YOU AND I ARE POLAR OPPOSITES SEASON 2

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  melamuna

  90/100
  You feel love when you're loved, and when you're loved, you'll be able to give love

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  What is that magic “flavor” that gives love a reputable feeling of excitement, endearment, and a comfort you never knew you'd needed?

  Is it that period of time when you chase the person you're slowly discovering you have feelings for, and so you do everything just to have that special someone notice you? And when they do, that burst of emotions—of discouragement and excitement—clashes together into this explosive confession of your love?

  Or maybe it's that you've been deprived of love for so long that you doubt your own hunches when people show feelings for you, or when you sense that connection with someone?

  Or maybe it's that relief when you don't have to keep lying to yourself and suppressing your feelings in fear of ruining the friendship?

  Whatever that reason may be, that seasoning of “love” doesn't have a recipe book, for it is only applicable to your specific palette. Love is not a set of rules in a guidebook where you have to check lists, as people who carry their lives in an objective manner might. Instead, love acts more as a blank canvas where there are no guidelines to follow, allowing your creativity to bring vibrancy upon the canvas.

  And in the second season of You & I Are Opposite, we not only follow the lives of our ensemble cast through their blossoming journeys of love, but are constantly shown that love transcends beyond convention by breaking the notion of what it means to love and be loved. ***

  In this second season, we follow our main leads, Miyu Suzuki, an energetic high schooler who's just full of joy, and Yuusuke Tani, who's reserved and calculated. But both of them have a lot of love to give each other.

  Of course, since they're still a young couple who only recently started dating, it doesn't always mean they have everything figured out. Not to mention that they're “polar opposites” (*wink wink*) as they're both navigating their journey of love at the same time.

  Miyu and Yuusuke's relationship is not perfect, and it never claims to be. But for both partners to work alongside each other in growing their relationship, getting to know more about each other, and actively surprising themselves day by day is not an obligatory thing you just do in a relationship. You do it because, as cliché as it sounds, you begin to feel love when you're loved, and when you're loved, you'll be able to give love.

  Miyu and Yuusuke are the perfect example of the kind of relationship people want: being able to be themselves while also gaining a close connection with someone, even if they're polar opposites.

  And you feel it all throughout this series, where you just can't stop grinning from the sheer cuteness of their interactions together.

  Alongside Miyu and Yuusuke's already blossomed relationship, we simultaneously follow the blossoming relationships of other characters in this series.

  For instance, Kentarou Yamada and Natsumi Nishi are two characters whom we see slowly blossom throughout the series. Their love for each other screams loud, but due to their polar oppositeness, they face a huge barrier in moving their relationship forward. But, of course, when love perseveres, the foundations of that barrier slowly weaken, and we get this satisfying direction for these characters, especially Natsumi's perseverance despite the risk of losing her friend.

  Their arc in the series is rather straightforward and somewhat derivative of what Miyu and Yuusuke have, but it serves as a reminder that love isn't felt or experienced in isolation. The people we're surrounded by influence us and help us recognize the love that we deserve.

  But sometimes, the “romantic” aspect in love isn't something that brings people together, as is the case with Shuuji Taira, a pessimistic character who's too skeptical of himself to believe that he could be romantically loved, and Shino Azuma, who never had the chance to experience romantic love.

  Two polar-opposite characters and circumstances who land in the same predicament of being in a limbo between love and non-love. Sure, as we follow these characters more, there's definitely a reveal that these characters have a thing for each other, but it goes to show that love isn't an immediate click that jumps to 100 immediately. It's slow. It brings you down before it picks you back up.

  Nor does love have to be littered in romantic gestures. Sometimes, love crawls toward someone without always beginning with attraction, but rather through the longing for connection and companionship, even when two people are polar opposites in their own struggles.

  And again, as cliché as it sounds, before one can love, one must love themselves first and above all. Only then can you truly share that love with someone else.

  Though Shuuji and Shino's moments in the series aren't as explicit as those of some of the other couples in the series, their limbo of discovery and curiosity keeps them closer. ***

  You & I Are Polar Opposites showcases love in three different scenarios.

  One, for Miyu and Yuusuke, which showcases that love is an active process, where choosing to love each other day by day is what makes their love strong. Two, for Kentarou and Natsumi, showing that love wouldn't be possible without a push by people around us. And lastly, for Shuuji and Shino, showing that love may just not be “now,” but that sometimes, you have to be gentle and understand yourself more as a person first by giving love to yourself before giving it to others.

  All these different circumstances of love cement the narrative that love has no guidebooks or checklists. Rather, love is simply the act of loving a person every day, and you fill in the gaps on how you love that person, even when both of you are polar opposites.

  Though these character’s journey of discovery of love isn't the only thing this series offers, but doesn't shy away for presenting exclusively adolescent experiences of discovery, growing up, and

  Added to its superb animation and irresistibly cute moments, this anime is an easy contender for being an essential romance anime to watch. And yes, it's definitely vanilla compared to other spicy series out there, but when surrounded by spice, sometimes you have to cleanse your palate. This series is a great palette cleanser for people's idealization of love. ***

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  Silebris

  90/100
  earth-shattering development: cute characters do more cute stuff (with a touch of added maturity)

  

  I absolutely adored the first season of YAIAPO, so I was super excited when I found out season 2 was coming out (I literally found out right when it started coming out lol). Though I obviously expected different story beats and whatnot in this season, I was primarily hoping for more of the same kind of stuff that we got in the very strong season 1, and the show absolutely delivered!

  My biggest thing about this show, which I always point to when recommending it to people, is that I love literally all of the characters. Everyone in this show has interesting, realistic, and flat-out cute personal journeys to go on, and there is probably not a person out there who can't latch onto at least one of them. I honestly think that the characters get more and more relatable as the show goes on, both in terms of which characters are getting the focus and what is explored about the characters in general.

  

  To the former point, I find Taira and Azuma to have the most interesting personal conflicts and character arcs, exploring a lot of their complex emotions as individuals first and foremost. I personally like that they both start off as people who are decidedly not ready to be in relationships with anyone, despite being main characters in a romance show.

  Taira seems to be the most popular fav, and for good reason. I love how he grows as a person, from overly cynical and pessimistic to someone who really, truly loves his friends and appreciates the value of interpersonal relationships. His arc is really sweet, and I like that he still remains himself, having changed in ways that feel gradual and, again, realistic (and cute lol).

  My favorite character in the show is Azuma, who I personally find relatable in a lot of ways, so I was quite happy to be dealt heavy doses of her during this season. One thing I found is that, personality-wise, it feels like the earlier version of her had the spirit of a side character, which she kind of becomes aware of and works through.

  Watching her realize her feelings may have felt a teeny tiny bit sudden when it finally happened, but it made sense overall and, like many things in this show, was very cute. (BESIDES THIS IS WHAT I’VE WAITING FOORRRRR :DDDD)
  


  The other main characters have quite a lot to do in this season. The progression of the other duos’ relationships was done thoughtfully, and the subject matter that was explored within those relationships mirrored the maturity of the exploration of Taira and Azuma’s emotions and identities.

  The relationships we saw develop in the first season continue developing throughout the second, and a lot of what they get up to within those relationships happens in a pretty realistic, relatable way. Apart from moments where things slow down to explore particular aspects of the characters' relationships, they still get up to the expected cute, wholesome stuff, both amongst big groups and with just each other. As the characters experience more things that demand maturity and care, they grow and mature themselves. As the characters become more mature versions of themselves, the show similarly becomes a more mature version of itself. It doesn't drastically transform itself, instead just developing naturally as its characters move forward in their lives and personal stories.

  Nishi also gets quite a bit of development, also not drastically changing as a person but finding her own natural way to come out of her shell and evolve as a person. Getting to see her and Yamada become more grown-up versions of the super-shy and super-outgoing respective archetypes that they began the story as was really cute.

  
  In the last episode, Tani does his whole reflection of the first episode from his POV, which was nostalgic enough to make me almost wanna watch the whole thing all over again. The one untied loose end is the real conclusion of the Tairazuma situation, though I'll assume they don't end up with each other, which is honestly okay, despite how cute they would be together if they'd maybe developed their feelings for each other like a year earlier in the story.

  

  YOU SHOULD WATCH THIS SEASON IF…

  1) You know what’s good for you.

  2) You like Azuma and Taira as characters. They get much more of a focus during this season.

  3) You are interested in seeing the later stages of other characters’ relationships that already got explored in the season 1. Suzuki, Tani, Yamada, and Nishi do not take a full backseat to Azuma and Taira. If you take all 25 episodes that are out as of now as one continuous story, which they are, the primary focus kind of gets passed from duo to duo, with none of them totally dominating stretches of the show outside of Suzuki and Tani in the first part of season 1.

  4) You enjoyed and want more of the same style of slice-of-life comedy and cute, wholesome romance.

  YOU SHOULD NOT WATCH THIS SEASON IF…

  1) You got a little tired of the stuff that was happening in season 1 and you’re hoping for the show to be taken in a different tonal direction. The characters literally get older, so some of the subject matter feels a bit more mature and slightly less puppy-love-ey, but overall, the style and tone of the show is roughly the same. It doesn’t go into Ramparts of Ice type of stuff so much, more so a natural evolution of the first season’s whole schtick, in the best way possible (provided that you enjoyed the first season).

  

  IF YOU ARE WONDERING IF THIS SEASON CONTAINS CERTAIN THINGS YOU MAY BE SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR, I WILL TELL YOU

  Tairazuma: YES
  (except for the actual confession.... why even go on?)

  Smoochin': YES

  Cute fluffy romance stuff: YES

  Serious, non-fluffy romance stuff: YES

  6-episode Morimo battle tournament arc: NO

  Taira saying the word “chud” again: NO

  MINI YAP SESSION

  I love this show with all my heart. It is such a great time all the way through. However, i think it's over now, which is sad, but what we got was more than enough. That being said, I could go for “Tairazuma: The Movie”, which takes place when the characters are in their mid-20s.

  

  That is all. Good show. Watch it.

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• 

  Ionliosite2

  30/100
  Lost sight of what made it good

  Do you remember what made you like this series back in S1? While watching this season I was doubting if I actually liked what the series was doing, and so, I tried to remember what was good about the original. The series was praised in the very first place for cutting out the chase common in romcoms and actually getting the main couple together at the very start, so you don’t have to “deal” with the will they or won’t they, and writing this way you still have to develop their relationship while having them act as a couple in the first place, that’s a part of what was compelling about Tani and Suzuki’s relationship. The second season is not about them.

  The series decided that the best course of action wasn’t to give the main couple screentime, but actually, to reduce it by a lot and go to the will they or won’t they from other couples, which is exactly what the series was trying to avoid in the first place, it makes no sense that this is what the series decided to change its focus to. While people tend to say that Tani and Shizuku’s relationship isn’t interesting, I disagree, their couple is the most interesting one in the show. I know, Tani’s personality IS boring, I can understand that given that most of the time he doesn’t react much to what’s happening and he seems to have less personality than a generic romcom lead, but that doesn’t mean that he is bad, and in fact, because he is like this, the scenes where he actually wants to sit down and talk with his couple stand out, he is willing to communicate, to ask for things and not just be pushed towards what Suzuki wants to do without being pushy whatsoever, each of them do their part in the relationship and that’s what is compelling. The problem with their relationship is exactly the same problem all other relationships have in this series, there’s no drama whatsoever, this series is one of those safe romance series that decided that teenage couples do not have misunderstandings, lack of communication, problems outside their hands, or even random rampages of feeling that something isn’t enough, no lies to anyone and if they do it that gets fixed 2 minutes later. That’s why these relationships end up feeling empty, everything is fine and dandy, and the fact that the only real problem between couples is between Tani and Suzuki is what enhances their relationship to me, but most of the time even their problems will be irrelevant shit like “do you think your family won’t like my hair color?”, this series has no spice.

  And then, there’s the worst part, this series decided that it wants to focus on different couples aside from the main one, making them disappear from their own show. No, I’m not interested in watching the will they or won’t they here because I wasn’t sold towards it, Yamada and Nishi’s relationship is the one that isn’t interesting, you have to wait and wait for them to make their move despite both of them being in love with each other, you basically eat half of the season with them, but you don’t have anything meaningful happening between them, because, as I explained before, this series has no spice whatsoever, there was an episode where it could have had, but the series decided that having something actually interesting happening wasn’t allowed, I was so happy, why would I want my series to be entertaining? They are lackluster as characters and lackluster as a couple.

  Which leads me to the last couple, Taira and Azuma are, in fact, the most entertaining characters. Taira is basically the Ishigami of the show, he is this guy with no self-confidence that spouts negative shit about himself and sometimes others, he is the “relatable” guy for the audience and that’s why he is well liked, unlike Tani he has enough personality by himself, and unlike Yamada he is much more down to earth and not an extrovert so he is easier to relate to, if anything, my complaint is that the series usually takes his word too lightly, it takes what he says and then “spins it” to make him look silly, when some of the stuff he says make sense. Azuma is that kind of girl you knew in school that was on her 6th boyfriend and lost her virginity a while ago, she was pretty easy to picture out as a real person, including stuff like being pretty open about messing around with other boys even if she doesn’t count some of those instances as something that actually “counts”, which is why she is usually well regarded. The problem with them is that, while they are interesting for themselves, they are awful as a couple, you cannot make me believe that they are meant to be one, let alone that Azuma is the one seeking it out the most. Their relationship not only gets the least amount of development, it is also the most forced one, so their scenes together weren’t something that I was looking forward to.

  This series had a decent first season, but this second season just squanders the very reason I and probably you started watching it, the fact that there’s no chase and the couple is together from the start, it’s pretty sad that Tani and Suzuki weren’t featured more in the show where they are supposedly the main couple.

  Thank you for reading.

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