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Ladies and Gentlemen, I did it! I finally found the single worst anime of 2020. Worse than Rent a Girlfriend. Worse than God of Highschool. Dokyuu Hentai HxEros makes Peter Grill look like a fucking masterpiece! It's not that hentai Hxeros has the worst animation. It doesn't have the worst dub. It doesn't even have the worst premise. The actual plot on paper SEEMS like it could have been funny. Some guy clearly came up with this show while slightly drunk at 3 AM in the morning and couldn't stop giggling. It's the directing and execution that murders this show and makes it one ofthe hardest to watch anime I've seen in a LONG time. The plot of this masterpiece is that an insectoid species of aliens want to take over Earth and replace the humans. Their plan is absorb "erotic energy" and rob men and women of their sex drives. Once the human fertility rate drops below 2.1, humans will eventually go extinct and the aliens can simply replace them. I'm serious. It's a show about aliens turning women into prudes who refuse to put out and making dudes gay in order to commit a sneaky genocide. The whole premise of this show is that it's a porn parody of a far right conspiracy forum. Then it mixes this with Power Rangers for...some reason. A scientist must find 5 teenagers with extreme horniness. He then gives them wrist bands that allow them to channel their extreme thirst and transform into super Sentai called "Super Hentai". Once again, I'm sure this was very funny at 3 AM in the morning. So what kind of jokes do we get? In the first episode, one of the aliens randomly transforms into the Devil Gundam from the end of G Gundam, forcing the main characters to get naked and use the special move from the ending of that 1994 anime. Let's pretend the audience has never seen G Gundam, which most people haven't. The joke doesn't work because it's just a random reference to an old anime. Let's assume the viewer is a boomer like me who happens to LOVE G-Gundam. Even I didn't laugh because they didn't set up or commit to the joke. They didn't change the animation style or use the music from G Gundam or rabidly scream the lines like the voice actors from G-Gundam. The scene just randomly comes out of nowhere and ends in 3 seconds with the 2 main characters striking the iconic pose and that's it. The joke is just "haha G-Gundam exists". This is "Epic Movie" level comedy! That was just one example, but this anime NEVER lands a joke. It just thinks that having a silly premise on paper and making references to other franchises is good enough to bring in the laughs. That is the lowest caliber of spoof! I never thought I'd watch an anime that makes me think Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer wrote it! Compare this to Peter Grill. That's an anime about a knight errant whose name is a blatant parody of Peter Quill from Guardians of the Galaxy. The whole joke is that he's supposed to be a noble and faithful knight to his princess, but he is easily seduced by dozens of monster girls and feels extreme guilt that he's made the princess the biggest cuckquean in the land. It's a stupid premise with only ONE joke, but they really commit to that joke! It actually got a few laughs out of me. The comedy lies in the fact that you know the punchline (Peter being unable to keep it in his pants), is coming, but you don't know exactly how or when it's going to happen. The best part of this type of humor is that when done well, it actually becomes funnier the more times it happens. It eventually reaches a peak, but Peter Grill is extremely short and never lets it reach that point of exhaustion. Don't get me wrong, Peter Grill is still a terrible anime! I mean unapologetically bad. It's just miles better than Hentai Hxeros. So if Hentai Hxeros isn't funny, it's at least sexy right? NOPE! The character designs are pretty lame, the boobs are massive but poorly drawn, and it's heavily censored. Even in the racier DVD version, it's still heavily censored. Just not to the absurd level of the TV anime where you simply can't see anything on the entire screen. Even if they one day released an uncensored version, it still wouldn't be remotely hot! If Peter Grill is a shitty bootleg of Interspecies Reviewers, Hentai Hxeros is a ten cent VHS tape someone dug out of the dumpster behind an old Blockbuster. It is the Video Brinquedo of ecchi. It is the Golden Films or Bevanfield of erotic anime comedy. Only wish this on your worst enemies.

IrrelevantGuy

Let me ask you a question. While watching a trashy harem show, do you ever think, "Man, this is absolutely garbage, but I still fucking love it!"? Wait, you actually do? Then Dokyuu Hentai HxEros is a show especially made for you. If the "Hentai" part of the title didn't make it obvious, Dokyuu Hentai HxEros is your typical trashy harem anime which is filled with an absurd amount of fanservice and has a plot that's more questionable than that of a lot of hentai. And no, I'm not exaggerating a single thing. Pretty much everything about HxEros is unbelievably ridiculous, but I just can't seemto bring myself to hate it. [Story] An unknown type of alien called "Censor Bug", unbeknownst to most humans, invades Earth and starts plundering their erotic energy in an attempt to make them extinct. As a part of the Saitama branch of HxEros, a group of teenagers "gifted with a special ability", our protagonist Retto Enjou, his childhood friend Kirara Hoshino, and 3 other highschool girls fight against the censor bugs in order to rescue mankind from their hands. So, what is this "special ability" exactly? The "special ability" that HxEros possess is their extraordinary eroticism, that they use to destroy the censor bugs (somehow their own clothing as well) by converting it to "H-energy" using certain devices. Dokyuu Hentai HxEros follows the members of HxEros' Saitama branch as they use their "H-energy" to stop the censor bugs from stealing mankind's "H-energy". It sounds extremely ridiculous, doesn't it? Yes, the plot of Dokyuu Hentai HxEros certainly sounds ridiculous, and IS ridiculous. As I said before, most hentai have less questionable plots than this show. However, I don't think that it's entirely meritless. As weird and ludicrous as it may seem, I think that the plot of the show is actually somewhat "unique" and "creative". No matter how absurd it ultimately turns out to be, it actually tries to be innovative with its plot, which deserves some praise in my opinion. Some of the situations that our "HxEros" fall into are actually funny, let it be intentional or unintentional. I know there are a multitude of holes as well (like, why is everyone depending on a bunch of horny teenagers and not taking any actions themselves?), but who cares about that? [Animation] HxEro's artstyle is pretty decent. The character designs look aesthetic. However, when we come to the actual visuals, there are some big issues.... First of all, I don't know why Project No. 9 thought it was a great idea to make the censors so large that one censor covers almost half of the screen, but it certainly isn't very pleasant to my eyes. Rather, these huge and unnecessary censors became really annoying very quickly, for more than one reason. The second major issue with the animation is that it becomes very inconsistent at times. It's decent for the first few episodes of the show, but it noticeably becomes a lot duller in the later episodes and starts degrading bit by bit. [Sound] The soundtrack of HxEros is fairly mediocre. Almost all the background tracks are forgettable. The opening song sung by BURNOUT SYNDROMES (that's how they write their name) is kinda funny for how ridiculous it is, and although many people weren't a big fan of the ending song, I don't think that it's bad. Overall, the soundtrack is average at best. The voice acting, on the other hand, is actually amazing. I was very surprised to see such high quality voice acting in an anime of this caliber. Almost all the voice actors did a great job at voicing their respective characters. Suffice to say, the voice acting is easily the best aspect of the show. [Character] If I had to sum up the characters of Dokyuu Hentai HxEros in just one sentence, it would be this: They are all as dull as dishwater. Almost every character can be described by using a certain stereotype. Retto is your typical dense harem protagonist who continuously falls into perverted situation with several girls, and Kirara is your typical tsundere heroine who loves the protagonist but somehow hasn't become aware of her feelings yet. The same applies to other characters as well. Despite being extremely generic, however, they aren't really unlikeable. Especially Retto and Kirara are loveable and look very adorable together. Although their backstory is questionable to say the least, their interactions are pretty heartwarming. And unlike most other harem protagonists, Retto is actually aware of her feelings towards Kirara and determined to ask her out when the time comes, which is a bit refreshing to me. I definitely won't give the characters a high rating, though. While it's true that they are likeable, most of them don't receive any proper development throughout the entire series. Besides Retto and Kirara, nobody is given proper focus (unless you count their so poorly present backstories). Especially the side characters suffer the most from this problem. I would have liked to learn more about Tokyo branch members and some of the other characters since they appear only for a short amount of time. Giving them more screen time would have made the show more enjoyable. [Enjoyment] As absurd and brainless as Dokyuu Hentai HxEros is, I kinda enjoyed it to be honest. It managed to keep me somewhat entertained for almost the entirety of its runtime even with many, many glaring issues and absolute ridiculousness. Well, that probably only shows how garbage my taste is. [Overall] So, would I recommend watching Dokyuu Hentai HxEros to anyone? The answer is absolutely a no. Everything about the anime, excluding the voice acting, is extremely ridiculous and not so well-made. There are times when the show can become straight-up nonsensical and even cringe-inducing. So, if you are looking for a show with a compelling plot and remarkable characters, you should, without any kind of doubt, avoid Dokyuu Hentai HxEros. However, if you are someone like me who occasionally enjoys watching trashy ecchi and harem shows for no reason whatsoever, this might be something you would enjoy watching. I didn't find the show as "good" as To LOVE-Ru Darkness (I apologize for the random comparison) for a number of reasons, but I found it pretty entertaining nonetheless.