Starring
Makoto HasegawaRobin FuruyaHaruki MochizukiAroha TakamatsuTomomitsu AdachiNose Rin
Written by
Keiko Kinoshita
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Love Is Better the Second Time Around Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 7.4 | 7.8 | |||||
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Journalist Akihiro reunites with Takashi, his high school love, now a professor. Old emotions resurface as they navigate between professionalism and the past.
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Journalist Akihiro reunites with Takashi, his high school love, now a professor. Old emotions resurface as they navigate between professionalism and the past.
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Cast
Makoto Hasegawa Akihiro Miyata
Robin Furuya Takashi Iwanaga
Haruki Mochizuki Akihiro Miyata (young)
Aroha Takamatsu Shiraishi Yuto
Tomomitsu Adachi Editor-in-chief
Nose Rin Takashi Iwanaga (young)
Riku Ichikawa
Takuya Wakabayashi
Shun'ya Shiraishi Sugimoto Kyosuke
Aino Kuribayashi
Crew
Keiko Kinoshita
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