Review: Rinkan Club
Lilith is a large company producing goods for the adult market encompassing an array of sub labels such as Black Lilith, ZIZ Entertainment and more. With years and years in the business they have expanded from VNs into, novels, manga, art books, drama CDs, live action and anime. In this review I will be looking at one of their many one off series: Rinkan Club.
For thousands of years the people of the town of Rinin
have held a dark and twisted tradition. The towns deity Hime Iwanaga has cursed
the town and the only way to stop the city from diseases and danger is to
appease this deity through a ritual. This ritual involves having a woman dressed as a maiden and gangraped. There are rules to this though
and the only to appease Hime Iwanaga is to either impregnate the girl or cover
her in semen and sacrifice her.
This tradition has long since ended but lives on secretly
in the Rinkan Club at Rinin High School. Generation after generation of Student
President has ruled over this and numerous girls are selected to be raped by
students, teachers and anyone associated with this club. This is the story of
that club and teacher Suzukos attempt to investigate it.
I like that it gives a thorough backstory to why this is
happening, that the rituals of the past tie into what is happening in the
current day in the story really makes it feel connected, that there is, however
ridiculous, some degree of reasoning outside of pure sadism and cruelty. It
doesn’t happen just for the sake of it happening. The actual club raping part
may not be original but the execution elevates it above your run of the mill ero
anime, the girls and the scenes are naturally the main reason for this.
There are 5 main girls in the series, each one
effectively the focus of an episode with the expected overlapping. There are no main male characters of real note
which is good; it puts the focus on the girls as they fall foul to these
unnamed men of all shapes and sizes. By real note I mean no singular guys we follow, we get a few teachers names but ultimately they become forgettable.
Aiko Katsuragi is the school nurse, Suzuko Yamazaki is a
teacher, Shiori Nakamura is a teachers wife and Tomomi Yamanaka is an admired student. These four girls take the
brunt of the club activities. They are nice and innocent enough and seeing
all of them put up some resistance only to see them fall is delightful.
Lastly but certainly not least there is Motoko Tamura who is effectively the
ring leader of the Rinkan Club, she feels nothing for the girls chose and takes
pleasure in seeing them be abused and raped. More on her a bit later.
Design wise they all look stunning. It goes without
saying that they’re voluptuous, beautiful girls, this is par for the course for
an ero anime, they all have near perfect proportions which makes them ripe for
disgracing. They contrast well with each other as well, be it Suzuko with the
bright pink hair, the ideal looking student Tomomi or Aiko with her curves all
the way down to the petit Mokoto, there is something for everyone and it they
stick in your mind because of it.
If you hadn’t guessed from the title (rinkan meaning
rape) then this series does contain a lot of hardcore elements that will not
settle well with some. Obviously there is a lot of rape, the one consistent
element throughout as you’d expect and these scenes work well. They make you
feel (well, a bit) for these innocent girls who had no idea what was to hit
them. They also make you feel a lot of hate towards the girl orchestrating this
Motoko which I’ll get onto later.
But rape is not the be-all and end-all for this series,
oh no. There are a lot of other fetishes sure to cater to most. There is
electric play, bondage, bdsm, exhibitionism, sexual humiliation, slavery, abuse and even
scat. Me being me I enjoyed all of them, the humiliation aspects the most
because that is my main fetish.
One particular case of this and one of my highlights of
the series is when the club members are leading Shiori through the school. She is
tied up, completely naked, has body writing on her and has what we come to see
an unholy massive dildo / vibrator in her ass and vibes in her pussy. Seeing
her tears, her shame and humiliation as she defecates in the school being led
round to then clean up with her mouth is, in my eyes, perfection. The final
scenes in particular I liked as Motoko finally got what was coming to her, it
built up over the previous 3 episodes to the point where it was impossible not
to hate her and then it delivers in the most satisfying of ways.
Now I haven’t played the game but have looked over the
CGs and what I liked about the finale was the added scenes, to truly humiliate
Motoko. I liked this, it helped punish this girl even more and boy did she
deserve it, she’s the type of girl above everyone, who makes lesser people do
her bidding and seeing her comeuppance was joyous. It may be a cliché that
girls like her in ero series do get put down eventually but it is beyond
satisfying nevertheless. It’s rare for me to praise something that alters the
source material but it takes it to the level that was needed.
This also brings me to one of the few negatives I can
think of and it is minor. Yes the above scene with Motoko was beautiful and
seeing her get her comeuppance was joyous but it I do feel that is should have
gone further as it was, in a way, a tad lacking. After everything she put the
girls through it does feel like she was let off a bit.
Another episode dedicated solely to degrading her in the worst way slowly would have
been the icing on the cake.
On the animation front it’s a bit better than your
standard ero anime and is fairly smooth throughout, Pixy are masters of ero
anime so that should come as no surprise. There were a few occasions where the
animation went a bit wonky with missing devices or an extra leg appearing out
of nowhere. Enough to ruin the series it is not and not worth docking any
points either. Whether this was fixed on the DVD box I am not sure as I have
yet to get said box.
This is a series that does exactly what is says on the
tin. It features a bevy of girls all going through hell in the Rinkan Club. It
features a cult-esque plotline, caters to plenty of fetishes and other than my
one grievance above finishes satisfyingly. I would certainly recommend watching
this if you like this kind of content as it always finds a way to entice you.
Studio: Pixy
Episodes: 4
Release: DVD Singles and DVD Box
Available at: J-List, Amazon
9/10
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