This anime is nothing short of what can be called a gem in the anime industry. It defies everything that has to do with fan-service (fan-catering), moe, harems, and above all, meaningless idleness. It is a manifestation of beauty itself, in it's most humane form, annexed with great amounts of honesty with the audience. It manages to not only obtain all of the listed above, but also give impressive results with all of the additional aspects it has to offer.
Boku no Pico is what anyone would call the usual slice-of life, only presented in a rather peculiar form. It consists of three parts, and like in any story in need of a plot, it has a beginning, middle and an end, in the most concrete way possible. In other words, it consists of 3 parts, 3 stories, all which connect with the life a particular person, the main character. Throughout these rather short-length stories, you get to witness moments, which even live-action movies, not refering to anime, more often than not, fail to display. Moments of absolute truth, quiet emotional bursts that make you stare in aw, honest reflections of life, the life that nobody can compete against. This a story of love, the kind of love, that forms as unexpectedly as it deprives form your life piece by piece, the sort of love, that forms when your fragile heart is still under its first stages of development, and has yet to be compelled by the strict circumstances of fate. The story uses all of these features, and creates a formula of success which makes this anime a one of a kind piece of art, climbing up to first place as one of the most successful slice-of-life/romance movies made up-to-date.

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