English Dub Review: Hensuki: Are You Willing to Fall in Love with a Pervert, as Long as She’s a Cutie? “Indecisive Prince?!”

 

Overview

Keiki politely tries to rebuff Sayuki’s masochistic advances, but she continually tries to push the whole “please treat me like I’m a dog” thing. While talking about the ordeal with Shoma, they realize that whoever “Undierella” is, was hiding in the room with Keiki when he found the note — because a teacher informed him the door was unlocked after he locked it. Later, he realizes he can’t even escape Sayuki’s advances at his library job, where he works with Koga at the front desk. Koga gets jealous when Sayuki reveals that they went on a date. When she leaves, Koga demands that Keiki take her on a date as well.

He meets her at the train station, compliments her, and surprises her by taking her to a movie adaptation of a book she loves. After, he takes her shopping — but the mood takes a turn when Koga gets cornered by some imposing guys by the bathrooms. Luckily, Keiki whisks her away, and she gives him a kiss on the forehead. He reflects on how (because of her European features) no one talked to her at school until he talked to her every day — eventually breaking down her walls. What they have appears wholesome and beautiful.

Later on, Koga texts him to meet her in the library stock room, where she asks him to be her slave and stuffs her panties in his mouth until he suffocates.

Wait, what?

Our Take

Ah, okay. That took a turn. In the words of a great philosopher: “I didn’t like it.”

With a show titled, Hensuki: Are You Willing to Fall in Love with a Pervert, as Long as She’s a Cutie?, something like this should have been expected — especially considering how the last episode ended. Hey, there are shows like Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, where it seems like the show is going to be brainless fan-service when in actuality, it has zero sexual content in it at all — the title solely exists to draw weird nerds in. For a fleeting moment, it almost seemed like Hensuki could be one of those shows.

To give credit where credit is due: it didn’t seem like this show would even have the intelligence to pull off a bait-and-switch — yet, there we were, left with at least some level of emotional attachment toward Keiki and Koga’s date before all hell broke loose. At first, it seemed like they had really good chemistry — and it also seemed like Keiki was more of a genuinely likable guy in this episode. Everything from the flashbacks to his date with Koga showed that he isn’t, in fact, just some incel — he has some level of emotional intelligence that makes the viewer understand why a club full of girls would actually like him.

Plus, Keiki’s voice actor clearly just wants to have fun — and in turn, it makes the character really fun to listen to. The entire exchange he had with Shoma where they pretended to be girls was an actual laugh-out-loud moment. Although Koga’s voice isn’t nearly as smooth as Sayuki’s, it’s hard not to love her character — well, up until the ending, that is.

There’s a lot of mixed feelings, here. Koga’s actions were pretty predatory — in fact, so is Sayuki’s persistence. This show should really just be entitled, “How to Non-Consensually Involve Others in Your Kinks,” because that’s exactly what this nonsense is.