Ritsu wants to resign but when his boss Masamune Takano calls him useless he stays to protect his pride. He does get a job at the literary section but turns out he has been put in the shoujo manga department. He applies for a job in Marukawa publishing company and hopes to get a position in the literary section. When he no longer could bear the jealous attitudes of his co-workers, he decides to quit his job and join another publishing company to prove his worth. He is quite good at his job but still, people think he only has the job because his father is the owner. Ritsu works as an editor in his father’s publishing company. The protagonists of the anime are Ritsu Onodera and Masamune Takano.
Two are gay anime series, one is a film, and one is an Original Video Animation. There have been four anime adaptations of the manga. Just don’t call it Boys’ Love when you do.Sekaiichi Hatsukoi is based on a light novel which first came out in the year 2006. It’s just not a Boys’ Love anime and that really is a shame as, if it had been, the anime would have been so much more.
That being said, if you are looking for a decent sports anime (and don’t mind the annoying cartoon-like scenes that get shoved in, and the clunky animation when Yuri is skating), and a lovely art style, then Yuri on Ice!!! definitely offers that in spades. Then, when you also consider the exchange of rings in Yuri on Ice!!! in Episode 10 is dealt with in an almost homophobic way as Yuri starts shouting the rings don’t mean what you think they do and, no, this isn’t a Boys’ Love anime as it isn’t gay-positive at all.Įven when you consider that almost-last scene at the end of Episode 12 when Victor and Yuri are skating together.Īsk any number of gay men if they think Yuri on Ice!!! is a Boys’ Love anime, and I guarantee you most of them will say “No”. None of them were anime that were overtly sexual, as they skipped all the graphic scenes found in their respective manga, but they did manage to feature two men kissing - many times, in some of them. Nor would a BL anime shy away from showing viewers a kiss between two men, just like Yuri on Ice!!! did in Episode 7, with Victor and Yuri supposedly kissing as Yuri ends his main performance, but with the kiss hidden by Victor’s arm.Īnd before people jump to the anime’s defense by saying a kiss between two men wouldn’t be acceptable in Japan, try to remember all the other anime that have managed to include them - Junjou Romantica, Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, Hitorijime My Hero, Dokyuusei, From the New World and Super Lovers - just to name a few.Īnd, in a couple of cases, over a decade before Yuri on Ice!!! was even released. READ: 11 of the best and most fabulous Boys’ Love characters in anime today Of course, you have the rabid fans who love Victor and Yuri, and insist on calling Yuri on Ice!!! a Boys’ Love anime.Īfter all, in a typical BL anime series, the idea that two of the main male characters are in love with each other would be obvious, and not left as entirely ambiguous like it is throughout most of Yuri on Ice!!!Įspecially when there are subtle hints the pair may have already kissed and spent the night together, but the hints are so casual, if you blink you will miss them.
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In fact, what Yuri on Ice!!! is for anyone hoping for a gay-positive anime or a Boys’ Love series is a whole lot of nothing and, in my opinion, a bit of a disappointment. Neither can the anime be called yaoi or a shounen-ai.