Review of Junjo Romantica

I watched this anime once again, this time, with my friends. We speedran through it, playing the whole anime on speed 1.5. We took a break after 8 episodes to mentally recover and then resumed the next day. CHARACTERS We had fun diagnosing characters: Here we have Usami Akihiko, who is a pure example of autism (doesn't excuse his rape behavior), but sometimes he melted my heart. Thus, he is the cutest rapist of yaoi. Hiroki, who has very severe anger issues, his partner, kinda doglike (my favorite one), who not only suffers from autism (once again), but also from regression. Sometimes him, being the most matureout of all characters here, made me reconsider life. Also, he plain cute. When he was respecting Hiroki's personal space. (Very rare). I shall not mention Shinobi. He was just bad. I want to forget about him. His partner was actually pretty solid... before he was struck with yaoi syndrome. Even though, he never finished his cigarettes and put them off just after liting them up. And now, last but not least, Misaki. This little dude, protagonist, suffers from extreme stupid. He yells out what he thinks midway, shocking innocent bystanders, doesn't even know what he wants, and overall? He either irritated me or made me cringe. Yeah.
To summarize, thanks for unintended autism representation.
STORY
Actually i liked how many things were connected. Especially the thing with Hiroki and Usami (Akihiko). The town they lived in was kind of a gay gathering spot - you'd normally not see that many gay people.
Also I liked the story and how it linked to the present of the smoker guy.
But what I can't forgive is the amount of rape, sexual assault, molestation, disrespect of the personal space, and the dudes casually forgetting about it, like it was just another day for their little gay world. Only Hiroki's and Nowaki's case didn't require police involved for sexual assault - however, I would call police on Hiroki for violence on partner. I don't care about his anger issues. Don't throw objects at your dude.
Also, remember - if you don't chase at your partner, but instead of running, you just walk at fast pace right behind him, do you really love them? Junjou had a few moments of men just walking. Right. After. The other one. Like it's nothing. And talking even though there are people around.
The story was also quite predictable. There was a 90% chance that when we say "He's gonna...", he was really gonna. And he did that. And we laughed.
ART
Sometimes they suffer from the syndrome of yaoi hands. But the beggining of manga was worse. BUT THE DAMNED AMOUNT OF FLOWERS IN THE OPENING. HELL. Also, the transforming of Hiroki's chin once he realised he was the bottom of the relationship... Pure comedy. Even though it's the trope of yaois, I still don't like the clear visual differences between this stupid stereotype of one taking pp in, one putting pp in.
SOUND
Opening was what i hated when i was younger. I curse my younger self for that - it's a total banger. I hate the ending tho, especially the "junjou baby love" part. But the opening... Pretty solid. Especially the part they didn't sing in the short version of the song. Besides the opening? I dont remember that many tracks, which means they were not getting on my nerves. But since the opening lived rent free in my head for a few days (now what is living here is the second opening), I'm giving it an 8.
ENJOYMENT
Sometimes we were disappointed. Sometimes we laughed. Sometimes we thought it's actually pretty cute (mostly Nowaki). Sometimes we laughed through disappointement. It was quite enjoyable. But yeah, it probably wouldn't be that enjoyable if we didn't make fun of characters every 2 minutes.
OVERALL
Since it was one of the earlier """yaois"""... It's quite ok. But watch it with friends on speed 1.5. Point out some bad and, in rl, unforgivable cliches, and it's way better. A fun anime to watch with your friends, partner, children (actually don't) and get disappointed, laugh, and very rarely - find someone adorable.