Even a Dad Still Wants It...
パパだって, したい (Papa datte, Shitai)
- Boys Love
- Erotica
- Episodes
- 8
- Duration
- 6 min per ep
- Aired
- Jan 7, 2019 to Feb 25, 2019
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
College student Asumi Kouya takes on a part-time housekeeping job to make ends meet, putting his cooking and cleaning skills to work. His new employer is Keiichi Naruse, a good-looking single father whose past experiences with hired help have left complications in their wake.
Naruse’s days are consumed by his job and caring for his young son, Ichika, leaving him little time for himself. While tidying up, Asumi catches an unexpectedly candid glimpse of the pressures Naruse lives with when he discovers a stash of adult videos—an awkward find that quickly shifts the mood between them.
Although Naruse is a man, Asumi can’t help being drawn to his gentle demeanor and striking looks. Asumi offers the overworked father a way to ease his pent-up frustration, and his role in the household begins to take on a far more intimate meaning.
Otaku Consensus
Otaku Consensus: Even a Dad Still Wants It... earns its niche more through Mitsutaka Noshitani’s brisk, no-detour direction and its unusually specific adult-parent BL framing than through prestige production values. Its sub-6 MAL score and 53/100 AniList score reflect the main complaint: the eight-episode erotic short format gives the relationship little breathing room, making the series feel efficient to its target audience and abrupt to almost everyone else.
Why You Should Watch
Watch this if you want BL erotica that is short, direct, and centered on adult responsibilities rather than school-club longing. Its appeal is very specific: a DILF-tagged, parenthood-adjacent romance fantasy with an adult male cast, clear erotic intent, and no need to commit to a full cour. Viewers looking for the emotional sprawl of Given or the sports-romance polish of Yuri!!! on Ice will likely find it too compressed; viewers who want a more explicit, household-bound dynamic without long melodramatic detours are the audience it is built for. The eight-episode run also makes it easy to sample as a compact artifact of late-2010s commercial BL erotica rather than as a conventional TV romance.
Key Characters
- AAsumi Kouya
Asumi is interesting less as a standard BL lead than as the point where domestic labor, financial pressure, and sexual curiosity collide in a deliberately transactional setup.
- KKeiichi Naruse
Naruse is the series’ defining draw for many viewers: an adult BL love interest framed through exhaustion, caretaking, and the AniList-recognized DILF appeal rather than adolescent wish fulfillment.
- IIchika
Ichika gives the erotic premise its unusual pressure point, keeping parenthood and family-life tags visible even in a series marketed primarily through Boys Love and Erotica.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The series is a completed eight-episode run that aired weekly from January 7 to February 25, 2019, giving it the rhythm of a compressed erotic short rather than a standard seasonal romance.
- 2
Magic Bus handled the animation production, with Taihei Nagai serving as both character designer and chief animation director, a dual credit that points to a tightly centralized visual identity.
- 3
AniList’s tag spread is unusually candid: DILF at 90%, Boys’ Love at 88%, LGBTQ+ Themes and Parenthood both at 79%, plus explicit sexual-act tags, making its audience targeting more transparent than many BL listings.
- 4
The show’s reception data marks it as a cult-niche title rather than a broad hit: 5.98/10 on MAL from 15,778 votes, 53/100 on AniList, and only 64 AniList favourites.
- 5
Its database identity is split in an interesting way: MAL lists no formal theme, while AniList users strongly identify it with Parenthood, Family Life, and a Primarily Adult Cast.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Serina Seo is credited as the original creator, while the anime adaptation was directed by Mitsutaka Noshitani.
- Fun fact 2
- Taihei Nagai had two major visual responsibilities on the production: character design and chief animation direction.
- Fun fact 3
- The post-production team included Lovehei Yamamoto as director of photography, Keisuke Yanagi as editor, Takahiro Enomoto as sound director, and Katsuhiro Nakajima on sound effects.
- Fun fact 4
- Sei Minazuki handled color design, a key credit for a short erotic production where mood often has to be established quickly.
- Fun fact 5
- Akiko Segawa is credited with planning, placing the title’s commercial positioning alongside its more visible creative staff.
Studios
- Magic Bus
