Mija: Beautiful Demon

Horror
2002 Saki Hosen, Jun Fukuda, Five Ways Inc., NuTech Digital Inc.



Cover Description:
A pentagram appears in the school grounds of St. Moses Academy, and the demon of lust Mija is unleashed into the world to resurrect the dark paradise on earth once more. Her role is to covert humans to her debauchery...to reveal the hidden lusts and carnal pleasures to her human converts. Sent by a high priest to St. Moses Academy as a substitute teacher, Sara Tadeshina starts her investigation. Given only cryptic clues to guide her investigation, Sara tried to get to the bottom of her mysterious mission...

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The theme of demon gods enslaving mankind with their lustful mission isn't uncommon. Sara is. From the looks of her, one would think that she's either very reserved and feminine or intellectual and stoic. She broke the stereotype. Sara has a firm and strong voice, not particularly feminine in the usual anime definition of it. She has spunk and sometimes acts like a high school student instead of a high school teacher. One whiff of Sara's personality, and I found myself getting interested in this hentai title.

Mija, on the other hand, is your typical she-male demon god(dess?). There's nothing new to her, except that she could probably cut those awfully long fingernails. Seeing those sharpened digits stuck to very delicate male and female parts isn't exactly appealing. Her victims aren't unique either, but they do have their own personal little tragedies. Volume one's story involves two teens, Mayu and Kotaru. Kotaru is secretly in love with Mayu, and when he notices a sudden change in her behavior, he trails and tries to save her. Volume two, on the other hand, shows Sara's soft side—of her falling in love with a kind co-teacher named Mr. Edo.

Unfortunately, I have only gotten hold of the first volume, and true to NuTech's very expensive yet very limiting tradition, it only has one very short episode. As usual, they try to make up for it with DVD bonuses, that of course, you'd have already seen after watching the episode anyway. I'll just be updating this write-up as soon as I see the next installments. In any case, Mija has average artwork and animation, though there are a lot of very pretty angles. Hentai scenes are filled with high school student/teacher orgies and sex with demonic entities. English dubbing is decent, although the actress that played Sara could've had a more powerful tomboyish voice. That would have been more accurate in capturing Sara's essence.

Art/Animation: 7 Story/Plot: 7 Characters: 8 Sounds: 7 Ecchi Level: 9