Despite a somewhat rocky start, Mao Tsuchiya and Hisashi Ootomo have found a way to co-exist in their shared dorm room. They made three simple promises for happy coexistence – to not out Ootomo as gay and having a boyfriend, Ootomo must not fall in love with Mao, and the two must respect each other’s […]
After watching the band performance of an older student named Yoru Asanagi, Himari Kino falls in love. After the show, Himari confesses her love to Yoru, who is inexperienced in romance. After mulling it over, Yoru decides to return her feelings, but it turns out that Himari was in love with Yoru’s music rather than
After 30 years of life passed him by, Kiyoshi Adachi discovers that the old saying that if you remain a virgin until you are 30 you will gain magic powers is actually true! However, instead of anything magnificent, the only power that Adachi has is to read the thoughts of anyone he is touching. Thinking
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This is the story of two girls, both named Nana. Nana Komatsu is a naive girl addicted to love who is moving to Tokyo to chase after her boyfriend going to school there. Nana Osaki is a proud punk rocker that is moving to Tokyo to become a rock star. By chance, they meet on
After a crushing defeat at the Grand Prix finale, Yuuri Katsuki returns home no longer as Japan’s most promising figure skater. With his window for skating success closing, he assesses his options. After a video of Yuuri performing a routine by five-time world champion Victor Nikiforov goes viral, he suddenly finds the champion on his
Much of his life at his all-boy’s school for Miyano is worrying about how girly his face looks and hiding his secret love of boy’s love manga. However, after witnessing a fight, he has a clandestine meeting with an older delinquent student named Sasaki. Afterwards, Sasaki seems to jump at every opportunity to be around
After moving around his entire life, classical pianist Kaoru Nishimi has abandoned all hope of fitting in as he arrives in Kyushu for his final year of high school. However, that all changes when he meets the thuggish drummer, Sentaro Kawabuchi, a man with an immeasurable love for jazz. Over the music, they bond together
The world is filled with people who are fundamentally different from each other. For many, their lives will never intersect. However, sometimes there are moments where two very different people meet and fill what was once a void in each other. They show each other a different side of the world that they may have
Music anime series are more than just a good soundtrack. Any anime can have a good soundtrack, so of course an anime series about making music has an amazing soundtrack. Music anime series are about more than just the insert songs. They document the struggle, drama, and camaraderie that comes from this creative pursuit. Many
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While long-loved by many fans, you have to admit that both yaoi and yuri anime often have their own unique problems in their depiction of same sex couples. In yuri, they enjoy ending their series with either a tragedy or the girls just “growing out” of liking other girls. Meanwhile, yaoi has an aggression problem,
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