What is Shounen Ai anime?

Shounen Ai means boys love, and thus explores what happens when two boys (or men) fall in love. This is not to be mistaken for Yaoi which is (or, at least, how this term is often used by the western audience) used in adult works. This is not; that means there is no graphical sex. The female version is Shoujo Ai.

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Sex Pistols

6.48

Description:

An average boy named Norio is suddenly getting a lot of unwanted romantic attention. A fall down the stairs into the arms of a handsome stranger sets off the beginnings of an explanation, and it is one Norio never could have possibly imagined. Soon a whole new world opens up for Norio revealing a secret society of special people evolved from animals other than monkeys. Norio turns out to be a particularly rare breed and his DNA is in high demand. Now that he's suddenly the prey, it'll take much effort to survive in this modern jungle. This story revolves around a high school boy who discovers that he is part of a select group of humans who did not evolve from monkeys, but various animals such as leopards and black bears. (Source: ANN)

Type

OVA

Episodes

Ep.Length

30 Min

Rating

Mild Nudity

Status

finished

Aired

2010-03-26

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Gravitation: Lyrics of Love

6.84

Description:

Bad Luck's lead singer and lyricist, Shuichi Shindo, is a total wreck. With deadlines for the band's next album looming, the pressure is on, but the normally energetic Shuichi has become listless and fallen into a writing slump. It's all because Yuki - the great love of his life - has suddenly become cold and distant. Depressed and anxious, Shuichi doesn't want to think about lyrics - he just wants to know how to get Yuki to talk to him! Now, thanks to Shuichi's big mouth bragging to the press about how talented he is, the band can't even hire someone else to write the lyrics for them. If they don't manage to break Shuichi out of his slump soon, it could mean the end of Bad Luck for good! (Source: RightStuf)

Type

OVA

Episodes

Ep.Length

26 Min

Rating

17+ (violence & profanity)

Status

finished

Aired

1999-07-23

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Kono Danshi, Sekika ni Nayandemasu.

(This Boy Suffers From Crystallization)

6.81

Description:

The story revolves around high school boy Ayumu Tamari, who has an illness that makes him start to turn to stone when he's stressed. Since he couldn't fit in with his class, after repeating a year, he declared that he wanted to have a "Sparkly youth" as well. To do this, he changed his hair and clothes to be more fashionable, and constantly checked for popular topics to stay in the know. In the midst of Ayumu's life of making a facade, his homeroom teacher and stone-loving geology teacher Kouya Onihara says that Ayumu's stone transformation is beautiful. Ayumu begins to become attracted to Kouya, who starts to give him advice. (Source: ANN, edited)

Type

OVA

Episodes

Ep.Length

27 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2014-12-03

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Sekaiichi Hatsukoi: Proposal-hen

7.9

Description:

Type

movie

Episodes

Ep.Length

21 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2020-02-21

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Honoo no Mirage

(Mirage of Blaze)

6.38

Description:

Takaya Ougi is just a typical high school guy who wants nothing more than to protect his best friend and live a normal life. Enter Nobutsuna Naoe, an older man who informs Takaya that he is in fact the reincarnation of Lord Kagetora. Naoe, himself a possessor, awakens Takaya's abilities to exorcise evil spirits and fight the Fuedal Underworld. While most possessors remember their former lives before being reincarnated, Takaya does not. Naoe is thankful for this, considering his passionate and abusive past with his Lord Kagetora. As Takaya improves his abilities, he also begins to remember what Naoe did because of his love for him. Meanwhile the dark forces of the Hojo and Fuma clans begin their attack as the Fuedal Underworld descends upon the living world. (Source: ANN)

Type

Episodes

Ep.Length

24 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2002-01-07

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Haru wo Daite Ita

(Embracing Love)

6.45

Description:

The adorable and attractive main characters of Haru wo Daiteita are Kyousuke Iwaki and Youji Katou who are both in the film industry, having starred in various adult video films and are trying to climb the ladder of success and become greater actors. Iwaki is accepted to star in a popular movie, having beaten Katou in the auditions. During their time together, Katou believes he is in love with Iwaki-San, who on the contrary refuses to believe that he is in love. It is later on that another gay actor comes back to Japan and co-stars with Katou that problems starting arising. And it is from then on that the two realise where their hearts are set. (Source: ANN)

Type

OVA

Episodes

Ep.Length

30 Min

Rating

Mild Nudity

Status

finished

Aired

2005-03-31

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Hora, Mimi ga Mieteru yo!

(Hey, Your Cat Ears Are Showing!)

7.34

Description:

The cute story of the daily life between a guy and his cat-boy roommate.

Type

ONA

Episodes

Ep.Length

3 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2018-08-25

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Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru

(The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window)

6.68

Description:

Shy bookstore clerk Kosuke Mikado has the ability to see ghosts and spirits, an ability he wishes he didn't have, since what he sees usually terrifies him. Rihito Hiyakawa, an exorcist whose supernatural powers are as strong as his social graces are weak, doesn't seem to fear anything, mortal or otherwise. When this odd couple gets together to solve the bizarre cases that come their way, their work methods may not be entirely safe for work! (Source: Sublime Manga)

Type

Episodes

Ep.Length

23 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2021-10-03

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Robotica*Robotics

6.74

Description:

What is love? Two robots abandoned by their previous owner are with a new owner, a scientist. A story about the meaning of love.

Type

OVA

Episodes

Ep.Length

10 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2010-08-01

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Fuyu no Semi

(Embracing Love: A Cicada in Winter)

7.31

Description:

If time did not allow ordinary things to be ordinary. How would you have lived? It is the Bakumatsu and early Meiji Period. Akizuki Keiichirou and Kusaka Touma stand of opposite sides of the political scale of the time but still, something as fragile as the shell of a cicada binds these two men together in a tragic and cruel fate. A story of friendship, love and seperation as well as reunion and sacrifice. (Source: AniDB)

Type

OVA

Episodes

Ep.Length

30 Min

Rating

Mild Nudity

Status

finished

Aired

2007-02-23

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Fake

6.38

Description:

Dee Laytner and Randy "Ryo" Maclane are two New York cops taking a needed vacation in England. Dee has very strong feelings for Ryo and wants to take this chance to advance their relationship (and if he's lucky, maybe seduce Ryo). Ryo doesn't understand his own feelings for Dee, and doesn't know if he wants to (or should) acknowledge them. Their vacation and relationship is suddenly disturbed when murders and missing person reports keep surfacing around their hotel. The only common tie the cases have is that all of the victims were Japanese or Japanese descent. Dee and Ryo have to solve the case before Ryo, who is half Japanese, becomes the next victim. (Source: ANN)

Type

OVA

Episodes

Ep.Length

55 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

1998-04-21

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Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu. Movie: Spain-hen

(DAKAICHI -I'm being harassed by the sexiest man of the year- The Movie: In Spain)

7.97

Description:

Covers the Spain arc of the manga.

Type

movie

Episodes

Ep.Length

78 Min

Status

finished

Aired

2021-10-09

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Kuro Gal ni Natta kara Shinyuu to Yattemita.

6.33

Description:

Shion and Rui are the dream team when it comes to hitting on women. Tonight was going to be another night of hooking up with girls for Shion, but he ended up taking a strange drug. When he woke up... he'd turned into a girl?! Rui came looking for Shion, but didn't recognize him, and started hitting on him... (Source: Suiseisha, translated) Episode 1 of the standard TV version of the anime was streamed on February 11, 2021 via the ComicFesta Anime Zone website. Regular broadcast began on April 5 at 1:00 a.m. on Toyko MX, while the complete, uncensored version was streamed on the ComicFesta Anime Zone website.

Type

Episodes

Ep.Length

4 Min

Rating

+ - Mild Nudity

Status

finished

Aired

2021-02-11

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Angel's Feather

(Angel's Feather)

5.48

Description:

In the Binfield Kingdom Chronicle, it is said that there was once a small, peaceful country called the Kingdom of Winfield, whose king and royal family possessed great white wings. Hamura Shou is newly enrolled at Yuusei Academy. After hearing about a student named Misonou Kai from the headmaster, Shou comes to believe that Kai is his younger twin brother, who he was separated from when he was younger. However, after a mysterious earthquake, Shou is suddenly carried into another world with two other students. It is in this new world that, after being attacked by a monster, Shou suddenly unleashes great, white wings. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Type

OVA

Episodes

Ep.Length

30 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2006-04-28

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Loveless Specials

6.46

Description:

DVD specials.

Type

special

Episodes

Ep.Length

2 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2005-11-01

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6 Lovers

6.07

Description:

The July issue of Dear+ announced that a series of manga serialized in the magazine will get anime adaptations in celebration of the magazine's 20th anniversary. These anime will be collected into an "in motion" animation series titled 6 Lovers.

Type

OVA

Episodes

Ep.Length

4 Min

Rating

Mild Nudity

Status

finished

Aired

2021-02-27

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Taishou Mebiusline: Chicchai-san

5.02

Description:

Hiiragi Kyouichirou is a boy who travels from his provincial town to Tokyo to attend university. He carries with him his family's sword to protect himself. When he arrives in Tokyo, he becomes swept up in a plot by the Imperial army. (Source: ANN)

Type

Episodes

Ep.Length

4 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2017-10-06

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Glass no Kantai: La Legende du Vent de l'Univers

(Glass Fleet: The Legend of the Wind of the Universe)

6.4

Description:

The People's Army led by Michel stands against Vetti's newly founded empire. Upon seeing how strong the Glass Battleship is, Michel tries to get Cleo, the captain of the Glass Battleship, to help People's Army overthrow Vetti's empire. And together they fight against Vetti's empire. (Source: ANN)

Type

Episodes

Ep.Length

24 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2006-04-04

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Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru Kana

(The Poem of Wind and Trees)

6.84

Description:

1887, at a remote, elite boarding school in France: Serge Battour returns after his graduation, and remembers the days of his youth... 1880, at the same school: Son of a viscount and a Roma prostitute (both deceased), Serge is intelligent, sweet, talented, and alienated by his family due to his heritage. Upon being sent to his new school, he rooms with Gilbert Cocteau, a gorgeous loner of a boy who sells his body for reasons unknown. Serge's attempts to reach out to Gilbert fail spectacularly, and yet there is something in both of them that attracts them to each other.

Type

OVA

Episodes

Ep.Length

65 Min

Rating

Mild Nudity

Status

finished

Aired

1987-11-06

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Kachou no Koi

5.98

Description:

The story centers on a manager named Odakara Kazuhiko who has spent all 33 years of his life without a girlfriend. An encounter with a new employee named Harada makes Odakara realize that he is gay.

Type

OVA

Episodes

Ep.Length

30 Min

Rating

Mild Nudity

Status

finished

Aired

2010-03-26

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