Sins of the Sisters

AKA: St. Michaela Mission High School
St. Michael's Academy
Saint Michael Gakuen Hyoryu-ki jyo-jan

A Nunsploitation.Net review

Sins of the Sisters received a lot of bad reviews and I went into it expecting it to be horrible. Overall, the movie wasn't nearly that bad. I think viewers were upset because they were expecting some graphic, hardcore sex scenes since this is a hentai anime. Despite such explicit themes as brutal rapes, sex in a church, sex with hermaphrodites, and even a scene in which a hermaphrodite seduces the pope, the sex in Sins of the Sisters is surprisingly sterile.

The movie itself is a sequel to Sins of the Flesh which is only available in VHS and is very difficult to find. Keeping that in mind, the storyline can be very confusing and there are many flashbacks and references to events and people from the first movie. However, the story isn't impossible to follow. Fans of nunsploitation may be familiar with many anti-clerical themes common to the genre.

The story focuses around Hans, a faithful crusader who leads young soldiers into battle to retake Jerusalem. However, the men are betrayed! The pope himself has sold them into slavery. The ship that was supposed to take Hans and his men into battle is actually delivering them to a slavers market!

The men revolt, but the ship sinks in a storm and goes down with all hands. With his dying breath, Hans swears revenge! He rejects God and swears to destroy Christianity.

Hans becomes an angel who rips off his wings and falls back to earth, reincarnated as a woman. Now known as Aiko, she creates a new crusade, this time against the church. Aiko's crusaders destroy the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy Roman Empire and then they march into Asia. Eventually, they destroy all world religions and governments.

The result is a utopia. With no more nations and no more religions, the world is at peace. There is no need for war.

All of this is told in flashback. In this movie, one of the nuns of St. Michaela's, reincarnated as Yuki, wants to change history so she can be together with her lost love who dies as a result of Aiko's crusade.

She goes back in time and tries to stop Hans from discovering the pope's betrayal so he never becomes Aiko.

The time travel in the movie can get confusing. I started to lose track of who was who. I had a hard time keeping track of who had what agenda. Everyone went back in time for a different reason. To make matters worse, some people are reincarnations of other people. Dead people don't stay dead and spirits possess the living.

Near the end of the movie, I thought the timeline had been completely screwed up and Aiko was doomed. But somehow, through some leap of logic, everything worked out in the end.

The movie had many potentially graphic sex scenes. When Aiko first arrives at St. Michaela's, she reveals her identity as Hans to one of the girls. To prove her fantastic story is true, Aiko removes her skirt revealing her enormous cock... or so we are to imagine. We never see any penis at any point in the film... even though transexuals are a central theme of the movie. People just gasp and say "You're an androgeny!" ... even though "androgeny" isn't actually a word....

In what could have been an amazing scene, Yuki becomes a hermaphrodite and seduces the pope. Given the date, I'm guessing that this is supposed to be Pope Innocent III. She drops her tunic and shows him her cock... again, in our imagination as we never get to see any actual cock. She then allows him to go down on her... offscreen!

There are also a few rape scenes. In one scene, Yuki affirms her authority over the reincarnated Reiko. She strips her and rapes her, but again, we never get to see any genitalia.

In another scene, one of the female crusaders, Francoise, is brutally raped by a bandit. He rips off her clothes, then slaps her into submission before raping her. Hans is stuck fighting bandits and can't help her.

When the fighting is over, the crusaders discover that Francoise has hanged herself. The St. Micheala's girls want her taken down and buried properly, but Hans refuses citing that suicide is the worst kind of sin against God. The girls are baffled. "Hans, do you really still believe in God?" they ask incredulously. They fall just short of adding "Are you stupid?"

The anticlerical and anti-theist theme is plain. The girls are dumbstruck by Hans' devotion to his faith. This is especially ironic when you consider that Hans will be reincarnated to become their leader.

Despite the graphic themes, the actual sexual depictions are tame. If Sins of the Sisters had been more graphic, I think it would have gotten better reviews and fans would have been more forgiving of the confusing story.

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