He's so touchy with Ren - any scene involving the two, especially later on, is bile-inducing.
He acts like a silly, loving, affectionate older brother but I swear it just comes off as CREEPY. Apparently he's incredibly good-looking, which seems to be why everyone forgives him for the stuff he does, I mean I can't find any other reason why this criminal is roaming the streets. You feel like reaching into the screen and slapping him 9 out of 10 times. On that note.don't get me started on Haru. The two see nothing wrong with their brother sexually imposing himself on a minor, as do most of the others - something is very wrong with everyone in this Lala land of Haru's fantasies. Shima is your token megane while after one episode of what looked like interesting family dynamics and a strong characterization for Aki, he was reduced to another Ren fanboy for absolutely no real reason. No, they aren't actually, it makes no difference whether they exist or not, because they have no real opinions about anything. The only girls who're treated with some grace are those who don't pose a threat to our main pairing.Īpart from Haru and Ren, Haru's younger adopted twin brothers, Shima and Aki, are also important. The two women on this show are treated as harsh, dominatrix slave-drivers on permanent PMS, while the girls are either dust-brained Haru fangirls or evil, conniving and wicked. Most of the characters are useless, bumbling idiots. Which brings us to the third strike for this show. Ren has no idea he's more or less being groomed by his legal guardian, and the morons who serve as side-characters in this show do nothing to stop it, or even see anything wrong with it for that matter. It's hard to take this show as the light-hearted fluff it presents itself to be, because your main pairing is inherently dark when you think about it. Every move he makes on Ren is manipulative, creepy, inappropriate and criminal. I guess what's scariest about the pairing is how closely Haru resembles a pedophile predator. Throughout the show the pure and noble concept of 'brothers' is taken and beaten up and spit upon, then sucker-punched for good measure. Why, oh why would anyone be okay with this?! I've seen my fair share of uncomfortable anime pairings but this one takes the cake. Get ready for that usual trope of everyone living in a nice, expensive house, Haru getting cars as presents and actually just getting whatever he wants, money isn't an issue here. While some viewers may find it a bit draggy, at least it felt a bit believable.
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On the plus side the pacing was fairly decent once the main setting was established it didn't feel like anything was being rushed. Not that there's anything particularly wrong with this premise as far as shounen-ai goes, but it's the way the show keeps trying to push the idea of 'family' down our throats while the two act as anything but brothers. A seven-year timeskip and unnecessarily dramatic plot device later, Ren ends upĪt Haru's doorstep as his adopted younger brother.
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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). 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.
Now let me try and break it down without giving out too much in the way of spoilers.
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