First Love

Having already read the manga (which barely remembered), I decided to give the anime adaptation a try. Unfortunately, it too, failed to leave a positive impression. Episode 1 The plot is a poorly written incest romance that spends way too much time beating around the bush in the first half. The animation is cheap, relying heavily on recycled sequences—typical of low-effort hentai direction, with sluggish camera movements and barely animated loops. Even the sex scenes suffer: her vagina doesn’t move during fingering or licking at times, the male lead’s penis has an oddly oversized head, and the watery cum sound effects were more off-putting than arousing. Thesex itself is painfully vanilla, lacking any creativity. To make matters worse, the episode wastes a full minute (17:00-18:00) on a flashback we’ve already seen in the intro. Then, as if recycling wasn’t enough, we get another bath scene with the exact same fellatio animation—only the background and lighting change. The female lead’s design was the sole redeeming factor. Episode 2 This episode skips any pretence of plot and jumps straight into sex. The male lead’s perpetually closed eyes were… an unusual choice. The colouring team also dropped the ball—his penis is the same shade as her vagina, which is just baffling. The sex scenes are unintentionally funny, mostly due to her constant glaring, playing into the tsundere fetish. But even then, the 'angry face while calling him baka' routine isn’t as cute as it thinks it is. Episode 3 Enter a tomboy character who looks like Deku from My Hero Academia but wears a wig in nearly every scene—lazy design much? The episode then delivers back-to-back cowgirl position scenes (both with the wig on, because why not?). Easily the worst volume of the series. It is a forgettable poorly made adaptation with cheap animation with repetitive scenes and awkwardly framed sex. If you're looking for well-animated, engaging erotica, this isn’t it.