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[Walle12]

I bought SIVR-490, and it's really good—much more immersive than what you usually get from ZAMPA—but it has two problems: the runtime, and ZAMPA.

At 86 minutes, with outdoor scenes and a bathtub scene—which are very good—there’s little time for anything else. The sex positions (cowgirl, doggie, missionary) are great, but last three minutes each; they seem timed.
And meanwhile, ZAMPA is up to his old tricks: his obsession with blowjobs. There are FOUR of them, taking away time from the penetration scenes:



I don't understand this obsession with something that's been completely censored, especially in such a short film.

Even so, it’s a very immersive movie, the best S1 movie of 2026, basically because the rest are crap. It still falls short of 2025 and is light-years behind 2024.

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this, but ever since Fanza switched the codec to HEVC10, I've noticed a grainy texture on the girls' skin—it's as if their whole bodies are covered in freckles. It's really annoying and ruins the image quality. It's not all studios; it's just the last two or three releases from S1 and Moodyz, and a few titles from other studios.

Big boob lovers can look forward to Miura Sakura making yet another VR although its really tacky for them to repeat the seifuku theme. Her last VR in Dec was also seifuku. I know a certain someone won't be happy about this lol.

Miura Sakura only shoots one VR movie a year... And they're using the same theme as last year? I don't get it. Even less so the insistence on a schoolgirl costume for a woman who must be around 30. It's ridiculous.
Plus, she has an incredible body, but in this one she doesn’t take her clothes off at all throughout the entire movie.
But even in the previous movie, zero seconds of butt or back; in this movie, zero seconds of butt and back, according to the trailer. Almost three years without seeing Miura Sakura’s perfect butt. Oh well.

By the way, Idea Pocket announced a new VR title today after two months. I thought they couldn’t do any worse than their 2026 VR titles, but they did.



Sucking on a piece of plastic right in front of the VR camera’s ear microphones must be really erotic for someone. Not for me. I wouldn't care either way; I'll just skip it. What's annoying is that there's no cowgirl in the trailer, and the missionary position has the image cut off at the waist. Have we gone back to 2017 and I didn’t realize it?



This is trash, on par with Aqua or any of those other trashy studios flooding JAV VR. For movies like this, Idea Pocket should stay on vacation.

 

[Itsabiggapepperoni]

I bought SIVR-490, and it's really good—much more immersive than what you usually get from ZAMPA—but it has two problems: the runtime, and ZAMPA.

At 86 minutes, with outdoor scenes and a bathtub scene—which are very good—there’s little time for anything else. The sex positions (cowgirl, doggie, missionary) are great, but last three minutes each; they seem timed.
And meanwhile, ZAMPA is up to his old tricks: his obsession with blowjobs. There are FOUR of them, taking away time from the penetration scenes:

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I don't understand this obsession with something that's been completely censored, especially in such a short film.

Even so, it’s a very immersive movie, the best S1 movie of 2026, basically because the rest are crap. It still falls short of 2025 and is light-years behind 2024.

Yeah that one had potential but it was just way too short. Something like 20 minutes of action out of 86 minutes. If they just extended the last scene to also include penetration it would have been perfect.

 

[Walle12]

Yeah that one had potential but it was just way too short. Something like 20 minutes of action out of 86 minutes. If they just extended the last scene to also include penetration it would have been perfect.

Yeah, that's totally right. Last year, Moodyz already released two or three movies featuring Mio, Yagi Nana, and a few others in this style, with outdoor scenes, bathroom scenes, and so on. The difference is that those ran 100–120 minutes, had more sex scenes, and were longer.

Everything in SIVR-490 is great, and Kanna Seto is spectacular. But they tried to cram too much into 86 minutes, and it all feels very rushed. Each position lasts almost exactly 3 minutes—it’s either shot or edited that way on purpose.
If the last scene had included penetration, it would have been better. But after three blowjobs, they throw in a completely new final scene, and it’s… another masturbation/blowjob scene, and you’re left with a look on your face like… “Huh? Again?”

It’s the struggle of 2026—VRs are getting shorter and shorter. The other S1 VR released yesterday, 74 minutes... (even though it's really good).

 

[Walle12]

Throughout 2026, reviews on Fanza had very low ratings because the movies were terrible, and everyone could see that. So now Fanza doesn't let you rate or comment unless you've bought the movie... That makes the reviews pointless, because the people who buy them do so because they like something about the movie, and they're going to give it a good rating even if it's crap...

I’ve seen people giving 5 stars to movies that are garbage just because the actress was wearing white socks instead of black ones, or because she had a ponytail... As they themselves said in the reviews...

Anyway, just another form of censorship to silence criticism. S1 has changed radically after the month-long Golden Week hiatus, and I’m sure it’s because of the bad reviews of their movies in 2026. Now that you can’t criticize without buying (who buys bad movies?), those of us fighting for VR movies to have immersion and realism—those of us who are in the minority—are going to pay the price. And the studios have no idea why people aren't buying their movies...

 

[Zengi69]

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I watched this one and can give a mixed review. Definitely recommend it for fans of Rika Aimi though.
Eye Candy: Rika Aimi is looking stunning these days. She went through a period where she experimented with shorter hair and different colors, and none of them really worked for me. Now she is back with a more natural look. I went back to a 2020 release of hers, and she is looking remarkably the same after 6 years. It is refreshing that she hasn't become anorexic or gotten the pixie makeover that has ruined so many actresses (e.g. Ozaki Erika).
Performance: Even with her long break from VR, Rika-chan hasn't lost her skills. Her enthusiastic blowjob and cowgirl abilities remain stellar, and she maintains proper eye contact to increase the immersion.
Production: Here is where the video suffers a bit. They tried to get clever with a dark room and flashlight effect. While this can create some feelings of immersion, the darkness also leads to video noise. Wish the video was crisper.

 

[Walle12]

Production: Here is where the video suffers a bit. They tried to get clever with a dark room and flashlight effect. While this can create some feelings of immersion, the darkness also leads to video noise. Wish the video was crisper.

Rika Aimi looks more beautiful than ever, and the video is quite immersive. Unfortunately, the ending ruins it for me—instead of a face-to-face missionary position, they go with a missionary position where they’re a meter apart, with the actor on his knees and the girl lying a meter away. That’s not VR; thay is to watch like a 2D video.

As for the grain in the image, I talked about it in the previous post. Fanza has changed the codec for 8K VR from HEVC to HEVC10, and that causes the movies to have brutal grain when there’s low light, or there are green or red lights like in SIVR-490. I don’t know if it’s just in certain settings, because I don’t see anyone complaining in the Fanza reviews. It ruins the movies for me because the girls’ skin has a layer of grain, as if they were covered in freckles.
You can fix it somewhat by lowering the contrast and raising the gamma, but that washes out the colors a bit.

I’ve tried converting the movies from HEVC10 to HEVC, but since it’s 8K, it takes 6 hours for a 45-minute scene, so I’ve given up...