Angel

Okizari presents a new English-subtitled version of the 1990 hentai OVA Angel. The show is based on a fragment of a long-running manga by the prolific ecchi and hentai mangaka U-Jin. The manga tells the adventures of Atami Kosuke, a scrawny and perpetually horny high-school student. The OVA focuses on his initial encounters with his childhood friend and eventual love interest, Himenogi Shizuka. Like many of U-Jin's works, Angel has comic moments between the sex scenes.

In this story, Shizuka has just arrived at a new high school. She hopes to be reunited with her childhood friend Kosuke. After being bullied, they had pledged to get stronger. Shizuka kept her word and has become a tall, strong, good-looking fighter. Kosuke, on the other hand, forgot all about Shizuka and has devoted his teenage years to ogling and, if possible, nailing pretty girls. 

After several feints, the serious plot involves an evil PE teacher who is trading better grades for sex and has ensnared a studious girl named Hitomi. Kosuke and Shizuka set a honey trap for the teacher.

It almost ends very badly, but thanks to the timely intervention of Kosuke's tall, manly friend Kanji, they succeed. Shizuka hopes Kosuke is a reformed character, but of course he isn't.

The sex scenes are heavily censored, but apparently even that wasn't sufficient. In the late 1980s, a serial killing set off a a press-fanned Otaku Panic that blamed anime and manga porn for the crimes. Censorship laws were tightened. As a result, the Angel manga did not receive a tankoban (book) release for many years, and the anime was edited down - six seconds were snipped from each of the sex scenes between the PE teacher and Hitomi. The cut version was used for all subsequent home-video releases. This is the first time that the original version has been made available outside Japan, as part of the ProxyMan project. 

As was common practice at the time, most of the voice actors used pseudonyms. Shiraishi Saori, an idol, who played Shizuka and sang the songs, used her real name. I think Ogata Kenichi played the PE teacher, but I can't be sure.

The original script was by Erobeat; I had edited that version. Perevodildo was skeptical of that script and did a new translation. He also redid the timing and quite a bit of the typesetting. I edited and did the rest of the typesetting. Paul Geromini and Muzussawa QCed. ProxyMan provided the raw, ripped and encoded from a Japanese laserdisc. The show is being released under the Okizari label.

Angel is very typical of last century hentai in having more plot than sex, and of U-Jin's work, in having some amount of comedy. It is also typical in featuring fetish themes and, by US standards, underage characters (Japan's age of consent was 13 at the time). It's not compelling, but at least it's complete. You can get Angel from the X-rated side of the usual torrent site.