Doukyuusei: Climax v2

And now for something completely different. Orphan's next release is a revised version of the 1995 OVA Doukyuusei: Climax. The original release, done nearly ten years ago, used random Internet raws that were just terrible. This release is based on the R2J DVDs, provided once again by ProxyMan. It's still an interlaced and blended mess, but at least there's no video corruption.

Doukyuusei (Classmates) Climax is a sequel to the first Doukyuusei OVA, Doukyuusei: Natsu no Owari ni (Classmates: The End of Summer). For those who haven't watched or prefer to skip the original, here's a list of the key players as they appear in Climax.

• Mooroka Wataru, the horny protagonist.
• Suzuki Miho, "infatuated and juvenile".
• Tanaka Misa, "tomboy".
• Kurokawa Satomi, "sarcastic". She works with Wataru at a coffee shop
• Nishina Kurumi, "naive".
• Shimamoto Kyouko, chairwomen of the Cultural Festival. She wears glasses and is very serious.
• Aihara Kenji, a rich snob.
• Sakagami Kazuya, Wataru's best friend.

The OVA continues the story of Wataru and his harem of girls (Miho, Misa, Satomi, Kurumi). 

Wataru still pursues everything in a skirt, including Narusawa Yui, the heroine of Doukyuusei 2, who makes a cameo appearance. The girls in his harem all know about each other and don't seem terribly bothered about his antics. Meanwhile, Kazuya continues his seemingly fruitless pursuit of love, trying to escape from his stereotyped role as a "fun guy" and permanent resident of everyone's friend zone. 

Like all the Doukyuuseis, Climax is a soft-core h-anime, with sex scenes that require no censoring due to careful camera angles and conveniently placed sheets and blanket.

This release includes an AMV of the ED song, Wake Up to Your Love; it's basically a compilation of sex scenes from The End of Summer and Climax. It also includes two unsubtitled extras: a preview for Doukyuusei 2, and a strangely animated short subject.

The voice cast is fairly distinguished for a routine h-anime:

• Iwata Mitsuo (Wataru) starred as Tetsuya in Outlanders, Shoutarou in Akira, Kintarou in Golden Boy, and Jay in Next Senki Ehrgeiz, an Orphan release.
• Asami Junko (Suzuki Miho) appeared in numerous classic h-anime, including 1+2 = Paradise, Adventure Kid, Battle Team Lakers EX, Countdown Akira, Demon Beast Invasion, Dragon Knight, Midnight Panther, Nightmare Campus, Rance, Twin Angels, Twin Dolls, Urotsukidoji II, and Venus 5. She also appeared in Every Day Is Sunday, Gude Crest, and Eien no Filena, all Orphan releases.
• Koorogi Satomi (Tanaka Misa) played Chi in all versions of Chii's Sweet Home, Himawari (the baby sister) in Crayon Shin-chan, Menchi (the food pooch) in Excel Saga, and Kuki-sama in the Limeiro properties. She also played Yahoi in Sei Michaela Gakuen Hyouryuuki and Keiko in Sensou Douwa: Tako ni Natta Okaasan, both Orphan releases.
• Takada Yumi (Kurokawa Satomi) played Yoshinaga-sensei in many of the Crayon Shin-chan movies and Ayeka in the Tenchi Muyo franchise. She played Saya and Monmo in Cosmic Fantasy, Purinpurin in Hoshi Neko Full House, Atover in Exper Zenon, Yumi the barkeep in Dokushin Apartment Dokudami-sou, Kumaba in Body Jack, and bit parts in Cool Cool Bye and Nora, all Orphan releases. She appeared in many classic h-anime, including Adventure Kid, Angels in the Court, Balthus: Tia's Radiance, Bizarre Cage, Black Widow, La Blue Girl, Countdown, the Demon Beast and Darkness series, Dragon Knight, F3, Fencer of Minerva, Lyon Flare, Trouble Evocation, Twin Dolls, and Venus 5.
• Oikawa Hitomi (Nishina Kurumi) played Ami in the Cream Lemon franchise, Katri in Katri the Cow Girl, and Yasuko in Miyuki.
• Yamaguchi Yuriko (Shimamoto Kyouko) played Ritsuko Akagi in the Evangelion franchise, Nico Robin the One Piece franchise, and Yuarisia in Dragon Pink. She also appeared in many classic h-anime, including  La Blue Girl, Beast City, Cool Devices, Countdown, Masquerade, Midnight Panther, Tournament of the Gods, and Variable Geo.
• Futamata Issei (Sakagami Kazuya) is best known for his roles as Godai Yuusaku in Maison Ikkoku, Akira (Chibi) in Urusei Yatsura, and Saburo in Sazae-san. He played the main character, Yoshio, in Dokushin Apartment Dokudami-sou and the psychopathic brother, Cross, in Hi-Speed Jecy, and he appeared in Fukuyama Gekijou, all Orphan releases.
• Hayami Shou (Aihara Kenji) starred as Nanjou in Zetsuai: 1989 and Bronze: Zetsuai since 1989, and Kushinige Hodaka in Oshare Kozou wa Hanamaru. He also played an angel in Tezuka Osamu's Tales of the Old Testament, Aji in Hayou no Tsurugi, Exper Kain in Exper Zenon, Iason's friend Raoul in Ai no Kusabi, Hojo in Sanctuary, Pat Leivy in Starship Troopers, Junoichi in Blazing Transfer Student, Shargan in Gude Crest, and Seichii in Mikoneko Holmes. All of these shows are Orphan releases.

Kobayashi Takashi directed episode 1. He later directed the original JoJo's Bizarre Adventures. Fukumoto Kan directed episode 2. He also directed Kakyuusei (1995), Advancer Tina, Yesterday Once More, Enbo, and other h-anime.

For the original release, the translator preferred to remain anonymous (who can blame him/her?). archdeco timed. I edited and typeset. CP and Saji QCed. For this release, I styled and typeset the show again, with many more signs properly set and actually tracked. Rezo encoded and did a a release check. ProxyMan provided the R2J ISO.

So here's a new version of Doukyuusei: Climax for your viewing(?) pleasure. You can get the show from the other usual torrent site or from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news on irc.rizon.net.