APAA-042 - So! A lovely girl who looks great in a uniform, orthodox beautiful girl Mao

Mao Kaede is cute, but the clumsy POV camera work ruins everything. It doesn't do her cuteness any justice at all.

She's cute, but I don't need some amateurish hidden-camera style footage. It completely ruins what could have been great material.

At first glance, she almost looks like a beautiful girl in the vein of Rosa Kato, but... when the camera zooms in on her face, she looks a bit old for her age. I personally felt it was a stretch for her to play a high school girl. Depending on how you interpret the actress's features, this might be a polarizing work. I gave it a low rating because she just didn't look young to me.

It's a POV work, but in both POV scenes, the camera only focuses on the actress's face during the second half. Up until that point, the framing of her body and the act itself is well-balanced, but as soon as they get close to climax, it switches to an 'image video' style. Even a bad cameraman usually manages to keep at least the chest-up in frame, but this just shows her face and cuts straight to the finish. Watching just her face doesn't do it for me.

The cover art gives off a very 'high school girl' vibe. I used to think of Aurora as a gateway label where newcomers would debut, gain popularity, and then expand to other studios. I was hoping this might be a different person with the same name, but... it turned out to be Mao Kaede herself, the stunning beauty from Kira☆Kira who re-debuted under a new name after appearing in titles like 'Working Woman 19'. It's a huge stretch for her to play a high schooler. I'm a bit disappointed with recent Aurora releases. The atmosphere has completely changed from the days when they constantly introduced new talent; now, it's mostly actresses who are already popular elsewhere. It's a shame that their filming style hasn't evolved at all since the days they focused on newcomers.