given (Season 1)

"Given" (ギヴン, 2019) is a Japanese music drama anime to watch online on iFILM. Ritsuka Uenoyama has played guitar for years without feeling much about it anymore. Then he hears Mafuyu Sato sing — untrained, raw, and impossible to ignore — and his indifference doesn't survive the encounter.

The two form a band alongside drummer Haruki and violinist Akihiko, and the series tracks both what they build musically and what forms between them. Voiced by Shogo Yano and Yuma Uchida, with an understated production that lets silence carry the emotional weight. One of the more carefully made boys' love anime titles of 2019 — it earns what it's going for without leaning on sentimentality. Stream "Given" online on iFILM.