This hentai means a lot to me. It was the hentai that introduced me and made me interested in the world of hentai, and trust me how hard it is for me to say this... but it definitely does not hold up as well as it did before. I will always hold this hentai with high regards for starting it all for me, but as a hentai reviewer it is just another average hentai that fails in many things. In today's review of: "Crimson Girls: Chikan Shihai", I will attempt to provide two perspectives in this review, as 1). a Hentai Fan and 2). aHentai Reviewer. Let's get started!
Story: 3/10.
Although the score is quite low, it could have quite frankly been way higher if it understood how to play with audience's expectations better in accordance with it's premise. The premise to sum up, is basically just a group known as the "Crimson Girls" who are upholding authority for train molesters. If I saw this hentai later in my watching life then I would have been impressed by the initial premise, as it feels like it is trying to knock the bullshit "train rape" scenarios that hentai is known for on it's head. Sadly however, this could not be more wrong as in a matter of 5 minutes into the first episode it abandons any hope of being self-aware of the stupidity of it's genre just so we can get the fucking 10000th rape scene on a train where nobody gives a fuck... JEEZ IT"S NOT LIKE I'VE SEEN THAT DONE BEFORE. Even if we ignore this the title of this story is very misleading. You would think a hentai titled "Crimson Girls" would at-least be focused on the... you know CRIMSON GIRLS. But, after episode 1 it's just some two back to back episodes about a girl who is not apart of the Crimson Girls but still convicts rapists but they are not actually rapists so that is why the rapists rape her but then just makes the rapist's motives even more confusing. And episode 3 ends with a glimmer of hope, as it looks like the rapists next target is the head of the Crimson Girls. BUT OH WAIT IT DIDN"T GET A 4th EPISODE! GEE I WONDER WHY?!?!?
Art and Animation: 7/10.
ok... I will give it the the hentai. The art is pretty damn good. Episode 1 and 2 almost aired 3 years apart from each other which is why for the most part I'll be talking about the more recent episodes. The art has good proportions, they don't make them exaggerated and for it fits nicely with the tone and fucked up story the hentai has. The coloring they chose was also amazing. Very bright while not hurting my eyes. Sadly I can't say the same about everything else. The animation is average at best. There are some shots with very limited frames of animation and there are others that function completely fine. As for the choreography... it's kinda... um... shit. It's similar to Boku no Yayoi-san (Which I think is a good enough explanation) but it does accomplish more satisfying shots
Sound: 7/10.
The show does have the problem of being set over 3 years for one of the episodes, and going from that 1st episode to the 2nd is really a big and shaky change. Overall though, VAs do a fine enough job I guess and background is decent too.
Character: 5/10.
There are three females in this hentai, but if you really look at it there are only two, but I'll go through them anyways. Mitsu Kuroha is an employee of Crimson Girls and similar to the hentai itself she has potential but it just gets wasted in the end. The characterization makes absolute fucking no sense. For somebody who should be well-trained in rape kinda makes it uhm idk hard to believe that she doesn't know what to do when being raped? But you know what it's fine, she has a good design and big tiddies so it's all goodd? No. Then we have Sakura, Nozomi, who is the only reason I didn't fucking give this a 1. She has a character arc unlike Mitsu... although the reasoning for it is kinda hard to rap around. And the NTR situation she is put in makes more sense for her character then the Mitsu. Sakura's design is also quite good, I like how they actually made her a believable high school girl, which I never thought I would be saying for a hentai of all things. And the last one is Nanase, Saki but she does not do anything besides having massive tiddies... so uhm yeah so ain't getting more discussion then that.
Enjoyment: 3/10.
Crimson Girls was highly enjoyable when I first watched it, but that was because I was not yet acquainted with hentai. Looking back at it now, is it good? No. It had insane potential with the story if it actually tried to look at the genre it was apart of. Sakura is a genuinely good character. Not amazing by she was kind of the only thing it had going for it. The art was good but the animation just didn't complement it enough.
Overall: 5/10.
Overall, would I recommend it? After all of the bad things I said about it I know this might be hard to digest, but my answer is yes. Although I can look back this hentai and judge it on the basis of a hentai and come to the conclusion that is shit does not mean that it does not have a place in my heart. It has good things about it, every thing I watch has good things about it. There is no such hentai, anime or television show that does not accomplish at-least one thing that I can proudly say I like about it. And that is the thing I want everyone to take away from this review.
