Embracing Love (2005)

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Embracing Love is about two male adult movie actors who try to go mainstream. During an audition for the main role for a theater movie, they are asked to perform sex in front of the camera. For both of them is the first same-sex experience, and consequently they are both attracted to each other. For the rest of the anime, Kyousuke Iwaki and Youji Katou are trying to juggle between their private and publice lives, without losing in either field. I quite like the struggle to maintain restrained their attraction to each other, especially when they are asking to act in sex scene in front of the camera: to everyone is clear they are not acting at all. The anime is good, but sometime it's lacking in explaining what is happening: for example, it's not clear that this is their first same-sex experience, therefore it's difficult to understand their reticence at being involved with each other. Said that, I like a lot the anime and I bought the manga. The anime is basically just the first two volumes (they translated 6 of them and many more are available only in japanese). If you like the anime as I do, I suggest to buy the manga, it gives even a better enjoyment of the anime.


Manga: amzn.to/4eRN5uJ