Love Is Better the Second Time Around

Love Is Better the Second Time Around (Japanese: 恋をするなら二度目が上等, Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto) is a Japanese boys' love television drama that premiered on 6 March 2024 in the Dramaism slot of MBS and TBS. It was broadcast weekly late on Tuesday nights, which is Wednesday after midnight, with MBS at 24:59 and TBS at 25:28 on the first night, and catch up followed on TVer and MBS Douga Ism. The first season has six episodes of about twenty five minutes each and ended on 10 April 2024. A second season began in September 2026.

The drama is adapted from the manga of the same name by Keiko Kinoshita, published by Tokuma Shoten under its Chara Comics label. Yuka Yasukawa and Nao Nomura direct, Aya Watatane and Yasukawa write the scripts, and C&I Entertainment produces with the MBS production committee.

Miyata Akihiro (宮田晃啓) is an editor at a business magazine. When he visits a university associate professor to ask for an economics column, he finds that the professor, Iwanaga Takashi (岩永崇), is his first love. Miyata has sworn never to fall in love again, and Iwanaga, who is capable and good looking, sets the pace of their reunion. The drama is a reunion story that is built on the working relationship the two are forced to share.

Makoto Hasegawa of THE RAMPAGE plays Miyata and Robin Furuya plays Iwanaga. Both were making their first lead appearance in a terrestrial television drama. The ending theme, BANDAGE, is a new song written for the drama by Ayumu Imazu.