Imma Youjo
A Hentai OVA produced between 1994 and 1997 by Pink Pineapple. It consists of five loosely related episodes, exploring several common themes and vastly different settings.
What makes Imma Youjo stand out among other adult OVAs is the way it takes the basic premise of any hentai ("all women are there to have sex with") and turns it upside down, deconstructing it to hell and back. The protagonist, Maya, is an innocent girl who is barely interested in sexuality but "thanks" to her exceptional beauty, she is carefully broken time after time, no matter what world she is born in. Unlike so many hentais, this OVA isn't afraid to flesh out its characters, making rape appear as the real drama it is (especially when perpetrated upon a Robot Girl)... and when it appears as "love", it's even worse. And in the end of the day, Maya often gets to fight back. And that's the point where you get really scared. Proceed with caution: watching Imma Youjo may make you look at regular hentai staples a lot more critically than you are expected to.
Licensed and released in US by Critical Mass in 2000, then re-released (and retitled, see below) in 2007. Overall, Imma Youjo is one of the best examples of plot-heavy hentai you are likely to find.
- Bifauxnen: Mayatola (a.k.a. Fourth Maya).
- Break the Cutie: In every. Damn. Episode. First Maya is pre-broken in the Backstory by seeing all men fight over her wherever she goes. Second Maya is taken away from her creator/lover, who was also the only one to treat her as a human. Third Maya is turned into a demon who kills her own love interest. Fourth Maya is raped repeatedly until she gives up her aristocratic pride completely. Fifth Maya is turned into a living sex toy.
- Broken Bird: First Maya comes conveniently pre-broken.
- Cyberpunk: Episodes one and two.
- Deconstruction: Imma Youjo deconstructs many common Hentai tropes by playing them for utter drama.
- Even the Girls Want Her: First Maya is the only one who doesn't get any hot lesbian sex.
- Go Through Me: Anne protecting Mayatola near the end of the fourth episode.
- Medieval European Fantasy: Episode four is easily the darkest of them all.
- Meido: Fifth Maya thought she was applying for this job...
- Naughty Tentacles: That one monster in episode one.
- The Nth Doctor: Maya's origins, if not appearance, change from episode to episode, depending on the setting. Her ultimate fate, however... not so much.
- Out with a Bang: The Mayor in episode two has some sort of heart attack while having sex with Maya and his female assistant, which apparently makes him strangle the latter to death before biting the dust.
- Plot With Porn
- Pygmalion Plot: Episode two.
- Publisher Chosen Title: The original Japanese episodes mostly didn't have own titles except "Imma Youjo" and the volume number. The US release by Critical mass, however, was given distinct episode titles. Then retitled on rerelease. The list can be found on ANN.
- Rape as Drama: Second Maya is the most jarring example, especially seeing how she is actually a machine. She is raped in front of her creator and lover and then receives a memory wipe to erase all memories of him.
- Ridiculously-Human Robots: The fembots in episode two, but Maya by far outmatches them all.
- Robot Girl: Second Maya.
- So Beautiful It's a Curse: The central topic of most episodes is Maya's almost supernatural sex appeal, and the utter hell that it makes her life.
- Torture Porn: The fourth episode contains a lot of this.
- Yaoi Guys: The Dragon from episode one lets his master "use" him when there are no women around (it doesn't stop him from falling for Maya, though). Also, Count Pickingel from episode four, who is revealed to be Armoured Closet Gay for "Mayatola".