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Ossan's Love Thailand (รักนี้ให้ "นาย")

Ossan's Love Thailand (Thai: รักนี้ให้ "นาย", Rak Ni Hai "Nai") is a 2025 Thai boys' love romantic comedy series, a remake of the Japanese television drama Ossan's Love (おっさんずラブ), produced by GMMTV in co-production with Japan's TV Asahi.¹ It stars Earth Pirapat Watthanasetsiri as Heng, a property consultant whose life is upended when his boss, his coworker and housemate, and his childhood friend all confess their feelings for him at the same time.²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	รักนี้ให้ "นาย" (Rak Ni Hai "Nai")³
Run	6 January 2025 to 24 March 2025; 12 episodes plus 3 specials⁴
Broadcast	GMM25 in Thailand, Mondays at 20:30; simulcast in Japan on TELASA; YouTube internationally (except Japan and Thailand)⁵^•⁴
Production	GMMTV Co., Ltd. with TV Asahi; directed by Kornphom Niyomsilp; produced by Noppharnach Chaiyahwimhon²^•¹
Main cast	Earth Pirapat Watthanasetsiri (Heng), Mix Sahaphap Wongratch (Mo), Shahkrit Yamnarm (Kongdech), Ploynira Hiruntaveesin (Chicha)²
Genres	BL, LGBTQ+, romantic comedy⁶
Remake of	Ossan's Love (TV Asahi, 2018), a drama that became a social phenomenon in Japan⁷

Spoilers

Premise

Heng is a young, unlucky-in-love property consultant at a real estate company. His ordinary life changes when his boss, Kongdech, and his coworker and housemate, Mo, both fall in love with him at the same time. The situation grows more complicated when his childhood friend Chicha, who has secretly loved him for years, openly confesses as well. Amid the tangled relationships, Heng must work out who truly holds his heart.²^•⁸

The first episode follows the Japanese original's opening closely: on his commute Heng happens to meet Kongdech and is shaken to see his own photo set as the boss's phone wallpaper, while at the office his colleague Mo transfers in from the Chiang Mai branch.⁵ Famous set pieces from the Japanese version recur, including the rooftop battle between Mo and Kongdech over Heng.⁵

Cast and characters

Earth Pirapat Watthanasetsiri as Heng, the property consultant at the center of the love triangle; the role corresponds to Soichi Haruta in the Japanese version²^•⁵
Mix Sahaphap Wongratch as Mo, Heng's coworker and housemate, corresponding to Ryota Maki²^•⁵
Shahkrit Yamnarm as Kongdech, Heng's stern boss, corresponding to the Japanese character Kurosawa²^•⁵
Ploynira Hiruntaveesin (Kapook) as Chicha, Heng's childhood friend, corresponding to Arai Chizu²^•⁵
Ryu Phudtripart Bhudthonamochai as New Year, Thor Thinnaphan Tantui as Ten, and Parn Nachcha Chueadeng as Cheraim, Kongdech's daughter²^•⁵

Earth and Mix, an established GMMTV pairing, had co-starred four times before this series; TV Asahi's announcement noted this was their fifth collaboration.⁵

Adaptation from the Japanese original

The Japanese Ossan's Love, first broadcast by TV Asahi in 2018, became a social phenomenon in Japan and later spawned sequels and remakes.⁷ GMMTV announced the Thai remake at its GMMTV 2024 event.⁷ The production is a joint work between GMMTV and TV Asahi.¹

The remake keeps the basic character relationships and workplace setting close to the Japanese version while making localizing changes: Heng and Mo are same-generation colleagues, the boss is single, and the Japanese character Saionji Choko is replaced by an original character, Cheraim, Kongdech's daughter.⁹^•⁵ The series also includes guest appearances by GMMTV actors, and in episode 7 Kei Tanaka, who played Haruta in the Japanese version, made a surprise cameo as "the original Harutan" in a remote-conference video.⁹^•⁷ Earlier, Earth and Mix had appeared as themselves in episode 4 of the Japanese sequel Ossan's Love Returns (2024).¹⁰

Release and distribution

The series premiered on Monday 6 January 2025 on GMM25 in Thailand, airing Mondays at 20:30 with reruns on Viu from 22:30, and ran to its finale on 24 March 2025.⁴^•¹¹ In Japan it was simulcast on the streaming service TELASA from the same date.⁵ Internationally, GMMTV released English-subtitled episodes on YouTube in all countries except Japan and Thailand, and the series later became available on Viki and Viu.⁴^•⁶^•¹²

After the finale, GMMTV released three special episodes under the title The Two of Us, airing on 27 July, 24 August, and 24 September 2025.⁴^•⁸ A fan meeting in Tokyo supported by TV Asahi was held on 21 June 2025 with Earth and Mix, in two performances at Parthenon Tama.¹³

Reception

On Rakuten Viki the series holds a rating of 8.6 from more than 2,000 users.⁶ Viewer responses to the remake varied against the original: some reviewers found it a faithful, enjoyable adaptation adjusted to Thai and contemporary sensibilities, while others judged it to lack the warmth of the Japanese version or found it difficult to watch after the original.⁹^•¹⁴

The remake sits within a broader commercial relationship between Thai and Japanese BL production. GMMTV, which had already made deals with TV Asahi and the Philippine broadcaster ABS-CBN, has moved from a domestically focused company to one producing for a global market.¹⁵ Scholars of the genre note that TV Asahi is an active participant in shaping Thai BL rather than a passive licensing partner, and that the Thai remake's handling of moments touching on sexual and gender minority rights illustrates how approaches to queer representation developed in Japan are exported and reworked in Thailand.¹⁶

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026