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Pressed uniforms and spotless reputations paint a convincing picture — Arisugawa Academy looks like the kind of elite all-girls school where nothing bad ever happens, a place where daughters of powerful families walk its halls without a care. Then you find out the chairman is running a side operation that caters to the darkest appetites of government officials, and suddenly the prestige feels a lot more sinister. Mutsuki Sayoko is one of those well-behaved, high-class students who gets pulled into that world, and the story doesn't soften what that means for her. This is a one-episode OVA from 2001 adapted from a visual novel by Kiss, and it leans hard into the contrast between the academy's polished exterior and what's actually happening behind closed doors. The power dynamics here aren't subtle — it's about corruption, manipulation, and how institutions built on reputation can weaponize that reputation against the people inside them. If you've watched something like Gakuen Saimin Reido and appreciated how that kind of story uses its setting to build dread, this covers similar ground. The tone is dark throughout, so go in knowing that. It's not trying to be titillating window dressing — the institutional corruption angle gives it more weight than a lot of entries in the genre. Short runtime means it doesn't overstay its welcome, but it also doesn't pull punches with what it sets up.