Given’s OVA lands on Crunchyroll

The OVA of Given titled Given: Uragawa no Sonzai (Given: The One on the Flip-Side), the special that ranks among the events told in the sequel film of the anime series of the same name, lands on Crunchyroll. To break the news the same streamer on which both the anime series and the film are already available.

Given’s OVA lands on Crunchyroll

Given: Uragawa no Sonzai focuses on the events concerning Mafuyu Satou and Ritsuka Uenoyama which occurred in mid-winter and early summer which were not represented in Given the Moviea sequel to the anime series of the same name and available with subtitles on Crunchyroll.

Given: the franchise

Given is a shounen-ai manga written and illustrated by Natsuki Kizu. The work was initially serialized in the bimonthly manga magazine Cheri + starting from 2013 and then was subsequently enclosed in several separate volumes.

In Italy, Given is published by Flashbook starting from 2017.

Uenoyama now finds both basketball and music boring, while previously he loved both. One day at school he runs into Mafuyu, dozing on a ladder hugging a broken stringed guitar. Uenoyama helps him to tune it and, from the moment he gets his hands on that guitar, a spark goes off in Mafuyu, he is completely struck by it, so much so that he asks him to help him learn to play that instrument. What will Uenoyama’s response be?

The manga was adapted into an audio drama starting in 2016 and later into an 11-episode anime television series that aired on Crunchyroll in the summer of 2019. Given is considered by many fans and critics to be one of the best anime series released in 2019, largely thanks to its honesty and emotional complexity, excellent visuals and audio, and well-developed characters who are openly gay couples.

The series was followed by a film, Given The Movie, on February 3, 2021, also distributed by Crunchyroll. As for the live-action adaptation, it consists of 6 episodes and is currently airing on Fuji TV’s FOD streaming service. The live-action sees the musical artist Sanari in the role of Mafuyu Sato, Jin Suzuki like Ritsuka Ueonyama while Kai Inowaki is Akihiko Kaji e Shuntaro Yanagi is Haruki Nakayama.Crunchy