its been a while but i am back with another anime review! i was looking for a short anime i could finish in one night and i found Love Stage!!
so our story follows Izumi Sena, a introverted manga nerd guy who's big dream is to become a manga artist. Varying drastically from his showbiz family with an actress mother, singer father and a rockstar older brother. The only time he's ever been in the spotlight was in a commercial for a wedding magazine when he was eight where he was cross-dressing as a little girl. His co-star Ryouma Ichijou, was smitten with Izumi from when they were children to a decade after the commercial, where the magazine wants to make a 10th anniversary ad staring the original actors. The two reunite but Ryouma uncovers that Izumi is not a girl, but in fact a boy. Knowing the girl he'd been in love with for a whole decade was actually a boy shocked him but didn't quite rid him of his feelings..
thats pretty much the gist of it. credits to me for that long ass plot summary. but anyway! this is a bl anime and i thought it could be interesting and its also only ten episodes so why not
Rating: 5/10 i did like it but SOME things rlly threw me off (we will get to it in a second)
but! what i did enjoy was the protagonist Izumi is very loveable since he's very sweet and shy and nerdy like his brother bribed him with a body pillow of his fave manga girl(?) Lala Lulu but he's not weird hes pretty chill. I also love his passion to become a manga artist even if he sucks at drawing. and Rei, the family's manager was also pretty cool. he was strict but he cared and he was sweet and a undercover twink apparently. i also liked the kinda slice of life shoujo rom com vibe we had even though im not too big on that stuff
alright now lets talk abt the bad stuff
SPOILER ALERT AND TRIGGER WARNING FOR SA (yeah.)
yeah literally Ryouma SAs Izumi after seeing how beautiful he is without his glasses and he stopped caring that he was a boy and just goes for it. literally this could been a rlly good anime but who tf thought it was a good idea to put that shit in there and poor Izumi was so depressed after it god that pissed me right off
another thing that was weird was the obvious fan service for Izumi like no i dont want to see this dudes torso or his legs or anything for that matter
problem is that this was probably made for the people who have fetishes for this but if we removed all the weird shit it couldve been rlly good. i like the basis of it especially Izumi's struggle to become a manga artist and the 'everyone starts somewhere dont give up' message that was great and Ryouma was a very nice guy he just really shouldnt have done that which ruined his image of him for me.
this really couldve been something but the directors or producers fucked it all up
im just so upset bc i could see myself really liking this show if it werent for this bs. and its not like it added to the plot either it just really was not necessary at all
and idc if they're 'not real people' its still disgusting and my heart goes out to anyone who has had to go through that.
i cant even put favicons on this b/c i dont feel happy go lucky cus this is serious but thank you so much for reading, i will definitely do more research next time on whatever i watch but i wanted to make this anyway in case it helps anyone get a synopsis of what they're going into if they decide to watch it so no one gets jumpscared like i did
i love you soooooo much i hope you have a great day or night! stay safe <3
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