Dōkyūsei

Title:Dōkyūsei
Doukyusei - Classmates
同級生
Overall:Rent
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Notables: Animation - A1 Pictures
R1 License - Aniplex of America
R1 License - Subtitled Only
During music class before the chorus festival, male student Hikaru Kusakabe notices that the bespectacled honor student Rihito Sajo is not singing. Although he thinks that Rihito just doesn't like singing, he finds him practicing alone in the classroom after school. Without even thinking, Hikaru calls out to him.
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61-minute film that premiered on February 20, 2016.
Animated by A-1 Pictures.
Licensed by Aniplex of America.
OverallArtAnimationCharacter Design MusicSeries StoryEpisode StoryReviewer
Rent 6 5 6 7 7 Ggultra2764 [series:3271#1552]
Doukyusei is a fairly mundane entry in the yaoi anime genre in its focus on two high school boys from different social cliques starting up a relationship with one another. It avoids many of the typical pitfalls of boys-love titles as the developments in the relationship aren't overly melodramatic and gradually develop over the span of a couple years as both young men are in and out of high school with the two growing an attraction and sorting out what both are wanting out of their relationship. The only major sore spot I have with the movie is its rather minimalist artwork style as scenery and character designs are fairly simplistic in details, enough as such where characters are often drawn with no facial details during distant shots. While I'm not the biggest yaoi anime fan, this is still a decent entry in the genre that avoids many of its typical melodramatic trappings and explores its main couple's relationship developments in a more natural way.

Last updated Thursday, October 27 2016. Created Thursday, October 27 2016.

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