Rei IgarashiYasunori MatsumotoMika KanaiYumi Ichihara
Elven Bride
Also known as: Elf no Wakaokusama
Medium: OVA, series
Year: 1995
Writer/director: Hiroshi Yamakawa
Actor: Mika Kanai, Yasunori Matsumoto, Rei Igarashi, Yumi Ichihara
Keywords: anime, hentai, boobs, fantasy
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Format: Two episodes: 26 and 29 minutes
Url: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2123
Website category: Hentai
Review date: 1 August 2024
Elf no Wakaokusama
It's a happy, heartwarming semi-hentai (i.e. no hardcore) about two newlyweds. He's a human (called Kenji) and she's an elf (called Milfa). They love each other and neither has a roaming eye... but they have a problem. Kenji's too big for Milfa. Are elves undersized down there? There are still things they can do, obviously, but they'd like to consummate their marriage traditionally.
Society in general is another problem for them. People are bigots, e.g. refusing to sell Milfa vegetables except at three times the usual price. "You don't have to buy it if you don't want to. Our disgusting food wouldn't please an elf, right?" Ep.2, though, reveals that cross-species relationships are common... and often difficult. Milfa's luckier than some, e.g.
"Since my boyfriend is part beast, his thing is huge! I'm gonna break apart! I'm only a half-hobbit!"
"My husband's only a quarter wolf-man, but he's hung like a thoroughbred!"
Ep.1 has Kenji going in search of the ultimate lubrication: harpy ooze! This involves harpies and their sexier cousins, Harpians. "We harpians can't produce offspring with each other. Well, we can, but they're always harpies." They want Kenji's seed, but he doesn't want them to get it! He's there for a marital aid for his wife!
He fails. "A few months later, Pyully had triplets, two girls and one boy. A girl can get pregnant from just a drop of semen, you know!" Meanwhile, Milfa gets a nice storyline about trying to get along with her neighbours and rescuing some children who'll turn out less bratty than they seemed initially.
Ep.2 then introduces Kenji's granny (?) Mitsuko who's a succubus, an oni and/or some other man-eating monster. "'Eating him' makes me sound bad! I just took some of his spirit. In order to stay in this form, I need a lot of spirit." (Her latest victim had sex with her 180 times and now looks mummified.) Meanwhile, Milfa visits a gynaecologist... who's a housewife-hunting vampire who hypnotises his victims into becoming his sex slaves. Gynaecologist, meet Mitsuko. Ouch.
It's a pleasant little story. It's interesting to see a hentai about a married couple. Their relationship feels plausible, real and nice, while the animation made me laugh (e.g. comedy wiggling ears). Especially when Milfa's turned bright red. Furthermore, Kenji and Milfa are equal protagonists of this show, with neither getting sidelined. There's non-trivial material about mixed-species relationships and the social pressures around that, including a frank discussion at the clinic between mixed-ethnicity women. ("My name is Ion. I'm a mix between human and wolf-man.") This isn't explored in enormous depth and it would have been nice to get more episodes and see more of this world, but it's still of interest.
This feels like a hentai that women could also enjoy, although it's pushing it with the harpian sort-of-sex in ep.1. Well, Kenji's motives are pure. Oddly, though, the art style tends to give everyone fat faces but normal bodies. This one's for all you romantics out there.