Okane ga Nai

Yukiya Ayase is a gentle, kind hearted, and innocent university student. The only relative he has left, his cousin Tetsuo, betrays Ayase by selling him to the highest bidder in an auction with hopes of making an enormous profit to be able to pay off his debts. Somuku Kanou, a bad-tempered (though very rich) loan shark, comes to Ayase's rescue and buys Ayase for an impressive 1.2 billion. Kanou apparently knows Ayase from something that happened between them in the past, but Ayase cannot remember who Kanou is nor does he understand why he "saved" him. In a desperate effort to keep Ayase close to him, Kanou demands the debt be repaid in full and suggests the perfect way to do it: by selling his body to Kanou for 500,000 each time. Ayase is horrified in the beginning, but something soon begins to grow between them that can't be bought for any price.

(Source: ANN)

Ayase, Yukiya Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Kanou, Somuku Main

Kosugi, Juurouta Japanese

Kuba, Homare Main

Tsujitani, Kouji Japanese

Someya, Kaoruko Supporting

Tobita, Nobuo Japanese

Kuba, Misao Supporting

Hatano, Wataru Japanese

Gion, Toranosuke Supporting

Okiayu, Ryoutarou Japanese

Hayashida, Naotoshi Supporting

Ogata, Kenichi Japanese

Ishii, Tetsuo Supporting

Kakihara, Tetsuya Japanese

Sokuza, Makoto Director

Abe, Nobuyuki Sound Director

Hiramuki, Tomoko Episode Director

Kakihara, Tetsuya Theme Song Performance

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Dec 25, 2014

0w0

Recommended

Funny

I have to admit, Okane ga Nai scared the fuck out of me the first time I watched it in my middle school years.

I was always scared about what would happen to the uke since I put myself into his shoes. Every episode increased my chances of a heart attack until I finished the series with sweat and hot breath. Even the most gruesome torture horror packed anime can't touch upon what I experienced from this yaoi.

Story: I can't. I just can't relive these memories.

Art: It was real enough to immerse me inside its reality.

Sound: The uke's screams sounded exactly like the ... ones in my head

Character: That uke is tantamount to me being fucked

Enjoyment: I refuse to admit enjoyment.

Overall: After all these years, I'm almost graduating high school, my soul is forever scarred.

I can't decide whether to rate it 10 or 1. I can't rate it Pathetic (1) since it made such a 180* change to my soul and there's no way something pathetic can have such an immense effect on me, but I can call it Outstanding (10) in a definite Negative way.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jan 7, 2026

SnuskPrinsessan

Mixed Feelings

I first watched Okane ga Nai when I was about 16 and loved it, but watching it again at twice that age was a different experience to say the least.

But, oh, Ayase is so beautiful! I think he is the most beautiful, sweetest femboy in the whole of anime. What happens to him is terrible and honestly I found some scenes kind of hard to re-watch. And, yet, I couldn't look away...

The anime's morals are all over the place. The opening theme is about "romance" and seriously, this is not romantic! And there are self-aware references to the fact that what Kanou is doing ... is wrong but he never stops. And, yet, I never stopped watching...

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 10, 2025

LuxuriousHeart

Not Recommended

Back in the day, we (Fujoshi) were in the trenches. There were some good BL manga, but they adapted a lot of slop. Aside from obviously bad series like Boku no Pico, Okane ga Nai has to be one of the worst BL series ever. And I don't mean the most unpleasant, because it gets worse when you delve into manga. I mean in a way where this manga had every trope that people hated in BL series. SA, ultra girly uke, extreme size difference with the seme being 7 feet tall and the uke being 4 feet rall, this ... ultra girly and feminine twink deluding himself into thinking he's straight, "I 🍇 because I care", the uke having a 🍆 so small it's barely even there, the weird anatomy and art, etc.

It's inspiring how much this series fails. It's like the OG ragebait of yaoi. If this were made today, I'm sure there would be an m-preg omegaverse subplot.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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