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According to the cast list here, one of the actor's real name 'Asahi Nanami' is another one's character's name!

What does the title "At 25:00, in Akasaka" mean?
(Was this mentioned in season 1 and I just forgot?)

I agree, though I feel Niihara's acting in the 'play' was pretty good. But his portrayal of Shirasaki was not it.

To me that part felt somewhat badly written making it unconvincing. When Shirasaki kinda went off on Asami there I was like "What?! Where did that even came from? Why are you getting angry here? It doesn't make sense!" And overall also, that outburst was not really required for the story.

Looking at the "Cast & Credits" section here, m just now realising that Raika-san was "Leica" the camera brand.

Chishiya and Nigagi I can still consider that maybe their vital organs weren't hit and they were just very slowly bleeding to death. But Akane was too much. And Ann actually died and got revived in the real world?! That's just cheating now. She wasn't even alive to answer the "Which world?" questions!

They explained nothing?!! (-̩̩̩-̩̩̩__-̩̩̩-̩̩̩)
Anybody has read the original Novel that this series is based on? Can they share the explanation spoiler?

Nice series.
I liked how the whole premise of the show was about a guy with supernatural powers helping a professor of supernatural things...And still every single episode ended with a Scooby-doo-esque 'this wasn't supernatural at all' explanation. ("we can't meet a real mystery that easily.")
And still it was often NOT "The real monsters are humans" trope. The episodes usually had a unexpectedly wholesome explanation, like ep1 with the teacher who was just trying to form better friendships between her students, or ep where the apartment agency guy was trying to support the tenant girl's dream.

I didn't understand the 'pick a candy' part in the last episode.
Are we saying that the ability is not a 'curse' but a 'charm'? Or is it that the grandfather appearing was supposed to be to help not curse?
Is that why Grandpa pulled back when sensei asked to take both candies? Because, grandpa didn't want him to have double-misery? Was that scene just to show that Grandpa's ghost is not the villain? Because with the whole grapes, etc trick...the candy part was completely bypassed anyway, he could have done the grapes trick before going in the candy room.

It should be, AFTER the fireworks scene - they are together, Kurokawa has given him the pens (makes sense when those pens are shown in the movie)...then they go home together and then the movie story takes over.
So, we should assume that the last <3mins of the series - 'them waking up together, kissing in the elevator at work' happens after the movie. Then the story makes better sense. Because movie starts with them 'trying' their first kiss on the Christmas evening after coming home from the fireworks.
(And the movie 'rewind' showed it rewind till "before" the fireworks, that must have been a mistake)

Just finished watching.
I thought in the part before them meeting in Nagasaki, the lack of touch was very deliberate. Kurokawa was afraid that Adachi would read his mind and realise that he doesn't really want him to go, while Adachi was worried that he's not-trusting Kurokawa or not believing him by touching him.
In the beginning, in the elevator when Adachi was getting bombarded by all the thoughts of people around him, Kurokawa held his hand to ask about weekend plans to distract him...the same scene, them getting on the elevator, after it was decided that he's transferring, they were standing a feet apart.
That's what I thought was a real vulnerable time, but Adachi's powers were actually getting in the way. Would have been better if they could just admit that they want Adachi to go, but also don't want him to go at the same time so that they could be free to console each other about the unfairness of life.
Beyond that, the rest of it, i thought, was the usual level of lack of intimacy that's common in most Japanese dramas of this kind.

Yeah, but its more than that. Someone mentioned below that Black's way of protecting those he care about is by keeping them away from his world.
That's why he broke up with Eugene and why he slapped White when White said he joined the gang.
So, he beat up Sean because Sean is pulling White in this world and if Sean starts hating 'Black' after the beating, then White would be free to go back to his comfortable life....or so Black hopes, probably.
Black has a serious martyr syndrom thing going on for those he care about. For everyone else, he's someone who always chooses violence.

The showed the prophecy by the 'face reader' a few times through-out the show that the crown prince will die young without ever reaching the throne while Prime Minister's grandson has a higher probability of becoming the next great king.
So, that flashback at the end was to say that the prophecy was completely true, Just the kids were switched because the face-reader mistook who the crown prince was when they had exchanged head-gears.

I'm not sure if that fits the 'time-loop' plot. At least not in the groundhog day way where someone is 'stuck' re-living a set time.
This is more of time-travel where someone is intentionally (mostly) travelling back in time and has the capability to stop doing it if they wanted to.

Also, on his last day, I was expecting him to be more understanding of the fact she's meeting him for the first time as her boyfriend. Maybe introduce himself, ask her if she's ok with spending the next 30 days with him, ask her if she's ok with meeting his parents on the second day of meeting him. :)

Just finished watching and it was beautiful but heartbreaking.

I didn't completely understand the 5 year thing. Is it, that she goes back to her universe and only appears in this universe for 30 days every 5 years?
But that means she must have a full life in her own universe, with university, friends, family etc and these 30 days are like a vacation.

And in this universe, She is living in a world moving backwards? how?!
I thought of this, when in the end she visits the house that he was living in. And I was thinking that maybe she'll move in there for memories, but how. If she supposedly moves out of the house on his 'day 1', then her 'future' would have to meet up with the landlord to get the house. So her present wouldn't know that the house is her's or not. That makes the scene when she's 15 and in a school (in this universe), even weirder. Does she get details from her classmates about 'what happened yesterday' and then leave out instruction for herself on what homework she's supposed to take, what classes are going to be, where's she's expected to show up etc. Why bother if it's just for 30 days?

Living for just 30 days in a backward universe is at least not as bad as living forever.
(she wouldn't have to move in the house if the house doesn't even exit for her after those 30 days because she's in another universe then.)

I'm sure we weren't supposed to dissect the movie logic and just enjoy the feelings behind it and put everything unexplainable to 'magic'.