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Chained To My Bully Stepbrother (AI Vertical BL Drama)

By Golu
This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat.  The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
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Takumi-kun Series 4: Pure (Japanese)

By Golu
The fourth film in the series is quite different from the first three. This time the focus is not Takumi and Gii but instead we see how the relationship developed between Misu Arata (Takumi's room mate in third year) and Shingyouji Kanemitsu, his boy friend. We see their past, how they met, love blossomed and where they are today.

Shingyouji comes to the boarding school for the entrance exam where he sees Misu and it seem that at least for him was love at first sight. He desperately wants to come to this school because entering at that college meant he could be away from his family issues at home. After he started his first year of high school he was like a puppy for Misu, following him around and always doing what Misu said all the time, including many times being snubbed and ignored by Misu. Things change when Sagara Takahiro appears again in their life two years later, he was Misu's friend couple of years back and seems like wants to be Misu's love. Shingyouji is now tired of being ignored constantly by Misu and decides to pay back with the same attitude to Arata. Thankfully on Takumi's request, Gii is able to put up a plan in order to reunite their friends. Misu finally realizes Shingyouji's true love for him and gives in.

I particularly didn't care about this film at all. The constant change in the actors is very distracting. Misu remained the same from third film but they changed Shingyouji. The actor playing him had a naughty streak to him which was completely missing in this film. Also, after having invested so much in Takumi and Gii in three films, I was upset they were relegated to less than supporting characters in this film. I wasn't expecting that at all. But even despite that, this love story just didn't excite me. It felty very dull and boring. With regular unnecessary twists for no reason at all. There was never really an explanation for Misu's odd behavior towards Shingyouji and why sudden change of heart. And whats with everyone being gay in this all boys boarding school? Not that i am complaining. After three good films, I was highly disappointed in this one. (3.5/10)
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