Sexfriend

My girlfriend has requested that I review this artistic masterwork from 2004. At first I was taken aback. How could I dare touch upon such perfection? After all, I am completely unworthy to critique such a divine chef-d'œuvre! However, she was insistent and thus I humbly submit my best efforts.

Firstly, notice the size, spacing, and delicate areolae of our heroine's breasts. To any connoisseur of the visual arts, it is clearly a visual allusion meant to invoke Titian's Venus Rising from the Sea.

One must also pay attention to the fact the hero's sturdy stallion is a completely different color from the rest of ... his body. This is a clear visual metaphor for his sexual uncertainty since he is virginal at this point and laying with our experienced heroine.

Of course, I would remiss if I failed to mention the exquisite soundtrack. The smooth jazz piano that plays throughout is clearly reminiscent of Thelonious Monk. It does not take a particularly keen ear to notice the clear similarity the composer wished to establish.

The voice acting gives us some truly inspired performances from the incredible actors at Media Blasters. Short of the Royal Shakespeare Company, I can't think of another acting troupe so ripe with talent.

The plot is unequivocally masterful. Sex Friend is the most tasteful artistic representation of eros I've witnessed since Tristan und Isolde.

At certain moments, I had to turn away from my computer screen! Surely this was too divine for such a base being as myself to witness! I can't believe that such miserable wretches as Masaaki Yuasa continue to make anime when works like Sex Friend exist! We are unworthy! We are unworthy!

Incredible. That's the only word I could say after watching the 2 eps of this hentai masterpiece.

Now, in 2016 I honestly have to say that the hentai genre have been totally destroyed in the last few years. Unfortunately, most of the newer OVAs are unenjoyable garbages. Despite the (sometimes) good animation and graphics, almost all of them are absolutely lacking any good writing - something the makers cared about back in the old days... at least a little bit more often. Nowadays various shitty VN adaptations dominate the market, that often contain extreme fetishes (like scat), or otherwise you can watch those boring as ... hell vanilla manga adaptations. In this devastating situation Sexfriend was like a ray of hope for me.

Sexfriend has a quite basic story: a girl tells a guy to become sexfriends, the guy has sex with some other girls too, but the girl doesn't mind it. Nothing more, the end. There aren't unneeded side plots, forced rape scenes, "unused" side characters, or strange and extreme fetishes wich just don't fit in. It's simplicity, which made the story almost realistic, was refreshing for me, and most importantly it was not boring at all.

The characters were pretty average, but worked well together. I think Hayase was the best and she's a really good hentai character all together. Especially because she didn't fall for Takabe at the end, which surprised me! Compered to other hentai she's a rather competent female character. Takabe and the side girls were ok as well, I was relieved that they didn't force some stupid love triangles into the story.

The main negative aspect of Sexfriend is that, compared to newer hentai, the art is a bit old style and not so beautiful, after all. But, in my case, I didn't care about it at all after just 5 minutes. You have to get used to it, I think.

After all, this is an enjoyable hentai, if the art doesn't bother you. The sex scenes are hot, the characters aren't irritating, so if you like better-than-average written vanilla style hentai, I can totally recommend watching it.

A true classic.

Despite its almost two decades of existence, Sexfriend is a very enjoyable hentai with schoolgirls, teachers, threesomes and even some romantic development. Probably from a time the term Sexfriend was being popularized.

Animation wise it shows its age yet it is still better than half of the hentai out there that gets released these days, it is uncensored, it has pubic hair and an easy to follow story.

On the other hand, Ami Shizuki voices Hayase Mina, that alone is a plus. It also has a game that explores the characters in a more deep view besides sex but it is in Japanese and ... might or might not run on your computer.