Boarding School Juliet is a rom-com anime series that—just like many other series—is based on a manga series with the same title. This manga series, which was written and illustrated by Yōsuke Kaneda, was serialized in 2015 in the Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine. However, by 2017, it was transferred over to the Weekly Shōnen Magazine. Because of its popularity and potential, Kodansha decided to publish a light novel based on the manga in the same year.
The following year, renowned animation studio Liden Films picked up Boarding School Juliet and adapted it into an anime series. The first season was first aired in October 2018, and many fans of the manga praised the anime series for being faithful to its source material. Given how popular the first season was, you’d expect that it would be renewed for a second season. However, even today, fans are still patiently waiting for any news regarding season 2.
What Is the Anime About?
As you’ve probably inferred from its title, Boarding School Juliet is a love story that was inspired by William Shakespeare’s famous Romeo and Juliet play. In this case, instead of two feuding families living in Verona, Boarding School Juliet’s stage is set in a prestigious boarding school known as Dahlia Academy. However, this school is attended by students from two clashing nations.
On one side, we have the “White Cats” from the Principality of West. On the other side, we have the “Black Doggies” from the Eastern Nation of Touwa. Just like Romeo and Juliet, Boarding School Juliet follows the growing yet forbidden love between two students from different sides: Juliet Persia and Romio Inuzuka.
What makes the situation even more difficult is that Romio is the dorm leader of Touwa’s first-year students. On the other hand, Juliet is the dorm leader of the first-year Principality students. Naturally, both characters have to pretend that they hate each other when what they feel is the complete opposite—they’re terribly and hopelessly in love with one another.
But of course, given their current situation, it seems that their love will never blossom into anything more than just a secret. Because if their respective comrades find out the truth, they’ll risk losing their respect and allegiances. As such, both Romio and Juliet must tread carefully, unless they want to suffer the consequences of their forbidden love.
Who Are the Characters?
Boarding School Juliet has many recurring characters, but we’ll only provide a brief summary of the two lovebirds, Romio and Juliet. As always, the sections ahead may have possible spoilers, so be wary of that if you haven’t watched the anime series yet.
Romio Inuzuka
Romio Inuzuka is the male main character of the romantic-comedy anime series, Boarding School Juliet. He’s physically strong and his outer personality also displays that facade. Deep down, however, he’s a hopeless romantic who’s in love with the Principality’s Juliet Persia, his supposed arch-nemesis. In fact, he has loved her since they were kids, and he secretly protected her whenever the students from the two opposing nations had a feud.
Despite his strong feelings towards Juliet, Romio is terribly awkward. As such, he struggles to let Juliet know of his ever-growing feelings towards her. Romio also isn’t very good academically, and he has a difficult time keeping up with his studies at the academy.
Juliet Persia
Juliet Persia is the first-year Principality students’ dorm leader. As such, they hold her in high regard. Juliet is actually the only descendant of a Persian noble family of the Principality. However, their family risks losing its status as a noble due to the fact that it doesn’t have a male heir. Because of this discriminatory tradition, Juliet promised herself that she would be as smart and as strong as a man.
Unlike Romio, Juliet didn’t already have feelings for him since childhood. In fact, she was quite dismissive of him at first and even thought of him as her arch-nemesis due to their nation’s feud. But as time goes on, she begins to fall in love with Romio and doesn’t try to hide it from him.
When they finally start dating each other, Juliet pretends to be a middle school Touwa boy named Julio so that they could be seen together without arousing suspicion from the other students. After all, no one was allowed to know about their secret romance.
Is There Any News About Season 2?
Until now, there’s still no news whether Boarding School Juliet will be getting a second season. However, there’s no need to fret. Think about it this way: the first season of Boarding School Juliet had 12 episodes and ran from October 2018 through December 2018. Now, the manga series currently has 14 tankōbon volumes, which means that there’s still a plethora of source material left for a season 2, if the producers choose to pick up the show again.
However, the one thing that stands in the way of fans possibly getting a second season is finances. You see, despite its popularity, Boarding School Juliet didn’t really collect a lot of money from the DVD and Blu-Ray sales. On the bright side, revenues from streaming platforms could potentially keep the anime afloat, especially since we live in the age of streaming.
That being said, it’s difficult to guess whether a season 2 will be made or if the studio has dropped the anime completely. Still, given how much content they could still make based on the remaining source material, there’s still a decent chance. We’ll keep both our eyes and ears open for any news to come in the following months.
Manga vs Anime
It was announced in April 2019 that the manga’s West Arc story will be the final part of the series, and the final chapter—Chapter 119—was released in September of the same year. Although some fans complained that certain episodes of the anime had subpar quality and animation, everyone agrees that the anime adaptation was pretty much faithful to the manga. In fact, some would even go so far as to say that it was nearly a 1-to-1 adaptation.
The 12th episode of Boarding School Juliet can be found in Chapter 18 Volume 4, which means that if you want to start reading the manga where the anime left off, you can go straight to Chapter 19 if you don’t want to start from the beginning.
Conclusion
It can be disheartening to keep waiting for news about your favorite show but don’t lose hope. We’ll update you as soon as we hear something, but for now, you can also entertain yourself by reading the manga series instead.
