No Money

Kind and trusting by nature, university student Yukiya Ayase has that trust repaid by his cousin selling him at a human auction to cover his own debts. The buyer is Somuku Kanou, a blunt and temperamental loan shark who pays 1.2 billion yen without blinking — and who, it turns out, knows Ayase from a past encounter Ayase can't even remember. To settle the debt, Kanou lays out a cold arrangement: 500,000 yen per encounter. What follows is a 4-episode OVA that sits somewhere between uncomfortable and genuinely emotional, leaning hard into power imbalance and the slow, messy question of whether real feelings can grow in a situation this lopsided. The drama is the point here — betrayal by family, being bought by a stranger, and trying to figure out who you can actually trust when your circumstances are this bleak. It doesn't flinch from any of that. If you've watched Junjou Romantica and wanted something with sharper edges and less comedy cushioning the tension, this scratches that itch. Fans of Tight-rope or similar Boys Love titles with darker undertones will also feel at home. It's a short watch, adapted from the manga by studio Lyrics, and it commits fully to its tone without softening the more difficult dynamics at its core. Go in knowing what it is — an emotionally tense BL drama with mature content — and it delivers exactly that.