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.
