In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, the Weissers write that series director, Takao Nagaishi, took "a patently offensive premise and twisted it into a wickedly funny black-comedy for adults ... His camerawork is slick, and the music is hypnotic.

"[4] Clients call on the Rapeman to handle cases such as the revenge of a jilted lover, forming parental bonds through a traumatic crisis, making disruptive co-workers more docile and other things of that nature.

When engaged in his night trade, the Rapeman wears a black leather ski mask shaped like the head of a penis, but no trousers or underwear.

The comic was mentioned by name in articles published in foreign publications in an attempt to delve into Japan's sex culture in the wake of the 2003 Waseda University Super Free "rape club" scandal.

It is used by the prosecutor (who calls upon detective Monique Jeffries as a witness) as a piece of evidence against a young man accused of rape, whose father is also being charged as an accessory for bringing the comic into the house.