About

Eiken is a sex comedy manga series and a 2-episode OVA anime created and written by Seiji Matsuyama^[1]. The plot in Eiken is about a clumsy student name Densuke Mifune who enrolled at the Zashono Academy and to win the heart of the shy and huge-breasted Chiharu Shinonome, until suddenly Densuke encounters the aggressive Kirika Misono to forcefully join the mysterious Eiken club after Densuke and Chiharu's accidental run-in. Eiken is known to be a harem type ecchi series that features women with large unimaginable breasts, similar to the breasts from Manyuu Hikenchou. It later found its way to art sites like Pixiv and DeviantArt to be praised with lewd fanart.

Origins

Manga

The Eiken^[3] manga series release 18 manga volumes in Japan from 2001 to 2006. Later it only publish 12 manga volumes in the North America with Media Blasters^[2] as the English publisher.

OVA Anime

Eiken had a 2-episode OVA anime released on June 25, 2003, and later a English dubbed version on June 23, 2004, published by Media Blasters (AnimeWorks), including a voice actor Mona Marshall who's known for voicing the female characters of South Park. A Blu-Ray HD Remastered version of Eiken was later released in 2020 for both Japanese and English.

Criticism

Eiken is crushed full of negative criticism from North America reviewers, accusing it of being "obscene", "lacking substance", "oversexualized", and "too much breasts to handle".

Doujinshi Revival

In 2016, Seiji Matsuyama returned to draw more manga of Eiken but to become a doujinshi pornographic type of manga. A doujinshi series Eiken Makaizou by Seiji Matsuyama takes place after Eiken hasn't been published for over 10 years and the rest of the plot is just immature pornography.

Search Interest

External Reference

^[1] Wikipedia – Seiji Matsuyama

^[2] Wikiwand – Media Blasters

^[3] Wikiwand – Eiken