Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru

The Night Beyond The Tricornered Window is undoubtedly my favorite BL anime. No offense on fans of other BLs, of course. But Tricornered Window is just so good, it has horror, mystery, and boy the fanservice is just right for me. (After finishing the anime, make sure that you read the manga! The anime may feel a bit rushed, and the manga would let you understand the plot a lot better.

Mikado Kousuke is the protagonist, he's a bookstore clerk who is a literal package. He's cool, cute, shy, brave, hot, and if you read the manga, then you'd see just how much of a husband ... material he is. (He makes many, 'interesting' faces while exorcising, 10/10 very erotic.)

Hiyakawa Rihito is Mikado's love interest. You may not like him during the early episodes, but when you reach the end of the series, you'd see that he's the softest boy that we all need to protect.

Oh yeah, they did all sort of exorcising stuff, tho I would say that the anime give off a different vibe compared to the manga. The anime is more, mysterious, sexual tension, and tense. The manga? Oh, boi, the comedy, extra chapters, and their slow and steady love development makes me feel all sorts of things. Lol, I just realized that I've been talking about the manga more than the anime. But yeah pls read it. Best site to read it is on MangaGo.

Okay, now please let me rant. I'm baffled when I saw that 6.4 rating at the time when I'm rating this. Most people that gave those low ratings said that they didn't expect this to be BL-ey, they were only expecting a typical mystery anime. Like tf??? Please ignore those reviews, Sankaku Mado No Sotogawa Wa Yoru is very astounding and unique.

For those that aren't happy cuz this is a BL, do you not read the genre of this anime? Like, imagine if I give Tomoe a 2/10 rating because it's scary, even though it's a horror anime. Of course, my rating shouldn't be valid, right?

This anime is a new thing in the BL community, most BL just focus on the romance, sappy stuff, and fap material. I do think that Tricornered Window deserves at least an 8/10 rating. And I don't wanna hear y'all saying that my review sucks, I know it is.

This anime is the least gay BL I’ve ever seen, but it’s also one of the most interesting.

The main draws of this show, to me, are the mystery elements and supernatural themes. The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window maintains a surprising amount of suspense in each episode, with well-edited sequences and a sinister atmosphere. While watching, I often found myself impressed by how tense certain scenes could be; Tricornered Window stands out among other BL anime for being quite competently directed.

The characters also develop pretty differently from other BL stories. Much of the focus is placed on how the characters’ psychic powers affect their interpersonal ... relationships, especially with family members. This results in a cast that feels rather fresh and intriguing, which I really appreciated.

Unfortunately, my praise ends there. The overall story is pretty lackluster, mainly due to some pacing issues that leave a lot of things unexplained. By the end of the final episode, I still didn’t quite understand how psychic powers function in the world of Tricornered Window. The motivations of certain characters were also difficult to follow at times, which made some storylines confusing.

My biggest issue with the anime, however, is how unfulfilled it left me by the end. So much time is spent building up the relationship between Mikado and Rihito, but there isn’t much payoff. The narrative feels reluctant to commit to a romance between the two characters, with Mikado even insisting at one point that he and Rihito aren’t romantically involved. Besides the ever-present tension between the two leads, there isn’t a whole lot of love between boys in this supposed Boys’ Love anime.

Though Tricornered Window does a lot of things differently, making it stand out among BL anime, it ultimately left me feeling a bit hollow. I really enjoyed the spookier scenes, but other than that, the show failed to make much of an impression. It’s better than most BL anime, but still not that great, unfortunately.

I'm not a fan of BL/Yaoi nor its counterpart of Yuri/Lesbian-made works, but I do know how to spot a good show if the source material is ever that good. And alongside the much superior Mieruko-chan that aired together at the same time, Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru a.k.a The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window was in overall stance, a rather "complete" but incomplete, cheap and poor adaptation of Tomoko Yamashita's BL manga that's still the superior version of the source material.

The supernatural, paranormal, mystery BL story lies within the context of 2 guys: Kousuke Mikado and Rihito Hiyakawa. The former being Mr. Triangle ... (his name was written that way) and like Mieruko-chan's Miko Yotsuba, has the ability to see spirits and is afraid of them, but unlike Miko, he can suppress his ability by wearing glasses to compensate for his normalcy while living a low-profile life at a bookstore. That is until the attention of the latter caught his eye, the abnormal fearless medium/exorcist that professes his "love" for him and says that "fate interwines us to be together" by working together in exorcist cases whenever and wherever they arise.

I know that BL or even Yuri stories can get very personal and creeped out, and that is how you're supposed to see the relationship between Kousuke and Rihito. Despite all the caressing of the soul through Rihito's know-how that he could see and exorcise spirits by entering into Mikado's body, that is essentially the crux of the starting phase until the plot starts getting better with the BL segments being overshadowed. And this plot takes them to the central story of a girl named Erika Hiura working as a mercenary necromancer who's acting maliciously and cursing people, whom in the process, dives deep into Rihito's history of a secretive past. It doesn't take one to notice quick that the story plot is favoured in place of the BL (though later on it exists periodically), which is a nice segue for the majority of the female fans looking forward to the more "extraterrestrial" feelings that contributed to the likeness of the manga.

Sadly though, as compared to the manga, Zero-G's adaptation really just keeps bearing on with miss after miss. Starting off with the main characters, as much as I want to believe that each and every person contributes to the way that the story plot is woven, they don't really have any personality whatsoever other than the roles they're meant to play. And Tomoko Yamashita is not your ordinary mangaka as she has been writing lots of BL manga circa. 2005 with her own distinct flare of combining poignant settings with well-written characters, so to see that all dumbed down and wasted in the "complete" anime adaptation is really a shame. The production values are rather cheap and not that all enticing, even if it meant to give that creepy, grotesque vibe of lingering spirits being controlled by people that have powers that can do all sorts of things. Also, having people like Evan Call be the music composer isn't simply enough anymore, as it also didn't really stand out for the same issues as other aspects did. At least the OST was kinda decent, but I like the gloominess of Wataru Hatano's ED more than Frederic's OP which just serves to preface Kousuke's triangle-centric profoundness.

It goes without saying that if more time and care were given to this show, then it could've turned out decent at best. It's really nice to have more BL stories be adapted with the paranormal plot like this, but sadly the more I watch this show, the lesser attention span I got back for retaining values as well. Definitely stick to the manga, it's the original, definitive version and the better time-waster than this crude adaptation.