Ichiro Aoyama (26) is a pessimistic elementary school teacher, whose only redeeming quality is being serious. Anyone can agree that his life has been dull, but a miracle has come. He now has his beloved girlfriend, Yukika Sasaki.
He almost feels like he doesn’t deserve such a happy life living toge...

The year 2025. Shogo’s childhood trauma from his mother has made him despise love.
He makes a living by sleeping over at the houses of women he doesn’t love, ironically living the same kind of life as his mother and spending each day like a corpse.
The only relationship he cherishes at all is his ...

Ayaka (Fumiho Kato) loves Hiroko (Kanna Mori), a senior at the same company. They thought each other to be straight, but as a result of Ayaka's aggressive attack, they decided to go out with each other!
One year has passed since then. A year has passed since then, and Ayaka has come to live at Hiro...

Reiji Kurose, a high school sophomore, was “just” living his life, tied down by the town and his family.　He lived with his mother, a nurse‘s assistant, his brother, a shut-in, and his grandmother who suffers from dementia, in a provincial town with nothing to offer. In order to make life easier for ...

Throughout Japan, there are many delicious foods and drinks full of originality.The shinkansen seat table becomes a personal izakaya (Japanese-style pub) with infinite possibilities!
COVID-19 has made many menu items from famous restaurants available for takeout.Now comes a totally new kind of gour...

For one reason or another, Tsukasa Donose, a first-rate man, meets MiyabiSayamaand proposes something outrageous: a business marriage, or a marriage without love. Miyabialso has some extenuating circumstances, meaning their interests are aligned. So, they get married straight away, but on one condit...

Onoue is a straightforward journalist with a sense of justice, and Kaburaki is a good-natured cameraman who can handle anything without a hitch. Their personalities are polar opposites and they repeatedly clash with each other, but through their work they gradually come to appreciate each other's go...

Her name is Saki Inagaki. She is an entertainer who dresses as the character Asuka from the anime "Evangelion." Saki left Japan to travel abroad! Her blog "Trek Across Europe" began in Vienna, Austria with the goal of covering checkpoints in ten countries on the way toward her final destination, Por...

Risa Shiragi (Haruka Fukuhara) is a college student who is popular with the boys. People around her treat her like she’s out of their league but in reality she has zero experience in love.
“If I’m going to fall in love, I want it to be a love so sweet it'll melt my heart." Risa dreamt of that day. ...

People sell items they no longer need; people buy those items.
Touching dramas of people connecting with one another via those items.
The main character is a delivery woman.
Sentimental items that have fulfilled their role head off to new owners.
Every day, men and women of all ages buy and sel...

Seven years after their break-up, Ichimatsu still cannot forget Hiyori. He experiences a terrible tragedy and loses his will to live, when Hiyori happens to call him 7 years later. They meet, and Ichimatsu is full of life again, but she has a sudden request: "I want your baby."
That is when Hiyori ...

The clay goddess, Doguchan, who has slumbered in the earth for 10,000 years is awakened by Makoto, the son of an archeologist, and is revived in the modern world! Declaring that Makoto is now her slave, Doguchan sets out to battle the dark forces and exterminate evil. In the process, she helps Makot...

Mitsuru, a brilliant student who is not good at socializing, and Koichi,
a cheerful and popular student in class. They are 17-year-old classmates. Because of their opposite personalities, they are strongly attracted to each other. One morning, however, Koichi is hit by a truck right in front of Mi...

The four main characters grew up in different environments.
They meet "competitive bartending", and with their own
thoughts and feelings, they try to win the Flare competition.
They aim to win the Flair competition with their own feelings...
In order to learn more about his father, who left hom...

Koharu is a quiet high school student who can’t find her place in this world.
One day, she buys a plastic model gun and a figure called “Alice” from a mysterious model shop. When she puts them together, she is sucked into a parallel world.
In this parallel world, an empty school has become a battl...

Ranked number one overall by many e-bookstores! The school psycho/love comedy, “Homeroom”
Yuki Yamada, who is currently starring in two productions, takes on the role of the perverted stalker teacher!
At the same time, Yuki Yamada stars in the drama, “Sedai Wars.”
Since serialization began on Kod...

A popular comic book is being made into a live-action drama!
Yuki Kashiwagi (AKB48/NGT48) and Kentaro Ito pair up as the main stars to tackle the “ultimate story in the inequalities of love.”
Kashiwagi will play Tae Komada (age 32), a baby-faced, large-breasted woman who has a soothing effect on o...

Aki Terada (24) is a freelance writer who is frustrated by her efforts to find work. When her boyfriend jilts her, she goes to live at a friend’s share house. There, she reunites with her former classmate and first boyfriend, Tomoya Hongyo, to whom she lost her virginity. He tells her he hasn’t been...

What is “Kyoto Chishin”?
Kyoto Chishin, which first aired in 2016 (ongoing every Sunday from 6:15 a.m. to 6:30 a.m.), is a Kansai local program that has aired more than 430 episodes to date.
The program sheds light on the “dynamic = modern” part of Kyoto culture, which has been handed down for 1,2...

Director Kenta Yamada (Ryo Yoshizawa) and his assistant director Aya Hirakawa (Fumika Baba) are in Hong Kong filming a documentary featuring the Japanese celebrity Elly (Moga Mogami) and her jaunts in the city. However, during filming, Elly is kidnapped by Daniel (Kaoru Nagata), a man who lives in H...

Hyogo and Osaka—two long-standing schools located in Kansai. Takizakura Girls’ Academy from Osaka, successfully makes a brand for themselves by selecting Idol Club members from its performing arts course. Tsubakisakuhana Girls' High School is a high-level preparatory school with a long history. Two ...

Kyoto's allure lies not only in its shrines and temples or the elegance of the city.
For more than a millennium since the year 794, Kyoto flourished as the capital, leading the way in the arts, architecture and commerce. The essence of Japanese culture was born in Kyoto, and has been refined and pa...

Kazuma Yuda is distressed. He was unable to save his twin sister, Ichika Yuda (18), from being bullied. Then one day, a new student, Sara Kiritani, comes to his school. Mysterious and beautiful, Sara attracts the attention of the whole school, but for some reason, she comes close to Kazuma. She whis...

It’s midnight and the lights of the eatery called the “Midnight Diner” are just flickering on.
As most of the city sleeps, a few unique characters seek out this eatery for good food and good conversation. The menu only lists a pork, rice and soup set but on request, the chef will make almost anyth...

Chisato Mayama (29) has been married for five years.
She married her overbearing husband, Yuta Mayama (31), after dating in college.
Since he is the son of a CEO at a major corporation, she has been living with her in-laws, devoted to her work as a housewife. Yet she is no longer loved and is trea...

Kouta, who has super bad luck, meets Shinomiya, who has super good luck.
“Shinomiya makes bad luck go away!”
Kouta makes a calculated move by approaching
Shinomiya. But somehow, they end up dating...?

Kouta, a college student, is an unlucky guy who gets into trouble everywhere he goes. One day...

High school delinquent Toki always lives through a cycle. He skips class, gets into fights, and is scolded by adults. At some point, Toki began going to school properly for one reason... He wants to see Sahara, his PE and homeroom teacher. Sahara is the only one who meets him head-on: “I want to get...

Reticent and friendless, high-schooler Hira is at the bottom of his class.
The new semester of his second year in high school begins and Hira meets Kiyoi, a classmate. Ranked at the top of his class and a loner who treats everyone with cold disdain, Kiyoi is to Hira...truly, the king.
Hira isn't a...

Wakana Gojo is a high school boy currently training to paint hina doll faces as a hina doll craftsman.
His hobbies and interests aren’t typical for his age group, so he has trouble fitting in at school. But one day, he unexpectedly connects with Marin Kitagawa, a popular girl who’s always at the ce...

Mizuki Segasaki (Kohei Higuchi), a popular weather forecaster known for his refreshing good looks, actually has a tyrannical nature. He cohabits with Yoh Tanada (Atsuki Mashiko), a struggling erotic manga artist, and makes him take care of all the household chores and various other tasks! This cohab...

"Best Manga/Anime of 2019"
— Thrillist, The Verge, Geek Girl Authority, Anime UK & more!
From the writer of the hit Netflix film A Whisker Away, anohana, and Maquia
As a teen, how do you start thinking about sex? This debut manga from anime legend Mari Okada follows five girls and their five movi...

“You look like the back side of a bug when you smile. Like the back side of a drone beetle.” As a young boy, a girl he adored told him that. And ever since that day, he had a hard time smiling. The original story is based on the real-life experience of author, Kirio Tsume. The main character, Hirosh...

What makes a person attractive and charming? Some may say a good personality, being knowledgeable in various fields, being an expert in one area, or having cultural understanding etc. Do you think you are charming enough? Topics covered include economy, history, culture, music and much more. Each ep...

Sayo is a career woman who believes that if you work hard, anything is within reach. Miharu is a nurse who has been in a too-long relationship as her hopes of marriage diminish. Miwa works at a credit union and has a hard time turning down men’s advances and suffers from low self-esteem. Akane is a ...

Aoba Suzuki is a gloomy high school freshman who has always been a social outcast, and he leads a fulfilling student life in which he continues to get beat up by his classmate, Sannosuke Iwase, in what he calls “pretend fights.”
One day, Kenshin Akazawa, a student in the class next door who also ha...

Mika, who is hated by all the other girls at work, receives a letter.
Inside is an ultrasound of a fetus she knows nothing about.
As of that day, mysterious things begin happening around her.
She’s suddenly unable to reach her fiancé Toru.
There are many *** on her windows at home!
At her break...

Her work is known as "room laundering," the task of purifying places where unnatural death has occurred.
From one dubious apartment to another, Miko Yakumo (Elaiza Ikeda) is constantly moving.
Her line of work involves purifying abodes where unnatural death has occurred - places found by her uncle...

The first of its kind in Japan let alone the world, a public high school specializing in nighttime entertainment, “Toritsu Mizushogyo High School,” (Nighttime Entertainment Public High School) is now open for business!Become a hostess, work in the sex industry, become a manager, a host or work at a ...

Japan in the not-too-distant future.
As generations change, among the people, discontent is at an all-time high and
society no longer functions well. The economy has declined and is heading toward collapse...
Postwar, Baby Boomers, Bubble, Lost Generation, Yutori, Millennials...
Each generation...

Mishima, a student in the rural countryside, is being bullied by his classmates because “he seems gay.“
In actuality, Mishima likes men, so he doesn’t resist. His only solace is cross-dressing in secret.
One day, Mishima goes to the rooftop and sees the leader of the bullies, Kirino, holding the l...

Fashion model Hikari Wakabayashi (Nozomi Sasaki) grew up in the world of sumo. Her father was a famous sumo wrestler and as a child she won a children’s sumo grand championship. She avoids the sumo part of her past fearing that it would be a detriment to her modeling career. However through an unusu...

Asako Yaeshima (26) works in the accounting department of Lilia Drop, a cosmetics and bath products maker. She has developed a complex due to hyperhidrosis and passes her days worried about her perspiration and body odor. One day, a coworker from the product development department, Kotaro Natori (29...

Kai is a coed with a relatively ordinary existence. One day, her father is arrested as the prime suspect in a robbery-murder involving 100 million yen. Suddenly, she and her sister Riku find themselves the daughters of a criminal and burdened with a staggering debt of a hundred million yen. Enter Re...

I want to de stroy your public image.
Shuto is a high earning, ambitious husband.
Narumi is a smart and beautiful wife who’s perfect at both work and housework.
They are a picture perfect couple that people yearn to be,
but Narumi wants a child, and Shuto finds her to be a nuisance.
Thus, he co...

Corporate and organization leaders are said to be loners.
They also seem to be unapproachable.
However, we want to know more about them, about goals they set, and how they tackle difficult decisions.
“The Leader” features a leader each time, and the documentary reveals a side of them never seen i...

Taro Miura, due to various conflicts, now makes his living by collecting garbage from companies. One day, Taro witnesses his ex-wife, Junko with a man he does not know. Taro ends up going back to the house he used to live in, which is the house currently resided by his ex-wife, the daughters Natsuha...

Once again today, with good cocktails and canned food, the three men give encouragement and a gentle push on the back to those who are experiencing some hardship.
Young, old, male, female… In life, there is always some kind of issue.
But in talking to people close to you, sometimes you worry them,...

Kazuma has returned to Tokyo from the US as a new employee and reunites with Ren, a top designer in the company and Kazuma's old classmate from middle school. They reunite 10 years after they suddenly broke up in 9th grade. His best friend and his first lover. That was Ren.
As handsome and strong a...

Japan is seen as a very uniform country but there is great diversity in the homes and lives of Japanese residents. This program explores some of Japan’s more unique homes and the personalities of the people who live in them. Home owner’s characters and personalities are reflected in a home where he ...

“When it rains, it pours… Doesn’t that sound like us?”
Kazuaki lives with his girlfriend and is troubled by their sexless relationship.
Meanwhile, Sei, Kazuaki’s coworker, harbors an unrequited love for his roommate and childhood friend, who also goes by the name Kazuaki.
One day, Kazuaki means t...

Naoya Aizawa (39), a stockbroker, marries his colleague Natsuna (35).
They are prominent lovebirds of the office.
However, Naoya and Natsuna are plagued by sexlessness and a lifestyle discrepancy.
Then one day, Noah Tachibana (22) is assigned to Naoya's branch, and it all begins.
Noah sets a tra...

On her 16th birthday, a single slip of paper makes Rio Yuki the wife of a man she had never met before.
Every year on her birthday, she is sent 10 million yen.
It’s a political marriage. A relationship only based on money.
26-year-old Rio, after spending 10 years without knowing the face or voic...