An excellent show but I wont rewatch it.

The ML, a kind, happily married guy from Hokkaido with a dangerous heart condition, receives a transplant from a man who dies at the culmination of his life, just as his girlfriend agrees to marry him. The dearly departed seems to have difficulty leaving this plane and moving on, and essentially pulls his girlfriend, the FL, into a situation of forced intimacy with the ML. Since the ML consistently lies about his heart problems to everyone except his wife and best friend, he has a tendency to be indecisive or confused in his relationships, possibly due to physical frailty. Thank goodness for the ML's wife, who twice kept a very difficult situation from devolving into an incoherent disaster by enlisting the FL to keep her own husband reasonably safe.

The director has said that he wanted the series to look very different from the production values of regular japanese tv, more like a movie. Sometimes it seems as if the directors and writers of Jdrama are so expert in depicting the big themes of love and death and memory that they can do it in any size of enclosed space. In this show the director and cinematographer (s) have gone for truly big backdrops with powerful visuals, May as well use still shots of huge patterned clouds in skies which look like early 19C paintings. Truly spectacular and original, they fill up the eyes and one's poor sore heart, sore because of the painful stories both explicit and implicit in the narrative.

Back to the plot, the initial proposal is underlined by friends setting off fireworks and half the mountain avalanches into the bus the lovers are riding in (altho this connection isnt made, it seems obvious to me and anyone living in the mountains anywhere that explosions create avalnches). In one of the many beautiful moments at this particular bend in the road, the lovers are tossed aside from the bus wrapped in each others' arms, and have to be gently pried apart by rescuers. The site is then visited by the main characters in combination and alone in search of the identity of the departed.

The more common silent and somewhat mutually intelligible struggles over death etc are complicated here by misunderstandings and lack of knowledge. Normally cultural agreement in the countries of production enrich this understanding and the audience's experience. This show verbalizes a lot of that, as per Netflix style and internationally projected audiences needs. All concerned do seek to understand the departed which is a comfortingly normal development.

The background of especially sourced coffee and cafes devoted to it, is sweetly nostalgic for the old and currently a trend for the young in various parts of Asia. It keeps the action reasonably cheerful and afloat. A wonderful perspective on Hawaii as a romantic and relaxing destination where the lovers meet several times. In sum, a treat for the eyes and a morally interesting plot, but somehow too lightly conceived and executed.