History Manga / FAKE

* {{Seme}}: Dee's a seme of the [[UsefulNotes/BoysLoveNotes "wanko" or "devoted puppy" type]].

''FAKE'' is a pair of BoysLove manga and a one-shot anime by Sanami Matoh that take the HoYay inherent in many buddy cop films and follow it to its natural conclusion.

Notable as a yaoi/shounen-ai series with more than romance in the plotline: Dee and Ryo's role as cops is as crucial to the plot as their relationship.

* HasTwoMommies: Bikky has Two Daddies.
--> '''Diana''': Are you all right, Bikky?
--> '''Bikky''': Huh? How the hell did you know my name?
--> '''Diana''': Your mama told me.
--> '''Bikky''': My mama?! Ohhh, you mean Ryo!

** To be fair, his name is supposed to be short for Victor. Apparently the translators didn't realize.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ryo. Also J.J.
* BerserkButton: Don't threaten Ryo. Dee doesn't react well. (Making a move on him isn't advisable, either.)

* BuddyCopShow

* ChristmasEpisode

* {{Gayngst}}: Ryo struggles to deny the fact that he's in love with Dee for ''six freaking volumes!'' It makes things even more frustrating because ''[[EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone]]'' including the entire FourthWall [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Can See It]]. The fact that Dee patiently waits for him to sort things out for ''two years'' even surprises Ryo.

** Although we do get instances of the following:

* ImplausibleDeniability: Ryo has a tendency to get extremely [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] whenever someone puts the moves on Dee. Even when it's [[AbhorrentAdmirer JJ]]. He then proceeds to deny it vehemently.
** Also, Lai and Lass maintain that they have absolutely no supernatural abilities of any sort... even after ''flying'' in front of numerous witnesses. On multiple occasions.

* {{Keet}}: JJ.

* LadyOfWar: Diana.

** TragicKeepsake

* OddCouple: Dee and Ryo.

* OppositesAttract: Dee and Ryo again.
* PapaWolf: Both Ryo and Dee towards Carol and Bikky.

* ParentalAbandonment: Both Ryo and Dee have issues regarding this.

* PrecociousCrush: Bikky, with both Carol and Diana. Aww.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Ryo and Dee, respectively.

* StoicSpectacles: Berkeley Rose.

* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Ryo and Dee, respectively.
* TagalongKid: Bikky, and sometimes Carol.
* TeamMom: Ryo.

* UptightLovesWild: Ryo towards Dee.
* VerySpecialEpisode: At one point the father of a (Black) serial killing victim accuses the police of racism, prompting a subplot about prejudice.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Dee and Bikky are Type 2. Although they're usually at each others' throats, when the chips are down it's clear how much they care for each other.

* WhiteGangBangers: Have shown up a couple times.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Ryo and Dee, though it's mostly a case of "Will he or won't he?" with Ryo, since Dee makes his motives clear quite early on. [[spoiler:TheyDo: In volume 7.]]
* WireDilemma: [[spoiler:Dee chooses correctly.]]

* YaoiFangirl: Carol is one in the making. She's glad Bikky is straight, though.
** She shows a little disappointment at it, but is happy that it means he'll be her boyfriend.
* YaoiGenre

** TheChick: [[spoiler:JJ is the most emotional character in the series.]]

* AnAxeToGrind: Rob Field, a severely mentally disturbed young man kept in a locked room by a human trafficking ring, hacks all of his female victims to death with an axe.

Almost immediately, Dee expresses an attraction to Ryo, which Ryo isn't sure how to respond to. After their first case, Dee steals a kiss from his surprised partner--and for the rest of the series, spends most of his time in romantic pursuit of his not-always-reluctant target. Ryo's adopted son, the delinquent Bikky, and Bikky's (girl)friend Carol alternately help and hinder their relationship, while other members of the cast, including J.J. Adams, a marksman with a crush on Dee since their police academy days, and Berkeley Rose, an inspector with his eye on Ryo, try to keep them apart.

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Dee's foster father, Jess, and J.J.'s former partner, Max.]]

* ClingyJealousGirl: Clingy Jealous ''boy'' in this case--Jemmy Jay Adams aka J.J., who, gender notwithstanding, fits this trope better than he does [[CrazyJealousGuy its brother trope]], as otherwise he's... well, not exactly crazy, his Dee clinging notwithstanding.

** TheChick: [[spoiler:J.J. is the most emotional character in the series.]]

''FAKE'' is a pair of manga and a one-shot anime by Sanami Matoh that take the HoYay inherent in many buddy cop films and follow it to its natural conclusion.

Almost immediately, Dee expresses an attraction to Ryo, which Ryo isn't sure how to respond to. After their first case, Dee steals a kiss from his surprised partner - and for the rest of the series, spends most of his time in romantic pursuit of his not-always-reluctant target. Ryo's adopted son, the delinquent Bikky, and Bikky's (girl)friend Carol alternately help and hinder their relationship, while other members of the cast, including J.J. Adams, a marksman with a crush on Dee since their Police Academy days, and Berkeley Rose, an inspector with his eye on Ryo, try to keep them apart.

Dee and Ryo initially form the typical chalk-and-cheese-double act, with the usually steady and sensible Ryo trying to keep the more impulsive and careless Dee under control (and handling the paperwork resulting from those cases where he doesn't quite manage to do so). However, as the series continues, it becomes clear that things aren't quite as clear cut as they seem; Ryo has some issues that can trigger a surprisingly violent and irrational temper, while Dee looks out for the kids at the local orphanage. Both have pasts that mysteriously tie in with the city's extremely active, but equally elusive, Mafia family.

Notable as a yaoi/shounen-ai series where there is more than romance in the plotline: Dee and Ryo's role as cops is as crucial to the plot as their relationship is.

Takes place a about a year after the events of FAKE. Things have changed for the guys. [[spoiler:Ryo and Dee are now a steady couple and Ryo has officially adopted Bikky.]] Soon things change even more as Dee and Ryo along with (Formerly ThoseTwoGuys) Drake and Ted are offered a chance to join a new task force in conjunction with the FBI. [[spoiler:They accept and soon form a FiveManBand, when JJ requests to join.]]

The series was adapted into a one episode OVA anime.

* AboveTheInfluence: Dee makes it very clear that he'd love to have his way with Ryo, ''almost'' to the point of BlackComedyRape, but the one time that Ryo offers himself up in a moment of emotional weakness, Dee [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan hits him]] and tells him that only the worst kind of dickhead would take advantage of him under those circumstances.

* ArtEvolution: The art style and facial features of many characters changed a good deal from ''FAKE'' to ''FAKE Second Season'' as Matoh made people's faces more distinctive from one another. Ryo in particular is a prime example looking far more boyish than he previously did.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ryo. Also JJ.

* TheBigRottenApple: The 27th Precinct is set in the projects and so we the darker, more violent side of NYC

* BusmansHoliday: During their vacation to England. They did try to subvert this trope but ended up caught up in the murder investigation.
* ButNotTooForeign: Ryo, who is half Japanese and half caucasian, raised in America.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Clingy Jealous ''boy'' in this case - Jemmy Jay Adams aka JJ, who gender notwithstanding fits this trope better than he does [[CrazyJealousGuy its brother trope]] as otherwise he's... well, not exactly crazy, his Dee clinging notwithstanding.
* CloudCuckooLander: Ryo can... er... be not quite connected to reality all the time. The first time Carol pick-pockets him ''within the precinct'' was because he looked so out of it that [[TooDumbToLive she just couldn't resist.]]

* CombatStilettos: Diana manages to do a whole lot of ass whooping while wearing high heels.

* CrazyJealousGuy: Dee can move completely into this trope at warp-speed if he feels motivated enough. Ryo can also suffer from GreenEyedMonster syndrome on occasion, and when he does...

* DamselOutOfDistress: Carol gets kidnapped by the perp of the week but [[DefiantCaptive refuses to let him scare her into staying docile]] and tries to escape many times, ultimately jumping out of a fourth floor window and into Ryo's arms.
** Diana gets a turn when she gets captured by the very same human trafficking ring she's been investigating and [[AloneWithThePsycho left locked inside a room with Rob Field]] while the cartel packs up and leaves. She manages to hold her own (despite a few axe wounds) until Berkeley and TheCavalry arrives.
* DefiantCaptive: As stated above, Carol when she gets kidnapped. Also Donna, [[SacrificialLion but it doesn't end well for her.]]
* DidYouJustHaveSex: Diana doesn't even have to ask, she somehow guesses this happened between Ryo and Dee.

** TheHero: Ryo, he's pretty much the leader of the group. No matter what Dee thinks.
** TheLancer: Dee, as stated above is the CowboyCop and {{Foil}} to Ryo.
** TheSmartGuy: [[spoiler:Ted, he's always the one that we see on the computer bringing things up.]]
** TheBigGuy: [[spoiler:Drake, despite not being that much bigger than the others. He's perhaps the most stable character besides Ted. Not exactly dumb, though he can be unobservant and dense.]]
** TheChick: [[spoiler: J.J. the most emotional character in the series.]]

** In ''FAKE II'', [[spoiler: even after he starts dating Dee, he still worries what people like Bikky will think.]]

* GratuitousEnglish: All over the comic, especially "Go Go Bikky!" {{Yonkoma}}. Of particular note would be Carol turning down a guy with "fuck you, motherfucker!"

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Ryo initially tried fending Dee off by protesting that he's straight, although privately he thinks that he may have to start admitting some things about himself. He drops the tactic pretty quickly, though it takes him six volumes to actually get around to identifying himself as gay.

* HumanPet: The man who kidnaps Carol has a history of abducting young girls and keeping them, in his own words, as "pets", and murdering them if they "misbehave" (ie: try to escape).

* KarmaHoudini: Zigzags. [[spoiler: Leo was this for most of the series as he was responsible for multiple murders across different story arcs, including ''Ryo's parents'', and got away with every one until Alicia kills him. And Alicia for her part murdered multiple gangsters and single-handedly took down two gangs, while framing her husband for it. She even kills her husband in full-view of a police officer and gets away with it because Leo begs Ryo not to tell on her. But she ends up all alone because her husband is dead and her father is about to die--and she is ''utterly miserable''.]]

* LeftForDead: Diana, by the human trafficking ring when they capture her and lock her inside a room with Rob Field. They get away but thankfully Diana survives and Berkeley busts her out.
* LoveDodecahedron: Don't ask, just keep a scorecard handy.

* MomentKiller: It's a rare intimate moment between Dee and Ryo that isn't interrupted just as progress appears to be happening. Bikky and JJ do it on purpose, but they're far from the only offenders. Special mention goes to the scene in Act 17 in which they are ''moments'' from a RelationshipUpgrade when the phone rings - and then JJ bursts in - and then ''Bikky'' bursts in, all within less than a minute of one another.
* {{Mukokuseki}}: People seem to instantly recognize Ryo is part Japanese by his eyes. His eyes don't look any different from the other characters; in fact, he looks more Caucasian than some of the other characters thanks to his lighter hair.
* MurderByMistake:[[spoiler: What happened to Ryo's parents at the hands of Leo Grant and his cohorts.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Smith [[spoiler:shot and killed a suspect in front of the latter's wife and son. He was defending the kid, but still regrets having needed to do it.]]
** [[BigBad Leo]] has this too [[spoiler: after he's fatally wounded by Alicia, Leo confesses to Ryo that he has two regrets. The first was that he murdered Ryo's parents, and seeing a teenaged Ryo emotionally destroyed at the hospital drove the point home to Leo that he was a monster. His second regret was not getting out of the business and making Alicia happy.]]

* PairTheSpares: In the epilogue, having reached the realization that Dee is never going to choose him over Ryo, JJ very unexpectedly hooks up with [[spoiler: Drake]], despite their relationship not having been romantic previously and (perhaps because) [[spoiler: Drake]] conveniently having just been dumped by yet another girlfriend.

* PostKissCatatonia: Drake in the epilogue [[spoiler:after JJ plants one on him.]] Prior to that, in an example that's not played for comedy, Ryo's left sitting on the floor in shock after the second time Dee kisses him, until an emergency snaps him out of it.

* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Ryo and Dee respectively.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The Bikky/Carol sidestories feature timeskips to various points in the future, up to approximately five years ahead of the main storyline.
* {{Uke}}: Ryo: he's shorter and more sensitive than Dee, and less experienced in relationships, but he's also more reserved and not really any less masculine.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The UST between Dee and Ryo is a central point of the series first series.

* VerySpecialEpisode: At one point the father of a (black) serial killing victim accuses the police of racism, prompting a subplot about prejudice.
** Dee's backstory also goes into drugs and prostitution, with a young friend of his being hooked deliberately onto a drug so that the dealers could use him to run errands and to supply them with sexual favours.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Dee and Bikky are Type 2. Although they're usually at each other's throat, when the chips are down it's clear how much they care for each other.

* WellIntentionedReplacement: Bikky saved up money to buy some expensive jewelery for Carol and even bought it, but on the way out met a kid crying because he'd just been mugged and couldn't buy something for his mother. So of course Bikky goes back into the shop, returns the gift, and gives the kid the money. Carol winds up with sunflowers Bikky cut from his foster dad's windowsill (and since she was following Bikky and saw the whole thing, she's just as happy with that).
* WheresTheKaboom: Played with during a hostage crisis, Dee bluffs the bad guys by telling them a retractable ballpoint pen is the detonator for a bomb hidden in the character's base. When he clicks the pen, his bluff seems to have been called - but then the bomb, which Ryo had previously set for 10 p.m., goes off as scheduled.
* WhiteGangBangers: Have shown up a couple times.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Ryo and Dee, though it's mostly a case of "will he or won't he?" with Ryo, since Dee makes his motives clear quite early on. [[spoiler:TheyDo: In volume 7.]]

* HumanPet: The man who kidnaps Carol has a history of abducting young girls and keeping them, in his own words, as "pets", and murdering them if they "misbehave" (ie: try to escape). His attempted assault of Carol all but states he also sexually abuses his victims.

** Diana gets a turn when she gets captured by the very human trafficking ring she's been investigating and [[AloneWithThePsycho locked inside a room with Rob Field.]] She manages to hold her own (despite a few axe wounds) until Berkeley and TheCavalry arrives.

* AnAxeToGrind: Rob Field, a severely mentally disturbed young man kept in a locked room by a human trafficking ring, hacks all of his female victims to death this way.

* DamselOutOfDistress: Carol gets kidnapped by a serial murderer but [[DefiantCaptive refuses to let him scare her into staying docile]] and tries to escape many times, ultimately jumping out of a fourth floor window and into Ryo's arms.
** Diana gets a turn when she gets captured by the very human trafficking ring she's been investigating and [[AloneWithThePsycho locked inside a room with Rob Field.]] She manages to hold her ground (despite a few axe wounds) until Berkeley and TheCavalry arrives.
* DefiantCaptive: As stated above, Carol when she gets kidnapped. Also Donna, [[SacrificialLamb but it doesn't end well for her.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Dee and Berkeley, not that either of them ever admits it.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: We get an instance of this when Dee throws Bikky to safety from a bomb and Bikky tells him something along the lines of "If you die I'll kill you!"

** [[PsychoForHire Rob Field]]'s trigger is red lipstick and red nail polish on women, the explanation being his deceased mother. This button is exploited by a human trafficking ring as a way of disposing of their more defiant prisoners.

* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: Bikky towards Ryo.

** Diana gets a turn when she gets captured by a human trafficking ring and [[AloneWithThePsycho locked inside a room with Rob Field.]] She manages to hold her ground (despite a few axe wounds) until Berkeley and TheCavalry arrives.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Carol has this realization when she sees Bikky in high school

* CombatStilletos: Diana manages to do a whole lot of ass whooping while wearing high heels.

* InSeriesNickame: Ryo gets the old Sandra Dee thrown around quite a lot.