HenSemi (TV)

Summary is a bit misleading. Rather than an physiology seminar, this seminar is more about educating each other on sexual deviancy.

Now normally, a "pervert" in anime just means they like sex a lot or think about it a lot, or want it really badly. Not so in this one, these people are real perverts. They eat insects, trick one another into consuming semen, pee in public, break into one another's houses and do weird stuff to them while they're asleep. If this was the real world, these people would probably be in prison.

I was gonna rate this a 6, but the anime does have some ... interesting episodes that talk about human psychology and why people end up having these odd sexual desires.

Overall a decent anime, but be forewarned, some of these characters' fetishes are quite revolting.

Yes it's quite perverted, and it's refreshing to see an anime going that far, but it's not as perverted as you might expect!

Certainly they explore various fetishes (don't expect anything very graphic on screen though), there are interesting characters, and it can be surprisingly psychological at times. Yet, there is a recurring structure you start noticing: the guys have agency, and act onto the girls, mostly. This is reinforced by how the "abnormal physiology" seminar is basically run by two guys, who are drawn in a way reminiscent of two animals (shark and pig), and who focus a lot on being perverted towards women.

That means ... this anime's potential is clamped. It's quite obvious unfettered bisexuality would make the setting explode, but this would have been super interesting to see. There is one episode that plays with it on the guys' side, but it's minimal. And i'm saying that as someone who's only really into yuri—but since this is supposedly about perversions, i was expecting a lot more libidinal chaos. For example, why not have a guy be perverted towards the pig-looking guy? Or a girl be dominant or sadistic?

HenSemi is one of the tv shows of all time. It's not that good. In fact I think it's bad.

ENTERTAINING VALUE: (0/1) this series is really boring. It's a slice of life and all they do is sexually assault each other and call it ''experiments''. If it wasn't because it's so short, I wouldn't have made it this far on it, but even with that, I had to skip parts because I couldn't stand how slow paced it is for what it offers. Again, the only reason I went this far and I'm not giving it a -1 points, is because it was at least ... short, so by the times you start feeling sleepy, the episode is over.

TECHNICAL ASPECTS (2/4): I simply think nothing on it is specially remarkable. The animation is just fine, the voice acting was surprisingly good, and the ost was ok. Other than that, I was expecting worse considering the kind of anime that it was, but it did not dissapoint nor amuse me.

WRITING(1/4): this series is absolutely stupid. I hate every single aspect of it's writting.
First, I don't know why the fuck they say that this is about an abnormal psychology seminary when in reality is just them exploring fetishes. And they never fully commit to the bit in my opinion, for all it's worth, there's nothing that bad in here, at least for your average echii.
The characters are a mess. One of the worse casts I've seen in my entire life. I care for none of them one bit, I think they are all bad people and the series doesn't realize that.
The protagonist is a fucking rock, I can't think on a single plot line in which she mattered. She doesn't have character, she's just a prop. Every episode developes either using her, or despite her. She falling in love with the NTR guy almost made me have an aneurysm on how bad that is.
The worse of them all is clearly the fake delinquent. Like wtf are you telling me that she was traumatized FOR RAPING HER BROTHER?! SHE WAS THE ONE WITH THE TRAUMA?! are we deadass? And then she just becomes a whore, and cucks the punk guy, and they sell it like conflict or some shit like that, really horrible stuff that I hope I never watch again. My head canon is that they were all killed by a gas explosion.
I only give it a 1 and not a 0 because I liked the episode about the british girl and the mangaka, which has no impact whatsoever, but I liked it, so there's that.
But all of them, the NTR guy, the teacher, the pseudo-ugly bastard, etc can all go fuck themselves. I genuinly hate them and never felt anything positive torwards one of them.

Conclusion: this series is very bad. It's not unwatchable by the skin of it's teeth, but I cannot recommend it to a single soul. Just watch anything else really.