Maki Murakami's Gravitation, a cornerstone of the BL (Boy's Love) genre, is now available for streaming through Crunchyroll.

The streaming service announced that both the 13-episode TV series and the two-episode OVA, Gravitation: Lyrics of Love, are now available on the platform in the United States and Canada. Both the show and its OVA follow-up are available with the original audio track and English subtitles, or with their original English dub.

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Gravitation follows aspiring singer Shuichi Shindou and his band, Bad Luck, as they endeavor to break into the spotlight and become Japan's next big musical sensation. While on a walk one evening, Shuichi encounters a tall, blond stranger, who dismisses the young singer's newest lyrics as garbage, greatly angering the musician. This ends up being the first of many meetings between the two, and as their paths continue to cross, Shuichi is forced to figure out if he is enraged by the other man or if he has failed in love with him.

Murakami's original manga series was published in Gentosha's Kimi to Boku from 1996 to 2002, producing twelve volumes of content. It gained a passionate fan following and immense popularity, selling roughly a half-million copies in North America between 2003 and 2007 alone and ranking as the top BL manga on BookScan in 2005. The manga also inspired a sequel series, Gravitation EX, which debuted in the web magazine Genzo in 2004.

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The anime series adaptation of Gravitation premiered in 2000 and was animated by Studio DEEN (Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round TableBakumatsu). Bob Shirohata (Let's Dance With PapaDiamond Daydreams) directed the series with Miho Shimogasa (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might) designing the characters and Masahiro Matsumura (Hetalia: Axis Powers) overseeing the editing.

Gravitation: Lyrics of Love was produced by Animate, MOVIC, SME Visual Works and Sony Magazines in 1999 with PLUM (The Prince of Tennis, Over Drive) leading the show's animation. Shinichi Watanabe (The Wallflower, Sket Dance) directed the OVA and Hiroyuki Kawasaki (Ranma 1/2, Blade of the Immortal) oversaw the script. In both the series and OVA, Kazuhiko Inoue (Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky) and Tomokazu Seki (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Jujutsu Kaisen) voiced the male leads.

Gravitation and Gravitation: Lyrics of Love are just two of many anime series that have been recently added to Crunchyroll's catalog. Several new titles have made their debut during the streaming service's fall season, including The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an AristocratPlatinum EndBuild Divide -#00000 (Code Black)- and The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window, a BL story that follows a bookstore clerk who can see ghosts and an exorcist who ignores social boundaries, as they investigate a supernatural mystery at the local high school.

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Source: Crunchyroll