We love hentai for the same reasons we love porn: release our stress to our passionate fantasies that excite us sexually. What makes hentai superior in many ways is that you can go beyond reality and create whatever situation you want without any real-world repercussions. These situations can involve worlds of fantasy or sci-fi when hentai scenario writers try to be creative with their stories. Fantasy, in particular, is something we don’t see very often these days, and whenever something like Kuroinu pops up to fill in that void, it’s always a treat to see.

Why do hentai enthusiasts, like myself, put Kuroinu in high regard? For one, the art and animation are stellar for hentai. That does not mean it rivals high-budget anime from legit anime studios, but this is right up there with Bible Black for hentai. The only thing missing is a western release to see these beautiful hentai waifus in their full uncensored glory. But for what it’s worth, we see a great transition to animation from Liquid’s original game character designs.

What are the various fetishes and tags you will encounter in Kuroinu? All of them. Well, not literally all of them, but it feels like it does when you finish watching it. The biggest of them is rape. A lot of it. If that type of thing isn’t your cup of tea, you should tread lightly. Girls getting tormented by, not only by human male dick, but orc/monster dicks is what you will typically see in Kuroinu. For the most part, they are incredibly hot for what they accomplish. Highlights include anything involving our two lovely dark elvish beauties and a scene involving the shrine maiden Kaguya turning into a super slut for cock.

For the longest time, Kuroinu only had four episodes. They were all 9 to 10 out of 10 episodes based on sex scenes and art design quality. Then around the time when the sequel to the game came out in 2018, Magin Label decided to release two more episodes to promote it. Despite the initial excitement, many fans felt dissatisfied with the results. Why was this the case? Well, there is a multitude of reasons.

It’s not that the animation or art style took a nosedive. It still has the same great animation you saw from the first four episodes. For one, the episodes are shorter. About 14 minutes for episode five and 19 for episode six. This does not include the end credits, which last for about a couple of minutes. In contrast, the first four had almost half an hour of content you could fap to. If anything, they just feel like specials masked as full episodes. On top of that, the dark elves, the two most popular girls in the franchise, only appear for a mere minute or two in the fifth episode and never appear in the next one. This baffled me and other fans, considering the preview art for the last episode showed Origa fucking one of the girls with a strap on, which never happened in it. It’s complete false advertising.

Does that mean the sex scenes we get are terrible? No. In fact, they are at the very least decent for what they are. But in comparison to the previous episodes, they come off disappointing because of the shorter length and focusing on the same girls without any variety. Especially when they primarily focus on the blonde female character, who is the least interesting girl out of all of them. At the very least, we see action involving the white blonde elf girl, who is my 3rd favorite girl.

If there is one problem I have with Kuroinu, there is hardly any yuri action. The ones that we get literally last for a mere minute. One involving the dark elf girl Cloe fucking Origa with a strap on. It’s honestly my favorite scene to fap to, but it is done almost instantly before I have time to finish. I know that yuri as a genre hardly gets enough reputation these days. In fact, the only time it does is when it involves straight vanilla sex, but at least have one long scene to satisfy those of us who crave that content.

Despite these criticisms, Kuroinu is still hentai that cannot be passed off. Even with two decent episodes, the rest are still near perfect in what they offer. Dark elf fans have Kuroinu to thank for giving us Cloe and Origa and making dark elves a popular hentai tag. But it has more to offer than that. Ruu Ruu for the loli fans, monsters and orcs for those fans, and fans of mind break when the Kuroinu girls turn into hungry cocksluts. Magin Label may not be what it once was, but we have this to eternally thank them.

Grade: A-