CXLVIII: "Mama Mia"

Without reason understandable, I encounter anime and hentai, and every now and then, I'm bound to hit a few flops. There were 2 I spoke of in the hentai department, but here's the third called Mama Mia (or MaMa), not to be confused with the popular musical. The way I see it, saying it's bad is being nice to it.

The title features 2 different stories, and supposedly, both the male figures in the overall title is named Yuichi (whether they're the same one or not is questionable. For the hell of it, let's just say Y1 and Y2, since they are most likely different people.) In episode one, Y1's father has passed on, and he is sent to live with his stepmother Yukiko and his stepsister Mika. Strangely enough, he finds a porno among his late father's possessions, and Yukiko is in them. This causes Y1 to fantasize about her, while Mika wants him. This causes a love triangle within the family (yeah, it's an incest title, in case it wasn't hinted loud enough.) Episode 2 deals with Y2, and his adoptive father is killed in a car accident. He and his adoptive mother are with him. However, they make it out okay, though his mother loses her memory and is incapacitated. Both of them are under care of the maid of the house, and soon, his mother behaves much differently. This puts Y2 in quite a spot.

TDK Core presented this media, so that's to say it was released some time ago. All the same, it apparently had a license by Anime18, but it has long expired, so I can't say how long it's been since its creation. It was part of the so-called Secret Anima Series of hentai, and its box art seemed different in contrast to the animation itself. Maybe I'm looking into things a bit too much, but I was nonetheless disappointed. Granted, despite how flat it looked, the designs did look presentable, even though this is easily pale in comparison to bigger names out there.

In short, I saw it as an attempt at hentai that made a mediocre story, no solid buildup to the sex, animation was kinda bland, and the design is okay. Don't even let me get into the voice acting. For what I know, it has English and Japanese voices, but I found the English unfavorable (degrees MUCH worse than that of Bible Black's English voices.) Design and effort are the only thing stopping me from calling this a complete waste of time, but for now, and hopefully the only time, I call this a 1.3 of 10.