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EP. REVIEW: Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World

...Never underestimate the grind a guy will do for the fanservice. Beating Parasite Eve 3 like 20 so times to unlock the Aya showering cutscene back in the day, etc.

...The general belief among the early US was that glorifying and deifying yourselves and/or other historical figures on money was wrong. Their view was that that kind of deification of your leaders is the sort of thing monarchy does to reinforce (the image of) their inherent superiority.

...Speaking of slavery, I wonder when and why it became such a contentious issue in American media in recent years. I remember not too terribly long ago with games like Fallout 3 you could enslave anyone in that game and sell them for profit. Kids included....Times sure have changed over the past 10 years.

MagicianMan wrote:

Honestly, when a show like Interspecies Reviewer comes along to teach people how to be a genuinely good anime and a good hentai at the same time, I want to see that raise the bar on what ecchi anime can be, not watch it drop back to the ground with a thud.

Interspecies Reviewers unquestionably set the new standard for what could be accomplished with than ecchi show, but even at the time it was first streaming, I felt it was an aberration rather than a trend-setter. It was just too much of a departure from anime norms to ever establish a new norm. There are definitely other manga out there with the same level of ecchi content (How to Build a Dungeon and Parallel Paradise immediately come to mind), but good luck finding one as healthy in spirit (or as low on objectionable content) as IR is.

As for Harem, I keep seeing people here refer to it as porn (or at least porn-wannabe), but that feel like it's majorly overstating the case based on what has been shown so far. It's just a mediocre show that has some heavily censored ecchi content (and not really even a lot of that).

Episode 4 makes me sad that we can't get actual hentai animated this well these days.

Episode 4 makes me sad that we can't get actual hentai animated this well these days.

I think that's not a small part of the reason these "hard-core ecchi" shows are gaining more traction and escalating in the content they show. Makes me feel like we've gone backwards and forwards at the same time.

I'm not sure how recent that is. OVAs like Kite and Mezzo Forte were a step above the average quality of hentai sex scenes in the 90s specifically because their sex scenes were added in to regular series rather than initially hentai. There has been plenty of low budget hentai since the genre debuted. On average I would say anything done by Pink Pineapple is better animated than the majority of stuff from the 90s.

Im just gonna go on a limb and assume all of the reviews for this series are gonna be extremely negative. Why is this series even getting weekly reviews if the reviewer really really doesn't wanna sit through this show?

He comes off as bizarrely noncommittal to the whole slave-owner schtick, not seeming especially interested in asking Roxanne about herself or learning more about her as a person, but only sweetly regarding her from afar to pass the time until their big night together.

Episode 4 makes me sad that we can't get actual hentai animated this well these days.

I really don't see a contradiction there: Why precisely should he be interested in the backstory of his slave? He bought her because he needed someone to watch his back in the dungeon and to be his sexual outlet at night. He's also cagey about sharing his own origins of course, so arguably there's also an unconscious avoidance of the general topic.