Gravitation is a beautiful piece of work brought to us by Maki
Murakami. The story is a romantic comedy evolving around
Suichi Shindou, the genki lead singer in the band Bad
Luck, and Eeri Yuki the cold and mysterious romantic
novelist that fangirls go crazy for. Even if you aren't a big yoai
fan like myself you will like this story because it's
just so funny. Gravitation is a 12 volume manga that isn't
quite finished yet atleast not in the United Sates. Through
these twelve volumes you end up feeling as if
you have known the characters a life time because their
character development in my opinion is nearly flawless.
Gravitation is truly a classic manga that I think everyone
should atleast check out. You get all the tid bits that aren't
found in the anime series and OAV and that's always a good
thing.
Suichi is the talented lead singer of the rising band Bad
Luck. Every since he was a young boy Suichi always
wanted to start his own band and was determined to be like
his idol Ryuichi from the band Nittle Grasper. With the help
of his friend Hiroshi Nakano who plays the guitar and
Suguru Hujisaki who's on keyboard they get a gig and their
rise to fame begins. This is what all three of them wanted
their whole lives but with the price of rising fame comes
minor complications. As Suguru deals with surpassing his
highly famous relative Tohma Seguchi and Hiroshi deals
with a complicated love life, Suichi tries to pull together
lyrics to songs while surpassing Ryuichi and proving a
blonde haired novelist wrong. This novelist the famous
romantic novelist Eeri Yuki and Suichi is after him with a
vengence. After Yuki insults Suich about his "crappy" lyrics
Suichi is determined to prove the novelist wrong and
inserts himself in Yuki's life to prove him wrong. As the fight
to prove himself to Yuki unfolds so does his true feelings
for the writer. Some type of attraction draws Suichi to Yuki
and vice versa but Suichi is unsure about these feelings.
These two end up being very fond of each other in a weird
way as if it was almost like gravity was pushing them together.
The anime series is a complete phenomenum. Every since
it was released there has been a growing number of
Gravitation fans. You can see why because the art work is
totally gorgeous. The characters come to life and seeing the
thirteen episode story unfold through the voice actors is
amazing. The only bad side to the anime is it's way to short
but a lot happens in those thriteen episodes though. There
is also an OAV available and you can currently buy
Gravitation in English as well but ofcourse I prefer subtitles.