I really feel like I should tell you how great this drama was because it got so many bad reviews. Personally, it felt more like another season of Hana Kimi than just another remake...

First of all the cast: okay, at first I was a little bit disappointed by Ashiya's obvious fail at acting like a guy. (Really.. come on that voice! o_O) but then you get gradually used to it so it sinks back into the background and well she's a girl so I suppose that's fine ^-^
then, I guess a lot of people criticized Miura Shohei's Nakatsu..? Well, I loooved him! Damn, that boy is good at acting! and he played Nakatsu's part so well! I know it should be damn hard to beat Ikuta Toma to his work, but Miura was just different and did an awesome job.
Then, Nakamura Aoi didn't quite fit Sano's character as well as I wanted it to be but that was mainly because of my biased opinion after seeing him in Beck, it just mixed up the characters for me and I kind of got lost *-*
Supporting roles were awesome too. Especially Kiriyama Renn as Nanba Minami (oh so handsome~), Saito Takumi as the school doctor (*-*), and
Tokuyama Hidenori as Oscar.

The music: I don't especially remember all of the music, but I was kind of surprised to hear pieces of the Spirited Away OST (if I am not mistaken...), it fitted in really well and I loved it :D

The rewatch value: to be honest I'm not really a person who rewatches dramas but here I'll certainly watch a random episode of this drama once in a while, just to get that atmosphere back, to see those characters again,... I think it's an excellent drama if you feel down and need to be cheered up :D

So, I would just say: Don't be too prejudiced, forget a little about the previous version(s) you know and just watch & enjoy this amazing drama!

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