Asian Drama

Hajime Onchi (Takaya Kamikawa) leads the committee for labor union of national airline NAL. Hajime Onchi and vice committee head, Shiro Gyoten (Atsuro Watabe) confront management of NAL, demanding better working conditions. The working conditions at NAL is so poor that fatal incidents could occur. Hajime Onchi, always place safety first, is demoted to a remote location abroad. Meanwhile, Shiro breaks away from Hajime and joins the management side to further his career. An airplane crash involving NAL takes place. Hajime Onchi returns to Japan and faces the grieving bereaved families. To resurrect NAL, the government places Masayuki Kunimi as the president of NAL. The new president of NAL calls Hajime to investigate the widespread corruption at the airline. Hajime soon encounters former ally Shiro Gyoten as he attempts to block his investigation.

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What would you do if you could travel back in time and un-do what's been done? "Retake" follows a story about time travelers from the future and those whose mission is to keep close watch on them. -- Fuji TV

So Utsumi doesn't have many friend. After school and before going to a private institute, he kills time by doing nothing on the riverside. One day, Shokichi Seto appears in front of him. Shokichi quit the soccer team and has nothing to do. They spend time together.

In front of the two guys, Ichigo Kashimura and Hatsumi, from the same high school, appear.

In the town of Sakurada, where about half of the residents have special abilities, Asai Kei is a high school student and is able to remember everything. Haruki Misora is also a high school student and she has the power to reset the world by 3 days. If they use both of their powers together, they can go back in time by 3 days and retain their memory. They are watched by the administrative bureau.

Salaryman Masumi goes to great lengths to get his 6-year-old daughter into a prestigious primary school.

Duration: 1 hr. 54 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Sumire is a woman that's too kind and keeps falling for bad men. In the midst of heartbreak, she discovers a lingerie brand and makes up her mind to become a lingerie designer. She is determined to pursue her new dream. One rainy day, she meets Soichi and is attracted to him but he holds a secret...

(Source: Japanese = TBS)

Adapted from the manga series "Watashi ga Himo wo Kau Nante" (私がヒモを飼うなんて) written by Motoyama Kumiko (本山久美子) and illustrated by Misono (美園).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Wednesday

Sumire is a woman that's too kind and keeps falling for bad men. In the midst of heartbreak, she discovers a lingerie brand and makes up her mind to become a lingerie designer. She is determined to pursue her new dream. One rainy day, she meets Soichi and is attracted to him but he holds a secret...

(Source: Japanese = TBS)

Adapted from the manga series "Watashi ga Himo wo Kau Nante" (私がヒモを飼うなんて) written by Motoyama Kumiko (本山久美子) and illustrated by Misono (美園).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Wednesday

Hime, a chubby girl, is in university and currently job hunting. During an info session at one of the companies, she accidentally gets hurt but receives help from the company’s information desk clerk, Osamu. Hime falls in love at first sight with the totally prince-like Osamu. She’d like to meet him once again and in order to accomplish this, she works hard on her diet and loses 50kg! She starts working at the same company, but even after 1 year she still hasn’t found him.

Then one day, the number one handsome man within the company and rumored son of a distinguished family transfers to Hime’s department. This turns out to be Osamu! In her brief moment of happiness at their reunion, Osamu frankly declares, “I have someone I’m interested in” and Hime loses all her courage.

However, why does Osamu do things like hugging Hime, whispering sweet words to her, and treating her special? Will Hime be kept being played by this unexpected doting love…!?

(Source: Mangaupdates)

Adapted from the manga "-50kg no Cinderella" (－50kgのシンデレラ).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 27 min.

Aired On: Friday

Why did the girl have to die? The mother becomes the tycoon's father's lover... The father becomes the tycoon's wife's hair stylist... The uncle becomes the tycoon's daughter's Korean tutor... And the sister becomes a journalist investigating the tycoon's son... The family of the high school girl disguise themselves to infiltrate the tycoon's life in order to uncover the truth behind their beloved daughter's death. Revealing shocking truths on the way, this is a story about an imposter family tackling mysteries and seeking revenge!

(Source: YTV)

Episodes: 10

Shiratama Sayako has never experienced much good luck. Since she was a child, she dreamed of becoming an architect. She studied hard, but she repeatedly failed her university entrance exams. Now, she is 30 years old and works in a field far away from her ideal job. One day, she happens to meet mysterious university student Ogasawara Taku. She tells him about her past dream of becoming an architect. Ogasawara Taku tells her that it is never too late and that she can still get accepted into a university. Inspired by their talk, Shiratama Sayako decides to study once again for her university entrance exams. After she studies so hard, she finally gets accepted into a university. There, Shiratama Sayako meets Ogasawara Taku again, who is a senior in the architecture department.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

This work stars Akafuji Yuichiro, a popular and handsome actor, and Aoyagi Hajime, a former popular child actor who has the ability but is currently unremarkable. The story begins when they are chosen to play the double lead roles in the live-action adaptation of an extremely popular BL manga.

They start living together in order to prepare for the role and get publicity, but Akafuji has a curt attitude toward Aoyagi, and Aoyagi doesn't like Akafuji either.

However, there was a reason for his curt attitude. In reality, Akafuji was deeply in love with Aoyagi.

Akafuji tries his best to hide his feelings, and Aoyagi tries to get along with the other but mistakenly thinks that he hates him. The misunderstanding between the two leads to an unexpected slapstick comedy in this "Cohabitation Romantic Comedy".

(Source: TV Asahi)

Adapted from the manga series "BL Drama no Shuen ni Narimashita" (BLドラマの主演になりました) by Suzuri Machi (すずり街).

Episodes: 3

Duration: 60 min.

Aired On: Sunday

Yono Miyako is a single 30-year-old contract employee. She returns from Tokyo to her hometown of Ibaraki, her dream city, to take care of her mother, and while there, she meets Hashima Kanichi, a kind but financially unstable part-time clerk. They share a mutual attraction, and the relationship between the two deepens, but as they confront their realities and worries for the future, the two find themselves drifting apart. As she worries about love, work, and caring for her parents, her own environment is constantly changing. She looks like the Earth is rotating and revolving around it. Miyako, who lacks the ability to make decisions and goes back and forth between resignation and hope, single-mindedly pursues happiness while hesitating.

The host of a fictional and sensational news show called "THE TRUTH" uses cynicism and humor to expose the truth behind various people and society. There will be a variety of segments and events, including a discussion corner with special guests, a cooking corner, english conversation corner, and street interviews, which are all filled with surreal content that at first seems to be useful but is meaningless, and vice versa.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 4

The story centers around Sakura Meme, a masked manga artist, who can hear the "voices" of food. As a result she gets hints and ideas for her stories through a variety of dishes and ingredients.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 2

Duration: 30 min.

Airs On: Friday

The story of a family that moves into a home situated next to a graveyard. The film starts innocently with a playful exchange between a parent and child about lizards' tails growing back. However, the child's curiosity leads him to chant a strange spell in the yard, which sets off a dangerous chain of events.

Hiroko Kurasawa, a video director and former colleague of the family's father, Naoto Ihara, visits their home and witnesses the strange occurrences. As Hiroko tries to uncover the mystery behind the family's troubles, she too becomes a victim of the malevolent forces at play.

Adapted from the novel "Kinjirareta Asobi" (禁じられた遊び) by Shimizu Karuma (清水カルマ).

Duration: 1 hr. 50 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Neri and her younger brother Jo make money by perpetrating fraud cases. One night, they happen to score hundreds of millions of yen. Since that time, they are chased by various nefarious people.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the novel "Keisou" (勁草) by Kurokawa Hiroyuki (黒川博行).

Duration: 2 hr. 23 min.

Will people fall in love when they act together in a romantic K-drama? Love Like a K-Drama is a reality dating show that centers on four Korean actors and four Japanese actresses who come together to live and pair up to try and land lead roles in six mini K-dramas. Will they be able to pass the audition with the person they love, or will they have to witness their romantic interest kissing their competitors?

Jin is a temporary elementary school teacher on his way to a permanent position when a traumatic event plunged him into a terrifying deep darkness. Three months later, a mysterious man named Kai provokes Jin's memories and feelings regarding the past experience through rapping.

Why is Kai obsessed with Jin? How does Jin confront his own "darkness"? Conflicts and battles for men who have been deeply injured inspire healing. And does true love exist on the other side?

Struggling, suffering, we will live.

Adapted from the manga "Koi Kogare Utae" (恋い焦れ歌え～R.I.P.～) by Miso.

At Seven Star Town, a high-class facility where Asako works as the head nurse, wealthy elderly people are elegantly living the last chapters of their lives. For Asako, who was living a humble life and taking care of her mother, it was a world far from herself. Satsuki, who works in Seven Star Town, also takes care of her parents who live with her, and her colleague Kuniko also has problems in the family over caring for her father. Asako has problems finding a facility for her mother. Both Satsuki and Kuniko face headwinds in their lives every day. Asako and her friends put into action a bold plan to break the status quo, and the drama of the people gathered in Seven Star Town begins to come alive. Will they be able to find paradise on earth?

(Source: Japanese = NHK)

Adapted from the novel "Warera ga Paradise" (我らがパラダイス) by Hayashi Mariko (林真理子).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 49 min.

Aired On: Sunday

Mantaro comes from a rich family in Kochi who owns a brewery but because of him being sickly, he becomes the target of bullying. As a child, he has been fascinated with plants and decides to quit school so as to head to Teikoku University in Tokyo where he studies botany and works as a research assistant with the vision of creating an encyclopedia on all plants in Japan, he works hard to realise his dream.

Aiba Soichiro works in the tax department at city hall. His job is to get people to pay taxes that are past due. For that, he evaluates their financial situation and visits their home. Sometimes he seizes their property and urges them to pay their tax. While dealing with tax issues, he approaches them with his heart and tries to find ways to help them. Soichiro Aiba used to be a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Finance, but, for some reason, he quit his job there and began working as a tax collector.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the manga series "Zeicho! - Nouzeika Daisan Shuunoukakari" (ゼイチョー！～納税課第三収納係～) by Shin Yui (慎結).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Saturday

Tanaka Kyoko is a 40-year-old OL, who works in the accounting department. She is excellent at her job. She has a modest appearance and doesn’t have a boyfriend, but she has a secret that nobody knows about. Her secret is that she performs as a sexy belly dancer. Every night, she belly dances in a glittering costume at a restaurant.

Meanwhile, Kurahashi Akari is a temp worker at the same company where Tanaka Kyoko is employed. Recently, she notices something has changed about Tanaka Kyoko and she is curious why. One evening, Kurahashi Akari visits a restaurant and is enthralled with the performance by exotic belly dancer Sali. The dancer's real name is Tanaka Kyoko.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the manga series "Sexy Tanaka-san" (セクシー田中さん) by Ashihara Hinako (芦原妃名子).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Aired On: Sunday

Fukabori Marie is a charismatic wedding planner and company president who is relied on by everyone, regardless of whether she is her boss or subordinate. Her husband Yusaku, an unsuccessful manga artist on the verge of going out of business, and his son, Junki, who dreamed of becoming an idol but was rejected at an audition, lost his way. In addition, her father who became alone due to a middle-aged divorce also came and she had to feed three useless men!

(Source: Japanese = NTV)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Aired On: Wednesday

A romantic comedy set in a voice actor academy about Momoi Tsubomi, an aspiring voice actress who is unable to give up her dream and gets an unexpected encouragement when she meets her favorite actor, Otose Riku.

(Source: DramaOtaku)

Episodes: 40

Duration: 15 min.

Aired On: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Takashiro Naoya is a handsome salaryman who works for a top company. However, he is also a notorious playboy with a bad taste in women. By chance, he ends up becoming the live-in muse for Fukunaga Akane, an erotic fiction writer who has little experience in love.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the manga series "Kattekitara Ippai shite. - Arasa Mangaka, Toshishita Ryman ni Mederareru" (帰ってきたらいっぱいして。～アラサー漫画家、年下リーマンに愛でられる～) by Mashii Yuma (ましい柚茉).

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Friday

Adapted from the manga series "Atari no Kitchen!" (あたりのキッチン！) by Shirono Yuki (白乃雪).

Episodes: 11

Three years ago, in order to save his childhood friend and unrequited love Yoshino Yuki, a high school student named Mitsuishi Reiya became a nocturnal being who attacks people and slurps their blood. , he meets boys who live in the darkness of the night, hiding the fact that they are nocturnal. In order to escape the violence of night hunting, hide from the public eye, and fight back against their bloodlust without attacking others, they gather at a live house, form a band called 404 not found, and become passionate about music. Each of the members has a history of traveling at night under harsh conditions, and the members sing with a sense of force, expressing their feelings of having nowhere to go in their music. Reiya, who has become a member of such a band, is relentlessly targeted by Kurose Takumi, the leader of the night hunters who hate night hunting.

Adapted from the web manga series "Shounen wo Kau" (少年を飼う) by Aoi Nuwi (青井ぬゐ).

Episodes: 10

Togo Jun and Mishima Ran, estranged sisters who had a falling out over a man, are reunited following their mother's death. The man, Ritsu, was Jun's boyfriend and is now the husband of Ran. The three have wound up living together under one roof.

(Source: anilist.co)

Adapted from the manga series "Kemutai Ane to Zurui Imoto" (けむたい姉とずるい妹) by Battan (ばったん).

Episodes: 10

Madoka Akagi grew up in a port town in the Kanto prefecture of Japan. After graduating university, she moved to work at ADventure, a small advertising agency in Tokyo. She came to Tokyo in search of her dreams but reality sets in and every day is not like the world she imagined, especially when she has to do a presentation that decides the company's fate. However, she soon finds a package from her mother which includes a Game Boy Pocket and Pokémon Red.

She decides to start playing Pokémon Red for the first time in 20 years. How will her adventure go?

(Source: Japanese = TV Tokyo)

Episodes: 10

Can friendship be formed among men and women? This is a story of four men and women who led separate lives and happen to come together while facing various relationship problems due to having friends of the opposite sex.

(Source: DramaWiki)

Episodes: 10