El

Review by Matthew Anderson

2 OVA series

Company: Nu-Tech Digital

Running Time:60 Min (2 episodes)

Region: all

Rating: NC-17 (Graphic sex, nudity, and scenes of rape)

This DVD is preset at Parental Control Level NC-17

THE FOLLOWING REVIEW IS ONE OF AN ADULT NATURE. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

EXTERNAL EXAM

El is a Sniper, a special kind of police officer. Her mission is to protect the citizens working on "The Megaro Earth Project", a earth reclamation operation.

The Sniper Control Office has its hands full. Gimmick and his terrorist organization "Black Widow" are trying to sabotage the Megaro Earth Project. They have been brainwashing citizens, and even a few celebrities, to use as assassins. Unfortunately, neither torture or rape of the suspects provide any clues.

Parsley, one of the city's biggest idols is being hounded by the Black Widows. El has been assigned as her bodyguard. Thing is, it won't be an easy assignment. One, El has been suffering from inexplicable black outs at inopportune times. Secondly, Parsley is trying her harddest to seduce El.

With Gimmick constantly taunting her and Parsley trying to have sex with her, El may not make it to see the completion of the Megaro Earth Project.

DVD VISION TEST

VIDEO: The video quality is fine, considering that this was a moderate budget anime. There is a little wrinkling in the video, which, at times, detracts from your enjoyment. Other than that, no real problems noted.

AUDIO: The audio for both the English and Japanese are standard 2.0. While the Japanese is louder in volume, the English is softer in tone. There isn't a lot of surround sound bits in this, but enough to make the moans and groans sound better than real life.

EDITS: None what so ever. In fact, they have removed the pixels around the "naughty bits", giving us a real great view!

EXTRAS: We have an art gallery and some photos of the two porn stars that appear in the movie. The new releases are on the other side of the disc.

WIDESCREEN REVIEW

STORY: Surprisingly, there is a half way decent porn...er I mean a plot to this one. When ever the team at Green Bunny do an adult project, it is bound to be more than typical hentai animation. I give Scenario Writer/Director Katuma Kanazawa some credit. I never knew you could do those kinds of things with milk.

ACTING: Well, I don't know what kind of adult film actress Shelbee Myne is, but she should stick to what she is good at. Her delivery of El is pretty flat, and not that convincing. Lola on the other hand really had me going during her scenes.

I prefer the Japanese dub for the women, except during the sex scenes. I don't like the high pitched squealing the Japanese girls do. Give me a good, old fashion American moan any old day.

SEX SCENES: We have double penetration, oral, straight sex, doggy style, anal, lesbian sex, and sex with multiple partners. There is also some S&M, torture, and rape scenes.

FINAL EXAM

I love porn with a plot. Whether it's a Michael Ninn's project, or "Every Woman Has a Fantasy", the more story, the better the film. El has a plot. No much of a plot, but a plot none the less. It also has a lot less sex than other hentai films that I have seen (course that is not saying much).

Both episodes center mostly around El, although she kind of takes a back seat to the interrogation of Natsuki in episode one. Our heroine is trying to figure out who the terrorist Gimmick really is. Unfortunately, he seems to be one step ahead, and on many occasions, El has to shoot it out to stop his plans. This leads to a lot of action, and not of the bedroom kind. There is also a secret to the Megaro Earth Project. While the pay off is rather odd, the whole story kept me a lot more interested than most other hentai or live action releases.

The animation and character design was fairly impressive, compaired to other hentai releases. Part of what got me interested in El were the designs of her character, and the ammount of care and attention (details) she was given. While certainly not as impressive as other anime, the animation in El flows very well, giving all you hentai fans something enjoyable to look at.

While I do consider myself a "well traveled" man, I was quite shocked at the extent of the torture scenes at the Sniper Control Office. Never have I seen so much degradation in once scene. These poor girls get shocked, pierced, gang banged, and even have milk injected into them! Please don't ask where. You even see one of the girls pee from over stimulation. If you have a weak constitution, you might just want to fast forward over the scenes until you get back to the straight sex.

If you know anything about the adult film industry in Japan, all shots below the waist were covered in pixels. If you know anything about the US adult film industry, they spend most of their time down south. So Nu-Tech has removed the pixels, and what a difference it makes. The animators went into a lot of detail, despite knowing that it would be covered up.

One thing I was happy about was the well done lesbian scene. Disappointed by the lack of girl on girl action in "Night Shift Nurses", I was glad to see it here.

With decent animation, interesting plot, and enough sex for every taste, you won't go wrong with El. If you can get over the whole torture thing, you will be right there, hoping El solves the mystery and get it on with Parsley.

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