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Hello, can i have the link too please?

Has anyone read the original novel? Did S1 not cover the original complete story?

There are at least 3 (maybe 4) volumes in the manga, so I don't think there would have been much lack of content to adapt.
But the series is one of those slow, relaxed stories where not much happens.

Found it on kisskhweb.

Where to watch with English subs?

Honestly!
He keeps saying stuff like that as if he's too courageous to care when he literally has zero consequences for his actions, while she keeps taking his words and self-destructing.
And I thought they'll show how 3 years later he's an 'adult' now, but no. He's still the same spoiled brat even if he dresses differently.
(I haven't finished the series yet, Right now at ep 8 where she's trying to crash and burn again and I got pissed off enough to comment here.)

According to the cast list here, one of the actor's real name 'Asahi Nanami' is another one's character's name!

What does the title "At 25:00, in Akasaka" mean?
(Was this mentioned in season 1 and I just forgot?)

I agree, though I feel Niihara's acting in the 'play' was pretty good. But his portrayal of Shirasaki was not it.

To me that part felt somewhat badly written making it unconvincing. When Shirasaki kinda went off on Asami there I was like "What?! Where did that even came from? Why are you getting angry here? It doesn't make sense!" And overall also, that outburst was not really required for the story.

Looking at the "Cast & Credits" section here, m just now realising that Raika-san was "Leica" the camera brand.

Chishiya and Nigagi I can still consider that maybe their vital organs weren't hit and they were just very slowly bleeding to death. But Akane was too much. And Ann actually died and got revived in the real world?! That's just cheating now. She wasn't even alive to answer the "Which world?" questions!

They explained nothing?!! (-̩̩̩-̩̩̩__-̩̩̩-̩̩̩)
Anybody has read the original Novel that this series is based on? Can they share the explanation spoiler?

Nice series.
I liked how the whole premise of the show was about a guy with supernatural powers helping a professor of supernatural things...And still every single episode ended with a Scooby-doo-esque 'this wasn't supernatural at all' explanation. ("we can't meet a real mystery that easily.")
And still it was often NOT "The real monsters are humans" trope. The episodes usually had a unexpectedly wholesome explanation, like ep1 with the teacher who was just trying to form better friendships between her students, or ep where the apartment agency guy was trying to support the tenant girl's dream.

I didn't understand the 'pick a candy' part in the last episode.
Are we saying that the ability is not a 'curse' but a 'charm'? Or is it that the grandfather appearing was supposed to be to help not curse?
Is that why Grandpa pulled back when sensei asked to take both candies? Because, grandpa didn't want him to have double-misery? Was that scene just to show that Grandpa's ghost is not the villain? Because with the whole grapes, etc trick...the candy part was completely bypassed anyway, he could have done the grapes trick before going in the candy room.

It should be, AFTER the fireworks scene - they are together, Kurokawa has given him the pens (makes sense when those pens are shown in the movie)...then they go home together and then the movie story takes over.
So, we should assume that the last <3mins of the series - 'them waking up together, kissing in the elevator at work' happens after the movie. Then the story makes better sense. Because movie starts with them 'trying' their first kiss on the Christmas evening after coming home from the fireworks.
(And the movie 'rewind' showed it rewind till "before" the fireworks, that must have been a mistake)

Just finished watching.
I thought in the part before them meeting in Nagasaki, the lack of touch was very deliberate. Kurokawa was afraid that Adachi would read his mind and realise that he doesn't really want him to go, while Adachi was worried that he's not-trusting Kurokawa or not believing him by touching him.
In the beginning, in the elevator when Adachi was getting bombarded by all the thoughts of people around him, Kurokawa held his hand to ask about weekend plans to distract him...the same scene, them getting on the elevator, after it was decided that he's transferring, they were standing a feet apart.
That's what I thought was a real vulnerable time, but Adachi's powers were actually getting in the way. Would have been better if they could just admit that they want Adachi to go, but also don't want him to go at the same time so that they could be free to console each other about the unfairness of life.
Beyond that, the rest of it, i thought, was the usual level of lack of intimacy that's common in most Japanese dramas of this kind.

Yeah, but its more than that. Someone mentioned below that Black's way of protecting those he care about is by keeping them away from his world.
That's why he broke up with Eugene and why he slapped White when White said he joined the gang.
So, he beat up Sean because Sean is pulling White in this world and if Sean starts hating 'Black' after the beating, then White would be free to go back to his comfortable life....or so Black hopes, probably.
Black has a serious martyr syndrom thing going on for those he care about. For everyone else, he's someone who always chooses violence.

The showed the prophecy by the 'face reader' a few times through-out the show that the crown prince will die young without ever reaching the throne while Prime Minister's grandson has a higher probability of becoming the next great king.
So, that flashback at the end was to say that the prophecy was completely true, Just the kids were switched because the face-reader mistook who the crown prince was when they had exchanged head-gears.

I'm not sure if that fits the 'time-loop' plot. At least not in the groundhog day way where someone is 'stuck' re-living a set time.
This is more of time-travel where someone is intentionally (mostly) travelling back in time and has the capability to stop doing it if they wanted to.