The OG story that this show is adapting has always been a weird case of curiosity for me ever since I was a child, albeit it was the Koren version "Playful Kiss". I have only discovered that there are several different adaptations to this, and after watching the first season I was left kinda wanting for more.

The first season felt like a cookie cutter in many areas, blame my nostalgia for "Playful Kiss" on that, but this second season really sets up this one on a different league simply because it went beyond the weeding, there is an entire life after Kotoko and Naoki get married in the first season and having grown up over the years, I definitely appreciated the more mundane adult life of the couple as they moved on past school and college, and to the real world.

I would argue that this season, as it tacked the relationship outside school and home put both leads into more believable scenarios that definitely pushed their characters to be develop more, especially for old cold folk Naoki.