Soukou Seiki Ysphere: Ingyaku no Sennou Kaizou

Reposting my review because it was unjustly removed back in AUGUST 24 by the Review Moderator.
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As a huge fan of GOLD BEAR and Murakami Teruaki's works, I've been wondering when is their next release since Toriko no Shizuku. And it's finally here, during the middle of a pandemic, no less.

Let's go through each category:

Story - 5
Honestly, who cares? I personally have never cared about plot or background stories of characters, especially in extremely raunchy works (even among hentai standards). So when they reveal that it's all about some girls in tight suits getting brainwashed who gets fucked out of their brains by orc-looking dudes (haven't ... seen that one before /s), I can easily look over it. It's nothing but a vessel for sex scenes and I'm fine with that.

Art - 7
This one's a bit weird. I absolutely love Murakami's violent approach to sex which is always about one (or mostly several) dominating the other. A lot of people aren't into that, but I am, so having more of the usual from Murakami and his studio is always a blessing. However, compared to a lot of his other works, this one especially focuses on sexual torture (brainwashing, injections, electricity, etc.). I wouldn't have had a problem with this if not for the fact that other scenes suffer because of their focus on torture. Blowjob and actual sex scenes suffer from staying in one shot for too long or reusing them over and over again because there's a clear lack of variety in angles/positions (but the torture scenes do not). This has always been kind of an issue with their previous works, but even more prevalent here. Even the god-tier direction from Murakami and amazing work from their animators cannot save them from this issue. And this not only affects the enjoyment of their viewer (me) but also affects the performance of VAs as well (will explain this in the Audio section). Anyway, the blowjob scenes are still hot as fuck, per usual (best in the industry), and the girls' crazed expressions while being showered, bowl-fed, and cream-filled with frothy semen will never get old. It's just a shame that these scenes could've been executed a lot better.

Sound - 7
If you're someone who closely follows Murakami Teruaki's works, you'd notice that they always have the same VAs playing different roles across different titles. Not only do they sound really hot, but they can also keep up with the crazy heaving/panting/moaning that can only be found in Murakami's works. I might be wrong with this, but from what I can tell, those VAs were not present for this project. Instead, they seem to have new VAs. I can almost immediately tell that they haven't had a lot of practice doing this kind of insane voice work for hentai before, but they tried their best. Unfortunately, as I mentioned in the Art section, some cuts stay on for too long and you can literally hear the VAs running out of steam in the middle of the scene. It takes me out of the moment, but now I just kinda find it funny. However, that still means the final product suffers, so I'm gonna have to lower the score here by a lot.

Character - 3
There's nothing to be said. Unless there's some elaborate world-building that needs to be established that intricately explains why characters are getting porked in all of their holes at the same time and why that's relevant to the overarching story, there is nothing to care about. These characters are vessels to deliver us sex scenes.

Enjoyment & Overall - 7
I enjoyed this one quite a bit, but a lot less compared to their previous works such as Toriko no Shizuku and Mashou no Nie 3. The quality has taken a bit of a dip, but it's still enjoyable. And as usual, Murakami teases me with really short DP scenes... my guy always makes gangbang hentai but only dedicates 2% of its runtime to DP scenes. Like, come the fuck on... More, please.