Kirepapa.
キレパパ。
- Boys Love
- Comedy
- Drama
- Erotica
- Episodes
- 2
- Duration
- 29 min per ep
- Aired
- Jan 25, 2008 to Nov 28, 2008
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Chisato Takatsukasa is a 35-year-old novelist whose boyish looks routinely make him seem a decade younger. He draws inspiration from his personal idol, acclaimed mystery writer Saki Shunka—an author as elusive as the twists in her bestsellers.
At home, Chisato’s life revolves around his 15-year-old son, Riju, and an intense protectiveness that borders on obsession. Convinced that the boys Riju brings over are hiding predatory intentions, he goes to outrageous lengths to keep them away. No one draws his ire more than Shunsuke Sakaki, Riju’s stubbornly loyal best friend who refuses to be driven off, even as unspoken motives and buried connections begin to surface—linking Shunsuke’s persistence to Chisato’s fear, and to the secrets surrounding Saki Shunka herself.
Otaku Consensus
Kirepapa lands as a niche 2008 BL OVA whose compact two-episode pacing and shameless tonal swing between farce, melodrama, and erotica are more memorable than polished. Its 6.55 MAL score and 56/100 AniList score reflect a divided audience: viewers who enjoy older, messy BL OVAs value its speed and audacity, while the recurring criticism is that the age-gap and non-consent-adjacent material is too thorny for the comedy to neutralize.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Kirepapa if you want old-school BL OVA excess without the long courtship structure of series like Junjou Romantica or Sekaiichi Hatsukoi. At only two episodes, it is built for viewers who enjoy compressed, high-friction relationship dynamics, adult characters, and the specific late-2000s BL habit of treating outrageous jealousy, erotic tension, and melodrama as part of the same punchline. The appeal is not refinement; it is seeing how much taboo-leaning material, comedy escalation, and identity-game drama PrimeTime packs into a short runtime. If you prefer careful consent framing or slow-burn emotional realism, this will grate. If you are mapping the evolution of commercial boys-love anime, Kirepapa is a useful, unruly artifact from the OVA era.
Key Characters
- CChisato Takatsukasa
Chisato stands out as an unusually adult BL lead for a short OVA, with the series using his extreme protectiveness and youthful appearance as both comic engine and source of discomfort.
- RRiju Takatsukasa
Riju functions less as a standard romantic lead than as the emotional pressure point around which the OVA builds its jealousy comedy and age-gap tension.
- SShunsuke Sakaki
Shunsuke is the character who turns Kirepapa from simple overprotective-parent farce into a more charged BL confrontation, because his persistence is framed as both sincere and provocational.
- SSaki Shunka
Saki Shunka gives the OVA its mystery-writer meta-hook, connecting the boys-love melodrama to a literary persona rather than leaving it as pure domestic chaos.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
Kirepapa is a two-episode OVA from Studio PrimeTime, not a TV series, which explains its unusually compressed structure and its reliance on quick escalation rather than gradual romantic development.
- 2
The release window is notably stretched for such a short title: episode one arrived on January 25, 2008, while the second followed on November 28, 2008.
- 3
Its official genre mix of Boys Love, Comedy, Drama, and Erotica places it firmly in the adult-leaning BL OVA tradition rather than the softer school-romance lane many later anime fans associate with the genre.
- 4
AniList’s tag distribution is unusually revealing: Age Gap is the strongest tag at 79%, ahead of Boys' Love at 73%, with Rape listed at 20%, signaling why modern viewers often find the title more contentious than its runtime suggests.
- 5
The anime’s reception is modest but visible: it holds a 6.55/10 on MyAnimeList from 31,181 votes and sits at MAL popularity rank #3420, while AniList lists it at 56/100 with 66 favourites.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Kirepapa is based on work by Ryou Takagi, credited as the original creator, tying the OVA to the commercial BL manga sphere rather than an anime-original project.
- Fun fact 2
- Despite having only two episodes, the OVA’s airing span covers more than ten months in 2008, a release pattern typical of direct-to-video anime rather than broadcast scheduling.
- Fun fact 3
- The title has no listed MAL theme category, even though its AniList tags strongly emphasize Age Gap and Primarily Male Cast, showing how differently database taxonomies frame the same work.
- Fun fact 4
- Its AniList favourites count is only 66, which positions Kirepapa as a cult-catalog BL title rather than a broadly canonized genre staple.
Studios
- PrimeTime
