Suika

Title:Suika
Wet Summer Days
水夏 ~SUIKA~
Overall:Rent
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A collection of three mysterious love stories during one summer in Tokiwa, a silent village far away from cities.

Episode 1: Souji Kamishiro is pursuing his dream of being a painter under the unsteady hand of a dark moody, but brilliant art professor. While staying over at his house, Souji has become very close to his sensei's daughter Sayaka Shirakawa, but there appears something very wrong within the family. What is the secret behind the selection of models for sensei's paintings?


OVA, 3 episodes, 29 min per episode (a non-hentai version of episode 1 has been edited down to 24 min), plus one 15 min special for the DVD box release.
Produced by A.P.P.P and Moonrock
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Unevaluated Devil Doll [series:1128#752]
The only hentai anime I got ever recommended for its drama story, and except for very explicit sexual scenes of very young characters (that's why I didn't review it back then) it actually delivers that drama, thus I hesitate giving it an "Avoid" rating for its hentai components alone. The story is certainly better than in Dragon Knight 4 which shows a similar approach of (unnecessarily) spicing up an otherwise decent story with explicit sex scenes, and thus severely limiting its target group.

I added this comment now (years after I watched this OVA) because the quite similar Yosuga no Sora made it into free TV.

Last updated Tuesday, November 30 2010. Created Monday, November 29 2010.
Rent Jan-Chan [series:1128#967]
As I was watching the first episode (as a WF fansub), I became completely entranced by the story.

An young college art student is very passionate in his desire to improve his artistic abilities, and has accepted an apprenticeship to a dark, moody and very intense sensi. His close relationship with his sensi's daughter is quietly charming and calmly reassuring. Souji’s first kiss with Sayaka on a wind blown grassy meadow is a scene of pure romance, hinting promising relationship between the two. And then troubling shadows begin to appear, quickly encroaching on their apparent happiness and then suddenly, they are plunged in darkness as the truth of the Shirakawa family is reveled.

Then I found out that this was a henti series... The copy that I was watching had the 'racy scenes' edited out, and the remaining footage actually works well as a horror story.

Oh, well... at least the first episode is has a plot (even if it is hentai).

Last updated Wednesday, March 11 2009. Created Monday, August 01 2005.

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