What is this?
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Seiran Island, the tropical remote island, is home to Junnosuke Tachibana and his young sister, Asane, who return here from the mainland as a result of their parents’ death. However, Seiran Island has become a dystopia where, to stop the decline of population, authorities have enforced the “Pervert Law.” Sex is permitted and encouraged anywhere on the island, and those who refuse any sexual acts will be punished as a criminal offense. Being a cherry-picker who takes pride in his virginity, Junnosuke is skeptical about the law, thus, he sets up an anti-mating force, NLNS (No Love No Sex) to protect himself and his innocent sister, making headway to destroy the perverted law!
Nukitashi the Animation is based on the Nuki-Gee Mitai na Shima ni Sunderu Hinnyū (Watashi) wa Dō Surya Ii Desuka? adult visual novel by Qruppo. The anime series is streaming on OceanVeil on Fridays.
How was the first episode?
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James Beckett
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Let’s be honest: If you’re even in a position to watch Nukitashi, it means that you’re willing and able to pony up the cash for a subscription to OceanVeil, a streaming service that specializes in content that needs to be parsed with kink tags and an explicit “18+ Years Old” NSFW filter. If you somehow managed to miss all of that, Nukitashi begins its premiere with a tourism advertisement for Seiran Island, where “everyone is welcummed…to spread sex and depravity to all.” In other words, you went out of your way to seek out pure, unashamed, smutty trash. You really have nobody to blame but yourself if you’re not down to clown with the horny hijinks on Seiran Island.
To be clear, I’m not insulting this anime when I call it “smutty trash.” That is a label that Nukitashi wears proudly and loudly, and I’m honestly all for it. Way too many anime try to get away with being just horny and fan-servicey enough to entice a hormone-addled audience without violating any broadcast standards or decency laws. This is the path of cowardice, I say, especially when so many of those same Not-Quite-NSFW programs are all too eager to dish out the T-n’-A without ever getting within a hundred-mile radius of the concept of sex. Here on Seiran Island, though, sex is literally the entire point. Of everything. It’s enshrined into law, in fact. When Junnosuke and his sister first arrive on the island, we’re greeted with a literal orgy in the streets. Nukitashi is clearly not here to fuck around. Well, I mean, obviously it is here to fu—ah, screw it, you know what I mean.
You know who isn’t going to screw it, though, or anything else for that matter? Junnosuke! That’s the whole gimmick of the story, after all. On an island where celibacy is a crime fit for the “guillotine”, Junnosuke has sworn to protect his sister’s maidenhead and his own fragile virginity. This, of course, leads us to the plot of Nukitashi — and it does have a plot, I swear! — where our hapless heroes have to use their wits and their connections to an underground resistance to fight back against this lusty oppression.
This is where I might surprise you (if you didn’t spoil the grade up top, that is). As it turns out, Nukitashi is a decent comedy. The sheer amount of creative and filthy puns that the script cums up with for every sex act and bodily fluid you can think of is already something, but Nukitashi even has the gall to look pretty okay and have solid pacing. It really is just an inverse SHIMONETA, except this time the show genuinely does contain enough background characters getting railed by their classmates that it wouldn’t have a chance of being produced for broadcast television.
That said, my biggest complaint about Nukitashi is that it isn’t actually all that sexy. This is a sex-comedy that puts the emphasis on the “comedy” angle, which does make it a much more entertaining program than it has any right to be, but I can imagine some folks being disappointed in how much the sex in the show is used as set dressing. I can’t believe that we got more full-frontal nudity in the new Panty & Stocking anime.
Still, I live in a time where the credit-card companies are pulling all of the porn off of Steam and other marketplaces, all while the nutjobs in my country’s government are trying to ban smut for the masses while they ensure that all of the real sex offenders get to keep their jobs and their bonuses. In that sense, I’m glad that Nukitashi exists. I obviously don’t want to live in a world where the BDSM Police enforce compulsory sex, but I don’t want to live in a world where freaky shit like this can’t ever get made again, either.
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You know, there really cums a point where I should stop being surprised at what gets put out there on the Internet. I could sit here and get into the deeply rooted social commentary of a society that is overly dependent on sex, forcing its values on people who have a more reserved way of viewing things. In a lot of ways, this show feels like a reverse of SHIMONETA, where the whole point is to preserve people’s sense of individuality through NOT having sex. I could do that, but I feel like I still need time to process the sheer amount of stuff that was figuratively, and in some cases, literally thrown in my face throughout the course of these twenty minutes.
Yes, this is barely more than your average porn story, and I have watched way too many hentai that have almost this exact same setup. I do appreciate a porn story that is at least trying to do a bit more than just be a setup for some decently animated hanky-panky (unless you’re Queen Bee). However, I do feel like the premise very strongly conflicts with what the show is actually doing. It wants to be a revolutionary story about how glorifying sex to an extreme is wrong, and I think I’m supposed to root for a protagonist who is disgusted with the way that things are run. Yet, this show is shoving sex and clever wordplay in your face literally every second. There will be a really disturbing sexual assault scene out of nowhere, and then the next scene is our protagonists visiting a restaurant with a dildo bell. There is so much that happens in this episode, and it all unfolds one after the other without giving me time to process what I just saw.
I’m confused about what the show is actually trying to do. Am I supposed to find this arousing, or am I supposed to find this disgusting? It’s been a while since I’ve seen a show be this hard on people who aren’t hyper sexual. It feels like the show is mean-spirited for reasons that are different than what the show wants to be mean-spirited about, but it’s also trying to have its cake and eat it too with the way that it portrays sex. It genuinely feels like this is a show that was conceived with a bunch of jokes, scenarios, and wordplay first, then the story came second.
So why is this show so ambitious? There are 3D camera angles, dynamic poses, and technically, movement is happening in almost every frame in the background. They drew all of those characters fucking without relying on CG. The directing is dynamic, and the jokes are surprisingly funny when they’re trying to be. There is passion here, but it feels like it’s directed all over the place. I’ll probably continue the show out of pure curiosity alone, or maybe I’ll sit down and watch it with friends. Just make sure you don’t have any family or small children around when you decide to check this out.
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