The Summer 2025 Anime Preview Guide - Nukitashi the Animation

Seiran Island, the tropical remote island, is home to Junnosuke Tachibana and his young sister, Asane, who return here from the mainland as a result of their parents' death. However, Seiran Island has become a dystopia where, to stop the decline of population, authorities have enforced the "Pervert Law." Sex is permitted and encouraged anywhere on the island, and those who refuse any sexual acts will be punished as a criminal offense. Being a cherry-picker who takes pride in his virginity, Junnosuke is skeptical about the law, thus, he sets up an anti-mating force, NLNS (No Love No Sex) to protect himself and his innocent sister, making headway to destroy the perverted law!

Nukitashi the Animation is based on the Nuki-Gee Mitai na Shima ni Sunderu Hinnyū (Watashi) wa Dō Surya Ii Desuka? adult visual novel by Qruppo. The anime series is streaming on OceanVeil on Fridays.

Episode 2

If Nukitashi is going to struggle with any kind of performance anxiety this season, it's going to be on account of the comedic refractory period that is a joke's diminishing returns. It was amusing enough to see the premiere pack almost every single scene with madly thrusting background orgies, but much like our heroes themselves, you get numb to the novelty of so much mildly explicit softcore sex eventually. So, what is a porn-medy like Nukitashi to do? Why, introduce even more characters who live in defiance of the Seiran Islands' compulsory copulation laws, of course. Nobody in this show so far seems to identify as any kind of asexual, so the gimmick then becomes learning how and why each of our main characters is living as a virgin on this whackadoo island they call home.

Asane is the easiest one to figure out, since her problem is simply that she's gay, and Seiran Island only considers heterosexual sex valid in the eyes of the law, making it somehow even more homophobic than mainstream Japanese society. Hopefully, she'll get to meet some other lesbian or bisexual gal and finally live her truth. Junnoske's problem is surprisingly funny, since his deal isn't just that he prefers intimate sex with a committed partner over a casual ramrodding in the hallway between class periods. He also suffers from sex-related bullying trauma, only instead of being gay, Junnoske got mercilessly teased for having - and I quote - a dick so huge that it “defies common sense.” Since Nukitashi isn't as X-rated as the other fare on OceanVeil's platform, we only get to see a glimpse of his package's silhouette, which is a shame. Show us Junnoske's freakishly massive penis, Nukitashi! We're all adults, and it would probably improve Junnoske's character development, or whatever.

In addition to our two heroes, we also meet a pair of new girls who each suffer from the most improbable cases of unwanted virginity I could imagine from a show that lives on a hentai streaming service alongside titles such as Adam's Sweet Agony and What She Fell on Was the Tip of My Dick. In Hanami's case, we can at least take comfort in the fact that she's not getting laid because she looks so young, and even Seiran Island won't go so far as to legalize pedophilia (I can hear the cries from all those CHUD's who constantly post bogus arguments about Japan's age of consent laws from here). Still, the girl actively practices her “sexercises” to steamy teen romance manga that makes it pretty hard to believe that there is nobody at her high school who wouldn't be into a…let's call it a “petite” figure. The other downside of Hinami's story is that, to give Junnoske's Anti-Copulation Force their first rescue mission, Nukitashi resorts to a pretty skeevy assault scene that goes a lot further than most anime usually do, on account of this being porn. The gang thankfully steps in before it gets too out of control, but if you're sensitive to this sort of thing, you'll still maybe want to skip the last five minutes of the episode.

Misaki's story is just about as silly, though it thankfully doesn't lead to such a grim outcome. She thinks her inability to satisfy her outrageous sex drive is because she's “fat,” which is just patently untrue. She has a pretty big chest, I guess, but again, there is no way you could convince me that there isn't someone on this sex-crazed island who would be into a girl with an hourglass figure and boobs larger than most people's heads. So, you have to imagine that it's mostly just a self-consciousness issue, but if Nukitashi doesn't have anything to say about the way women's body image problems come from society's toxic double-standards, since it's too busy making jokes about Misaki's masturbation strategies. That said, Misaki's sex-bike is a pretty funny sight gag. If Nukitashi can keep finding ways to keep its sex jokes from drying out, it might end up being worth sticking with for any perverts in need of a more risque seasonal comedy.

Let's be honest: If you're even in a position to watch Nukitashi, it means that you're willing and able to pony up the cash for a subscription to OceanVeil, a streaming service that specializes in content that needs to be parsed with kink tags and an explicit “18+ Years Old” NSFW filter. If you somehow managed to miss all of that, Nukitashi begins its premiere with a tourism advertisement for Seiran Island, where “everyone is welcummed…to spread sex and depravity to all.” In other words, you went out of your way to seek out pure, unashamed, smutty trash. You really have nobody to blame but yourself if you're not down to clown with the horny hijinks on Seiran Island.

To be clear, I'm not insulting this anime when I call it “smutty trash.” That is a label that Nukitashi wears proudly and loudly, and I'm honestly all for it. Way too many anime try to get away with being just horny and fan-servicey enough to entice a hormone-addled audience without violating any broadcast standards or decency laws. This is the path of cowardice, I say, especially when so many of those same Not-Quite-NSFW programs are all too eager to dish out the T-n'-A without ever getting within a hundred-mile radius of the concept of sex. Here on Seiran Island, though, sex is literally the entire point. Of everything. It's enshrined into law, in fact. When Junnosuke and his sister first arrive on the island, we're greeted with a literal orgy in the streets. Nukitashi is clearly not here to fuck around. Well, I mean, obviously it is here to fu—ah, screw it, you know what I mean.

You know who isn't going to screw it, though, or anything else for that matter? Junnosuke! That's the whole gimmick of the story, after all. On an island where celibacy is a crime fit for the “guillotine”, Junnosuke has sworn to protect his sister's maidenhead and his own fragile virginity. This, of course, leads us to the plot of Nukitashi — and it does have a plot, I swear! — where our hapless heroes have to use their wits and their connections to an underground resistance to fight back against this lusty oppression.

This is where I might surprise you (if you didn't spoil the grade up top, that is). As it turns out, Nukitashi is a decent comedy. The sheer amount of creative and filthy puns that the script cums up with for every sex act and bodily fluid you can think of is already something, but Nukitashi even has the gall to look pretty okay and have solid pacing. It really is just an inverse SHIMONETA, except this time the show genuinely does contain enough background characters getting railed by their classmates that it wouldn't have a chance of being produced for broadcast television.

That said, my biggest complaint about Nukitashi is that it isn't actually all that sexy. This is a sex-comedy that puts the emphasis on the “comedy” angle, which does make it a much more entertaining program than it has any right to be, but I can imagine some folks being disappointed in how much the sex in the show is used as set dressing. I can't believe that we got more full-frontal nudity in the new Panty & Stocking anime.

Still, I live in a time where the credit-card companies are pulling all of the porn off of Steam and other marketplaces, all while the nutjobs in my country's government are trying to ban smut for the masses while they ensure that all of the real sex offenders get to keep their jobs and their bonuses. In that sense, I'm glad that Nukitashi exists. I obviously don't want to live in a world where the BDSM Police enforce compulsory sex, but I don't want to live in a world where freaky shit like this can't ever get made again, either.

This episode sold me a lot more on the direction of the series in the first episode. Episode one of Nukitashi established the world and how ludicrously over the top it was going to be. There was some social commentary in there about how marketing and appealing to people's sense of depravity causes a downward spiral and leads people to throw out their sense of morals. It's incredibly on the nose, but it's also more than what a lot of other porn series offer, so I will take what I can get. However, that was the main bulk of the first episode: world-building and social commentary. We got glimpses into what the characters were about, but episode two goes into what that means.

This episode takes its time hopping to a bunch of different characters, who I assume would make up our main cast, who are all social outcasts in this society for different reasons. A lot of it is seeded in trauma or tied to some kind of physical element that isn't exactly compatible with the current model of this society. What happens when you're somebody who has performance anxiety because you got made fun of for having a big dick? What happens if you are a petite young woman who gets mistaken for a child? What happens when you're a lesbian? These are characters who are not allowed to explore healthy sexual curiosity at their leisure. They are forced and, in many ways, punished to pursue sex as a means to an end. It's ironic because if this society just laid off a little bit, they probably would be fucking other people just fine.

Already, the commentary is a lot stronger because you can very easily make parallels to a lot of these individual characters' circumstances to things that are going on in real life today. But it sells the show as a comedy in how seriously everything is taken. I laughed out loud over our lead having a very serious and dramatic conversation about how massive his dick is. The scene where the petite high schooler got mistaken for a child by the theme park employee had me in stitches. Not all the jokes land like I'm not super sold on the busty character that thinks she's unattractive because she thinks she's fat when in reality, she's probably one of the more conventionally attractive characters in the show. But slowing down and focusing more on the dialogue makes things much more engaging.

Then there's the end of the episode, which felt like a bucket of cold water being splashed in my face. I was hoping that the guillotine scene in the middle of episode one would never really be brought up again, but this might be a bit worse because of how real it is. There's something very cruel about a petite character potentially only being able to have her first sexual encounter because of a pedophile who gags her in the middle of a schoolyard. I knew that the heroes would come in and save the day at the last minute, but it still went on for an uncomfortably long time. I wonder if the show will go into how genuine sexual deviants like that fit into society? It would be very weird to highlight such situation without actually doing anything about it, but I guess we'll have to save that for the next episode.

P.S. Why is there an elementary school on this island if the whole point is that the island is about celebrating sexual acts? I have so many questions, and I don't want the answers.

You know, there really cums a point where I should stop being surprised at what gets put out there on the Internet. I could sit here and get into the deeply rooted social commentary of a society that is overly dependent on sex, forcing its values on people who have a more reserved way of viewing things. In a lot of ways, this show feels like a reverse of SHIMONETA, where the whole point is to preserve people's sense of individuality through NOT having sex. I could do that, but I feel like I still need time to process the sheer amount of stuff that was figuratively, and in some cases, literally thrown in my face throughout the course of these twenty minutes.

Yes, this is barely more than your average porn story, and I have watched way too many hentai that have almost this exact same setup. I do appreciate a porn story that is at least trying to do a bit more than just be a setup for some decently animated hanky-panky (unless you're Queen Bee). However, I do feel like the premise very strongly conflicts with what the show is actually doing. It wants to be a revolutionary story about how glorifying sex to an extreme is wrong, and I think I'm supposed to root for a protagonist who is disgusted with the way that things are run. Yet, this show is shoving sex and clever wordplay in your face literally every second. There will be a really disturbing sexual assault scene out of nowhere, and then the next scene is our protagonists visiting a restaurant with a dildo bell. There is so much that happens in this episode, and it all unfolds one after the other without giving me time to process what I just saw.

I'm confused about what the show is actually trying to do. Am I supposed to find this arousing, or am I supposed to find this disgusting? It's been a while since I've seen a show be this hard on people who aren't hyper sexual. It feels like the show is mean-spirited for reasons that are different than what the show wants to be mean-spirited about, but it's also trying to have its cake and eat it too with the way that it portrays sex. It genuinely feels like this is a show that was conceived with a bunch of jokes, scenarios, and wordplay first, then the story came second.

So why is this show so ambitious? There are 3D camera angles, dynamic poses, and technically, movement is happening in almost every frame in the background. They drew all of those characters fucking without relying on CG. The directing is dynamic, and the jokes are surprisingly funny when they're trying to be. There is passion here, but it feels like it's directed all over the place. I'll probably continue the show out of pure curiosity alone, or maybe I'll sit down and watch it with friends. Just make sure you don't have any family or small children around when you decide to check this out.

Episode 2

I enjoy the first episode's immediate-impression shoot-from-the-hip reactions of the Preview Guide format. But I'll admit that situations like with Nukitashi here are why it can be prudent to get a fuller picture, hence the value of this new two-episode setup. Because, as I somewhat picked up on/hoped for, Nukitashi does have a bit more going on under the hood, compared to the shock-and-o-face strategy its premiere was going for. Don't consider me a cumbrained convert yet, though, as Nukitashi attempting to disrobe to display its naked complexities mostly just provides me with more fodder to criticize it for.

The good news is that, as alluded to in the first episode, the writing does seem to be coming down in favor of the sexploits of Have Sex Island diversifying their porny portfolio somewhat. The best reveal is that the askew, incest-alluding comments between Asane and Junnosuke in the premiere were a putting-on of airs of some sort, since Asane's actual deal is that she likes girls! Answers my question of whether gay people exist in this universe, which does, and crystallizes one major reason for Junnosuke wanting to tear down this tainted tyranny of the majority. There's even a genuinely sweet moment where Nanase instantly accepts Asane, comforting her for the narrative's acknowledgement of the homophobic bullying the young girl suffered.

Genuinely sweet until you recall that this is Nukitashi putting homophobic bullying on-par with Junnosuke suffering from the malady of a massive member, and being bullied for that.

This second episode of Nukitashi is trying to address the idea of the outliers in this sex-driven society. And alongside Asane's genuinely considered lesbianism and Junnosuke's big dick problems (am I right, fellas?), it also introduces the struggles of so-called "unfuckable" women, which include…an underdeveloped girl and a girl who assures us she is fat despite being very visibly not. Now, there are ideas of grappling with body image presented here, along with the point that people, especially women, struggle with being societally pitted against each other about desirability and sexual experience. But what it still amounts to is Nukitashi showing off a couple of eroge archetypes and trying to play at articulating the struggles of the underrepresented with those designs. It's trying to have its porncake and eat it as much as the first episode, just in a different, slightly more complex way.

At least it's confirmed as solidly falling into the "rape is bad" camp while acknowledging that that would certainly be an issue on Have Sex Island, with the loli-looking girl suffering a near-assault as the climactic capstone to this episode. I think it's weird to say that the horny hypersex show on the hentai streaming network necessitates specific content warnings, but that's where we are with Nukitashi.

And where else it leaves us with Nukitashi is that I still think the show is confused, but it's confused while attempting to be about something. It's a paradox of existing to show off sexily satisfying content while still trying to say something about oversexualization in modern commodified society. This was originally a game meant to be jerked off to, after all. It's still not as absurd or amusing as I hoped it could get, but it's at least got more going on than I would have credited it for after that first episode. It earns the show a tentative recommendation to follow if any of these ideas pique your interest, with the caveat that it could still fall face-first onto the sticky, sticky pavement at any moment.

A fair chunk of my contributions over on the Manga Guide side of things was given to adults-only material, so getting to cover an uncensored streaming release of a Passione series here in Preview Guide kinda feels like coming home! No, I'm not going to spell "coming" that way, Nukitashi has things extremely covered on that front. The full-frontal barrage of adults-only puns and single-entendres is probably the most actually explicit element of this release, given that it thus far actually features nary a nip slip as far as nudity goes, and the entire plot is predicated on the main character doing his level best to not have sex.

For a long time a principal rule of porn was arguably not to think too hard about the premises—there's generally a very particular reason audiences are here, after all. But as time has gone on, overwrought setups have found a dominant niche and even the most ribald visual novels have become labyrinthine exercises in world-building worthy of their own wankable wikis! This is the source material that Nukitashi hails from, and yet I still have to tell myself not to think too hard about the setup here. The island claims that sexual encounters are limited to people of age, but then so why is there a school full of teenagers that also gets to classroom copulating? Why does anybody who doesn't want to have sex wind up on Have Sex Island? Do gay people exist at all in this universe? Simply trying to suss out what side the antics of Nukitashi are on are enough to make you go cross-eyed, as lead Junnosuke feels more like an anti-sex anti-hero at times.

Then the evil sex disciplinary committee rapes a couple of teens for the crime of not wanting to have sex on Have Sex Island.

You see what I mean about even the swerving tone of Nukitashi causing me to question what it was actually trying to do with this sort of thing among all its other porny party scenes? At least the storytelling seems to be sympathetic to Junnosuke's distaste for the island's rules and how far they go. And by the end he's been set up with a way to burn it all down as his mysterious benefactor corroborates the sexual tyranny of forcing sex upon some that don't want it (this show tacitly acknowledges asexual people at least, anyway), and even confirms it's actually a method of societal and capitalistic control! Neat, I guess, even as I once again go wondering about who that makes Nukitashi for, with its audience of OceanVeil streamers tuning in, I educatedly presume, to see a bunch of people freely fuck on an island.

As I said though, the actual "porn" content in this porn is pretty thin. Even the mere fanservice is tame by the standards of some of Passione's other projects, and the action scene of Junnosuke and his new secret-not-slut friend Nanase (who seems cool) doesn't go quite as wacky as I'd expect from a show slinging around lube grenades and OP allusions to dildo duels. I mean, New Panty & Stocking is right there this season, y'all. All Nukitashi has to offer is something that feels like the opposite of SHIMONETA, both in its attitude toward horniness and how funny it actually is. You're on OceanVeil, you're bound to find more effective porn than this right there, and more entertaining shows in general elsewhere. At least anime this year continues to curse me with incest potential.