hot bishies with angsty pasts, steamy love scenes, damn funny comedy. to sum it up: i love junjou romantica (JR)!!!!!! i’m currently at episode 11 of the first season, which means that i’ve almost finished JR1. i’m being very strict with myself; only 1 episode per day! cos i wish that the series won’t end forever 
this is the ED of junjou romantica season 1. its fast becoming my #1 favourite song now. the lyrics is soooo good too!
here’s a summary of JR season 1. i’m doing a review on the relationship between the three couples:
couple #1 junjou romantica
usami akihiko XXX takahashi misaki
takahashi misaki, an 18-year old student, aspires to enter the prestigious mitsuhashi university, majoring in economics. episode 1 shows us how misaki walks home from school one day, worrying bout his poor results in the test. when he opens the door and sees another man hugging and clinging to misaki’s older brother (takahiro), let’s just say that that was the beginning of everthing.
usami akihiko (nicknamed usagi), the man who was hugging takahiro, is a super-rich 28-year old author of hot BL (boys love) novels, as well as the youngest recipient of the naomori award in history who graduated ahead of his classmates (majoring in law). he has been in love with takahiro ever since they were young, but his love was unreturned as takahiro doesn’t have a clue of how usagi feels bout him, not to mention that takahiro is a “straight” man.
circumstances forced misaki to live with usagi, it was then when misaki discovers usagi’s love for his brother. at first he was outraged; but after he sees how deeply usagi cares for takahiro, misaki could feel the hurt, too when takahiro decided to get married. and thus the two of them (akihikoXmisaki) ended up together as the series progresses, their relationship grows stronger. misaki could not accept this new relationship; in his own words, “i was raised as a normal boy for 18 years! how could i not be bothered by this?” not to mention that usagi has been doing “things” to misaki. it doesn’t help that usagi uses misaki’s name in his BL novels, creating steamy love scenes between “akihiko” and “misaki” in the stories.
couple #2 junjou egoist
kamijou hiroki XXX nowaki kusama
hiroki, who works in mitsuhashi university under the literature department, was sitting alone in a garden, thinking bout his love for his best friend, usami akihiko (the writer from JR). akihiko has never returned hiroki’s feelings as he was in love with takahiro at that time, something that hiroki regretted very much. all of a sudden a plastic rocket launched nearby landed in front of hiroki, and it was then that his destiny is about to be changed. the guy who launched the rocket was kusama hiroki, a young man working six odd jobs who was orphaned at a very young age. seeing hiroki crying, he grabbed his hand, patted his head and told him that everything would be all right. it was the beginning of their relationship.
nowaki, named so because of a typhoon on the night he was found at the orphanage, tried to do everything he could for hiroki, whom he fell in love with at the first sight. but hiroki’s not making it easy for him; hiroki still couldn’t forget akihiko, his childhood love. nowaki managed to persuade hiroki to be his tutor, saying that he would like to continue with his studies. when nowaki suddenly disappears for a whole year (or was it six years? i’m confused) without contacting hiroki at all, the latter was angry and hurt. it turns out that nowaki went to the US to study medicine to be a paeditrician, in order to be “someone whom hiroki would be proud to have as boyfriend”. it was sooooo sweet~
couple #3 junjou terrorist
miyagi yo XXX takatsuki shinobu
a very complicated relationship!
miyagi yo, a literature professor working together with hiroki (from JE) in mitsuhashi university, has just gotten divorced with his wife. as fate would have it, he would find a new love soon. takatsuki shinobu, the “terrorist” in this story, is the brother of miyagi’s ex-wife, which means that shinobu is his brother-in-law. they have a 17-year gap in their age (miyagi is 35 while shinobu is 18), but that doesn’t stop shinobu from “falling in love” with miyagi. a determined young man, shinobu invades miyagi’s life, insisting that miyagi “takes responsibility and fall in love with me”!!!!!! miyagi, who has no intention of being together with shinobu, tries to avoid him, but when shinobu ended up staying at miyagi’s house, we can already imagine what would happen between them the least developed story of the three couples, miyagiXshinobu only appears in episode 10 onwards. we’ll have to wait for season 2 to find out!
michaela Said:
on February 21, 2009 at 4:02 pm
wow, it seems that you’re a big fan of anime and manga! i also like anime but unfortunately i’m not at all familiar with those you mentioned…
do you accidentally know ‘love hina’?
ng kai-lee Said:
on February 22, 2009 at 7:27 am
i’ve heard of it before, and my friend recommended it to me. maybe i’m going to watch someday if i find it
i did some research in wikipedia for it and it seems like “love hina” is not the type of anime that i like, but i always watch animes from different genres 
what are other animes you’ve watched, michaela? maybe we have the same favourite title!
michaela Said:
on February 23, 2009 at 9:03 am
actually i don’t know ‘love hina’ either, i’ve just seen it once on youtube and i thought you probably know something about… but i think i will watch it sometime. it looks interesting!
i love ‘captain tsubasa’! it’s about football and it’s an old one. and as i told once in hiro and kohcafe i used to watch ‘digimon’ when i was younger. but i’ve just watched the first two seasons and the beginning of the third one. and there are some others where i just know the german title.
ng kai-lee Said:
on February 23, 2009 at 10:58 am
yup capt tsubasa was pretty popular here a few years back (i think) and so was digimon. i remember that i was CRAZY bout it. i was only 13 at that time and i was in love with the characters
i hoped yamato and sora would get together but in the end i wasn’t sure. did sora pair up with yamato or tai? i’ve forgotten
in malaysia there are a few really popular titles. last year they had this naruto/ bleach fever but i’m not interested in animes with more than 100 episodes long, duh~ if you ask me what’s my favourite anime i would say “initial d” and “junjo romantica”. i’ve been obsessed with initial d for 3 years now
michaela Said:
on February 24, 2009 at 12:17 pm
i was also totally crazy about digimon. and as well i was in love with the characters (especially taichi, or what was his name?!?). i think sora and taichi were at the beginning and at the end sora and yamato were a couple. but i’m not sure. however i was always jealous of sora because of taichi
i’ve already heard of naruto, but i didn’t watch it. hmm… i’ve never heard of ‘junjo romantica’ but i think ‘initial’ i’ve already heard of. but i’m not really familiar with it, sorry!
ng kai-lee Said:
on February 24, 2009 at 1:31 pm
“Initial D” is the story bout illegal car racings, but the characters are soooo HOT! i must confess that certain animes, i watched them because of the hot guys in there
ya his name was taichi but in the US version they changed it i think. hmm… so who did sora end up with? i’m going to do some research now to see ^^
btw michaela, i must congratulate you on your blog. it looks so… matured
i’m a computer idiot, so i’m still learning now how to use the internet, etc
Marshmallow Said:
on February 24, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Junjou Romantica~ I love it, such a cute anime! The ending song does have great lyrics, perfect for the anime.
ng kai-lee Said:
on February 25, 2009 at 9:10 am
it sure is
it’s my #2 favourite anime now. i love the three couples~
currently i’m digesting vampire knight. its cool too!
michaela Said:
on February 26, 2009 at 12:23 pm
i don’t know either who sora ended up with. but i think it was with yamato, because one of her children has blond hair. but i’m not sure.
thank you, kai-lee. actually i’m a computer idiot too. first i didn’t even know how to post an article or how to add a picture. ana explained it to me (when i translated her blog into german). i think without her i wouln’t been able to create an own blog. but i’m quite proud of myself that a managed to add the ‘visitor locations’. (i took me about 3 hours… but now it works
)