Domestic means relating to the running of a home or to family relations. Well the family and home relations in this anime take a rather spicy turn, we have sister one and sister two playing a game of tag with brother's penis. What does that sound like? 50% of most vanilla hentai. Domestic Girlfriend had a potential to dominate the hentai industry by giving us something we all longed for, hentai with story. But instead it chose the dark path and decided to become a mediocre anime instead. Bummer.
Characters(4/10)
My favorite thing to talk about in anime is the characters, and sadly this anime did not really show us the full extent of ever character. Firstly Hina's declaration of love did not make any sense, instead it showed us how weak willed her love really is. She managed to cut ties with her previous boyfriend and immediately move on with her brother, whom at the start she showed no signs of romantic affection, but she has nice boobs and big ass so shes the best character. Rui's love made some sense in comparison to Hina's, though it was still not created properly. It seemed her motivation for liking him was that he was her first man, and that I can relate to, it's not particularly easy to not like someone you gave your first time to. Hina's love was realised when she witnessed Rui and Natsuo kissing, so it was derived from jealousy rather than true feelings. Rui's however was derived from sexual attraction to her first man, which means her feelings towards Natsuo was not really genuine but rather sexual. But it seemed both girls remained true to their feelings towards his penis so that to some degree is respectable. Finally we have our main character, Natsuo. I will say that i absolutely do not like him, he seems to be this dumbass who seemingly ends up as a playboy, with average looks and a completely bland personality. To make things worse he is one of those 'Think with your dick, not your brain' typed Protagonist, who cannot keep his feelings limited to one sister. The presence of a good Male Protagonist in an anime does a lot for the story, but to me the MC in this story did not feel likeable to any degree, instead he seemed like a better designed version of Makoto from school days.
Story(9/10)
Dome-Kano has an interesting synopsis:Boy likes Titty-Teacher, Titty-Teacher sees Boy as a kid, Boy is sexually frustrated so smashes Domestic-Ichigo. Later Boy's dad marries Step-Mom, and turns out Step-Mom is the mother of Titty-Teacher and Domestic-Ichigo. So Titty-Teacher turns into Sexy-Sis and Domestic-Ichigo turns into Slutty-Sis. So yeah the story is a train wreck and sounds dumb but there are a few of uncensored sex scenes so the story is a 10 no doubt. Speaking from an objective POV, the story in Dome-Kano was genuinely pretty good, the plot twists felt nice and the show never failed to tuck my heart and burst my nerves with how spicy it was. My only issue with the story is the fact that the story and the title do not mix together, rather a title like Domestic Incest would fit more.
Soundtrack(6/10)
The opening of domestic girlfriend must be one that most people in the anime community have at least heard once, that is because this opening is phenomenal. The opening makes the anime seem like this astonishing drama, with several dark and edgy twists. The enriched love and passion gone into the opening felt wasted on such an show, it opens this desire to watch a show that will knock your socks off, but the hype created by the opening is let down by the shabby story in the anime. Meaning thought the opening alone sounds fantastic, it wasn't able to portray how deep or intense the story was. The endings and OSTs were alright but they didn’t quite measure up to the level of the opening.
Animation(4/10)
The animation was done moderately well, however several existing scenes showed us the use of stills, which for an animation spells out poorly done. At times it felt like the characters hardly ever moved and i cannot recall any moment where the scenery was portrayed with love and care, is what I would like to say. This stayed true for most of the measly minutes in the anime, with the exception of the sex scenes. The saying 'In anime we look for sex, and in hentai we look for story' seems to hold true, because the sex scenes portrayed in this anime were enjoyable. And yet objectively they lacked emotion, because they were mainly shown as stills or in terrible camera angles, it felt like they made it using a power point presentation. The only plus point here is the existence of the sex scenes, not how well they were done, because they weren't done well.
Enjoyment(8/10)
Though the show has an innumerable number of negatives ranging from shallow characters to lazily done animation, the plot was without a doubt very enjoyable. It was spicy at times and pissing off at others, watching Natsuo hurt my head because of the sheer stupid his brainless-dick bought. But I kept coming back to witness exactly to what lengths the story would progress. So yes I did enjoy it.
Overall(31/50)
It’s a reverse NTR story with a load of incest and milf mixed in. It has its wholesome and sad moments, however that is shattered by the main characters persona. Watch it if you can handle pissing off characters, it is not for the weak willed.
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