Love Is Better the Second Time Around (2024)
Journalist Akihiro reunites with Takashi, his high school love, now a professor. Old emotions resurface as they navigate between professionalism and the past.
Where to watch
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Cast
Makoto Hasegawa
Akihiro Miyata 
Robin Furuya
Takashi Iwanaga 
Aloha Takamatsu
Yuto Shiraishi 
Akune Haruse
Taniguchi Rui 
Shunya Shiraishi
Kyosuke Sugimoto 
Motoki Fukami
Takaki Hibino 
Yusuke Onuki
Sota Arima User Reviews (2)
Oh this was so much fun! Finally a sexy, mature BL-Drama with likeable lead characters. Nice to rewatch, too.
This is the story of two guys that fell in love in high school and were about to run away together, but something broke them up. Now both 30 years old, they accidentally reconnect and at first that opens a lot of old, hurt feelings, but in time they decide to give love a second chance. The story is mostly told with them being 30, but there are some flashbacks to high school. The story is quite moving and it does have a happy ending, but it also kind of gives you the "one who got away" feelings too. It is only six parts, and I wish it had been longer, but the only frustrating part is that they keep eluding to what happened in high school as it broke them, but they don't actually explain what that was until the last two episodes. Personally, I think it would have been better if they had told us what that was right up front as that was the issue that had to be addressed in order for them to…
