Mankitsu Happening

Mankitsu Happening is a four-part OVA series by Collaboration Works. It also happens to be the highest rated hentai on MAL, which is a title it certainly doesn't deserve.

Don't get me wrong, Mankitsu Happening isn't bad, but it isn't deserving of the "best hentai" title. I went into this series with no expectations, and I found it to be above average at best. So without further ado, let's get started.

The plot of Mankitsu Happening is one of it's highlights. Not because it's good or interesting (it's neither of those), but because it helps fill up the episodes, which would ... be pretty vapid without it.

The plot follows a guy named... fuck, does it even matter? He's a worthless character with no personality anyways. So this guy gets called up by his friend, and since his friend doesn't want him to stay a deadbeat for his whole life, he offers him a job at a manga cafe. However, the guy is reluctant to take his friend up on his offer, because of his "issue". And here we get to the guy's only character trait, which I had a very difficult time understanding. Maybe it was a bad translation, who knows? But I've finally figured it out. His "issue" is that he has some sort of lucky power that causes him to have sex with every woman he meets. Damn, what a stud!

Despite this, the guy takes his friend's offer (on the condition he won't have to deal with many women). He shows up to work and surprise, it's practically pussy city at the manga cafe! And you know what that means...

So, there's a bit of conflict with new characters, and a rival cafe, but it's all pretty simple. The episodes themselves have a very poorly designed formula. Each episode can be broken into roughly three sections. The beginning is reserved for the plot, characters are introduced and this generally gets the story rolling. Then there's the dreadfully dull middle section, where there's no story and the sex scenes are about as interesting as curling. Finally you get to the third section, where your boredom is somewhat alleviated and your treated to some... okay sex scenes.

What about the characters? Well, there's the main guy (his name is Keiichi), he has bullshit lucky powers, which must serve some karmic purpose to make up for the fact he has no eyes. There's Keiichi's pink-haired childhood friend Kururu, who's about as stale as a week-old loaf of bread. The manga cafe's veteran employee Rei-San (aka best girl), who's a sexy kuudere milf. Otona, who's an idol and closteted weeb. And finally Sayaka, the bitchy owner of a rival cafe chain.

The characters had potential, but they just don't do much and (apart from Rei-San) have no personality. In fact, most of the characters don't really do anything of value after they're introduced. Keiichi and Rei-San are really the only exceptions.

So the story's alright and the characters are meh, but how does it look? Pretty good, especially for a hentai. Collaboration Works typically has fairly high quality art/animation, though I've seen better from them before. It looks fine, and there aren't any wonkey designs or faces (unintentional at least). The voice actors did a decent job portraying their characters, though nobody really stood out to me personally.

Overall, Mankitsu Happening is... okay. It not bad, but it just doesn't have a whole lot going for it. Most of the characters don't have much to offer (besides Rei-San of course), and the middle sections of the episodes are just dreadful to sit through. It's always preferable to space dull moments evenly throughout a work, rather than clumping them together. Mankitsu Happening could've been something more, but it just isn't. 6.5/10

That still leaves one question. Why, out of all the hentai out there, is this one the highest rated? I think it all come down to three factors. Mankitsu Happening is fairly popular as far as hentai go, and it's also relatively new. Generally, popular + new = higher score on MAL. It's also vanilla, so there isn't really all that much objectionable content.

In closing, would I reccomend you watch Mankitsu Happening? Yes, but temper your expectations. Mankitsu Happening is a perfectly serviceable hentai, but there're far better ones out there.

Keiichi Oyamad has a mysterious power. One way or another, he always ends up having sex with any woman that he meets. Due to this, he has never had a stable job, and continually gets fired from any place unfortunate enough to employ him. However, an opportunity arises when his best friend calls him to work at a manga cafe, which Keiichi reluctantly accepts. However, as soon as he starts his new job, he meets Rei Suzukawa, a fellow employee, and Karuru Kiiragi, his childhood friend. Keiichi fears that even they might not be spared by his perverted powers.

Considering just how many faceless hentai protagonists ... have just stumbled into having hot women who want to get their brains fucked out by a nondescript hentai protagonist, this doesn't really seem like a 'special power' in a hentai. I guess the hentai just needed a reason to get the hot action happening, and this was as good as any. As a result, we then follow our faceless protagonist (I don't remember his name, and I even previously mentioned in this very review) as he accidentally fucks his way through the female cast.

But is Mankitsu Happening is worth checking out? Yes. The overall animation and art is pretty good, and all of the sex scenes are solid. There's some mild variety in the character designs and sexual encounters, even if they're not for everyone, and even the comedy peppered throughout the hentai isn't all that bad.

Probably the best part of this whole hentai is in episode 3, a woman suspiciously makes her way into the manga store, and then out of nowhere, runs straight for the staff room. It's never explained why she's there, or why she wants to get to the staff room so bad. But this somehow results in her tripping over a bunch of cardboard boxes, getting trapped underneath them. And after stumbling out of her predicament, she accidentally lands on the main protagonists face, which leads her to vowing to take revenge on him and the manga store he works at.

I've never been so confused to the who, what, and why of the setup of a sex scene. I know the writing of a hentai is not it's strong suit, but I didn't think it would be this hard to write "woman walks into room and wants the guys dick". And to top it all off, about a week later, she's opened a net cafe down the street. And trying their best to not lose a job, our Main Protagonist and his harem try to sabotage the competing store. 3 guesses as to how that happens, and the first two don't count.