Season 2 • Episode 13
LatestShun is troubled about his future as everyone else seems to be more prepared than him. Also, Chizuru, Yukki, and Kaname visit the Tea club with Shun and Yuta.
The story revolves around four teens - the good-looking twins Asaba Yuuta and Yuuki, the effeminate Matsuoka Shun, and the class head Tsukahara Kaname - who have known each other since early childhood. While they are not necessarily good or bad friends, they continue to hang out well into high school. The half-Japanese transfer student Tachibana Chizuru joins the circle of friends in this comedy about the everyday life of adolescence.
Acting
Toshiyuki Toyonaga's delicate voice work as Shun steals every scene.
Writing
Conversations that actually sound like real teens being weird.
Score
Gentle acoustic guitar that feels like nostalgia itself.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'iyashikei' genre exploded in 2000s Japan as economic anxiety made healing narratives essential. This series quietly pioneered applying it to male friendship.
Creator Kiichi Hotta reportedly based Shun on questioning their own gender performance in rural Japan, making his character one of shounen's subtlest explorations of masculine fluidity.
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