Eiken (manga)
| Eiken | |
Cover of the first manga volume
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| エイケン | |
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| Genre | Harem |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Seiji Matsuyama |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Champion |
| Original run | 2001 – 2006 |
| Volumes | 18 |
| Original video animation | |
| Eiken Eikenbu yori Ai wo Komete | |
| Directed by | Kiyotaka Ohata (Part 1 only), Alan Smithee (Part 2 only) |
| Produced by | Atsushi Moriyama, Nobuhiro Osawa, Yuji Matsukura |
| Written by | Tomoyasu Okubo |
| Music by | Sho Goshima (Soft House Uno) |
| Studio | J.C.Staff, GENCO |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | June 25, 2003 – June 23, 2004 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 2 |
Eiken (Japanese: エイケン?) is a fanservice-themed manga and anime series created by Seiji Matsuyama. The story depicts the life of schoolboy Densuke Mifune after he is forced into the mysterious Eiken Club, which is populated only by women, several of whom have enormous breasts.
The manga series ran for eighteen volumes, and additionally included a series guidebook. A number of radio drama episodes and a two episode OVA (the latter roughly based on a volume 3 storyline) have been produced.
The first twelve manga volumes have been released in North America. The first three volumes were rated 16+, while subsequent volumes were rated 18+.
Eiken received crushing criticism in the United States. It has been accused of being "obscene" and "lacking substance". Jason Thompson gave the manga a zero-star rating in his review of the series in his Manga: The Complete Guide, calling it "Actual pornography disguised as romantic comedy pseudo-pornography".
Stig Hogset gave the anime a one-star review on THEM Anime reviews, calling it "one of the most exploitative, demeaning anime titles I have ever seen". He went on say that "Eiken is like an hour-long nightmare of sexual innuendo of the creepy kind... you'll never find a bigger collection of 'wrong' anywhere else."
In Mania.com's reviews, Chris Beveridge gave the anime an "F", and Eduardo M. Chavez gave the first manga volume a "D+".
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