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   the tension between the three of them runs high.  A fine softcore   
   romantic comedy.  Available from Soft Cel Pictures.   
      
      MEIKING:  As the commonly spread summary says: "Blame it on the   
   sheep".  The main character is a shepherd turned lord, who in order to   
   keep his title, and his shot at the princess, must turn his fief into   
   the most profitable in the kingdom.  Four eps (of which I've seen only   
   the first and last), with a blend of hilarity and some seriousness, and   
   of course a fair bit of explicit sex.  Sources claim that there is Hot.   
   Naked. Elf. Sex.  Almost as nice as KOIHIME.   
      
      MIDNIGHT EYE GOKU:  Futuristic detective fantasy.  Private   
   investigator Goku has a computerized eye that can interface with any   
   electric device at will, as well as an expandable baton that enables   
   him to skewer adversaries and vault across skyscrapers.  Stylish   
   animation with soft-core sex and bondage motifs.   
      
      MY SEXUAL HARASSMENT:  see BOKU NO SEXUAL HARASSMENT   
      
      NAGEKI NO KENKO YURYOJI:  see F^3   
      
      ANGEL/NEW [SHIN] ANGEL:  Shizuka returns to Tokyo to find Kosuke,   
   the boy who had befriended her during a difficult time 12 years   
   earlier (when they were both five years old), who she only got to know   
   for a week before her family had to move.  She finds that Kosuke is   
   now a terrible lecher, but still holds out hope that he can solidify   
   the flashes of decency that he shows (when he isn't getting it on with   
   other girls in a variety of bizarre and comical situations) and commit   
   himself to her.  Episodes 2-4 of New Angel are possibly the most   
   explicit non-violent hentai ever released here.  Based on the   
   controversial manga by U-Jin.  [New Angel is available from Soft Cel   
   Pictures.]   
      
      OGENKI CLINIC:  A farce set in the titular clinic, where a wide   
   assortment of people go to have Dr. Oguri and Nurse Tatase straighten   
   out their sexual problems (when they aren't taking care of their own   
   misadventures, that is).  S&M, impotence, sex toys, lesbianism,   
   infidelity, fetishism, transvestitism/transsexuality, grossly   
   exaggerated body parts... it's all here, and it's all laughed at.   
   [Available from Kitty Media and Anime18.]   
      
      ORCHID EMBLEM:  see REI-LAN: ORCHID EMBLEM   
      
      ORGY TRAINING:  Title is irrelevant to the story, which is about a   
   rich kid who's father is in the habit of buying young women by paying   
   off their parents' debts to the Yakuza, and having them pose as maids,   
   serving his *every* need.  When the latest acquisition turns out to be a   
   girl the son has already fallen in love with, he sets out to rescue the   
   girl.  All the characters in this title are in need of psychiatric   
   treatment - the males before the show starts, and the females too by the   
   end of it.  Too explicit in parts - especially the deflowering of the   
   new girl, which is shown more than once...  All in all a very disturbing   
   title.   
      
      OVERFIEND:  see UROTSUKIDOJI   
      
      PRIVATE PSYCHO LESSON:  Dr. Sara Iijima is a well-endowed   
   psychotherapist who diagnoses and cures young people's problems using   
   Psychofeed, a method combining deep subconscious analysis (employing   
   an interesting hypnosis method) with Eastern sexuality.  While   
   containing some touches of U-Jin's distinctive humour, this is a dark   
   psychological (but of course) drama, including a couple of tentaclish   
   scenes.  Not very explicit, but a hardcore story.  [Available from   
   Anime18.]   
      
      PURE MAIL:  Teenage mistakes, deception and private chat rooms.  Much   
   more would spoil the plot, which was good.  One of very few anime titles   
   of any category that has left me with the feeling that "this could   
   happen" - and with the exception of one scene, in the "Nice" category.   
      
      REI-LAN: ORCHID EMBLEM:  Rei-Lan is an up-and-coming Super Grappler   
   Wrestling star and an ex-DEA agent.  A flashback shows her going on   
   assignment with her boyfriend to capture the prominent underworld boss   
   Tojo and ending up becoming enslaved by him.  Very dark and violent   
   psychodrama. [Available from Kitty Media.]   
      
      REI REI:  Softcore title based on the manga by Toshimitsu Shimizu   
   (801 TTS AIRBATS).  Kaguya is the Missionary of Love, a goddess who   
   strives to keep the moon close to the Earth by helping out   
   romantically troubled young people.  While it's funny in parts, the   
   overall tone is fairly dark, including a murder plot and subconscious   
   psychological problems.  Despite all that, it keeps a sense of warmth.   
   [Available from Soft Cel Pictures.]   
      
      SHUSAKU REPLAY:  Same genre as BLACK MAIL, only here it is a boarding   
   school full of female students and teachers, and a perverted caretaker   
   who's rigged the whole place with video cameras.  Non-nice in all   
   respects except animation quality and sexual content, if you like rape   
   scenes.  A remake of a series named SHUSAKU, which showed much less   
   actual sex.   
      
      SLIGHT FEVER SYNDROME:  A light softcore comedy, in which a young   
   woman starting her new job as a nurse and counselor at a high school   
   finds that the students (and some of the staff) seek her help for the   
   sort of problems that she never anticipated having to   
   handle - especially within herself.  [Available from Kitty Media.]   
      
      STEPMOTHER'S SIN:  I only saw the second part of this.  Insane son   
   seduces father's new fiancee, then blackmails her into keeping quiet   
   while boinking her silly and abusing her daughter.  When he finally gets   
   it into his head that maybe he did something wrong, it's too late.  Sick   
   and twisted in the extreme, both in content and in presentation.  If   
   there is anything at all to recommend this title by, it's the art   
   quality and animation.   
      
      STRANGE LOVE/HEN:  Chizuru Yoshida is the attractive and busty idol   
   of her school, with a major attitude problem.  In the two softcore   
   OVAs released here, she turns the tables on a teacher who becomes   
   obsessed with her after she appears in an ad campaign for shampoo, and   
   has her world turned upside down when a new transfer student breaks   
   through her cynical feelings about love.  Funny, in both senses of the   
   word.  [Available from Anime18.]   
      
      SUPERNATURAL BEAST CITY:  Definitely for adults.  Demon terrorists   
   resist treaty to separate demons & mankind.  Stylishly drawn.   
   [Available (as WICKED CITY) from Urban Vision.]   
      
      TALES OF TITILLATION/MISBEHAVIOUR/SINTILLATION:  The domestic   
   release of Konai Shasei (Sketches in the School), the anime based on   
   the U-Jin manga.  Whimsical, comical softcore short stories, with   
   U-Jin's distinctive edge and cute female character design.  [Available   
   from Kitty Media.]   
      
      TEACHER'S PET:  About an utterly devoted student and her kinky   
   teacher boyfriend.  Starts out mild in all respects, but the fetishes   
   grow a bit weirder in each episode, as the animation grows more   
   explicit.  Despite this, the title remains all consensual - mostly due   
   to the female lead's "it's okay because I love you" attitude, which   
   sounded a bit weird after a while.  I have a hard time calling it   
   *nice*, but it's not insidiously evil like ORGY TRAINING or STEPMOTHER'S   
   SIN.   
      
      TOKIO PRIVATE POLICE:  A very thinly veiled H take on PATLABOR.  A   
   tomboyish young policewoman gets transferred to a new police combat   
   unit in a rough part of Tokyo.  Much goes on behind closed doors.   
   Part police drama, part mecha, part romantic comedy, all explicitly   
   anatomically correct.  The first sex scene is a rape, unfortunately,   
   but, after that, all of it is consensual and scorching.  [Available   
   from Kitty Media.]   
      
      UROTSUKIDOJI (literally WANDERING KID, a.k.a. LEGEND OF THE   
      
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