Dating, delinquents and second chances in Japan
Japanese Netflix show Badly In Love puts 11 troubled young people in a confined space and waits for Eros to light the touchpaper.
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Badly In Love’s message about the importance of second chances in life failed to gain traction in the face of an online backlash.
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Leo Lewis
Ruru attacked a stranger with a liquor bottle. Kazu-kun set fire to someone for a dare. Ali “the Buddha” fought his way to freedom from a police car. As role models go, Japan has never had it so good.
As millions in Japan and around the world will already know, these “yankii” delinquents feature among the cast of the second season of Badly In Love – a Netflix dating reality show that puts 11 young firecrackers – in some cases with criminal pasts, in most cases severely troubled – in one place and waits for Eros to light the touchpaper.