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Jul 20, 2013 7:01 AM
#1
THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Hmmm... I wonder why it has such a low mean score. I agree it wasn't ideal, though. I personally didn't approve the elements of comedy (the tailor) as they contrasted with the rest too much. Or maybe they were planned to who knows. But the symbolic scenes... oh my, they were breathtaking. I loved it. And the girls were so beautiful. What surprised me most, their faces weren't copied and pasted. Thy were all unique with their own traits. |
ArrviljaJul 20, 2013 7:05 AM
Nov 21, 2013 10:54 PM
#2
It's just a MAL bias. The more obscure, the lower the score. People who seek out obscure anime like this rate lower on average (probably because they tend to use the full 10-point scale!) I'd say that for a show this obscure, a 6.51 isn't a bad score, though not particularly good either. I also have mixed feelings about it. Despite all the visuals (which I agree were good, though I perhaps wasn't *quite* as impressed as most reviewers), I really don't get a feel for why this film even existed. I finished it and wondered "okay, so what's the point?" The plot itself hardly seemed like anything to get excited about, even with that little twist at the end, and I didn't really pick up on any deeper meanings or allegories. |
“Money can't buy dere” |
Dec 10, 2013 3:30 PM
#3
Interesting film for for the art style, if nothing else. I enjoyed the discussion I had of it in an anime film class years ago...although there were some cheesy aspects to this. |
Dec 14, 2013 11:23 AM
#4
what a beautiful art gem! the plot is meaningless here. this is pure art and from that point 10 from me! |
私の力はあなたの理解を超えています |
May 16, 2014 7:09 PM
#5
Dec 3, 2014 8:05 AM
#6
Sep 18, 2016 10:35 PM
#7
Art films are just that: art. There's typically little to no plot, so it's no surprise the plot is basically non-existent. The film lives up to its name, anyway, as it was basically a very sensual art form. It's beautiful to look at and thus sensual to the senses (mainly seeing and hearing), and that's it. It didn't really need to be anything more than that. |
Oct 24, 2017 1:46 PM
#8
What a surprise. This has to be one of the most beautiful pieces of animation I have encountered. Back in the early 70s Osamu Tezuka and his Animation studio tried to do something like this with the Animerama trylogy: beautiful, expressionistic animation that presents adult and erotic themes. But I think that this litlle film is the real culmination of that aspiration. In fact, is telling that the director and writer of the last film of the Animerama trilogy: Eichi Yamamoto, is the writer for this film. The Director, Yukio Abe, is a well known art director in the anime industry, and this has to be his best work. I hope I can find someday the novel by Ihara Saikaku that is the inspiration for this OVA. |
Feb 18, 2018 2:25 AM
#9
This scene from the viewing made me think of Hokusai's The Great Wave. |
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Mar 11, 2018 10:50 AM
#10
Really enjoyed this obscurity, the atmosphere during the intercourse moments has a sublime aura , this is not hentai, it's erotic art. |
Oct 11, 2018 7:43 AM
#11
Apr 3, 2020 2:34 PM
#12
I like how a guy with a baggage of anime for children just decided to direct an arthouse "hentai" OVA. It was enjoyable, honestly. I especially liked how elegant Komurasaki was, and felt pity for Juzo who just didn't know how to behave. Thinking of this whole process as a ritual is exciting indeed. Though I wonder how did Komurasaki feel about her job? Knowing that most women in Japan were prostitutes against their will, it's quite rare to see a woman like Komurasaki. Though the plot was very simple and was basically an excuse to show what was shown, I don't think it's bad; the purpose of the OVA is just that - showing erotic ukiyo-e-styled animation. The soundtrack was also great most of the times, traditional Japanese sounds did fit well with everything else. Though I wonder why did the music change in the ED and during Komurasaki x Juzo scene from to something...futuristic? It felt strange. It's sad that films like this and Belladonna are not made anymore. P.S. the height of Komurasaki's okobo was insane, was this size used for real? Mindblowing, really |
St0rmbladeApr 3, 2020 2:54 PM
Nov 6, 2020 9:14 AM
#14
I can't find this appealing at all. It just doesn't work as a hentai and the overall story is too boring to even work as just a movie. It gets often artistic with it's visuals and methaphors and the music is quite relaxing. With that being said the story is boring. the characters are uninteresting and the animation isn't that great for that sort of Geishai based setting. If you are looking for good hentai material, you won't find much here. |
Currently on a every hentai ever marathon, from oldest to newest. |
Dec 27, 2020 8:51 PM
#15
I got around to watching The Sensualist (好色一代男 / Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko ) after spotting it on qmisato’s list of references in Neon Genesis Evangelion. This 1991 straight-to-video release is an adaptation of seventeenth-century novel by Ihara Saikaku, focusing on the erotic affairs of Edo. The story (such as it is) nominally revolves around Juzo, a poor laborer who has been tricked into betting that he can bed the famous geisha Komurasaki in a single night. And should he fail, he will be required to cut off his own penis. Taking pity on him, a merchant-class trader named Yunosuke arranges for Juzo to at least be introduced to Komurasaki, in a quest to save both his honor and his manhood. The OVA is classified as “hentai” by MyAnimeList, though it’s about as hentai as a Renaissance-era nude painting. The Sensualist relies heavily on abstract imagery, and even the explicit sexual acts are more artistic than erotic. And what sex you do see is surprisingly grounded in reality rather than pornographic fantasy. The whole movie, indeed, is portrayed like a work of art, capturing the spirit of classical Japanese art in practically every frame. I was making comparisons in my head to the avant-garde anime Belladonna of Sadness throughout, and was unsurprised to discover that Belladonna’s director, Eiichi Yamamoto, was the screenwriter for this as well. It is not a movie that is watched so much as experienced. Evangelion evidently borrowed some of the lovemaking for the sex scenes between Misato Katsuragi and Kaji Ryoji. Their romance is, undoubtedly, the most unabashedly sensualist in the entire show, with Misato having slept with Kaji for an entire week during their college days. I don’t think there is any deeper meaning to the recycling of The Sensualist’s imagery in Evangelion, other than to drive home the depths of their raw passion for one another. Compare and contrast with: Belladonna of Sadness and In the Realm of the Senses. A fuller, excellent review & analysis is available from AniPages here: http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php/the_sensualist |
May 28, 2022 10:30 PM
#16
There's no way to say that this anime is a hentai, because it's not. It was amazing to watch this. Extremely beautiful aesthetics, character design is wonderful (most of the women), the music is good and relaxing, animation is also very good. The story is simple and functional, along with extremely artistic animation. It surprised me, even more that I went to see it without even knowing what it was about. |
Jun 18, 2023 8:40 PM
#18
Ah, artistic hentai. This was such a beautiful trip that I can only hope it get's released on Blu-ray with the same effort as Belladonna of Sadness (1973) was given. This is such a gem among the genre. |