Isekai Meikyuu de Harem wo Episode 04 Fanservice Review

A momentous occasion.

There is story to describe here, but I assume most of you will rush towards the bottom of this post. That’s fine, but I do think some context is necessary to describe why Michio didn’t immediately take her home and have sex with her. After a point, my descriptions will become less detailed because there isn’t much to say- Michio is attracted to Roxanne, she has to obey his commands, and he has sex with her, and I don’t think I need to describe Michio fondling, penetrating, or kissing, that action should speak for itself. This will be a large post, so take care when scrolling because you might just miss something you’d have wanted to see.

Michio requests a move to a two-person room with a double bed for reasons that should be obvious.

 

Michio is an exceptionally paranoid man. This is seen very often in the Web Novel and Light Novel, and while this isn’t reflected as much in the manga, it is almost non-existent so far here in the anime. In the manga, he begins to fear that he may have been ripped off, and that Roxanne won’t actually let Michio do anything to her. It is for this reason he reaches out and grabs her waist from behind, to test the boundaries of the contract. Having Michio do this seemingly spontaneously in the anime makes characterizing him more difficult for anime only watchers, I feel. I’m not sure anyone cares about this or what I think, though.

 

With the way this series is often advertised, it can be easy to forget the mundanities required to establish the setting and Roxanne’s character- she requires equipment as well, of course. And that is what this shopping spree is for. The seriousness in which she behaves and some of the comments she makes on the things she observes offers some good insight on how Roxanne thinks, and generally offers some good characterization.

 

Michio is asked which he prefers. Michio gravely overthinks this, but his guess turns out to be right, as Roxanne agrees with his assessment.

 

After almost outright stating that he intends to have sex with her tonight, Roxanne requests an additional pair of underwear. This leads to an anime original shot of Roxanne in a pair of modern bra and panties lying on a bed.

 

Returning to the room is an awkward experience. Michio does take the initiative though, and has Roxanne sit on his bed. She had initially sat on the floor, and even offered to sleep on the floor, as that seems what some if not most slavemasters have their slaves do.

 

Another good bit of characterization here- Roxanne comes close to scolding Michio on the condition of his equipment. It is clear she is dedicated to maintaining her personal belongings, especially those they entrust their lives to. This also leads to a fortunate bit, as Roxanne decides to use her old pair of underwear for use in maintaining their equipment. To do this, obviously she would need to take her underwear off.

I consider it strange when I see things like this, there is a clear bit of bounce going on in the above webm. Why they decided to crop it well short of seeing her entire pair is unknown to me. 

 

This is the moment when the TV broadcast begins to differ from the ATX broadcast. This capture above was censored for the TV broadcast.

Pay no mind to the ominous lighting. The innkeeper-wingman is here to offer some hot water for Michio and Roxanne to bathe with. This provides Michio with a way to break the ice. It is only later that he could get away with “take your clothes off,” without making Roxanne nervous.

 

This image in particular was used to market episode 4 on twitter. I had assumed it was from later when she’s told to take her underwear off but it seems to be from a fairly uneventful part of the episode.

 

And the action begins. In order to use the water, each must remove their clothing. There is a major element of skinship used here as well, with the rubbing, touching etc.

 

This is a very unsubtle still they decided for. The manga has a panel like this as well, but I opted out of a comparison. Can you think of any other object shaped like what Michio is grasping here that will be around this area soon?

 

I believe there is too much unique movement from Roxanne late in this webm to do a stitch. This is very unfortunate as I would have loved to do it. It would have made the above manga comparison much better for certain.

As for the “story” Michio asks Roxanne if she’s able to move her tail. It is difficult to move it on its own, so she must shake her ass to do it fully.

 

The anime ups the ante a bit by removing Roxanne’s towel during this scene. She is wearing a handbra, however.

 

At this point, there really isn’t much to say. Sensing that the time is soon approaching, Roxanne grabs her maid outfit and offers to wear it for him, but this is declined.

 

The manga opts for the dutch angle.

With nothing else to delay the inevitable, Roxanne is told to take off her underwear and come to Michio. Again, not much to say anymore. Michio goes as wild as I’m sure 98% of straight males would in this situation. But from now, I’ll let the captures and webm’s do most of the talking.

 

 

That is not lactation above. It is Michio’s saliva. My guess is that they wanted to include something of a nod to those with such a fetish.

 

Shortly after this, the TV broadcast begins the “censoring,” showing only Michio’s hand strongly grasping Roxanne’s, but with the sounds being made, it’s obvious what is happening. We of course, are interested in the ATX version which is just below, and the penetration begins. This will not be the last time, in fact, this will happen quite a bit more often, with a later chapter confirming that they do this every single day.

 

I almost felt like mirroring this manga panel so it matched the anime, but I left it as is to show that this scene was laid out differently than it was in the manga, featuring many perspectives, poses, and general design choices that are unique to the anime. I do appreciate this, as I always felt this scene was a bit too short in the manga. Many panels from the manga to this point have been left 1:1 in the anime, but they decided to do this scene a bit differently.

 

Michio performs far better than any 17 year old virgin could ever hope to match. I doubt anyone wants to see what a realistic scene would look like though, considering the target audience.

I don’t normally do this, as including audio in my webm creator degrades the quality, but with ASMR being all the rage these days, I decided to post same webm, but with audio enabled (the bottom one). I’ll be interested to see which one gets more views.

 

Webm Album

 

I was very wrong in my prediction that the real bits would be hidden behind the blu-rays. I’m now convinced they will mostly only correct some of the more spotty frames, aside from the added bath episode they seem to be promising. There are some questionable frames even in this episode. Speaking of which, it is clear this episode was focused on quite heavily, for obvious reasons. In episode 03, Roxanne’s face looked a bit off, even considering the Passione-esque derpface they can give some girls at times, as well as some spotty animation and stills to this point. I do think many episodes will suffer in animation and general art quality due to much of the focus being spent here, but a budget must be spent strategically, and they clearly went in with a strategy to make this episode the standout.

We are now at the end of Chapter 12. From this point, the sex scenes for this season won’t be nearly as intense, except maybe the bath scene, but that is weeks down the line. In fact, only recently in the manga have they been made more extensive and intense- the manga author, Hyoujuu Issei, made a tweet recently claiming that he’s revoked a policy of his. I am paraphrasing it, but he essentially said he initially wanted the first times he had with each girl to be the most impactful, so he made no following scene as long or carnal. Recent chapters include sex scenes that have easily surpassed those that came earlier.

The remainder of the season will be littered with minor sex scenes, sometimes not even that- there are times only the aftermath is shown, with Roxanne lying naked in bed. Next episode will probably not have anything like this, unless they decide to speedrun the labyrinth crawling to show Roxanne essentially jerking off Michio, but I don’t think they will. They will probably take all of next episode to show off Roxanne’s combat ability. But again, this is only my prediction. I will be here next week to see, and maybe you will be here as well.