Synopsis

Utsukushii Kare is a series centered around two high-school boys with very different personalities and lifestyles. Seventeen year-old Hira is a third year high school student, who doesn’t talk much and tries to remain inconspicuous at school. Always at the bottom of his class, he has a tendency to stutter and prefers to hide this fact from his classmates. He tends to view the world through his camera and likes to remain detached, but when Kiyoi walks into the classroom, his world is shaken as he instantaneously finds himself captivated and struggles to resist being pulled into Kiyoi’s gravity, after which he devotes all his time attending to his every need. Kiyoi, beautiful and aloof, is king of his class and though the two would not normally interact, Hira somehow ends up as Kiyoi’s “lackey.” Thereafter, a complex love story between two polar opposites starts to develop…

The series is adapted from the novel by Nagira Yuu. The first drama series aired in 2021 and in 2023 a sequel series to bridge the gap between the first season and the forthcoming movie was announced.