Words Worth

First of all, I have to mention that I am writing this review on behalf of a friend of mine, not because I have any particular desire to do so myself. I normally avoid reviewing hentai. I do not feel the need to somehow regularly and publicly reveal my thoughts about this genre or indeed my sexual preferences. This is because I am quite old-fashioned and prefer to keep that sort of thing to myself (or at most in the pub when I have had a beer or two)... However, I shall make an exception in this case, because you should be able to write about anything after all. I shall have to try and control myself a bit so I do not fall into the trap of using explicit language as well (so I am considering this as a bit of a challenge). Secondly, this is not the first time I have watched this erotic anime series, I saw it a few years ago and abandoned it after watching the first episode (and I also skipped through the first episode of Words Worth Gaiden). Even back then, I made some rather pertinent observations, and now carry them along with a traumatic vision called Stallion! This character burns itself into your retina. Once seen, you just cannot get him out of your head, and it is the first thing you are going to think of whenever Words Worth is mentioned. It also does not help that he is in the very first sex scene in the show and trust me, you just do not want to see that! Anyway, having now finished watching this anime series, I have to say that Stallion is not the worst thing about this show. The two pig guards were even more horrific! In other words, this anime is partly a bizarre zoophilia porn show, which unfortunately does not mean anything to me. I do not find this show appealing (in fact, absolutely the opposite), and I do not want to see something like this please again - ever! I guess I could never properly appreciate the likes of Nina, as I am really not into cat girls either, and this is part of the reason my friend will never convince me to play Nekopara... Other scenes which did not feature the animals were actually pretty cool. However, after saying that, casual rape is not exactly my cup of tea, so I am going to write off the first episode as an off-putting opening. Then, nothing was really going on in the second episode. I thought it only got interesting from about episode three onwards when some of the story started to develop more and it looked like the prince Astral especially was finally at least good for something. On the other hand, Astral was quite an entertaining character in the first few episodes, with it being like a game of Hide and Seek, with (un)expected plot twists. Sure it has a story, there is some lore (probably mostly due to the fact that it is based on an RPG game), however, I cannot say that I found it as engaging as others. I have seen a lot (really a lot) of fantasy movies and TV shows, and I have played a lot of fantasy games. I have also come across a lot of hentai in the almost twenty years I have been watching Japanese anime, and I think this particular anime series is nothing really outstanding or extraordinary. I would also say that story-wise, it is average, maybe a little above average at a push. This is because it is not that unusual in the world of hentai, to have a more meaningful storyline besides all the fucking. Rance is a great example of fantasy hentai with a decent story (nowadays it is probably considered to be a classic) and then other names just pour out like Dragon Knight, Dragon Rider, and Dragon Pink. I think that if I tried hard enough, I could even come up with a lot of other examples which do not even have Dragon in the title... There is another show about an aspiring nobleman that ends up being a pretty entertaining and watchable harem anime series, however, I cannot think of the name of the show right now... I even put the word "plot" into the search engine on some hentai sites and found a few other shows that I have seen but have not rated yet so that potentially interested parties might have something to compare it with. On the plus side, the animation is pretty good for its time, it is done in a style I like in general, and the animation studio has a real sense of detail beyond what you would normally expect from hentai. I also managed to grow quite fond of Sharon, so let us just say I might actually have a favorite character... Even Astral does not seem to be as much of a dumbass over time like he did at first, however, starting to think of him as better than that is never going to happen. So yeah, it seems to be going well but then Stallion and those other atrocities come back to my mind and I just cannot bring myself to award more than 5.1/10. (2021.02.23) (kevesebbet) (több)