Love, it can be so beautiful and make you overjoyed. But unfortunately love also has a downside which can be ugly and painful. Relationship therapist Sarah van Asperen experiences this daily through the conversations she has in her practice. In the new drama series Love Hurts Sarah shares these stories with the viewer. Stories about passion and happiness but also about the big black hole when your great love leaves you.
Nishina, Maya, Shiro, and Aoi are four good friends in their second year of high school with good looks but disappointing personalities. The four who decided that they will never fall in love, formed their own club, known as the "Muda-bu" (Useless Club), which focuses on researching silly themes and uploading them on social media. One day, they decided to do an experiment from a manga that says, "If you run with a piece of bread in your mouth and bump into someone, you will fall in love". While trying to conduct the experiment, they accidentally bumped into someone while having a piece of bread in the mouth.
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