The Angel Blade Hentai Series

It's hentai time, where the kickass fighting babes get captured and molested a LOT before they finally win the day.

This week I'm taking a break from Women in Prison films and reviewing the hentai Angel Blade. I've picked Angel Blade because it is the perfect thing to watch in the background on television while doing other things. This is not an insult -- it's very hard to find programming that works as such. It has to have enough good stuff that you've got an excellent chance of being rewarding when you pause to check it out, it has to be pointless enough that you don't have to know the plot to enjoy what you're seeing, and it has to avoid distracting you from whatever you are doing like, say, hardcore porn would. That's the train of thought that led me to write my essay on Why Isn't There A Naked Woman Dancing Channel?

In the Angel Blade hentai series, I've found something that fills that bill. I figure that it will increase productivity for people who work at home by a good 5 percent. I await the thanks of a grateful nation.

Eiken: Ecchi Comes to the US Mainstream

It's not what it looks like! (No, it's exactly what it looks like.) Vidcap from "Eiken."

Now appearing on my website is a review of Eiken, a Japanese anime of the type known as ecchi anime in the US. (In Japan, ecchi means the English letter H, which in the case of anime means hentai, adult anime, in other words, ecchi and hentai are synonyms.) In the US, ecchi means sexually-oriented anime aimed at teens -- no hardcore imagery, not really any softcore imagery, but the anime are typically about sex and nothing else, and typically include lots of events which look just like sex but aren't really sex at all, which deeply embarrass the eminently embarrassable male protagonists. Blushing virgins, every last friggin' one of them, with a penchant for winding up with their faces in women's crotches for perfectly innocent reasons. There are also some fairly explicit fantasy sequences (see above).

Yah, I know. Makes no sense. But it's fun.

Anyways, for a long time ecchi have been available in the US on a 'those who know' basis, i.e., on sale at some video stores and online. But I haven't seem them on cable TV until I saw Eiken on the Encore Action Channel awhile ago. I thought it was a momentous enough moment to take note of. Not that anyone else has.

Check out my review, with caps proving just how naked and sexy Eiken and other ecchi can be, at this link.