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An earlier draft can be found here. It's rougher and the image links are all dead, but take a look if you're interested.

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The field of hentai (or "anime porn", as it is more concisely known) is universally regarded as a strange one. Along with your standard-issue naughty tentacles, it is also home to a mind-numbing number of fetishes and other nasty delights. In my never-ending quest for sporking material, I have come along nearly all of them, but nothing in the field, as far as strangeness goes, compares with the slim volume known as Anal Justice 2. And by "field", I don’t merely mean that of porn, but of the entire literary canon of humanity. There is nothing else I have ever read that is remotely like this. The world of this manga is a world where literally everything is about sex, where sperm is a panacea and school is held for the express purposes of orgies and philosophical dissertations about the nature of genitalia. This is something that even 4chan regards as odd - take that as you will. But why can’t darker, more objectively squickier manga top this in terms of strangeness?



As far as its actual content goes, Anal Justice 2 is pretty tame. No one is raped (at least not severely - this is Japanese porn, after all), tortured, inflated or cut up, and there’s nary a tentacle in sight. Sure, the author proudly puts his fetishes on display, but by hentai standards they’re pretty innocuous. It’s not the art, which is competent for the most part. It’s the tone and dialogue of the book that makes this one. It’s hard to describe, but there’s a certain innocence to the plot. It plays out like some kind of pornographic afterschool special, as if the author was honestly trying to write porn for kids. "Whimsical" is almost an appropriate word for it. It could even be interpreted as a simple plea for tolerance and love if you took all the penises out.

If you took all the penises out of this, though, you wouldn't even be left with the table of contents. For Anal Justice 2 (subtitled "Ejaculating Cock Tales") is Toshihiro Ono's ultimate ode to phalli, cum, futanari*, and schoolgirls. As whimsical as the manga is, it's still a weird kind of whimsy, and one that rates very, very high on the WTF-meter. I’ve done my best to censor any pages that the recap links to, for your safety (and the fact that I'm hosting them on Photobucket), but be aware that they still may qualify as NSFW. Ono, whose pen name "Sanpei Kamirenjaku" graces the cover of this book, is like that. Hentai artists are fucked up as a rule, but Ono manages to be fucked up in a completely different direction from the norm. Ono has another career as a kids’ manga artist, and it shows. Just as all his work for the young’uns has girls in skimpy outfits running all over, his adult works have a strange kind of juvenile mentality swimming throughout them, making for some goddamn bizarre results.

*Note about the terminology used in the recap: Futanari, or ‘dickgirl‘, is a term for an apparently quite established genre of Japanese porn that deals with female characters who inexplicably have penises for whatever reason (the term futa is a shorter, adjectival form of this).

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Meet the cast!


Nanao ("Nana-chan") Tachibana: The main protagonist. An effeminate, crossdressing, borderline-transgender boy who attends a girls' school whose gender-checking policies are ludicrously lax. Notable as the first male member of the Erection Club, the plot concerns his own self-doubt and disillusion with the group. Makes numerous mentions of his desire to get pregnant with Itsuka's child. Is a few condoms short of a pleasure pack.


Itsuka ("Icchan") Marimoto: A futanari honors student whose main role is "Nanao's girlfriend". Mainly seen having sex with Nanao when he's there, and angsting about his absence and being temperamental when he's not. Ends up nearly breaking a few asses (you read that right) when she gets really pissed.


Mina Kyogoku: The only major character who does not, in fact, possess a penis, she makes do with her trusty strap-on. Has frequent relations with Nanao and Itsuka and is the established school slut, until she develops a relationship with Futami.


Futami: A tough-talking dickgirl and an established member of the Erection Club. Manages to successfully start a relationship with Mina and reform her from her sluttish ways, despite having no romantic tact whatsoever.


Ms. Sakura Arisugawa: Hermaphrodite (her gender is kind of unclear here) teacher who Nanao harbors a crush on. Leader of the Ball Club, her ultimate dream is to found a school where no actual learning takes place. Is actually the closest this manga has to a voice of reason.

The Erection Club: School organization devoted entirely to orgies (no administrators at the school take issue with this sort of thing). Proud members include Nanao, Itsuka, Mina, Futami, Hitoe (the club leader) and a whole bunch of other dickgirls who are pretty much just there.

The Ball Club: Posing as a sports club, this is a rival student organization comprised entirely out of cross-dressing boys. Its members believe in the inherent superiority of those with testicles and emerge as the main antagonists. I would list the individual members, but they're all pretty much the same. Except for Misogyny-kun, but we’ll get to him later.


Toshihiro "Sanpei Kamirenjaku" Ono: The author, who bamfs into the story (as a midget with a cardboard box on his head) every now and then. Usually, it's to declare his eternal love for schoolgirls and then promptly berate himself afterwards. Best known in the West as the author of the successful, non-pornographic Pokémon manga series The Electric Tale Of Pikachu, which manages to make this effort even stranger. It might also explain the "porn for kids" angle.

"But Zeiss", you ask, "why is this only about Anal Justice 2? Wasn’t there an Anal Justice 1?" There was, but it wasn’t as memorable. It was a pretty average futanari romp, covering Nanao’s initiation into the Erection Club, whose only transcendantly WTF moments were this preface from the "Ejaculation Council Of Japan" and a chapter where Nanao and the gang buy a vibrator for a sickly child. The continuity of the series is such that the second volume can be safely regarded as a stand-alone.

But enough talk, have at you!

Prologue/Chapter 1 - "Women Who Grope Cocks"

While the cover makes no mention of the strangeness found therein, the preface illustration proudly exclaims that, "All girls who read this comic are absolutely guaranteed to get pregnant! Conception Ratio 100%!", which comes off as more of a threat than an enticement. Ono, as we will learn, has a certain fixation with pregnancy, among other things.

The first chapter has nothing to do with the rest of the plot, and revolves around a twist of the old "subway molester" ploy - this time it's Nanao who finds himself compromised by a gang of rowdy schoolgirls. Specifically, they are the "Ass Girls", the ridiculously skimpily-attired students of a nearby girls' prefecture where the only subject is apparently Being Perpetually Horny 101 ("At recess, you can't hear anything except the sound of vibrators and a whole lot of moaning!"). For they go groping, groping inside packed train cars, that’s where the Ass Girls all learn to grope lightly; groping, fondling inside packed train cars, the ol’ Ass Girl-grope pleases boys completely.

The day after they make the initial first grope, they treat Nanao to the Most Frightening-Looking Vibrator Ever - how many actual sex toys have you seen with horns and what looks like a Koopa shell at the top? No lube is needed, of course - Anal Justice 2 is ultimately a very idealistic work: sex literally solves everything, nothing truly bad ever happens to anyone, and all anuses, as they are in the dreams of a thousand yaoi fangirls, are self-lubricating. The chapter ends with Nanao deciding to ride by bike to school, and he and Itsuka contemplating the Ass Girls; while both confess their desire to join them, they both realize their fatal flaw:

"They don't have cocks! They don't allow it! Hahahahaha...wanna go have sex in that public bathroom over there?"

They do indeed, and neither the incident nor the "ass girls" in general are ever mentioned again.

Okay, maybe that chapter didn’t warrant the overlong introduction, but remember that this is just the beginning. Welcome to the land of Anal Justice, where if you don't have a penis, you suck.* And this, folks, is one of the more normal chapters in the book. A book that starts off with a school of female train molesters and goes on to feature dickgirls, club rivalries, pregnancy, snobbish cross-dressers, oddly designed sex toys, cum with healing abilities, aliens, and more penises than one can possibly count. And when all is said and done, you will never think of testicles in the same way again.

*Despite the "moral", I think that it’s important to note that the book is not necessarily openly misogynistic in quite the same way that, say, the Gor series is; Ono doesn't go on screeds about "the natural way" as much as he just apparently thinks that having a penis is more fun than not having one.

Chapter 2 - "Cum Relations"

This chapter really doesn't have much to offer in the way of plot; most of it is simply a threesome between Nanao, Itsuka, and Mina that's utterly devoid of meaningful dialogue. It's soon revealed, though, that Mina, being the filthy slattern that she is, has funneled her envy over Nanao and Itsuka's penises into a newfound obsession with consuming semen - so much so that the other characters start to notice (and if even these guys start to think that you have a detrimental sexual addiction, it's time to sign up for immediate psychological help). As Erection Club officers Hitoe and Futami put it:

"Whatever could have gotten into Mina? She's just doing one after another, as though she has an insatiable lust for cum! She's like a woman possessed!"
"Cum poisoning, maybe?"

Cum poisoning. The reason why porno magazines, aside from having warning labels and being shelved out of reach of children, will in the future be forced to wear the Mr. Yuk sticker. Anyway, the chapter ends with Futami making the shocking discovery that Mina has been whoring herself out to random people in order to satisfy her lust. Mina runs away, embarrassed, after Futami spies her, before keeling over in pain and spending her last words declaring that her addiction was caused by eating cum-based paint chips as a child. Futami breaks down in tears, and the next page shows several yearly statistics for Japanese cum-poisoning casualties, as well as the number for a hotline to report cum poisoning victims. The final page shows a larger view of Futami sobbing, while in the background we see, for the first time, the actual name of the girls' academy - "Degrassi High School".

Well, she runs away at least. I had that part right.

Chapter 3 - "Sex Friend"

With Mina abandoning the Erection Club after the events of the last chapter, Hitoe and Futami discuss the situation over a (surprisingly lucid) blowjob. Hitoe worries about Mina's health, while Futami is visibly angry and goes so far as to threaten to kick her out of the club.

"That girl has been paying for cum! Her behavior is totally shameful!"
"Being a sex addict, that’s one thing, but capitalism? That’s just wrong!"

Hitoe manages to calm Futami down with an explanation from the Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann textbook on human sexuality:

"Futami...that girl doesn't have a cock to call her own. I'm sure she's simply pursuing cum because it's her heart that is thirsty."
"You see, Mina being a biological female, she is unable to believe in the penis that would likewise believe in her. Her addiction, in addition to threatening her health, severely hinders her ability to pierce the heavens."

Futami then confronts Mina and tries to help her by offering to take her to counseling. And by "counseling", we mean she scolds her and asks her to have sex in a public bathroom (technically, it‘s rape, but this is hentai manga, so no one gives a crap). Since Ono has a fetish for porta-potty sex and has complete dominion over his universe, the predictable happens. Though, Futami’s proposition rapidly changes in intent from straight-up raunchy sex:
"Kyogoku...do you know what you can get up to in this restroom? You don't have to stop at plain ol' sex here. You can stretch your ass real wide and let rip with whatever you've got inside you!"
To a bout of emotional, healing sex:
"So spit it all out, sweetie, everything that's in your heart. Let me be a vessel to catch everything that pours out of you!"
Before devolving completely into:
"Your pee tastes real good, Kyogoku!"

Following this, Futami reveals she has recovered Mina's "lonely and abandoned" strap-on (obviously a symbol of sorts). Both then proceed to go at it, while Mina muses that it is indeed sad that she never know "the bonds two girls with cocks can share with one another". TWU WUV, people. Anyway, the girls (who are magically transported from a bathroom to a bed somewhere) spend a happy night together:

"You're sleepy already today. You can use my cock as your pillow."
"Will you keep it hard for me all night long?"
"Of course I will."
"I love you, Futami."
"Do you also mind if I flip your cock to the other side and hit around a bit, just to fluff it up a little?"
"Look, kid, don't push your luck."

The next day, they run into Nanao and Itsuka, who celebrate Mina's birthday by giving her the expensive tea set she's always wanted. Well, no, they give her a custom dildo set, the logic behind which is described in excruciating detail (they‘re made from molds of Nanao‘s and Itsuka‘s respective penises, there‘s two of each so she can every kind of fun with them…sex toys are for Ono what dust was to Steinbeck). Mina (who, of course, has been magically healed from her shameful ways) goes on to use said dildo set on Nanao and Itsuka while Futami watches, and then they both pretty much fade into the background for the rest of the manga.

And now that we've got most of the boring filler-ish stuff at the beginning over with, next post sees the first of the incredibly surreal part. You have been warned.