Yumi

I watched the Thai version and I can't for the life of me remember anything about it, so I checked what I have commented a year ago, and I found out that I liked the two leads and their love, loved the niece, and the drama in general but hated the story, everyone else and totally skipped the second leads relationship.

I have to admit my review of the Japanese version is the same but with some enhancement.

I loved the cast, the two leads were spectacular, their chemistry their intimate scenes, their love is so natural and comfortable to watch, cinematography was nice too, the focus on the environment and scenery was balanced and nice, the story didn't drag as much as the Thai version which made it top the original, side characters also were ok-ish, I still skipped their relationship but watched the two females in the rest of the scenes.

I have to highlight one thing I found amazing about this drama, the romance here is superb!! I haven't seen any other JBL that shows this much eroticism and intimacy with such grace, mostly JBLs that has erotic explicit scenes are usually related to violence, trauma, and darkness or psychological problems... İt's really rare to find a light fluffy intimacy that shows raw sex like that for that long on screen, usually if they exist they tent to be cut short, the last time I saw a nice sex scene I believe was in "the journey to killing you" -not sure the title is accurate - but it was about Yakuza, so as I said, this here is the first to show normal explicit sex that isn't awkward nor violent.

All in all it's an upgrade from the original as it fixes some of the original work's flaws...

İf I have to choose, I'd suggest this version with the two special episodes for Extra happy end.