(WARNING: Contains REALLY SLIGHT spoilers for Spring 2011 shows… but it’s not like we’re giving the ending away anyway though, so whatever.)
HEN ZEMI (a.k.a. ABNORMAL PHYSIOLOGY SEMINAR)
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Hen Zemi is a comedy series based on a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by TAGRO and run in the Morning 2 magazine. It currently has an OVA series running and as of recently as well has started a TV anime scheduled for a currently unknown number of episodes. Both the OVA and the TV anime are produced by Xebec (known for doing a number of ecchi shows).
Basically with a title like that, what you see is what you get. Nanako Matsutaka (VA: Kana Hanazawa) literally gets mixed up in quite the situation when she unwittingly gets enrolled in an “Abnormal Physiology Seminar”, where of course, you guessed it, everyone is ANYTHING BUT normal.
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Apparently the Gubernator forgot to kill one off in that first movie.. o_o
For a few examples of the “unique” students in the seminar, Komugi Musashi (VA: Akira Ishida), Nanako’s crush and possibly the only reason why she even bothers staying in that nuthouse of a group, openly engages in perverted activities and shows no qualms about it, while also harboring a huge NTR (netorare) fetish. His girlfriend, Miwako Mizukoshi (VA: Yukiko Takaguchi), is quite possibly the bigger pervert between the two, and openly invites possible abuse or exploitation from men OTHER than her boyfriend (much to Komugi’s delight), and has a penchant for doing some other really weird stuff (e.g. breeding flies inside her ears, per “request” of their professor).
Other members of the seminar include a manga artist with an obsession over invading personal boundaries and a hunger for pushing the boundaries on how far he can cheat on his girlfriend, his girlfriend herself who pretty much knows what he’s up to and relishes in the fact on how much anguish a possible revelation of his secret causes him, and their handling professor himself, who make sure his students live up to their seminar’s unique prospectus (also, he looks like the spawn between a shark and a Predator to boot).
The story primarily revolves around their ever sadistic and perverted professor continuing to hand out “special” assignments and projects to the students in his seminar to continually push their limits on just how perverted or “weird” they can get.
Basically for this show, there really isn’t that much of a plot to speak of. Instead, we’re treated to about 12 minutes of each episode of poor Nanako being exposed to different fetishes or deviant habits that would normally be seen in a hentai anime or such. Coprophilia, netorare, voyeurism… the list goes on and on and could still pile up as the episodes come by. I would’ve added more screenshots from the OVAs to drive home this point, but then again I don’t really know how to keep stuff here censored or whatnot. All that’s left for us to wonder now is how much more of this Nanako can take without her losing her sanity and crossing over to the “dark side”, so to speak.
Hen Zemi picks up on the concept of man’s deepest and most deviant desires and runs with it through some comedic routines that may be a hit and miss with some audiences because of the nature of the jokes. If you don’t mind watching these sort of things in porn itself, then you’d have no trouble picking up this series (It’s advisable to start from the OVAs first before wandering on to the TV series). For the other more casual viewers out there looking for a good comedy, well, you’ve been warned.