Asian Drama

Episodes: 6

Aired On: Monday

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Chiyomi, is a high school girl who was born and raised in a retro Showa-era shopping district in Shonan. She is a member of the basketball club and has a kind personality that stays cheerful despite her somewhat complicated family structure. She and Minami-kun, also known as Minami Hiroyuki, a basketball star from her hometown of Shonan, have been like siblings since childhood, and they are happily in a relationship. However, one day, he suddenly becomes 15cm in size and fits in the palm of her hand. Chiyomi begins living with him in his now tiny body.

(Source: Japanese = Yahoo Japan || Translation = MyDramaList)

Adapted from the manga series "Minami-kun no Koibito" (南くんの恋人) by Uchida Shungicu (内田春菊).

Tags: Shrinking, Gender Reverse, Student Female Lead, Summer Setting, Basketball Player Female Lead, Basketball, Cohabitation, Adapted From A Manga (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Country: Japan

Airs On: Tuesday

Aired: Jul 16, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Minami Hinako is the company president of Office CAT, a mysterious detective agency that accepts requests from women who wish to have help with their relationship issues. The company’s objective is not just to facilitate a breakup for the client, but to “abduct” the targeted individual. Otherwise known as “Thief Cat” Minami Hinako has a 100% robbery success rate. She skilfully manipulates her appearance and personality to make the target fall for her, thus tearing apart relationships between men and women. One day, the company receives a request from a woman named Hayakawa Risa, asking for help in stealing away her abusive boyfriend.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the novel series "Dorobo Neko Hinako no Jiken Bo" (泥棒猫ヒナコの事件簿) by Nagashima Emi (永嶋恵美).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Sunday

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Sawada Kyoka works as a yoga instructor. Her mother died two years ago and she moved in with her father Sawada Rintaro afterwards. Sawada Rintaro works as a Japanese language scholar. His only interest now is in the study of the Japanese language. After his wife died, his life seems to have no energy.

Sawada Kyoka gets into arguments with her father Sawada Rintaro constantly and she is also burdened with taking care of him. Sawada Kyoka wants to have a life where she can focus on herself. Due to everything around her, Sawada Kyoka doesn't care about getting married. But, one day, Sawada Rintaro finds a divorce document among his late wife's belongings. This pushes Sawada Rintaro into wanting to remarry. He also pushes his daughter Sawada Kyoka to find a marriage partner. The father and daughter begin to look for a person to marry. At this time, Sawada Kyoka meets Higashimura Seita, who is single father with a 7-year-old son.

58-year-old Ito Gentaro lives with his wife Chizuru in a house in Tokyo. Each of their three daughters should have left home and lived well. However, their eldest daughter 28-year-old Yuka is single and doing well at work but propensity for affairs. Their 25-year-old second daughter Rika wedded a highly educated man and lives in Osaka but the couple are on the brink of divorce. Their youngest daughter 22-year-old Mika is also single and the moment she gets to start living on her own, she half cohabits with a man who does not seem like he will be a successful manga artist. Gentaro worries endlessly about his daughters who are poor judges of character. Completely ignoring their tastes, this stubborn, old-fashioned father suddenly brings a man whom he likes to the house in the middle of the night and introduces him to his daughters. In fact this man is Yuka’s ex-boyfriend. What will the family be like the next day!?

Adapted from the manga "Oi Handsome!" (おいハンサム!!) by Ito Risa (伊藤理佐).

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Depicts the life of a former yakuza who was released for the first time in 14 years.

Mizuguchi Saki is an outstanding fashion magazine editor who grew up in a modern and liberal family. She meets Obara Koichi who is the ace of the Air Rescue Wing of the Air Self Defence Force. He grew up in a strict military family and is the classic straight-laced guy. Although Saki and Koichi are polar opposites, the two of them quickly get married without dating, believing that they would start a happy life as newly weds after a lavish wedding ceremony. However, as they begin living together in the same house, their differences in lifestyles and values result in differences in opinions and huge fights. Saki and Koichi soon decide to get a divorce. But the couple have difficulty breaking the news of their decision to their families, colleagues and friends who celebrated their marriage and looked forward to the future. They thus start activities behind the scenes to prepare for their divorce.

It follows Kanda and Fukumaru as they experience the joys of living together and learning about each other.

Adapted from a manga of the same name by Umi Sakurai.

It depicts a man who seriously pursues spicy food (Gekikaradou) not only as a man but also as a worker under the influence of his boss who loves spicy food

Every year, Nana Sasaki and her former classmates hold a reunion of their high school music club. This year, the reunion is being held online. However, one of them, Ayumi doesn't show up. When the others voice their concern, Yuki and Suzu reluctantly tell them about the Samejima Incident, an urban legend which circulated on the internet 20 years earlier. Those who find the truth about it become cursed and die. As Nana and the others start to panic, the real horror begins.

The story centers on a high school girl who stronger and cooler than any guy, the prince, and her beautiful best friend, the princess. ~~Adapted from the manga of the same title by Konatsu.

"Nobu" is a bar located on a not so busy street in Kyoto. The front entrance of the bar is connected to the alternate world of "Aiteria,” which is like medieval Europe. People from Aiteria visit the bar Nobu.

Nobuyuki Yazawa was once a chef at a high-end restaurant, but he is now the owner of Nobu. Shinobu Senke works as a waitress for the bar. She is bright, smart and pretty. The bar's cold beer "Toriaezu Nama" becomes popular and the bar thrives. Customers from Aiteria with various backgrounds like soldiers, merchants, and noblemen have a good time at Nobu.

A school gourmet comedy set in the 1980's. In one junior high school, teachers and students continued a quiet battle. That is, who will eat the school lunch?

Three high school girls are chosen among 700,000 applicants to be on the reality show “Marry the Prince”. They must find their true love in the four princes they encounter.

Akiba used to be a successful businessman. Now he spends his days working on developing mobile apps. He settles down at Koshiro’s office. Koshiro runs a temp agency, which is experiencing financial distress. Koshiro dreams of becoming a successful businessman.

One day, Akiba and Koshiro meet Eri as she is being chased by a loan shark. Eri begins to live with Akiba and Koshiro.

Meanwhile, Isao knows Akiba from their past. He now runs a successful investment company and dominates people with his wealth.

Akiba and Isao decide to buy a Tokyo broadcasting station.

Akiba used to be a successful businessman. Now he spends his days working on developing mobile apps. He settles down at Koshiro’s office. Koshiro runs a temp agency, which is experiencing financial distress. Koshiro dreams of becoming a successful businessman.

One day, Akiba and Koshiro meet Eri as she is being chased by a loan shark. Eri begins to live with Akiba and Koshiro.

Meanwhile, Isao knows Akiba from their past. He now runs a successful investment company and dominates people with his wealth.

Akiba and Isao decide to buy a Tokyo broadcasting station.

Yoshitaka Niimi works at the editorial department for a major publishing company. He is good at his job. The Chief Editor Ryuhei Kashiwazaki assigns him to work at the fashion magazine Pipin.

On his first day at Pipin, he is shocked at the different environment. The female staff seem rather unusual and then there's the appearance of the fashion models!

Set on a car carrier, while on a voyage.

Marin Sakamoto begins work as a third mate. During the voyage, she is busy while the ship visits countries like Singapore and the continent of Europe. Even though she gets used to her work, she makes mistakes.

Meanwhile, Tsubame Ishikawa became a third engineer. She has gained the trust of her colleagues and she is about to be promoted to second engineer. Due to her company's situation, she gets assigned to work on land. Cyring, Tsubame Ishikawa gets off the ship. She faces trouble in her personal life and work.

The story centers on the titular "committee," comprised of a martial artist, a musician, and an executive, who listen to the stories of clients who come in to hear their judgment. Clients come in and tell their stories about their romantic lives, focusing on points where they think they might have had sex, but ended up not doing it. The committee then delivers their judgment on whether or not they think the client might have actually ended up having sex at that point if something had been different.

Ten high school students are confined and forced to play a death game that risks their lives.

Jiro and Mifuyu(are a couple who just started dating. One day, they argue about how to eat the yolk of a fried egg. Jiro is stubborn about how to eat and he has a hard time dealing with people who eat differently. This causes Jiro to reflect deeply on his relationship with others including Mifuyu. He opens up to the different ways people eat and the different thoughts of others.

Ishikawa Tsubame and Sakamoto Marin are first-year students at a university for aspiring navigators. The two girls join a month-long practical training aboard a vessel for their first test as freshmen in an environment where 80% are boys. They have to cope with the gruelling training and unimaginable seasickness as they struggle together with the male students.

Michima Shin is a 30-years-old lonely and unpopular novelist who lives alone in a big house. Shin's father is a convicted murderer, awaiting capital punishment, who killed 3 people, including his wife, Shin's mother.

One day, five mysterious women showed up at Shin's house saying that they received an invitation to live with him in exchange of paying 1 million yen a month in rent. They set up rules for Shin such as no asking questions and no entering the women's rooms.

Six months later, Shin is used to the presence of those women, however, one day, an incident occurs that changed everything.

Miyanaga Saki, a first-year student at Kiyosumi High School, lacks enthusiasm for mahjong and plays it so that it will end with neither a win nor a loss. One day, she is influenced by Haramura Nodoka’s genius mahjong tactics and decides to join the mahjong club. Nodoka is the titleholder of the national junior high school mahjong tournament. Together with Nodoka and the other club members, Saki contends for the title against formidable opponents.

In June 2015, Kyogoku suddenly woke up after being in a coma for 30 years due to an accident during an investigation. It has been a year since he and the young detective, Mochizuki Ryota of Yokohama Chuo Police Precinct, drove the violent criminal called Kagura as well as the organisation Kyogoku was pursuing 30 years ago to destruction and closed this chapter from the past. Kyogoku and Ryota are still living together in the same place. Although Ryota and Yui have been dating for close to a year, Kyogoku stubbornly refuses to approve their relationship. In this one year, Kyogoku and Ryota have led the police in solving numerous heinous crimes. Ryota has also undergone an unbelievable transformation from a year ago. The investigation methods of the two of them occasionally create trouble. But because their arrest rate and contributions are the highest in the Kanagawa area right now, their maverick, overbearing behaviour is tolerated. They are the “stadium jumper and skinny macho” pair of the Yokohama Chuo district.

Remake of German TV series "The Last Cop" (Der letzte Bulle) [2010].

Sakurai Misaki is a patissier who dreams of having her own business in the future and has prioritised work to the extent that she has forgotten how to kiss. But one day, she is suddenly dismissed and has difficulty finding a new job. At that moment, Misaki meets Shibasaki Chiaki, her first love in high school. Learning about her situation, Chiaki invites her to live-in and work at the seaside restaurant that he runs in Shonan. Chiaki has two younger brothers. Second brother Kanata is a talented chef while third brother Toma is a waiter at the restaurant. Misaki ends up spending one summer with the three handsome siblings.

Shinohara Erika is a first year of high school student. While talking to friends, she makes up a story about her "boyfriend." In reality, Erika doesn't have a boyfriend. Erika's friends soon begin to doubt her story and Erika is also running out of lies. Erika then sees a pretty boy on the street and takes his picture discreetly. She later shows his picture to her friends as her boyfriend. The boy in the picture is Sata Kyouya and happens to attend the same school as Erika. She tells Kyouya about her situation and asks him to be her pretend boyfriend. Even though Kyouya has a pretty appearance, he has a dark side.

Jun Hashimoto is a sci-fi novel writer, but he isn't popular at all. He lives off of his savings. One day, his editor Tateyama assigns him a job: he is to write a "love" themed short story for a web magazine oriented towards youths. At first Jun refuses, because he has never written a love story before, but Tateyama pushes him to write one. The deadline is imminent. Jun's childhood friend Keisuke Murata then appears in front of him. Jun complains to Keisuke that he can't write, but while talking to him, he comes up with an idea.

Five male students enrolls at a school that has all female students. The boarding school was formerly an all-girls high school until the new school year. The student council then places the five male students in a place known as the prison on charges that they were peeping on the girls in the showers. The 5 male students struggle to escape from the prison.

(Source: IMDb)

Adapted from the manga series "Prison School" (監獄学園) by Hiramoto Akira (平本アキラ).

Episodes: 9