English Dub Review: Interspecies Reviewers; “A Hot ‘n Heavy Debate About Elf and Human MILFs, An Angel Descends at Meow Meow Paradise, Can’t Get Enough of That Sensitive Birdmaid Cloaca!”

 

 

 

Overview 

In a fantasy world, Stunk and Zel are an adventurer duo who share the same goal: to have sex with a member of every species in the world. 

Our Take

If you’ve read the short description above, you can probably guess what kind of show this is. And I can confirm that this is 100% “that” kind of show, which is to say a raunchy sex comedy. It takes its premise and completely rolls with it, without any shame at all, and so far it isn’t taking itself seriously. 

If you find that kind of thing indecent, then you’ll probably want to skip this one. If you’re concerned this show will just be an excuse to watch softcore pornography, I wouldn’t write it off just yet. There’s definitely no shortage of naked ladies, but so far, all of the sex acts in this show are described verbally after the fact, in the vein of college frat member describing his fortuitous evening. I would say this anime is far more concerned with making you laugh rather than outright titillating you. This works for me as a reviewer, because it’s far more fun to write about some guys shooting the shit in a funny and unwholesome way, rather than having to sit through twenty-odd minutes of 2D drawings smashing naughty bits.

In this unspecified fantasy world, all sentient species cohabitate peacefully with each other, in every sense of the word. Additionally, all species descend from succubi; how this actually affects everybody is unclear. The mechanics clearly aren’t important here, though. This is just an excuse so that there’s a reason everyone is having sex with each other all the time without thinking too hard about it. 

Our first protagonist is a human warrior named Stunk, which is, let’s say, quite a name. Maybe it sounds cool or something when you say it in Japanse, but in English, it sounds like somebody is mispronouncing the word “stank.” It’s an oddly appropriate name for a shaggy brothel-crawler, though. 

The other protagonist is an elf named Zel. He looks like a teenager, but he’s actually much older than that because elves age slower. This trait of elves becomes central to the first segment of this episode. 

Stunk finds older elf ladies hot because at 500-years-old they look like they’re 20, which means you get years of experience in a pretty package. Zel finds this appalling because to an elf, 500 is ancient. 60 is a much more desirable age for elves, so Zel hooks up with an old human grandma to Stunk’s disgust. 

At first, this just seems like a silly debate over the distinct differences between appearance and age between species. But then it turns into something a bit more complex. Zel’s disgust with having sex with 500-year-old elves isn’t just about age; it’s also about the quality of one’s mana. By 500 your mana is, as he puts it, rancid, but since humans hardly live past 100, their mana is always fresh no matter how old they get. 

They bring this debate to others in the form of “who would you rather bang?” Other species grade the human and elf ladies by their own metrics. The beastman makes his decision based on smell, with both of the ladies’ scents being too mature for his tastes. The halfling summarily writes them both off because they are both too old for him. 

In the end, this nonsensical debate could probably be spun as an example of the positivity of diversity. Basically, don’t yuck somebody’s yum. 

Stunk and Zel then come upon an angel named Crim being attacked by a monster. Stunk saves them from it with surprising ease by cutting it in half like it’s nothing. I guess if you want to go around bedding as many women as you can, some strength and renown will go a long way. 

Crim’s halo is broken, which means they can’t use their powers or return to Heaven, so they’re looking for someone to help protect them while they heal. Stunk and Zel are eager to accept the job, on the condition that when Crim’s powers return they grant Stunk and Zel access to Heaven so they can bang an angel. Shy and unsure of how to interpret this, Crim reluctantly just goes along with it. Stunk and Zel then take Crim to a catgirl brothel to celebrate, even more so since Crim is a virgin. Stunk and Zel think Crim is a boy when in truth, all angels are intersex. Thus, Crim’s first time turns into sensory overload.

As it turns out, Stunk and Zel are famous brothel reviewers, with their regularly published reviews always garnering a sizable audience at the tavern. Each review also features the experiences of two other people, each of a different species. Their most recent review details a night spent with a Dagon, which is an octopus-person. While all of the readers, all men, enjoy these scintillating exposés, the female birdmaid waitress finds them indecent. When Stunk and Zel’s next review is of a birdmaid, which is a bird-person/harpy, she finds the ensuing results incredibly inconvenient. 

While the idea of published sex reviews in this context is very humorous, this sort of segment just seems like an easy way to make lazy sex jokes. Having sex with tentacles is kind of weird. (“I’ve seen enough hentai to know where this is going,”, etc, etc.) Having sex with birds is also kind of weird because birds have weird organs and habits. They give a very positive review of the cloaca; I would only advise Googling “cloaca” in private and in incognito mode. 

As one might expect for an anime broadcast on television, all of the nudity is censored. At first, it just seemed it was all breasts being covered so that they could uncover them later on the home video release. But they do eventually show every kind of genitalia, so the censorship is very much part of the brand. Also, since this is anime, I would’ve thought all of the desired females would be slender and fit, but many of them are plus-size. 

I imagine the rest of this show will just be Stunk and Zel’s “excellent” adventures through a laundry list of fantasy creatures. I’m down for a “girl of the day” type story, though I wouldn’t be expecting much from it. Regardless, I just hope it doesn’t start taking itself too seriously because that’s what’s making it enjoyable right now.