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Pink Pineapple is an anime production company that specializes in the production of hentai OVAs. It was founded by KSS and is currently owned by Softgarage.
Hentai is a style of Japanese pornographic anime and manga. In addition to anime and manga, hentai works exist in a variety of media, including artwork and video games.
Welcome to Pia Carrot!! is a Japanese visual novel series by Cocktail Soft. Anime and manga have been based on the games.
An eroge is a Japanese genre of erotic video game. The term encompasses a wide variety of Japanese games containing erotic content across multiple genres. The first eroge were created in the 1980s, and many well-known companies in the Japanese gaming industry originally produced and distributed them. Some eroge are primarily focused on erotic content, while others, such as Key's Kanon, only contain occasional scenes in an otherwise non-erotic work. Games in the latter category are often re-released with sexual content removed for general audiences. Throughout its history, the genre has faced controversy for its use of explicit sexual content, and as a result has been banned from several console platforms.
Dōkyūsei is an erotic dating sim visual novel. It is the first game in the Dōkyūsei series of adult-themed dating sims by ELF Corporation. It was released in 1992, with a heavily altered Windows version released in 1999.
ELF Corporation, stylized as élf, was a Japanese eroge studio. One of its most popular games is Dōkyūsei, a pioneering dating sim, which has had a sequel and been turned into adult OVA series. The character design of the main villains from the -saku series is the company mascot. They are also known for role-playing video games such as the Dragon Knight series and visual novel adventure games such as YU-NO. Many ELF games had been turned into adult OVA series. Three of ELF game series had even been turned into TV anime series: Elf-ban Kakyūsei, Raimuiro Senkitan and YU-NO.
Adventure Kid is an erotic manga series written and illustrated by Toshio Maeda. It was published by Wanimagazine into four volumes from 1988 to 1989 and it was adapted into an original video animation (OVA). Mixing horror, fantasy and comedy, it follows Norizaku and Midori as they find a demonic computer that sends them to Hell and destroy their world. They are transported to a World War II setting and they have to prevent their future to be ruined.
Toshiki Hirano is a Japanese anime director, animator, and character designer. His wife is a fellow animator and manga artist Narumi Kakinouchi. Some of his works have appeared in the adult manga magazine Lemon People. He is representative of Toshiki Hirano Office Ltd.
KSS Inc. was a Japanese company that provided anime studio services including production, music, subtitles and translation. From 1993 to 2001, it also developed and published video games. KSS also created the adult brand Pink Pineapple.
Dragon Knight (ドラゴンナイト) is an eroge/role-playing video game series by the game company ELF. There are four Dragon Knight games released between 1989 and 1997. There is also a hentai OVA series based on it, as well as some other media including audio CDs, novels and comic books. Dragon Knight is set in a sword and sorcery setting and mostly tell the story of Yamato Takeru, a wayward young swordsman dedicated to saving damsels and fighting evil.
Dōkyūsei is an adult-themed dating sim series created by ELF Corporation. The original Dōkyūsei, originally released in 1992 for the NEC PC-9801 microcomputer, is generally considered to be the forerunner of the modern dating sim. It was followed by sequels: Dōkyūsei 2 and Kakyūsei, both of which were also very successful. There was a four-episode OVA made from Dōkyūsei, a 12-episode OVA was made from Dōkyūsei 2, and both an OVA and TV series from Kakyūsei. In 2004, ELF released the next in the series of games, Kakyūsei 2, which also received a TV series and OVA adaptation.
I Dream of Mimi, known as Buttobi!! CPU in Japan, is a Japanese series written and illustrated by Kaoru Shintani. It was serialized in Hakusensha's seinen manga magazine Young Animal from 1993 to 1997, with its chapters collected in three tankōbon volumes. The series was adapted into a three-episode original video animation (OVA) produced by Pink Pineapple and animated by OLM in 1997. It was released in North America by The Right Stuf International.
Overflow (オーバーフロー) is the adult game brand of Japanese video game company Stack Ltd. (有限会社スタック) known for its School Days franchise. Stack's headquarters are located in the Sugishō Building (杉商ビル) in Kanda, Chiyoda, Tokyo.
Beat Angel Escalayer is an eroge series created by Alice Soft.
Kan Fukumoto is a Japanese animation director of hentai films such as La Blue Girl and Twin Angels, as well as direct-to-video adaptations of erotic games such as Teacher's Pet, Words Worth and First Kiss Story. His real name is Kiyomu Fukuda.
Shigenori Kageyama is a Japanese animation director. He is also known under the name Yōsei Morino.
Kakyūsei is a dating sim series by ELF Corporation originally created by Masato Hiruta, as a spin-off of the Dōkyūsei series. An anime OVA based on the first game, Elf-ban Kakyūsei, was created by Pink Pineapple. The title distinguishes the anime from the similarly titled but unrelated OVA series of the same title, Kakyūsei, also produced by Pink Pineapple, but earlier, in 1995. It had a TV series produced after the success of the OVA. The 14th episode of the TV series was never aired on television. A television series based on Kakyūsei 2 game was also released, as well as OVA sequels and spin-offs based on Kakyūsei 2, that were considerably more explicit than the TV version.
Hatsuinu is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Inu about a series of short hentai stories but "The Strange Kind of Woman" story continues throughout the three volumes. Issuisya has released the 22 chapters of the manga into three bound volumes between April 22, 2006 and July 11, 2008. The manga was adapted into two original video animation series, named Hatsuinu The Animation and Hatsuinu 2 The Animation - Strange Kind of Womans ~again~, respectively.
Koe de Oshigoto!, also known by the short title KoeGoto (こえごと), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Azure Konno, about a girl working as a voice actress for an eroge development company. It was serialized in Wani Books' monthly Comic Gum magazine from 2008 to 2013. A two-episode anime adaptation was produced by Studio Gokumi and released in 2010 and 2011. A sequel manga series titled Koe de Oshigoto!! began serialization in Futabasha's Monthly Action magazine in May 2020.
Angel is a hentai manga series written and illustrated by U-Jin. The original manga series met with controversy in 1990–1991 in Japan and was retired from its magazine serialization. It was adapted into an OVA of the same name and a sequel called Angel: the women whom delivery host Kosuke Atami healed. The manga was also succeeded by a manga called Angel: the women whom delivery host Kosuke Atami healed, and succeeded again by another manga called Angel: the women whom delivery host Kosuke Atami healed season 2.