Sugimoto & Young Wife

Sugimoto & Young Wife was the working title for an expected sequel to Sugimoto Gynecology Clinic ~Nurse Reform Program~, initially expected in May of 2016, with several missed release dates thereafter. The release was to star Shoko Sugimoto, Kenji Kataoka, and Kenji's mentioned-but-as-yet-unseen wife, implied to feature 1-on-1 and threesome scenes. This release would have completed a trilogy of releases focusing on Shoko's backstory.

The project appears to be shelved, having been supplanted by Sexy Trainer Shoko Sugimoto, starring a younger Shoko in a different scenario, and Sisters' Sexual Circumstances, which uses the young wife scenario with new characters.

Background
Sugimoto & Young Wife has had a long and tumultuous history, dating back to the first mentions of the project in 2015. UMEMARO stated on July 22, 2015, following the DVD release of Semen Analysis, that the next project - Sugimoto Gynecology Clinic ~Nurse Reform Program~, originally projected for December 2015 - would be followed up by a mini-movie collection starring the younger Shoko Sugimoto from that release alongside a "young wife," originally slated for May 2016. At this time, UMEMARO gave it the working title of Sugimoto & Young Wife. Sugimoto Gynecology Clinic, however, slid over three months past its original projected release date, resulting in a cascading delay effect that initially shifted Sugimoto & Young Wife further back into 2016.

UMEMARO began a new project on May 17, 2016, but did not confirm that Young Wife was the project he'd begun working on. It was not until June 11 that Young Wife was revealed to have been temporarily shelved in favor of a project starring a school girl, which was eventually released as Cheeky Girl in August of that year. UMEMARO did not mention the Young Wife project for the rest of Cheeky Girl's production cycle.

Work on Young Wife was restarted in September 2016 after the release of Cheeky Girl. However, on September 27, UMEMARO announced that technical limitations with FiberFX and Radiosity were causing rendering times to balloon significantly; specifically, rendering three characters in a scene at once was too much for his workstation and programs to handle. As a result of these issues, UMEMARO seemed to put the project on indefinite hold, lamenting his failures and apologizing for the disappointment. In its place, UMEMARO began working on Horny Girl, which was eventually released in February 2017.

Despite this apparent cancellation, UMEMARO continued to reference Young Wife, mentioning in an October 3 blog post that he had scripted the entire video out and was unwilling to convert it into a PDF comic, seeming to prefer the video format. His comments indicated that Young Wife would remain a concern until he was able to figure out a way to overcome the technical limitations of the project and finish it. On October 19, UMEMARO gave more details about his thought process on how to resolve the Young Wife problem, noting that something in the project needed to be cut for him to be able to do it, providing the options of increased production time, reducing the content (presumably by shortening the video), or converting the scenes into 1 on 1 scenes (UMEMARO indicated that, as expected, the project was to feature Sugimoto, Kenji Kataoka, and Kenji's wife together). He also suggested that making Kenji bald would shorten rendering time and potentially allow him to finish the project.

Following the release of Horny Girl, UMEMARO announced on February 27, 2017 that, once again, Young Wife would be the next project. Production properly began around March 20; however, by April 7, UMEMARO seemingly revealed that the Young Wife project would instead feature two men alongside Sugimoto, instead of the previously expected Sugimoto, a "young wife," and Kenji Kataoka. He also mentioned writing a script, implying that this project was not going to be the expected Sugimoto & Young Wife at all, but instead a separate project. Further updates over the course of the development cycle for what became Sexy Trainer Shoko Sugimoto indirectly confirmed that the Young Wife concept had been set aside, instead becoming an all-new story with Sugimoto.

Legacy
As noted above, Sugimoto was used in a new scenario, released as Sexy Trainer Shoko Sugimoto. The Sugimoto & Young Wife concept was finally put to bed with the release of Sisters' Sexual Circumstances, featuring a young wife seduced by her husband's younger brother, with her younger sister involved as well. These two releases appear to show that the original Sugimoto & Young Wife concept was instead split into two mini-movie collections.