

Love Is Better the Second Time Around
2024-03-05 · 24 min / episode · ★ 7.8
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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Makoto HasegawaAkihiro Miyata
Robin FuruyaTakashi Iwanaga
Aloha TakamatsuYuto Shiraishi
Akune HaruseTaniguchi Rui
Shunya ShiraishiKyosuke Sugimoto
Motoki FukamiTakaki Hibino
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