Gravitation (anime)
Gravitation is a shōnen-ai manga and anime series.
The manga is published in English by TokyoPop.
An energetic and pink-haired 19-year-old, Shuichi Shindou (Shindō Shuichi), wants to become a singer as famous as his idol Ryuichi (the lead singer of the band Nittle Grasper). One day, the page on which he had written the lyrics to one of his songs is blown away by the wind. Shuichi runs after it, to find a tall blonde man holding it. The man, a famous romance novelist by the name of Eiri Yuki, insults the lyrics; Shuichi is disgusted, but later becomes fascinated with Eiri.
Shuichi's musical group Bad Luck (formed with his best friend Hiro) becomes famous, and he becomes Eiri's lover, but further complications ensue. The anime is full of drama and soap opera moments, and has plots typical of shojo manga. It centers around the musical industry and the romance between Eiri and Shuichi.
Although shonen-ai content is relatively commonplace in anime, this is one of the few series to directly discuss the characters' homosexuality as such, rather than simply presenting it. The two episode OVA series was released in 1999. The thirteen-episode TV series aired in Japan from October 4, 2000 to January 10, 2001, on WOWOW satellite channel. The original manga series is currently 12 volumes long and was written by Maki Murakami. It continues the story further than either of the animated series.
Murakami also did her own dōjinshi for the series called Gravitation Remix, which is much more sexually explicit and slashes many different characters.
