Pick your favourite love story from a repetitive yoai series, starring the exact same couple every time.
Series in more sentences:
A young man with an interest for proper literature decides to leave his father's business in order to prove his own worth, but ends up becoming an editor for girl comics. When introduced to his new department, he meets up with a face he had long forgotten; his old high school crush, who seems to remember him very well.
While he tries to learn the ropes of his new profession, his blurry past with his first love starts to slowly surface.
There was no need for this to be so unfocused. Every 2 episodes it jumped to some other guy's love story, and it took me a while to realize it starred different characters.
This series has the strange tendency to make every couple the exact same people with the same looks and voices. When you're not acquainted enough with the main characters yet, it's distracting. I mean, sure, I noticed that these people had a different hair colour from each other, but their presentation is awfully similar.
For example, the "man" in the relationship is always a tall, long-faced, serious-eyed, low-voiced character, while the "female" is always this shorter, big-eyed, higher-pitched teenage boy-looking thing.
The troubles presented in these relationships are similar as well. A reoccurring trope the show seemed very fond of is the situation where a guy spots his love interest with a woman, and immediately thinks they're being cheated on. Because apparently there are no homosexuals in this yaoi series, just once-closeted bisexuals with a preference, so women are a continuous threat, though only for the sake of drama and not because they actually are. I think the cheating trope happened 5 times in this very short anime.
It was interesting how it created so many clichés within itself, it looked like I was watching the same episode over and over. Definitely not entertaining, though my main issue was that it took away the value of all characters by doing this.
Why should we care about any of them if they act the same, look the same, and experience the same things? I don't understand why the creators inserted so many side-stories. Nobody has that short of an attention span, I would think, the main plot was good enough to leave out all this filler nonsense for. In fact, it was the only story that interested me, as the others just felt shoehorned in as an attempt to please its lady audience.
The more gays, the better, the internet would say. It was a mess and a waste of time.
Despite the decent main plot, though, it also suffered from repetition. You can make a drinking game out of it; whenever an episode is devoted to our two main leads, take a shot whenever the episode start off with work-related troubles, and halfway or near the end there's a private moment where the guy's boss grabs him by his wrist and forcefully kisses him. Or take a shot whenever this fool blushes in his presence.
Take another shot when he partially answers to his rapist's feelings, but the next day will act like he doesn't love him and nothing happened. Or says they can't be together because they're both men. Despite their past where they already dated. It's a terrible script. It didn't need to be. And you'll be dead because of alcohol poisoning.
It's needlessly complicated. The best episode is the last one, as it's the only one that breaks out of the repetitiveness we've seen in the episodes before it.
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