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

FIRST ACT: THE CASE STUDY
(1st 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.

(2nd 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.

(3rd 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.

(4th 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.

(5th 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.

(6th 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.

ANALYSIS: THE PLOT SUPERSTRUCTURE

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.