Hana, the Manservant - Part 1
華・従僕 前編
Story
That grand mansion stood quietly on the outskirts of the ancient capital. Surrounded by deep forest, it's in an environment isolated from the mundane world. It was the residence of Japanese-style painter Juichiro Aoki. Juichiro had a hidden other face. It was the perverted rape play he secretly performed in his atelier with his wife Reika, thirty years his junior. Reika had come to be his bride from a head family of flower arrangement in order to pay off a debt. Though it was originally a loveless marriage, before long she came to feel pleasure in the rape play, and even came to hold feelings of gratitude toward the husband who awakened her to it. One day, the live-in apprentice Kaoru Ayamoto, who happened to witness the scene, becomes excited by the extreme and lewd play she's seeing for the first time, and gets drawn in. Having devoted himself solely to painting and being a virgin, and also having harbored admiration for Reika, his head became filled not with painting but with the rape play...
Our take
Part of the Vanilla Series and produced in 2001, this Japanese-style period piece is set in the mansion of a nihonga painter on the outskirts of an old capital, ringed by forest and cut off from the world outside.
The picture is 4:3 and classic cel work: a narrow palette pushed hard into deep orange against black. The cover places crimson and gold kimono cloth under a full moon, with long black hair filling half the frame. Samples favour backlit silhouettes and amber interior light.
Naomi Hayakawa is credited for the original story and character design, and this is the first of two parts. Check the samples for that older texture.
Sample images
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