25 Ji, Akasaka de Season 2 (2025)

Nous sommes servis

Franchement, je n'étais pas au courant qu'ils avaient sorti une saison deux, je me suis tout rewatch en peu de temps.
Cette série vaut totalement le coup d'être vue. Elle est d'une douceur mais traite également de sujets de vie auquels nous pouvons être confronté.
Le calme d'Hayama tranche avec la boule d'émotions qu'est Shirazaki et le mélange des deux est simplement parfait. Il est facile de s'identifier aux deux et je trouve que c'est comme ça qu'on voit qu'une série est réellement bonne ou non.
L'histoire est réfléchie et a du sens comparé à certains bl qui ne semblent être là que pour donner aux fans ce qu'ils veulent tout en ayant une histoire survolée sans approfondissement des personnalités et de l'enchainement des évènements.
J'aime autant que je reste frustrée du ship des personnages secondaires qui semnme être insinué sans être mis en scène, je trouve que cela rend l'oeuvre beaucoup plus réelle que s'ils avaient mis deux couples qui sont au sein d'un même groupe d'amis comme on peut souvent voir.
Petit faible pour le personnage de Sakuma, il est tout simplement divin, sa voix est probablement faite de miel et la dualité de son acting, n'en parlons pas c'est pour nous abattre.

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A coming of age story for grown ups.

This season is the most unusual continuation of a series I have seen for a long time. One of the first scenes describes the series perfectly when the director of "Daydream" said: "A love story that continues after two people get together is, in my opinion, quite difficult to portray. Because the most exciting part of the drama is the moment they fall for each other. However, real love doesn't end the moment when they get together. After that, both of them will have many more important moments to come. [... this is] something I hope to portray with care and nuance." - And that's exactly what the series is about and what they did.

I know this is not the kind of series that will get most acclaim, because it's so outside of "normal" BL series. Yes they have their tropes, Shirasaki-kuns inferior complex and Asami-sans unpleasant past, but the care they put into the characters is not seen very often. This is not entertainment you watch just to escape your troubles, this is a story which confronts you with new troubles and which can't be watched alongside doing something else. I'm late with my review, because I binge-watched the entire series again, because to have the most impact, to wait for a week does this series not justice.

In the context of japanese culture, children are thougth to not show emotions and even surpress them for the sake of your career and/or family or to just "save face". This series does the opposite by showing the process of getting actors into a mindset of the character they are playing, where they have to show emotions. And both of them apply the learnings in doing so for their own persons, to reflect on themselves and to battle their inner "demons". And so they both grow as persons and they grow as a couple. And they feel and know when their partner is struggeling and they talk about it. And that just got me. That portrayal was so nuanced and so great to watch, if left me stunned for some time processing all the emotions they got into me.

While I understand that such a series will not click with many, for me it's a masterpiece. A series really focused on the characters and still having also the little things in it, the affection for each other and the longing for each other. Of course I have to recommand this series, but you need a clear head and you should not take a break watching it. I can't express how much I like this series, because it's so different and so mature and so well made.

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