FAKE
1998 • Media Blasters
- Format
- OVA
- Aired
- 1998
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Media Blasters · J.C.STAFF
- Genres
- Comedy · Mystery · Romance
Dee Laytner and Randy "Ryo" Maclane are two New York cops taking a needed vacation in England. Dee has very strong feelings for Ryo and wants to take this chance to advance their relationship (and if he's lucky, maybe seduce Ryo). Ryo doesn't understand his own feelings for Dee, and doesn't know if he wants to (or should) acknowledge them. Their vacation and relationship is suddenly disturbed when murders and missing person reports keep surfacing around their hotel. The only common tie the cases have is that all of the victims were Japanese or Japanese descent. Dee and Ryo have to solve the case before Ryo, who is half Japanese, becomes the next victim.
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Released in 1998 by the studio Media Blasters, Fake is an early example of the boys' love genre finding its way into the international home video market. Produced during the formative years of anime distribution in the West, this two-part OVA was created to translate the aesthetic and narrative tropes of the popular shonen-ai manga series into an animated format, capturing the stylistic hallmarks of late 1990s Japanese animation.
The character designs and visual direction were crafted to emphasize the chemistry between the two primary protagonists, Ryo and Dee, as they navigate their lives as detectives in New York City. The production aimed to blend police procedural elements with the emotional focus of romance, a combination that resonated with the burgeoning demographic of dedicated anime fans who were seeking mature, character-driven storytelling outside of the mainstream action-oriented titles of the era.
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