As long as there are teenage boys whose minds are filled with sexual fantasies, this film will never lack an audience. Released in 1981, this film is adapted from a magazine of the same name (which, of course, is a publication that maximally stimulates imagination and the instinct for "self-pleasure") and has since become one of the most prominent titles under Columbia/TriStar's catalog. Opinions on it vary drastically: professional adult critics argue that the anime merely capitalizes on the psychology of a specific demographic, using dazzling and fantastical elements to attract younger viewers, and despite assembling hundreds of animators worldwide, it introduces no revolutionary innovations. However, restless young people see it quite differently. Released in the early 1980s, just after the ideological shifts of the 1970s in America, youths were eager to find an outlet for release. Watching this film late at night might have been their greatest solace...
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