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Sanami Matoh’s shonen ai manga, Fake, is an undeniably great story.  A rollercoaster of action, mystery and a well rounded cast of characters, the original manga told such an impressive tale in only seven volumes.  While it is about a romance between New York City detectives, Ryo Maclean and Dee Laytner, it features strong assisting characters, both male and female, and has especially fantastic roles played by children.

I love this manga, absolutely adore it.  The many cases that the detectives take, often personal in nature, give the reader insight to both of the men’s pasts, creating a lot of tense, emotional moments, something I crave when reading manga.  It’s also rather hilarious in its more upbeat chapters, scenes between Dee and Ryo’s adopted son Bikky are always worth it.  Fake is not the most popular shonen ai comic, but it does have a very dedicated following, especially since the recent release of Fake: Second Season in Japan and the undying hopes of fans from the US and UK that is may be translated and sold in English.

What astonishes and saddens me is that Fake was granted a single OVA, one hour in length and roughly is the story of the second volume, featuring Dee and Ryo on vacation in England.  Their relaxing time is interrupted by the disturbance of Japanese tourists dying in the remote area of the country.  The show had famous voice actors as the starring roles, Tomokazu Seki as Dee (Weiss Kreuz, Fushigi Yugi, Fruits Basket, One Piece) and Nobuo Tobita as Ryo (Fushigi Yugi, GetBackers, Mobile Suit Z Gundam, Naruto.)  The animation was smooth, excellent voice acting and for a single hour, the crux of the story was there.  I’d say my single problem with the OVA as a whole, and this isn’t a problem in itself, more like an aesthetic choice, is that the romance music irrefutably sounds like 90′s soft-core porn tunes.  Even so, I still giggle like a schoolgirl and get into the show from the moment I turn it on, till the final credits role.

It’s such a shame that, having done so well with such a limited running time, that the other six volumes didn’t get turned into one hour specials, focusing on just the juicy centers of each book to tell the story.  It boils down to money and producers and copyrights, yes, but am I honestly the only one who is heartbroken that so many bad anime shows gets hundreds of episodes, some entire recaps and fillers, while such a rich and delightful story as Fake was given one OVA and nothing more?  I mean, I love Naruto as much as the next person, but while they fill time with the young ninjas wondering what Kakashi looks like under that mask, Fake suffers in the corner, crying over its single hour of fame.

My constant hope is that with Fake: Second Season, perhaps we’ll get at least one more OVA, featured from those storylines and we can enjoy one more hour of Ryo and Dee and their assisting cast of detectives, criminals and their poor chief that desperately needs a vacation.