Boku no Pico
Boku no Pico is a Japanese original video animation hentai series produced by Natural High. Described as "the world's first shotacon anime" by its producer, it was primarily marketed to a male audience. The series consists of three episodes and a version of the first episode edited for content, and later spawned a one-shot manga, a computer game, and a music video album.
Story
Boku no Pico follows a young man named Tamotsu, or "Mokkun", who befriends Pico, a lonely, effeminate boy, leading to the two of them engaging in a sexual relationship.Plot
As the story begins, Tamotsu, a young man who usually skips work, later heads to the seaside park. While browsing the ocean with a pair of coin-operated binoculars, which are often found in tourist spots, he spots a naked girl swimming. He gasps and stares at her, but the binoculars time out. He hurriedly puts a coin in it, but the girl disappeared from the ocean.Tamotsu heads to a familiar coffee shop, Bebe. To his surprise, the girl he saw at the seaside park appears at the back of the shop. The owner tells Tamotsu that she is his granddaughter, Pico Onedari, who came from the countryside for a summer vacation and is helping out at the coffee shop throughout the time. Although she is a shy girl, she asks if he would like to play with her. Thus, Tamotsu goes to the park with Pico. He is drawn to her cuteness, but it is only then that he realizes that Pico is just a boy. However, Tamotsu does not seem to mind, triggering a dangerous sexual relationship between the two of them.
List of Boku no Pico characters
Main characters
;Pico;Tamotsu
;Chico
;CoCo
Other characters
;Ojiisan;Oneesan
Media
Anime
One of main illustrators, as well as manga artist in Boku no Pico as a staff member was Saigado; Saigado was an active doujinshi artist after the early debut commercial. In 2004, he published his own doujinshi which is titled as "Shota-nize: Project to Turn Female Characters into Boys". This will then led to him working the characters for the OVA "Series Pico". There are quite bunch of the other Japanese staff members. The Japanese Boku no Pico staff members, incorporating Katsuyoshi Yatabe, a figure whose notably known as a staff director for Boku no Pico, a screenplay by Katsuhiko Takayama, musics were created by Shinobu and others musician to include were Seiji Katsu and Masamichi Kaneko, character designer and an animation director was Yoshiten, although the illustrator was Saigado, he works for the illustrations of the character designs. Lastly a staff producer and a sound director is Seiji Kaneko.Others Japanese staff members was Dr.T, one of staff member who is known as a music director and a sound designer, and a production producer is Takeshi Aoki. The video editing in the Boku no Pico series was Ryō Nakajima.
Three original video animations have been released. All three were directed by Katsuyoshi Yatabe and produced by Natural High. The first, My Pico, was released to DVD by Soft on Demand on September 7, 2006. The second, Pico & Chico, followed on April 16, 2007. The third episode, Pico & CoCo & Chico, was released on October 9, 2008.
A box set containing the first two episodes and the soundtrack CD was released by Soft on Demand on April 19, 2007. On November 11, 2007, the first OVA was re-edited with a different script and re-released under the title Pico: My Little Summer Story. The edited version is the only one of the series to be considered appropriate for viewers under 18.
Manga
A oneshot manga, Ame no Hi no Pico to Chico, was written by Aoi Madoka and published in the May 2007 issue of Hanaota.Visual novel
On April 6, 2008, producer GOLDENBOY confirmed on their blog that a PC game, Pico to Chico — Shota Idol no Oshigoto, starring Pico and Chico, was being produced. The game, an eroge featuring many erotic depictions of the two characters, was released by Tinkorbell on October 15, 2010. The game was available for download for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, alongside a physical DVD version. While the official Tinkorbell website is now only accessible through archives, the game can still be purchased via several other active Japanese websites.Music video album
A music video album, Boku no Pico PV Song Collection: Boku, Otoko no Ko dayo, was released in Japan on July 9, 2009, as a DVD set. It has a 30-minute runtime and includes more than 8 music videos starring the characters from the OVAs. It also includes a karaoke option for each video.Reception
Boku no Pico was an unusual hit for an adult OVA, with the first work in the series selling over 10,000 copies, placing it at the top of Amazon's adult category in the second week of September 2006. Boku no Picos OVA producer, Seiji Kaneko, was given the Soft on Demand Special Award in the 2006 5th Annual SOD AV Awards following its release. Unauthorized English subtitled versions of Boku no Picos first OVA episode appeared on the web shortly after its release, which were quickly downloaded over 100,000 times. The foreign interest in Boku no Pico led to plans to officially release it overseas, but those plans never materialized.Controversies
The animation of Boku no Pico is considered controversial because it contains elements of pornography, homosexuality, and pedophilia.In 2024, a mass murder case occurred against a family in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, carried out by a 16-year-old teenager. All family members were slaughtered by the perpetrator using a machete. After killing them, the perpetrator then raped the corpse of the victim's daughter. According to the police force who managed to arrest the perpetrator, the motive for the murder was due to the victim's family's rejection of his love for their daughter. According to local media investigations, the killer was a Japanophile who had a hobby of reading and watching hentai, including Boku no Pico, which perhaps influenced his psychology.