For starters, here’s the story. Enter Miko Mido: an average girl from high school, trained in the ancient arts of sexual ninjutsu. In ancient times, Miko’s family gain a control/partnership with a group of demonic entities known as the Shikima, who are sex-hungry monsters constantly craving the carnal delights that only Japanese schoolgirls can provide. Unfortunately, in an attack a rival ninja group called the Suzuka kill Miko’s grandmother, and manage to steal the special seal that keeps Miko’s family’s control over the Shikima in check. From there, it’s a humorous, violent, and sex-filled adventure to not only get back the seal, but to also find a magical sword, protect her friends & family (BTW, you meet Miko’s mom in the 2nd episode, and discover that her father is the king of the Shikima, and is advertently a half-demon), and defeat some rivals that appear to take Miko out.
Ironically enough, the story is the first positive! Despite being a hentai from the early 90s, La Blue Girl has a surprisingly interesting story to it, filled with a bunch of genres to boot. There’s plenty of action, drama, horror, suspense, comedy, and of course sex, for things to be interesting. It’s interesting in how the Shikima interact with the normal world (It’s rather basic, yet it’s still interesting in a way), and the politics about the whole thing add a equally surprising amount of depth to it.
Characters are another surprising positive. Although there are plenty of secondary characters, they’re pretty much interchangeable. The bread & butter of this show is with it’s main cast, and despite not having many main characters, the main characters we do have are great. Miko herself is a hoot: imagine a innocent schoolgirl (Hee hee), and then imagine said innocent schoolgirl trained in sexual-flavored ninjutsu, yet being surprisingly hesitant to engage in sexual acts (This, btw, is where at least 50% of the comedy comes from.....at least). Her sister Miyu is very prim and proper, as well as being somewhat bitchy, but underneath all that lies an individual that hungers for being actively sexual (This is rather evident at the beginning of the 2nd episode). Nin Nin, Miko’s friend & assistant, is psychotically perverted, but is ultimately a good guy, despite moments of cowardice. These characters take up a fair amount of screen time, but there are some more that deserve some attention.
There’s Miko’s mother, a highly mysterious woman that seems to know more that what she shows, and Miko’s demonic father, who’s the leader of the Shikima. We also have Yaku, another ninja from Miko’s bloodline, who comes in to help out & act as a momentary lesbian lover, Fubuki Kai, a jealous rival ninja that appears in the last two episodes to defeat Miko and take her place, and finally Kamiri & Kugutsumen, two more rival ninjas that come in and just raise all kinds of hell. These characters don’t quite have as much screen time as those previously mention, but they still bring something to the story’s table. Speaking of variety.....
The variety of sex acts within La Blue Girl are impressive. You have the standard sex acts (Blowjobs, masturbation, and tentacle sex are just a pinch of standard sexual routines you see), but there are some other things that are.....odd, both in a good & bad way. There’s hermaphroditic sex, both in the tradition and non-traditional sense (Trivia: Miko has a technique called “Nyoninboh”, which allows her to swell her clitoris to the size of a man’s penis......I’ll leave the rest of it to your imagination), orgies with humans & monsters (Sometimes both at the same time), public humiliation, loss of virginity, an air dildo (Imagination people!!), and swordplay with Miko’s vagina (It’s not guro, so don’t worry. Again, I’m leaving it to your imagination!). You have all sorts of sexual acts coming at your face, it’ll surprise you with how much they were able to fit into 6 episodes. Speaking of episodes.....
This leads into our next positive. Regardless of the year released, most hentai tend to come in at 1 to 4 episodes, and typically last anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes. With La Blue Girl we get 6 sex/action packed episodes that last anywhere from 40 to 45 minutes. Watching them back to back may be a bit of a sensual overload (If you’re new to hentai, trust me on this), so I suggest pacing them out. Either watch all 6 episodes over the course of a day (Leaving the last day devoted to mental recovery), or take three days to watch them all (2 Episodes per day).
With the positives out of the way, let’s get into some neutral points. Fortunately, there’s only two of them, but unfortunately they’re kinda big. For starters, we have the voice acting. I think it’s safe to say that dubbed hentai, at least for the majority of the time, sounds god awful (I’m looking at you Bible Black!). Very rarely are there any hentai series that have a decent dub, or at the very least an okay dub (Koihime comes to mind for it’s surprisingly good dub). With La Blue Girl, it literarily balances on the razor’s edge of hentai dubbing. There are some characters who sound like they’re overacting and sound incredibly goofy, or characters that underact and sound meek, or at the most extreme, ear-piercingly horrible. On top of that, the dub script has to be one of the most hammiest, goofiest, and downright silliest thing I’ve ever heard. I honestly found the dub to be relatively entertaining, partially because it’s downright hilarious, but mostly because I can’t stand listening to La Blue Girl in Japanese (Trust me when I say that the dubbing in this is worth at least one listen through).
The next neutral point of La Blue Girl is it’s animation quality. Hentai in the 90s was still done mostly with old-school pencil and paper, probably coupled with some computer work to clean things up so it looks better. This series is not the greatest looking thing to comes from the early 90s, but it isn’t necessarily the ugliest thing I’ve seen. At the very least, there are some interesting visuals throughout the show (The Shikima realm feels like a combination of the Circle of Gluttony from the Dante’s Inferno game with elements of science fiction & medieval architecture), and the sex is generally pleasing to the eye (Emphasis on the word generally).
Now we get to the negatives, and holy hell are they big! For starters, La Blue Girl is downright hard as all ungodly get-out to find! I last saw it in stores (FYE I believe it was) a couple years ago, where I think the dvds cost anywhere from 15 to 20 dollars. The only place I know of now where you can still find them is Amazon, where there are only a handful/pinchful of copies remain along the new & used spectrum. Pricing is sticking (currently) around the low 10 dollar range across the new & used spectrum, so things look okay on that front.
Next up is the sex. As much as I enjoyed the variety of sexual acts, there are certain moments & elements that are a bit on the disturbing side, and two of them come to mind for me. Towards the end of the 1st episode, Miyu gets raped by a giant Shikima, and has tentacles going into most of her orifices. That isn’t necessarily bad, as tentacle rape is a relatively common subgenre of hentai. In this circumstance, however, there’s a point where you can actually see one of the tentacles causing her skin, from her vagina to her stomach, bulge because of it’s girth. Granted, it’s only for a few seconds, but it borderlines on disgusting. Then there’s the mangled vagina scene. In the beginning moments, Kamiri has her vagina brutalized with a thorny phallic object, leaving it bloodied & scarred. Seething with revenge because of this act, she goes on a rampage, doing the same thing to many girls. Hell, there’s a scene where you see a group of female bodies on the ground dead, due to massive blood loss from having their vagina torn up more that burnt rubber on the street!
La Blue Girl gets a 5.5 to 6.9 out of 10. The story is unique for a hentai, the main cast is colorful & entertaining, there’s a great variety of sexual acts, and has a decent length. The voice acting and the visuals are okay, but finding a copy of this show is hard, and some of the sex scenes can be rather uncomfortable.
See you all this Wednesday, when I’ll post up some cleaner material. Until then, stay Otaku!
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