Gold Throbber

What happens when a bad habit spirals completely out of control? For Yuji, a young salaryman, his compulsion for groping women on trains has completely derailed his life — no job, no friends, and a criminal charge hovering over him like a storm cloud. It's a premise that's equal parts dark comedy and cautionary tale, and the show leans into that tension without much apology. Then Kazuo shows up: a charismatic mentor figure who supposedly has a gift for making any woman he touches respond to him, and he decides, for reasons of his own, to take Yuji under his wing. What follows across these two OVA episodes is essentially a weird mentor-apprentice dynamic set against the backdrop of crowded urban trains and morally questionable behavior. The tone is dark humor mixed with explicit content — that's the genre, and this one doesn't pretend otherwise. The early 2000s animation from Y.O.U.C gives it a look that fans of that era will recognize immediately. If you've already worked through titles like Chikan Densha or Chikan Densha: Iyarashii Kôi and want something with a slightly more comedic character dynamic layered on top of the familiar setup, this scratches that itch. It's adapted from a visual novel, so there's a bit more narrative framing here than you'd expect — the characters actually have arcs, however dubious. Two episodes, in and out, no commitment required.