English Dub Review: TenPuru: No One Can Live on Loneliness “I’ll Castrate You”

Overview

Mia and Akemitsu are left at the temple to settle their dispute with a duel. When that goes awry, they’re forced to reconcile in other ways. Mia, Akemitsu, and Kagura get intimate with some new penance practices.


Our Take

Mia challenges Akemitsu to a duel with castration as the penalty for losing. It transpires Mia is a foreign student and Kagura her mischievous attendant causes Mia’s breasts to fall into Akemitsu’s hands during the duel. Mia passes out from embarrassment and faces a penalty from Kagura’s book of lewd penances. Akemitsu decides her penance is to lend him the book to help him repress his lechery. Mia mistakenly thinks he wants sex and enters his room prepared to have sex with him, only to be humiliated to learn he wanted the book.

Kagura traps them in a store room where Mia blurts out a warning to stay away in case he arouses her. This leads to a confession that her family has their curse of lechery, so she came to the all-female temple to repress it, only for Akemitsu to show up as a temptation. Realizing they are alike they agree to support each other in rejecting lust through the penances in Kagura’s book. Yuzuki forgets about her rescheduled marriage meeting, on which the temple is relying to stay open, so Akemitsu rushes to get her there on time but they end up trapped in the back of a truck. Still determined to make it Yuzuki decides to use the temporary privacy to change into her yukata, which requires two people.

Overall, a solid yet fun episode that caught me off guard with that Big Mia twist. Finding common ground by realizing they both have similar problems and having the desire to self-improve is genuinely wholesome in a weird way. And with that and their differences settled, the penance of Twister, does not flow well with Yuzuki, but her matchmaking is important for the temple’s sake because if it doesn’t go through, they’ll end up having to move out soon since it’s closing. I guess now there’s an overarching story in this Anime even if most of it is wacky sex jokes and rom-com drivel. Let’s hope it further improves…