Sukisho

好きなものは好きだからしょうがない！！ (Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shou ga Nai!!)

4.0(1)

OtakuDen

6.6(24,270)

MAL Score

Ranked #7161

Popularity #3570

Boys Love
Comedy
Drama
School

Episodes: 12
Duration: 24 min per ep
Aired: Jan 9, 2005 to Mar 27, 2005
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

After falling from a fourth-floor window, Hashiba Sora wakes up with his memories wiped clean. Life at school takes another turn when Fujimori Sunao arrives as his new roommate—and insists that Sora is also known as “Ran,” a name that doesn’t match anything Sora can remember.

As the two grow closer, they confront a shared secret from childhood: both developed split personalities. Their other selves, Yoru and Ran, are passionately in love, leaving Sunao and Sora unsettled by what happens between them at night even as their own feelings begin to change. That budding relationship draws Sora toward unsettling revelations about their past.

Otaku Consensus

Sukisho survives less on polish than on its peculiar cocktail of BL school comedy, psychological melodrama, and early-2000s overstatement; reviewers who like it point to the “interesting plot mixed in with the insanity” and a male cast that keeps the show lively even when the writing goes off the rails. The common criticism is adaptation compression: as a 12-episode TV version of BL game material, it hints at heavier character and trauma material than it has time to fully develop. The verdict is a messy but memorable genre artifact, stronger as a cult BL curiosity than as a tightly engineered drama.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Sukisho if you want old-school BL melodrama with sharper psychological baggage than a simple school romance, but without the long slow-burn pacing of modern relationship anime. It scratches a nearby itch to Gravitation in its heightened emotions and 2000s genre energy, while leaning more into identity-fracture drama and mystery-box reveals than music-industry chaos. The appeal is also archival: Zexcs’ 2005 adaptation captures a period when BL TV anime often had to compress game routes into short, tonally wild seasons. Add a stacked male voice cast led by Hikaru Midorikawa, Souichirou Hoshi, Akira Ishida, Shinichiro Miki, and Susumu Chiba, plus an insert song performed by Midorikawa himself, and it becomes especially worthwhile for seiyuu fans and viewers curious about BL anime’s pre-streaming-era growing pains.

Key Characters

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Sora Hashiba(VA: Hikaru Midorikawa)
Sora is the show’s tonal anchor, with Hikaru Midorikawa carrying both the school-comedy energy and the heavier psychological unease that define Sukisho’s cult reputation.
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Sunao Fujimori(VA: Souichirou Hoshi)
Sunao gives the central relationship its friction, and Souichirou Hoshi’s performance helps sell the jump from abrasive roommate comedy to more vulnerable BL melodrama.
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Kai Nanami(VA: Akira Ishida)
Kai stands out partly through casting: Akira Ishida’s presence adds another major 2000s male seiyuu name to an already unusually concentrated BL ensemble.
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Shinichirou Minato(VA: Shinichiro Miki)
Shinichirou’s role broadens the series beyond its central pair, giving the school setting an adult-linked dramatic dimension through Shinichiro Miki’s recognizable voice work.

What Makes It Stand Out

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The anime is a 12-episode Zexcs TV adaptation of BL game material, which explains both its route-like density and the frequent criticism that its character and plot development feel compressed.
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AniList tags the series with Dissociative Identities at 79% and Amnesia at 70%, making its BL framing unusually dependent on psychological identity mechanics rather than only school romance beats.
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The main cast is a concentrated showcase of prominent male voice actors: Hikaru Midorikawa, Souichirou Hoshi, Susumu Chiba, Shinichiro Miki, and Akira Ishida all appear in main roles.
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Naoki Satou handles the music, while Hikaru Midorikawa also performs an insert song with lyrics credited to Hirotaka Koizumi, giving the lead actor a presence beyond dialogue performance.
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Its reception profile is notably split: MAL lists a 6.63 score from over 24,000 votes, while review excerpts praise the fun, over-the-top ride but repeatedly criticize the lack of deeper development.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The full Japanese title, Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shou ga Nai!!, is commonly shortened to Sukisho or Sukisyo, a nickname reflected across English-language fan and review spaces.
Fun fact 2: The production credits separate Platinum Label as original creator, Riho Sawaki as original story, and Yuzu Tsutae as original character designer, while Mami Yamaguchi handled the anime character designs.
Fun fact 3: Nagisa Miyazaki directed the TV anime, with Mamiko Ikeda credited for series composition and Chikako Shibata as art director.
Fun fact 4: Hikaru Midorikawa is both the voice of Sora Hashiba and an insert song performer for the anime, a detail that makes the series especially notable for fans tracking seiyuu singing credits.
Fun fact 5: The show aired from January 9 to March 27, 2005, placing it in the mid-2000s wave of compact late-night adaptations aimed at niche genre audiences.