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Shoujo Sect ~Innocent Lovers~ is an OVA hentai animation spun from an eromanga titled Shoujo Sect 「少女セクト」. This review contains spoilers because there’s an episodic review and contains images from the anime. It is unsuitable for minors or the sensitive and contains images and content that might cause discomfort to some (though I’ve tried my best to refrain from posting those too disturbing images for this review).

Frankly, I’ve spent much time and effort on this review. I welcome comments but I reserve the right to delete discriminatory comments okay, please be nice to everyone. (: Special thanks to A Day Without Me for giving me the idea to blog on it because I spotted her reviewing some interesting series on her blog. If she can review it, I can too! Also, special thanks to Sok for all her help. Thanks buddy!
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Yuribou recommended Shoujo Sect some time back and I decided to give it a try. Set in an all girl’s school, Shoujo Sect has plenty of girls in it but all of them are brought together by a plot that revolves around the two leads, Handa Shinobu and Naitou Momoko. Though the ultimate focus is on the development of the duo’s relationship, it does not dive into their relationship from the start. Instead, an arsenal of girls is introduced and their many situations will indirectly link back to either Handa Shinobu or Momoko at the end of things. It’s like piecing together the many smaller pieces to get the big picture to their relationship.
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Handa Shinobu
Don’t be fooled by Handa Shinobu’s demure appearance. Though she looks like the typical ojou-sama type, she’s actually a playgirl with a terrible weakness for girls. She would not turn away girls and would treat all with kindness. The story starts with Handa waking up from a dream where she dreamed of the happy times that she had with a childhood friend.

Sharing cookies and playing hide and seek.
We’re then introduced to her first personal “servant”, Kirin, before the cameras move around the dormitory to quickly feature the various girls who are preparing for school. Handa isn’t good at hiding things and Kirin easily sound her out. Feeling jealous, Kirin gets intimate with Handa to get her attention.

The scene then zooms to school where a supporting character, Maya, appreciates Handa from afar. She then hears some weird noises, in the form of “ah ah ahhhhhhh”, coming from the Art Room and enters to investigate. However, she ends up being locked in the room by the culprits who are responsible for making those noises.

Momoko passing the Art Room.
Momoko enters the picture as she’s merely passing the Art Room when she hears Maya’s distress cries. Momoko is a responsible, analytical and a somewhat, neutral character as she’s neither involve nor against any yuri relationship; as long as the girls don’t get in her way of her duties, she’ll just let them be. Freeing the jammed door, she comforts a shocked Maya and searched the room for the weird sound that Maya heard. Finding no one, a terrified Maya voiced her fears that it might be related to the rumored doll story, creating panic among the busybody students who came.

Momoko finds a crying Maya locked in the Art Room.
However, Momoko analyzes the situation and from the weird noises that Maya heard, the group somehow ends up concluding that Handa might be a possible culprit for the many reasons. Maya, however, points out that it’s not Handa since she’s on the roof of the opposite block. Everyone then gathers at the window to confirm.

Handa notices everyone staring at her but has no idea what’s happening.

But she decides to do some “service” to everyone by flashing her undies!

Obviously, shocking Momoko and Maya who’s watching from the opposite window. XD

Komai Sigre Senpei consulting Handa.
The girls are dismissed to their respective classes not before Momoko notices Komai Sigre senpei chatting with Handa before leaving. On the other hand, classmate Komai Chizzle, seeks Momoko’s opinions in the love arena. Unwilling to disclose who the other party is, Chizzle rants from the morning all the way to the night and Momoko has no choice but to only listen patiently.

Chizzle ranting to Momoko during physical education lesson.

Ranting to Momoko while she’s spot checking on the classrooms.

Ranting outside the cubicle that Momoko is in.

Ranting to Momoko while waiting for the train at the train station.

Ranting to Momoko in the bath. XD
Having to tolerate one full day of Chizzle’s rants, Momoko finally gives Chizzle an assignment so that she would stop bothering her. Chizzle would need to show prove of her being lovey dovey with whoever her target is. With that, Momoko sends Chizzle away from her dormitory. Chizzle actually makes her move and her target happens to be her older sister, Sigre.
It seems like Handa has been deliberately pretending to sleep in the Art Room daily so as to earn her chance to speak to Momoko who will always wake her up as it’s her duties to lock the doors. This time, Maya sneaks up on a pretending to sleep Handa and plants a kiss on her lips. As she’s pretending to be asleep, Handa did not react to Maya and she only wakes up when Momoko arrives to chase her out of the Art Room.

Kiss to the lips sneak attack.
When they’re alone at the stairway, Handa confronts Maya, who in turn promises to do anything and Maya is added to her collection after Handa did her a “service”.




During swimming lessons, Momoko asks Chizzle for the prove and is shocked to learn that Chizzle actually likes a girl and the girl happens to be Chizzle’s elder sister. Performing her usual duties of locking the doors, Momoko found a sleeping Handa in the Art Room as usual. Frustrated, she confronts Handa and blames her for misguiding Komai senpei into accepting an incestuous relationship.

After some explanation, Handa changes the topic and tries to flirt with Momoko by complementing Momoko’s perfume and calling her name in a soft and sexy tone but Momoko did not get the hints. The leads joke and then laugh things off to lighten the atmosphere before bidding each other goodbye just like how they would every other day. Exiting the school with Kirin and Maya, there’s a short flashback on what Handa remembers, the childhood friend of hers is actually Momoko and she has been waiting for Momoko to return to her since that day they parted.
What I noticed while watching is that the anime has famous classic and instrumental pieces like Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Piano Sonata No.8 “Pathetique” 2nd Movement and Romance de Armor. Hurray to a n00b like me who’s able to identify some of the classics, should I be thanking my guitar teacher for this? The appropriate music kicks in to either intensify or to lighten the mood. For example, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata is played in the background when the sisters did incest, intensifying the whole dark and depressing mood. However, Shoujo Sect has a rather soothing ED though it’s just some music accompanied by someone humming.
Characters are not as simple as they think. I first thought that Handa would be the typical playgirl where she’ll flirt with all and cheat on them at the end of everything. However, she’s terribly honest towards her girls as she’s unable to even tell a white lie to Kirin. Though she’s an old hand, she can also be helpless in the love arena as she’s helpless when faced with Momoko. I think, if the many H scenes are removed, Shoujo Sect could pretty much stand on it’s own as a yuri or shoujo-ai series. That’s pretty much my personal opinion though. (:
Anime Handa looks cuter than the manga version where she has that aura of cool-ness and a mix of mischievousness. On the other hand, Momoko looks fiercer in the anime as compared to the manga. The hair and eye colors do matter in the anime as that’s the message I get after watching. Pay more attention to the purple or colored heads; pay more attention to the uncommon blue or green eyed characters as they are the key players. If you see a group of girls (all brown haired) standing together, that will point out to me that they are merely extra characters that need little notice.

Manga Handa looks cooler than anime Handa.

Currently, Otenba is scanlating volume 1 of Shoujo Sect and SHIN-gx Fansubs has expressed their interest in fan subbing this series. The latest news is that they’ve picked it up and is still working on it. Shoujo Sect ~Innocent Lovers~ 1st Period is a toned down version of the eromanga as the manga is 3x or more explicit in my opinion. I went “omg what are they doing!!!!!!” while reading the manga and my eye brows twitch so badly that my face cramped when the characters inserted unnatural objects into their dykes.
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I still remember how the store staff in Akiba wouldn’t allow me to purchase the manga when I asked him about it last year. LOL. And it wasn’t for me. It was bjorn’s request.
Awesome effort here Hynavian. 1 for you for intro-ing me to another interesting little series.So it is a tale of reunion eh? Hm, sounds like a good thing to pick up.Also, Moonlight Sonata you say? I remember hearing that piece as a child, and I loved it.
Ahhhh…. *brain explodes*Would this replace my Candy Boy OAV? D:
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@double
They won’t let you purchase it? There goes my dream of flying to Akiba to grab this series after my graduation next year. :(
@C.I.
Yup it’s something like a tale of reunion and ignoring all the H things that they’re doing, the plot wraps up sweetly. I first heard Moonlight Sonata when I was in the cinema catching a movie titled “Elephant”. It affected me a lot and I came to associate the melody with pessimism since Elephant is a movie on a high school shoot out and one of the shooter’s favorite piano piece was Moonlight Sonata. However, the melody itself is classy indeed.
@FFVIIKnight
Candy Boy is definitely waaaaay sweeter and romantic than Shoujo Sect. The girls in Shoujo Sect are more interested in doing each other in than speaking romantically.
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Wow that actually sounds like a henati i could like.Most ive seen so far contain of a pretty pathetic plot and somehow nearly always included rape in a way or another or other weird stuff.Im not a fan of either.What speaks for this series is that it could work without the h-scenes.Ill blame you if its crap! ^^
You can purchase it if you’re above 18. I was only 16 back then >_>
While lacking in the H department, it certainly sure is more intriguing than your usual H ova. I’m just keeping my fingers crossed for subs. *looks at yesy*
@Blowfish
They could have replaced the H scenes with poetic words and romantic actions and it would rival Candy Boy! ~<3
@double
Thanks for the information double. (: There was once when my friends tried to purchase Japanese version hps but the stalls won’t let foreigners purchase them, I’m unsure why but I hope such things don’t happen in the manga arena.
@Shin
SHIN! SHOUJO SECT is love, romace with H H H H H H. My review is the super toned down version of it’s H-ness. Handa goes threesome and uses sex toy on her babes in the anime.
I just want to say, I’m so happy I inspired you! =D Hopefully, this is the beginning of a trend?
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Again, thanks for inspiring me. I’ll be blogging more on the yuri series that I enjoy watching, H or without H series. (:
Otenba is still scanlating, but if you want to finish reading the manga before watching the 3rd ep, you can go to Dynasty Scans. they’ve got the remaining complete.
I’m interested to see how they’ll do the last episode, and what they’ll cut out.
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I have already finished reading and watching Shoujo Sect. It’s my +1 advantage for knowing Japanese.
The last episode wrapped up the anime nicely though they left out many side stories/scenes that are from the manga. It falls below my expectations but I can understand since there’s the time constrain per episode.
PS: The subs for ep3 are already out, check out killer-maid.net
on the behalf of /b/ i would like to thank you for this delightful fap material
where can i see the anime