Not all Shojo is about pretty sparkles and copious amounts of pink, the Japanese make a genre known as Yaoi or Boy Love which is aimed at women who want to read smut without making it look like that they want sex and for my first ever Yaoi review we look at Fake.

Fake is about two gay detectives named Dee and Ryo who solve mysteries using the buddy cop formula but that's the manga, the story the anime chose is Dee and Ryo taking a vacation in England only to discover that a string of murders is taking place, during this trip Dee is trying to bed Ryo in as many hilarious ways as possible since they insist on throwing in jokes about the situation with increasing amounts of confused looks from the audience and a few angry fangirls demanding more smut. Anyway the victims are all Japanese and it takes a few uninvited guests turning up until they figure out who the murderer is and stop him from killing Ryo.
Next to Gravitation which I find annoying, this was my first experience with Yaoi and I'm not that impressed, not because of the subject matter but because it's really poorly made, I can't get invested in the romance since Ryo is such a wuss, the original Japanese actually makes the plot unworkable and you need to watch the dub for it to make sense and even then it's poorly dubbed, they throw in supernatural elements with no reason to even use it in the first place, and the annoying tag-a-long characters are so irritating, in fact the only thing I can take away from this anime which I found insanely awesome is Dee's Dynamic Entry on the Motorcycle to save Ryo.
Don't get me wrong, Fake isn't a bad series, but the story they chose for the Anime is terrible and to be honest, I demand more smut especially when the art style welcomes it.
Final Verdict: Wasted a perfectly good series by picking one of their worst stories to animate, I'd just buy the manga and only watch the Anime for something to take the piss out of on an Anime night with friends.