Bhavna

First of all, I would like to say that if it wasn’t for Choji‘s mother, lying, and making up a story that she had cancer and had six months to live. Then none of this trouble would have happened in the first place. It causes him to panic and make the most selfish decision by desperately begging Hiro and taking advantage of the fact that she is single and still secretly pining over him as a lost love from college and forcing her to enter a fake marriage with him for the sake of pleasing his mother. On top of that, he often selfishly piles the responsibility of the marriage, and the relationship with his mother onto Hiro, anyone is attracted to and pursue a relationship with a young man. Whether he’s gay or not, he acts like many typical husbands and took advantage of Hiro and her feelings.

I would’ve still been really mad about this, if it hadn’t turned out that this fake arrangement somehow broke the ice around Hiro’s own inner suffering and misanthropy. As a misanthropist myself, I know the pain of dealing with people every single day, and having that inner voice complaining about them all the time in judgment and hatred. At some point, she is set free as the events unfold around this fake marriage and her own family situation becomes unraveled as well and emotions that were trapped in frozen for decades start pouring forth. So something is unethical and selfish as the fake marriage that Choji proposed ended up, healing her an opening her heart so it’s hard to say if it was a bad thing or not in the end. She also was able to enter into a relationship with this woman who is a mother of a child (she is the same actress who plays the anesthesiologist in Dr X) and only accepts female partnerships because of her formerly abusive ex-husband. So Choji is with his boyfriend Hiro is now with her female partner and daughter. That actually made me happy, but Hiro was still in love with Choji…

The scenes where the past is revealed around Hiro’s aunt and also when the young mother’s proposal is accepted by Hiro genuinely made me cry. They were quite emotional. I got the sense that overall this drama is more of a sweet romantic type of comedy, but it genuinely has heart. Even though Choji and his mother, both did very questionable things that I did not approve of., In the end, somehow it seemed to work itself out in favor of Hiro’s emotional healing, which I totally support.

Then after a year of both being in their respective gay relationships, Hiro and Choji meet again and again in the name of Choji’s mother they go and meet her together and Choji who seems to have an eye for trouble, selfishness, and entitlement despite being gay decides to stir up some drama and wants to have “another go” with Hiro just for one night. What on earth? Is this guy who was vehemently gay throughout the series and openly obsessed with Tamotsu kun and now that he’s with Tamotsu as a partner, he’s already tired of him and now wants to sleep with Hiro again? What is wrong with this guy? Seriously he’s so selfish and clueless. He doesn’t know what he wants but he tries to drag everyone else into his mess, namely Hiro. She shouldn’t have even met this guy again after a year. They should have just gone their separate ways.

Then they both break up with their respective partners because of a weird curiosity of “Hey what if we could work out again even though Choji is gay?” What on earth is this sentimental nonsense? These two especially Choji is someone who just exists for the thrill of the chase and the romantic flutters, but even after he gets his Tamotsu kun or whoever, it fizzles out after a little while because he’s bored and wants to try something new. And then, in a royally embarrassing episode for Hiro’s female partner, during the planning of their wedding at the library, Hiro rejects her and her daughter Yuu and says she’s still attached to Choji, leaving Yuu devastated and everyone started lecturing the poor child.

So both parties having kicked their partners to the curb, they start over together. I really felt sorry for the mother and Yuu having been abandoned by Hiro after she promises to marry and make a family - turns out Hiro was just passing the time until Choji came back. And Tamotsu was also heartbroken by Choji by choosing him and then dumping him- and honestly both of them cheated on their partners by staying with each other that night in the hotel. I felt sad for both of them because they were good people and didn’t deserve that. And then Hiro and Choji are back together again? Buying toilet paper and stuff? And now Choji out of his curiosity to become straight again, havi mg broke up with his partner for this one curiosity realizes again that he can’t have physical love with Hiro. Oh man these two are a mess. Why would you jump off a cliff just to fall flat like this again with no safety net? Then Choji sulks again because he’s changed his mind for the 500th time. Why on earth would Hiro fall for such an emotionally unavailable, unstable man? Sooo in the end Choji and Hiro become a couple that only hugs and Choji is probably cheating on her with other men and she just has to put up with it??? What kind of relationship is that? From the beginning Choji has had the upper hand and gets whatever selfish desires he wants. Ugh what a bad deal for Hiro.