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So, I've watched 2 recent anime series that essentially are different sides of the same coin (when you get down to it): Prison School Season 1 and now Scum's Wish (which is still on its 1st Season run). I never thought I would like either of these shows based on what they were purported to be about. Most modern anime I find to be pedantic, boring, repetitive and and way too cute for my tastes. Gimme "blood-n-guts" sci-fi/mecha action (like Yamato 2199 did) that scratches that sweet spot and I'm good!
Prison School is a gross-out comedy (in a WTF am I watching way) about 5 perverted High School schlubs who get a royal beat down by psychotic "1984 Anti-Sex League"-style school girls at what used to be an All-Female boarding high school. It deals with sex (and how gross it can be when you think about it objectively) and the drive to have sex (which we've all been programmed for via our biology).
Scum's Wish is about a cast of characters revolving around a high school boy and girl all experiencing the highs/lows of what it means to love, be in love (specifically unrequited love for their first crushes) and the consequences (or lack thereof) in sex. Its both bittersweet and heart-warming in what seems to be nearly equal amounts. Its also imminently relatable for just about everyone who ever was a teenager and/or had a emotional/physical relationship with another human being that wasn't family.
What's funnier still (at least to me) is that both of these series would probably have been hentai in the past because they both mine the same sort of vein. Both Prison School and Scum's Wish manage to get right to that edge that of what can be shown: there is no real nudity, let alone sexual imagery like in a hentai. They're adult themed without BEING adult.
I'm hoping Scum's Wish doesn't do a Bad End, cause, well, that just hits a little too close to home.
TL;DR - You can really can teach an old (fan) new tricks! I'm patiently awaiting hentai doujin of Scum's Wish (you know someone is gonna do it cause Rule 34!)