
After that, Lu begins to create a relationship with him and DD always acts like a dog in manger to keep Lu away from Ken.īut then, Ken’s deep hope that Din is still alive somewhere is immediately collapsed when an insane couple, Phayu, Ken's best friend, and Hin, Din's elder brother, tells him that Din's body is found and Din's parents will hold a funeral for Din in Uttaradit. Inpha, a person with great power and influence in Uttaradit revered by the Din family for a long time, is behind the death of Din.Īlthough Ken is heartbroken and DD, a young Thai student, keeps courting him and taking care of him, Ken feels strangely trembled when he meets Lu, a young Taiwanese businessman who saves him from the attack of teenage gangsters. He prepares and intends to return to take revenge for Din. Ken becomes more withdrawn and does not communicate with anyone in Thailand at all. Ken has been stuck with that nightmare and deeply hope that Din is still alive. After that, Ken manages to escape and settle down as an assistant chef at a 3- Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant with Pa, Ken's father in Chinatown in Singapore for nearly two years.

If you then go back and read the LNs, you'll receive a little more backstory on certain characters, but you won't have missed out on anything important.Ken survived an incident in which Din, his lover, was shot dead in front of him by Nok and his men in the middle of a forest in Uttaradit. It won't take long to do, and you'll get the full impact of the visual jokes that you'd know were coming due to having read the LN. In my opinion, I'd go with the anime first. You will miss out on some extraneous detail - a certain recurring character has their introduction done in a flashback as opposed to the full chapter it gets in the story - for example, but very little from the first LNs that the two series are based off was missed.

The LNs have more information in them, but the anime is definitely funnier, as the physical jokes and expressions gain from the visual aspect, and you get a VA performance that gets across the tone of the dialogue (there's a lot of scenes of characters crying out in comic distress that come across much funnier seen than read).Īs for a close adaptation, the benefits of it being a LN are that the character design is straight off the picture pages of the LN and the dialogue was between close and exact from what was in the LN. I am currently doing both, having watched both series of the anime only last week, and now reading the LNs.
