You're watching a love letter to fudanshi written by someone who actually gets it. The comedy doesn't punch down at the community, it punches sideways at the absurd mental gymnastics of loving something this deeply, this publicly, this unapologetically. Sakaguchi is you, and the show knows it's hilarious that he exists, and he knows it too, and that's the entire joke. Three minutes per episode means it hits and leaves before the premise wears thin. If you've ever been obsessed with something the internet thinks is weird, this show already made the bit about you, and somehow it's kind.
Ryou Sakaguchi seems like an ordinary high school student, apart from one unusual hobby: he is a fudanshi, a boy who adores boys' love manga and imagines romantic possibilities between guys wherever he looks. The word plays on fujoshi, the slang for female fans of the genre. His one wish is to find friends who understand this secret passion, and he soon does. Rumi Nishihara is a closeted fujoshi eager to talk about it. Yuujirou Shiratori is the openly gay head of the cooking club. Akira Ueda devotedly admires Shiratori, and Daigo is a mischievous fellow fudanshi who writes popular doujinshi. Through it all, his best friend Toshiaki Nakamura just wishes everyone would act normal. The result is a short-form comedy and slice-of-life series about everyday school days.
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