{"id":999,"date":"2020-07-04T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/?p=999"},"modified":"2020-06-16T11:18:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:18:01","slug":"anime-lounge-17-junjou-romantica-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/2020\/07\/04\/anime-lounge-17-junjou-romantica-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime Lounge #17: Junjou Romantica 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Series<\/strong>: Junjou Romantica 2<\/p>\n

Episodes<\/strong>: 1 to 12<\/p>\n

Premise<\/strong>: Junjou Romantica is broken up into three storylines: Romantica, Egoist and Terrorist. Romantica is the story of main couple Misaki Takahashi and Akihiko Usami, who are brought together by Misaki\u2019s older brother, Takahiro, so that Akihiko can tutor Misaki for college entrance exams. It happens that Takahiro announces at the meeting that he is getting married. Akihiko and Misaki are upset for different reasons: Misaki, because \"\"<\/a>it means he is losing his brother somewhat after the death of his parents; Akihiko, because he is in love with Takahiro. Romance commences, with a reluctant Misaki along for the ride. Egoist focuses on Nowaki Kusama and Hiroki Kamijou\u2019s developing relationship. Nowaki is considerably younger than Hiroki, who is a classic Japanese literature professor. Thus, their relationship centers on their everyday struggle to be a couple on equal footing. In Terrorist, Yo Miyagi and Shinobu Takatsuki become reacquainted after the end of Yo\u2019s marriage to Shinobu\u2019s sister. Shinobu is in love with Yo, but Yo doesn\u2019t take him seriously. The resulting relationship between the two is interesting and deals with their pasts as brothers-in-law and their age difference. One protagonist in each couple knows of another in another couple. For example, Akihiko was in a relationship with Hiroki and Hiroki works with Yo.<\/p>\n

Is it worth watching?<\/strong>: Yes. If you love romantic stories, this is probably for you. A word of caution, though: If you do not like yaoi, do not watch because the series\u2019 relationships are all between men. If you are comfortable with it, you\u2019ll come to love the characters and their relationship struggles.<\/p>\n

Breakout character<\/strong>: Misaki Takahashi. He finally starts to come out of shell and become a little more open in his relationship with Akihiko. Instead of super shy and awkward Misaki, he\u2019s a little more comfortable with being in an openly acknowledged relationship with Akihiko.<\/p>\n

Best couple<\/strong>: Misaki and Akihiko. Despite their weird quirks, and them being the main focus, they are the most endearing of the three couples. Hiroki and Nowaki are the most serious, and Yo and Shinobu are the most realistic of the three. Misaki and Akihiko also happen to be the most fun of the three couples.<\/p>\n

Where it\u2019s going?<\/strong>: The three couples have issues to work on separately, but most importantly, Misaki\u2019s time with Akihiko will be coming to an end now that he\u2019s approaching graduation \u2026 or will it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Series: Junjou Romantica 2 Episodes: 1 to 12 Premise: Junjou Romantica is broken up into three storylines: Romantica, Egoist and Terrorist. Romantica is the story of main couple Misaki Takahashi and Akihiko Usami, who are brought together by Misaki\u2019s older … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[275,19,253,274,276,72,127],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-lounge","tag-3q2020","tag-anime","tag-anime-lounge","tag-junjou-romantica-2","tag-romantic","tag-staff","tag-yaoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}