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Panking's JAV Studio Tierlist

Published : July 24th, 2023 @ 12:45 PM Written by Panking

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ZENRA-User-749059 10 months ago
What a great write up! As a relative newbie, it was so helpful to get an overview of all the major JAV studios. Adding details about their history and what their focus has been was super interesting. BTW and FWIW, I agree 100% about Chijo Heaven being S tier, Their is nothing hot about the latter, but a slutty hottie is to die for!!!

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Rolander 3 years ago
Didn't see MAXING in the list. They've been around a long time, but have had their ups and downs. Sometimes they had really great ones like MXGS-832 - well it's probably the title I've watched the most over the years.
Periph 3 years ago
Hunter got left off the list too. I used to ignore them because a lot of times they don't identify their actresses and they do the stupid line across the eyes on their covers. They have releases with low tier actresses and horrible technical quality, but they actually have some good releases with good themes, quality actresses and good production. As someone who agrees with the author in disliking how most "drama" themes from Attackers almost exclusively are about hard sex, I realized that Hunter specializes in "normal guy fantasies," like "high school girl suddenly moves into guys place," or "sister's friends find my porn stash and want to learn more," or "I moved into an all-girls dorm." Sometimes there are disappointingly made with poor actresses or quality, but a good portion of them are done well and the fantasy comes alive.

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ZENRA 3 years ago

HHH, Hunter's parent company, puts out an incredible amount of movies each month yet like Sadistic Village, seems to be one of those production companies that remains under the radar of many people and produces some pretty higher budget (at least in terms of hiring multiple female faces) movies on a regular basis. Under-rated for sure.

shinmai 3 years ago
Lunatics is honestly the most frustrating one for me. They get so many good actress's the outfits are always really good but then the production side is often miss. When I was Kira Kira so low I was wondering why then saw your reasoning being due to more recent times and have to agree with you. 100% agree about Moodyz. Dogma with the BBTU code has been actually putting out a lot of stuff I like
Panking 3 years ago

Ye Lunatics has potential but their middling production values really hinder them. And KiraKira in their prime would likely be around the A or B tier for me personally but now...yeah not so much.

ZENRA 3 years ago

Lunatics I believe was founded by a former Deep's director. Interestingly, this isn't the first production company offshoot; well over a decade ago another one left the 'mothership' to create Sadistic Village which may be something of an underdog maker today, but month after month is producing some pretty creative and relatively big budget (at least in terms of cast number) movies.

drk 3 years ago
I'd love to a see a director tierlist.

Also, Honnaka has the HNDS code, which they break mostly break out for multi-actress videos, anniversaries and retirements. I think that's their most premium label
ZENRA 3 years ago

Where would Samori go on this list?

drk 3 years ago
Only definite I see is Nao Masaki as S. (Though my favourites - AIKA and Hibihata all say that they like Tiger Kosakai most).
ramp_it_up 3 years ago
I always considered Moody A+ tier and S1 S tier, I considered Honnka B to C tier because I always felt their debut end up being B/C tier models.
Panking 3 years ago

S1's talent pool is certainly S tier and their production values are usually up there too. But they lack creativity and diversity regarding their themes and setups, especially when compared to their earlier days. They play it very safe nowadays.

drk 3 years ago
On an unrelated note, people from the discord are saying that can't access DMM without a VPN at all, but I (Europe) just bought a movie in the usual way. NA only ban?? DMM's logic is beyond my comprehension
ZENRA 3 years ago

I tested with a few VPNs and got blocks. Most likely just a GeoIP issue. Can't ever be 100%. Paid solutions like what we use promise 99% and that's about the best you'll get. It gets more complicated if they are various ways to access the site beyond web (apps, etc.).

drk 3 years ago
What's weird is that DMM issued no message about it, like they did went they were cutting off overseas cards.
ZENRA 3 years ago

Trying to figure out why DMM does what it does is harder than truly understanding the purpose of the red heifer in Numbers.

drk 3 years ago
High barriers to entry to legal watch: VPN + certain specialised software as insurance to DMM throwing an R18-like fit + know how of how to run it + convoluted payment methods.
I could probably buy substance of dubious legality easier than JAV from DMM at this point.
ZENRA 3 years ago

As we have seen with Hot Entertainment among others, there exists a way to pull one's content off DMM (digital at least) and focus on other platforms and still make a killing (not even referring to their selection on our site, but H-Next among others). Non-DMM makers I believe are starting to realize this and we may see more defections as we have seen in the recent past. This doesn't mean an end to them, but instead of being responsible for--making up a number--90% of all JAV sales, their reach could massively drop to 84%. For a small studio, it could be enough because its not like their titles make the front page there and they may have fans who are more keen on purchasing on outlets the studio reps the most.

drk 3 years ago
I feel like the list is quite-DMM heavy. No SOD (neither Star nor Create), no FALENO. From DMM - Alice Japan feels missing
ZENRA 3 years ago

Adding SOD Create would just be cheating due to their insane output covering most everything. Heavy DMM, yes, but Rocket and Dandy get nice placement (both are exclusively distributed by SOD).

drk 3 years ago
re: Chijo, I wish they started making Blu-ray's.

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