Thread:Talk:Dinaranger/Dinaranger plot discussion/reply (3)

Having read most of it, I'd agree. It has a good deconstruction of sentai show plots going, and some interesting takes on mind break/corruption, but the author seemed to be creating the work with only one hand on the keyboard as much as he expected most of the readers would be viewing it with one hand on the keyboard.

A common weakness of hentai (and what makes most of it boring as hell and intellectually uninteresting) is that most creators of hentai are low effort, throwing enough plot up to form a scenario, and then they just liberally spackle the rest with porn scenes, banking on their viewers spending too much time enjoying the X rated stuff to care that the plot barely exists.

Frankly, Dinaranger was at it's most compelling when the plot was allowed to progress. The porn scenes themselves got stale and uninteresting save for the psychological mind break stuff (and even that got boring after awhile), and while the author used some effort to integrate the porn into the plot, they just stopped short of doing a good job of it, often just padding out most of the chapters with sex scenes when they didn't have anything else going on.

In summation, I don't think porn filled plots are bad per se, but it just strikes me as the height of intellectual laziness to use porn to fill in blank spots in a plot that could be interesting if you applied a little more effort on the plot side of things.

Also, I agree with your critique entirely, the elements you found lacking would have hung more flesh on the skeleton of a story that could have been more compelling.