Mujaki no Rakuen

Shouta Handa is a jobless 25 year old who is sick and tired of his boring life. One evening, at the class reunion, he gets to meet all of the cute girls that used to be his classmates. He soon discovers that they are all successful with interesting careers, and even more importantly—really beautiful now, with bigger curves. Unfortunately, it seems that they are all aware of his boring, unsuccessful life, so they mock him and call him a loser, just like in the old days.

Everything changes when Shouta goes for a walk to have a smoke and accidentally falls into the school swimming pool. This triggers a supernatural phenomenon that takes him back ten years into the past. He finds himself in the same swimming pool during swimming class, surrounded by his female classmates in bikinis. How is Shouta going to deal with their cuteness and closeness now that he is a grown man in a boy's body?

Handa, Shouta Main

Takumi, Yasuaki Japanese

Harukaze, Konomi Main

Nomura, Mayuka Japanese

Ikenohata, Sayo Supporting

Satou, Kanami Japanese

Sasaki, Nako Supporting

Inoue, Nana Japanese

Kaneko, Rio Supporting

Niina, Ayano Japanese

Kamiya, Manatsu Supporting

Hirai, Sachie Japanese

Fujita, Michiko Supporting

Hashimoto, Chinami Japanese

Nishikawa, Takashi Director

Araki, Hideki Director, Storyboard, Chief Animation Director, Character Design

Nomura, Mayuka Theme Song Performance

Uran Original Creator

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Dec 19, 2019

nyazi_moe

Recommended

Funny

The ultimate fantasy brought to life, an outstanding three-episode story that will leave any cultured person fully satisfied at the end.

This series is basically perfect. It isn't afraid to ignore social stigmas and boundaries to create a rich and beautifully lewd plot. The only thing I could wish for was a better / cuter art style.

However, I cannot hold the art against this series, it's not the newest, and it more than makes up for any distaste in art style for the superb amount of ecchi scenes and fan-service. They're literally off the charts. At times, it seems like it could become a Hentai at ... any second, but never crosses that boundary.

Extremely recommend. You will love this series, if you're a person of refined taste. If you're offended by taboo lewd themes, you should probably avoid this anime and spare the world of your generic complaints.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Feb 4, 2022

lamaraptor

Mixed Feelings

Welcome to another episode of "I can't believe it's not hentai." Our categories today are Overall Plot, Sexual Situations with Fictional Minors, Animation Style and Ha Ha That Girl Got Covered in Something White and Sticky.

Everything about this looks and feels like exactly a low budget hentai OVA from the early 2000's. How is it that this was made in 2014? Why does this exist? I'm pretty sure I've played more than one eroge with this exact same plot. It's lewd for the sake of lewd and not really comedy. If it was supposed to be for comedy it really wasn't that funny. I think ... it deserves it's middling reviews and is probably best left to fall into obscurity. Nobody should watch this, it's really not worth it.

5/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Aug 28, 2021

literaturenerd

Not Recommended

Dear readers, I've been watching anime for a long time. I've seen a LOT of bad anime over the years. I actually seek it out because I have a morbid fascination with the absolute worst of the worst. I thought I had seen it all and nothing could really shock me, but then I learned of a non-hentai, ecchi OVA with a MAL rating under 6 and I got curious. That simply doesn't happen. Half the users on this site act like giving something a 5/10 is the same as giving something a 0/10 plus sending death threats to all of its fans. The ... stuff that gets rated under a 6 on this site are all either legendarily bad anime like Dark Cat and Chargeman Ken or experimental shorts.

The prototypical example of a MAL entry with a rating in the 5s would be something like "Anal Juice". It's an experimental short about an overweight woman having diarrhea for 2 minutes. It was made as the senior project of a Japanese lesbian feminist who wished to push acceptable boundaries and protest the male gaze that objectifies the female body while also finding natural functions like menstruation to be gross. At least that's what she wished to theoretically accomplish. I think most people just found it gross and weird.

So for an ecchi to score close to "anal juice", I knew it had to be special. I was not prepared for how bad this anime was. This is the new worst ecchi I've ever seen in my life. It's worse than Eiken. It's worse than Jungle de Ikou. The quality of Paradise of Innocence makes Kennel Tokorozawa look like Galactic Heroes! At least Kennel had those weird facial expressions and a few jokes that landed. This is just pain for 3 episodes!

Paradise of Innocence is about an "Ugly Bastard" NEET who falls into a swimming pool and is magically sent back in time to occupy the body of his 12 year old self. This is paradise for him because he's a pedophile and can perv on all the girls without them realizing what he's doing. Guess how long it takes for him to commit statutory rape of a child? If you guessed the 8 minute mark then you win! He doesn't actually penetrate her, but rubs against her vulva with his somehow massive 12 year old cock. This anime REALLY likes Frotteurism, which is ejaculating by rubbing up against people. Since this anime only shows camel toes, it's able to somehow get away with showing as much 10-12 year old vagina as it possibly can. There are some massive loop holes in Japanese censorship. Interspecies Reviewers used this to hilarious effect, while Paradise of Innocence uses it to create some of the cringiest scenes I've ever witnessed.

So in the first episode after immediately rubbing up against a little girl in the gym supply closet, our ugly bastard hero decides to coerce the boys in the class to pull a prank where they spray the girls with spoiled milk. This is all an elaborate ploy to get the girls to take their clothes off. He then allows himself to be captured by the girls because he correctly predicted that they'd punish him by sitting naked on his face. Nabokov once said that Humbert was only a pseudo-intellectual trying to woo Americans with his European culture, but this dude is the real deal. He's the Lex Luthor of pedophiles playing some sort of 5D chess. The next day, the girls have all forgiven him for the milk incident and he helps a girl on her bug hunting assignment for biology class. She gets a lot of mosquito bites, so he feels her up all over her body while the anime plays the Pink Panther theme and he ejaculates in his pants again. At that point my brain was ready to just raise up a white flag and surrender, but I soldiered on.

In episode 2, he has to help a gymnastics girl perform the 200 degree splits by pushing down hard on her legs and causing her extreme pain. This is framed to look like penetration so the anime can make the lamest double entendre possible. I cringed so hard during this scene I actually felt ill. Only a few other pieces of media have ever made me cringe that hard. One example was a scene in the novel "The Tin Drum" in which a pregnant woman decides to eat a raw eel that crawls out of the rotting head of a horse that washed up on a beach. The way the author described the smell and texture of the rotting brain matter almost made me throw up. Gunter Grass had an unmatched skill at describing the smell and texture of innards and gore because he was a war veteran and kept witnessing his comrades getting blown to pieces by rocket artillery. Yet this anime was able to compete in a cringe battle with the horror stories of of a battle hardened, Waffen SS tank gunner. That's just incredible. The staff of this anime can really feel proud of themselves. I have no idea how Grass would react to this anime, but it would almost certainly include the word "flammenwerfer". My favorite line of episode 2 is "Hell yes, I get to feel the marsh mellow ass of a little girl!". That wasn't even the translators being creative. He actually uses the English word marsh mellow and that's literally what he said in Japanese!

So in addition to being a pedophile anime with the worst humor in existence, it's also very poorly animated. The soundtrack is terrible although I almost laughed/cried during the Pink Panther part. Even Twinkle Nora Rock Me and MD Geist had great OSTs. There is nothing positive I will say about this anime. I'm actually shocked that this anime is rated as highly as it is. It ought to be the worst rated thing on MAL besides Mars of Destruction and Chargeman. This anime under no circumstances deserves a 2. This is the easiest 1/10 I've given in a VERY long time.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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	Poll: Mujaki no Rakuen Episode 3 Discussion samesdday - Sep 16, 2016	19 replies	by lasodamos »» Aug 19, 1:12 PM
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