Timing and Translation by Patonyan

(Second Half online March 14th)

SOFT ON DEMAND in the eyes of this reviewer at least will forever be the JAV studio of big group female employee movies and other unusual oddities more so than their possibly more popular STARS label consisting of 'bigger' actresses starring in movies more vanilla. Both then and now, they seem to go big more so than most any other active studio and as another new batch of female employees comes in, nothing is more important than ensuring they're fit enough to not only work hard from dawn to dusk, but if the situation arose, to fill in for actresses in movies as well.

That's the gist, mainly, (OK sans the 'fill for actresses' part!) in this big double update, SOFT ON DEMAND FEMALE EMPLOYEES STARK NAKED YOGA AND EROTIC MASSAGE ETIQUETTE CLASS. It's a hodgepodge of themes when one considers it: from simple employee morning routine introductions to body odor examinations complete with a lot of tickling to oiled up naked yoga to erotic massages held in a corner of their famous open office. Truly, it's quite random and almost to the point where that level of weirdness almost turns into a liability.

There is no MYUU here. A big aspect of SOD female employee movies is their famous red jacket-wearing leader to guide them through the mad world of always obeying the ever wanting 'user-san'. Here, absent. And not really much comes in her place. Thus, a movie that has some visual bouts of greatness (good golly that yoga class was on another level and sadly it was women-only). But also a movie that at times feels more like three odd-ball themes thrown together with not enough rhyme and reason.

Minuses aside--and one may be able to place that unusual smelling scene that commences it all here--we still get a great and quite rare stark naked yoga class and excellent massage footage of those female employees receiving semi-public rubdowns that go from relaxing to sensual to all out sexual with only the flimsiest of dividers covering their embarrassment from employees hard at work only a few meters away.