This dark gritty Japanese BL is something I was not expecting. The story focuses on a Yakuza bodyguard assigned to kill his young boss. The premise sounds interesting but the execution was just weird. There were lot of problems with the show like violence, abuse, coercion and even forcing themselves sexually. Eventually it somewhere becomes. BL with some nonsense stuff. Thankfully the series was only 6 episodes of about 26-30 minutes each. Kataoka is a respected yakuza leader. His boss has grown old and frail, unable to manage the organization anymore. Leadership now falls to the boss's son, Keito. He assigns Odajima as Kataoka's new handler to keep him in check. Kataoka is impulsive and treats Odajima aslmost as a servant even forcing sex on him. But beneath the rough exterior, Kataoka occasionally reveals a gentler side. Odajima, on the other hand, is stoic and distant, keeping his emotions under tight control. What Kataoka doesn't know is that Odajima has a hidden agen...
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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