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{{Short description|Japanese pornographic anime series}}
{{more citations needed|date=October 2008}}
{{Television incorrect naming style|anime}}
{{Infobox animanga/Header
| name            =
| image           = Angelofdarknesscover.jpg
| image_size      = 200px
| caption         = Cover of the Japanese DVD release of the first episode of ''Angel of Darkness''
| ja_kanji        = 淫獣教師
| ja_romaji       = Injū Kyōshi
| genre           = [[Hentai]], [[Horror fiction|Horror]]
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type            = ova
| director        = Kanenari Tokiwa
| producer        =
| writer          =
| music           =
| studio          = [[Pink Pineapple]]
| licensee        = {{English anime licensee|NA=[[A.D. Vision|SoftCel Pictures]] (expired)}}
| released        = 1994
| runtime         = 180 minutes (total)
| episodes        = 4
| episode_list    =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type            = live video
| director        =
| producer        =
| writer          =
| music           =
| studio          = [[The Right Stuf|Critical Mass]] (expired)<br>[[Adult Source Media]]
| released        = {{Start date|2006}}
| runtime         = 450 minutes (total)
| episodes        = 5
| episode_list    =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Footer}}

{{nihongo|'''''Angel of Darkness'''''|淫獣教師|Injū Kyōshi|lead=yes}} is a four-part [[hentai]] [[anime]] series released in 1994 by [[Pink Pineapple]] in Japan. The series focuses on [[tentacle rape]] and [[Sadism & Masochism|S&M]]. It was adapted into a live-action series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/angel-darkness-vol-1_article_74756.html|title= Angel of Darkness Vol. #1|last=Beveridge |first=Chris|publisher=[[Mania.com]] |accessdate=2010-01-14}}</ref> The animated series was released in North America by [[A.D. Vision|ADV]] Films under their [[A.D. Vision|SoftCel Pictures]] label. The genre is situated between [[Horror fiction|sci-fi horror]] and the [[slasher film]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ortega-Brena|first=Mariana|year=2009|title=Peek-a-boo, I See You: Watching Japanese Hard-core Animation|journal=Sexuality & Culture|publisher=[[Springer New York]]|location=New York|volume=13|issue=1|pages=17–31|issn=1095-5143|doi=10.1007/s12119-008-9039-5|s2cid=143481005}}</ref>

==Plot==<!--needs expanding into a summary of the series-->
During a rainy night in a thunderstorm, Professor Goda is digging under a large tree in the schoolyard of Siren Academy, a prestigious [[boarding school]] for girls. He breaks through a mysterious stone tablet and is attacked by a large tentacled monster and is suddenly infected. Later, students are attending the opening ceremony of the new school semester. After the ceremony ends, a group of five girls discover a goblin-looking creature in the background of one of their photos after getting the picture taken; they decide to throw away the picture due to its frightening appearance.

The scene then shifts to an underground basement in the school's church, where Professor Goda and The Director are raping a freshman student who is tied up and gagged. The Director is wearing black [[Sadomasochism|S&M]] bondage gear, while Goda is naked. Goda comments that he needs the extracts of younger women in order to provide food for an organism that he just discovered. The Director appears to be [[Sadomasochism|enjoying watching the torture]] and involves herself in the process by whipping the freshman with her riding crop until the freshman faints from shock.

The scene cuts to the dormitory where Sayaka and Atsuko are currently engaging in heavy fondling and passionate kissing in their dorm room, developing into a full sex scene until they are interrupted by a group of fellow students knocking at the door asking them to come to dinner. All the girls appear to be listless and uninterested in anything, including Atsuko's "impressions".

Yuko manages to wake them through her violin playing, but it is clear there is still something wrong. Professor Goda is in the church listening to the music when he is suddenly attacked by what appears to be a fairy, later revealed to be named Rom. The show then cuts to a montage of Sayaka and Atsuko's life at their new school where Atsuko proves to be an apt athlete in lacrosse, and is very popular with the other girls in the school to the disapproval of Sayaka, who wants Atsuko all for herself.

==Characters==

===First story===
; {{nihongo|Atsuko Yoshikawa|吉川 カガリ|Yoshikawa Atsuko}}
: {{Voiced by|[[Naoko Matsui]]}}
Sayaka's lover. The two of them have dated since high school, and are trying to hide their affair from Atsuko's older sister.
; {{nihongo|Sayaka Matsumoto|松本 才加|Matsumoto Sayaka}}
: {{Voiced by|Sonoko Hosoi}}
Atsuko's lover. The two of them have dated since high school, and are trying to hide their affair from Atsuko's older sister.
; {{nihongo|Yuko Yoshikawa|吉川 裕子|Yoshikawa Yuko}}
: {{Voiced by|Minako Arakawa}}

; {{nihongo|Professor Goda|合田-先生|Goda-sensei}}
: {{Voiced by|[[Shinya Ohtaki]]}}

Goda is a young science professor at the prestigious Siren Women's Academy who broke a seal on a tree and was attacked and possessed by a [[Tentacle erotica|tentacle monster]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RM70AgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Angel+of+Darkness%22+anime&pg=PA5 | title=Anime Explosion!: The What? Why? And Wow! Of Japanese Animation, Revised and Updated Edition | isbn=9781611720136 | last1=Drazen | first1=Patrick | date=April 2014 | publisher=Stone Bridge Press}}</ref>

; Siren Director
: {{Voiced by|[[Yoshino Ohtori]]}}

; {{nihongo|Rom|ロームー|Rōmū}}
: {{Voiced by|[[Takehito Koyasu]]}}

===Second story===
; {{nihongo|Haruka Tachibana|橘 はるか|Tachibana Haruka}}
: {{Voiced by|[[Emi Motoi]]}}

; {{nihongo|Reiko Yoshinaga|吉永 レイコ|Yoshinaga Reiko}}
: {{Voiced by|Midori Nakazawa}}

; {{nihongo|Midori Anzai|アンザイ ミドリ|Anzai Midori}}
: {{Voiced by|Miho Yoshida}}

; {{nihongo|Professor Shimazaki|島崎-先生|Shimazaki-sensei}}
: {{Voiced by|Shinya Ohtaki}}

; {{nihongo|Kazuya Matsui|松井 カズヤ|Matsui Kazuya}}
: {{Voiced by|[[Kousuke Okano]]}}

; {{nihongo|Hiromi Takabe|タカベ ヒロミ|Takabe Hiromi}}
: {{Voiced by|[[Tomoko Kawakami]]}}

; {{nihongo|Ryoko Mamiya|マミヤ 涼子|Mamiya Ryoko}}
: {{Voiced by|[[Misa Watanabe]]}}

; {{nihongo|Minako Yamashina|山科 ミナコ|Yamashina Minako}}
: {{Voiced by|[[Naoko Matsui]]}}

==Production==
Considered [[soft porn]], ''Angel of Darkness''' attempts to merge the magical girl anime formula with the [[tentacle rape]] hentai genre. This was done in order to circumvent stringent Japanese censorship laws at the time that did not allow the animation of the [[pubic region]] and identifiable [[genitalia]]. As such, hentai films began using monsters with [[phallic]] tentacles to "rape" women in films.<ref name="FlowersFromHell">{{cite book |title=Flowers from Hell |first=Jim |last=Harper |publisher=[[Noir Publishing]] |date=May 12, 2008 |isbn=978-0-9536564-7-9 |page=55}}</ref>

==Media==

===Anime===
''Angel of Darkness'' series was licensed by [[ADV Films]] and released under their [[ADV Films#Softcel|Softcel]] label.  All four episodes were released on [[VHS]] and [[DVD]] with [[Subtitle (captioning)|subtitles]] only.

===Live-action===
''Angel of Darkness'' was adapted into five live-action adult films and were released in English by [[Right Stuf International|Critical Mass Video]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-07-10/ax-2002-trsi-confirmed-list |title=AX 2002: TRSI Confirmed list |publisher=[[Anime News Network]] |date=2002-07-06 |accessdate=2008-10-21 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081202000555/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-07-10/ax-2002-trsi-confirmed-list| archivedate= 2 December 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>

==Reception==
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Patrick Drazen regards ''Angel of Darkness'' as being an example of the use of "horror to express sexual anxiety", and as an example of [[Gothic fiction]].<ref>Patrick Drazen, (2003) [[Anime Explosion]] pp. 70-71</ref>  Chris Beveridge regards the hentai to be "neither the best nor the worst" that he had seen, but enjoyed the third episode over the last, as it was more plot-oriented.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/angel-darkness-vol-2_article_74929.html |title=Angel of Darkness Vol. #2 - Mania.com |accessdate=2010-05-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402123903/http://www.mania.com/angel-darkness-vol-2_article_74929.html |archivedate=2009-04-02}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070315212626/http://www.pinkpineapple.co.jp/inju/inkyoud1-1/inkyoud1-1.html Official Pink Pineapple ''Angel of Darkness'' website] {{in lang|ja}}
*SoftCel Pictures page: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080120102337/http://www.softcelpics.com/product1.shtml?dad001 animated series]
*Critical Mass Video page: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070101085453/http://www.criticalmassvideo.com/catalog/angel-of-darkness-01.shtml live action series]
*ASM page (live action): [http://shop.adultsourcemedia.com/products/angel-of-darkness-movie-2-dvd?_pos=2&_sid=d17c22325&_ss=r&variant=40283328675910 AOD movie 2]
*{{anime News Network|ova|1359}}
*{{IMDb title|0192162}}

[[Category:1994 anime OVAs]]
[[Category:ADV Films]]
[[Category:Hentai anime and manga]]
[[Category:Horror anime and manga]]
[[Category:Pink Pineapple]]
[[Category:Fiction about rape]]
[[Category:Japanese horror films]]