I found this to be a great no-rape* sex comedy that had funny and entertaining premises, but also ended on a very sweet heartfelt note. Here is about 2.5 sex scenes per episode, if you found the opening wet dream as heir of a sex scene. The further episodes are very fun, be I found myself looking forward to what kind of escapades Atari would find himself in each episode. Brilliantly (imo), the last two episodes pivot to focusing the main ship. Each only has one sex scene and episode 4 has no Atami sex scenes (a 180 from the premise of the show, whereatami stumbles into getting laid). The contradiction inherent in the relationship between the two leads are given a proper exploration in last two eps.

Of course, no woman like shizuka exudes. But if she did, how to reconcile her boyfriend’s constant philandering and their affection for each other? Her love for her boyfriend, her expectations of her boyfriend, her own uncertsibty of who she is to him? Another conquest to stumble into, or something more?

The sex comedy / fantasy premise (high body count) and devoted boyfriend / girlfriend’s romance fantasy premise butts heads in I treating ways I’m the end. Not that the show formally acknowledged the contradiction, but it manifests in shizuka’s reluctance to give it or up to Atami. I think the show does kind of elegantly separate the kinds of sex presented in the show (and thus having its cake and eating it too). Sex with social is earned, not stumbled into (he must wait till the end of ep5), and their actual sex scene is juxtaposed with montage shots of their non-sex time together (kind of incredible, interrupting the “money shots” with flashbacks).

Angel values both the fantasy of the don Juan and the pure girlfriend, and effectively gives us both in its five episodes. Like many hush school anime, it is wistful for a high school experience that doesn’t exist. But, given its pornographic nature, it is at least more upfront about the fantastical nature of what it depicts.

Anyway, all that is to day, I was sucked into the two part finale and the bittersweet consumption followed by the marchen epilogue. Sad the show ended, that life / high school had to end, and delighted we got to see their happily ever after. In other words, it’s
A proper anime comedy.

It is five episodes long. Any Shakespeare scholars see any rhyme with how his comedy plays are structured and how this ova was? Is it a just a funny coincidence that Atami doesn’t climax in ep 4? Anyways, a lot of the sexcapades from the earlier episodes kinda reminded me of Shakespeare (mistaken identities, love potions, disguised identities, etc…). Made we wonder if Shakespeare ever wrote apocryphal sex comedies that were lost to time, and us he did, would they resemble shin angel?

* your mileage may vary on how much of the sex going here is consensual. Certainly, there is some coercion, deception, and maybe some unwell minds (the suicidal girl), but one gets the sense that no one who was tricked into sex regretted it or would regret it if they learned they were tricked. In a genre where unwilling girls getting forced on is common (including the first 1990 ova), I’ll take it.