Tuesday, July 9, 2024

[Review] [Manga] Akuochi Sentouin Series

"Transforming into Combatant" (Sentouin-ka) is a rather niche subsect of mind control and transformation fetishes (that I already covered on a Hentai Glossary post, by the way) around the concept of an evil organization turning innocent people into skintight suit-clad combatants like those in Sentai and Showa Kamen Rider. If you're unfamiliar with these series, think the faceless mooks the Power Rangers fight before taking on the monster of the week. There have been a few anime recently with rank-and-file combatants as protagonists as well, though they usually go with combatants as employees or born into the organization angle, as regular anime wants the protagonists to be sympathetic even if nominally evil.

It's not hard to find standalone pictures or short CG sets of female characters being turned into combatants, but full series dedicated to that are pretty rare. So when I found one that scratched the itch just right, I had to make a post about it.  

A few days ago I was looking for some stuff to read on DLSite when I came across a circle named くれーぷくれーぷ (Crepe Crepe, I guess) that specializes in tokusatsu heroine sex and corruption and happens to have an original series based around the whole combatant concept. Each chapter has its own title, but in the descriptions, they refer to the first part of the series (comprised of 8 main chapters and a few extras like an audio chapter and a two-chapter Futanari spin-off which I have not read yet and will not be covered here) as NTR Sentouin Series (NTR戦闘員シリーズ) and the second part (which has just two chapters as of now) Akuochi Sentouin Series (悪堕ち戦闘員シリーズ), which is the name DLSite is using for the page with the whole body of work, so that's what I'm going with as well.

Series Overview


The 10 main installments of the series so far

The plot is simple: a secret society called Neo Dark suddenly appeared and started trying to conquer the world with their monsters. In response, an elite team of warriors meant to fight against them was assembled by the government, the Powered Men. With the arrival of the Powered Men the war was brought to a stalemate but human society is at a disadvantage - a grave recession set in, and every attack by Neo Dark deals a blow to the morale of the population and the reputation of the Powered Men, while Neo Dark has a seemingly never-ending supply of soldiers.

Well, we know where these soldiers come from, or I wouldn't be writing this. The number of disappearances since Neo Dark showed up is steadily increasing, the reason being that they're kidnapping civilians and brainwashing them to serve as combatants. Not all combatants are kidnapped - some people join the society of their own volition, either because of their own desires or because the circumstances forced them to, like working to pay a debt. Regardless, they get brainwashed, deindividuated, don a mask and receive a serial number as their new name, becoming a part of Neo Dark's fighting forces. The series chiefly focuses on the training and brainwashing phase of women captured to become female combatants, though there are chapters with different premises dotted thorough.

And Neo Dark Combatants aren't just fodder to fight the heroes and, in the case of the females, sex relief tools for the male members. They're also in charge of proactively "scouting" new members for their ranks. Which leads to characters we've seen being corrupted returning to lure their loved ones into traps, or even just showing to train the victim of the chapter as one of Neo Dark's nameless mooks, but you the reader knows who she is (or rather, once was). This sense of interconnectivity between chapters that otherwise stand alone is something I really like. Doesn't get too heavy on continuity while still having ongoing plotlines that get brought to the forefront when it's appropriate. There's also a good sense of time progression. Over one year goes by between chapters, and the situation of the war gradually changes as a result of Neo Dark's actions (as some of the brainwashing victims aren't random people but chosen to deal blows to Powered Men's support line),

Most of the series (as in, the first part) has a focus on NTR, with pretty much all girls having a boyfriend, brother or someone dear that she gets taken away from. How hard the chapter goes into the NTR tropes varies, for a series about turning women into faceless mooks there's a surprising amount of variety here. Creator くれーぷる (Kureepuru. Creeple? Creople, as the sadpanda tag romanizes it? Fuck if I know) talks about how the second part drops the NTR from the title to not be bound to just that kind of heroine.


Art and Sexual Content

The art is serviceable for what it's trying to do and for its price. All these chapters were selling for 5 dollars at full price, and there was a 50% sale so I paid less than 3 bucks for most of them. I feel like it is a fair price and that the artist is aware of the shortcomings of their artwork. Despite through look of the linework, I think it manages to convey the softness of the bodies and from time to time the artist pulls off some great facial expressions. There's also more variety of sex positions and angles than I expected; it's not uncommon for artists doing this fetish to reuse tons of stuff (since the base suit is always the same), and that does not happen here, at least I didn't notice. The girls look distinct from one another and while there isn't much in the way of body diversity (sorry flat chads, this one is not for you), I'm all for big tits and thick thighs so it didn't bother me.

As for what kind of content is here, it's brainwashing via pleasure training, so it's more mindbreak than what might come to mind when I say brainwashing, really. This isn't uncommon in Combatant brainwashing, as often it's the suit or the fluids from the other combatants that have a corruptive element triggered by sex (in this case, semen from Combatants has a strong aphrodisiac). Some chapters do get more creative with their training approaches but for the most part, it's sex until the girl breaks. And by sex I mean oral, vaginal and anal, usually with excessive amounts of semen pouring in and out of each hole. It's to the point it may look somewhat silly with how much the girls are writhing around and having their tits pulled by the nipple, shooting semen out of their asses like a pressure hose, that kind of thing. In the more Netori-focused chapters, the girl usually severs ties with her former life by getting gleefully getting fucked in front of her husband.

I'm going to go into a bit more detail in the spoiler section, going into my thoughts on each chapter while giving a brief summary on their events as I go. If you don't care to read about it, feel free to skip to the Conclusion section.

Sex acts are hardcore and varied and sometimes cross into other fetishes like stomach deformation and breast expansion.


Spoiler Talk


Hitozuma Sentouin Atsuko (Married Woman Combatant Atsuko)

This chapter is pretty different from the others and honestly not great. Atsuko started working for Neo Dark to pay her husband's debts (his company went under due to the economic crisis brought about by the war). It's presented like it was too good an opportunity to pass up, and the chapter opens talking about how society was becoming corrupt and people were being driven to commit crimes to survive, so it fits. She's doing this behind the husband's back of course. This chapter also introduces Geroron, a frog monster and one of Neo Dark's executives and recurring character in these first few chapters. Now, in this chapter the Combatants aren't allowed to speak, meaning Atsuko only grunts (and screams the "Ooooo" that is their mindless warcry) for most of the chapter, but we are treated to her thoughts. Unlike the rest of the series that has more dynamic sex scenes with uniquely drawn pages, this one uses a base for each scene like a CG set. What should be the highest point, the scene at the end where Atsuko is fucked by Geroron in her neighborhood in front of her husband, after months of training, falls a bit flat as after her final break, we don't see her thoughts. The other chapters definitely made the right call by making the combatants able to speak. Atsuko is a really hot short haired milf, but she really shines as a returning character in future chapters, as we'll soon see.


Kareshi-mochi JK Sentouin Mitsuha (High School Girl with a Boyfriend Combatant Mitsuha)

Here's where things get started for real. Mitsuha is a member of the karate club who wants to take the exam to join the Powered Men. She has a boyfriend named Ryo, and while they aren't seeing much of each other due to her training, they promise to have a special day in a week, their anniversary. The reason Mitsuha is so motivated is that her brother's wife was kidnapped by Neo Dark, and she wants to rescue her. That wife is Atsuko. That same Atsuko just shows up before Mitsuha, and using herself as a distraction has other Combatants capture Mitsuha. She's taken to Geroron to be brainwashed. She coming to her senses only to learn Atsuko sold her for the reward of sucking Geroron's dick is my favorite moment in the chapter. Atsuko is pretty hot here teasing Mitsuha and telling her, when she's on the floor cumming miserably, that she has the face of a Neo Dark Combatant. We don't see Mitsuha's fall, instead, she reveals herself as a fully brainwashed combatant on her anniversary with Ryo. In an interesting twist, while Mitsuha breaks up with Ryo and fucks a male combatant right in front of him, Atsuko offers the boy a chance to join Neo Dark.

The beginning of the series doesn't look very good but can still manage to be hot through the situations and timing.

Hakoiri Reijo Sentouin Ayame ~Nerawareta Hero no Konyakusha~ (Sheltered Lady Combatant Ayame ~The Targeted Hero's Fiancée)

This chapter shows a bit more of Powered Men's inner workings. The organization needs a lot of funding to keep operating, and a lot of that comes from Tough Support Company. In order to gain the upper hand in the war, Neo Dark decides to break that pillar of support the heroes have by brainwashing Ayame, the daughter of Tough Support's CEO, so she can leak information from inside and help them destroy the company. Ayame is also engaged to Kenji, or Powered Blue, a member of the hero team. Ayame's training is very different from the previous two and I like it. She has special vibrators attached to her nipples, pussy and ass that keep her edging forever, while a monitor and speakers keep blasting propaganda about how great Neo Dark is. Straightforward brainwashing. While she's in the room the only hydration and food she can have is piss and cum from Neo Dark combatants. This is the chapter that introduces the aphrodisiac properties of Neo Dark cum. The sheltered princess who had never even masturbated before and believed her fiancee would come to rescue her loses her grip on her sanity and ends up drinking fluids with gusto and begging for sex, breaking completely when she finally gets to cum. We cut back to the heroes sometime later, receiving the news that Tough Support has gone under, and a video has surfaced of the recently missing Ayame dressed in a combatant suit saying that she was the one leaking information before filling her mask with cum and putting it on, telling Blue it's his fault she became a semen-loving sow.



Netorare Sentouin Butai ~4-nin no Mesu ga Netorare Sennou Choukyou~ (Netorare Combatant Squad ~4 Females are Stolen, Trained and Brainwashed~)

This chapter starts with Geroron dying. Not that it matters, as we're introduced to Don Darkness, the leader of Neo Dark, as he fucks the heroines of the previous 3 chapters. Powered Men got their sixth ranger, so Neo Dark needs to increase their numbers. So, the combatants are sent to brainwash more women. It reads like 4 mini-chapters showing the titular 4 females going from their daily lives to brainwashing combatants in 5 pages each. What's fun here is that 3 of them are trained by the previous heroines. There's a student council president, a "yankee" style delinquent, an idol (who, instead of a significant other, betrays her fans), and a mesugaki who, funnily enough, is "corrected" by the big boss Don Darkness himself, who goes into a wordy rant about the character archetype. Fun little chapter that just serves to introduce a bunch of girls at once, and may be hit or miss in how rushed it is.


Hitozuma Sentouin Mika (Married Woman Combatant Mika)

The target this time is Mitsuha's mother (and Atsuko's sister-in-law), tying the loose ends with that family. After Mitsuha's disappearance, Mika basically keeps her husband going, giving him hope they'll be reunited. Unbeknownst to him, she struck a deal with Ryo, now a Combatant, who she believes knows where Mitsuha is, that he'll free her if Mitsuha lets him fuck her once. Of course, it's all a ruse and after Ryo is done Atsuko shows up to gloat about being the one who kidnapped both Mitsuha and Ryo in the first place, making fun of Mika for falling for such an obvious trap. She gives Ryo a drug that enlarges his dick and the two continue Mika's pleasure training, with Ryo taking the pussy and Atsuko using a toy on milf's ass (this is a fairly anal-focused chapter, though all holes get due attention). To further shatter her hopes, Mitsuha also pops up during the training to make fun of her. After her fall, mother and daughter call the husband pretending Mitsuha has been found, only for them to reveal their true selves and have a "farewell gangbang" with male combatants in front of him, ejecting cum from her asses on his face in the end.  This is one of my favorite chapters not only because I really like mother-and-daughter stuff, but also because of how neat it is to see it all come together from previous chapters. And Atsuko is just fucking hot as a villainess, too. Every chapter with her in a big role gets a few extra points for me.

Atsuko and Mitsuha wait for the right moment to push Mika past the point of no return.

Fujinkeikan Sentouin Ryouko ~Aru Oushu-hin no DVD no Kiroku~ (Policewoman Combatant Ryouko ~Records from a Certain Confiscated DVD~)

The author commented in the afterword that since the last chapter was heavy on continuity, they wanted to make a standalone one. As a result, I really don't have much to comment on, as it also isn't much to my taste. The chapter is narrated by an unseen cop protagonist who admires his senpai Ryouko, a young but fierce policewoman who impresses even her superiors with her skills and courage. However, she vanished when investigating Neo Dark. Sometime later, the protagonist confiscated a DVD from a Neo Dark... Colaborator..? Location..? I don't remember, honestly. Anyway, it had Ryoko's name on it, so he took it with him instead of leaving it with evidence. It's a video record of her training. Ryouko is turned into a meat toilet combatant, responsible not only for sex relief duty like all other female combatants but also specifically for drinking semen. This chapter is oral-focused and while there are some good blowjob scenes and there's a nice juxtaposition between Ryouko talking about her duty as a Policewoman and Combatant Nº6222 talking about her duty as a toilet, it's missing something to me. It's too short, there's not enough going on in her training, and there's too much of the cuck's perspective for my taste, leaning more toward the Netorare side of things than other chapters.


Hero ni Akogareru Shounen ga Aku no Sentouin no Onee-san ni Kawaigararete Akuochi Sennou (A Boy who Admires Heroes is Pampered by Evil Older Women Combatants and Brainwashed to Evil)

And now for something completely different. This is a straight shota chapter. The brainwashing victim is a young boy part of the Powered Squad, a group that supports the Powered men. Sidekicks, I assume (it's not elaborated much). He's been captured so he can be brainwashed and then corrupt the rest of his squad. What's special about this chapter is that the Combatants in charge of his brainwashing are Atsuko and Mika, and every other female combatant introduced so far (including the 4 from the anthology chapter) make an appearance tormenting the little boy with all kinds of teasing (he is not allowed to cum, or to have vaginal intercourse at all), until he's driven mad. It's just so twisted, I love it. There's only so many times I can say I like seeing the previous victims being evil, but this chapter is all about that. Seeing Mika in particular is nice as she retains her motherly personality only it's completely twisted by her newfound loyalty to Neo Dark, and she weaponized it against the young boy.


Hitozuma Heroine Sentouin Momoko - Seigi no Heroine Haiboku Sennou Akuochi NTR (Married Heroine Combatant Momoko - Heroine of Justice is Defeated, Brainwashed, Corrupted and Stolen)

This is the final installment of the "NTR Sentouin" part of the series. And as such, it's the final confrontation with the Powered Men. They have been dealt blow after blow during the series - losing their funding, losing their support squad, more and more people getting brainwashed because they fail. The entry blurb of each chapter which talks about the war between the two groups has slowly but steadily gone from describing a stalemate to a losing scenario for the heroes. Despite that, or rather, because they need hope in a moment like that, Powered Red has married Momoko, Powered Pink. Their happiness is soon shattered as the Powered Men, now reduced to just the two of them, are defeated by Don Darkness and Atsuko. This is one of the best chapters and I'd get caught up describing most of it if I allowed myself to. Basically, Don Darkness mindbreaks Momoko right in front of Red, and even at the start when she's talking about how their love will keep her strong Darkness cuts in to laugh and tell Red "by the way before you woke up she already came twice". It's utterly hopeless all the way through. Momoko makes some great faces as she struggles and loses. Heroine corruption is my jam and this chapter hits all the right notes. There are a few things that make this chapter good besides the sex stuff, like the way Momoko reflects her sin of trying to be happy even as the Powered Men failed their mission is being met with the punishment of being brainwashed by combatants/people they failed, and as a whole the conflict wraps up well, with Momoko being turned into Combatant N°10.000 and torturing Red herself weeks after their defeat.

The moment she realized no amount of love was going to save her.

In a random-ass sequel hook, by analyzing the technology of the Powered Men, Neo Dark cracks the secret to interdimensional travel. This world is already theirs. On to the next one.


Onna Sentouin Seishori Ninmu Kiroku (Female Combatant Sex Relief Duty Diary)

This is just an extra chapter taking place after the end of the series showing Atsuko, Ryouko, Sayaka (the delinquent from the 4 girls chapter) and Momoko performing their sexual relief duties for the male combatants. In other words, this chapter is just sex scenes. Nothing wrong with that. The Atsuko and Sayaka scenes are kind of whatever, Ryouko has one hilarious moment where she gets "all the holes in her face cummed inside", meaning not only her mouth but her nostrils and ear holes, but it's Sayaka who steals the show here as her section features her begging for forgiveness for what she did as a heroine while she gets spanked, stomped, kicked, all the while having orgasms from the rough treatment. Reading it right after the chapter where she's corrupted was a nice treat.


Hitozuma Sentouin Yukie (Married Woman Combatant Yukie)

So after deliberately removing the constraints of having to do NTR stories, the mangaka goes and does... A NTR story. Granted, it's again framed differently from the previous ones, but still, it's funny. And honestly, this might be the best execution of the NTR song and dance in the series. After honing the craft during the previous series they open the sequel with the definitive version.

This one takes place in a new world, Neo Dark is unknown and is being treated as a terrorist group. It's also funny that the "other world" hyped at the end of the previous series is another normal world, feeling almost like a reset button, and the author does say they considered more fantasy settings but felt more comfortable returning to basics. And they return to basics with style. First, we see glimpses of Atsuko now in a new white and black Combatant uniform leading Combatants around. Later we'll know that the previous series girls are now "Captain Class" Combatants.

This chapter features Yukie, a mother of two who has been having strange dreams of being dressed like these Neo Dark terrorists and performing depraved sexual acts with a man from her husband's company. Of course, it turns out the man is an undercover Neo Dark Combatant, having joined the organization out of jealousy towards her husband for "stealing" his career. He's been brainwashing Yukie for a few weeks and this chapter is the final session, with her trying to fight the training her body remembers. Eventually, her memories come back and she becomes his eager slut while Yukie's old self struggles and disappears the more sex they have. At her breaking point, she apologizes for her husband's foolish behavior while getting fucked in dogeza. Afterwards Neo Dark attacks her husband's company and "Combatant C0043" does the old routine of cutting ties with her old life by fucking in front of him.


Battle Heroine Sentouin Kanon (Battle Heroine Combatant Kanon)

The most recent chapter, and easily the most unique. Just like in the previous world, an organization was formed to stop Neo Dark. Funded by the UN, its name is Exion and instead of being Sentai-like the two girls shown have technological battle suits called Accelerators. The two members we meet, Accelerator Sword and Accelerator Buster, are Yukie's daughters Shizuki and Kanon. They believe Yukie to be dead (the father told them Neo Dark killed her in front of him, instead of what really happened) and are fighting to avenge her. During a fight with Mika, she reveals that Yukie is alive, which Shizuki doesn't believe but Kanon is visibly shaken by. As Shizuki attacks Yukie, falling for her bait, Mitsuha kidnaps Kanon. This chapter is Kanon's brainwashing process, and it initially doesn't go well because, unlike those idiots at Powered Men, Exion actually trained their heroes to resist their techniques. Even after making her orgasm a lot and pumping her with aphrodisiacs, Kanon is still sane. 

Ever since Momoko's chapter, the series has started showing more action scenes as well, with the main goal of showing the heroines in pain.

Mitsuha however isn't impressed and injects her with a drug meant for creating Milking Slaves (whose milk is used for feeding Combatants and gives the aphrodisiac effect to their fluids), which makes her flat tits become comically huge, and start shooting milk with pleasure "comparable to male ejaculation". It's really fun how since she's still in her Accelerator suit, the milk shoots out but just stretches the suit instead of pouring out. Makes for a really interesting scene, if you're into more extreme body modification. Anyway, the milking torture works but of course what really breaks Kanon is seeing her mom, who drives the girl insane with a warm smile simple phrase: "Welcome to Neo Dark". Kanon's deranged rant about how everything she did was for nothing while shooting milk from her tits is great. She covers the whole glass wall of her cell in milk to the point the interior can't be seen anymore while Yukie stands and watches, proud of what her daughter has become. Another good moment is the smash cut between Shizuki saying to her superiors (who consider Kanon dead) that she believes her sister will never yield to brainwashing and "Combatant C1066" doing Neo Dark's salute. The chapter ends with Shizuki determined to save her sister and mother while the two slaves are hooked to milking machines.

After this she gets a full cow costume and when she breaks she even starts mooing, but there's only so much I can cover

Conclusion

This isn't the best drawn and definitely not the best-executed mindbreak/corruption series out there. But damn if it didn't find a special place in my mind. It's a consistent yet not stale series of a fetish I struggle to find good content for, and that already makes it precious to me. Despite reading the whole thing in basically one sitting, I very rarely felt it was retreading old material, which is again a big plus as it's very common for mangaka doing a specific fetish to just recycle the same formula down to the sex poses. It isn't the case here.

Of course, the concept of Transforming into Combatant in itself is restrictive to an extent, so take that into account. When I say it didn't feel like it was retreading old material, I don't mean for example it didn't end the same way (almost) every time, it did, it's part of the fetish seeing the girls reduced to a nameless combatant with most of their personality rewritten to be an evil pervert. What changes, besides what kind of sex scenes they are featured in, is how they interact with other characters before and after their corruption and how some of their personality traits come through, like the tomboyish girl still being aggressive or her mother still being an ara ara type. Others are twisted into being unrecognizable, like the sheltered rich girl who goes from an innocent young lady to a complete sadist. Striking a balance between the "deindividuation" part of the fetish and keeping the characters just distinct enough to be recognizable in a multi-chapter series is not an easy feat and I think this does it well.

It's tough giving a score to a manga like this. On one hand, its technical side leaves to be desired and it can be repetitive, on the other hand, it's very true to the fetish it's doing and satisfying to read through. For fans of this kind of corruption, I think the pros far outweigh the cons and it's worth digging into even if you find the art shaky, and I do think fans of mindbreak also have a lot to like here but I'd say to proceed with more caution, look at the pics (both here and on the DLSite page) and read my pros and cons. For NTR people I recommend specifically Momoko, Ryouko and Yukie's chapters.

Pros

  • Good execution of the Transforming into Combatant fetish.
  • Builds a sense of continuity with the corrupted characters returning to help convert new ones, and the background story getting organically developed as the chapters go.
  • Good variety of sex scenes
  • Atsuko

Mixed

  • The fact most of the series is saddled with NTR. When its well done its really well done (and no sympathy for the cuck either except for one shitty chapter), but in other chapters it feels tacked on
  • There's a nice variety of setups and the training scenes are varied but the payoff is always similar. That is the point but still something that should be pointed out.

Cons

  • Art quality can be very rough at times. It improves as the series goes on but it's still decidedly amateurish.
  • Chapter 1 is pretty weak and stands as an oddity compared to the rest of the series. Not a good representation of what it will be like (I happened to see a later chapter first)
  • While I understand the constraints of page economy and self-publishing, I should mention there is a lot of tell don't show when it comes to most things outside the sex itself. This also seems to be getting better in newer chapters, however.

Score: 6.5/10


This post was long and self-indulgent, I didn't expect to write this much about it. But I couldn't help myself. This series doesn't even have raws on the usual hentai sites. It's that niche. However small my audience is, I want to shine some light on this neat thing I found. I'm sure the three of you who share this overly specific fascination with women being turned into spandex-clad soldiers can relate. For everyone else, thanks again for indulging my ramblings.




Tuesday, May 28, 2024

[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.



Saturday, May 4, 2024

[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.

Thursday, May 2, 2024

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.

Thursday, April 11, 2024

[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.