La Blue Girl
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| 淫獣学園 (Injuu Gakuen La Blue Girl) |
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| Genre | hentai, tentacle, comedy, ninja, Horror |
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| Author | Toshio Maeda |
| Publisher | Leed-sha |
| Original run | 1989 – 1992 |
| Volumes | 6 |
| OVA: Injuu Gakuen - La Blue Girl | |
| Director | Kan Fukumoto |
| Studio | Daiei Co. Ltd. |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Released | 1992-1993 |
| OVA: Shin Injuu Gakuen - La Blue Girl | |
| Director | Kan Fukumoto |
| Studio | Daiei Co. Ltd. |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Released | 1993 |
| OVA: Injuu Gakuen EX (Lady Blue) | |
| Director | Kan Fukumoto |
| Studio | Daiei Co. Ltd. |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Released | 1994 |
| OVA: Injuu Gakuen Fukkatsu-hen (La Blue Girl Returns) | |
| Director | Hiroshi Ogawa, Kan Fukumoto |
| Studio | Green Bunny |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Released | 2001-2002 |
La Blue Girl (淫獣学園La☆Blue Girl) is a hentai anime and manga series.
Based on the manga by Toshio Maeda, the La Blue Girl anime, as with other hentai series created by him (i.e. Urotsukidoji), features a large amount of tentacle rape, but unlike its predecessor, a lot of humor helps to lighten the show, making it more of a parody of the whole "Tentacle Hentai" genre.
An immensely successful series, La Blue Girl has inspired, over the years, several OVA series for a total of 14 episodes, a comic book adaptation, three live-action movies1, some PC games and, of course, a handful of art-books.
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[edit] Basic premise
The story involves various ninja clans who continually fight each other. The female protagonist is Miko Mido, a young ninja-in-training and the next leader of the Miroku ninja clan. This clan has control over the Shikima, a perverted race of demons. However, when thieves steal the magic compact giving the clan this power, Miko has to fight the Shikima, utilizing her "sexcraft" ninjitsu in order to save the world.
The Shikima live in a parallel dimension called the Shikima world, and one must perform specific sexual rituals in order to travel there. The Shikima are all sex-hungry monsters, led by the Shikima Lord, who also happens to be Miko Mido's father.
[edit] Censorship issues
Censorship is practiced differently in Japan and in the USA, due to their different laws: Japanese law technically discourages showing of genitals in hentai [citation needed], while the United States is more concerned about forbidding the display of sex acts involving people under 18. Hence, there are censoring mosaics in Japan and scene removals and different ages of characters in America.
While not featuring the censoring mosaics of the original Japanese version, the US release of La Blue Girl was edited during the initial VHS release and all scenes featuring Miko's companion Nin-Nin engaged in a sexual act were removed, probably to avoid the charge of pedophilia, in spite of the fact that the midget ninja is not a minor.
For similar reasons the age of the heroine was also altered: initially stated to be a 16 year old high-schooler in the original Japanese version, she is an 18 year old college student in the US version. The DVD release contains this edited version. [1]
In the UK, the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) famously refused to give it the certificate allowing the movie to be sold on video.[2][3]
[edit] Original animated videos
- Injuu Gakuen La Blue Girl (4 episodes, 1992-93) is an adaptation of the original manga. Miko Mido is a teenage girl who is to be the next leader of the ancestral Miroku ninja clan. But the Suzuka clan steals the treasured compact that symbolizes the truce between the Miroku and the Shikimas, a race of otherworldly perverted demons, and soon Miko has to use the sexual techniques of the Miroku to survive the assaults of the demons and protect her sister. After learning the truth behind her heritage and the identity of her true parents, she embarks in a journey to become a real Miroku ninja and will have to fight an ex-mistress-turned-traitor of the Miroku clan.
- 1. Injuu Gakuen - La Blue Girl
- 2. Injuu Gakuen - La Blue Girl 2
- 3. Injuu Gakuen - La Blue Girl 3 - Shikima sakkai no shou
- 4. Injuu Gakuen - La Blue Girl 4 - Youtou inkai no shou
- Shin Injuu Gakuen (2 episodes, 1993) adapts the end of the manga, and as such is a follow-up and the conclusion to Miko's adventures in the first series. This time the enemies are Fubuki Kai, a rogue ninja who wants to defeat Miko and claim the title of best ninja, and the cybernetized survivors of the Suzuka clan.
- 1. Shin Injuu Gakuen
- 2. Shin Injuu Gakuen 2 (initially released in two, 30 minute long semi-episodes)
- Injuu Gakuen EX (aka Lady Blue, 4 episodes, 1994). Features an original story about two ghosts, Kyoshiro and Shanahime, labouring an old grudge against the Shikimas and attacking several of Miko's friends, including her first love.
- Injuu Gakuen Fukkatsu-hen (aka La Blue Girl Returns, 4 episodes, 2001). Another original story, this time about the legendary Shikima brain, a place rumoured to bring total power over the universe. It is coveted by the insectoid ninja clan of the Mahoroba and protected by a mysterious clan, who may have a relation with Miko's previous life...
[edit] Characters
- Miko Mido: Miko is the heroine of all La Blue Girl OVAs and a kunoichi. She is the last descendant of the female Miroku ninja clan, which has been feuding with the Suzuka clan for many generations. She is often very annoyed at being a sex ninja and having to use her body as a weapon against opponents. Miko can use many unusual sexual techniques, such as hardening her pubic hair into needles and firing them at an opponent, or the 'Nyoninboh' technique which allows her to swell her clitoris to the size of a man's penis and drive female rivals crazy with it. If strands of her hair are torn out, she can use them as acupuncture needles to stimulate her opponent's erotic pleasure points. Her most powerful attack is the 'Aoi Tatsumaki' (Blue Whirlwind), in which her hair turns into a giant blue tornado that invariably rips away all of her clothing (but generally at this point most of her clothing has already been ripped away anyway). Miko is the daughter of Seikima, the King of the Shikima, and of Maria, the Queen, who is human and a former Miroku woman. As such, Miko is a demon-half-breed and has the blue coloured blood of the Shikima, hence the title 'La Blue Girl'.
- Nin-Nin: Nin-Nin is a midget ninja who is always hooded. He is Miko's loyal, yet sexually perverted, companion and sidekick. He likes to peep when Miko is bathing or masturbating and beams with joy whenever he can see her naked, or barely dressed, or in any troublesome sexual encounter with demons or other ninjas. On the other hand, he is very much in love with her and always helps her out when she's in trouble.
- Fubuki Kai: A self-made ninja, she goes after Miko Mido to prove that she is more talented than her, and more worthy of the title of headmaster of the Miroku ninja clan. Defeated in a sexual duel, she is adopted by the Shikima and becomes a friend of Miko. When adopted by the Shikima, she is turned into a Shikima, since she desired enough power to equal Miko Mido. She is fond of her new form, but also irritates Miko by being better than her.
- Yaku: Yaku is another ninja of the Miroku clan, whom Miko meets when she decides to travel to the secret Miroku village. She is the only survivor (with Miko) of the Miroku massacre caused by Kamiri and Kugutsumen. Yaku is a powerful--and potentially very threatening--girl, for she transforms into a werewolf during a full moon unless she reaches an orgasm in time. Her most notable other attributes are her large breasts, of which Miko is envious.
- Kamiri: Kamiri was at one time the Miroku clan's sexcraft instructor, but she was banished by the clan for treachery because she became the lover of the renegade ninja Kugutsumen. Before being driven away, she was also punished by being raped with a thorny phallus that mangled her vagina. As a result, she swore to take vengeance on the Miroku clan. When Kamiri returns and steals the Miroku treasure, the magical sword Jipang, its evil spirit possesses her and makes her want to conquer the Shikima Realm, kill King Seikima, and rule over it. For that she needs Miko, who is the only one who knows how to get there. After several fights between Kamiri and Miko & Yaku, Kamiri is destroyed by the evil spirit of Jipang.
- Kugutsumen: Kugutsumen is a renegade ninja of the Suzuka clan who became the lover of Kamiri, the Miroku sexcraft instructor, after he was able to take control of her when a drop of his semen entered her body during a fight. It was he who killed all the Miroku ninjas by mangling their vaginas and causing fatal hemorrhages, mimicking their punishment of his lover. Because of her wounds and her possession by Jipang's evil spirit, Kamiri refuses to have sex with him and so he rapes several young girls. He is a tough opponent for Miko and Yaku, for he often tricks them by disguising himself and so lures them into his traps.
- Various Shikimas and tentacled monsters: The monsters, who generally have irregular and grotesque shapes, try to make the women reach orgasm, or to kill the women, or both, depending on the monsters' various agendas and natures. (One "poltergeist" is depicted in the manga as merging with a kappa in order to heal himself after being defeated by Miko and Nin-Nin and thus commit revenge against Miko; the Shikima King is said to be Miko's father, but a Shikima curse leads to her being violated anyhow, as two examples.)
[edit] Injutsu (Ninjutsu sexcraft)
Devised several centuries ago by some ninja clans like the Miroku, Injutsu techniques exploit human or demonic carnal weaknesses.
- Aoi Tatsumaki (Blue Whirlwind): Miko's hair ribbon is in fact a kind of a seal. When she removes it, her hair gains the ability to grow exponentially and to act as a mini-tornado. Often used by Miko as a finishing move against the episode's villain.
- Nyoninboh: Miko's secret weapon against females; she can make her clitoris grow to the size of a man's penis and use it to make her opponents orgasm. She is surprised to learn she is not the only one to have mastered this art, and Fubuki comes very close to winning her duel against Miko.
- Iron Pubes: Miko’s pubic hairs turn into needles that shoot at her opponent.
- Milk Strike: A shot of milk from Miko's breast, which can blind an enemy.
- Alcoholic Shower: Close-combat move, initiated when Nin-Nin sprays alcohol on the body of Miko's opponent, and she raises her body temperature to ignite the alcohol.
- Using her acupuncture skills, Miko can stimulate the hidden pleasure points of a female body to make her opponent orgasm.
- Acid Blast: Miko shoots acid from her vagina. Fubuki has a variant of this technique that she uses to melt demon tentacles.
- Werewolf Transformation: Yaku becomes horny when the moon is full. If she doesn't have an orgasm before it's too late, she transforms into a werewolf.
- Shikima Transformation: Once accepted among the Shikimas, and having her human blood replaced by demonic blood, Fubuki will be able to transform at will into a demon form.
[edit] Scene cuts in the US releases
Here are some examples of scenes cut down in most occidental releases of the title, but are generally included in the Japanese DVD release. There may be other cuts, as this list is not exhaustive:
- La Blue Girl episode 2
- Nin-nin having an erection while watching Miko masturbating
- Nin-nin masturbating while ogling the girls from the kidnapped volleyball team
- La Blue Girl episode 3
- Nin-nin failing at using sexcraft to calm down Yaku when she is transforming into a werewolf
- Nin-nin groping Miko while they are in the water source
- Miko grabbing Nin-nin's penis while trying to revive him
- The ending scene where Miko and Yaku reward Nin-nin after the monster has been slain
- La Blue Girl episode 4
- A very strange cut: a shot of the girls' faces when they are on the bus. As this cut is devoid of ecchiness, and as the audio is not perfectly synchronous with what is happening on screen, it may be an editing error.
- Kamiri seducing Nin-nin
- La Blue Girl episode 6
- Fubuki "convincing" Nin-nin to stay with her in the Inkai dimension
- Nin-nin landing on top of Miko when they are sent to the Injo realm
- Before getting transported to the S&M club, Miko is teleported to a classroom to serve as the plaything of several male students. This scene mirrors a passage from the original manga. Note that this scene is not included in the Japanese DVD release either.
- Nin-nin groping Miko's friends after Maria saved them.
- The whole ending scene where Miko rewards Nin-nin for having saved her
[edit] Printed material
- La Blue Girl Toshio Maeda's manga. 6 volumes.
- La Blue Girl US comic-book by Matt Lunsford and José Calderon. Collected in 2 volumes. Ironically, the comic-book looks more like a manga than the original manga itself (Toshio Maeda, being greatly influenced by the Golden Age of comic-books, has a very realist style).
- The Graffiti mook, a compilation of screenshots from episodes 1 to 4.
- The In no Shou and You no Shou art-books, screenshots and illustrations from La Blue Girl and Lady Blue.
- The art-book of Injuu Gakuen / Youjuu Kyoushitu contains CG illustrations from the PC98 game.
- Rin Shin's art-book contains illustrations used for the promotion of the series.
- several anime comics.
[edit] Video games
- La Blue Girl for PC-98 and FM-Towns, featuring a different character design from the manga and the anime. The story is an adaptation of both the first volume of the manga and the first anime OAV: Miko's friends at school are assaulted by demons and her professor is kidnapped and sent to their infernal dimension; Miko travels there and saves her; everybody goes back to Earth where a final showdown is awaiting Miko at school. Gameplay-wise it's a digital comics adventure game with some shooting phases (in a Snatcher fashion, and with shakens instead of a pistol).
- La Blue Girl for Windows 95. The art is more faithful to the anime character design, while the story is an adaptation of the La Blue Girl EX OVA.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ La Blue Girl editing report on Anime Prime (2004)
- ^ LA BLUE GIRL Rejected by the BBFC
- ^ Catherine Taylor from the BBFC talks about Hentai
