# Second Love
**Second Love** (セカンド・ラブ, *Sekando Rabu*) is a Japanese television romance drama broadcast on the [TV Asahi](https://www.edgepedia.org/tv-asahi) network from February 6 to March 20, 2015, in the network's Friday night drama slot. It stars Kazuya Kamenashi of the group KAT-TUN as a struggling contemporary dancer and Kyoko Fukada as an older high school teacher, and was written by Shizuka Oishi, the screenwriter of *Second Virgin*.[1](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Second_Love) • [2](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20150205dog00m200017000c.html)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Broadcast | TV Asahi, Fridays at 23:15, February 6 to March 20, 2015; 7 episodes of 60 minutes[1](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Second_Love) |
| Lead roles | Kazuya Kamenashi as Taira Kei, a contemporary dancer; Kyoko Fukada as Nishihara Yui, a chemistry teacher at a prestigious girls' high school[2](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20150205dog00m200017000c.html) |
| Production | Script by Shizuka Oishi; directed by Ayuko Tsukahara; produced by Seiko Uchiyama, Shinako Nakagawa, and Shin Nakazawa[3](https://www.hulu.jp/second-love-tv) |
| Music | Theme song "KISS KISS KISS" by KAT-TUN; insert song "Shiroi Kisetsu" by MISIA[2](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20150205dog00m200017000c.html) |
| Viewership | Series average 7.1%; episode 1 drew 8.2%, the highest of the run, while episodes 3 and 7 each drew 6.3%[4](https://doraman.net/sp/201501/second_love.html) |
| Genre positioning | Marketed as a "night melodrama" (夜メロ), an adult romance in the vein of daytime soap operas[5](https://www.daily.co.jp/opinion-d/2015/02/15/0007740736.shtml) |
## Spoilers
### Premise
Taira Kei is a contemporary dancer whose talent emerged early. He went to Germany in his teens, was called a "young genius", and won an international championship, but the dance company he belonged to there terminated his contract. Back in Tokyo, he works part-time jobs and keeps auditioning for overseas companies without success.[6](https://www.tv-asahicontents.com/en/program/secondlove_remake) • [1](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Second_Love)
Nishihara Yui is a chemistry teacher in her mid-thirties at a prestigious girls' high school. She is single, lives with her mother, and is stuck in an affair with a married colleague, the Japanese-language teacher Takayanagi Taro, while feeling a growing sense of dead end as she ages.[6](https://www.tv-asahicontents.com/en/program/secondlove_remake) • [7](https://jdrama.bake-neko.net/drama/2015_017.html) • [8](https://dailynewsonline.jp/article/919760/)
Kei notices Yui by chance, sees her walking along a school corridor, and falls in love instantly. He begins appearing at the school's front gate almost daily, unsettling the school, which suspects a student stalker. On a rainy day he gives Yui his phone number; she is startled by the approach from a much younger man but is drawn to him, contacts him, and the two meet at night in a park, where Kei dances for her and asks her out.[6](https://www.tv-asahicontents.com/en/program/secondlove_remake) • [2](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20150205dog00m200017000c.html)
The story follows the two as they pursue the relationship despite their age difference, sharply different living circumstances, and clashing values, with Yui's affair and Kei's stalled career complicating matters. In the final episode, Yui disappears from Kei's life for a reason revealed late in the run.[2](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20150205dog00m200017000c.html) • [9](https://thetv.jp/program/0000836192/)
## Cast and production
The supporting cast includes Akari Hayami as Kei's childhood friend Ayako Noguchi, Fuka Koshiba as Sora Takeuchi, a student in Yui's class, Yusuke Onuki as the young dancer Yuto Ichinose, Natsuko Akiyama as Yui's fellow teacher Haruko Ueda, Susumu Terajima as a senior at Kei's part-time job, Yumi Aso as Yui's mother Mariko, and Katsuhisa Namase as Takayanagi.[7](https://jdrama.bake-neko.net/drama/2015_017.html)
At the production announcement on February 2, 2015, Kamenashi said he had trained his body for the role and declared his aim to become "Johnny's sex symbol", while Oishi praised his screen presence. Kamenashi described the scripts as so provocative that he "froze several times" reading them.[10](https://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/25597/2) • [11](https://www.daily.co.jp/newsflash/gossip/2015/02/02/0007708699.shtml)
## Reception
The drama drew attention for its explicit love scenes from the first episode, in which the leads meet and sleep together, an unusually fast development for a Japanese romance serial. Daily Sports noted the contrast with the era's dominant medical and police dramas and called it a rare "night melodrama".[5](https://www.daily.co.jp/opinion-d/2015/02/15/0007740736.shtml)
Ratings declined over the run: after the 8.2% premiere, episodes settled between 6.3% and 7.4%, ending at 6.3% on March 20, 2015, for a series average of 7.1%.[4](https://doraman.net/sp/201501/second_love.html)
## Home media and streaming
The series has been released on home video by TC Entertainment and is available on Japanese streaming services including Netflix, Hulu, TELASA, and J:COM STREAM, with rental on Prime Video and TSUTAYA DISCAS; it carries a 16+ age rating.[12](https://filmarks.com/dramas/1643/3126/vod) • [13](https://www.justwatch.com/jp/%E3%83%86%E3%83%AC%E3%83%93%E7%95%AA%E7%B5%84/sekandorabu) • [14](https://reviewne.jp/contents/114029)
## Other works of the same name
The title also belongs to a 1982 Japanese pop song by the singer Akina Nakamori, written by Etsuko Kiso (lyrics) and Takao Kiso (music), which reached 8th place on Oricon's annual single chart the following year.[15](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%9B%E3%81%8B%E3%82%93%E3%81%A9%E3%82%89%E3%81%B6-3226713)
## References
1. [Second Love, DramaWiki](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Second_Love)
2. [注目ドラマ紹介：「セカンド・ラブ」 亀梨×深キョンの大人の激しい恋描く, MANTANWEB (2015)](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20150205dog00m200017000c.html)
3. [セカンド･ラブ, Hulu](https://www.hulu.jp/second-love-tv)
4. [「セカンドラブ（亀梨和也）」視聴率（2015年01月期）, ドラマ視聴率速報・ドラマン](https://doraman.net/sp/201501/second_love.html)
5. [話題の「セカンド・ラブ」の見方とは, デイリースポーツ online (2015)](https://www.daily.co.jp/opinion-d/2015/02/15/0007740736.shtml)
6. [Second Love セカンド・ラブ, TV Asahi Program Guide](https://www.tv-asahicontents.com/en/program/secondlove_remake)
7. [セカンド・ラブの出演者(キャスト)&あすじ&相関図](https://jdrama.bake-neko.net/drama/2015_017.html)
8. [亀梨和也の楽屋に入り浸りの深田恭子"ラブシーン連発"のワケ, デイリーニュースオンライン (2015)](https://dailynewsonline.jp/article/919760/)
9. [セカンド・ラブ(ドラマ), WEBザテレビジョン](https://thetv.jp/program/0000836192/)
10. [亀梨和也、深田恭子と大人の恋愛ドラマ「ジャニーズのセックスシンボルに」, Billboard JAPAN (2015)](https://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/25597/2)
11. [亀梨和也 深田恭子と熱い「夜メロ」, デイリースポーツ online (2015)](https://www.daily.co.jp/newsflash/gossip/2015/02/02/0007708699.shtml)
12. [セカンド・ラブの動画配信サービス・視聴方法・サブスクまとめ, Filmarksドラマ](https://filmarks.com/dramas/1643/3126/vod)
13. [セカンド・ラブ (2015), JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/jp/%E3%83%86%E3%83%AC%E3%83%93%E7%95%AA%E7%B5%84/sekandorabu)
14. [セカンド・ラブのあすじ/作品解説, レビューンドラマ](https://reviewne.jp/contents/114029)
15. [セカンド・ラブとは？ 意味や使い方, コトバンク（デジタル大辞泉プラス）](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%9B%E3%81%8B%E3%82%93%E3%81%A9%E3%82%89%E3%81%B6-3226713)
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