Flavor: Mild

Whoa, well, this was the last episode… but it’s like it feels the show ended with no closure whatsoever because of the random story they decided to choose as the final story of the series. I kinda expected them to create an original ending for the anime like they usually do, but then I thought about how making up a finale for a series like this in a single episode could only result in disaster, so I guess I’m sorta glad they didn’t go for that direction.

Anywho, as for what happened on the episode itself: Basically, Akihiko receives an award for one of his novels and Misaki doesn’t know anything about any of this until he hears everything from Sumi after school’s over. Later that same day, when he arrives home, he finds Aikawa and that other annoying guy inside Usami’s apartment ready to take him out to some kind of event. They start talking about some stuff related to the award and then all of a sudden they end up mentioning Usami’s brother, Haruhiko, a name that Misaki has never heard before.

While they head off to the party or whatever, Misaki stays home and begins thinking about various things… such as how Usami never tells him about that kind of stuff and how he’s always the one doing things for him. When Akihiko returns, Misaki decides to confront him about all of this. He manages to get some tidbits about his brother out of him, so Misaki is all like “wait, it’s okay, that’s enough” and proceeds to congratulate him on winning the award, something which makes Akihiko feel really happy…

And I guess that pretty much sums things up. Seeing Misaki act like a seme was probably the most interesting scene from the entire episode. The rest wasn’t all that great, so I suppose that makes it one of my least favorite Junjou Romantica stories so far. Not bad… but not really a good choice for the final episode, in my opinion.

Final comments:

Certainly, this ended up being a lot more entertaining than what I imagined it to be. Like I’ve said multiple times now, I don’t like BL that much, so at first I thought this would really be incredibly boring and only decided to keep following it because I was curious about how they were planning on handling the H-scenes from the manga. However, when I began watching it with a less pessimistic view, I realized it wasn’t all that bad. Sure, the drama moments were very tiresome… but the lovely comedy and the amusing character interactions made up for it.

Still, can’t say I feel sad about the lack of confirmation for a second season though… but if they ever make one, I’d definitely watch it.