Enzai: Falsely Accused - Legacy

Legacy

Enzai has become popular and successful in Japan, birthing two OVAs, several Drama CD Collections, a novelization, an Official Fanbook, and a variety of fan collectibles (pin badges, phone cards, satchels, etc.). However, no uncensored version of the OVAs has ever been distributed.

Enzai has also become famous outside Japan, mostly due to its unusually dark and twisted atmosphere, deep and compelling plot, and surprisingly graphic scenes, as already mentioned. Enzai is the first girls-oriented video game depicting blood, rape, insanity, and abuse rather than the more standard romantic "shōjo" scenes.

Also to be noted as a quality in that game are the psychological details of the characters and of the situations. In the first half of the game, the player is led to have the feeling of despair and hopelessness; the feeling of not knowing what is going on even if everyone else seems to, but knowing only that the events cannot be helped. The authors manage to convey such an atmosphere with the constant repetition of similar scenes and phrases, nearly to the point of redundancy.

Another thing to be mentioned are the mental illnesses that the various characters suffer from. The various disorders afflicting Enzai's cast (mostly paraphilia such as pedophilia, S&M, bondage, voyeurism, urolagnia, but also non-sexual psychologial disorders, such as schizophrenia, madness derived from long periods of cell isolation, and apathy) are presented with a sense of realism.

Enzai is full of German imagery. The title itself is written in German (eine falsche Beschuldigung), and so are all the titles of the background music, although the story takes place in France.