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A [[Hentai]] OVA produced between 1994 and 1997 by [[Pink Pineapple]]. It consists of five loosely related episodes, exploring several common themes and vastly different settings.
 
What makes ''[[Imma Youjo]]'' stand out among other adult OVAs is the way it takes the basic premise of any hentai ("[[Exploitation Film|all women are there to have sex with]]") and turns it upside down, deconstructing it to hell and back. The protagonist, Maya, is an [[The Ingenue|innocent girl]] who is [[Chaste Hero|barely interested in sexuality]] but "thanks" to her [[So Beautiful It's a Curse|exceptional beauty]], she is [[Break the Cutie|carefully broken]] time after time, no matter what world she is born in. Unlike so many hentais, this OVA isn't afraid to flesh out its characters, making rape appear as [[Rape Asas Drama|the real drama it is]] (''especially'' when perpetrated upon a [[Robot Girl]])... and when it appears as "[[Rape Is Love|love]]", it's [[It Gets Worse|even worse]]. And in the end of the day, Maya often [[Beware the Nice Ones|gets to fight back]]. And that's the point where you get really scared. Proceed with caution: watching ''Imma Youjo'' may make you look at regular hentai staples a lot more critically than you are expected to.
 
Licensed and released in US by Critical Mass in 2000, then re-released (and retitled, see below) in 2007. Overall, ''Imma Youjo'' is one of the best examples of [[Plot With Porn|plot-heavy hentai]] you are likely to find.
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* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: That one monster in episode one.
* [[The Nth Doctor]]: Maya's origins, if not appearance, change from episode to episode, depending on the setting. Her ultimate fate, however... not so much.
* [[Out Withwith a Bang]]: {{spoiler|The Mayor}} in episode two has some sort of heart attack while having sex with Maya and his female assistant, which apparently makes him strangle the latter to death before biting the dust.
* [[Plot With Porn]]
* [[Pygmalion Plot]]: Episode two.
* [[Publisher Chosen Title]]: The original Japanese episodes mostly didn't have own titles except "Imma Youjo" and the volume number. The US release by Critical mass, however, was given distinct episode titles. Then retitled on rerelease. The list can be found on [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4020&page=25 ANN].
* [[Rape Asas Drama]]: Second Maya is the most jarring example, especially seeing how she is actually a machine. {{spoiler|She is raped in front of her creator and lover and then receives a [[Mind Rape|memory wipe to erase all memories of him]].}}
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: The [[FemBot|fembots]] in episode two, but Maya by far outmatches them all.
* [[Robot Girl]]: Second Maya.
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