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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 2: Niji-iro no Glass (Japanese) [Rainbow Colored Glass]

By Golu
The second film in this series came out in 2009, two years after the first one, with one big change. both the lead actors playing Takumi and Gii were replaced by new actors. The film making style has also matured and there is not so much OTT acting by the leads. As the first part, this film also  tenderly displays the romance of a young, gay couple, and all the complications of their relationship.

Gii and Takumi are now a happy couple, very much in love, still in school and their group of friends is very happy for them. Takumi doesn't believe in PDA which upsets Gii a little bit. Things change when a new first year student Morita joins appears in the picture. Gii wants to host a party and asks Takumi to make sure to invite Morita. Takumi goes through hall emotions of jealousy, anger and despair and thinks that finally Gii is over him and is now interested in the new handsome boy. A couple of days after thhe party and the lovers rift, Their best friend Suzuki leaves school for hospital due to his deteriorating terminal illness condition. It is then Takumi finds out the truth that Gii was just trying to bring together Suzuki and Morita, who were both mutually attracted to each other. Takumi apologizes and the misunderstandings are cleared. But Suzuki's condition eventually worsens, leaving the world thereby leaving heartbroken Morita and a letter thanking all his classmates for making his time at the boarding school as his most memorable.

This film focusses on two things: value of friendship and how a lovers grow in love in the form of envy, jealousy, romance, lover's quarrel etc. It was interesting to watch. Even though Gii was trying to bring two of his friends together, clearly he was also using this to make Takumi feel jealous, since he always disliked public acknowledgment of love from Gii. And it actually works. Although, on a negative side, Takumi's character always seemed apologetic about everything. I mean, if the couple is really a couple and even share the same room, this should not happen. Maybe its the difference in personalities. The two new actors fit their part seamlessly and I didn't miss the previous actors. It was cute how Gii goes out of the way to bring Suzuki and Morita together. The end was sad, even though as audience you really don't get invested in their love, but you feel the pain. By the way, I was pleasantly surprised at the extent to which they showed the lovemaking scene between Takumi and Gii. I'm sure it was a pretty big risk concerning mainstream Japanese morals. A befitting cute sequel to the first film. (6/10)
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