“I wish I could reset my entire life” is a thought that crosses everyone’s mind at some point in life. The theme is brought into focus in Reset, an engaging drama based on the popular comic of the same name published by Kodansha Company, Limited. Of course, even if you could reset your life and start again, there is no guarantee that this ‘reset’ life would be perfect. What if your new life were to start going downhill again? Should you reset your new life to go back to your first one? Or should you deal with the mounting difficulties and continue your new life? What would you do? The pivotal element of this drama is that the character in each episode is given a chance to reset their life twice. With the presence of a ‘divine arbiter’ Henri, who presents the characters with this fateful choice, every episode offers viewers the experience of making this challenging decision.

“Give me back my son.”

Satoko Kurihara was satisfied with daily life with her husband and son.　In fact, the son wasn’t their own child, but it wasn’t matter for them.　After they had tried some treatment for sterility for a long term, they once gave up to have a child. However, they came to know about “adoption”, and they took Asato as their son. She couldn’t imagine the life without Asato, and believed her happiness continued forever.

One day, Satoko got an unexpected call from Hikari Katakura, who insisted that she was Asato’s biological mother. Satoko was getting lost into the past because of this call…
Various women appear in this drama. A woman who can’t become pregnant, who has to send her child away, who desert her family, who doesn’t believe her family, who desires her family…

Everybody only wishes “common happiness.”
It might you in the mirror that “the one” who struggle to find a hope.
Will the sun rise for the people get lost into the night of their life?


子供を返してください……
ある日、突然かかってきた謎の女からの電話。彼女の目的はいったい何なのか。

栗原佐都子（安田成美）は夫・清和（ココリコ田中）と長男の朝斗と穏やかながら満ち足りた日々を送っていた。実は朝斗は実子ではなく養子だったが、そんなことは関係なかった。長く苦しい不妊治療の末、一度は子供を諦めた佐都子たち。しかし、ひょんなことから知った特別養子縁組によって光がもたらされたのだ。朝斗のいない生活などもう考えられない。このまま幸せな日々が続く…佐都子はそう思っていた。
そんなある日、栗原家に一本の電話がかかってくる。
「私が産んだ子供を返してください」
息子の母親を名乗る女（川島海荷）からの突然の電話。この電話が佐都子を過去に引き戻していく…。そしてそこには、光を失ってしまったもうひとりの母の存在が……

このドラマには様々な女たちが登場します。
子供を産めなかった女。子供を手放さざるをえなかった女。家族を捨ててしまった女。家族を信じない女。家族を求め続ける女……
誰もがただ「普通の幸せ」を求めていただけ。もがきながら前に進んでいくその“誰か”は鏡に映るあなたの姿なのかもしれません。

人生の夜に迷い込んでいる人間に、果たして朝はやってくるのか。

Kinoshita, the boss at an ad agency, is a guy that lives in the moment and for today. He’s always late for work and then leaves early. He’s completely unpredictable.

Kinoshita and his bunch of useless employees ‘work’ at the Marumaru Tsushinsha advertising agency. Everything is done at a leisurely pace and Kinoshita takes responsibility for nothing. This warm-hearted sit-com is from the perspective of Bokumoto, a new employee at the agency. As you’ll see, the “laws of happiness” often override common sense.