AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission

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Japanese: AIKa R-16:VIRGIN MISSION

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 3

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 25, 2007 to Oct 26, 2007

Producers: Bandai Visual

Licensors: Bandai Entertainment

Studios: Studio Fantasia

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Comedy, Ecchi

Duration: 26 min. per ep.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 5.88¹ (scored by 10,316 users)

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Ranked: #10210²

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Popularity: #4346

Members: 25,968

Favorites: 53

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Aika is a smart and athletic high school girl. She is so competent that she successfully passes the salvagers license test, obtaining a C-class license. Yet, she is young and hotheaded, so much so that Gota still treats her as a child. Due to this personality, no one is willing to hire her for salvaging jobs.

Since she had taken the trouble to get her license, she decides to post an ad in her school to attract clients. She manages to get the attention of Erika, a daughter of a rich family and the leader of the treasure hunting club. She asks Aika to salvage something from the sea and Aika delightfully accepts the request.

However, upon seeing the state-of-the-art submarine loaded onto Erika's private cruiser and discovering their destination, Aika realizes the terrible nature of her assignment. This results in a clash with a group of high school girls in the southern islands.

Who is the mysterious girl named Karen? So begins Aika's newest challenge!

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Adaptation:	AIKa R-16: School Mission
Sequel:	AIKa Zero

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Characters & Voice Actors

Sumeragi, Aika

Main

Koshimizu, Ami
Japanese

Shinkai, Eri

Main

Fukuen, Misato
Japanese

Minamino, Karen

Main

Noto, Mamiko
Japanese

Nagisa, Risako

Supporting

Suzuki, Naoko
Japanese

Turbulence, Gust

Supporting

Yoshino, Hiroyuki
Japanese

Captain

Supporting

Kuroda, Takaya
Japanese

Aida, Gozo

Supporting

Ootsuka, Akio
Japanese

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Nishijima, Katsuhiko

Director

Kameyama, Toshiki

Sound Director

Kitahata, Tooru

Episode Director, Storyboard

Akitsu, Minami

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Opening Theme

"Sailing To The Future" by Ami Koshimizu

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Ending Theme

"Rise" by Ami Koshimizu

Reviews

Mar 25, 2024

enriquelirac

Recommended

The AiKa saga never ceases to amaze me now that I'm taking the time to watch it.

I'm impressed by the amount of stupid analysis you can read online from people who are paralyzed by the fan service and can't make a good story.

AiKa R -16 is a prequel that tells us about the first big adventure of our famous protagonist. Without wasting time, we are introduced to an intelligent, adventurous, but above all, brave AiKa.

Three important concepts can be highlighted during the development of the plot.

The first is the formation of a trio of tough friends, AiKa, Eri and Karen. The author understood that he ...

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Jan 15, 2009

Skadi

Mixed Feelings

Aika R-16: Virgin Mission really has so little to do with its predecessor that why they even bothered to name it such and put it into the Aika franchise is a mystery. About all it shares with the original are a few of the character names and a lot of exposed panties. We get to see younger versions of characters that we really didn’t care about to begin with. Overall though it manages to be better than its original pretty much across the board.

Story wise, Aika tries at least tries to have a basic plot silly as it is. What it ... does have is not terribly original. What we end up with is the young Aika going to a private high school and learning how to be a submarine pilot so she can be a salvager. This is important back story because salvaging was oh-so importing in the original. (Yes, I am being sarcastic) She gets involved with another girl at the school who runs a treasure seeking club and since Aika can pilot a submarine she is invited along. Hilarity, boobs, and pantsu follow.

Lots of martial arts action accompanies the story as Aika and friends are constantly attacked for unknown reasons by their huge breasted teacher. We never are told why this happens, besides the obvious plot device that this allows for panty shots, nudity, and sexual "humor". The panties are dialed down a little bit, we don’t see a pair in "every" shot that contains females. But there is plenty of gratuitous nudity to make up for it.

Overall the main problem I had with the plot is that it doesn’t explain anything from the original and it makes you wonder why they even bothered to make this an Aika story. They could have easily just made it an original story and left it out of the Aika world. There are none of the superpowers Aika had in the first series. But if you were expecting virgin mission to be about how she got those powers then you’re going to be sorely disappointed. In fact the plot really isn’t about Aika at all; it’s about some new character that wasn’t in the original show either.

Character wise Virgin Mission fails almost as much as the original. Some of the characters have a bit more personality than the original but this is mainly due to the exceptional voice acting which I will get to later. Aika is nothing personality wise like her original and while she is very cutely drawn she isn’t interesting at all. The two new main characters are Karen and Eri. Eri is basically a clone of Haruhi Suzumiya and has the same personality and quirkiness except without the whole being interesting and fun part. Karen is a vanilla emotionless type whom the story is really about. She probably gets the most development and the plot revolves around her past. It’s pretty inexplicable why the writers chose to focus on her and not the title character. All of the supporting characters are basically just background scenery. They have no depth at all and are completely meaningless and useless to the story except in the girls’ cases to show us their panties and boobs.

The art much like the first show is strength, and obviously where the director put most of his effort into. We have very cute girls with great bodies and perfectly formed breasts. The action is well animated and it appears that some computer effects were mixed in which are pretty seamless and match the rest of the animation.

The voice acting is really what saves this series for me. Mamiko Noto who plays Karen and Ami Koshimizu who plays Aika are great. I love what they do and it is thanks to them that this show has any humor or personality at all. Music wise, Koshimizu sings both OP and EN songs and they are ok but nothing spectacular. I was disappointed that Noto didn’t sing one of them as I think she is a far superior singing talent.

Overall this series has more going for it than the original. If you have seen neither one don’t bother with the first and just watch this one. It’s difficult for me to recommend anyone watch unless you just really want to see echii and nudity. It’s a short series so you won’t waste too much of your life.

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Jun 7, 2014

Toastyy

Not Recommended

Funny

Hey, I found the retarded child of Ikkitousen and Elfenlied! Wanna know about it? No? Well too bad I'm gonna tell you anyway.

Story-1:
Some girls are doing something....and school.....pantyshots everywhere......uhhh......teh maincharacter looks like a trap.....and....uuhh.....Honestly, I have no clue what this show is about. So I'm gonna tell you how i found this gem (Probably more interesting than the storyline anyway): I haven't had a girlfriend in about a year, sooo, I'm kinda desperate.....Anyways, I was checking for some updates on my favorite pornsite - yeah, I'm actually doing that regularly - when I saw three recently added episodes there.
I thought "Hey, three episodes, ...

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Poll: AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission Episode 3 Discussion cyruz - May 10, 2008	25 replies	by bdcrt »» Feb 5, 4:56 AM
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