Do you love Itazura na Kiss, but you are sick of Irie's unbelievable coldness to everything? And of Kotoko's low selfrespect? Then this is for you! Kiss Me was my first Thai Drama, and it unbelievably hooked me up since the first episode! Kiss Me is just a mix of ItanaKiss original elements and new ones given to us in a more realistic way, beautifully dipped in thai sauce! The story goes on smoothly and lightly, starting with the main characters's first meeting at school. TenTen is not the usual Irie since the beginning: he shows a human side smiling brightly at Taliw (Kotoko) and accepting her caring ways. Taliw is not the 'crazy' girl that kicks vending machines at school, she is just a cute normal girl with a lot of friends. I really loved the fact that she was very close with King (Kin), treating him as her best friend and not a classmate. TenTen starts to act coldly just after hearing her name, this thing adds a little bit of mistery to the beginning of the story. Episode after episode we follow the cute moments not only between the two main leads, but between the friends, the family, the teacher. I really loved how unlikely other nowadays teen dramas this one analyzed high school life without putting only teenage rebellion problems in it, but showing how high school can be a peaceful place in which learn also about big issues. For example, Taliw and her friends follow their teacher in a journey to learn how people living in the jungle can suffer from not having an hospital, but also how much can be dangerous not to listen to adults. Both families of the main characters are cute and caring, and they don't interfere much in their children lives. I appreciated how Mom Kaew is not the obsessed mom that ItanaKiss portrayed. This makes her character lose the 'funny' side, but the loss is replaced with good features. She actually gives precious advices to TenTen and does not force him to love Taliw even tho she is cheering for her. As I already said I also appreciate King's character: he is not a secondary character at all, he has his personality and you really get affectionate to him. Also the NamKang and P'Dan story is very sweet, showing us how bad can it be to actually not see the one we love because we are running after someone that will never be ours. But the thing I loved the most are the main characters. I love that Taliw is not the low self respect girl that everyone knows. She is not stupid, she doesn't follow TenTen everywhere. She only takes the chances she has, she never gives up on him but she never interferes with his choices. She is just being herself cooking for him and being kind with him without following him everywhere. At the end she also rejects him, standing up for herself! On the other side, I love TenTen's sweetness. In other versions we always have the feeling he's too cold. Even while kissing her, we actually don't feel that much till the end. Well, forget about that. In this version, he's the one that wants her to be with him. He hugs her even when she didn't mean to hug him, he accepts with a smile to take a walk with her, he kisses her while they're having fun, he ask her to smile and be strong. But at the same time, you can actually see him struggling with the fact that he can't understand why he does that. And trying to solve the problem sometimes ignoring her. He is still a mean guy, but somehow he's the first version of Irie that's not mean because of his personality, but because of a certain reason. Overall I totally loved this show. It made me understand how much love can change, grow, be mistaken for admiration and also end. And everything in a cute, sweet, peaceful high school/college atmosphere. To be said, I also enjoyed the amount of thai culture I got to know thanks to this show. I found myself craving for King's food more than once! Also, the music is perfect: not only the melodies, but also the lyrics are totally made for the show and played when they completely suit the mood! A lot of people didn't enjoy it saying it was not very close to the original story, but I have to say that I really enjoyed that. We have plenty remakes of the story, and I think that doing something different is good. Itazura na Kiss is catchy and cute, but honestly it has weak points. The first of them is that the two main characters are seriously unbelievable. I think that this remake suits perfectly what fans love of the story, and gives also what the fans would like to see from the original story. It has some good extras and it erased some unrealistic features, which I find perfect. I totally reccomend this one if you are looking for a sweet, everyday, romantic drama about love and growing up with two main leads with a lot of chemistry!