Close the Last Door!
Reviewer: Voy [email]Overall Rating: B-
Media Reviewed: Digital fansub
Creator: Yugi Yamada
U.S. Licensed: No
Released by: Phoenix Entertainment / Slash
Run time: 30 minutes
BL Content: Light
Genre: Drama / Salarymen
Other media: English-licensed manga
This OAV is based on the Close The Last Door BL manga by Yumi Yamada. The OAV content would be 16+. It shows nothing too specific but a fair amount of kissing and rubbing up against each other.
It tells the story of Nagai, who has developed a crush on his younger co-worker Saitou. Unfortunatly Saitou is getting married and after the wedding Nagai drinks away his sorrow, alone at the bar, while making nasty comments about his friend's wife Remi. Honda, a co-worker of Remi joins Nagai and takes care of him after he passes out from the excessive drinking. Now Nagai can't stop thinking about Saitou and Honda.
The art is pretty good. It reminded me somewhat of Gravitation, especially in how overly expressive their faces are drawn when confused, surprised or sad. The kissing and rubbing scenes are smooth enough, but nothing spectacular.
When it comes to an actual story, it seems to be a bit lacking. The kissing and rubbing comes out of nowhere. No tension, no reason, no explanation. Interesting scenes which would lead at some sort of depth get cut short, which is a shame. On the other hand, it's full of humour, it lacks angst and you'll get somewhat curious how it will end.
The characters are very likeable, but Saitou seems very much the weepy uke type. They seemed to have pushed the standard uke/seme definitions somewhat to the background for this story though, which is quite refreshing. Nagai and Honda's funny interaction saves alot of the story and due to the ambiguous way the characters respond to each other, it's hard to tell who will end up with who.
It's a good story if you wanna have a laugh, some light shounen-ai and aren't too bothered about a lack of plot. For hot sex and deep emotional turmoil however, you should pass on this.