A couple of days ago I was talking about good and bad omake included with DVDs. "Omake" means "extra" or "bonus". I compared the "Shana-tan" omake (which I didn't like) to the omake from the Stratos 4 OVA.

It just now occurred to me that there's yet another example of an omake I know of. It's the so-called "Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny OVA". I don't have the slightest idea how many of them there are, but the second one just showed up on the download site I sometimes visit. It doesn't have any subtitles, but it scarcely needs them.

These also favorably compare to the Shana-tan omake, on balance. Of course, where the Stratos 4 omake was an attempt to be funny, the Ikki Tousen omake is an attempt to sneak hentai past on a nominally-non-hentai DVD. Or something that's close enough to being hentai as to not make any difference.

Plot? You want plot, you say? There's no plot. There's just all the main girls from the series, stark nekkid, at an onsen. And everyone except the loli is nice and perky. (Two perkies each.)

The first omake was about the school that includes Kan'u. On the second one, Hakufu and the one from her school with the eyepatch show up and join them in the water, and Hakufu does some things to Eyepatch that I thought was going to start a fight, but... well... seems that Eyepatch liked it. (Oh, dear.)

I swear; it really was like something out of a hentai title. Or it was the kind of thing you'd expect in a bad doujinshi. Except that in a doujinshi the next step would have been a general lesbian orgy involving everyone present.

...not that there's anything wrong with lesbian orgies, mind. (yum!) Maybe in the third omake, whenever it comes along, if there actually is a third one.

What I want to know is whether MediaBlasters is going to include these in their R1 release of Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny.

They're 100-proof pandering, served neat in a shotglass. But I'll give points to someone who sets out to accomplish something, and does. If your goal is to deliver perkies, and you do, and if you think that's what your audience wants, then even if it's sleazy you still win. Problem with the Shana-tan omake was that once I finished watching it, I still didn't know what they were trying to do, other than the fact that someone-or-other had originally produced concept art of Shana as about 6 inches tall, and they decided to use it.

And I don't think they ever figured out what they wanted to do, either. Which is why about half way through they decided to start pandering, too -- only they didn't do it as well. Not a perky to be seen.

(I should know better than to write at 0430 after only getting two hours of sleep. The id comes out full force.)

UPDATE: Actually, a fight would have been good, too! Nekkid kung fu in the women's side of an onsen. (Mroow!)

I have really got to get my id under control...

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