#Drama: Love in The Air KOI

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Love in the Air: Koi no Yokan | S01E01 Japanese Drama - 2024, 10 episodes

Native Title: #Love in The Air ～恋の予感～

Genres: #LGBTQ+ 

Tags: #Adapted from a Novel

Cast: #Shoma Nagumo | #Takuto Hamaya | #Akira Suzuki | #Reo Nagatsuma

Links: Gaga | Viki | YouTube | iQIYI | WeTV | Youku | Tencent

 Catalog: Episode GIF sets | Japanese Drama | Japanese BL

[heretherebedork]

Sky is always one of my favorite characters, even when his name is Kai.

[pharawee]

But you're the one who started this, right?

—Bonus: Love in the Air Thailand » Gifset Comparison

[he-is-lightning-in-a-bottle]

I am enjoying how the tighter script in the Japanese version is making it even more obvious that Payu/Arashi really did have every reason to believe Rain/Rei was coming onto him.

It felt obvious to me in the Thai version, but there was so much filler dialog that it was easy to get lost in the weeds. In the Japanese version, we see Rei blurt out to Arashi that he is handsome, then cut directly to him gushing about how handsome he is to Kai. Then we get Kai reminding Rei (and us) that his admiration of Hot Motorcycle Guy doesn't sound very hetero, and then we see Rei defending Hot Motorcycle Guy's hotness against the rumors of Arashi's hotness only to be floored when he discovers they're the same person. And then he really DOES look like he's attracted to Arashi that night, everything from staring at him at the dinner to initiating touch to agreeing to go home with him to sitting on his bed when invited to SAYING YES when Arashi asks if he can do more. Arashi is pretty blameless in this scenario, and immediately backed off when he realized Rei wasn't meaning to offer sex (just mutual attraction). And after finding Rei in his bed in the middle of the night, is it any wonder he continued to flirt in the morning? Rei hasn't said he's not attracted to Arashi, only that he wasn't trying to seduce him that night.

It's just such a clear, direct thread between point A and point B. I made essentially the same mental journey in the Thai version, but the filler scenes and dialog made it a less obvious path to traverse. It felt like Rain wasn't consciously aware of his attraction, so Payu's advances felt both surprising and unwanted (but I could still see how Payu could have sincerely misread the situation). Yet in the Japanese version, it seems everyone is aware of Rei's attraction (from Kai to Arashi to Rei himself) because they're all spending the whole episode talking about it. It's talked about in basically every scene other than the 30 second montage of his failed attempts at flirting with Rinka.

All this to say, tightening the script in this Japanese version is proving really, really helpful for character and plot development, and I am here for it.

[thii-nii]

Love is like a poison (2024) 毒恋～毒もすぎれば恋となる～

Episode Six.

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

Upcoming QLs - November

🇹🇼 Bad to Bed

Nov 2nd | MDL | Trailer | YT - JCShow

🇵🇭 Haunted Hearts (Film)

Nov 2nd | Trailer | YT - Regal Entertainment Inc

🇯🇵Love in the Air: Koi no Yokan

Nov 3rd | MDL | Trailer | GagaOOLala

🇯🇵Miseinen / Our Youth

Nov 5th | MDL | Trailer | GagaOOLala

🇯🇵Doku Koi: Love Is a Poison

Nov 5th | MDL | Trailer | Netflix - Worldwide

🇹🇼 The Nipple Talk

Nov 8th | MDL | Trailer | GagaOOLala [8/11 EP1 ~ EP5 22/11 EP61 ~ EP10]

🇯🇵Kimi no Tsugu Kaori wa / Fragrance You Inherit

Nov 8th | MDL | Trailer | TBD

🇹🇭 Caged Again

Nov 15th | MDL | Trailer | iQIYI

🇹🇭 Mhom Ped Sawan

Nov 17th | MDL | Trailer | TBD

🇹🇭 Your Sky

Nov 17th | MDL | Trailer | iQIYI

🇹🇭 The Heart Killers

Nov 20th | MDL | Trailer | Gmmtv YT ; iQIYI (Uncut)

🇹🇭 Petrichor

Nov 23rd | MDL | Trailer | iQIYI

[pigglepiephi]

I liked the first episode of Love in the Air Koi. I feel like the story is gonna benefit from the Japanese gritty aesthetic and the shorter run time.

Though the first episode was pretty much a straight follow of LITA EP1, this scene worked so better for me here compared to how it played out in the original.

Shoma was looking stunning too! 🤩

[25shadesoffebruary]

[aheartfrcats]

It’s like actually the same. Copy and paste. Of course boss and noeul have amazing chemistry and the whole cast just in general is amazing but I loved this Japanese version. Prapai is even more of a playboy here tho.

But haha Kai = Sky and Rei = Rain (funny name change to make it Japanese but not change it too much XD)

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Currently Watching - November

aka The Masterlist

Because I love a good little list - in alphabetical order! 😊

Regularly updated during the month, latest update 10.11.2024

A little link to my favorite bl-tropes-collection 💙

gif-requests are open, but you'll need to have some patience🌼

Here you can find all of my gifs.

At the end you can have a look at what we can expect in November with a MDL link and a link for a trailer (if avaible).

This is guaranteed to contain spoilers!

1. Bad Guy My Boss 🇹🇭 (8/12)

What the hell is going on here? I feel like there are so many plot holes. Like scenes were just cut out, even though we might need them to understand the plot. So now I am sitting here with questions in my head. Who are these people? Why are these people? Are these people? And still, is Boss beautiful or is it just the lightning? The romance plot is... exhausting. But I am still in a really weird way intrigued.

2. Every You, Every Me 🇹🇭 (6/8)

I am so in love with this series. It tingles all the right spots of the romantic parts of my brain. And now we finally know that everything we saw so far was just acting. And the actors are in love with each other, but break up with each other because one doesn't care about the other one's feelings. Now I want to know what really happend.

3. Jack & Joker: U steal my heart! 🇹🇭 (9/12)

And I died. All the slow burn was so worth it! I said it in the tags, and I say it again: I want to marry this kiss! Yes, the plot might be a little lose at some points, but I forgive it really easily. Not just because of this scene, but because I know what is behind this series, what it means for War and Yin and that it makes me feel all those feelings! I like feeling feelings! Don't happen that much in my daily life so I consume everything those fictional characters can give me. And they are giving me sooooo much!

4. Kidnap 🇹🇭 (10/12)

I like how cute they are together. I really enjoy Ohm's heart-/puppy-eyes. I like that Q comforts Min and is there for him. What I don't like that much is the plot. I did have other expectations and perhaps that is the problem right now. It looks as next week we get some more tension again and I am looking forward to it.

5. Love In The Air: Koi no Yokan 🇯🇵 (1/10)

I don't know if I continue this one. I don't like the Thai original, perhaps the story is just not for me. But I really like Nagumo Shoma. So for now I will keep watching for him.

6. Miseinen: Mijukuna Oretachi wa Bukiyo ni Shinkochu 🇯🇵 (1/11)

I am already set. This first episode was so strong and I can't wait for Japan to destroy me entirely. I can feel the upcoming melancholia and heavy topic. And I am all here for it! And this first meeting was... I just enjoy those scenes so much. It reminds me of Eien No Kinou and Skam. And I love those.

7. The Nipple Talk

Oh man, this is so good. We have a small group of friends, a lesbian who likes changing sex-partners and doesn't believe in relationships, a sex-positive straight woman, who likes to have a relationship, but didn't meet the right person so far and has sex with as much men she wants on the way and our gay man, who believes in love and monogamy and who is now on the search for exactly that after the break up with his long term partner. And please, Jie is right in front of you! Just look at how he looks at you! This series is really surprisingly good, very sex positive and everyone's guru MAMA has not just an interesting story in stock, but is our mirror and the voice in the back to not judge other people's lifestyles, just because it is not to your liking. It is a mature queer series, no bl.

6. Word of Honor 🇨🇳 (20/36)

Perhaps November will be the month I finally keep watching this series. Who knows.

Finished in November

Series

Let Free The Curse Of Taekwondo 🇰🇷 (6/8)

This series broke my heart, healed it only to break it again. I am very happy we got this domestic, happy ending. It has such a hopeful touch in it. Not everything is damned, just because you took a wrong path in the past. There is always hope for you to find love, to change the path, to get to a state of happiness you dreamed of as a kid. Trauma and abuse shape our lifes, but it doesn't have to dictate it. Tough topic that hits hard. A really good series with a great story and good acting. A good 9 out of 10 for me.

Movie

Short Film

Dropped in November

Looking forward to in November

The Nipple Talk - Trailer (Nov 1st)

Bad to bed (Nov 2nd)

Love in the Air: Koi no Yokan - Trailer (Nov 3rd)

Miseinen: Mijukuna Oretachi wa Bukiyo ni Shinkochu (Nov 5th)

Episode 9. Nineteen, Eighteen / Love for Love's Sake special episode (Nov 9th)

Caged Again - Trailer (Nov 15th)

Your Sky - Trailer (Nov 17th)

The Heart Killers - Trailer (Nov 20th)

Petrichor - Trailer (Nov 27th)

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Love in the Air: A Premonition of Love | Teaser

Japanese Drama - 2024

[heretherebedork]

New favorite death threat.

[ineffable-opinions]

Love In the Air is getting a Japanese adaptation.

Things have come a full circle for MeMindY in a way. It was while traveling through Japan in November 2018 that MAME decided to start a production house to film series based on her novel in her own way.

Looks like it is a fan project of sorts based on what creators has to say on the project website, so it makes sense that it is MeMindY’s project that gets Japanese adaptation. (If not, it would have been GMMTV, BOC or some other government-supported production company that engaged in Thai government’s Commerce Ministry department facilitated “BL as soft power” negotiations with their Japanese counterparts.

more on this here)

This adaptation is not surprising considering the crowd that showed up at MAME’s Japanese fan-meet consisted of older folk too. It reminds me of Chen Hao producing Stay with Me. While I would be happy to have more bottom-up, demand-driven productions rather than top-down, supply-driven ones, it makes me worried too. I had previously expressed my wish for popular BL manga and novels to get live action adaptation. Now, we have a handful of live action based on works that have won Chil-chil awards but those adaptations have been disappointing to say the least.

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I am a little worried about production quality. Hopefully, they’ll manage to balance cost and quality since this project’s return on investment would be a signal to future initiatives. I am excited for Shoma who gave an excellent performance in the unfortunately gelded adaptation of the super-popular manga 25 Ji, Akasaka de. I am eager to know who will play Saifah (hopefully they'll retain that character) and Chai.

My Insane Wishlist: Non-Thai adaptation of MAME’s BL

Breath – Japanese live action adaptation TulHin was one of the side couples in Love by Chance 2 but I want an adaptation that stays true to the spirit of their story. In addition, it will be really nice to see Hin in violet rope shibari in the hotel getaway scene. All the shibari scenes we got so far in live action BL has been fleeting and of very little consequence. Japan should attempt adapting this into period piece set in Taisho or early Showa era. The novel is well suited for an adaptation set in that period with rapidly changing position of the aristocracy in the society, conflict between old and new orders, nouveau riche industrialists, feudal households with retainers performing multiple functions, specific forms of xenophobia, grand balls, arranged marriages, intergenerational power struggle, familism and ample space for intrigue. Also, Japan has a good track record of being sincere in their depiction of complexities of androphilic male x androphilic female interactions – they can make Tul's struggle heart-wrenching to watch.  

OatShin from Test Love and OatShin Diary – Tamil-Marathi bilingual movie adaptation with Harshvardhan Rane as Shin, Arjun Das as Oat and Suriya as Akira (Shin's cousin brother). In the novel Love Storm from which Love in the Air is adapted, it is Oat and not Prapai who is the best street racer in their circuit. Saifah, Oat and Saifah's girlfriend are in fact friends and classmates from college - depicted in Test Love. Oat's boyfriend Shinji was his junior in college. Shin is friends with characters from Love By Chance. Their relationship starts at the end of Test Love and in OatShin Diaries we get to see them navigate long distance relationship, familial acceptance and work-life balance as salarymen. OatShin has a very cute dynamic - they are a riba CP (reversible couple) with a lot of push and pull. Shin is super sly and sensitive and I can see Harshvardhan teasing the hell out of whoever he is paired with. Arjun Das probably can't do racer very well - so just get him that ATV from Por for added illegality. He would be perfect as Oat and very adorable too.

Try Me: Chai Win – Japanese manga adaptation with minimal censor bars – Chai’s pearlings needs to exist in 2D version.

Try Me: Chai Win – Turkish live action adaptation – I think Pawit-bey has a nice ring to it and I would pay to listen to it for 40 episodes of 2-hour length each. Maybe some over the top honorifics would be more suitable coming from Chai’s mouth like efendi. Mert Yazicioglu or Ali Yagci as Win and Can Yaman as Chai.

Chai appeared in Love in the Air as a crucial minor character who comes to Phayu's rescue. He has a love story of his own with Pakin's civilian* cousin brother, Pawit aka Win, that is complicated by duty and obligations and extortive meddling by Pakin's dad (the kingpin).

[* not in the mafia]

[he-is-lightning-in-a-bottle]

I FRACKING LOVE THIS VERSION!!

I have rewatched both available episodes multiple times now, and the second episode was impossibly better than the first.

I love that Rei is so much less clueless than Rain! I love how he stumbles out of his car and on to the ground and clearly has an embarrassing erection. He's so obviously turned on and he's not denying it! I love how he closes his eyes expecting Arashi to kiss him, and is surprised and resentful that all that teasing wasn't followed by "an attack," that Arashi actually LEFT HIM THERE ON THE GROUND WITH A MASSIVE CASE OF BLUE BALLS, so much so that he vows to find Arashi's "weakness" and get back at him.

It's basically all the same dialog, all the same beats as the Thai story, but it is somehow 100% clear that he's talking about sex and attraction and unfulfilled desire.

Our boy is embarrassed at the strength of his own desires and downright determined to make Arashi feel the same way.

This show is Such. A. Gift.

I love how crystal clear it all is. How explicit. How unambiguous. I love that Arashi doesn't have to be a mind reader or have magical dom energy. It's so obvious what Rei wants that everyone can see it from outer space.

[miss0atae]

Haha Sunday is the new QL series day now. So many choices and so little time to watch everything 😂

[ppeonppeonhan]

Japan's Love in the Air Remake (Ep. 1 & 2)

When I first saw that Japan was remaking Thailand's Love in the Air, I laughed it off. The idea of them topping one of the hottest Thai BLs of all time (that didn't compromise storyline for raunch), and doing it justice seemed extremely ambitious.

And after watching episodes 1 and 2, I still don't think it possible, BUT I will say that it is the perfect plot for a J-BL: A skittish baby bi prince is seduced by a rich, charming, bad boy, bi king. Japanese BL characters reign supreme in the skittish baby gay category. In fact, Rei / Rain is giving serious Aoki (My Love Mix-Up: Kieta Hatsukoi) energy.

Meanwhile, Arashi / Payu is played by 22-year-old Nagumo Shoma, and he is killing his first lead role in a major series. Is he as hot as Boss? No, but he has potential. The tension between him and his costar is damn near electric.

My only issue with the series is the pacing. The Thai version had 45min episodes, but the Japanese version clocks in at 26min. It not only feels like a lot was left on the cutting room floor, but truncates the passion they're building up to.

My favorite change though so far is the at-school seduction scene switching from the bathroom to the vintage car. It seemed more realistic and...sanitary. lol

I am so far underwhelmed by the Japanese version of Prapai-Sky, and low key think Shoma would've made a better Prapai, but I'll give 26-year-old Suzuki Asahi (Fuma), who is also making his BL main role debut, a chance. Sorry to Nagatsuma Reo (Kai / Sky) though -- there's no way he'll out sassy power bottom Peat.

But I look forward to seeing what other elements they change and whether they can match or even top the iconic PayuRain and PrapaiSky lovemaking scenes.