Ikenie

Story: 7
Art: 7
Sound: 6
Characters: 5
Enjoyment and overall: 7

You may think otherwise, but it is definitely a good hentai. Despite being old, it has quite a nice art and animation. Some frames (the painting of the angels, f. e.) are true masterpieces! The tune of the soundtrack is a bit repetitive, but the voices are OK. But, above all, it does have a plotline, and a decent one, I must admit (let us remember there's only 1 episode half an hour long). The only thing is, the characters are all flat and undeveloped except Adolfo (the protagonist). However, we do not watch hentai to follow the ... characters' development, do we? Still, in comparison with new hentai this one does have something to enjoy! To be short, it is not anything outstanding, but still worth watching if you like dark atmosphere and adult anime.

No idea why this has such a low score. It is on my top 3 animes of all time. The sex isn't for the sake of sexual arousal but exposure of corruption and lust/power, so I personally don't classify it as an H anime, but it is technically. It is like A Kite in that sense. The director wanted to tell a story, shoot a movie perhaps, but this was their concept project. The ambition level is different (A Kite is a Neo Noir/Action film and this is more of a drama) but you get the core concept.

The characters were complex, the story was ... extremely well told, and the atmosphere was passing strange. It is a character study and an insight into the relationship between church and state.

From the review scores I can tell that they didn't like it, but my interpretation of that is that they didn't like what they got vs what they expected. I don't expect H films to provide compelling stories and non-preachy, stark looks at corruption, but it's complaining when you get a great film instead of a sexually compelling one. This is The Erotic Temptress ep 4 all over again.