AoD Adult Review: Venus Files

[Chris Beveridge]

Review

Released By: Critical Mass Video
MSRP: $29.98
Running time: 60 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Resolution: 480i/p (mixed/unknown)
Encoded With: MPEG-2
Release Date: 06/26/2007
Review Date: 06/26/2007
Date Announced: 03/20/2007
Region: 1 - North America
Reviewed By: Chris Beveridge

In Summary:
While the opening of the show as poorly done in its structure, once it gets underway the show does a decent job of dealing with the content that it wants to play with. I found it fairly unappealing on several levels and simply waited for it to be over. Nothing here really titillated all that much and the plot wasn't anything out of the ordinary either. Fans of this kind of content may get more use out of it but otherwise it's something I can imagine a lot of casual adult anime fans will likely pass on. The character artwork on the cover is pretty indicative of it overall in terms of designs so it's easy to tell right from there whether it will appeal or not.

[pianocello]

Any yuri?

[General Hentai]

Originally Posted by piano cello conducting

Any yuri?

SPOILER WARNING!


Yes. Kidnapped Karen, reverting to her sex-slave ways, is the lead seducer of Rio, after both of them have fallen into the hands of the sex-drug-ring.

I give this hentai a "B-" so I liked it more than Chris did. I found that while big breasts were prominent (yes, a pun!) in this series, they were not absurdly large for the character designs.

Many of Chris's observations are correct. The introduction to this show is rushed, feeling crammed in, almost as though it's the recap of a preceding episode.

Yayoi constantly calls Masafumi, "-sensei", as he was apparently her tutor, once upon a time.

Another point of note (yes, another unintentional pun): Karen is a lactation queen - orgasm equals fountains, something she attributes to her prior sex training.

One thing I liked about this series is that it features mature women. Other than a brief bit with Yayoi being raped at the very beginning, all the characters involved are noticeably adult women (The flashback sequences with Rio's sister deal mostly with her death, not with sexual activity).

Chris is right in his analysis of the show: too much story put into too small a bra-size.

Likewise, the character designs do have an older feel to them (yay! another pun).

[DocWatson]

Originally Posted by General Hentai

Many of Chris's observations are correct. The introduction to this show is rushed, feeling crammed in, almost as though it's the recap of a preceding episode.

It's a sequel to Kamyla (see the link to the cover to volume 2 in the thread linked below), a series Chris would probably like to forget. There was also a preceding series, though because I have not seen it I can not comment on the relationship between the three.

[pianocello]

Originally Posted by DocWatson

It's a sequel to Kamyla .

It is? I couldn't stand the ugly character designs and the stupidity of the characters in Kamyla though the yuri scenes (which unfortunately were too brief) were rather hot. Is this show an improvement?

[DocWatson]

Originally Posted by piano cello conducting

It is? I couldn't stand the ugly character designs and the stupidity of the characters in Kamyla though the yuri scenes (which unfortunately were too brief) were rather hot. Is this show an improvement?

I have yet to see it (TRSI shipped my copy yesterday), but the cover art is promising.

Edit: I just broke down and ordered Kamyla. :sigh:

[loplop]

Originally Posted by DocWatson

It's a sequel to Kamyla (see the link to the cover to volume 2 in the thread linked below), a series Chris would probably like to forget. There was also a preceding series, though because I have not seen it I can not comment on the relationship between the three.

I knew some of the characters looked familiar and I could not place why. . .