6.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Araiya-san! Ore to Aitsu ga Onnayu de!? (2019)
Araiya-san! Ore to Aitsu ga Onnayu de!? (2019)
Overview
Male student Souta Tsukishima begins working at his family's public bathhouse as a back washer. While concealing her true identity, Souta's classmate Aoi Yuzuki visits the bathhouse. A relationship between the two begins to develop when Souta washes Aoi's back.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Positive
Viewer Rating
6.3
Overview
Male student Souta Tsukishima begins working at his family's public bathhouse as a back washer. While concealing her true identity, Souta's classmate Aoi Yuzuki visits the bathhouse. A relationship between the two begins to develop when Souta washes Aoi's back.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's premise, while involving gendered spaces and interactions, is primarily utilized for romantic and comedic situations, focusing on personal relationships and sexual tension rather than engaging with broader political ideologies or societal critiques.
This Japanese anime features traditional casting consistent with its origin, focusing on Japanese characters without any explicit race or gender swaps of roles. The narrative does not present critical portrayals of traditional identities or incorporate explicit DEI themes, maintaining a neutral or positive framing.
Secondary
This anime is a boys' love (BL) series that centers on the romantic relationship between two male characters. The narrative positively affirms their same-sex attraction and developing relationship, depicting their intimacy and affection as the primary focus without negative framing.
The film 'Araiya-san! Ore to Aitsu ga Onnayu de!?' centers on a male character who undergoes a temporary physical gender transformation. This plot device explores situational gender change rather than the lived experiences or identity of transsexual individuals, resulting in no direct portrayal of transsexual themes.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The series features a male character who cross-dresses as a woman within the story's plot. This is a gender disguise performed by a character whose canonical gender remains male, and therefore does not meet the definition of a gender swap.
This is an original Japanese anime series. There is no prior source material or historical context that establishes characters of a different race being portrayed as another race within this production.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.7
5.9
Critic Ratings
N/A
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