Gravitational Pull?

(PG-Rated Yaoi...IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?)

The story surrounds an aspiring singer, Shuichi Shindou, and his band, Bad Luck (formed with his best friend Hiroshi Nakano, who is on guitar). Shuichi wants to become Japan's next big star, and follow in the footsteps of the famous idol Ryuichi Sakuma, lead singer of the now-disbanded legendary group Nittle Grasper. One evening, Shuichi is looking over lyrics for a song he was writing when his paper is blown away by the wind and picked up by a tall, blond stranger. The man dismisses Shuichi's hard work as garbage, which hurts Shuichi deeply. Despite his anger, he is intrigued by the stranger. This will be their first encounter as Shuichi becomes fascinated by the stranger, who soon turns out to be the famous romance novelist, Eiri Yuki (real name: Uesugi). Both the manga and the anime follow this plot.

The manga is a quirky blend of over-the-top humor (Reiji's giant panda robot destroying parts of New York, Shuichi's explosive nosebleeds and ridiculous declarations of love, K's machine gun wake-up calls, Tohma's half-teasing come-ons, etc.) and gay love. The storyline is just serious enough to be compelling, but also contains elements of parody. The characters are often thrown into insane situations and in some scenes the art style is dramatically overdone for comedic effect, one of many of Murakami's well known traits and characteristics in her manga styles.
I’d have to say that I’m not into yaoi as much as I was back in the day. I’ve gone over to the dark side of shoujo/magical girl themes. However, I will review Gravitation because I liked it during this particular fangirl stage.

I never liked Shuichi’s character, he was always too whiney (reminds of most girls I know). Through the progression of the story, he grew on me because he matured. I love the way he was passionate about his music career.

Eiri Yuki, my god this man was funny! I love j0000. He was such an asshole yet, he was so cute with Shuichi. His personality was strikingly more impressive than most of the other characters on the show.

Another character similar to Shuichi would be the infamous, Ryuichi Sakuma! I highly recommend not putting these two in a room together. However, one of his interesting habits is talking to a pink stuffed rabbit named, Kumagoro. This pink animal has gained hearts of fangirls all over the world! I cannot go to a con without seeing 10s of dozens of girls carrying Kuma. Ryuichi can be classified as having dual personalities.

Claude “K” Winchester, the gun wielding manager of Bad Luck. Apparently, the Japanese thought that Americans carried machine guns around all day so, that’s how they based “K”’s character. Don’t get me wrong, he is a funny character, promoting the bad with his machine gun. I just wish the Japanese didn’t see as gun-wielding barbarians.

This series is a bit over the top in some episodes but, well worth the belly laughing. The romance is a bit cute and at times…kinky? Very fun loving, PG rated yaoi. I would recommend this to virgin, yaoi fangirls.