Alternative TitlesEnglish: Papa to Kiss in the Dark Synonyms: パパとKISS IN THE DARK, Papato: Kiss in the Dark, Papa and Heart - KISS IN THE DARK Japanese: パパとKISS IN THE DARK
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Type: OVA
Episodes: 2
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Nov 23, 2005 to Dec 21, 2005
Duration:
30 min. per episode Rating:
R+ - Mild Nudity
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SynopsisMunakata Mira is in love with his father, famous Hollywood actor Munakata Kyousuke. Unknown to the public, both of them are father and son as well as lovers. When Mira turns 15 and enters high school, he faces trouble with his childhood friend falling in love with him. Also, the fact that Kyousuke is not his biological father only depresses him further. Then there is also the problem of Kyousuke probably marrying Mira's senior's mother, whose son seems to have an interest in Mira. (Source: ANN) |
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tehnominator
93 of 122 people found this review helpful
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2 of 2 episodes seen
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3 |
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2 |
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5 |
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| Character |
2 |
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Ah, Papa to Kiss in the Dark. A wonderful story about boy meets boy. No, wait--boy meets man. Hold on... boy meets older male relative. Oh right, I mean boy meets dad. There we go.
Papa to Kiss in the Dark is an anime OAV that falls under the category of 'What the hell were they thinking?!' Now, words of warning, extreme warning: this anime is a yaoi incest shota romance. So if you find one or a combination of any one of those to be nausea-inducing or just unappealing, be warned to stay away, because not only does it deal with these issues, it deals with these issues rather poorly.
First off, it is bad enough that the opening scenes of this anime involves a young boy trying to get his father out of bed only to have his father toss him over and proceed to have steamy sex with him, but it seems the entire anime relies heavily on how many times that the protagonist Mira ends up sleeping with his father Kyousuke. But ignoring that, there's the second pointless part of the anime: school life. Mira is a new student of high school that seems to be teeming with taller, more mature boys who have their eyes on him, such as his best friend (this is not a spoiler--anyone with eyes would be able to see that. There is utterly no effort on this anime's part to deliver anything with subtlety or grace) or the student council president. And then thirdly, there's is another worthless plot point in which Kyousuke may be getting a girlfriend and Mira is livid about this. Is there a purpose for any of this?
What is a little perturbing is that nearly everyone knows about Mira and Kyousuke's "secret". But then, both are not very good at keeping their relationship under wraps since they make out in public places. Am I to believe that a prolific actor such as Kyousuke is free to stick his tongue down the throat of another male and not have it make headlines? No wait--am I to believe that he can play tonsil hockey with his UNDERAGE SON and not get thrown into prison for statutory rape? Or even, you know, slandered by a gossip mag?? Oh well, who cares about believability anyway.
Everything in the storyline is contrived and convenient. It is over the top in terms of the romance, there is no development of the storyline other than presenting problem and forcing out a ridiculous solution, and the plot twists just get progressively dumber.
Honestly, it is sad to think that this series was made only a few years ago to date. It looks awfully bland. The character design is plain and the characters are easily forgettable in terms of their looks. But the absolute worst thing about the art is the direction. Most of the animated sequences are clichés and just downright cheesy. You know, dropping a lunch container on the floor when you hear shocking news. Oh, Mira's poor bentou with vegetable sandwiches and octopus sausages has gone to waste all because the animators could not be bothered to create a different reaction for him. Or hell, even if he did have to drop his lunch box as part of the shock, why did the camera pan away from his face? Why are the only facial features of any emotion we get to see of Mira is when he is aroused during sex? Oh well.
The sound makes the anime another painful experience. Be warned to block your ears any time Mira opens his mouth. Why? He has the most irritating, horrifying voice I have ever heard used by a male seiyuu. Nasal and grating and high pitched and yet he has to narrate a significant portion of the anime. And do not get me started on the number of eye-rolling internal monologues he has. The background music again can be used to make your nachos very happy since it is so cheesy. Whoever composed the supposed "fun" or "romantic" tracks for this probably mixed music for a soap opera. All the sound technicians who worked on this anime should just be beaten with cassette tapes.
Characters make or break an anime. For Papa to Kiss in the Dark, its characters have pushed it off a cliff to fall hundreds of feet below into sharp rocks. There is not a single good character in this entire anime. Mira is utterly one of the worst romantic leads ever; there is nothing appealing about him, though apparently everybody thinks he is cute. Why is he cute? As far as the anime pans out, he does nothing other than cooking and moping and having lots of sex. What does he like? Is he smart? Is he caring? Is he talented at anything? This none of us will ever know. He has no personality whatsoever and he spends all of the OAV thinking about Kyousuke and ignoring most of everyone else. Oh, wait! There we go, a character trait: self-centred and obsessive.
Kyousuke, if he was not young and good-looking, would be that disgusting uncle you had to go see your therapist about. In fact, there is something deviant and awful about the way he sees his son. It is like he raised the boy simply to have sex with him when he got older. There is something not right about that. Other than that, he as well holds no appeal as a deep or even two-dimensional character.
Not even Mira's best friend who is the loudmouth guy who has unrequited feelings for him even developed. Hell, there is nothing you can do with his character. His motivation for loving Mira even make no sense. He withholds because Mira is in a committed relationship with his dad, and the best friend is cool with this. What?! As for the student council president, he keeps leering at Mira but does nothing. He barely even talks to him, and yet his presence in the anime is apparently tremendous. Um, okay... Then there is a boy with a guitar who appears, disappears, and appears again. What was his purpose?! He did nothing! Then the one female character that appears in the anime seems to be a villainous skank bag for the wonderful five minutes of screen time she is given. Hoorah and congratulations, Papa to Kiss in the Dark.
This is an awful OAV. This is an awful creation, and it is still difficult to believe that there are people who find this extremely weak romance with all its controversies to be good. It is not that the situations are deplorable alone that makes this anime terrible, but just the way everything is delivered. No depth, no growth, no intelligence.
Papa to Kiss in the Dark is a travesty of an anime and I do not recommend it to anyone. It shames the genres of yaoi and romance, incites more hatred for incest, and even manages to be so bad that it could embarrass shota anime (if that is even possible).
The only thing is has going for it is originality in terms of the concept behind the rest of the intensely crappy story and characters. How many anime features the forbidden though openly accepted love between a boy and his dad? Not many.
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shylovegrisha
24 of 41 people found this review helpful
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1 of 2 episodes seen
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The artwork is good to average for this yaoi anime. I watch lots of anime, and yaoi is my special favorite, but this story and material I found extremely objectionable.
The premise of the story is that a young child has been sexually used by his step-father for many years. Although the stepfather is young looking, beautiful and popular in the anime, he is still an adult who sexually misused a child for his own pleasure.
Any story whether it is animated or real which makes this type abnormal behavior seem alright and advantageous, cute or funny is demeaning and hurtful to anyone who has suffered this type of abuse. It minimalises and trivialises the enormous wrong an adult does to a child in this way.
As soon as a realized what this story was about, as I had downloaded the files but the source I used didn't have a summary, I immediately deleted the files. I am not downing anyone who does like this anime. It is their choice and opinion to, but I just say really think about what this anime is showing, a young child being fondled etc. by an adult, being fellated before going to school in the morning. Would you watch a film with real people glorifying such acts?
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Recommendations
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shounen ai animes with great comedy moments, both stories spin around very smexy "papa" and his sweet young son
Both stories revolve around a good looking papa and they are really funny. If you liked Kirepapa, I totally recommend Papa to Kiss in the Dark.
Yaoi theme. Incest. Pretty papas and sons. A sense of humor. Similarity: ***
Both are to do with beautiful fathers. And both relationships revolve around a son/school boy falling in love with their father.
~ OVAs where one is inlove with his father and the other way around.
Kirepapa deals with a over protective father hindering any man that make a pass to his son due to its lovable cuteness. Chisato being unaware that his son's classmate Shunsuke have feeling for him complicates things since he thought his Riju was interested in him.
Papa to Kiss in the Dark on the other hand is about mutual understanding between father and son. Look incestuous. *shifty eyes* There's also the deal with his father remarrying his co-star that saddens Mira very well. Plus his childhood friend falling in love with him. This ova is more graphic than Kirepapa not certainly for children.
Read the manga to know the series better.
Both strangely similar, but strangely the same.
Even though both are different in terms of relationship status and such, if you switch the two main Protegés around, you can see the resemblance in character and emotion.
both are ova's, both are yaoi, both have a good story nd both have hot charcters ^^
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Light hearted shounen-ai that relies heavily on exploring the seme/uke dynamics, plenty of comedy and colourful character designs: such is the recipe for these two series. Gravitation is more glamorous and eventually strikes a serious note amidst the wacky comedy, while Papa is rather explicit - made more so by the incest theme that makes up the plot. Reminiscent characters and an overdose of bishounen further confirm the connection between these titles.
they are both yaoi's but if gravitation isn't......lemon...... enough for you then you might like papa to kiss in the dark & if that still isn't enough then try sensitive pornograph. i really liked that one!
lot's of love Amy-chan!!!
both are shounen-ai anime but PTKITD contains more controversial themes
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Ending Theme"Close to you" by It's
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