“A high-school fudanshi finds friends who share his love for BL manga and gay fantasies.”
The Highschool Life of a Fudanshi
腐男子高校生活
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Synopsis
A high-school fudanshi finds friends who share his love for BL manga and gay fantasies.
Ryou Sakaguchi is a totally normal high school student, aside from his single unusual hobby. Sakaguchi is a fudanshi—a man who loves reading "boys' love" manga, and fantasizing about the gay potential he sees everywhere. He has only one wish before he dies: to find himself some friends that understand his secret passion. His wish comes true, as Sakaguchi begins to uncover a host of interested parties. There's Rumi Nishihara, a closeted fujoshi who is more than eager to discuss the joys of boys' love with Sakaguchi; the flamboyantly gay leader of the school's cooking club, Yuujirou Shiratori, who makes no effort whatsoever to conceal his sexuality; Akira Ueda, Shiratori's diligent admirer, who will do anything for the love of his life; and even the mischievous Daigo, a fellow fudanshi and popular author of boys' love doujinshi. Standing by their sides throughout all the otaku chaos is Sakaguchi's best friend, Toshiaki Nakamura, who only wishes his classmates would start acting more like normal people.
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Community consensus
Derived from 16 sampled reviews
What 16 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 1.84 · split reception
5.8 pts
Recommenders 7.8 · others 2.0
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Running avg · Sep 2016 → Jul 2022
- 7 “The characters showed interesting potential with Nakahara and Gucci having particularly good chemistry that could have made for a compelling shoujo rom com, and the comedy was genuinely funny...”
- 10 “This anime's unique premise of a straight guy who enjoys yaoi delivers non-stop laughs that become downright addictive episode after episode. The gorgeous art and great music perfectly complement a...”
- 9 “Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu is a charming, inoffensive and hilarious series whose characters and their fabulous interplay will utterly captivate anyone with a sense of humor. Each 3-minute episode is...”
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- Format 12 × 3′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 36m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2016 – Sep 2016 Summer 2016
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-11417 catalog
Produced by
- DAX Production Producer
- Dream Creation Producer
- bilibili Producer