SM no Susume

Daiki's parents shipping off abroad leaves the university student not really alone at all in the house. He ends up cohabitating with one guy and three women, which sounds like a standard setup until you realize Daiki is a committed sadist and the women around him are decidedly not opposed to that. What follows is a series of 'training' sessions that are exactly what they sound like, wrapped in the kind of intimate, confined character dynamics that come from a visual novel adaptation where everyone is stuck in the same space. The early 2000s animation gives it that distinctly raw, hand-drawn quality that a lot of older adult OVAs carry — rough around the edges but with a certain directness to it. It's a single episode, so there's no slow burn here; it gets into the sadomasochistic premise quickly and stays there. If you've watched something like Discipline or Bible Black and you're looking for something in that same era with a similar tone, this fits that pocket. If you liked Shusaku and prefer your adult anime centered on a dominant male protagonist with a clear dynamic established early, this covers that ground too. It's not trying to be anything other than what it is — a compact, character-focused adult OVA from a visual novel source that commits fully to its premise without much preamble.