Hininden: Gauss

By 2005, the hentai-with-a-story genre was pretty much dead already. You'll only find mindless porn scenes, just intended for self-pleasure. Hininden is a surprising exception to this fact, although it obviously contains sex scenes too, along with funny scenes and above average character designs.
It is great to see some production value destined to improving animation and graphics quality, but apparently this lead to Pink Pineapple having financial trouble, since it didn't sell well. As expected, this single episode pilot was sadly canceled and unfinished, like many other hentais in the past. Before this OVA, 75% of Studio Arms catalogue also consisted of hentai-with-a-story animes, ... so they definitely had experience in this genre.
In conclusion, Hininden is an interesting, entertaining, short-lived chapter in a dying genre, which could be considered a hidden gem, and it is sad that it didn't have a recommended review until this one.

Overview:

What's this?! Another Z Grade, horrible hentai without a MAL review?! Have no fear, because I am here!!!

2019 is almost over and yet another anime studio is apparently closing its doors forever. After a 5 year hiatus, Studio ARMS returned this year to deliver one last load of burning garbage. However, that title was another Ikki Tousen series and I already reviewed that shitty franchise. Instead, I'm bidding farewell to the Troma of anime studios by looking at their final hentai from 2005. This is Gauss!

Plot:

Firstly, this anime has absolutely nothing to do with the German mathematician/physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Instead, this is basically ... a hentai version of Garzey's Wing. Oh HELL YES!

Some stupid asshole is making out with his girlfriend and is suddenly dragged into the sky by his dick! This mysterious force drags him back in time and forces him to save a feudal princess against dark forces. DAMN YOU YAMATO TAKERU NO MIKOTO!!!

We are also treated to an absolutely stellar fight scene between 2 female ninjas and some random goons. One of the gals has an attack where she squirts milk out of her breasts with such high PSI that it forms a jet cutter stream and cuts a man's head off! You read that last sentence correctly. That actually happens. The ninja girls are defeated, but when one dude tries to anally rape Jet Cutter, she clenches her asshole so tight it bites his dick off! This hentai is a masterpiece! After the ninja fight, our modern day hero is brought to a whore house and the hentai just suddenly ends in mid-coitus. It pulls a "Monster a Go-Go" and just fucking stops abruptly. Apparently it was going to continue the action directly with another episode, but this hentai bombed and the sequel episodes were scrapped. Bravo Studio Arms! You magnificent bastards!

Music:

I can't possibly skip this part! With any Jidaigeki anime you expect basically the same soundtrack Kaoru Wada composed for Inuyasha or Ninja Scroll. You need a shamisen. You need a shakuhachi. A koto is of course mandatory. This hentai has none of that shit! You wanna know what instrument Gauss has? Banjos. FUCKING. Banjos.

Art:

This actually looks really good by hentai standards. It's produced at the same quality level of Arms' regular anime, which certainly isn't Ghibli tier but I've seen hentai with zero animation. As in they didn't use in-between frames.


So who made this MASTERPIECE! It turns out that this was the first and last anime to be written and directed by Rin Shin. Who is Rin Shin you might ask? Rin is the mysterious, shadowy leader of Studio ARMS and was key animator on all of their projects after Yasuomi Umetsu's reign. There is no existing picture of Rin. There is no interview. It is unknown if Rin is male, female, or identifies as a 3rd gender. Rin Shin is a fucking ghost. I hope now that ARMS is shuttered, Rin Shin will finally reveal themselves. Sadly, that is unlikely to be the case. Even if he/she never works again, we will always have this crown jewel of terrible hentai!