Super Lovers 2

[SPOILERS - sorry]
I didn't write a review of the first season, because that was fairly fine. I had my problems with it (every cringe worthy moment with child Ren geez), but it didn't go deep enough into the story to actually get mad over it. Well, that changed with this season.

The story tries to concentrate on the problem between Haru and Ren, why they aren't going forward even though living together, mostly sleeping in the same bed, etc. And with that, the poor writing just comes to the surface, because the storyteller obviously has no idea what is the problem, so they are just hitting ... around the bush over and over again.

When the problem is so CLEAR. It is Haru. This fucked up, dumb, self centered douchebag. You can argue with me, that his trauma made him this way, but I do not care. Nobody is making him realize that he is acting out, nobody is stopping him from lashing out on Ren. And with the 8th ep, fucking Aki even told Ren that go easy on him, because it's a hard time for him. FUCK THAT. I live for every moment when Ren tries to call Haru out on his bullshit, but the writers are so bad at what they are doing that it just gets pushed back to the corner everytime and never really discussed.

What Haru is doing is disgusting. I am not okay with the idea that a 24yo going at it with a minor, but well, that could be handled well. It is not in this story. Haru keeps bouncing between looking at Haru as his baby brother, and a potential body that he can use for sexual attempts whenever he feels like it. And that is one of the key points with him, only when HE feels like it. He keeps pushing Ren to the limit, the poor kid wants him so bad, but Haru just backtracks everytime. And then calls Ren practically a slut when he goes and tries to get experience elsewhere, because he heard 100times that he is an inexperienced baby. Haru is an utterly self centered man, who can't be considerate while pretends that he cares for everybody. And yet, the story favors him over Ren who is actually doing his freaking best here.

I always thought that in yaoi the uke is the absolutely annoying one, but this story proved me wrong, there is nothing worse than a seme who can't make up his fucking mind. And you know, after all this - especially the 8th ep because he even went as far as telling Ren, a kid who was abandoned, that he doesn't need to come home if he sleeps with Natsuo, that's just so low that I needed to wait two days to go back and continue the ep - he doesn't deserve Ren. This story should end up with Ren walking away. And it won't, and that makes it horrendous.

And I don't know, I might want too much from anime, but if you make stories about two men in love, can't you just avoid shit like shaming trans people? I know that it's normal in Japan, I watch enough tv shows to see how they treat real life trans women, but I hate that even stories like this just use them as a joke. Even though one of them is a really important character in Haru's life.

So there are many parts in this story that just makes you cringe if you aren't used to yaoi, or just you know, actually have some respect for the LGBT community. Yes, I know, I shouldn't watch shit like this if I want that... but come at me with something else that has representation? I'm gonna sprint to watch it...

To mention some positive things about the characters... I really like Aki and Shima, and the school nurse guy is funny. Story-wise they are doing a pretty poor job, though. Nobody is telling shit to Haru, and the nurse just avoids helping Ren with his sexual questions, which is a pretty shitty thing to do when you are supposed to be an aid for kids. But they are the good kind of comical relief, so I like their comments. Especially the twins tsukkomi moments at their stupid brother. I just really wish they actually had a part in the story.

The art is nice, the sound- well, I have no idea, so it can't be too good, I don't remember any bgm.

I'll wait for the end of the season to actually give it a rate, but it won't be better than 5. This is not how you should picture gay people. Or I don't know, is Ren demisexual??? Is Haru bisexual? Ah, I really wan't too much from anime x"DD

So that's that. It does not deserve the almost 8 points. Only watch this if you are a hardcore fan of yaoi, otherwise gonna get mad A LOT.

(istg I'm not watching yaoi anymore.)

I was really looking forward to seeing this anime. I absolutely loved Season 1 so I had high expectations for this one.

I ended up being disappointed.

It went quite downhill from the first season. Character development is non-existent and it's just the same events recurring in different scenarios. While I do understand that the anime is revolved around Haru, being the eldest brother, and Ren, being the youngest brother, having some sort of relationship between them, it was still very confusing. I couldn't tell throughout the whole anime if they're in a relationship, brotherly love or just desperate for lust. I'm going with the third ... one though.

Every time there's sexual tension between Haru and Ren, something interrupts them and it was getting quite boring. I get it, it's Shounen Ai not Yaoi but the scenes were quite silly.

They were traits of manipulation coming from Haru and while Ren was trying to be rebellious, he still fell for Haru. This is what I meant when I said character development is non-existent and the same events. It's just; Ren wants to do it with Haru, Haru doesn't YET he leads him on, Ren rebels, Haru punishes and the cycle repeats itself.

I hope they will work more on Season 3 [if there will be one]. I'm not giving up on his anime.

To be honest, it's not good. The music is limited and heavy handed. And it was way too long. Most of it was worthless events that have no real impact. On top of that, the actors sound out of it, tired. I still enjoyed it (just because I think it's cute,) but it's still not very good.
It's what you expect from BL, tbh. Just barely good enough to skim by...
Also, in a certain episode, one of the characters does something pretty wrong to Ren. Something that certainly should have pissed Haru off, but he didn't even recognise his involvement.
There was also a mostly ... worthless beach episode.
Spoiler- they don't fuck. And they only have one explictly sexual theme, so.