Juunjou Romantica is a romatic comedy / drama centering around the relationships of three different couples and the struggles they face.
Misaki is studying for his college entrance exam and turns to his brothers best friend, Akihiko Usami, for some extra tutering. When his brother then gets married and transfers to another city for work Misaki somehow ends up living with Usami and that's when the interesting part of the story begins...
First of all, let me make this one thing clear, this is shounen-ai (bordering yaoi) so if that's not your cup of tea you'd be better off not watching this show.
The first series I found to be a bit disorganized, skipping fast between one story and the next, which made it hard to follow at first. Once you got used to the rather fast pace the series was OK, the characters are quite amusing and it does have it's bright moments but overall I felt like it was just moving too fast. And the start of some of the relationships... Well, let's just say I would have liked them to be a bit more... consensual.
Moving on to the second series then; this series (which follows directly after the first and continues to deal with the relationships between the characters and how the develop) is a tad better than the first one. The charachters are the same so not much to say about them and the same goes for the plot in general, but I like the way this one progresses more. It feels like the relationships have matured and the pace in which this one switches between the different stories is somewhat more managable (or maybe I've just gotten used to it by now?).
Overall this wasn't one of my favourites, I had fun watching it but neither the storyline nor the animation really caught my interest, if it wasn't for the second series I would have been left disappointed but since they did improve the two series together gets 3 out of 5 otakus.
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