Super Lovers

Upon hearing news that his mother was on verge of death, Haru Kaidou—the eldest son of the family—flies all the way to Canada. The moment he arrives, he learns that not only did his mother fool him, but he is also supposed to take care of his adoptive brother, Ren Kaidou, an antisocial kid who feels more comfortable around dogs than people.

Due to his new brother's distrustful nature, Haru initially has a hard time reaching out to Ren but their relationship eventually grows. He makes a promise to Ren: they will live together in Japan after Haru graduates from high school. However, due to an unfortunate accident, Haru loses all memories of the summer they spent together, including the promise he made. Five years later, expecting Haru to keep his promise, Ren arrives in Tokyo; but to Haru, Ren is just a random boy claiming to be his brother.

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Kaidou, Ren

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Minagawa, Junko
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Kaidou, Haru

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Maeno, Tomoaki
Japanese

Kaidou, Aki

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Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu
Japanese

Kaidou, Shima

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Terashima, Takuma
Japanese

Dieckmann, Haruko Daniela

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Tanaka, Atsuko
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Sasaki, Ikuyoshi

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Murase, Ayumu
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Takamori, Seiji

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Saiga, Mitsuki
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Kurosaki, Juuzen

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Fukushima, Jun
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Kashiwagi, Mikiko

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Soumi, Youko
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Takamura, Shirou

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Okiayu, Ryoutarou
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Kananiwa, Kozue

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Ogura, Rie

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Urasaki, Nobumitsu

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Nakata, Yoshifumi

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"Okaeri. (おかえり。)" by Yuusuke Yata

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	1: "Happiness YOU & ME (ハピネスYOU＆ME)" by Ren Kaidou (Junko Minagawa), Haru Kaidou (Tomoaki Maeno) (eps 1,9)
	2: "Happiness YOU & ME (ハピネスYOU＆ME)" by Aki Kaidou (Yoshitsugu Matsuoka), Shima Kaidou (Takuma Terashima) (eps 2,8)
	3: "Happiness YOU & ME (ハピネスYOU＆ME)" by Kaidou Brothers [Ren Kaidou (Junko Minagawa), Haru Kaidou (Tomoaki Maeno), Aki Kaidou (Yoshitsugu Matsuoka), Shima Kaidou (Takuma Terashima)] (eps 3,10)
	4: "Happiness YOU & ME (ハピネスYOU＆ME)" by Ren Kaidou (Junko Minagawa), Aki Kaidou (Yoshitsugu Matsuoka) (eps 4)
	5: "Happiness YOU & ME (ハピネスYOU＆ME)" by Haru Kaidou (Tomoaki Maeno), Shima Kaidou (Takuma Terashima) (eps 5)
	6: "Happiness YOU & ME (ハピネスYOU＆ME)" by Haru Kaidou (Tomoaki Maeno), Aki Kaidou (Yoshitsugu Matsuoka) (eps 6)
	7: "Happiness YOU & ME (ハピネスYOU＆ME)" by Ren Kaidou (Junko Minagawa), Shima Kaidou (Takuma Terashima) (eps 7)

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Jun 8, 2016

ipaintedafish

Recommended

This is your classic shounen-ai/yaoi anime and I love it. If you're not a fan of the genre or are new to it, this may not be the one you should start with. It's not lightly sprinkled with the yaoi but the core content of the anime is.
This review is biassed as I'm a huge fan of this genre.

First up, for the yaoi fans, don't fret, the anime definitely has adorable scenes you won't regret waiting for. The get slightly more at the end than what you would have noticed at the beginning. Watching the mangas scenes animated on screen was adorable af. ...

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Jun 9, 2016

Lilviscious

Mixed Feelings

Super Lovers is a slow paced romance story that steers into the incest genre if one wants to interpet it that way. The main character Haru and Ren are not blood related, but are expected to treat each other like brothers and might not completely understand the definition which makes for flirty scenes.

Other than romance the story focusses on Ren's past life and gradually explains to you, the viewer, what caused him to be the way he is. His distachment and misunderstanding of the world is not overly done and explained throughout the story. Yet there are several cliché parts in the series, such as ... Ren not understanding the reactions of his own body, the friends and family members of the two brothers hardly think badly of them for behaving overly flirty with other other even though they are supposedly related, not to mention males and of very different ages, that may be true elements in a teenager's life, but not in a gay community. It is great that everyone (albeit not openly supportive, but) is accepting of them, but most turn a blind eye to Haru's obvious attempt to get touchy-feely with a boy that should not match his age. The side characters however are enjoyable and more realistic about the entire set-up which is pleasant to see.

In my opinion this series only got interesting at episode 07 where conflict between Haru and Ren about their current relationship and what they actually should be is brought to a climax with truthful, but hurtful words. After that there is far more development for both characters. Especially Ren comprehends that at his age his hormones are active and bring changes to his body and his reactions to Haru's endearments that have not changed from the very beginning but suddenly spark something desirable in Ren.

For those among us who wish to experience a bit more intimacy, I recommend watching episode 09 over and over. It is subtle and there are no explicit images shown, but the dialogue and setting of the scene makes for the very first sexual experience between Haru and Ren. How exciting this may be, it is only one episode away from the end, which was rather dissatisying, because only just recently did the two of them get to explore the levels of their relationship and suddenly it is announced by Haruko that the two of them will be separated. This is, of course, against their will, and promises more interesting conflict in the near future, but for me personally it felt like going back to episode 01 and not having acchieved anything by watching the 10 episodes in total. I sincerely hope season 02 proves me wrong.

All in all I give this series a 6/10. The story was intriguing enough to keep my attention and make me come back for more. However, I prefer the theme of homosexuality, incest and the fact that there's quite the age difference to be more realistic when it comes to being in a relationship with such elements and how the environment with family and friends respond. This was a romantic and dramatic season with lovely scenes of endearment between two people who obvioulsy care a lot about each other. So far it was an imagine of what we hope for them to happen, not so much what would actually happen.

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Jul 1, 2016

orchidparade

Not Recommended

This anime...was very unsettling. This is my first review so be kind. Now let me try and break it down without giving out too much in the way of spoilers.

1. The Story

So our uke/sub/bottom, Ren, grew up in Canada and was more or less raised by wolves (???) but unfortunately that's probably the least ridiculous thing about this anime. The seme/dom/top, Haru, meets him there where he becomes his caretaker and tries to teach him how to live like a civilized human in modern society (Oh the irony, but more on that later). A seven-year timeskip and unnecessarily dramatic plot device later, Ren ends up ...

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