Description:
- His father and older brother are famous singers, his mother is a renown artist, Izumi Sena was born into a family of super entertainers! However, unlike the rest of his family, Izumi is an otaku who aspires to become a manga illustrator. One day, he is roped into starring in a television commercial dressed as a woman. The actor Izumi is featured with, Ryoma, falls in love at first sight upon meeting him. It turns out that they had actually met 10 years prior and Ryoma's attraction hasn't changed even after finding out Izumi is a boy. [Source: Crunchyroll]
Tags:
- BL, Comedy, Shounen- Ai, Acting, Showbiz, Romance, Crossdressing,
Anime
Status: Completed
Episodes: 10 + 1 OVA
Links (one of them): https://www15.kickassanime.io/anime/love-stage-402536
Manga
Status: Completed
Chapters: V7 (Chapter 40)
Author: Eiki Eiki and Zaou Taishi
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/LoveStage
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Love_Stage_(Manga)
Characters (Mains)
Izumi Sena (Main Character)
Izumi is the youngest child with an older brother and parents who are famous entertainers but he aims to be a manga artist. He once participated in a commercial for wedding magazine when he was young.
10 years after that commercial, the magazine requested all the original child actors for a 10 years anniversary ads
Izumi is shy, kind, innocent who easily gets embarrassed and rarely speaks unless spoken to first.
Detailed Character info website: http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Izumi_Sena
Ryouma Ichijou (Male/second lead)
Ryōma is a young popular actor two years older than Izumi Sena
Both Ryoma and Izumi had co-starred in a commercial together ten years prior.
Even after he is shocked and briefly terrified when finds out Izumi is a guy when they reunite, Ryouma still maintains his strong feelings for Izumi. The two of them are now married and living together.
Sourced and Detailed Character info website:
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Ryouma_Ichijou
Izumi Sena's Family (Sena Family)
Rei Sagara
A manager of Sena family and the care-taker of Izumi Sena. He's a hard worker who tries to maintain a 'poker-face' and is blunt in telling how it is, without suger-coating his words
He was the one who roped Izumi into the 10 year anniversary ads
Sourced and Detailed Character info website:
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Rei_Sagara
Shougo Sena (Big brother, eldest child of Seiya Sena and Nagisa Sena)
Shougo Sena is the lead vocalist of the popular rock band, Crusherz. He is also the eldest child of Seiya Sena and Nagisa Sena and the doting and protective older brother of Izumi Sena.
Sourced and Detailed Character info website:
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Shougo_Sena
Nagisa Sena (Mother of Izumi Sena and Shougo Sena, Wife of Seiya Sena)
She is a model turned actress and a bit of a spoiled princess. Despite the marriage between them being ostensibly because Nagisa relentlessly pursued Seiya after seeing one of his musicals and falling in love with him at first sight, Seiya, too, fell in love with her. Thanks to Nagisa's modeling roots, she appears much younger than she really is. Surprisingly, she is actually older than her husband, Seiya.
Sourced and Detailed Character info website:
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Nagisa_Sena
Seiya Sena (Father of Izumi Sena and Shougo Sena, Husband of Nagisa Sena)
A stage actor with a focus in musical theatre. He was scouted by his own mother and debuted as an opera singer. He is the founder of SenaPro, the Sena family's personal agency.
Even though the marriage between them was ostensibly because Nagisa relentlessly pursued Seiya after going to see one of his musicals and falling in love with him at first sight, Seiya, too, fell head over heels with the beauty touted as Japan's foremost actress the second he laid eyes on her. He truly believes that a happy wife leads to a happy life.
Sourced and Detailed Character info website:
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Seiya_Sena
Reviews
Me:
- A 10 episode anime with cute main Character. Izumi just stole my heart with his cuteness. And Ryouma chasing after Izumi is just so touching especially since his live didn't change even afterhe found out. I'll stop at this point. I have a habit of spoiling the story. I recommend anyone (fujoshi) to watch this
Others:
- "Love Stage!! Is a short but very strange and wonderful anime. It does border onto creepy at points int he first half but the second half more than makes up for that and makes for an all together enjoyable anime. This is an anime that had me laughing and crying in equal measure, the characters are hilariously over the top and at the same time surprisingly sweet and enjoyable. Definitely a must watch for fans of the BL or even romance genres and I certainly wish this was longer and that the OVA's were available on here."
- AngelstoFall (crunchyroll) - "An adorably cute, incredibly sweet BL anime that I was pleasantly surprised to find on crunchyroll. With a good balance of suspense, drama and comedy, along with a great big helping of Cute characters, and a surprisingly good storyline, I would recommend LOVE STAGE!! To anyone interested in watching a BL anime."
- Beast-of-burden (crunchyroll) - "I don't like writing reviews, but this anime is really important to me.
In fact, this is the first shounen-ai I watched, and it made me change opinion about everything in the LGBT world.
I think it is a good anime to start watching shounen-ai and/or yaoi and I recommend this anime to everyone."
- OnyxSC (anime-planet)
Cute GIFs and Memes
Referenced from
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Seiya_Sena
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Nagisa_Sena
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Shougo_Sena
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Rei_Sagara
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Ryouma_Ichijou
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Izumi_Sena
https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/love-stage
https://www.crunchyroll.com/en-gb/love-stage/reviews
https://www.crunchyroll.com/en-gb/love-stage
https://kissanime.cool/watch/love-stage.8x1o
http://lovestage.wikia.com/wiki/Love_Stage_(Manga)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/LoveStage
Izumi Sena - [referenced from kissanime.cool -written by MAL Rewrite]
