Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu.

Appalling. Yes, that is the word. This is coming from someone who has read the manga few years earlier, when I was young and my tastes different than right now; I thought the manga was great at the time. Back then I called myself a "fujoshi" so that is why I might have enjoyed it. But now I don't consider myself anything like that. I'm just a lgbt person interested in media that has gay characters. So when I saw that it got an anime adaptation I got curious because: why would this specific yaoi manga get an adaptation?

Yes, why? The story could be ... passable, but the characters are generic and the plot revolves around sex. This anime has no businness getting a 13 episodes adaptation. I think an OVA would have been more appropriate. The pacing is slow, since they're trying not to show the sex scenes, which are literally 90% of the manga. So the anime feels empty, has a weird pacing, some stranges cuts... In brief, it is really awkward to watch. I felt strong second-hand embarassement during the first episode.
How are you going to animate a manga that resolves around sex and just delete all the sex scenes? Something doesn't add up and I'm serious here.

Also, the fact that the plot actually resolves around dubious consent and a rape scene at the begining (like in so many yaoi, unfortunately) just shows that this is just another garbage adaptation of a yaoi manga that for some unknown reason was popular. I mean, I can understand why but I won't dwell on this issue.

Honestly, this is really sad. I wish there were more animes with romances focused on f/f or m/m couples that were not fetishized. But Alas.
If you're looking for quality. I would not recommend. If you enjoy the typical yaoi scenarios and stereotypes well, this is for you. I guess. At least, the animation was decent.

Absolutely disgusting. You know an anime is gonna be something when it romanticizes sexual abuse in the first episode. in every accounter, a no is being said. Its horrific, to think people actually like this.

Why is it that rape is bad when its a woman and a man, but not when its a man and a man? shows like this further push the false narrative that gay men and hypersexual abusers. Its amazing to think that this was even able to be a manga, let alone get the budget to be an anime.

... And the worst part is tat the 11 and 12 year "fujoshis" watching this will think rape is okay and normal! Stories like love stage dont help, being so forgiving of its sexual harrasment nature.

2019 UPDATE: im not a fujoshi no more lol.

I'm a normal fujoshi, i like BL with or without a little lewd in it, but this one seems to be just another hardcore fujoshi's BL fantasy,

DAKAICHI follows the story of Saijou Takato and Azumaya Junta two actors who become more of lovers as the story progresses, now, is it good? is it a good BL anime with decent characters and a good story? well...no not really

Story:
Saijou Takato won 5 years in a row as the 'Most Huggable Man' or 'The Most Sexiest Man Of The Year' but this time he came in number 2, going ... at number 1 is Azumaya Junta a new actor that came to work with Takato, so at the office Junta is being introduced to everyone and when they finished Junta runs up to Takato to tell him how thrilled he is to be working with him since he started to idolized Takato when they worked on a drama together last year, the whole gang decides to go to the bar as Junta asks Takato for some advice on being an actor then the next scene we see Takato in Junta's Apartment fully nude, we than descover that takato became drunk and Junta carried him here, (he also paied Takato 1,000 yen so he can say he's first name) Junta showed him clips that he record of him being drunk and Takato gets worried that he may use that on him, so Takato asks Junta what he wants and he'll do anything Junta says for him to delete the footage, Junta than sexual assaults Takato, Takato tries to run away, Junta catches him, Takato backs him off, barricades him in the bathroom and sits on the couch with a blanket on him...and thats the first 10 mins of the frist episode, from then every episode goes like this: acting/talking scene -> sexual assault scene -> acting/talking scene -> sexual assault scene -> acting/talking scene -> ending credits, thats mostly how each episode seems to go,

Characters:
Saijou Takato - A veteran actor with 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry, he's basically the shy guy in the anime who kinda wants to have sex but doesn't admit to it becuz its a yaoi there's at least one character like that in each yaoi.
Azumaya Junta - Up and coming actor with 3 years experience in the entertainment industry, so basically he sexually assaults Takato every episode, he started doing this all becuz Takato didn't want the clips Jutan record of him in the bar to go to the public so he said he'll do anything he wants, but i guess aside from that he's a nice guy whos trying his best.
Chihiro Ayagi - Chihiro gets introduced in the beginning of episode 5, from then we see a women named Reiko bring him coffee in bed she's the Venus Inc., Owner, and Chihiro doesn't seem to care much about her, so later in episode 5 Takato gets drunk and knocks out, and Chihiro takes him back to he's place, strips him and gets on top of him annnndddd you know where this is going.

Art:
ngl the art is really nice to look like, the character designs look really nice and the background art is really beautiful, not much i can say here, art is nice moving on.

Sound:
The Opening and Ending songs are catchy, and the voice actors did a good job voicing the characters, the background music is decent and that's all i gotta say about this.

Overall, DAKAICHI is not really a good anime, i mean the title in English is literally "DAKAICHI -I'm being harassed by the sexiest man of the year-" so you already know what you're getting yourself into by watching it,
would i recommend? nah fam, it's pretty shit ngl.

fight me fujoshits.

Firstly, I want to state here that I'm just a gay man who enjoys romance. I'm not a fudanshi or anything like that, although I'm aware that many BL anime tend to be written by cis women to appeal to fujoshis, who often have fetishes for homoerotic relationships. But that doesn't mean that every BL anime needs to rely on that, living off fanservice and cheap clichés.

This anime is nothing more than that: fanservice and cheap clichés. The animation is decent, and the story is somewhat interesting, but it's filled with fillers, and the plot is constantly interrupted by moments of sexual tension without much ... context, or worse, by scenes designed for you to think, "Look at all these cute guys together, how adorable," even though nothing there really makes much sense...

TL;DR This is one of these anime written for horny fujoshis. Not my thing, though.

'Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu'/'Dakaichi' just isn't working. As an anime, the series isn't very enjoyable because it can't follow the formula of the manga. The manga is almost entirely sex ...each chapter has gratuitous sex scenes that make up the majority of the plot. Takato and Junta aren't particularly compelling characters but when they were boning their brains out in the manga, you didn't care. But in the anime you're like, 'oh...so these guys...exist.'

Fact: turning a yaoi title into a shounen-ai doesn't work and Dakaichi is proof of that. The fact that each episode is so long and follows the narrative of the ... plot without the sex just makes for an awkward and shallow story. I'm not looking for a porno, the manga was enough LOL but there's absolutely no substance to this series. The implied sex/fade to black is strange because the actual sex scenes in the manga take up so much space and so much of the characterization takes place there that the anime counterpart is hollow and at times nonsensical.

There's no room for character development because this plot revolves around sex that actually isn't happening on screen in the anime. Here's the formula: Takato goes to work, Junta behaves strangely, Takato gets insecure about Junta's oddness, Junta reveals he's been holding back and or forces Takato to sleep with him, they sleep together and that's it. If the series actually does follow the manga's actual story, they have a bit to work with but I think it'll still feel out of place.

Each episode is so painfully slow, boring and badly paced...I'll probably keep watching but it's a huge waste of time. Find a better BL series or read the manga. The one thing I'll give 'Dakaichi'' is that it's art style is pretty clean, the shading of their jaws are interesting and the main characters don't have massive hands and exaggerated features. The art was good enough! As a fujoshi that's seen A LOT of the BL titles out there, I don't recommend this one.

i just don't like how it romanticizes being harassed by your s/o
i don't think harassment should be something that is good and sweet.
when takato says no many times and junta proceeds to do it, i just don't think that should be something that is romanticized.

all in all sexual harassment should NOT be something that is aesthetic, or cool, or anything of that sort. The reason i'm bringing this up is because all of the uwu yaoi fangirls think anything is okay as long as it's mlm. Like NO mlm is not something to obsess over, it is very weird and just gross to ... fetishize mlm. This is a perfect example of it, the title is literally "I'm being harassed by the sexiest man of the year"

honestly, if you actually enjoy this please see a therapist, bcs u are probably a yaoi fangirl that fetishizes mlm relationships, so do everyone a favor and see a therapist because no one cares. just get help.

Horrible. Dreadful. A mistake. A waste of animation time.

***May contain minor spoiler about 4th epsiode. Nothing major.

The story follows a Stockholm syndrome esque development between the two main characters.

Characters are bland and unlikable. Takato is our main boy, the number 1 huggable man. His stage personality is sweet and caring but behind the scenes, he’s foul mouthed and incredibly conscious of his position as the best. He’s also a tsundere. Junta, or “Chunta”, nicknamed by Takato, is a fan who admires and loves Takato to the brim. He’s seen by others as an innocent angel but he is forceful and horny in ... front of Takato. His character is clingy, forceful, and annoying. Hate him.

The reason why I call this Stockholm syndrome esque is because Junta basically pressures/blackmails Takato to give his body. Tell me exactly what sort of healthy happy relationship start physically and with blackmail to boot? Can you call it mutual love when one person is clearly out of the power balance?

This anime overall is the trope of all yaoi, a sub genre of BL. Basically it’s “gets forced, falls in love”. From my observation as a BL fan, most yaoi fans gobble up this sort of trope without question because they don’t know what a good story is. As long as it’s “gay”, amirite?

Anyways, it seems the 3rd episode is the end of the intro arc, the 4th episode continues with a new arc with them busy with their own schedules, and although we get to see their different lives, it's the same repetitive tsundere Takato annd clingy desperate Junta. The bland annoying characters and a boring plot introduction is enough for me to dip this without looking back.

Okay, first of all even tho i love both yaoi and shounen ai since i read the manga my expectations of this anime were low but holy hell this was even worse than i expected.

Why?

Well to start from the beginning its basically rape but oh well its 'anime culture' so they romantized that and the story is full of holes.
Animations got worse and worse every episode and tbh only thing i like abut this whole anime is Takato and his cute ass manager.

Big respect to the voice actors tho it was probably the best part of the whole anime i love Yuuki and Hiroki ... 's works. Its sad that their work was wasted in this anime.

If you are looking for an interesting study, beatiful art, love story for our cute gays, this is not it. Highly disappointed.

I'd like to say that this isn't a terrible show. At its core, it is terribly generic yes, but not terrible. So why the 2? Because it heavily romanticizes r*pe and sexual assault. Even if this anime was top tier(which it was not), that isn't something I can overlook.

Story: Each episode within the series has a pattern. Some sort of drama -> sex -> missing each other/being horny -> more drama -> resolution/sex. The plot mostly revolves around their relationship and them going at each other like rabbits. The rest of it largely feels like an afterthought.

Art, Sound, etc: I don't really have anything negative ... to say about the art or sound. Both were adequate and I didn't notice any major flaws if they were present.

Characters: I know this is shounen ai and one should not expect depth from characters within the genre. However, I will still note it. The characters are very one dimensional. Takato is the perpetually angry tsundere who has approximately three states of being: angry/irritated(primary), sad(rarely) and defiant yet simultaneously submissive. Junta is worse. His two primary characteristics are that he is handsome and very horny. Oh, and he's a good actor who does not seem to give a flying flip about consent. His only functions within the plot are to be Takato's love interest and pseudo-rival. The rest of the ensemble gets little screen time and aren't anything to write home about.

TLDR: It's a generic romance anime about two rivals with a large helping of non-consensual adult activities on the side. If you're just here for the physical aspect, you'll be satisfied. For everyone else... just skip it if you don't want to make yourself feel uncomfortable watching an unhealthy relationship dynamic play out in front of you.

Honestly when I first started watching this anime I don't know what I expected really, but this wasn't it...

This anime is disgusting, the normalization of harassment and rape is just terrifying and I'm sure every normal person would agree with me. But it's a yaoi anime so of course it will be weird. I wish people stopped fetishizing these types of things but it may just be me? I'm not really into these things..

The characters are straight up annoying.. Of course the bottom is a whiny boy and the top a strong one. It's just very stereotypical and dumb in my opinion.

Everything is a ... 1/10 for me, I don't recommend it if you're a normal person.

The art is decent. It's not terribly unique, but definitely above average.

The characters are generally cute in design and there are some occasionally comedic moments.

However, a huge portion of this anime's scenes are just an epic romanticization of rape culture.

Azumaya is constantly forcing himself on Takato, who just "gives in" because he's "in love" with Azumaya. Fun.

Communicating during sex is difficult, and it can, of course, be difficult to depict consent sexily... but damn. This anime veers in the exact opposite direction by normalizing and sexualizing Azumaya's "lack of self-control" as a rationalization for performing sexual acts at Takato while he's constantly saying no.

hope ... someone enjoys this SJW rant.

Another reviewer said that they omitted the rape scenes from the anime, that was in the manga, however, there are still SA undertones and a general lack of consent and boundaries between the two leads. If they could remove the rape, they could've taken this out as well.
Had to drop it at the very first episode near the end of it because it was simply unbearable, the blond lead is intolerable. And the black-haired lead is easily manhandled and manipulated.

Not worth your time, it's your average rape/SA-filled yaoi.
If you want to know how the rest of the show goes, read the other reviews, I suppose.

Listen, I know that rape is a tool used in many romances (esp BL) but that doesn't mean I have to stand for it. The glorification of rape in this anime is beyond appalling, and I know that BL is traditionally not supposed to reflect real gay people, but unfortunately it does when this is the exposure that people get. Normal gay people have normal loving relationships and it's offensive that this paints gay people as literal rapists and its fine because the victim falls in love with the abuser in the end. Not for me. I would give this a zero if I could.

I've only watched 4 episodes and I feel like I can't watch anymore bc almost every moment of this anime is painful to watch.
Ok so the the anime is pretty much about sex, which is understandable bc the manga is about sex, but what I don't get is why would you make an anime about sex in the first place when you can't even show any of it?? Not saying that you can't make a good anime about sex but this is definitely not the way to do it. This would probably work much better as an OVA or a god damn hentai.
I'm all ... about that cute fluff and I don't really have a problem with smut if it's accompanied by good characters and a good plot. But like 90% of the time it was about sex with really shitty drama and characters, so there's almost nothing enjoyable left for me.
The only things I liked was the animation and music.
This anime really isn't my cup of tea but if you like hot boys doing hot (kinda messed up) stuff it might be yours?? For people who are looking for a good shounen ai with good plot and characters this definetily isn't it.
Overall I definetily don't recommend watching this

In the words of Turk from Ocean's Eleven: I'm going to get out and drop this like third period French.

Adding 2-3 basic stereotypes to each character sounds like a good idea on paper, especially if some of those stereotypes seem to contrast each other. However, the mixes are too predictable, and the characters just too shallow for that to succeed in making them interesting. The story is practically non-existent in four episodes, which would be forgiveable if at least we got something else instead of that. The problem is: we don't. The fanservice/ship scenes sometimes smell of the sweat of effort they must have made ... to fill up the time allotted for an episode - and that's despite the fact that they're also painful clichés. And the sex scenes... Well, they are like the story. Personally, I never like censorship, if something wants to go there, let it go there, that's why we have ratings; but fine, laws and regulations. So I should be happy it's not a thing here... And yet I'm not, since the reason for that is the complete omission of actual sex scenes. Something's shown to start, something's hinted at, but we never actually get to see anything more than a kiss. Which, for something that's supposed to be porn, makes no sense.

And so we're left with shiny bubbles that burst all too easily and then there's nothing left. It's unfortunate, because all these bubbles bursting only serves to make the banal clichés and stereotypes all the more painful in their raw bareness: not only the character traits, but also the situations and interactions between them. Takato calling Junta a "horny angel" would perhaps be funny, if it wasn't so damn literal: angel wings actually pop out from his back and feathers float across the screen in every appropriate scene, and then the next minute he's a hormonal teenager huffing through his nose as he attacks Takato like a predator does its prey. And Takato is the average tsundere: acting all annoyed and "professional" in public, and "failing to resist" Junta the moment they're in private and actually being annoyed at him when Junta ignores him. In between these scenes, Takato's inner monologoues and observations are, more often than not, very meta, and as such they're also very painful: lines such as "what terrible acting" and "what kind of cheap porno is this?" are simply too heavy here, considering the generic shallowness, instead of working as funny through-the-4th-wall quips as they might be intended.

On the positive side: the sceneries and cityscapes are pretty enough, the characters as well as the environments are nicely drawn and styled; the voice acting is also decent at least, I suppose. But then again, both of these are rather defaults than anything we're usually surprised by in anime, and sadly it's just not enough to redeem DakaIchi. The third episode ended on such an appropriate note and in such an appropriate way for it to be the actual end of the anime - it would have been acceptable. It wasn't, though, and while I managed to suffer through ep4, having started ep5 I couldn't go on after the first scene change. It felt too much like wasting time basically just to be bored at best and annoyed at worst.

It is a shame: there's a definite lack of yaoi/bl/shounenai/gay/whateveryouwannacallit anime out there, which is extremely baffling, and gets even more baffling the more one dives into the "straight" side and sees the immense amount of everything it has. So everything that happens on this side of the fence should be a reason to party, so to say, but DakaIchi proves that being yaoi just for the sake of being yaoi simply does not cut it.

There are gonna be some spoilers so if you wanna watch this then you shouldn't because it is absolutely horrible. The mcs relationship starts off with Junta forcing himself on Takato and doesn't improve much tbh. There's even a line where Junta says "but you always consent after we finish" ??????????? BRO WTF??????????? THAT IS NOT OKAY!!!!! The point I completely gave up on this story is in the 6th episode and since no one warned me I'll warn you SEXUAL ASSULT WARNING, DOUBIOUS/NO CONSENT. So Takase gets assulted while he is blackout drunk by his coworker and how does his boyfriend react?? Of course ... by blaming him and telling him of course it's his fault because "anyone would be turned on by the way you look". Sounds familiar? Oh yes, bingo it's the same thing disgusting men tell girls/women when they wear short skirts or revealing clothes. Since you look this way "men can't help but be seduced". We can all agree that this is not okay right? Victim blaming is disgusting so why is it okay when it's in a yaoi and not irl? This is a huge problem and we shouldn't encourage ppl taking up yaoi with shitty plot like this when there are a bunch out there that manage to be interesting, fun and sexy without raping anyone. And I don't think anyone should be consuming media that makes it seem like behaving this is okay, especially if you are young since you might not notice it as much but you can end up being stuck with this mentality and blaming yourself or others if things like this happen.

Absolutely Horrible, In the very first episode junta's character tries to rape Takato, I get falling in love at first sight crap but sexually forcing yourself on the person and that too you just met is so wrong and Takato's character too in the beginning says No but later starts liking it and fall in love with his rapist, how is this a good healthy relationship? And then in each episode there is nothing but fucking, Junta come and start harrassing him and he told him to stop at first but later is okay with it, This anime could have been good since both of ... them are in entertainment industry they could have shown some realistic issues but Nope there is only sex and nothing, People asks me why I don't like Yaoi and Yuri animes and this is the reason why, These types of animes are only made for horny fans, there is no good story, characters and character development in these animes, They potray LGBT characters very badly, they are shown as creepy, way too possessive and obsessive, perverts, rapists, abusive, toxic, if you want to spread awareness about LGBT community than how about start making good stories, I haven't seen any anime which shows real issues, problems faced by them, This is nothing but cheap fan service, an absolute garbage.
Story - 1/10
Characters - 1/10
Art - 1/10
Animation - 4/10
Voice acting - 1/10
Sound/Music - 2/10
Enjoyment - 0/10
Overall 1/10

I thought I would enjoy this anime but no.
Junta Harrases Takato at the start.I also didnt like the plot as it had to much sex and barely any storyline.To be honest this story basically sees nothing wrong with harassment.In my opinion maybe if Junta was less of a beast and more angelic(like asking for permission or something)I would’ve liked it or if takato didn’t end up with junta 😃.Y’know I still wonder why people like junta to this day cuz he was shit.(Also looking at it why is it that almost every Seme all like rhis(at least the ones I’ve seen in manga or ... Yaoi)

Im a younger half-fujoshi (i only like a few BL such as YOI and Given), so the first episode kind of freaked me out. I got into the show because of sheer curiosity, and i did not expect to like at ALL after the first few eps, but later into the series, i got used to it and saw past it. once you see past it, its kind of sweet. The story is pretty funny and cute, the characters are funny and cute. However, there is kind of a heavy yaoi element to this, it has a lot of sensual scenes which can be a ... little hard to watch (and this is AFTER they cut out some scenes from the manga, which i have not read since i heard it is much more graphic). If youre going to watch this, i would definitely use private browsing, my fellow young half fujoshis, and if your parents are tech saavy and can read your history through your WiFi browser (its possible with every WiFi, your parents just have to be smart to use it) then DO NOT WATCH THIS AT ALL!! I would say this show is more for intermediate to advanced Fujoshis or Fudanshis. I regret watching this at my young age, i wish id waited until i was older.

The anime is very good animated so why a talented studio decided to adaptate this terrible piece?
The relationship of Azumaya and Takato is totally abusive and starts with a rape!

I could see several ways of giving this story more depth, It would be great to take advantage of the fact that both are actors to discuss the fact that the LGBT community has a hard time being included in the media and how they could have their careers ruined by the simple facts of being a gay couple, but no...everything was focused only on conflicts and sex.

At least, the anime adaptation is much better ... than the manga, a lot of things that bothered me were corrected but they could't save this horrible piece.

I don't recomend it.