Ever since Victorica rose to the throne, Valdana has been showing more and more support to the Alliance, much to the dismay of Villers and the aristocracy, and has also provoked the Neo-Terrans into mounting an attack on Valdana, with the archbishop serving as a contact/spy, as he'd rather see Valdana under Confederate rule than under the banner of the Alliance that goes against his own values.

Villers isn't just a passive pawn in the political game though, his true goal is using equipment he smuggled to the Cathedral basement to brainwash Victorica into his sex slave and seize power over Valdana.

What's the Appeal?

To me, the biggest appeal of this game is how satisfying it feels to corrupt the heroines. There are 6 of them: the aforementioned Queen Victorica de Valdana, her daughter, the strong-willed princess and ace pilot Yuria, the loyal and stoic aide to the queen Yoon-ah Moon, the no-nonsense and capable battleship commander Audrey Denvers, the envoy from the Alliance Fleet Cassandra Picard (yes, that is her surname), also known as the Slaver Hunter for her implacable pursuit and dismantling of slaver rings across the galaxy, and the enemy admiral, the cocky and prideful Neo-Terran noblewoman Samira Latef Hammoudi. They all have distinct, strong personalities that made me look forward to seeing each of them get degraded into lowly slaves, the same sentiment KS heroines often inspired in me. They're capable, fierce, and written in a way that they represent a credible threat and challenge for the protagonist to overcome, especially since the protagonist has to rely on his wits most of the time. I think many nukige make things too easy for the villainous protagonist, and while some girls fall easier than others, in general, that is not the feeling here. They're worthy targets.

Left to right: Victorica, Yuria, Yoona, Audrey, Cassandra, Samira.

Another thing I really like about this game is that it has a setting that feels lived-in. It's not original, by any means - in fact, it wears its references on its sleeve -, but besides the world's background being well explored, character motivations, backstories and interactions all feel real and like these characters do have shared histories and relationships. Moreover, not everything revolves around sex. It might sound weird to praise this in an erotic game, but what I mean is that it feels like the sexual and non-sexual elements of the story feel symbiotic, one builds off the other, instead of the plot feeling like an excuse or something that is tacked on for the sake of sex. Feels like a political power struggle that would happen regardless of the whole sex slave angle. Conversely, things go in the direction they go because a slaver ring is involved and because the protagonist has the interests and proclivities he has. One side props up the other which is something you rarely see in other Western Erotic Games of the same ilk or even in most Nukige really. I appreciate that. 

Another thing that appeals to me is that, unlike Kangoku Senkan where the brainwashing process lasts the whole game and has no outside visual cues, here the women are turned one by one and used as agents against their former allies, and subtle but effective changes in their wardrobe and style reflect their changed allegiance. I live for this kind of thing. 

That's what I meant by saying this game mixes its KS roots with corruption and body modification elements that I like. I'll talk more about it in the spoiler section, but the game has two routes and each features its own type of brainwashing and body modification. And it doesn't stop at subtle changes either, some girls get a more extreme makeover depending on their role in the story and the protagonist's intentions with her. For a taste of that, take a look at how the same character turns out in each route.

I do have to bring up a negative though: there are grammar and spelling mistakes aplenty. They're minor errors, nothing that gets in the way of reading comprehension, but they happen often. And that's bound to bother people. English is a second language to me so I'm not really upset by these mistakes, but the fact I caught them as often as I did speaks to their frequency. It's a sad blemish on a game that still, despite that, has the writing as its strongest suit.

Another issue I should mention, Honey Select 2 is rather outdated, and the output of whatever machine developer Tjord is running doesn't give the best results for things like hair, so some textures may look a bit weird. There are fan-made upscaling modes that mitigate the issue, and at the game's native resolution (which is smaller than the full pictures pulled from the game's files) even the base game looks fine, in my opinion. Clipping is a more noticeable issue to which there is no solution, and again, something that will vary from person to person how willing to overlook they are. For me, both graphical issues are minor enough that they don't bother me. I've seen my share of monstrosities both in 2D and 3D to know how much effort went into the making of this game and I don't want to diss it because of the limitations Honey Select has. You're welcome to be the judge of the game's visuals by the images I'm using to illustrate this article, some which are game screenshots and some that are from the game files because my dumbass forgot to take enough screenshots - should be obvious which is which by the presence or lack of a UI. As a side note, I'm not using visual improvement mods for the purposes of this review.

Recommending my favorite Miel games, because why not?

I recently played Miel's newest title, Tomodachi no Kyonyuu Mama wa Zenbu Ore no Mono!, and since it really surpassed my expectations, I wanted to talk about it. But I've always had trouble with how to approach writing about Miel: not only most of their titles are too similar, meaning reviewing one would mean I'd have nothing to say about others - essentially locking myself out of reviewing more -, but even my favorites are so simple and straightforward there's not a lot to be said about them. But then I realized that was something I could take advantage of - since I don't need many lines to get my thoughts on each game out, they're perfect for a list format.

I started trying to make a top 10, but soon realized that wouldn't work either - my own biases made me choose games that were way too similar for the top spots, which is counterproductive to my goal of not being too repetitive. Moreover, I felt like ordering the games was a completely arbitrary process influenced strongly by both recency bias and nostalgia, in a list that was already very biased by taste. So I decided to group the games by category - that allowed me to talk more freely about the games while drawing attention to what I thought was the highlight of each one. And since I wasn't constrained by a top 10 format, I ended up with 12 recommendations. A number of them have been translated to English by Cherry Kiss games, and I'll put the localized title in parentheses when a translation exist.

Common points among most games

Almost all Miel harem games follow a similar formula - a protagonist that is hated, mocked or simply ignored by women around him gets in a position where he can rape them, makes them submit to him after one dicking (something called sokuochi, instant fall, something that will figure on a future Hentai Glossary post), becoming his adoring slaves. So the first few scenes of the game are dedicated to conquering the harem while the rest is putting it to good use. The sex scenes can get pretty hardcore, but the tone is kept light-hearted all the way, with the focus being on the absolute devotion the slaves experience.

Some games break this mold but they'll show up as their own category and be explained then.

Fantasy Harem

Let's start with the most popular type of Miel game. Honestly, I mean to get them out of the way first, as it's what most will probably be familiar with already. 

The Fantasy titles usually have some magic explanation for the protagonist's suddenly being able to turn the tables - from contracts with evil artifacts and beings, to cheat skills, to simply being summoned as the only male in a female-only world where they're unable to resist a man. As for the protagonist's origins, the majority of the titles feature the stock Isekai premise of someone being summoned or reincarnated in a parallel world, but there are a number of titles with a MC native to the fantasy land as well.

Riruka's experiments went horribly right

One highlight of this category is Isekai Haramase Harem Party (localized in English as Harem Hunter: Sex-Ray Vision). After dying from overwork, the protagonist is reincarnated in a fantasy world, but he didn't get any of the perks that usually come with it - no special powers, no godly guidance, no cheat skills, and so he's basically an ordinary guy. He still tries to become an adventurer, but he's just a pushover who gets made fun of by the others. He gets tricked by Riruka, the mage of a prominent all-female party, into helping her with an experiment, which was actually just testing dangerous potions and drugs on him, However, this has the unforeseen effect of granting him the ability to see the sexual weak points of people. It's like seeing their stats, but instead, he sees what kinks and weak spots they have buried deep into their bodies and psyches, and takes advantage of that to bring them to their knees. It's as good an excuse as any for sokuochi antics and has more thought put into it than simple "power of the dick" scenarios, and making every girl revolve around a specific fetish helps make them distinct even after mindbreak - something other Miel games struggle with. My favorite is definitely Moa, the Priestess who develops into a huge exhibitionist.

Besides the four main party members the protagonist conquers (made up of the aforementioned mage and priestess, a beast folk swordswoman, and an elf archer), there's also 3 side heroines the party encounters during their questing and the protagonist brings to their knees: a dark elf thief, a demon girl and a stuck up princess. It adds a nice variety to the scenes.

Another game I really like of the fantasy selection is Dekachichi Muchishiri BBA Kishidan (or Hot & Steamy Knights) where the protagonist is the only male in a female-only world and has already built an empire (this game is a thinly veiled sequel of Bakunyuu Himekishi wa Haramase Onaho, but the connections are only references), but a shipwreck leaves him stranded on unfamiliar territory protected by a troupe of 4 mature knights. Deciding to take them one after the other and rebuild his kingdom, he goes after them, plays them against each other, and so on. It got some really good moments like the Priestess Martina renouncing her faith to devote herself to cock or how the enslaved knights will set up traps and fight their former companions for the protagonist, but other than that, it's the standard fare - only with Akagi Rio's artwork instead of Ishii Akira. The artwork alone makes this one worth it honestly, it's the best art and scenarios among the Miel games with Akagi's art.

Lastly, I'd be remiss not to mention Elf Tanezuke Bokujou (Elf Breeding Farm), a game with only elf heroines getting enslaved and treated like livestock (but without pet play and actual pig or cow cosplay involved for the most part. It's more in the sense that Elves are a race of cattle themselves, which gets my seal of approval). The premise rings similar to Haramase Harem Party as the protagonist is subjected to Dark Elf's Melvy's experiments, but ends up overwhelming her. It turns out elves, being a long-lived and chaste race, are extremely weak to pleasure and even stuff like the smell of semen. So the protagonist pushes forward against the extremely prejudiced Elves and puts them in their place as his personal breeding stock, from their knights and princesses to their ancient queen Iris. This one got really good character designs (Ishii does some really delicious Elves) and lots of bondage scenes, it's sole sticking out point to me is that the girls are naked the entire time after being enslaved. It helps drive the point that they're lower than humans, but I always look forward to perverted clothing in Miel games. Plus, the lack of secondary heroines or scenes with one-scene extras takes away from the feeling of "becoming the ruler of the Elvish country" the game has going for it. Some titles later in this post will make what I mean by this a bit more clear.

Iris, the purple-haired elf in the top right image, is my favorite among the many elves Ishii Akira designed over the years.

That's about it for the fantasy harem titles. While they're the most popular in Miel's catalog, they're not my favorites. I tend to prefer modern settings. That is not to say I dislike the Fantasy titles, I do like them. But to me, Miel is at its best when it's doing...

Modern-day Harem

Basically the same structure as the fantasy games but taking place in a contemporary setting, I find them to be more varied when it comes to both the games' themes and the looks of the heroines - I find that a lot of the time, the fantasy Miel games are limited by the stock races/classes and by having the main clothing be very similar-looking armor. In that sense, a modern setting allows for more freedom as far as the designs go, and that's why I like them better. On the other hand, the scenarios are much less varied - almost all modern-day Miel games take place in a setting where male fertility rates have plummeted and the birth rates are at an all-time low. There comes along the protagonist who not only can get hard but has an abnormally large member that can churn out ridiculous amounts of semen, and all the girls are his for the taking - sometimes by law, sometimes in spite of it. Hentai logic through and through.

First, let's start with the game that motivated this post. Tomodachi no Kyonyuu Mama wa Zenbu Ore no Mono! was released on March 22, 2024. The protagonist grew up with an inferiority complex about his dick thinking it was below average because of his childhood friends always telling tall tales about theirs when in reality he's incredibly well-endowed - at one point he says his dick is "just" the size of a PET bottle and that he can "only" cum about 30 times a day. He also constantly fantasizes about these friends' mothers, who are all hot women from different walks of life - a businesswoman, a teacher, his neighbor who helps look out for him (the MC's parents are out of the picture), a refined and proper stay-at-home mom, and a former delinquent who now works retail, and thinks that if he had a big dick he would make them his, as polygamy is allowed for men who have outstanding fertility. Then, when the very strict teacher (and one of the aforementioned mothers) Atsuko catches him having an erection in class and decides to discipline his spirit through a judo lesson after school, the protagonist ends up with his pants down due to a poorly executed grapple and the truth about his dick is out, giving him the confidence to rape the teacher right in front of him and, when she submits, proceed with the harem plan he always dreamed about.

This is by all accounts a stock Miel plot. What makes it special is that scene-to-scene writing and the girls' voice acting are really good. It's one of their games that gets the "degrading strong women into slaves" the best, and little moments like the one who used to be the most dedicated housewife complaining that her husband and son get in the way of her serving her Master and that she wants get rid of them already are the cherry on top. The protagonist is also deliciously cruel to them - something that isn't rare for Miel protagonists, one of their selling points being the whole erohidoi ("lewd and twisted") nature of the content, but I feel this goes a step beyond with setups like the protagonist spanking them while they prostrate themselves and then choosing the two who had the nicest screams to be "rewarded" by sucking his dick and lick his ass while making pig sounds. The chosen girls also happen to be the tough former delinquent and cold businesswomen who were the hardest characters for him to approach and rape at the beginning.

Those little moments make Miel games stand out for me and this one is full of them. And this game has some of the best blowjob sounds I've ever heard in an eroge, the voice actresses and directing really deserve some praise here. The writing does help with the girls losing themselves in the act instead of talking while giving head, giving an impression they're really ruled by their female instincts - the protagonist jokingly thinks in one scene that they're so single-mindedly dedicated to the act it's almost like they forgot how to speak. Good stuff.

The netori is the cherry on top with staples like the "sex while on the phone with the husband" scene having good twists like every lovey-dovey line she says having a double meaning and being actually directed at the protagonist's dick. The protagonist chooses to not have his slaves divorce the husbands right away because he wants to enjoy the thrill of cheating for a while, and that leads to some fun moments, especially with how ready the girls are to just drop their families including their sons as soon as he gives the order.

I'm going to stop myself from gushing about the game right now, being something I just played and is fresh in the memory, it's unfair to compare to others I haven't played for years. Stuff like this is why I didn't want to make a top 10. But still, I do feel that the writing is above average by Miel's standards. The art by Maki Daikichi can look a bit off at times, but nothing major.

Anyway, moving on.

Hentai Glossary I to J

It's been a while since we have one of these. I had a bit of writer's block plus at one point I lost half my progress on it, which really doesn't help my motivation. But enough excuses. Let's get to it.

For those unfamiliar, Hentai Glossary is a series of posts where I go through some terminology that shows up around Japanese erotic media, some specific to the power fantasy-related themes we talk about here, and some more generalist ones. If you missed the previous posts, click here to see the index with the entries already covered.

Inmon (淫紋)/Lewd Crest/Magic Tattoo

Sometimes also called a Lust Crest, it's a tattoo that affects the victim's sexual desire. Usually magic in nature, but sometimes you see technological versions in sci-fi settings.

The victim is almost always female, and the tattoo is almost always heart-shaped and placed on the pelvic region, with barcode designs, uterus designs, and elements like devil tails and wings also being common (the latter when the tattoo is demonic in origin). Sometimes the tattoo will mix two or more of these elements for a more unique design.

As for the effects, there are usually two types. The most common is a tattoo that is placed against the will of the heroine and raises her libido and sexual sensitivity against her will, being used as a tool for corruption and sexual training. The more sexual actions are done the stronger the sensations get until it completely erodes the resistance and reason of the heroine making her a slave to the pleasure and to the one who branded her with the crest. With this type, it's common for the crest to glow when active (sometimes only for the reader's benefit) or even change shapes and colors as it "matures" and further corrupts the heroine, like in the example to the right, from Ore Isekai de Mahou Tsukai ni Naru.

As for the less common type, the tattoo still has the power of enhancing sexual sensations and binding the victim to her master, but it only shows up after her corruption has been completed, as definitive, visible proof of its success.

Basically, the imprinting of a Lewd Crest is either the first or the final step of the corruption process, with rare in-between. It can be accompanied by physical changes (especially if its magical or demonic in nature), but that's not a rule.

Top Row: Kangokujo; Isekai Choroine wa, Itomo Kantan ni Otosareru
Bottom Row: Soutai Akki Altena Lune; Ochi Shirube ~Sousakan, Inmon Kaikan ni Otsu~

JAV

JAV is an acronym for "Japanese Adult Video", and it is just that, live-action porn produced in Japan.

I can't really think of much to say that isn't entirely subjective, and maybe a post about what I like about JAV when compared to Western porn may be in order sometime (at which point I'll edit this to direct you there), but there's a different atmosphere to them, especially when we're talking about fetish porn.

The most notable thing about JAV to a non-Japanese audience is the censorship. Due to Japanese law, genitalia in JAVs are censored, usually through pixelation. I'm not particularly bothered by it, but it's a huge point of contention to some and keeps some people from being able to enjoy JAV entirely.

JAVs are cataloged by production number, which we also call JAV code, which is usually made of a series of letters followed by a series of numbers. The amount of letters and numbers varies according to the producer, but it's usually 4 letters and 3 numbers for non-VR productions (cataloging for those works is slightly different and I never bothered to learn as I don't have a VR device). So for example, EXPL-042 for the 42th title released by the Example company.

Jikan Teishi (時間停止)/Time Stop

Jikan Teishi -Toki yo Tomare-

The ability to stop time and do lewd things while time is stopped. Sometimes also called 時姦 (Jikan), a portmanteau of 時間 (Jikan, Time) and 強姦 (Gokan, Rape). Other common terms associated with the genre are Jikan yo Tomare or Toki yo Tomare, both also meaning "Stop Time". And yes, that is a Jojo reference.

There are some variations on how it works, sometimes the girl's body is completely unreactive, like a doll's, and sometimes it does react to stimuli like pleasure and pain, but isn't conscious of it. Then, once time starts flowing again, all those sensations hit the brain at once causing an extreme reaction.

A complete lack of agency on the part of the heroine and complete control by the user of the time-stop power is also part of the appeal.

There are many works focused solely on time stop, but it also can show up as an element in one scene or two of works that feature supernatural powers or mind control (as it can used for a kind of "fake time stop" where the victim is merely hypnotized into being frozen in time).

Left Column: Gakuen de Jikan yo Tomare; Time Stop Fantasia
Right Column: Jikan Teishi Wakarase

Joshi Gakusei (女子学生)/Schoolgirl

Literally meaning "Female Student", Joshi Gakusei is a schoolgirl.

Fetishizing school uniforms is a thing pretty much everywhere, but in Japan, maybe due to how prevalent school settings are in media and how romanticized school life is in Japanese culture, appreciation for schoolgirls as both something non-sexual and culturally resonant and as a sexual fetish seems to be more common than in other places, at least from an outsider looking in.

The most common type of schoolgirl showing up in hentai is the Joshikousei (女子高生), High School Girl, often abbreviated as JK, with Joshichuugakusei (女子中学生), Middle School Girl, sometimes abbreviated as JC also being common.

High Schools and Middle School uniforms are a bit interchangeable, having several styles, the most well-known in the West being the sailor-fuku, inspired by old naval uniforms, but modern uniforms have a blazer and ribbon tie instead, and in drawn media we have all kinds of stylish uniforms that wouldn't be a thing in a real-life school.

Joshishougakusei, (女子小学生), Elementary School Girl, abbreviated as JS, is also a thing, but since we're focusing on uniforms as a visual marker of a schoolgirl, it's a rare sight as many artists avoid portraying cliché elementary school uniform staples like randoseru backpacks and yellow hats, as often something too blatant won't be carried on retail sites even in Japan.

Top Row: Ura Kyoushi; Seidorei Gakuen 2
Bottom Row: DSKBJCS - Dosukebe Juices; Saimin Tengoku (Hypnosis Heaven)

Joushiki Kaihen (常識改変)/Common Sense Alteration

It's a type of mental control where a person or group of people's perception of what is and isn't normal is altered. Sometimes also called Joushiki Henkan (常識変換, Common Sense Conversion).

Usually comes in two flavors: either one character or group of character's common sense is altered over the course of the story for a more traditional corruption/mind control story, or everyone in a given location has their common sense completely changed from the start and the work will focus on showing the "new normal" in action.

As for what kinds of changes, it can be anything, from students believing that a vibrator is part of their school uniform, to a magical girl believing the correct way to defeat villains is through using her pussy of justice to drain the evildoer's dick, to women in a company believing that not only the restrooms are co-ed, but that it's the responsibility of the female employees to provide sexual relief to the males when they go together. 

Common sense change can be the process or ending result of the brainwashing process of the main characters of a story, or it can be used for bigger orgies with many characters. If there's a character that isn't affected, usually by the end of the story, they will. The appeal and tone may also vary, from some focusing on seeing characters act in an abnormal and perverted way like it's normal to do so, while others may focus on the hopelessness of a character trusted into a situation where everyone started acting crazy and she may be next. Like the broader mind control genre itself, Common Sense Change is a tool that can be used in many ways.

Top Row: Kyonyuu Gal MC Kousai; Kousoku o Omoidoori ni Kakikaerareru Techou o Te ni Ireta
Bottom Row: Saimin Gakuen 1-nensei, Ijirare Fukushuu Saimin
Rightmost image: YUITA-MA

Jukujo (熟女)/MILF

Jukujo means mature woman, usually referring to women between 30 and 50 years old.

In hentai, that will usually translate to plump bodies with huge breasts and thick thighs. The breasts will have some noticeable sag to them, which is something many artists drawing younger girls neglect, how much sag will vary depending on the artist, as will how plump the women will look. Noticeable makeup and full lips are also more common than in drawings of younger girls.

Of course, a lot of that depends on the art style, and many artists may draw younger girls with those characteristics as well, but you'll rarely find something carrying the label of "mature" without at least some of those characteristics.

I'm picking MILF as a suitable equivalent instead of the more literal "Mature Woman" because I think it gets the image across much more clearly, regardless of whether or not the woman has children (which seems to be becoming increasingly irrelevant in labeling someone a MILF as well, anyway).

Top Row: Hitozuma Kyoushi wa Moto Mahou Shoujo; Ochiru Hitozuma; Kyonyuu Princess Saimin
Bottom Row: Dekachichi Muchishiri BBA Kishidan; Netorare Jukubo Natsuko; Omae no Kaa-chan Ikutoki no Kao Sugee Busu da zo

And that concludes today's entries into the Hentai Glossary. Next post will hopefully not take as long as this one, as it has a few subjects I've been looking forward to covering for a while.

I'd also like to remind the readers that the glossary is open to suggestions. If you have a term you want to see here, comment. Even if its letter is already behind, it can always be added in an addendum post.