Written by Mistress Valentine
Tsugunai (aka Atonement), a hentai anime produced by PoRO. Released June 24, 2022. Runtime 20 minutes. Full Japanese voice acting. Censored genitals.
STORY
After three minutes of wall exposition text telling us everything the hentai is meant to show us, we are introduced to the Protagonist being woken up by his sister, Nana. She berates him for forgetting her birthday and tells him to attend the party after class…except she never shows up.
We cut to a hospital bed where Nana is incapacitated. We’re shown through flashbacks what happened to her. She was abducted and gangbanged by a bunch of old people and then left in the street. Throughout the sex scene, we cut away periodically to the Protagonist throwing darts at a bunch of random girls and later learns he is a teacher at the school. Supposedly, the fathers of these girls are the ones who put Nana in the hospital so the Protagonist wants to take revenge…on the wrong people?
Hentai logic. Whatever.
He invites the girls to a special educational training camp and then locks them all inside. The hentai turns into a straight-up horror show as he fucks one of the girls, Ruriko. The other girls find them and run away to safety, leaving Ruriko to experience a savage sexual humiliation.
SOUND EFFECTS AND VOICE ACTING (SFX)
Ruriko and Nana’s actresses steal the spot light. Not only do they receive the most focus, but in each of their sexual subjugation, their portrayals make you sympathize with them. Neither of them deserve their treatment, which makes the Protagonist come across as no better than the people who hurt his sister. Nana’s inner monologue as her throat and asshole are fucked senseless are very sad to listen to.
The sound effect library is wonderful. There are so many opportunities to insert a sound to make this hentai world feel genuine and almost every one of them is taken. From the subtle bed sheets being thrown off the Protagonist to the deep, dark rain when Nana is abducted. Little things like when Ruriko tries to stab the Protagonist only to discover its a spoon have sounds to them. It really made for an enjoyable experience.
MUSIC
The hentai feature a great collection of songs from all variety, but focused mostly on eerie, grim or gritty tracks which are often played throughout a sex scene. At the start of the hentai, during the 3 minute exposition dump, the background music is extremely ominous which sets the tone for the rest of the story.
There are one or two lighthearted tracks, mostly before Nana’s subjugation. Music changes quickly to match the short scenes, but fit the narrative very well. The anime used original and synthetic instruments, blending them together to create a seamless sound track that makes it easy to forget that you’re listening to them, but still somehow aware that it’s present.
ANIMATION
The animation sticks out, good and bad. Most of the episode takes place at night, but rain and moonlight allow the animators to show off their lighting and shading skills. Indoors, the rooms will be very darkly lit, but still very easy to see what is happening.
The characters all have unique designs with plenty of expressions. Their bodies move with a noticeable stilt during sex and some of the camera angles are sexy as fuck. During one of Ruriko’s scenes, she is made to have sex with the Protagonist sitting on the bed while she is face first on the floor, her pussy sticking out in the air getting railed.
I especially enjoyed the animation during Nana’s sex scene. It looked as disturbing as it played out, with the low lighting and various sexual partners surrounding the poor girl and having their way with her.
HENTAI
There is enough time to tell the story, set up the mystery and have long sex scenes.
Nana’s sex scene is easily my favorite, setting up the kind of twisted hentai this is gonna be. She is pushed down and her ass is ripped while the guy exclaims ‘I’m gonna wreck this hole first’. She barely has time to scream when another cock is shoved down her throat. The panning shots of her being sandwich fucked is deliciously sexy. Her breasts are groped while cutaways to the Protagonist plays darts allows the animators to show the passage of time, letting us know that this was a very long sex scene.
Screen time wise, Ruriko’s sex scene is much longer with plenty of different positions. They fuck on the bed, on the floor, bed again, over the couch. There are plenty of creampies and every hole is used. It can feel a tad tedious knowing that there are still four more girls who need to to broken in.
Spoiler! You’ll have to wait until the next episode.
CONCLUDING WORDS
Tsugunai is one of the better hentais on there. While I don’t agree with the Protagonist’s actions of punishing the innocent, this hentai features one of those ideas that could easily be adapted into a proper anime series. There is plenty of potential that has unfortunately been regulated to horror porn.
Watch this uniquely horror-themed anime here!
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