Love Is Better the Second Time Around
A tender second-chance romance between former high school lovers navigating rekindled feelings across professional and personal boundaries, grounded in emotional interiority and the bittersweet pull of the past.
Journalist Akihiro reunites with Takashi, his high school love, now a professor. Old emotions resurface as they navigate between professionalism and the past.
Essence
Ensemble
Makoto Hasegawa
Akihiro Miyata
Robin Furuya
Takashi Iwanaga
Aloha Takamatsu
Yuto Shiraishi
Nose Rin
Takashi Iwanaga [Young]
Haruki Mochizuki
Akihiro Miyata [Young]
Akune Haruse
Taniguchi Rui
Riko Nagase
Ako Fukuda
Chie Tsuji
Rena Hoshizawa
Shunya Shiraishi
Kyosuke Sugimoto
Motoki Fukami
Takaki Hibino
Yusuke Onuki
Sota Arima
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