The anime follows private detective Satoshi Suzuhara and his adoptive daughter, Asuka Kashiwagi, as they spend time at an isolated ski resort. But when a snowstorm cuts off all links to the outside, a string of gruesome murders occurs, and Satoshi becomes the main suspect. It becomes a race against time as Satoshi must find out who is behind the murders. As the plot goes on, it becomes obvious that Mystery of the Necronomicon takes inspiration from several different Lovecraft stories.
Up front, I'm going to say that the sex scenes are too few and far between, and are far too short, with most of the running time being taken up by the plot. I could see someone maybe getting their rocks off the one of the situations in this hentai, but the whole thing is filled with budget 90's hentai animation, so I don't know how many people are going to get their jollies off to this one.
And I'm pretty sure some of these sex scenes have been done better in some other schlocky 90's softcore porn. So I wouldn't recommend it for the porn. So if you don't mind me, I'm going to be regretfully spending the rest of the review pulling apart the plot of a cheesy hentai that doesn't need this level of criticism.
Right off the bat, if I were the main character, the one thing that I wouldn't be doing if I was the main character is going around to different people claiming that I'm a detective. Already, people aren't going to trust one another because of the murder, and I'm pretty sure people aren't going to trust me just because I claim that I'm a detective. Plus I haven't seen our main character do any even remotely like detective work outside trying to solve a case that he's one of the suspects in.
Unsurprisingly, this has all of the cliches. Premonition of future events in dreams, running into the character without knowing their the bad guy despite the fact that it was very obviously telegraphed to the audience, one of the characters creepily talking about the Necronomicon, making him look like a really obvious bad guy, or red herring. Gotta fill out the plot in your porno somehow, even if that's not what we came here for.
The hentai even brings up the main characters names, places, and dates and times as text on the screen as they appear. You have time for the most tired cliches in the book, but not enough time to introduce your characters properly. I know that porn is supposed to have low standards when it comes to the plot, but you don't include this much plot unless you want to actually write something meant to entertain people. If Stephen King can write cheesy plots and dialogue and still be considered a good writer, then you need to keep up.
Most people don't have a fetish that requires filling in ~75-80 minutes of your 90 minute porn with backstory and character motivations. Fucking is and should be the backstory and character motivation for a porn, and that's worked fantastically for decades. Although the fact that that the main character just stumbles into somehow fucking women, and even HE is surprised by the fact that he's getting laid out of nowhere, which is kind of humorous.
Plus this has some violence and gore, like one of the main characters coming across a dead body with the skin on their face ripped off. I guess if you've ever been annoyed that your horror movies had their sex scenes cut down to barely anything by the ratings board of your country, maybe I could see someone liking this, but that's an incredibly niche group of people.
Somehow this anime falls into the trope of "Well, they're not actually related, so it's technically not incest", because characters keep bringing up the fact that our main character and the girl he adopted are more like a couple than blood relations. I guess hentai can't help but shove in SOME sort of hentai trope.
The main character is voiced by the sexy voice of Dan Green, who is probably most famous for playing Yami from Yu-Gi-Oh. Looking at his list of roles, he seemed to act in a few different hentai, Mystery of the Necronomicon being one of it. I'm guessing that this isn't one of the roles that he talks about, but I still appreciate hearing his voice, even if it is in an embarresment of an anime. He's also the only one in this whole thing giving a good performance. I don't blame him from taking a role for a paycheck though. The rest of it borders on so-bad-it's-good, but none of it's really all that memorable.
The plot is pretty much that of a schlocky made-for-cable film that would have been made in the 90s to sell cable subscriptions just so you'd hope you could see maybe see one maybe half decent sex scene out of the dozens on "movies" on their service. It even has the cheesy saxophone playing over sex scenes. And one song that sounds like it came out of a NES game .Although, for some reason it plays over the climactic scene near the end of the anime, which is hilariously out of place.
So if cheesy so-bad-its-good horror/thriller with a strong Stephen King vibe (the main character even mentions Maine like Stephen King does in every single one of his novels) with a few sex scenes thrown in sounds like fun to you, then this might be worth checking out.
