You know you have hit a certain level of horny when real dudes are not enough anymore, and you need them hand-drawn, with perfect abs and glowing eyes. No judgment from me. I have been there too, usually around two in the morning with zero shame, and I am not afraid to say it. Today is one of those mornings, and I went looking for gay anime on Xvideos. After my browsing session, I came up with some good news, some weird news, and a few things that made me go what the fuck.
Xvideos is one of those names that pops into everyone's head the second porn comes up. It is the McDonald's of tube sites, and if it didn’t come up as your first choice, it definitely did as your second or third. You know what you are getting, and it is probably not the best choice out there, but it hits the spot, and that is what matters. So can this joint serve up a decent anime menu?
Two thousand gay anime dudes and a page counter that lies
Xvideos and I go way back, so the look did not surprise me one bit. It is still that dark, no-nonsense tube site where function wins over fashion every single time. The gay anime stuff lives on a simple tag page with some drop-down menus, and a row of page numbers. It might not look the best, but it gets you from the search bar to your pants in record time.
Every thumbnail tells you what you need at a glance. Resolution in the corner, the uploader's name, the view count, and the length. Some even have a little CC label, which means closed captions are available, and that is a nice touch for you plot nerds, if there are some of you out there reading my reviews.
The numbers are where it gets a bit weird, as the tag shows 2.667 free videos, plus another 446 hiding behind RED. Sounds great, right? The page counter even promises you 99 pages. Ninety-nine! I was already planning my week around it. But alas, I ended up being a dumbass because once you start digging, the pages get smaller and smaller. Later pages only show a few videos each. Sometimes one. Sometimes two, sometimes four, and a lot of those are not even animated. I clicked through a bunch of them thinking my internet was broken. Nope. The site just runs out of shit to show you and keeps pretending it has more.
So is the library big? Kind of. The first chunk of pages is packed and fun, but the deeper you go, the more it feels like showing up to a party after everyone already left and only the sad snacks are still on the table. I think that there are indeed 2.667 videos, but I am not sure why they are spread over so many pages. I mean, why do the pages fall apart like that? I have never seen this shit happen.
Maybe old videos got deleted, maybe the tag got messy over the years, or maybe the site just gave up. Whatever the reason, that big number on top might not seem fully trustworthy, but I am giving it the benefit of the doubt. In my opinion, enjoy the first pages, use the filters, and do not waste your time clicking all the way to page 99 unless you want to see just how big of a shitshow the tag becomes.
Everything you’d expect from gay anime along with some real dudes ruining the selection
Most of what you will see here is bara yaoi, which basically means huge muscle guys, hairy bears, and thick daddies going at it. Cops, soccer teams, Halloween specials, office drama, and a ton of fan-made parodies of popular shows and games. There are also 3D game-style animations and even full episodes that run up to an hour, which is great if you are the type who actually wants a story before the fucking starts.
One big uploader, Juice Anime, pretty much runs the place. Their logo sits in the corner of half the thumbnails. That is good and bad at the same time. Their stuff looks consistent, with clean art, smooth motion, and dramatic voice acting that sometimes comes with subtitles. After a while, though, the whole tag starts to feel like a Juice Anime fan club. Love their style? You are in heaven. Hate it? Get ready to scroll, and scroll…and scroll a bit more.
Now for the shitty part. There is bleed, and it shows up early. I know, shocker, right? Well, it wouldn’t be so pissed if it didn’t happen on the first fucking page. That’s right, I found live-action videos of real guys sitting next to the anime content, like someone brought a salad to a pizza party. It happens in RED too, which is even more annoying when you are the one paying for the damn thing. It is not a flood, but if you only want drawn and animated dudes, you will be scrolling past real studs more often than you would like.
Quality is surprisingly good for a free tube site. Most thumbnails show 720p or 1080p, a few go up to 1440p, and some come with closed captions. View counts are wild too, with the most popular videos sitting in the millions. Back in my day, this was kind of a niche category, so I am glad it kind of blew up over the years. The video length is all over the place, from quick two-minute teasers to full episodes, so the speedrunners and the slow burners both get something.
Filtering is solid and easy. You can sort by relevance, newest, rating, length, or views, then narrow it down to the last few days or up to the last six months. Duration splits into short, medium, and long, and you can hide anything below 720p or 1080p. The player is nicer than it looks, with quality and speed controls and a loop button for your favorite scene. Yes, you can replay that one moment forever, which is especially useful for shorter videos.
If you sort by rating and set the quality to 1080p, you will filter out most of the low-effort crap and be left with the sharp, good-looking stuff. The date filter is handy too, since the newer uploads tend to look a lot better than the old videos from back when everybody animated on a potato, but it is not as impactful as it would be with real porn videos.
The usual tube deal, with RED waving from the middle
Watching most of the stuff is free, and you do not need an account. You get the usual ad before videos, which you can skip after a few seconds, and some banners around the page. Nothing you haven’t seen on every other big tube site.
In my opinion, you should make a free account so you can get some nice extras like favorites, watch history, playlists, and following the uploaders you like. I keep stressing this through most of my reviews, but following is the big one here, because a few channels make most of the good anime. Instead of digging through the tag every damn time, you get a heads-up when your favorite artist drops something new.
RED really, really wants you to notice it. Right in the middle of the free results, there is a big red bar showing off premium anime videos, like a store putting candy next to the checkout so your kid starts screaming. RED costs $9.99 a month, and you can pay by card or even crypto. It kills the ads and unlocks those 446 extra videos.
Is it worth it for anime? Eh, I wouldn’t say so. The RED side does have more Juice Anime episodes, a few longer videos past twenty or thirty minutes, and a bunch of 3D game-style stuff. Nice bonus if you already pay for RED for the rest of the site, but paying just to unlock a few hundred anime videos, some of which are real dudes anyway, is like buying a whole cow because you wanted a glass of milk. Useful for sure, but a bit of an overkill, don’t you think?
Final thoughts on the Xvideos anime shelf
I will start with the crap, and the biggest crap about Xvideos’s gay anime is that the page counter promises way more than it delivers. The deeper pages are pretty much empty, and live-action videos keep sneaking into what should be an anime-only zone. RED has the same bleed problem, which makes it hard as hell to recommend for this niche. If you were hoping for a clean, endless cartoon buffet, this is not it.
Still, there is plenty to love. The first pages are packed with sharp, good-looking bara yaoi, the filters are easy, and the player has some neat tricks like that loop button. Everything you need is free, the ads are tolerable, and a lot of it hits 1080p or better. If you love thick, hand-drawn daddies and do not mind skipping a few real ones, Xvideos is well worth a few late nights.
