“Mister President, Please dont stand on your desk.” – unnamed assistant. Izumi spends the night, barely unmolested, only to end up there early the next morning. Izumi stumbles through the rain to Ryouma, the only person he feels cares about him. Except they have an angry fight because Izumi wants to become a manga artist.Ī deal is struck: If Izumi’s submission is accepted in the manga contest, Rei will support him and, if not, Izumi will dive into show biz without hesitation.
Rei takes this opportunity to launch Izumi’s show bix career.
Except, everyone assumes Izumi is female. Ryouma is finally confronted by his Agency about his relationship with Izumi. It held my attention with decently above average annimation, solid voice work and a deeply desturbing early season twist. Still, at the end of the day, Love Stage!! delivered a decent drama - and one in a genre I would not usually have watched. The results just come off creepy and are so consistent that I don’t feel the studio would agree. (and recently raped and missing for 60 hours) No more than any of the weird yuk-yuk jokes make by Rei over the rape itself. Seriously! There’s no way Izumi’s mom would be considered funny for not caring where he is if he were female. (at least for this long) However, so many elements of the show either don’t work due to my own gender biases OR don’t work because of the show’s. Was Love Stage!! worth a watch? Yes! I’m glad i took a chance on it. “Dont you dare mock my feels for you” – Ryouma Everyone is hopeful and there’s nothing to look forward to but some serious BL from here on out.
Yes! the show will continue on to a happier ending a few episodes down the line but, for me, I’m taking this as a great stopping point. The actors are all clearly introduced and their roles have a natural direction to follow - and if you omit the rapey-part of episode 3, all the relationships make plenty of sense. I can not stress how well this episode works as a closer for the series. “Dreams and Hope are nothing but Illusions” – Evil’zumiĪnd with that, Love Stage!! slams the ball out of the park. i’m not your older brother” (end episode) Izumi tells Ryouma that he’s like a brother to him and Ryouma kisses him good night. Rei is happy to see him and collapses in exhaustion (having been awake for 60 hours straight) and all is well. Izumi comes to terms with tackling life’s challenges and resolves to go back home and enter show biz.
Ryouma returns with a surprise: he had Izumi’s manga reviewed by no one other than Lala-lulu’s creator (and Izumi’s idol)! Izumi’s mind is blown, both by Ryouma’s ability to get such a thing and by the kind words from Lala’s creator, which amount to “you suck now but have passion - keep that passion and gain experience.” Izumi realizes Rei really cares about him, and that he’s always known this but been too stupid to admit it. Izumi wakes and reads hundreds of missed calls and texts from Rei. There, he’s about to join Evil Lala-lulu’s side - he even gives the good guy gone bad speech - but is saved at the last moment by Good Lala-lulu. Izumi goes back to sleep and dreams of Lala-lulu’s world. The opening romance is cut short by Ryouma, who’s furious with despondent Izumi and storms out.
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