TW: molestation Junjou Romantica is the most popular yaoi anime several years ago and fujoshi liked by the older generation. In addition to its popularity as famous yaoi it also has the fame of the most problematic although it includes some bad aspects it is not the evilest. Story 5/10 4/10 junjou romantic junjou egoist 6/10 junjou terrorist 4.5/10 junjou minimum 6/10 The first story is a typical lovehate story. A lovehate that lasts from three anime seasons. Misaki and Usagi are typical yaoi archetypes titled young tsundere and aggressive sexy seme. The story is very meh because it begins with sexual harassment where Misaki is molested. And then he will hate and run away from Usagi for 3 seasons because we all like typical shoujo behavior. Usagi sometimes puts too much pressure on Misaki which is why their romance is definitely questionable. 220https://i.pin.com/564x/0b/4b/ea/0b4bea1dfc0c65ab8e02de837e8060ea.jpg The second story is the most adequate of all. Nowaki and Hiroki are fine although there are some disagreements in their relationship that they will struggle with. They are much more adequate and not heteronormative than the first couple. Nowaki is quite a caring and good man and Hiroki is also a tsundere uke who instead of openly telling about his feelings will act like a cactus. 220https://i.pin.com/564x/85/af/8c/85af8cf02981a4c1cdaaf0f9c55a392b.jpg The third story is quite vague and incomprehensible in the first season as it only has 2 episodes and will have a development in the second season. And yes molestation again. Here we have the biggest age gap and uke is not tsundere but more yandere. At least something new. 220https://i.pin.com/564x/46/dc/49/46dc496ec71bfdbe2e17849c06e4a944.jpg Junjou minimum story. Just nice childhood stories from Hiroki and Usagi. We have the opportunity to look at something healthy and nice. Yes Usagi was once a nice boy not a selfish jealous wayward seme. And Hiroki has always been himself. Narcissistic and confident. 220https://i.pin.com/564x/73/1c/5a/731c5a4d293a494af2500aa9a2e283f0.jpg Characters 5/10 Characters have motivations stories are well written because their character is understandable. I have only pretensions to the main couple for the most part. Usagis selfishness is killing me. Usagi is sometimes abusive as hell and other characters can be infantile. Minus points for him and the childishness of some of the behaviors of others. Comedy 7/10 How comedy works great. The humor made it a show for me. Lots of humor and funny scenes. Romance 4/10 For the molestation and selfish behavior of Usagi and some characters I cannot recommend this to everyone. And even more so nowadays. Yaoi has always suffered from sexual abuse from the very beginning and Romantica does not save the situation. And it even supports it and makes it worse. If you are looking for something healthy the show is not for you. Romantica was released in 2002 so it contains the typical yaoi bad tropes. For example Sekaiichi Hatsukoi also had one molestation scene in episode 3 although it is much less rapey. For which this show should not be praised. 220https://i.pin.com/564x/65/f8/af/65f8af68bf6dd28bb5d08f94ad8e9092.jpg The good part: Humor/comedy Soundtrack second couple Bad sides: Molestation Some abusive behavior Character design because ALL THE SEMES LOOK THE SAME. Generally: I do not recommend this show to anyone. If you dont like the typical old yaoi you wont like it. Or if you dont like bad yaoi tropes. Same as me. If you dont like infantile characters that act like kids then the show is not for you either. Characters are sexualized as in most BLs. Rather it cannot be called some kind of good representation or something realistic.