Karen

Welcome to my review of "Karen" ! I will try to sum up my thoughts about everything for this hentai as briefly as I can!

Story: 7/10
The story for Karen well generic is still fairly solid. The main character, Okawa Ryo, gets blackmailed by her fellow cheering squad members through threats of leaving the team. The story works for what it tries to accomplish and it does it fairly decently. it does however not really break the mold, which is why it only gets a 7/10 for story.

Art: 4/10
Now we start getting into the bad. When I try to judge hentai on art, ... I always try to be as fair as possible and critique it based on the time it was made. Karen is fairly decent when it comes to it's art. If this was made several years ago, then I would definitely be praising the art. For a 2002 hentai though, it is simply "ok". Sadly I cannot say the same about the animation at all, it is absolutely appalling. The animation feels like it had no effort put into it and it can really turn you off from the experiences the art offers.

Sound: 5/10
Again, if this was made in the early 90s, this would be getting high praise. In 2002 though, I would simply consider it "average".

Character: 9/10
Finally! Back to something good again! The character of Ryo is truly done well. Her personality is truly formidable and her development was amazing as well. With everything being stacked against her in the plot, it makes it even more entertaining to watch her character!

Enjoyment: 5/10
The contextually parts of this hentai are truly solid, like the characters and story. But it ultimately, falls very flat due to terrible animation and lackluster art and sound design.

Overall: 5/10! Average, don't watch it if you want to jack

When I first started watching hentais, this was one of the first I have seen, but this is a mixed bag for the most part.


First is the voice acting. Having watched in both languages, the dub is better than the Japanese sub mainly because I liked Ryo's English VA. Even though Aki's makes her sound alot older than she looks, it also makes her sound much sexier, which is a huge plus for me. Also the music was ok as well.

Story: It's typical in that Ryo must endure sexual torture to prove herself. Turns out it's more complicated than that. Nothing too revolutionary, ... but then again why are you watching hentais for the story anyway?

Art: The art is decent for a 2002 video. Characters look good at times especially Ryo, but sometimes they are inconsistent. Like take Aki the red head cheerleader captain for example. She looks like 3 different people drew her and they decided to include all these different designs. So the art shift can be jarring.

Content: The H content was a mixed bag. It's mostly Ryo being with other guys with one yuri scene in between, but that scene was pretty disappointing as the scene changes so quickly. I would have loved to see more of it or even expanded. And everything else is your standard H content.

Overall: This one is ok. Nothing really memorable stands out like a Moonlight Lady or Bible Black, but I can say I liked Ryo's character. It's a shame it got wasted in a hentai like this and it's also a shame we never see her in a regular school uniform like it was advertised on the front cover. I feel this could have been another episode or two easily, but for it to be one episode only it's something you would put on the back shelf compared to the many other hentais that came before this and the many others that would come after it.

During one of the school soccer games, the cheering squad rebels against it's captain, Ryo, and threatens to quit in the middle of a match. To keep her squad together, Ryo accepts a series of challenges from her squad members. Will Ryo be able to complete the challenges? Will she be able to keep the team together, and remain the captain?

I don't know just how many times in my viewing of bad hentai that I've been just flat out bored. Even something I'm not personally into should have illicited some sort of response, but there have been so many hentai out there that have absolutely ... bored the shit out of me.

The art is mediocre, and the animation is barely there. The English dub is just flat out boring and incredibly forgettable and bland. The best way to sum up "Karen" is that it's just another hentai in the sea of hentai. And considering how many hentai out there are much better than this, there's literally no reason to watch this over anything else.

There has to be someone out there that would get something out of this, but who is going to dig through the sea of obscure hentai and pick this. Even in 2002, when you couldn't just find hentai online with ease, there still would have been a couple of entries on rental shelves and in porn stores that would have been a better choice than this.

I guess there is some mild variety in terms of scenes, such as a gang bang, and a lesbian encounter. But literally nothing about this one episode OVA was doing it for me, and hasn't been done better by a hundred other hentai. At least if there was another episode or two, I could maybe give it a lukewarm recommendation based purely on it's variety, like if the lead character "Karen" was challenged to have sex with the fans of the team or something, but as it is, this is probably one of the most forgettable hentai that I've seen. I literally don't remember anything about "Karen".

Would I recommend this hentai? Not unless you happen to somehow stumble across this and were so desperate to find something that happens to cater to your specific tastes that you just had to jerk off to it. At least the hentai with hilariously bad dubs and atrocious animation gave me something to make fun of, or at least complain about. This just put me to sleep.