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“Charming Matsui reunites with admired senior Tsukamoto at Beiyu High, joining swim team amid a past confession.”
Fish in the Trap
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4.78
14,570 rank · 8,853 viewers · 2 favorites
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Synopsis
Charming Matsui reunites with admired senior Tsukamoto at Beiyu High, joining swim team amid a past confession.
Takahiro Matsui, a beautiful boy with a dazzling charm, enters Beiyu High School. There, his senior Yuji Tsukamoto, the president of a conglomerate, whom he admired in junior high school, also attends. Matsui joins the swim team and Tsukamoto confesses to him an incident that happened three years ago... (Source: J.C. Staff, translated)
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Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
3.2
/10
What 6 viewers settled on.
0%
recommend
Score distribution
median 3.5
mode 4
σ 0.90
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.90 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.17
Running avg · Dec 2008 → Feb 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 2 “I absolutely love yaois! but this, this was pathetic, terrible and thats pretty much it! The beginning I was bored, and I was bored throughout, even at the end!!!!! It's like WTF? this is not a...”
- 4 “I am not so so sure as to why people give this anime ova a pathetic 2 marks? I think it deserve a little better consider when this is being produced... Also, I have read up that this is a prequel...”
- 4 “I made it about 17 minutes in and asked "why are people rating this so low?" And then I understood. The story is bad. It's terribly paced and the story isnt really that interesting and it's...”
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Short · 83%
Medium · 0%
Long · 17%
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- Format 1 × 27′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 27m all episodes
- Aired Jul 1994 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R+ Mild Nudity
- Ref. BS-0688 catalog
Produced by
- Echo Producer