The visual novel series Sukisho was adapted into both an anime and a light novel series. Since each adaptation is very different and contains different characters and plots, each adaptation received its own page.
The anime was released in 2005, produced by ZEXCS. It runs twelve episodes, with a bonus thirteen OVA episode. Soichiro Hoshi voiced Sunao, and Hikaru Midorikawa voice Sora. Media Blasters licensed it for English distribution, but provided only subtitles with no English dub available.
The anime is a highly severe case of Cast Full of Pretty Boys, with no female characters appearing on screen at all. The closest thing is Wholesome Crossdresser Nanami, who is feminine to an extreme, and seems Happily Married with Shinichirou.
Note that while the anime is light and fluffy - the game is much, much darker, rated M, and may require a tissue.
Sukisho provides examples of:
- Abandoned Hospital: The place in Sora's nightmares looks like this. And Sora and Sunao seem to wake up in one after being abducted.
- Abridged Series: Found Here.
- Accidental Pervert: It was Yoru and Ran, really!
- Adaptation Personality Change: Hiromu. In the anime, he's a wandering spirit and a Crazy Jealous Bratty Half-Pint who was threatening to kill Sunao for getting in the way of him and Sora, though he turns out to be more a Shrinking Violet when he shows up in school. In the game, his spirit temporarily inhabits Sunao's body and is much more understanding towards Sunao, at one point deciding to not use Sunao's body to have sex with Sora when he realizes how much it bothered Sunao. Furthermore, he later becomes a Shipper on Deck for Sora and Sunao.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Yoru uses this as an excuse for what seems like attempted rape.
- Bury Your Gays: Surprisingly, completely averted. There's no Gayngst either. (Though certainly regular Angst.)
- Butt-Monkey: Sora to some extent.
- Cherry Blossoms: The Valentine’s Day episode. And the intro...badly!
- Conveniently an Orphan: Sora and Sunao.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Sunao's revenge seems quite over the top, making plans of outright murder, just because his childhood friend let go of his hand in a life-or-death situation. However, in the games the revenge doesn't seem so drastic, because Sora instead killed both of their parents.
- Dragged into Drag: Sunao in episode 2, according to Sora, the outfit he wore really suited him.
- Dynamic Entry: Gaku's Establishing Character Moment has him dropping from the sky and engaging Sora in an impromptu fist fight.
- Exiled to the Couch: Though technically he keeps the room, Sora feels pretty much like this when Sunao moves in with Gaku.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: Shouted throughout the entire library.
- First Kiss: Sora almost has his with Hiromu in episode 5, but has his first kiss with Sunao in episode 10; this is also Sunao's first kiss.
- Fountain of Youth: The OVA centers around the cast's misadventures with a mysterious hot spring that can grant wishes. Sora makes the offhand remark that he wishes to be a child again.
- Goofy Suit: A very inherent part of working in the Nandemoya, though Sunao does get a Pimped-Out Dress for one of his jobs.
- Love Epiphany: Sora realizes he loves Sunao after hearing their back-story in the lab and the two have sex and Sunao seems to have one as well when he and Sora have sex, but turns out it's quite the opposite but has his second and real one when Sora comes to rescue him.
- Luminescent Blush: Both Sora and Sunao blush pretty badly when there's an implication of romance between the two of them, but Sunao does it more often; the two most memorable times being in episode 4 when he thought Sora was going to say Sunao was his most greatest treasure and the second being in episode 7 when Sunao watches Sora take off his shirt.
- Sora gives the most intense blush in the OVA when the kids teased the two when they saw Sunao eat a grain of rice off of Sora's face.
- Mind Rape: A big central plot theme in the later episodes.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Nanami, when Sora angrily leaves the apartment.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sunao tries to save Sora (who’s terrified of fire) from Aizawa holding a lighter to his face. He then tackles him, which ends up setting the whole place on fire.
- Official Couple: Nanami and Shinichiro are a couple from the start of the anime, Sora and Sunao have sex in episode 10 and become official by the end of the series, and Kai and Gaku are seen official during the OVA.
- Seppuku: Not actually, but heavily implied symbolically. And in the games - actually.
- Shipper on Deck: Matsuri ships Sora and Sunao.
- Shout-Out: "There is only one truth!"
- Strong Family Resemblance: Lampshaded by Sunao and Gaku when they meet Sei, joking that Sei must be Sora's Long-Lost Relative. Strangely enough, this isn't repeated with Kano, who looks a lot like Gaku.
- Through His Stomach: Hano tries to gain Kitamura's trust by making him lunchboxes.
- Unbroken Vigil: At the end of the series, when Shinichirou is rendered comatose after being stabbed by Sora, Nanami refuses to leave his side.
