Once again, I’m posting a quickie.  Scanlating Ruin Explorers has taken up a LOT of my free time.

This week, we’re taking a look at Angels in the Court, a rather shameless anime that knows what it is and is exceedingly good at what it does.

We start off with a sex scene.  Seems like with hentai, the chance of that happening is roughly 50%.  Not that I’ve done a formal study, mind you.

The main character is a volleyball coach, and he’s having sex with a teacher that has no relevance to the rest of the anime.  It’s unclear why we can’t just start from the beginning.

Skip… I dunno, a few days, maybe a full semester into the past…

We’re introduced to the the volleyball team:

Pretty good roster for a hentai.  But we only have two episodes.  Well, three unique sex scenes per episode is a pretty common format…  Maybe we’ll double up?

Coach Motoura drills the girls while battling against sexy distractions.  Then a non-sexy distraction shows up:

Coach Kabanishi and Coach Motoura used to be rivals in the past… though Motoura really doesn’t remember and doesn’t even acknowledge him two seconds after hearing exposition about their past rivalry.  Either way, he does seem concerned about Kabanishi’s declaration that O-Ring High’s team will beat Motoura’s team in the coming tournament, so he sends two of his players to spy on him.

Suddenly, a mysterious transfer student arrives!

She doesn’t make any friends when she points out everyone’s flaws.  A pissed off volleyball team questions how good she herself is at playing, and this happens:

Nanase brings Motoura outside and starts grinding on him.  The two start fooling around until she leaves just short of him pulling his dick out, and she completely demolishes the entire volleyball team on her own.  However, Nanase only wants to be a manager because she otherwise requires being aroused whenever she plays or even if she wants to practice.

Not that that’s a problem for the coach.

We get some nice bonding scenes between the team members, which is something often neglected in hentai, so I’m legit impressed.  Nao leaves to go to work.  The team captain, Sho, bumps into the coach and confesses her love for him.  The coach is still sporting a boner from fooling around with Nanase earlier, so the two go to a karaoke bar and have sex.  Turns out Nao works there and she interrupts the two going at it, only to join them, resulting in a threesome because why not.  I also have to say, it’s a rather inventive scene that involves Sho trying to sing while being fucked, and the coach sticking a live microphone into Nao and all the sloshing being output through the speakers.

In the next game, the coach decides to stick Nanase in, but she gets completely destroyed.  Naturally, she goes straight to getting groped by the coach, and the rest of the team has to huddle around so no one else sees what’s going on.  The now fired-up Nanase brings the score back up, but a stray spike by Sho accidentally hits the coach in the nads.  And for some reason, the next scene is him in the park getting sucked off by Kozue.  A group of delinquents show up and try to pick Kozue up, but the coach holds them off while she escapes.  The rest of the team gets called about what happened, and back at the park, everything is a wreck and the coach is nowhere to be seen.

The team suspects the worst.  But he’s okay.  Turns out he beat the losers up, stole their wallets, and went to a soap club.

The jokes is really milked when we cut to the girls being worried at their favorite hangout.

It’s time for the Aota vs. O-Ring finals, and not only do they have no coach, Nao gets injured during the game and their ace spiker Sho is literally worried sick.  She shows up to play, but she soon faints.  To prevent the team from forfeiting, Nanase steps in… but she sucks.

Meanwhile, the coach realizes he’s late for the finals and runs to the school, stealing a scooter from the delinquents he robbed in the process.

The injured Nao and sick Sho step in because they’re at least better than a non-serious Nanase.  Nanase bumps into the coach outside, and she decides the only way to win is not only for her to be serious, but for her to get more “power,” presumably from her losing her virginity.  I won’t pretend to know how her “powers” work, so I’ll refrain from questioning the logic there.

Sho collapses a second time and gets spiked in the cheek.  O-Ring is one point away from losing.  Suddenly, Coach Motoura makes his dramatic arrival.

The fired-up Nanase turns the game around (and the score changes make no fucking sense to me…) and Aota wins.

In the infirmary, the coach visits Sho and presumably has sex with her.  Nanase arrives and is shocked by what she sees:

Nanase joins in, and that’s how we close this anime out: with a two and a half minute ninesome.

God bless this anime.

Comedy: 5
Absolutely hilarious from top to bottom.  The screencaps don’t do it justice, and I skipped out on several gags that just have to be seen.

Wankability: 5
You’ve got eight girls with appealing designs put in ridiculous, over-the-top sex scenarios.  The only way this could rank higher is if it were made later and the art quality was improved.  Then again, the art quality didn’t exactly do wonders for Class Reunion.

Pleasure Rating: Damn Good Watch
Seriously, this is one of my favorite hentais ever.  It knows what it is and what it wants to be, doesn’t fall into pacing pitfalls, and makes ANY excuse to shove ALL of its characters into sex scenes.  This is what light-hearted hentai should be.  If I could find a copy of the official English DVD release that cost less than $550 (look it up on Amazon; fuck that seller) I would snatch it up.

Rewatchability: Sure, it’s good, but would you watch it again or just absorb the information, never to use it again, like whatever you were studying in your senior year?

Music: Catchy
The crazy conga party track that plays in some of the sex scenes and the overly dramatic shonen action track during volleyball scenes have a way of sticking in my head.  Nothing particularly special, they just have a certain quality.

Marketability: 4
The character designs are great, and the art for the game this anime is based on is superior (which should come as no surprise).

This is where I would normally wrap up my thoughts on this anime, but I don’t think I need to say any more than this: Ninesome.