Shintaisou: Kari

I will preface my review with this. I would stay away from this series unless you have the stomach, or the fetish for these things: rape, bondage, torture, blood, watersports, and other bodily functions. I'll start with the art and sound. These are the only true redeeming qualities of this show when it comes to it's content. Objectively I was impressed at the quality (for a hentai). Had this been more tame in it's violence, it would probably have been very arousing. It wasn't censored, which is also a plus. I do admit there was a spot in episode three that I felt was a little risky.It's similar to that infamous episode of pokemon where the screen flashes red and blue which caused viewers to have seizures. In this it usually just flashed red and not every much at certain parts, but in that episode I could swear that it had been taken a bit overboard. Luckily I suffered no seizures, and it may not be anything to concern myself with, but I'd feel better warning you. If you have suffered epileptic seizures or if family has, I would skip over the part with electrodes because that is where it occurred. Story. Definitely not for the faint of heart. It's not very deep, but I could never really understand what the whole thing was about. Some rich and influential girl sets up a secret gymnastics team focused on training under extreme pain, both mental and physical. The first girl is an innocent kind of girl. She's very friendly and was the only one that doesn't mind Professor Doguro. In fact, she's quite friendly in the innocent way with him. Professor Doguro begins working under Tomomi, the student that set up the whole thing, to train the students in the dark gymnastics. He's a big pervert and throughout the series, quite a monster. Nevertheless, he rapes and tortures these helpless girls, but like a lot of hentai, afterward, they become very loyal to him and fall in love with him. It's quite a sick story when you get down to it. In this you can expect 6 girls to fall under his control. What's strange about this show is that outside of the brutal situations, the show tries to be funny or cute. One second a girl is being brutally raped, goes home, cries and then the next calls all of the other girls who were raped for a sleepover and the professor looks like he's in heaven and the whole ordeal is made out to be some light sex party. Then the next day, they put him on a diet, and treat him like he was their lover. Characters: The only two characters I didn't really like was Tomomi, and Doguro Nikusuke. All of the other characters, I felt sorry for, I actually felt sorry for Tomomi as well, but she set up the whole nightmare, and ultimately had to pay a price for it, becoming just like the other girls. Only instead, the tables were turned and the very monsters she created turned on her to "initiate" her as part of the team. If you think this is a spoiler, it isn't. From episode 1 you can tell that something similar was going to happen. Doguro constantly mutters under his breath that he will make her his toy or slave eventually, and it comes true just like the rest. Doguro is constantly portrayed as some comic hero outside of the sex situations, but deep down, he was a monster. Overall, I had a hard time enjoying it (in that way). Everything seemed to confuse me in a lot of ways. I actually kind of like light bondage in my hentai, but not painful bondage. And there were a couple other things that were arousing. But the overall torture and heavy rape was a turn off. Even worse, the scenes have stuck with me overnight and I still get chills from thinking about it. There was several scenes with blood. It wasn't gory, mind you, but there were things like clamps being used on breasts and nipples and sometimes these clamps would draw blood when used. Luckily it seemed that after the initiation of a girl, she wouldn't go through most of it again, just some rough intercourse. But the amount of pain I saw nauseated me. Comments I read varied between "this is tame" or "this was hot" all the way to "you're sick if you like this". There was a clear warning in the description and I didn't take heed, and while I didn't skip anything, this was an experience I wish I could go back. This could seriously scar you mentally. Now, if you enjoyed this, I won't judge you. I know the difference between fiction and reality, and a large part of why I was able to ultimately get through it was because I understood that difference, and that some of it was kind of over the top anyway. You can do some pretty sick things in videogames, and most people who do so are just fine. I had an itch myself for something a little more brutal than the usual vanilla stuff I like. I just underestimated how brutal it was, and probably won't watch another thing like this for a long time. I mean years even.