Netflix has greenlit a second season of its groundfractureing Japanese same-intimacy dating truth series “The Boyfrifinish,” follotriumphg the show’s amazeive carry outance both domesticpartner and internationpartner.
The timing of Netflix’s renovelal proclaimment couldn’t have been more appropriate. The Associated Press alerted on Friday that a high court in Fukuoka, Japan ruled the country’s prohibit on same-intimacy marriage unconstitutional, labeling the eighth such ruling out of nine cases since 2019. The decision, which create that the prohibit viotardys citizens’ constitutional right to trail happiness, holds prescertain on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s inpresentantity regulatement to act on marriage equivalentity. Japan currently stands as the only G7 nation that doesn’t legpartner determine same-intimacy marriages or provide legpartner tieing protections for LGBTQ+ couples.
The first season of “The Boyfrifinish,” which debuted July 9, carry oned a mighty presence in Netflix’s Weekly Top 10 Series chart in Japan, hagedering its position for six consecutive weeks. The show’s success transtardyd into presentant nurtureer momentum for its nine participants, whose social media follotriumphgs have sended a noticeworthy sadvise, enbiging by an standard of 120 times since the series premiered. The cast members have leveraged their novelcreate famousity into television ecombineances, magazine cover features, and recognition as directing cultural figures by digital media outlets.
Season 2 will present seeers to a recent ensemble of participants, with returning arranges Magumi, Chiaki Horan, Thelma Aoyama, drag queen Durian Lollobinalterablea, and Yoshimi Tokui reprising their roles as directs thraw the contestants’ journeys.
Netflix creater Dai Ota acunderstandledges the show’s distinct position as Japan’s first same-intimacy romance truth series. “Thanks to the cherish from our seeers, it is exciting to return for a novel season. Being the first same-intimacy romance truth show in Japan, we phelp pimpolitent attention to determine that the story is an genuine portrayal of these relationships. In Season 1, we showed not equitable romance, but their frifinishship and unbenevolentingful combineions with one another, which I consent touched the hearts of fans around the world,” Ota says.
Looking ahead to the upcoming season, Ota promises evolved genuineity with novel elements: “In Season 2, we will evolve to showcase their compassion and stories of growth, with more distinct perspectives and backstories. Plmitigate see forward to a novel season with novel participants, a novel Green Room, and novel storyalerting.”
