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.
