Super Lovers 2
SUPER LOVERS（スーパーラヴァーズ） 2
- Boys Love
- Comedy
- Drama
- Episodes
- 10
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Jan 12, 2017 to Mar 16, 2017
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
*Super Lovers 2* continues the story from *Super Lovers*, returning to its mix of boys’ love romance, comedy, and drama as the relationships and daily life of its cast move forward.
Serving as the second season, it picks up after the events of the first installment and builds on the same character dynamics and emotional beats that defined the original.
Otaku Consensus
Super Lovers 2 lands as a more confident continuation than its reputation suggests: Shinji Ishihira’s steady direction, Yoshiko Nakamura’s compact 10-episode composition, and Studio Deen’s clean character acting keep the Haru and Ren material readable, while reviewers most often praised the character development, progression, and polished animation. The verdict remains sharply conditional: the age-gap, adoption/inseki framing, and adult-minor romance are not incidental flavor but the season’s central friction, making it satisfying for invested viewers and a nonstarter for those troubled by the premise.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Super Lovers 2 if you want a BL series built around domestic tension, emotional negotiation, and character continuity rather than a reset-button romance. It scratches a different itch from louder relationship comedies like Junjou Romantica or Sekaiichi Hatsukoi: the appeal is less workplace farce or confession momentum and more watching small behavioral shifts accumulate across a short season. The 10-episode length helps; the season moves quickly enough that the character-development beats stay visible, which is why contemporary viewer reviews singled out progression and characterization as stronger than the basic trope package. The caveat is essential: if the adult-minor age gap, adoptive-family framing, or inseki element is a hard boundary, this season leans further into the complications rather than softening them.
Key Characters
- HHaru
Haru is the character through whom the season tests responsibility, attachment, and romantic discomfort, which is why fan discussion often centers on how viewers interpret his choices rather than on simple likability.
- RRen
Ren’s appeal lies in the way his guardedness and coming-of-age uncertainty make small changes in trust and communication feel like major character movement.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
Studio Deen’s production was repeatedly noted in viewer coverage for looking cleaner than many expected from a niche BL sequel, with one 2017 blog review rating the animation 9/10.
- 2
The season is structurally lean: it runs only 10 episodes, airing from January 12 to March 16, 2017, which gives the relationship complications less room to sprawl than a full cour.
- 3
AniList’s tag profile makes the show’s identity unusually explicit: Boys’ Love is weighted at 96%, while Coming of Age, Adoption, Orphan, and Inseki each sit at 79%, and Age Gap at 76%.
- 4
The music credit is shared by Yasuharu Takanashi, Shuuji Katayama, and Kenji Katoh, giving the series a larger named composition team than many short romance sequels receive.
- 5
Its reception is measurably polarized rather than obscure: it holds a 6.96/10 MAL score from over 50,000 votes, an AniList score of 66/100, and 301 AniList favorites.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Super Lovers 2 adapts material from original creator Miyuki Abe, with Shinji Ishihira directing and Yoshiko Nakamura handling series composition for the TV anime.
- Fun fact 2
- The second season finished its Japanese broadcast in a tight winter 2017 window, running from January 12 to March 16 for a total of 10 episodes.
- Fun fact 3
- The sound department lists Shouji Hata as sound director and Noriko Izumo on sound effects, separating overall audio direction from effects work in the production credits.
- Fun fact 4
- On MAL, the series sits at popularity rank #2468 and overall rank #5054, a useful snapshot of a title that is widely sampled inside BL fandom but remains critically divisive.
- Fun fact 5
- Contemporary online reviews commonly praised character development and progression, but even positive responses acknowledged the series’ reliance on familiar anime tropes.
Studios
- Studio Deen
