難聴になって以来、人と距離を置くようになってしまい独り静かに過ごしていた大学１年生の杉原航平(中沢元紀)。そんな時に出会ったのは、明るくまっすぐな性格の同級生・佐川太一(小林虎之介)だった。お腹を空かせていた太一にお弁当をあげたことがきっかけで、太一は航平のノートテイクのボランティアを引き受けることに。土⾜で航平の⼼にずかずかと踏み込んでくる太一の性格に、いつしか居⼼地の良さを感じるようになった航平は…。 ノートテイクを介して繋がってゆく、不器⽤な2人の⼼を繊細に描いた、切なくも儚いヒューマンラブストーリー。
ドラマ・アニメ化された映像作品と原作・関連本と読み比べて、オリジナルならではの違いや描かれなかった裏設定、より深い世界観を独自の視点から楽しみましょう。
The first thing that comes to my mind when I'm thinking of this series is a scene where Kohei (Nakazawa Motoki), a boy with a hearing disability, confesses to Taichi (Kobayashi Toranosuke) under a bridge in the pouring rain. Like Ohm and Nannon's 'rooftop scene' in ”Bad Buddy” or YinWar's 'umbrella scene' in ”Love Mechanics”, this is an iconic BL highlight. Due to his hearing problem, Kohei distances himself from campus life, until he meets extrovert (to put it mildly) Taichi, who enthuses about the food Kohei's mother puts in Kohei's lunch box. Kohei hires Taichi to take notes for him in lectures, and the two young men, who are extreme opposites, over time get closer. There are some problems in the devbelopment of their relationship that are based on misunderstandings, but in contrast to misunderstandings in other seties, which are arificially designed just for the sake of drama, they are more natural here as they are based on literal ”misunderstanding” because of Kohei's hearing problem. I must admit that I shed a tear or two, not only because of the heartbreaking ups and downs of the couple's relationship, but also because I've rarely seen so good acting in a BL series.
