YU-NO overuses panty shots to the point of stripping them of all titillation (pun intended) and undermining many serious moments. Would Ayumi and Kaori’s televised news interview really feature both women’s panties on full display? Is the player to be involved in the interpersonal conflict between Mio and Kanna during their argument about the safety of studying Sword Cape, or is the player to be drooling over Kanna’s panties?
The artists might at least have fun with the perpetual panty shots, using different underwear patterns for a hint of characterization, for instance. Instead, everyone but Mitsuki wears the plainest white underwear, and Mitsuki wears them half the time anyway. Even the panty shots of YU-NO are rarely engaging but only rote and uninspired, suggesting a lack of seriousness in both storytelling and in anime panty obsession.
The sex scenes are terrible, or perhaps generic, though if nothing else this PC-98 game isn’t nonstop rape. Most of the writing is of course standard porn material: “Ah, no…! Don’t cum inside!” “Ahh… Takuya-san, that feels good… ahhh…” There are more eyebrow-raising moments that may elicit laughter for the wrong reasons:
This particular line precedes what, aside from Takuya’s sex scene with Yu-no, is definitely the worst sex scene in the video game, when, for no reason, Takuya has rather painful-looking bondage sex with bit character Sala in front of his twelve-year-old daughter. Sala remarks what a good sex ed teacher Takuya is. Talk about sexual content used with taste and reason.
Some of the bad writing succeeds at accidental comedy for other reasons, like this gem from the Kanna sex scene: “My heart felt like it would explode just from looking at it. I mean, it was unmistakably _my_ dick that was currently stuffed into her mouth.”
In Kaori’s H scene, Takuya’s body is completely invisible from every angle. Seeing Kaori pressed up against a window as though Takuya is penetrating her doggy-style but with nobody actually behind her, I am forced to assume this is a performance art piece faking sex.
Or this classic from when Takuya has sex with Mitsuki against rough tree bark while trespassing on the murderous gun-toting Ryuuzouji’s estate, as one does (taste and reason):
Ah, a “blood-engorged protuberance”—😍 hot! Is this the least appealing description of a clitoris ever written?
This last item of descriptive text, however, highlights another issue with the sex scenes: Mitsuki has no pubic hair. She has no clitoris. She has no labia or vagina or anus. Japan, of course, forbids the display of genitals in erotic material, forcing pornographers to get creative. YU-NO takes the worst possible method: all “private parts” are simply not drawn. Instead of a vulva, a woman has a smooth, sealed mons pubis. Takuya has no penis at all. When he receives a blow job, the woman’s mouth and hands suggestively grip at literal air.
