Enshou Nihon Mukashibanashi

Settling in before a live-action sequence, a slightly perverted old narrator turns to you and says, 'Let me tell you some old Japanese stories.' What follows is three short animated tales loosely based on traditional Japanese folktales — except filtered through the very adult sensibilities of late-80s OVA culture. Each story keeps the historical setting and the familiar folktale structure, but the content leans hard into erotic comedy rather than anything you'd find in a children's textbook. The whole thing runs as a single OVA episode, released in 1988 by Alice Japan, and it has that specific low-budget charm that defined a lot of adult animation from that era. The narrator framing device gives it a storytelling anthology feel, which is a fun structural choice — it genuinely does feel like someone sitting across from you recounting old tales with a knowing smirk. If you have any familiarity with Yonimo Osoroshii Nihon Mukashibanashi or the general tone of Manga Nihon Mukashibanashi, think of this as the version that took a very different turn at the fork in the road. It is not a prestige production. The animation is modest, the stories are brief, and the whole thing exists in a niche corner of anime history. But if you are curious about how adult OVAs handled traditional Japanese folklore in the late 80s, this is a reasonably specific and historically interesting example of exactly that.