Watchlist Review - September 2024 - Part 2 ft. Karen Yuzuriha, Julia, Aika Yumeno, and More!

Welcome to the second half of my September Watchlist reviews. Make sure to check out the first half if you haven't!

My overview of this video is that they had a great idea and fumbled the execution a little. The idea of her matching with guys and then hooking up was a winning combination. It's like the house visit fan appreciation but a little bit more realistic. I generally liked how things played out with her finding the guy and taking him back to a place for sex. I did find that the intros to scenes were way too long, just cut to the chase already. Especially with there only being three scenes, the scenes felt like they dragged on a little. Each of the scenes were individually enjoyable with variations such as the guy being a pornstar (and overwhelming Karen) or her being on the more sensual side. The outfits did their parts, the camera angles and lighting were all nice, though I wish we didn't have such strong facial blurring on the first two guys. It's not a slam dunk of a video as it has some faults but it generally does a good job of what it set out to do and I think fans of this genre or Karen would be happy.

Momona Koibuchi plays an office lady who likes to get a little slutty. She's more than happy to just run around teasing her coworkers until they can't help themselves.

Momona is one of those actress I watch whenever a theme up my alley comes around. Even though this particular video only looked mid as a result of some non-office lady action, the rest of it was what the doctor ordered. And that's more or less how I felt about the entire video. Why give me an office lady theme with sex at home or a weird shower scene? It's like you had budget cuts. Seriously, it felt like they left the office because they didn't want to pay the $50 an hour rental fee. You own the studios space, right? Don't be so freaking lazy. It didn't help that a lot of it was painfully mediocre as well. Momona being hit or miss with her performing, being quite nice at the teasing but also quite bad during intercourse. Like to some degree I'd just enjoy the intercourse because boobs but you know it's the same in every Momona video. I wouldn't exactly recommend it to be honest but maybe some can look past some of the negatives in favour of the positives.

Julia plays a teacher who wants nothing more than to get pregnant. When her husband seems to have reservations about it, she seeks out her students instead.

I came in expecting the moon from this, or at least hoping it could be that good; it was good but not quite that good. Julia did as she often does, showing some good moments and some bad. You could see her giving good paizuri or pumping her hips in doggy but also being excessively loud with weak expressions. It was just a back and forth of "wow this is great" and then "wow get me out of here". To some degree that was softened by the teacher theme and just the general concept of "my teacher stole me away to impregnate her" which is definitely an S tier plot. On the flip side they bungled that a bit with them not trying to make the risk feel reasonable. I'm sorry but his girlfriend ain't standing out there for 30 minutes, hearing your loud moaning, and not taking a peek to see what's going on. And as much as I'm all for creampies, when you make it quite that sloppy and excessive after multiple shots it's just not that great anymore. Definitely not the banger I was hoping for but still not a half bad film.

Aki (played by Hana Himesaki) and her stepmom Shizuku (played by Ryo Ayumi) find a helpless man stranded in their small town. It’s not often they get visitors and taking pity on him they let him come stay with them. They’re so unused to visitors that they don’t even consider being modest around him which of course gets him excited. Lacking any interaction herself, Shizuku starts messing around with him to which Aki also notices and the rest is history.

I came into this one thinking that Ryo and Hana together makes a great team. I still feel that way but this one wasn't nearly what I had expected. I had hopes that it would be an interesting narrative but they just didn't hit the mark for me. The story felt pretty unnatural, like somehow they were in some town where they didn't think decency was a thing? I'm sorry but in what world would Hana just randomly walk around naked in front of him and not bat an eye? Or in what world would Ryo give him a blowjob while Hana was just eating breakfast beside them? It all felt very odd and felt too much like a made up fictional story. It didn't help that neither of their performances stood out. Hana was good at the whole "I'm very disinterested" personality which unfortunately was hard to enjoy. It's a weird scenario because it was done well but at the same time I just didn't enjoy watching her be stoic, even when it was film appropriate. Sure, little bits and pieces of the film were nice in isolation, and perhaps to some degree just watching Ryo and Hana take turns having sex in a scene can be enough. Ultimately I found it lacking and would not recommend.

Aika Yumeno comes back from a near year-long hiatus, going to a ryoukan with a familiar actor for some fun.

Seeing Aika back was great as I am a pretty big Aika fan. Too bad that was all that the video had going for it. The plot was as underwhelming as onsen videos get with the theme being her coming back. They literally focused on that as much as they could, from a lengthy intro to her being reintroduced to another actor she had sex with in the past. They modeled even the action after it, letting them focus on her being somewhat inexperienced again like she didn't have many years of sex on camera before. Aika has always been consistently decent but rarely does she reach her potential, something this video was all too happy to remind me of. I think worst of all was the camera work, being really quite bad. Really terrible angles where it was too close up or too far away. They seemingly went for this amateur look where the guy was filming but it just wasn't done well. At least keep her in frame and keep the quality high, not some home video. I like Aika, I'm glad she's back, but boy was this one not worth watching at all.

I hope you've enjoyed these reviews and hope to see you again next month. Until next time!