Hitter

Had to rewatch it

I Hear The Sunspots is a coming of age romance story adapted from the manga HIdamari ga Kikoeru. The story follows 2 boys who are in their first few years of college. Sagawa Taichi, a boy who's recently been fired from his part time job. Taichi is known for being a loud person with a cheerful persona. The second main protagonist of the story is Sugihara Kohei, a handsome and intelligent boy who’s hard of hearing. Kohei spends most of the time alone due to his disability, sometimes being a liability. The two males first intertwine when Taichi, who gathered all the coins in his wallet, bought a soda. Unfortunately for him he dropped the soda the minute it was in his hands and it began to roll down a hill. Chasing after his precious soda he spent all his pennies on, Taichi trips and falls down this small hidden hill and takes a tumble before landing straight on his back. That’s when he first sees Kohei, who is sitting on a roof of sorts, and is about to eat his lunch. Taichi apologizes for disturbing his peace before his eyes settle on Kohei’s lunch. Taichi is a big back and constantly hungry so with no shame he pleads with his eyes to have a bite of the delicious food Kohei has in his hands. Kohei offers all of the food to Taichi, and without shame Taichi accepts. Without saying a word Kohei grabs his things and dips. Curious about the mysterious person he’s just met, Taichi asks his friends if they know who he is. Supposedly, Kohei is well known around the school for his handsome looks, and it’s also a well known fact that he is hard of hearing. Then Taichi’s friends show him a flyer to be a notetaker for the hard of hearing which strikes a spark in Taichi’s mind. The next day Taichi finds himself in the place where he first met Kohei. He takes a seat beside Kohei and returns the lunch box that Kohei had left with him the day prior. Taichi shares how he’s heard about him around school and says he’d want to work as his note taker. He soon discovers that you need to go through training to do it officially. That’s where Kohei suggests the idea of not making it official and instead of actually being paid his reward would be a lunch. As the big fatty Taichi is, he accepted the offer with less then no hesitation marking the beginning of their mutually beneficial relationship.
I absolutely loved this series. It wasn't what I had really expected to like much because the first time I saw it I did not feel interested at all. I read the synopsis but my only thoughts were too much plot because at the time I had just wanted a plain and simple romance. I’ve now come to realize that when I think I want a plain and simple romance it really calls for a beautiful, deep, character driven show. This show was perfect in so many ways and it did have its flaws but I believe that they were overweight. The first thing I want to acknowledge is the actors. The actors were perfect for this role and I cannot imagine anyone else playing these characters like they are quite literally them. I have read the manga but I’ve only read it after I had watched the whole entire series so I’d say my perception might be biased but I adore the live action much more compared to the manga. Though nothing can surpass the original, my heart yearned for me to watch the show once more while I was reading the manga which did not fill the void. That is why I’m watching it once again, which speaks millions of words for me because I rarely re-watch shows and if I do it’s usually when a year has at least passed. Back to the actors. They are perfect for the roles and they are splendid actors. Phenomenal. They encapsulated the characters and became the characters like you know and the actor did their job when you cannot dissociate them from their roles. Secondly, what I loved about this show was the slowburn. The show was on such a thin line of romance and a simple bromance that if you had just taken away the scene where Kohei kissed Taichi it really would have passed as a bromance. Watching it again just really shows that this scene really changed the whole plot of the show. It’s like in those bromance series where all you could think is will they kiss or not and they never do, but this time they actually did. I think that’s one thing I appreciate about the story so much because it keeps this lingering feeling of yearning throughout the whole show. Kohei confessed around the middle of the series but even then Taichi is still figuring out his feelings of friendship or love? It also shows such an emphasis that Taichi was Kohei’s friend and a dear friend to him before he even realized his feelings and the same could be said about Kohei to Taichi. I believe that even if this show focused just on the friendship I still would’ve loved it because their friendship and just the chemistry the actors have feel so real. Though there are so many things I love, it does have its downsides. First, would that be the ending, like where’s season 2? It just leaves so much to be wondered and sometimes I enjoy it but I feel like we rarely see the characters together to even make up an imagination of their own. Instead of wondering what their futures together would be like It’s more of a will they even have a future together? Next, I also hate their little friendship break up era or whatever they had going on. I know that it moved the plot forward and it’s also quite realistic because I also believe Taichi would drop out of university, I don’t enjoy the stage where they rarely talked. Lastly, I hate Maya because she caused a riff in their relationship which I believe to be so out of character for them. Their whole miscommunication era seemed so out of character considering Taichi was such an enthusiast for talking to each other and sharing their feelings with each other which was the reason why Kohei told him how he felt. I just think that the characters would have developed on their own without another person making them develop.
I would recommend this show for everyone. I think there is nothing that can go wrong with watching it. You might not be guaranteed to love it, but I can guarantee that you’d at least like it. I also think this is such a good show for a non-bl watcher to start off with. It’s nothing too freaky but the friendship between the leads is good enough to keep you focused the whole time. The actors are also eye candy, and the setting is beautiful. It's just overall a well rounded show.

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