EUPHORIA

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NOVEL HentaiEuphoria: Another Room

REVIEWS

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  Mazohisuto

  80/100
  Forgive me Father for I have sinned, may you lead me on the righteous path once more

  WARNING : Rape, Blood, Urination, Scat, Humiliation, Electrocution, Gore, Death, Bondage

  I give Euphoria an 8, not because I liked any part of it but because of all the technical work it has
  done right. To be a critic is to view a work in an objective sense and separately giving you subjective views. Personally this show horrifies me in it's graphic and brutal depictions of sex and caters to the deep end of the fetish pool but it gets a lot right for that audience of dark fetishes which is why I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys these wicked acts. However I would never recommend that a casual handholding vanilla watch this as it has certain psychologically harrowing effects that I felt for days to come. You will question with every moral fiber in your body why you took your dick out and how you managed to fap to this show towards the later episodes but it is a cult classic and it rightly deserves to be so.

  Story : 9
  Although I do not consider this section to be spoiler-related, reader beware. Euphoria follows a VN style of story telling which you do not see much of in hentai these days or even in the past which can confuse the viewer. This type of storytelling may seem to take points off Euphoria however for me it enhanced it as I began to theorize convoluted reasoning to the repetitive nature of the story arcs. This form of storytelling allows the viewer to explore a large amount of ending that the VN provided and was well suited for Euphoria as it also gave the show an excuse to explore darker and weirder fetishes as the show went along. Furthermore I believe the pacing of the show to start off with longer arcs then switching it up with shorter arcs pays off in droves when combined with the darker fetishes as it creates this ramping up feeling for the viewer which all crescendos in the last two episodes that had events that were not so much more extreme than past events but rather were more like finale spectacles. For people with morals, this exponentially quickening pace will be much more thrilling as you plunge deeper and deeper into tunnel, unable to see any way out.

  Art : 8
  With the style of the story and horrific sexual acts, I think the choices in art accompanied it well to enhance the extreme nature of the show. Rape is common in hentai, however most shows tend to go a softer route with the blood but this show enjoys showing viewers huge amounts of it mixed in with other bodily fluids. The show holds shots on scat consumption, goes through long cuts of electrocution which go on for some time and helps form the sense of dread and disgust in the viewer. This show is very psychologically driven but of course we are unable to look into the minds of our characters and the art is the window to the soul for hentai, we are able to see how their personalities shift from fear to pain to acceptance of their fate. If the studio had not chosen to go extremely visceral and show excess in every horrific spectacle then the show would not have become such a staple in hentai culture

  Sound : 8
  As you may know, my industry standard is a 7 on audio as a non-offensive effort that does not tear down nor does it ehance the show. Euphoria gets an 8 because of the background tracks for scenes. The main reason a sane human being may watch this show is for the SHOCK value, pun ver much intended, and in order for Euphoria to provide this experience every single beat had to ring home with viewers. Honestly they could've gone the silent route of pure screams and slapping of skin on skin but the build up for our more innocent characters has the viewer gripped and scared for them or fearfully anticipating whatever horror was about to unfold. A job well done that really gripped me and created a great atmosphere.

  Character : 6

  For all the girls, especially a few specific girls, there is some great character development done as we focus in on them in each episode and get a look into how they react to the extreme abuse they face as well as how they change because of it. Obviously three of our girls take center stage however I believe the side characters play an important role as disposable bodies as well as allowing the studio to cater to certain niches. Personally for a show with such a huge scope of fetishes, the side character episodes were especially important to fulfill a couple less popular fetishes including such highlights as diaper humiliation and WATERBOARDING RAPE which is always nice to see. Our three main girls have great character development in my opinion as although we go through different scenarios in each story arc we get snippets of each character which builds our expectations of them and how we expect them to act in the latter episodes. The main role reversal was especially entertaining in showing the dark side of each of these girls which subverted our expectations and was generally entertaining in creating these stories with their own 'pocket' lore so to speak. In the moment, our MC also performed well in showing us a wide range of emotions that rapidly changed due to his fetish and his inner struggle with it however we never understand why he has this fetish or why he seems to go through a transformation in and out of sex. On the surface we have these potentially deep characters but the lack of backstory and often inconsistent personalities let down the unique storytelling.

  Euphoria is a classic and for good reasons. We have some good technical work being done here and more importantly it is extremely shocking and graphic content that just feels fucked up to a normal human being making it the best troll recommendation to give your friends. I liken the popularity of this show to such works as 'Boku no Pico' and ShindoL's Emergence or better known as simply 177013 as they have a certain uniqueness that make them inside jokes within the community of not only hentai viewers but the somewhat deeper anime viewers. I'm not gonna lie when I say this may have been one of the tougher faps in my day, even as a younger kid who barely paid attention to plots this fucked with me and shook me to my very core. Upon my rewatch, the psychological horror aspects became more prominent to me and I legitimately questioned why I was doing this. There are things morally wrong in most hentai but the kicker is that they never take it so far as to these convoluted challenges and these images haunt my nightmares. I called up friends in the middle of the screening to get some company as this show left me in such a dark place, I went on Discord searching for any interaction to pull my attention from the horror unfolding on my screen. Some of the most notable scenes include : Diaper Humiliation, Waterboard Rape, Hanging Rape, Official Anime Adaptation of Human Centipede and there are so many more scenes that take the usual tropes and elevate them to an inhumane plane. I took points off in Character as I felt the characters shook off the mental toll of committing these horrific acts too easily but honestly it felt like solace looking back as it caused me to dehumanize these characters which was the right course as these characters are not human because a human would've broken a lot earlier in the series much like myself.

  I'd recommend fapping once per episode and one episode per session however I do not know how anyone has the true capacity to fap all the way through this. I had to and be warned that there is something that fapping this show will take away from you that you will never be able to get back, your humanity.

  Psalms 23 :
  The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
  He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
  He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
  Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
  Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

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  Notes on scoring :

  • Score below 50% is a fail
  • Going from 50%, the score of the section’s “badness” exponentially increases so 25% isn’t just half as bad as 50%

  Scoring interpretation

  • 60% is “barely good enough”
  • 70% is “average”
  • 80% is “definitely above average”
  • 90% is “damn that’s legitimately good”
  • 100% is “perfect”
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  t4t

  32/100
  Disappointing and mediocre.

  CW FOR RAPE

  I was mainly interested in Euphoria simply because of the brutality of it. I enjoy things with high stakes and bleak environments, and I thought the visual novel was pretty enjoyable. The anime adaptation was a major disappointment for me, though. Now, full disclosure I understand adapting a VN with many different endings and routes into an anime is difficult. And please don’t get on my case about how I dropped it. I did skim through the latter half. With that out of the way let me break it down. Spoilers ahead.

  When I went into this, I was hoping for a lot more Death game/murder aspects, while the brutal rape and sex scenes were more of a side to it (it was on hentaihaven, after all). What I got, however, were back to back scenes of just rape. Almost predictable. It got boring halfway through because I pretty much knew what was to come of each scenario. And I know that the VN had a lot of those aspects to it, I’m not upset about it but I am let down. There are many interesting and traumatizing murder scenes in the source material, ( i.e. Rika getting crushed, Aoi being drowned, etc. etc.) and yet the only scenes I could see with that murder aspect was the opening electric chair, and Rinne strangling MC.

  Now I understand that this is a death/torture game, and that rape will indefinitely play a role in this. But eventually it has to feel repetitive. At least for me. Like I said before, each episode has a formula that is very predictable and gets very boring after a while. I also did not like how MC was made to be in the anime, one second he’s scared for his life and is worried for his classmates, then before you know it he’s violently taking someone’s virginity and acting almost psychopathic. Those parallels make him seem like 2 different characters forcefully rolled into one.

  It also bothers me that all the promotional material for the anime (covers etc) promote this as a rape fetish hentai rather than a psychological horror death game, like the original. I’m not saying it didn’t have to be a hentai. I think it suits that genre more especially because of the sexual elements of the VN. But all of that should be secondary to the murder and torture and high stakes. It seemed like it only wanted to appeal to creeps who get off to rape porn and lolis instead of wanting to actually tell a story. And while I understand that those tropes are definitely part of it, again, it felt unnecessary.

  However, it has a few things going for it. The opening scene with the electric chair for example. It pulls you in with an immediate character death. With the abruptness and brutality of it putting you in shock. The feeling of high risk that it puts the viewer in definitely holds strong in the beginning.

  Overall, for me at least, this adaptation was a huge let down, and I wouldn’t really like to go back to it. It had a couple highlights, but for anyone new to Euphoria, just play the damn VN.

  3.7/10

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  omn0mn0m

  38/100
  Came for the shock factor, stayed for the plot I guess.

  WARNING : Rape, Blood, Urination, Scat, Humiliation, Electrocution, Gore, Death, Bondage

  WARNING: Minor Higurashi When They Cry spoilers

  (Yes, this is me coping with what I watched. No, this is not fully serious.)

  After much dismay, I decided on April 1st, 2021 to watch the classic hentai series Euphoria. My reason for embarking on this endeavour was three-fold. The first reason was the series' name recognition, even outside of the hentai-viewing community. It has been reviewed by numerous anime YouTube content creators, such as Sydsnap, and even had a song written as homage to it by BTS member Jungkook. The second reason was my love of the visual novel genre, having created such classics as the "Science Adventure" series and Higurashi When They Cry. Having almost reached the end of Higurashi When They Cry, I had an unquenched thirst for more visual novel content. But, as much of a fan of the medium as I am, I have still yet to finish a visual novel in its entirety, and Euphoria was no exception. Rather than reading the visual novel, I did what most sensible anime fans do: they watch the anime adaption instead. The third was because I slid into a girl's DMs and she had it on her Anilist, IDK. Regardless of the reason why, I watched it, and so I will review this masterpiece of an anime.

  Euphoria takes place in what the viewer assumes is the not too distant future, having many of the same technology as we do in modern times. The story is solely focused on the perils of Keisuke Takatou, the male protagonist of our series, and his cast of five supporting female characters: Nemu Manaka, Kanae Hokari, Rinne Byakuya, Rika Makiba, and Natsuki Aoi. While there is a sixth girl, Miyako Andou, the series opens with her execution by electric chair. This serves as a forewarning to the viewer that Euphoria does not provide plot-protection to any character, no matter how few characters exist in the cast or how important variety of girls is in this kind of series. At this point, the viewer rightfully will feel unhinged. No other anime dares to kill off a main cast member so quickly and apathetically. Euphoria is bold and unafraid of taking risks for the sake of storytelling.

  From this first death, the story begins to truly unfold into a thrilling tale that captures the viewer's full attention. We watch as Keisuke must pick one girl for each trial, only after which they are instructed by a computer the torturous acts they must perform. Of course, the computer also reminds the pair that rape must be involved. If he or the girls fail to perform any of these tasks, every member of the party shall die. This provides a heavy question of morality, and while many are quick to judge the main character of his actions, the moral grey area becomes apparent once one realises that he has no choice. If he chooses not to perform these actions, then everyone will die. He is forced to carry this burden as he commits horrible acts episode by episode. We shall discuss Keisuke in detail soon.

  Finally, as the first episode ends, we move onto the second episode. The events seem familiar, yet different. What I originally thought was poor storyboarding, becomes a psychological trip for the viewer. What is real? What is fake? The characters begin to realise that their consciousness is not truly their own, but of the lab experiment that they are participating in. It is not until after three episodes of watching Keisuke be the most hatable character I have ever seen in anime, as he performs unspeakable acts to each girl, did the story reveal a different side of him. And in that moment, you as the viewer start to understand: this anime is based off a visual novel, and we are viewing every possible route. The route where Keisuke becomes a sadistic piece of excrement that deserves worse than death. The route where Keisuke hates every moment in the lab, and wishes that there was another way. The route where the teacher is a secret agent tracking down the secret society holding them all hostage. Everything falls in line, and crafts what would have been a masterpiece, if it were not for this slow reveal that causes the viewer to absolutely hate the first three episodes.

  This form of story-telling is reminscient of Higurashi When They Cry, as the viewer is left to piece together the puzzle. In Higurashi, we watch the same events over and over, in the same way we watch the events of the lab unfold over and over. And just like in Higurashi, we watch as the characters cause deviations in the story. But unlike Higurashi When They Cry, Euphoria dares to make us realise that these aren't just characters suffering and performing acts unspeakable in modern society, but these are projections of the human condition. As the hentai is based on the a visual novel, we as the reader would have had complete control over Keisuke and the choices we make. We, the anime viewer, must understand this. Every gram of feces forced down Kanae's throat, every hymen torn by force: someone had to have conscientiously made that choice. Should we therefore be disgusted in Keisuke, or in the human race? I would argue we should be disgusted in ourselves. Even when Keisuke is at his worst representation, he still believes in aftercare. He still wants everyone to survive, even if he has sick, twisted fantasies. And by the final episode, we understand that he did not have autonomy in his choice, but rather was just the vehicle for ours. If Keisuke, an exhibitionist to the human condition, had only had more benevolent readers/viewers from the start, maybe he would have reached his good ending sooner.

  In the end, I rated Euphoria 3.8/10 due to its lack of inspiring art and sound. Not only that, but the overall enjoyment was less than mediocre, as I still felt disgusted by the scenes like most people. The characters and story, however, prevented it from receiving a score of 1/10, for how can I poorly rate something that so masterfully raises the question of whether or not we should be horny in the club or crying in the club.

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