[Note: As I have neglected my other blog 1000 Anime greatly, this is the start of re-energizing activity on there, writing reviews and including links to them here. Some of them will have direct connection to this blog as many anime have abstract and unconventional material, so keep an eye out for more anime reviews in the future.]
"The subject which this obscure
thirty minute anime Call Me Tonight tackles, in the same decade where the
beginnings of straight-to-video anime started and both this production and
hentai anime came up as product for the format, is parodied directly within a
film-within-the-film when protagonists Rumi and Ryo hide in a cinema. A sci-fi
film where the tentacle aliens kill the male astronaut and have sinister
intentions for the female one, stripping her for nefarious reasons. It's a
sanitised take on a concept at its most infamous for Urotsukidōji (1987-1994),
on one hand an epic of almost Lovecraftian narrative, nihilistic and horrifying
yet complex and full of scale, yet on the other a problematic title in how it
tackles its intentional sexual transgression on slanted gender lines, the males
strong and turning into tentacle monsters, the women merely there for sexual
violence from said tentacle monsters, justifiably condemned as misogynistic and
offensive even in the butchered feature length cut you could buy on British
video and DVD. And yet, just before that series came into existance, when it
was originally a multi-episode straight-to-video anime itself, you have Call Me
Tonight mocking that kind of story by showing a strong, sexually confident
young woman literally taming a man who turns into such a monstrosity every time
he gets an erection or aroused, trying to help him towards an adult, mature
sexual life as his improvised therapist."
For the full review, follow the blog link HERE.
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