In my opinion I felt Love in the Air Japanese remake had its ups and downs mainly because I didn’t like how Rei was portrayed as a cute and baby like character because Rain in the Thai version didn’t act like that, but only acted cute for Payu. I really loved Fuma and Kai though because they had so much chemistry that whenever they came on the screen I just wanted more of them and less scenes of Arashi and Rei. I also felt that Arashi was super quiet this whole entire series like he would just stare, but only talk whenever he was with Rei. Anyways I may have spoilers so be aware.
This plot was almost exactly like Love in the Air Thailand version, but it felt rushed and I kind of get why it was rushed because it was a short amount of time and I feel it’s also because they wanted to put their own kind of touch to Love in the Air series, which I liked but it did kind of ruin the whole series since you rushed the good scenes only to make the scenes from the Thai version a little bad. My opinion on the characters are very mixed for example I felt Arashi was sort of like a temu version of Payu and we barley got any screen time of him because their story focused mainly on Rei and not the both of them. I always liked the plot where you had everyone in love with Payu and he spoke a lot, but I felt he barley even spoke for example that scene where Rei, Arashi, and Kai are in a cafe talking and then Fuma comes and finally sees Kai from their night of love and the whole scene was probably like 5 minutes, but Arashi was silent the whole time and just looked at everyone like give my boy Shoma (Arashi) some lines please. I felt Rei was an annoying character because all he did was try to act cute the whole series and it wasn’t like the cuteness you see in your favorite actors or idols, but the annoying type of cuteness where you wouldn’t want to see him as much as he was in this series. I really enjoyed him at the very beginning because he was just like Rain in my opinion, but once he started dating Arashi he became sort of annoying and like sort of loud like Jade in middleman’s love. I will also say that spanking scene of Rei and Arashi was very cringy and they kept replaying it over and over and it’s even in the special episode. I really liked Fuma in my opinion like he was just like Prapai for example they were both very loyal to Sky and Kai and they would protect them any day by their horrible and toxic ex. I also am a fan of his because he’s in the boy group Watwing and they have pretty good songs which is why he ate in the Love in the Air song. I am also obsessed with Kai because he’s so pretty and adorable like I wanted to hug him so many times throughout this show. I also liked that this show didn’t have to many scenes of Kai crying because in the Thai version Sky cried a lot and I didn’t want it to be sad either. Overall, I felt that you literally can’t outdo the original and I really loved Fuma and Kai so I’d recommend you should watch this because of them.