Let's just cut right to it, this show was painfully boring. There, I said it. A story built around partial amnesia has real potential, but between the choppy scene structure and random flashbacks thrown in constantly, the whole plot ends up feeling more tangled than it needed to be. The romance doesn't fare much better either, it's written so poorly that I never really found myself invested in this couple. Both leads come across stiff on screen and deliver their lines in a really awkward way. The show runs 8 episodes, each somewhere around 30 to 35 minutes. Hanuel, a 29 year old language teacher, wakes up after an accident only to realize his memory stops at age 19. It turns out he'd been in another accident back then too, which is why his memories cut off at that point. He has zero recollection of the fact that he's currently living with his childhood friend Saebyeok, who's now a huge celebrity. That makes the whole situation even harder for Hanuel to wrap his ...
Gii and Takumi are now a happy couple, very much in love, still in school and their group of friends is very happy for them. Takumi doesn't believe in PDA which upsets Gii a little bit. Things change when a new first year student Morita joins appears in the picture. Gii wants to host a party and asks Takumi to make sure to invite Morita. Takumi goes through hall emotions of jealousy, anger and despair and thinks that finally Gii is over him and is now interested in the new handsome boy. A couple of days after thhe party and the lovers rift, Their best friend Suzuki leaves school for hospital due to his deteriorating terminal illness condition. It is then Takumi finds out the truth that Gii was just trying to bring together Suzuki and Morita, who were both mutually attracted to each other. Takumi apologizes and the misunderstandings are cleared. But Suzuki's condition eventually worsens, leaving the world thereby leaving heartbroken Morita and a letter thanking all his classmates for making his time at the boarding school as his most memorable.
This film focusses on two things: value of friendship and how a lovers grow in love in the form of envy, jealousy, romance, lover's quarrel etc. It was interesting to watch. Even though Gii was trying to bring two of his friends together, clearly he was also using this to make Takumi feel jealous, since he always disliked public acknowledgment of love from Gii. And it actually works. Although, on a negative side, Takumi's character always seemed apologetic about everything. I mean, if the couple is really a couple and even share the same room, this should not happen. Maybe its the difference in personalities. The two new actors fit their part seamlessly and I didn't miss the previous actors. It was cute how Gii goes out of the way to bring Suzuki and Morita together. The end was sad, even though as audience you really don't get invested in their love, but you feel the pain. By the way, I was pleasantly surprised at the extent to which they showed the lovemaking scene between Takumi and Gii. I'm sure it was a pretty big risk concerning mainstream Japanese morals. A befitting cute sequel to the first film. (6/10)
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