Given Anime | Boy Loves Boys Love Ep. 23

A little over a week after its ended, in today's episode of Boy Loves Boys Love (formerly known as Reviewing Yaoi) we'll be looking at the Shounen Ai Band Anime hit of summer 2019 Given! The Given Anime follows Ritsuka Uenoyama and Mafuyu Sato along with their bandmates Akihiko Kaji and Haruki Nakayama as they go thru the motions of moving towards their first performance while Uenoyama comes to terms with his feelings for Mafuyu, Mafuyu deals with his trauma from the death of his ex-boyfriend Yuki Yoshida, Akihiko deals with his complicated relationship with Ugetsu Murata and Haruki struggles with his feelings for Akihiko. In this BL review we'll spotlight some of the great secondary characters, discuss the anime's odd pacing issues, share thoughts on the upcoming Given Movie by Blue Lynx coming in 2020 as well as highlight the issues with the discourse around Given involving comparisons to other Yaoi Anime.

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