Boku no Pico

Boku no Pico (My Pico) is a Shotacon OVA series, produced by the pornographic company Natural High. The series is infamous for being the first official^[1] animated example of its genre, as well as its copious amounts of cross-dressing. It shares creators with various other works, such as Yoshiten, the character designer for Bible Black, and Katsuyoshi Yatabe, the episode/storyboard director for series such as Gundam Seed Destiny and Gakuen Alice.

In the first installment, we are introduced to Pico during the summer, who is working at his grandfather's bar. His grandfather asks regular Tamotsu (nicknamed "Mokkun" by Pico) to spend time with Pico because he has no friends in the area... and then Tamotsu introduces Pico to many more things.

In the next installments, Pico meets Chico in Pico to Chico ("Pico and Chico"), who becomes his lover, and then Coco in Pico x Coco x Chico, where more similar shotacon antics carry on.

This series is not in the Boys Love; it was produced for a male audience (of ambiguous sexual orientation) and so lacks the feel, structure and character types of Yaoi.

Tropes used in Boku no Pico include:

• Adaptation Expansion: One semi-official Doujinshi, and a few manga.
• A Date with Rosie Palms: Coco. And Chico's older sister to Pico and her brother while they're busy in the next room.
• A Day at the Bizarro: See Pico x Coco x Chico.
• Attractive Bent Gender: All of the boys.
• Bait and Switch Credits
• Bare Your Midriff: Pico in the first OVA.
• Biggus Dickus: A common trope for shotas drawn by men in this genre.
• Bi the Way: From the way Pico & Chico acted around both Coco (when they thought he was female) and Chico's sister..
• Brother-Sister Incest: None directly, but Chico would watch his sister masturbate, though innocently since he had little idea what was happening, and she watched him have sex with Pico and got off on that.
• Buxom Is Better: Chico's sister.
• Cast Full of Gay: Mostly. Keep in mind that both Pico, Chico, and Tamotsu have shown interest in the opposite sex.
• Cat Boy: Pico, in this picture. NSFW
• Caught with Your Pants Down: In Pico to Chico, the two watch Chico's older sister masturbate with a banana. In the third OVA, Pico catches Coco playing with himself.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Mokkun (at least in the anime), and to a lesser extent, Pico's grandfather and Chico's sister.
• Cosplay
• Crossover: There's a radio show at Japanese ero-website Galge.com hosted by Pico and Curo-kun (the protagonist of a series of S&M, crossdressing, shotacon mangas), despite the fact that they're from from different creators and that those characters never meet in their canonical media. There are also Yonkoma drawn by the latter's creator featuring the characters interacting with each other.
• Cute Shotaro Boy: Three so far.
• Dropped a Bridget On Him: Pico in the first OVA, Coco in the third OVA.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Coco, whom Pico mistakes for a girl at first.
• Ear Worm: "Tsuretette" is the biggest offender (although quite catchy if you're into Japanese pop). For the curious, the song in its original format can be heard here (HIGHLY NSFW). A safe-for-work version with a translation can be viewed here (video not related).
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Chico while playing dress up.
• Eroge: Stars Pico and Chico as idol singers, and the player assumes the role of their manager.
• Erotic Eating: Pico does this with ice cream in the first OVA.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Pico cuts his hair to make himself more boyish-looking towards the end of the first OVA.
• Expy / Captain Ersatz: Several have pointed out the similarities between Pico and Bridget, as well as Cuilan. Also, Pico's original designer, Saigado, made doujin ero-parodies of both characters before being hired by Natural High.
• Fan Service with a Smile: In the opening for Pico and Chico. Also, Pico is dressed more than cutely while working at his grandfather's bar.
• Free-Range Children: The boys, who seem around ten - thirteen, are allowed to basically roam where they want and do what they want. Whether it's innocent or not.
• Gender Blender Name: Coco.
• Ghost City: Tokyo in the third OVA.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Chico's older sister and Coco have silver/blue/violet hair that looks black/grey.
• Head Desk: Pico didn't like crossdressing the time he went to Mokkun's apartment, but after that and without any explanation, doesn't mind wearing dresses around Chico and Coco. And that's just one of many incoherent things in this anime.
• Hime Cut: Coco.
• Joshikousei and Meido: Both are seen in the same picture (the school scene only happening in the opening credits).
• Keet: The boys all have moments of this for extra Moe.
• Love Triangle: It's resolved in the end of Pico x Coco x Chico.
• Male Gaze: Inverted, since the main focus on this anime are boys rather than females. Starts being blatant in the second installment. This is actually a good example of "Male Gays".
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Was Coco a ghost, an alien, a fairy, or just a crazy transvestite who just happened to move everything from his home to the top of Tokyo Tower? Who cares, it's just porn.
• Meganekko: Chico's sister.
• Memetic Mutation: When asking for recommendations of anime on /a/ your first reply will be either (1) a chart detailing several anime you should watch before even considering making a recommendation thread, or (2) Boku no Pico... always. Also, when asking for source on another anime you will have someone say: Boku no (Insert other anime here). Example: Boku no Evangelion. This meme is, in fact, one of the the only reasons this series isn't just another obscure Hentai. Being the first crossdressing, shotacon hentai anime ever doesn't hurt its notability either.
  • Nightmare Mode combines all three major spurious recommendations of 4chan into Boku no Bibletoads.
• The Merch: Includes figures of Pico and Chico that can sit on your pen, pencil (or similar objects) in suggestive positions. Made by a company that predominantly makes the same figures with female characters. They also apparently made disembodied butt-crotch sex toys. There's a picture available on Encyclopedia Dramatica, utterly NSFW! ^[dead link] , if you are looking for an excuse to wash your eyeballs in sulfuric acid.
• Mind Screw: Pico x Coco x Chico (See trope page for details).
• Missed Moment of Awesome: With a busty adult woman in the middle of the series, you would expect to see at least some straight-shotacon action, no? Actually, you don't. The closest she gets to "interact" with the boys is by spying on them while engaging in her favorite pastime.
• Moe: As it can get sometimes...
• Money Shot: Every male character (except Pico's grandpa, so far) has been shown doing this, the most infamous being Pico's very first one in the first OVA.
• Name and Name: Pico to Chico and Pico x CoCo x Chico.
• Nubile Savage: In the opening for Pico x Coco x Chico.
• Out-of-Character Moment: By the end of Pico & Chico, the former, normally a shy and sensitive character, dominates the latter in a provocative and unkind manner.
• Parental Abandonment: None of the kids' parents are ever shown or even mentioned; Pico has a grandfather (although we don't know if he's his guardian), Chico lives with his older sister, and Coco well...
• Panty Shot: The most memorable one is when the three boys are walking down the street in cosplay, and Chico decides to walk on his hands briefly while in a dress.
• Punny Name: According to the creators, Pico's name is based on "pinko" (Japanese slang for erection); Chico is a take on both "chinko" (dick) and "chikou" (smegma); Tamotsu sounds similar to "ichimotsu" (penis); and although Chico's sister doesn't have an official name, some fans christened her as "Mako" (manko, or pussy).
• Shotacon: Tamotsu of course, but also Chico's sister.
• Shout-Out: The third episode features characters from Hula Kappa (a CHILDREN'S anime) in the background of the crane games. Apparently, the same director worked on both shows.
• Shotacon Boys: Pico and Chico.
• Stripperiffic
• Squick: For some, the entire series.
• Toy Ship: Pico and Chico. Coco and both of them.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Coco.
• The Woobie: Pico (especially towards the end of the first OVA).
• Troubling Unchildhood Behavior
• Yaoi: One of the more controversial examples, even if you're a Yaoi Fangirl. The series is definitely polarizing since even though there are a lot of female shotacons, Boku no Pico is directed at [possibly pederastic] men, and perhaps not made in their preferred style of shotacon.
• You Fail Sex Ed Forever: Never mind the fact that boys at that age aren't likely to engage in all those sexual positions (even when experimenting); it's impossible not only for a minor, but for a human, to produce THAT MUCH SEMEN in a single ejaculation. Not that it's uncommon in hentai...
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Chico's sister.

1. ↑ (the Enzai anime's classification as shotacon is debated)