Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestShuichi's got alot of problems, He lost his voice, probably due to worry, Yuki's gone off somewhere, and Ryu-Chan seems to be annoyed with him for some reason. Hiro eventually persuades him to go to find Yuki, will he find Yuki there? and what will happen?
Aspiring singer Shuichi Shindo and his band, Bad Luck, work to become Japan's next musical sensation, while he struggles to capture Eiri Yuki's attention.
Score
J-pop earworms that will haunt you for decades
Acting
Kazuhiko Inoue's dry delivery vs. Seki's screaming chaos
Costume
Shuichi's progressively unhinger stage outfits
Tomokazu Seki
Shuichi Shindo (voice)
Kazuhiko Inoue
Eiri Yuki (voice)
Yasunori Matsumoto
Hiroshi Nakano (voice)
Ai Orikasa
Toma Seguchi (voice)
Fujiko Takimoto
Suguru Fujisaki (voice)
Kappei Yamaguchi
Ryuichi Sakuma (voice)
Ryotaro Okiayu
K (voice)
Takehito Koyasu
Sakano (voice)
Haruna Ikezawa
Noriko Ukai (voice)
Hideo Ishikawa
Tatsuha Uesugi
Rie Tanaka
Ayaka Usami (voice)
Shin-ichiro Miki
Taki Aizawa (voice)
Hiromi Tsuru
Mika Uesugi (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gravitation helped crack open BL anime for international audiences in the early 2000s fansub era, when scanlation culture was still wild west territory.
Manga author Maki Murakami reportedly based Shuichi's chaotic energy on herself; she also cameoed in the anime as a screaming fan.
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