The Tyrant Falls In Love
恋する暴君 (Koisuru Boukun)
- Boys Love
- Comedy
- Erotica
- Episodes
- 2
- Duration
- 29 min per ep
- Aired
- Jun 25, 2010 to Nov 27, 2010
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Tetsuhiro Morinaga has been quietly carrying a crush on his upperclassman, Souichi Tatsumi, and finally works up the nerve to confess. The timing couldn’t be worse: Tatsumi is abrasive, self-absorbed, and loudly homophobic, the sort of person who doesn’t just reject Morinaga but condemns gay men outright.
A mishap involving an aphrodisiac forces an unwanted physical closeness on Tatsumi, setting off a chain of consequences neither of them anticipated. What begins as an uncomfortable accident leaves a lasting impact on both men, raising the question of whether it will soften the distance between them—or make it impossible to bridge.
Otaku Consensus
The Tyrant Falls In Love is remembered less as a polished romance than as a concentrated 2010 BL OVA whose brisk Keiji Kawakubo direction and two-episode pacing preserve the abrasive comedy and erotic charge of Hinako Takanaga's source without padding. Its modest reception — 6.88 on MAL and 61/100 on AniList — reflects a real split: viewers respond to the volatile lead pairing and compact adaptation, while the drug-enabled non-consent material remains the decisive criticism rather than a minor caveat.
Why You Should Watch
Watch this if you want old-school BL with sharp edges, adult college-age characters, and OVA-era erotic escalation rather than the gentler emotional realism of Given or the cleaner comfort-romance mode of Sasaki and Miyano. At only two episodes, it has no room for slice-of-life detours: the appeal is the pressure-cooker dynamic between a devoted underclassman and a hostile upperclassman, filtered through comedy, sexual tension, and deliberately uncomfortable power imbalance. It also scratches a different itch than Junjou Romantica: less sprawling ensemble melodrama, more abrasive two-person collision. Viewers who prefer consent-forward romance should treat the AniList Rape and Drugs tags as serious warnings, but fans studying 2000s-to-2010s BL OVA conventions will find it a concentrated example of the era's appeal and problems.
Key Characters
- TTetsuhiro Morinaga
Morinaga functions as the emotional anchor of the OVA, and fans tend to read him through the tension between sincere devotion and the story's much harsher erotic mechanics.
- SSouichi Tatsumi
Souichi is the title's combustible center: abrasive, defensive, and memorable precisely because the comedy and conflict depend on how difficult he is to soften.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The anime is a two-episode OVA released across a five-month gap, from June 25, 2010 to November 27, 2010, giving it the compressed rhythm of direct-to-video BL rather than TV-series romantic buildup.
- 2
PrimeTime produced the adaptation, placing it in the erotica-OVA lane where sexual escalation and intimate staging carry more weight than broad ensemble storytelling.
- 3
Yukina Hiiro is credited with both series composition and script, meaning the short adaptation had a single credited writer shaping its structure and dialogue.
- 4
Its AniList tag profile is unusually explicit about viewer caution points: Boys' Love at 98%, Rape at 73%, Drugs at 65%, College at 60%, and LGBTQ+ Themes at 60%.
- 5
The adaptation is built around only two named central characters in the available data, which reinforces its chamber-piece quality compared with longer BL series that lean on side couples and multi-arc casts.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Hinako Takanaga, the original creator, is directly credited in the anime staff data, marking the OVA as an adaptation of an established BL manga property rather than an anime-original project.
- Fun fact 2
- Keiji Kawakubo directed the OVA, with Tomoko Hirota credited for character design and Akio Sakai credited for planning.
- Fun fact 3
- The MAL and AniList numbers show a niche but visible title: 40,506 MAL votes, a 6.88 MAL score, MAL popularity rank #2946, an AniList score of 61/100, and 145 AniList favourites.
- Fun fact 4
- The release was not a single drop: episode publication spanned from early summer to late autumn 2010, a typical pattern for OVAs aimed at a specialized market.
- Fun fact 5
- The official genre grouping combines Boys Love, Comedy, and Erotica, a mix that explains why its reception often hinges on tolerance for tonal whiplash between gag-driven hostility and explicit material.
Studios
- PrimeTime
