Chaser Game W2: Utsukushiki Tennyotachi (2024)

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This was a dramatic improvement compared to the first season. Fuyu reemerged more emotionally vulnerable and, though battered from intense familial pressure, managed to rise above and take a true stand for her and Itsuki's relationship.

Not only was there a more concrete storyline and satisfying ending, but they also had something to say: If we always hide, we'll never create a more accepting world where Queer people can feel safe and comfortable to come out. Let us not reinforce our culture's promotion of silence and enduring.

And Tsuki—darling Tsuki—was a national treasure, encouraging and supporting her moms just by being an innocent, confident, and kind little girl.

Even if you never watched the first season, I recommend you watch this one.

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Not sure how this could be worse than the first season!!!

I wrote a review for the first season where I felt it was pretty bad, but season 2 is taking it to a whole new LOW. The plot especially is just so BAD. I'm not even sure what on earth the script writer is thinking but most importantly - HOW on earth did this get made??? How did so many people from the director, production company, the ACTORS themselves agree to this even after reading the script??? From the most ludicrous events happening randomly and out of the blue to the most awkward and stilted dialogue. Good lord, I was laughing at the ridiculousness of it all.

So the scriptwriters/whoever decided to "spice" things up in this season by introducing Itsuki's ex(???) who so happens to still be carrying a torch for her. But of course, Itsuki loves only Fuyu and the whole love triangle thing is moot. I couldn't stand her and her acting was bad. This is the actress' first show and it's obvious. She was/is? actually a korean influencer in Japan so does not seem to have any formal training in acting. I couldn't feel like she even LIKED Itsuki at all and at times looked like she didn't even want to be there.

The whole plot point on Fuyu's marriage was handled extremely badly and honestly makes gay people look bad. Fuyu starts off the second season still married and moves back to China for a while at the behest of her mother. She tries to play the good wife but it's not what she wants. Her poor husband is written to be almost saintly and forgives her for cheating on him. He even helps her to find an excuse to return to Japan! It was so ridiculous. And mind you, in the first episode, it was shown that this was a love marriage, not an arranged one. Her daughter even says how she and her husband are "best friends" while she and Itsuki are lovers or something to that effect. Where has everyone's morals gone??? I could hardly feel sympathetic for Fuyu. She hemmed and hawed over coming clean to her mother while dragging her husband, daughter and Itsuki through emotional distress. THEN she got mad at Itsuki spending the night with her ex even though officially, they aren't together??? I can accept imperfect main characters, but this characterization is just so ... bad that it's hard to feel any empathy for Fuyu at all.

I can literally go on and on about how this show is a terrible mess but this will turn out to be a whole ass book so I'll just stop. I can't think of any redeeming factors about this AT ALL, other than its short runtime and fairly attractive leads. But even then I still decided to drop this because wtf? I have better things to do. I was watching Jeongnyeon at the same time and wow, that was light years better than this. I know it's not a fair comparison between the both and the only thing they have in common are that they are both GLs (Jeongnyeon is a veryyyyy subtle one) but seriously. there are way better shows out there.

Watch only if you're that desperate for a GL, but even so there are way better GLs out there.

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