Now college students, both live together in a small rented apartment in the city while keeping their relationship as a secret, in order to avoid unnecessary complications.

Otani refuges in the apartment of Shougo Sunochi, a college friend who deals with a long-distance relationship with a young American boy named Alfred.

Tachibana, meanwhile, tries to fix the things between them and sends Otani a text message citing him to talk, but he does not see it as his cell phone stops working after getting wet.

A live-action film adaptation of Ai no Kotodama was produced by Video Planning and released in theaters nationwide across Japan on October 27, 2007.

[citation needed] A sequel titled Ai no Kotodama: Sekai no Hate Made was released in select theaters nationwide on August 7, 2010.

[9] The film stars Makoto Uenobori [ja] as Hirofumi Sasaki and Ryunosuke Kawai as Shinji Tamura.

[6] Several elements of the story were changed for the film adaptation, such as making the characters into working-class adults when they were high school students in the original manga.