The simple tender moments in the life of a couple, from caring for their plants, dancing, to spending time at the beach and watching the families walk by. ]]>Director: Seungah Yoo Year: 2014 Country: South Korea Gender and Sexuality: Gay Animation Style: Digital, live-action blending Genre: Romance Type: Explicit, short
]]>A girl in a painting develops a crush on the curator. When the painting is sold, the girl does everything she can to get the curator to notice her.]]>Director: Jieun Choi Producer: Hyojeong Cho Year: 2018 Country: South Korea Gender and Sexuality: Gender creative, lesbian Animation Style:Digital Genre: Comedy, fantasy, romance Type: Explicit, short
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Serge reflects on his time as a student at an all-boys Academy in France, including a torrid relationship he had with his roommate, Gilbert.
The original manga was released in 1976 and shares some similar elements with its shōnen-ai predecessor, The Door Into Summer, such as being set at a school in France, taking place in a similar time period and featuring predatory adults (see The Door Into Summer).]]>Director: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Year: 1987 Country: Japan Gender and Sexuality: Gay Animation Style: Traditional Genre: Drama, romance Type: Explicit, feature, yaoi
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Utena attends the Ohtori Academy, hoping to reunite with her ex-boyfriend, Touga. Soon, however, she becomes involved in a tournament to win Anthy, the "Rose Bride," and she must continue to duel other students to remain the victor.
While there are differences between this film and the television series (1997), a 2021 Crunchyroll article titled "Feature: Revolutionary Girl Utena Is Too Much, That's Why It's Great" by Adam Wescott examines how both of these works influenced future media, both in the East (Revue Starlight, 2018) and in the West (Steven Universe, 2013-2019) (see Steven Universe: The Movie).]]>Director: Kunihiko Ikuhara Year: 1999 Country: Japan Gender and Sexuality: Bisexual, gay, gender creative, lesbian Animation Style: Digital, traditional Genre: Action, fantasy, romance Type: Explicit, feature, yuri
Can currently be watched on Pluto TV or RetroCrush: https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/movies/625dd42b3f03ed0013c62dd9 ]]>Note: This film contains either ephebophilia or hebephilia (I am currently unable to find a source specifing the character's ages), sexual content, sexual violence, and suicidal imagery.
An adaptation of the 1975 manga of the same name by Keiko Takemiya, this early shōnen-ai (an early term for the now more frequently used boys' love) is a coming-of-age period film set at an academy in France. It follows Marion and his group of friends during their summer break at their school and their experiences with doomed or unreciprocated loves.
One of Marion’s friends, Claude, pines to be with him, but his feelings are unreciprocated. Unable to cope with the rejection and overcome with self-loathing, Claude commits suicide. ]]>Director: Mori Masaki Year: 1981 Country: Japan Gender and Sexuality: Gay Animation Style: Traditional Genre: Drama, romance Type: Explicit, feature, yaoi
Set at a high school, in this opposites attract storyline, after a musician in a rock band assists the straight laced and studious honor student with learning a choral song, they tentatively start a relationship.]]>Director: Shoko Nakamura Year: 2016 Country: Japan Gender and Sexuality: Gay Animation Style: Digital Genre: Drama, romance Type: Explicit, feature, yaoi
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A group of time travelers, trying to learn how to defeat an invading alien race who have a “Cleopatra Plan” must travel back in time to when Cleopatra reigned. Their objective is to understand the tactics she used to rule over Egypt, so they can stop the advancing aliens.
While this film currently holds the distinction of being the earliest feature film targeted for adults in the archive, Fred Patten, in an article for Cartoon Research, examined the reasons behind its box office failure. The film struggled to find success during its original release in Japan and a few years later when it was distributed in the United States, with the intention of capitalizing on the popularity of Fritz the Cat (Bakshi, 1972). During its American re-release, the distributor, Xanadu Productions, gave the film the new English title Cleopatra, Queen of Sex and an unauthorized MPAA self-rating of 'X' in an attempt to attract viewers neither of which were a success at sparking the audience's interest.]]>Director: Osamu Tezuka, Eiichi Yamamoto Year: 1970 Country: Japan Gender and Sexuality: Gay, lesbian, queer coded Animation Style: Live-action blending, stop motion, traditional Genre: Comedy, romance, science fiction Type: Explicit, feature, implicit
]]>When two high school teenagers—a gardener and a track star—start dating, the story follows their new relationship and the uncertainties they face about their future.]]>Director: Takuya Sato Year: 2018 Country: Japan Gender and Sexuality: Lesbian Animation Style: Digital Genre: Drama, romance Type: Explicit, feature, yuri
]]>After Yulia is struck by lightning, she finds herself transported into a mysterious empty room with several levers. Meanwhile, an unhappy couple remains unaware of how drastically their lives are about to change.]]>Director: Antoine Arditti Year: 2009 Country: France Gender and Sexuality: Bisexual Animation Style:Digital, traditional Genre: Comedy, romance Type: Explicit, short
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The second in the Pussy Boy trilogy, set shortly after the events of the first short. While waiting for Kay in the school basement, Alick becomes victim to a queer bashing. When K (or written as Kay in the last short) comes to his aid, she comforts him and reclaims the hurtful words said to him during his attack (see The Misadventures of Pussy Boy: First Love for more info about identities listed for the trilogy and The Misadventures of Pussy Boy: First Period). ]]>Director: Alec Butler, Terri Roberton Year: 2001 Country: Canada Gender and Sexuality: Intersex, lesbian, queer, transgender, two-spirit Animation Style: Digital, stop motion Genre: Drama, romance Type:Explicit, implicit, short