Dropout

In this near-future backdrop, unemployment has brought society to its knees, setting the stage for a government program that starts with manual labor conscription and quietly slides into something far darker. Young women who've failed high school or can't find work — labeled 'dropouts' — are assigned to men based on academic merit. The better your grades, the more desirable the partner you receive. It's a system designed to look bureaucratic and orderly while being nakedly exploitative at its core. This 2-episode OVA from Ryuu M's doesn't really pull its punches about what it is. The premise is provocative by design, framing sexual exploitation inside the language of government policy and social utility — which gives it a distinctly unsettling dystopian edge compared to most entries in the genre. The animation leans into character expressions and environment to set the mood, and the soundtrack keeps things atmospheric rather than cheap. If you've watched something like Kuroinu: Kedakaki Seijo wa Hakudaku ni Somaru and appreciated dark, morally uncomfortable world-building wrapped around explicit content, this sits in similar territory. Fans of Shoujo-tachi no Sadism might also find the institutional framing familiar, though Dropout leans harder into the societal critique angle. It's grim, it's intentionally provocative, and it's adapted from a manga source that clearly had things to say about how societies discard people. Whether the execution lands for you depends on your tolerance for heavy subject matter in this format.