Asian Drama

Setoka Tachibana (Tao Tsuchiya) is a female high school student. She has confessed her feelings to other boys 12 times, but has been rebuffed each time. Her older brother Haruka Tachibana (Ryota Katayose) cares for his younger sister deeply, but he holds a secret from Setoka. The secret is that they are not blood related. One day, Setoka's first love Takane Serikawa (Yudai Chiba) appears after many years and approaches her.

Takahashi Asanosuke is the son and heir of the headman of a town. His father arbitrates civil cases which the town’s magistrate cannot try. Asanosuke and Yagi Seijuro, the resourceful son of the neighbouring town’s headman, are skilled because they apprenticed as constables. Soma Kichigoro is their close childhood friend. Asaknosuke had been a serious and outstanding youth until the age of 16. However, he became a carefree pleasure seeker at some point. Though usually completely unreliable, he actually possesses exceptional deductive skills. The trivial matters of Edo’s people would be brought to him each time. However, he would skillfully solve even the most chaotic and disentangled matters with unexpected methods.

Takahashi Asanosuke is the son and heir of the headman of a town. His father arbitrates civil cases which the town’s magistrate cannot try. Asanosuke and Yagi Seijuro, the resourceful son of the neighbouring town’s headman, are skilled because they apprenticed as constables. Soma Kichigoro is their close childhood friend. Asaknosuke had been a serious and outstanding youth until the age of 16. However, he became a carefree pleasure seeker at some point. Though usually completely unreliable, he actually possesses exceptional deductive skills. The trivial matters of Edo’s people would be brought to him each time. However, he would skillfully solve even the most chaotic and disentangled matters with unexpected methods.

Sakai Tooru is a young office worker who, despite being married, has been having multiple affairs. One day, after lying to his wife that he was going on a business trip but actually spending time with a lover, he wakes up to find a bomb around his neck. He is told to livestream his adultery. If the views drop below 5, the bomb around his neck will blow. Scared, he calls his affair partners one after the other. What is the criminal's purpose?

Sakai Tooru is a young office worker who, despite being married, has been having multiple affairs. One day, after lying to his wife that he was going on a business trip but actually spending time with a lover, he wakes up to find a bomb around his neck. He is told to livestream his adultery. If the views drop below 5, the bomb around his neck will blow. Scared, he calls his affair partners one after the other. What is the criminal's purpose?

Akado Suzunosuke is a swordsman from the Edo period who accidentally ends up in the Reiwa era. Will he defeat the demons led by the silver-haired demon here too? And how will our swordsman live in the modern era?

Follows the sexual lives of five people who work at the same CG production company, Studio Delta. Omori Momoe is 27-years-old and single, but has intimate relationships with five male friends. She thinks of physical intimacy as a hobby that doesn't cost money.

"So I Will Make It" follows women and the role of make-up in their lives. Kumagai Sumire works as a beauty adviser at a cosmetics shop. She works with rookie beauty adviser Kondo Mei and beauty advisor Yamamoto Orikia. (Source: AsianWiki) ~~ Based on manga series "Dakara Watashi wa Make Suru" by illustrated by Hikari Shibata and written by Gekidan Mesuneko.

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Ryuji (Taisho Iwasaki), Satoru (Ryuga Sato) and Atsushi (Hidaka Ukisho) are friends in high school. They are classmates in the 2nd grade class B. They appear like troubled students, but they are not. They are actually country boys.

When they are at their secret place, they suddenly feel a big shake and hear the sound of thunder. Then next moment, they see a man Sanpei wearing a dirty military uniform with a backpack and holding a bayonet. Sanpei came from the past, right before the end of the war in Guam. Ryuji, Satoru and Atsushi enjoy their time with Sanpei. They think that being with Sanpei, their lives might change and they ask him to spend summer with them. Class President Michifumi (Yuto Nasu) and twin brothers Akihiko (Naoki Fujii) and Kazuhiko (Issei Kanasashi) join the group.

Ayaka, who works at the bridal department at a hotel, has a beauty that everyone recognizes, yet her personality is the worst. Everyone calls her a "wicked woman" after the way she wraps numerous men around her finger. The one who sets his eyes on her is the hotel's new executive Togo, who is the son of a very powerful person of the town. What are the orders that this King-like man requests of her!?

Adapted from the manga series "Ousama ni Sasagu Kusuriyubi" (王様に捧ぐ薬指) by Watanabe Shiho (わたなべ志穂).

The story revolves around a company called “Office AIR Cleaning” that specializes in providing a unique break-up service for those who cause trouble to others due to their selfish in-house extramarital affairs.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the web comic "Onsha no Furin no Kudan: Zettai ni Wakare Sasemasu" (御社の不倫の件～絶対に別れさせます～) by Tatsuki Yuuma (樹ユウマ).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Tuesday

In 10 days, the world will be destroyed by a meteor. To spend his remaining time as comfortably as possible, bad-luck magnet Masumi decides to visit the library of his alma mater and read as much as he wants until the end comes. But in this hellish world, he meets a devil there: the one man from his past that he never wanted to see again, Ritsu. And if things weren't bad enough, Ritsu has a favor to ask, a favor that Masumi could never have expected—Marukido Maki weaves an eccentric tale of human connection in a world on the brink of destruction in this emotional journey that will take its readers on a wild ride.

Adapted from the manga "Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu" (僕らのミクロな終末) by Marukido Maki (丸木戸マキ).

This is a social media drama with short episodes. It is on twitter for free.

An original anthology drama based on the theme of live streaming, that depicts the connections between online streamers ("livers") and their listeners.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 4

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Saturday

Haneda Riku, a 20-year-old university student who aspires to be a novelist, is bewildered by the sudden marriage of his older sister Ayaka, but then he finds a flyer for a “New Writer Discovery Contest.” The grand prize is 1 million yen! He quickly decides to take on the challenge, but the theme is “love,” something Riku lacks experience in. So Riku consults his friend Mochizuki Rei, who is reputed to be the most popular guy at school, and on Rei’s recommendation, he signs up for a matching app.

Tokino Mitani runs a watch shop, located on a street far from the downtown area. She is 20-years-old and inherited the watch shop from her grandfather. Unknown to most, she is also an excellent private detective and offers an alibi cracking service. She can crack someone's false alibi by using logic based on time and a watch. She gets payed 5,000 yen for that service.

Yoshiyuki Saji used to be an elite police officer, but he tried to uncover corruption within the police department. This caused Yoshiyuki Saji to receive a demotion to a police station in a rural city. He moves alone there, leaving behind his wife and child. He lives at a boarding house, where Tokino Mitani lives. Yoshiyuki Saji does not get along with the other detectives there. He struggles to solve a case and he hears about Tokino Mitani's ability as an alibi cracker. He doesn't want to ask for her help, because of his pride as a police officer, but he requests her help on a case.

Keiichi who is due to marry his girlfriend 48 days later when she returns from her business trip to China however, before that happens, Keiichi ends up sharing his apartment with 3 other women and tries to hide this from Kano who happens to return home earlier than expected.

Tomonaga Ranmaru, Kamekanbo Hikaru and Miyazawa Kanji, who happened to meet through a strange turn of events, ride in a car to eat and sleep at hot spring inns as they journey across Japan in search of an enigmatic hot spring geisha called Miyabi.

After Jun married her husband, she quit her job. She is now a housewife and has been happily married to Takeyori for the past 8 years. They haven't had sex for 5 years and they don't have a child. She tells her husband that she wants to have a child, but he doesn’t even want to talk about having children. To change her mood, Jun decides to work again. She takes a job as a contract worker. One day, Jun sees her husband Takeyori walking with a woman.

Adapted from the manga "Will You Still Pledge Me Your Faithful Love?" (それでも愛を誓いますか？) by Hagiwara Keiku (萩原ケイク).

Horm Muen Lee, a cupid girl of Cupid Hut. She is a Chinese looking girl who has cup C boobs, white skin which is almost fluorescent, and is self conscious without make-up because she believe she looks like a Ju-On ghost. She has to join the love battlefield with her seven friends for finding the right guy for herself. She have cosmetic, and Pee a taxi driver help her. Finally, Horm know that her target is him. She is the heir of pig meat ball, and he's just a taxi driver. Moreover, he likes her without make up, but can she go anywhere without make up? Dream on! Soon, Horm finds out that Pee has a secret. It makes her doubt him. Who is Pee? Will her love end?

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Episodes: 5

Duration: 20 min.

Aired On: Tuesday, Friday

In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of WOWOW, Matsuo Suzuki, the artistic director of Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon and the leader of Otona Keikaku in Tokyo, will write, direct, and perform in an original omnibus comedy drama. Each episode is 30 minutes long and is performed with an actress (Yoshida Yo, Kuroki Haru, Aso Kumiko, and Tabe Mikako).

Meika is the heiress to a massive estate, called the Sanjou Empire. With her high school graduation, she is to marry her bodyguard Akira, and she is starting to think her actual budding romantic feelings are pointing elsewhere, but can that really be true?!

(Source: BakaUpdates)

Adapted from the manga series "18-sai, Niizuma, Furin Shimasu." (18歳、新妻、不倫します。) by Watanabe Shiho (わたなべ志穂).

Episodes: 10

The story centers on Chitose, a former bullied girl who became a talent manager. The celebrity she is put in charge of is a domineering actor who was a bully as a child.

Kichijoji is a popular town that has been voted as the place that people want to live in in the whole of Tokyo many times. There is an old real estate agency called Shigeta that is managed by the Sumita twins, Tomiko (Oshima Miyuki) and Miyako (Ando Natsu). People who fantasize of living in Kichijoji visit the agency. However, the rent is high and the place is small as well as far

Successful career woman Takanashi Asuka has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she encounters Nanami Ryu, a popular newscaster at PTV. Asuka and Ryu get along well, but the last thing he wants is to ever get married. This level-headed pair who want the opposite things in life should never get involved, except Nanami

Set in a high school senior class where students can now marry without parental consent due to the implementation of the new “18-year-old adulthood” law, this unprecedented school suspense drama explores first love, pregnancy, marriage, and even infidelity. Not only are the students of Class 3-C involved in affairs, but so are their parents and teachers…?! The protagonist of this work is Uemura Aoi, who transfers into Class 3-C at an elite high school after her parents get divorced due to her father’s affair. The story depicts how she reunites with Tachibana Iori, a male student who was her first love and is now married to another classmate, and how they fall into an illicit affair. Their romance eventually spirals into a scandal that engulfs the school and their parents, leading to a gruesome tragedy.

Episodes: 10

Aired On: Wednesday

Duration: 30 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

"Ooku" is the story of the picturesque lives of the women living in the hidden, maze-like inner structure of Edo Castle. Inside, the women wielded their beauty and knowledge: some of them to win the Shogun's love, obtain political power, or to climb the ladder of the Ooku hierarchy. Their lives were filled with romance, hatred, anger, envy, tears, and persecution. Of the three-century history of the Tokugawa Ooku, this drama focuses on the last several years. It tells the story of the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Ooku, and also the lives of the women who lived through these times.

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.