Shusaku Replay

Yet again continuing the -saku series... here's Shusaku Replay! A confusing mess that while enjoyable to watch isn't particularly well written, let me elaborate...

The story:
Starts where the last season ends off, except it doesn't and retcons the ending. This time around Shusaku is actually pretending to be the principal of the academy and takes advantage of the girls like that.

The highlight of the show is still the girls' interactions and the stuff that they do, while the actual writing of the show is rather mediocre.

Much like its predecessor, Shusaku utilizes blackmail sex as its main story component, which would be fine if they actually ... made Shusaku any more interesting. For some inexplicable reason Shusaku isn't voiced until episode 3, it's almost as if Tsuji Shinpachi just forgot to come in when they were dubbing it.

This entry yet again focuses on our returning protagonist, Eri Takabe, hunting Shusaku down and trying to help the other girls. At the climactic confrontation between our two battling foes, it's revealed Shusaku actually realizes he's part of a game, which probably made more sense in the visual novel but whatever, and that the entire story takes place on some random dudes' computer.

Definitely an odd ending to the series that I felt had potential but was rather poorly handled in the long run.

The art/animation:
Unlike the previous Shusaku season this one was NOT animated by Production D.M.H, instead the animation fell to ORADA COMPANY for episode 1 (mistakenly credited as ORADA CAMANY) and PP Project for the other three episodes. Because the character designer was Toshihide Masudate it ended up looking just as good as the previous season. Also, no more glowing yellow penis!

Sound:
Still extremely weird and it still doesn't fit with the theme of the show. Also, a -saku season without Tsuji Shinpachi's voice for two episodes really hurt, I sure hope they don't end up pulling that again!! *wink wink nudge nudge*

Overall:
Still not a bad watch but the ideas presented in here are quite poorly implemented and the pacing is still all over the place. The best part about this entry is the last episode by far as it features the most development Eri and Shusaku will ever get. Should you watch this? If you enjoyed Shusaku S1 and you want to be confused for 2 hours, sure! Other than that, probably not. All in all, I'd give this a solid 6/10.

Shuusaku may be bad, but it's nothing compared to the absolute atrocity that is it's sequel Shuusaku replay. This is one of the most poorly made and stupid things I have ever seen. It's story is one of the most mind bogglingly retarded things I have ever encountered and it still enrages me whenever I think about it. Its put together so poorly that I'm certain half the staff just didn't bother showing up. And with all that even though it came out in 2000, after hentai started to actually look decent, it still isn't good as porn.
So my biggest complain ... is how it was put together. I swear to god, this series didn't have a writer or editor. The director probably just shat out enough story boards to make about half of an anime, and then just decided to go with it. And considering that Shuusaku doesn't start talking until halfway though the third episode for no discernible reason, I find the staff no showing up to be a perfectly valid explanation. Nothing in this series makes sense, and it's mostly because of the editing. Every transition between scenes is jarring. There isn't any sense of flow, things just occur without explanation or context. Plot points are introduced, forgotten about, remembered again and then never brought up again. Every problem is epitomized in a series of scenes in the beginning. After they retcon the first OVA as having maybe not happened or something, the tan character and the rich girl sneak into the kind of main character's room, breaking curfew. The teacher then comes in. The tan girl then is no longer wearing a skirt and instead has a towel around her waist, no explanation. She then asks main character girl to borrow a pair of her bloomers so she can go back to her room wearing something. Why doesn't she just wear her skirt? What happened to it? Tan girl is then in a shed with Shuusaku, and the teacher who is naked and has rope marks from bondage, giving Shuusaku the main character girl's bloomers that she was able to borrow. Wait how did she get there? When did she get there? Wasn't she in the other room... with the teacher? What's going on? Back to the room the teacher is there, fully clothed, tan girl is wearing the bloomers... and I'm left confused. A hentai who's plot is literally a gray guy rapes random girls shouldn't be this hard to follow.
As with the last one with porn in uninteresting. It's a bit more graphic, but truthfully the first one had better porn. This does make the effort to make it hardcore, but it still ends up being boring. The first one at least had some dialogue during sex, this had nothing, making the sex scenes boring and repetitive, with the actual sex not being enough to carry them.
And then there is the ending... oh the ending. This is truly the stupidest thing I have ever seen. So after continued stupidity we finally get to the end where we get to the final reveal. The characters in the anime are actually characters in an h-game being played by someone outside the forth wall, and by giving him love they can make things right. God I hate this piece of crap.
Oddly enough despite this being in my top 25 worst things I have ever seen and having a definite rating of a 1, I still suggest this anime. For masochists who like seeing bad things it's worth watching. Almost every moment has something done so wrong you can't help but laugh. It's completely stupid, and one of the most ineptly made things out there. If you want to see what something made by people who are completely incompetent is like, watch this. But if you are looking for a decent hentai stay the hell away from it, pretty much anything is better.