Hentai, Gothic Lolita, Revenge & Mystery

Hentai, Gothic Lolita, Revenge & Mystery

IN GENERAL, HENTAI IS NOT PORNOGRAPHY PART 2

A Series of Articles by Forbidden [Art]elier

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FIRST ACT: THE CASE STUDY

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(1^st Beat)

Fade in, a group of men, who are members of a Yakuza Organization, attacks the household of a senior police officer. In front of the said police officer, they systematically rape all the women in the household. After that, they killed everyone. Cut to the next beat.

(2^nd Beat)

The next day, a neighbor discovers the unfortunate crime and immediately calls the police. The police immediately arrive and check the scene of the crime. The daughters of the senior police officer are still wearing their school uniforms. Then suddenly, they hear a faint moan and to their surprise, the youngest daughter (14 years old) of the senior police officer has a faint pulse. They immediately rush the said girl to the hospital. Cut to the next beat.

(3^rd Beat)

The girl recovers in the hospital after two days. She finds out that her sisters and parents are dead. She begins to cry, dissolve to opening billboard.

(4^th Beat)

A middle-aged man enters a bar. He sees a girl wearing a gothic lolita outfit sitting at the other end of the bar. The said man approaches the said girl and offers her money for sex. The girl is about to turn her head to face the man, cut to the next beat.

(5^th Beat)

In a small room, the girl and the man are having sex. The man is screaming but the girl is quiet. The man gets irritated and pushes the girl. The girl falls to the floor. The man curses the girl. The girl begins to laugh in a haunting manner. The girl removes her wig and the man recognizes her. He immediately makes his move to get his gun. As he is about to point the gun at the girl, the girl disappears. The man sits at the end of the bed. As he is about to light a cigarette, the bed explodes. Body parts all over the room, cut to the next beat.

(6^th Beat)

The police receive a call regarding the bomb blast. Police cars dart through the streets headed to the scene of the crime. The innocent girl watches at a corner. It begins to rain. The girl gets a folding black umbrella in her bag. She opens the umbrella and begins to walk away. Then suddenly, she hears a faint cat like moan. She sees a frail, skinny, filthy and wet cat hiding besides a rusty trash can. She immediately picks up the cat and looks at it. She smiles and gives the cat a name, "wet pussy". Dissolve to the next beat.

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ANALYSIS: THE PLOT SUPERSTRUCTURE

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These are the initial six beats of the Hentai that I saw three years ago. Unfortunately, I forgot the title and I do not have a copy. Nevertheless, any animation story editor who knows his stuff will immediately recognize that this creation uses two plot structures at the same time. This is often called the "plot fusion" or "super-plot structure".

In any revenge plot, there is always a horrible action, event, situation, character, moment in time or a matter that occupies a space attached to it. This horrible entity is called the crime. A good "crime", pardon for the irony, exhibits long term traumatic effect that lingers in the unconscious of the victim or the survivor. But there are times that short term effects are necessary, if and only if, the said effects belong to a series.

The crime is defined by the punishment. The core principle is "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth". Thus, crime and punishment should always be in equilibrium. Now, if the balance is deliberately manipulated to a state of non-equilibrium, then that is a different plot structure.

Our gothic Lolita exacts revenge by planting bombs and blowing up her enemies into several pieces. Do you think this is an appropriate punishment for the crime committed? Or is this too much? In any revenge plot, the means of exacting revenge is always connected with the emotional effect of the crime. Meaning, when the Yakuza killed her family, there was what I call emotional dismemberment of the family as a unit. A component of the family is forcibly separated from the collective. Furthermore, the act of raping someone is usually equated to an individual's feeling of dismemberment emotionally. Thus, the dismemberment of the people who did the crime is not just a physical desire to terminate lives but also an unconscious manifestation of exacting emotional revenge.

The equilibrium is then sustained. The core value of the crime is emotional dismemberment. Thus, the punishment struggles to satisfy the core value. And one way to do so is to blow-up the said enemies into several pieces. This is the interplay of the conscious and the unconscious. Exacting justice is permitted by the conscious but this notion of justice is always within legal boundaries. But the unconscious operates in a different way. Psychological materials that are not permitted by the conscious eventually make its way to the unconscious. It is this incubation period that transforms this material into an acceptable provision for the conscious as it transits through the preconscious. So when, the desire or want becomes acceptable to the conscious, it begins to manifest itself through a specified behavior that motivates an action or activity.

At this point, the material is slowly creating its layers as a revenge plot. We begin to understand the dynamics of the story and the character as it moves towards horizontal storytelling. But the creator of the material, apparently, wanted to make his life miserable and so he employs a second plot in the material called mystery plot.

In the first beat, we see an innocent schoolgirl but in the sixth beat we see a Gothic Lolita. So what happened to her? How did she hook up with such haunting physical features? How did she acquire the knowledge of bomb making? Why did the Yakuza attack her family? These questions are general events that are sometimes enigmatic and mysterious. But eventually, such general events are ironed out by specifics that create connections. Thus, as the material unfolds and transits from crime to punishment, the mysteries behind the crime and the punishment are revealed.

Whoa! There are a lot of things about this material that are so interesting. It has solid narrative threads in terms of story and a well-constructed principal character. The combination is jarring. The way she uses her sex and sexuality in achieving her end is always deliberate. The smile, the look, how she plays with her body are all directed towards an end. Each action is a part of a bigger action. And as the audience begins to realize how diabolical this girl is, the more she becomes unique.

The sexual expressions in this material are not gimmicks but devices that make the material logical and consistent. The girl knows what her enemies want and she is willing to provide this want in order to satisfy her thirst for revenge. In a way, it is an irony. I mean, revenge seeks to heal a person's wounded psyche but in the process he or she distorts reality. In the end, we know that exacting revenge will never turn back the hands of time. But when reality is distorted, anything is possible.