Gravitation - DVD

Shuichi Shindou is the lead singer of Bad Luck, a rising pop band signed to a major label whose recording deadline is looming — and whose lyrics Shuichi still hasn't finished. Walking through the park late one night with his unfinished lyrics, a gust of wind sends them flying into the hands of a striking stranger who reads them and delivers a blunt verdict: zero talent. The stranger is Eiri Yuki, Japan's most celebrated romance novelist — cold, beautiful, and comprehensively uninterested in other people. Shuichi is furious. Then he is obsessed. Then he is in love. Yuki's walls are formidable and his past is dark, and the relationship that develops between them is defined by Shuichi's limitless emotional openness crashing against Yuki's systematic self-containment — while Bad Luck's career builds toward a climactic concert showdown with the legendary Nittle Grasper, the band whose lead singer Ryuichi Sakuma is Shuichi's lifelong idol and an unpredictable force in both their lives.

Gravitation is a 13-episode boys' love romantic comedy drama produced by Studio Deen — the studio behind Fushigi Yugi and Junjou Romantica.

Songs performed in the series were composed and performed by Daisuke Asakura and Kinya Kotani, who also voices Shuichi. The series was one of the most commercially successful boys' love anime in North American licensing history — the manga sold nearly half a million copies in North America and topped BookScan's BL chart in 2005.

Notable Staff & Voice Talent

Director (TV series): Bob Shirohata
Director (OVA — separate release): Shinichi Watanabe (Excel Saga, Tenchi GXP, Demon Fighter Kocho)
Series Composition: Michiko Yokote 
Original Manga: Maki Murakami (serialized in Kimi to Boku, Gentosha, 1996–2002; English license: Tokyopop, 12 volumes)
Character Design: Miho Shimogasa
Studio: Studio Deen (Fushigi Yugi,  Fruits Basket 2001, Familiar of Zero, Junjou Romantica)
Music / Songs: Daisuke Asakura (composer) & Kinya Kotani (vocalist — also voices Shuichi)
Opening Theme: "Super Drive" by Yōsuke Sakanoue
Ending Theme: "Glaring Dream" by Kinya Kotani

Japanese Cast:
• Kinya Kotani as Shuichi Shindou (also performs all Bad Luck songs in series)
• Kazuhiko Inoue as Eiri Yuki (Naruto — voice of Kakashi)


DVD Volume Breakdown (Right Stuf / Nozomi Entertainment, 4 Volumes)

• Vol. 1 — Episodes 1–3 (2004): US Debut Trailer, Textless Opening & Closing, Bad Luck & Nittle Grasper Profiles, Art Gallery, Liner Notes, ASK & BL Support Files, Eiri Yuki Unmasked featurette
• Vol. 2 — Episodes 4–6 (2004): Art Gallery, Liner Notes
• Vol. 3 — Episodes 7–10 (2005): Art Gallery, Liner Notes
• Vol. 4 — Episodes 11–13 (2005): Art Gallery, Liner Notes, Textless Opening & Closing

DVD Features (All Volumes)

• English Dolby Digital 5.1 & 2.0 / Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0
• English Subtitles & On-Screen Translations

Spoken Languages: English & Japanese Audio, English Subtitles

Edition Details

Japanese Title: グラビテーション (Gurabitēshon / Gravitation)
Runtime: ~325 Minutes (TV Series, 13 Episodes, 4 Volumes)
Director: Bob Shirohata
DVD Release Year: 2004–2005 
Original Broadcast Date (Japan): October 4, 2000 – January 10, 2001 (WOWOW)
Publisher: Right Stuf International / Nozomi Entertainment
Rating: 13+
Region: Region 1 (U.S. / Canada)
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Genre: Boys' Love, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Themes: Music Industry, BL Romance, Aspiring Rock Band, Cold Novelist Love Interest, Studio Deen BL Drama

Media assumed VG+ unless otherwise noted.