Nuki Doki! Tenshi to Akuma no Sakusei Battle

OK, fellow lion tamers. Here we go, with my first review.

Unfortunately, I have to say, Nuki Doki! Tenshi to Akuma no Sakusei Battle; leaves a lot of stuff out of the mix. Those of you have seen part (or all) of this anime, know enough about this that I should not have to itemize by scores, where I am on this anime.

PoRO needs to be horsewhipped. They've done worse work, and they've done better work. Nuki Doki is simply not worth anybody's time. Don't know why I bothered. I ran into episode 1, some time ago, and was mildly intrigued. I waited, then I waited ... some more. Finally episode 2 arrived (on several sites). I was shocked to find that there was no story continuation, no meaningful expansion of plot lines, no reasonable expansion of the characters.

In fact, things tended to get worse.

The male protagonist, Mr. Yamato is utterly interchangeable. He also does absolutely nothing except acquiesce to every sexual approach attempted by Sera and Filika. OK, that might seem good, for some; but when he turns down Filikas' contract (purported to be for purposes unknown, never really explained) I said to myself "... OK, maybe this guy has some brains ...". But no. He becomes a golem, with no attitudes at all, no commentary of his own, no real astonishment that Filika keeps dismembering him, as if that will help her scores (pun intended); no commentary about maybe he is sick and tired of being stolen out from under Sera (even though the plot, the stuff they give us, plainly points out the Filika and Sera may not interfere in any way with the other persons' sexual activities).

Filika is the first character we are introduced to. She plays a demon from the fires of Hell (you get to pick the one you like. After all the Chinese have over a thousand of them). She complains about having to appear to her target male, via a toilet; even though virtually anyone from Hell would be pleased to be handed ice water. The toilet and sewer pipe are drawn clean, and she stays dry. She complains. She is arrogant, petulant, and stupid. She has carried out the wishes of her superiors, without regard to ground rules which might be used to determine the winner of the internal struggle. And she never even asks.

Sera is the other combatant, in this supernatural struggle. She is proported to be an Angel, we don't know from where, and the story doesn't say. We are forced to make ludicrous assumptions. She is exactly the opposite of Filika, in most ways. She is polite, commiserative, kind, helpful, and generous in all ways. The only similarity between the two girls is that she is more incompetent than Filika. She performs a task, which saves the life of Yamato (something so unique that Filika can only stand and watch in amazement); only to let this pass. Anyone else would have demanded this action be scored, and be delivered the victory. This story should have been immediately over. There is no possible response to balance this action, from Filika. Even Filika's bosses would not want the target male to be killed before the end of the contest. Afterward, who cares.

OK, general commentary. Both girls in the contest are stupid and vapid. In every single case, there is significantly more going on inside their sex organs, than there is between their ears. In short, they are blow-up dolls, having no capacity whatever to give pleasurable feedback to a male partner. The artwork is up to PoRO's high standards (and the women in the show are drawn beautifully), and so is the sound and the dialog actors performances (although, just between you and I; I have no idea why they bothered to perform so well). The basic story is initially intriguing, but then falls completely flat leaving nowhere for this story to go. We can see the problem, more clearly, if we ask some questions:

Do I care if either girl wins? No.
Do I care what happens, after the show finally meanders its way to an ending, to Mr. Yamato? No.
Do I care about the conversations between our two lovely judges? No.
DO I have any sexual fantasies about having sex with either blow-up doll? No.
Is the proper ending, the splitting of Mr. Yamato in half and placing each half on the wall of each relevant judge as a trophy? Yes, yes yes!
Should each contestant female be made to pump water for the house plumbing, in which they have been living (for weeks), forever? Yes, yes, yes!
Should the judges, as pretty as they are, be fed to the creatures of the 10 realms? Yes, yes, yes!

And there you have it. My first review on this blog. I give it an overall 5, and only because the artwork and voice acting is above par; the rest is unredeemably bad!

I have a very uneasy relationship with studio Poro. On one hand their animation is excellent, and they have a cast of capable and erotic voice actresses, but at the same time their choreography tends to be very formulaic and cookie-cutter, and sometimes the VAs sound uninvested or simply disinterested. Anyways, enough about my anti-Poro crusade, you came here to read a review.

The story goes something like this, both the demons and angels have their sights set on some random nobody four-eyes loser, and for some reason they each want him and want to keep the other side from getting him. Naturally the only ... way to win a guy's heart is through his dick.

The art is something that Poro manages to get right most of the time, and it's certainly apparent here. The character designs are great, I could see them fitting into most of the modern harems that come out every season, you know, if they managed to keep their panties on. But here's where the problem starts.

Firika is a great character, this review would've been an 7/10 or maybe even 8/10 if she was the only girl, but then you've got Sera who really doesn't have any business being in a hentai. Trying to watch the Sera sex scenes is like trying to pass kidney stones, it's painful, feels like forever, but it's something you have to do in order to enjoy life again. I'm pretty sure I'm exaggerating, it's been little more than a year since I last watched Nuki Doki, though I distinctly remember hating Sera's role in the title.

Anyways to summarize, excellent art and voice quality, I enjoyed the sex with Firika, the sex with Sera you might as well replace her with a cardboard box since all she's doing is taking up screentime where Firika isn't having hot demon sex with the MC.

Angels and Demons have fought for millennia to see who is the best. In order to bring closure to this feud, an Angel named Sera and a Demon named Firika were sent to the human world to end the competition once and for all. The leaders of both the Angels and Demons have decided that both Sera and Firika must contend for the love of the human Yamato. Thus, both Sera and Firika compete for Tamato's love for the supremacy of their entire race. Who would have thought that the way to a guys heart is through his dick.

The sex is pretty decent. Both the ... Angel and the Demon use a variety of costumes that aren't just their generic Angel and Demon designs, or the generic girl designs that they use when they're trying to pretend to humans. This includes a nurse outfit, a maid costume, and a girls school gym uniform. They even have sex in different places, like a train, the school gym's storage room, and our main protagonists bedroom. You're bound to find something to beat your meat to in this 2 episode hentai.

Surprisingly, this has a few mildly amusing comedic moments. The first episode features an unfortunate teleportation accident where the demon tries to teleport away from the angel with our male protagonist, while the angel tries to keep him in his room. As a result, every part of the protagonist stays, except for his dick, which is just floating there in the middle of a park. The demon tries to blow him so she can win him to her side, all while the angel watches. There's even a scene at the end of the hentai were the cock detaches from his body yet again, and one of the girls cries "Felicia-san, return his cock already! I want his cum too".

My only real complaint is the Demon character hogs the spotlight. While I wouldn't be opposed to that, what's the point of having the Angel character if they're not going to get as much attention. Just make the whole thing Demons if that's what you want to make. Maybe it's a result of being based on a visual novel, but that's never prevented a hentai from deviating from the source material before.

Would I recommend both "Nuki Doki! Tenshi to Akuma no Sakusei Battle"? Yes. Nuki Doki makes for pretty decent spank material if you need something to watch when you need to rub one out.