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Mayu Matsuoka

Birthday: Born in 1995-02-15 in Tokyo, Japan

Deathday: Alive

Mayu Matsuoka (松岡 茉優, Matsuoka Mayu, born February 16, 1995) is a Japanese actress. She has been awarded the Tama best Emerging Actress Award and Fumiko Yamaji Freshman Actress Award in 2016. She gained international attention as an ambassador of the Tokyo International Film Festival for 2017 and her role in the Palme d’Or winning film Shoplifters.

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生きるとか死ぬとか父親とか

Character: Kanbara Tokiko [Young]

Tokiko’s mother died 20 years ago and her father Tetsuya is now in his 70's. Her father has a free spirit and is cute. Tokiko is in her mid 40's and still single. She has a strong personality. In their past, Tokiko and Tetsuya did not have a good relationship. It got so bad that they almost ended their relationship, but now they occasionally meet. They go out to eat together and have conversations. Tokiko decides to publish an essay about her father Tetsuya. To collect information for her essay...

ちはやふる -繋ぐ-

Character: Wakamiya Shinobu

This series connects the story of the second movie, "Chihayafuru Part II", with the third movie, "Chihayafuru Part III"....

経世済民の男

Character: Keiko

A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK....

フェンス

Character: Komatsu Kie (Key)

Komatsu Kie (Key), a magazine writer from Tokyo, teams up with Omine Sakura, an Okinawa native, to pursue the truth of a sexual assault case....

大戦隊ゴーグルファイブ

Character: Swordsman Doll, Model Doll

Warriors were chosen to battle the Dark Science Empire Death Dark. They fight using Future Science and their weapons are inspired by gymnastics apparatus....

ラブ トランジット

Character: Self

Reunion? A new love? Which will you choose? Five pairs of ex-lovers live together in a luxury hotel for a month of Hocance. A realistic and mature love documentary....

問題のあるレストラン

Character: Chika Ameki

Tamako works for a company in the restaurant business. She experiences betrayal from Makoto, a chef she recently hired. Rumors then spread at work about her. Tamako decides enough is enough and quits her job. She decides to open a restaurant and run it from a woman's perspective. Tamako soon learns that Makoto has opened a luxurious restaurant across the street from her modest restaurant....

하이스쿨 드라이브

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最高の教師 1年後、私は生徒に■された

Character: Kujo Rina

Kujo Rina is a chemistry teacher and the homeroom teacher for the 3rd grade D class at Horai High School. She doesn't have a bond with her students. On the school's graduation day, Kujo Rina is pushed from the 4th floor and falls down. She is able to glimpse a school uniform sleeve on the person that pushed her. At that time, she wonders why she was pushed and that she does not want to die....

最高の生徒 ~余命1年のラストダンス~

Character: Kujo Rina

A crossover drama with NTV drama “Saiko no Kyoshi”. Where Saiko no Kyoshi focuses on Class 3-D, “Saiko no Seito” is set within Class 3-C, which is the neighboring class. Ban Hikari is a young girl who has recently been told she has just a year left to live due to a hereditary disease. In her notebook, she jots down a list of things she wishes to accomplish. Called “positive monster” by those around her, she resolves to live the days of her final year out as fully as possible....

舞妓さんちのまかないさん

Character: Yoshino

Two inseparable friends move to Kyoto to chase their dreams of becoming maiko, but decide to pursue different passions while living under the same roof....

GTO

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Through the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike gang member, visits Meishu Academy to tend to the trees in the garden as a part-time gardener. Learning that Yoshikawa Noboru, a student in teacher Fuyutsuki Azusa’s class is being bullied by Uehara Kyoko and other classmates, Onizuka befriends and saves Yoshikawa. Seeing Onizuka’s unprecedented but visceral, powerful response to problem solving, the school’s president and principal, Sakurai Yoshiko, o...

ノンレムの窓 2022 春

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GTO

Character: 志条あゆな

Through the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike gang member, visits Meishu Academy to tend to the trees in the garden as a part-time gardener. Learning that Yoshikawa Noboru, a student in teacher Fuyutsuki Azusa’s class is being bullied by Uehara Kyoko and other classmates, Onizuka befriends and saves Yoshikawa. Seeing Onizuka’s unprecedented but visceral, powerful response to problem solving, the school’s president and principal, Sakurai Yoshiko, o...

桂ちづる診察日録

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やすらぎの郷

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The drama is set in an retirement home named "Yasuragi no Sato La Strada" where only those who had worked in the TV entertainment industry such as actors, writers, musicians and artists are allowed to live at. Kikumura Sakae, who used to be a popular scriptwriter, lives among the former stars and the problems they face are presented in a humorous manner....

ウチの夫は仕事ができない

Character: Sayaka Kobayashi

Tsukasa Kobayashi has the appearance and educational background of an elite and earns a good salary, but he is actually incompetent at his job and makes mistakes frequently, earning the ire of his co-workers. Tsukasa was about to quit his job after much humiliation at work when he learns that his wife is pregnant....

ゆりあ先生の赤い糸

Character: Oyamada Michiru

Fifty-year-old Yuria has a quiet life teaching embroidery classes in her home, where she lives with her writer husband and his mother. Then one day her world is turned upside down when husband has a subarachnoid hemorrhage and upon arriving at the hospital, Yuria is met by a tearful young man who announces that he is her husband's lover....

コウノドリ

Character: Kae Shimoya

The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an Ob-Gyn doctor working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a gifted jazz pianist. His mother had died in childbirth and he was brought up in an orphanage, which is what fueled his ambition to be an ob-gyn. He hopes to be able to deliver every baby to this world, congratulating them on the gift of life given to their little bodies. (Source: TBS)...

シー

Character: Ryouko Nishizawa

A female student at a prestigious high school goes missing. She had everything including looks, smarts and boyfriend. Her disappearance affects 4 other female students that knew her....

ENGEIグランドスラム

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Comedy performance special program....

初恋の悪魔

Character: Sesuna Tsumiki

Detective Suzunosuke Shikahama is currently suspended from work after a screw up. He gets together with Haruhi Mabuchi from the Administration Bureau, Sesuna Tsumiki from the Community Safety Bureau, and Ruka Kotori from Accounting. All from different departments and carrying their own baggage, the four join forces. They’re not exactly what you would call champions of justice. They’re not even ambitious enough to go for success. All they want is the truth....

35歳の高校生

Character: young Ayako

The drama will center around how a 35 year old changes the school and influences her fellow classmates’ lives while dealing with the dark reality of today’s high schools, including bullying and skipping school....

限界集落株式会社

Character: Oouchi Miho

In a small village in the Kanto regioin, which is surrounded by mountains, residents and a management consultant (Shosuke Tanihara) struggle to rebuild the village through its only industry, farming....

警視庁捜査一課9係

Character: Yui Mihara

The members of this elite investigative team are unique individuals with their own personal troubles, but what unites them is their strong sense of justice. They each channel all their energy and skill to solve the most difficult cases....

二軒目どうする?~ツマミのハナシ~

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The hosts explore different neighborhoods and izakayas, discussing various snacks and drinks. They share interesting trivia about the food and beverages, often accompanied by lively conversations with female guests and experts....

ノンレムの窓

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"Non-rem sleep" means deep sleep. Are the three mysterious short stories that we broadcast this time a dream? Or is it real? Dreams and reality, reality and unreality ... The mysterious bakarhythm world that goes back and forth between them is the "non-rem window."...

がんばれ!TEAM NACS

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A super big project commemorating the 25th anniversary of the formation of TEAM NACS and the 30th anniversary of wowow's opening. It was filmed in Hokkaido, the birthplace of TEAM NACS. Starting with "Back to the Sentai Futures", in which members dress as heroes who homage the masterpiece movie and Yo Yoshida participates as the villain "Emperor DeLorean", music is produced with the aim of becoming a national group, "NACS New Member Audition" will be held....

その『おこだわり』、私にもくれよ!!

Character: 松岡茉優

As emcees of a fictitious variety programme, Matsuoka Mayu and Ito Sairi interview people with fixations in everyday life to find out what is difficult for others to understand, but makes the person happy....

水族館ガール

Character: 岛由香

Yuka is an employee at a major Japanese trading company who finds herself dumped by her elitist boyfriend, also a colleague. To make matters worse, she ends up getting demoted and is transferred to a soon-to-be-closed aquarium that's affiliated with her company. Yuka's former boss and ex-boyfriend from the head office come to the aquarium with intentions of closing it, arousing suspicions in Yuka's trainer, Kaji. As a result, Kaji pushes Yuka harder and harder in her work as a dolphin trainer. B...

恋の三陸 列車コンで行こう!

Character: Hasekura Momoko

A heartwarming romantic drama set in Ofunato City in Iwate Prefecture. The story revolves around Yukari, a city hall employee who hosts a matchmaking-party held on a train running along the beautiful Sanriku Coastal Area. One day, she happens to live with her brother-in-law who resolves to cook an original ramen noodle....

あまちゃん

Character: Shiori Iruma

Amachan is the 88th 2013 NHK asadora written by Kankuro Kudo (Tiger and Dragon, Unobore Deka). It's about Amano Aki (Nounen Rena), a 16 year old girl from Tokyo who goes to her mother's former home in Sodegahama, a fishing village in Kitasanriku, Iwate prefecture for the summer break. She falls in love with the sea and its people, and decides to stay on to become an Ama (women divers who fetch clams and sea urchins for tourists) just like her grandmother, Natsu (Miyamoto Nobuko). Her decision is...

ギークス 〜警察署の変人たち〜

Character: Saijo Yui

Yui Saizo is a single, 29 year old woman and works in the crime laboratory at the Takanashi Police Station as a forensics examiner. She does her job well, due to her excellent memory and analytical mind. She prioritizes efficiency at her work. She also eschews the old-fashioned and traditional ways at the police station, like, working overtime or being liked by colleagues. She does have two close female colleagues at the police station. They are Masumi Kira and Iori Motoyama. Masumi Kira works a...

銀二貫

Character: Maho

Set in Tenma, Osaka. Matsukichi (Kento Hayashi) is the son of a samurai. His father is killed because of a grudge and Matsukichi is also in danger. At this time, Wasuke (Masahiko Tsugawa), the owner of the store Ikawa, saves Matsukichi's life. He then begins working at the store....

おカネの切れ目が恋のはじまり

Character: Reiko Kuki

Reiko Kuki is single, works in the accounting dept. for toy manufacturer. She lives her life frugally and hardly buys stuff that is not a necessity. A year ago, she found small dishes at a secondhand store and liked them immediately. And Finally, she makes the decision to purchase it for $15. She enters the store, but sees a man and woman buying small dishes at random. The man is Keita Saruwatari. His father runs the toy company where Reiko works. Reiko happens to be the person to advise Keita a...

鈴木先生

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Akira Suzuki is the home room teacher for 2-A. After graduating from college Akira did not work for 3 years. Instead, he spent his time thinking about ways to solve problems once he works as a teacher. Because of this, Akira has a knack to solve problems and the principle trusts him. Mr. Suzuki always listens to his students' problems and gives them creative solutions. Due to this, Mr. Suzuki is popular among the students. Meanwhile, Akira dates Asami who works at a travel agency. They met throu...


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Little Forest: Four Seasons

Character: Kikko

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Nagisa no koibito tachi

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実録ドラマスペシャル 女の犯罪ミステリー

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Masked Hearts

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26 years old Hanako is on the verge of directing her first-ever feature film, achieving her childhood dream. Although she’s being hindered by an older male assistant director, she has a fateful encounter with a man named Masao, and her life at last begins to take on a whole new luster. However, the underhanded actions of an unscrupulous producer cause Hanako to have her personal project stolen. After being dumped into despair, she quietly stokes her rage, and makes a pledge to keep fighting, and...

People of the Isono Family ~Ms Sazae 20 years from now~

Character: Wakame

It's 20 years later and the Isono family is having a rough time. Katsuo is facing a series of professional setbacks. Wakame is having a tough time coming up with original designs. Tarao is in the process of job hunting but can't find what he wants to do. Sazae wants to do her best to return happiness to her family in the face of an impending storm during the Bon Odori competition....

Chips

Character: Miyu

Tadashi Imamura is a burglar who idolises Ozaki, a star baseball player he shares a birthday with. One day he realises their connection is much deeper than that and decides to find out more....

Hell Dogs

Character: Emiri Kisa

Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members....

Sylvanian Families the Movie: A Gift from Freya

Character: Stella Chocolate (voice)

The rabbit girl Freya is trying to make everyone happy, with the Sylvanian village's annual star festival serving as the backdrop....

The Kirishima Thing

Character: Sana

A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school....

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021

Character: Piina (voice)

One day during summer vacation, a palm-sized alien named Papi appears from a small rocket that Nobita picks up. He is the president of Pirika, a small planet in outer space, and has come to Earth to escape the rebels. Doraemon and his friends are puzzled by Papi’s small size, but as they play together using the secret tool “Small Light”, they gradually become friends. However, a whale-shaped space battleship comes to earth and attacks Doraemon, Nobita and the others in order to capture Papi. Fee...

Little Forest: Summer/Autumn

Character: Kikko

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before....

Love Exposure

Character: Yuri

The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing....

Screaming Class

Character: Erika

Kana is an ordinary high school student. One day, her photo is selected for a magazine and, because of this, Kana receives attention from popular student attention Rio. The attention though is not the kind Kana wanted. Kana is bullied by Rio and her friends. A rumor exists that a ghost exists in the old school building. The ghost is able to grant someone's wish, but that person will lose something important to them. The ghost is a former student named Yomi, who died in an accident 12 years ago....

Little Forest: Winter/Spring

Character: Kikko

Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again....

Strayer's Chronicle

Character: Momo

In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing stress upon expecting parents and when the baby was born, provoke the baby into mutations and develop their special abilities. The other method involved birth to babies having abilities of animals and insects. The special abilities were derived from gene manipulation. Subaru, Saya and others were born from those experiments....

ノンレムの窓

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"Non-rem sleep" means deep sleep. Are the three mysterious short stories that we broadcast this time a dream? Or is it real? Dreams and reality, reality and unreality ... The mysterious bakarhythm world that goes back and forth between them is the "non-rem window."...

Amachan

Character: Shiori Iruma

Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake....

Naval Port Child: Yokosuka Cleaning 1946

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Post-war Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Adults who are swayed by the US military stationed in the country and swayed by US intentions cannot afford to care about children who should be protected. The war orphans, who had no choice but to survive on their own, were used to shining shoes for American soldiers, picking up cigarettes, and sometimes committing crimes. However, at some point, they came across a "cleaning" job. They work hard instead of committing crimes and earn money by being appreci...

Scroll

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The story describes how youngsters struggle to cope with the gap between their ideals and reality....

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

Character: Yaeko

Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan’s most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku....

Cats Don't Come When You Call

Character: Ume

Mitsuo is a boxer who prefers dogs but ends up looking after two cats that his brother rescues....

Chihayafuru: Part II

Character: Shinobu Wakamiya

After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is faced with new personal issues as her childhood friend and inspiration, Arata, has announced that he has quit competitive karuta. Not only that, but a new rival emerges in the reigning female champion karuta player, Shinobu Wakamiya, a karuta prodigy who became the nation's and the world's greatest female karuta player as a 9th grader. All of this forces ...

Chihayafuru: Part I

Character: Shinobu Wakamiya

When Chihaya Ayase was in the 6th grade of elementary school, she met Arata Wataya. Arata Wataya transferred from Fukui Prefecture. Taichi Mashima was Chihaya Ayase's friend since they were little. Arata got close to Chihaya and Taichi from the card game karuta. Four years later, Chihaya is a high school student. Chihaya learns that Arata, who went back to Fukui Prefecture, doesn't play karuta anymore. Believing they will meet Arata again, Chihaya and Taichi starts a karuta club at their high ...

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Character: Saori Nishida

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fellow mahjong players, pachinko parlor employees and former drinking buddies gather to pay their respects and tell stories, revealing aspects of Masato’s life that complicate his sons’ resentment towards him....

Houkago Lost

Character: Rika

Little Trip: Chairperson Ayako and Yuki, who sometimes skips school, become close. They run away. Rakugaki Uwagaki: Satomi used to be a member of art club, but she stopped drawing. Due to a cultural festival, she decides to draw again. Baion: Kuroi likes recording the sounds of daily life. One day, she meets Rika. Rika begins to enjoy recording the sounds of daily life with Kuroi....

Tremble All You Want

Character: Yoshika

Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming fixation has prevented her from even considering another candidate for boyfriend until an office colleague asks her out....

Chihayafuru: Part III

Character: Shinobu Wakamiya

Story takes place 2 years after "Chihayafuru Part 2" and Chihaya is now a high school senior....

Shoplifters

Character: Aki Shibata

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them....

Listen to the Universe

Character: Aya Eiden

Four pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One is a new face and yet comes recommended....

The Wonderland

Character: Akane (voice)

The story follows Akane, a girl with no self-confidence. On the day before her birthday, she meets a mysterious alchemist, Hippocrates, and his student, Pipo, who both tell her they're on a mission to save the world. Together, they set out from the basement for "Wonderland," and Akane finds herself labelled Wonderland's savior....

One Night

Character: Sonoko Inamura

A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago....

Kuroido Goroshi

Character: Kuroido Hanako

March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death is overdose of sleeping pills. Sanako had been suspected for killing her own husband so Dr. Shiba’s sister Kana is guessing that she has committed suicide due to being tormented by killing her husband. Everyone who was in Mr. Kuroido’s house is the suspect, including all the members of Kuroido family, butler, secretary, maids, etc. The Detective Suguro (Hercule Poirot) will investigate the case. ...

Theatre: A Love Story

Character: Saki

The director of a theatre company is in crisis and his actors have lost confidence in him. One day he meets a woman wearing the same shoes as him, immediately sparking chemistry between the two....

Lesson of the Evil

Character: Satomi Shirai

Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer, who slowly takes control of the students and faculty through murder and manipulation. When he is caught in the act during preparations for the school cultural festival, he sees staging a massacre as the only way out....

Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna

Character: Menoa Bellucci (voice)

Tai is now a university student, living alone, working hard at school, and working every day, but with his future still undecided. Meanwhile, Matt and others continue to work on Digimon incidents and activities that help people with their partner Digimon. When an unprecedented phenomenon occurs, the DigiDestined discover that when they grow up, their relationship with their partner Digimon will come closer to an end....

Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel

Character: Kimia (voice)

Ash meets the Mythical Pokémon Volcanion when it crashes down from the sky, creating a cloud of dust—and a mysterious force binds the two of them together! Volcanion despises humans and tries to get away, but it’s forced to drag Ash along as it continues its rescue mission. They arrive in a city of cogs and gears, where a corrupt official has stolen the ultimate invention: the Artificial Pokémon Magearna, created 500 years ago. He plans to use its mysterious power to take control of this mechani...

Samulife

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Nagaoka is a former high school teacher. He decides to start a school with an ideal learning environment. To achieve this goal, he struggles to make money by running a bar and a publishing company....

A Silent Voice: The Movie

Character: Young Shouya Ishida (voice)

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?...

Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction

Character: Megumi Takano

Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the ship well. Chatting with his direct boss he picks up a certain vibe. Did he misunderstand that the magazine is doomed and will be terminated? If so, he is not going down without a fight. He will fight to make it through and keep his, and the others', jobs....

RAFT

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A boy named Shogo landed on the island. He approaches a man making a raft on the beach and tries to help him with the work. The subtle air that flows between the two. They seem to know each other well, but they are also like others. The truth behind a marine accident three years ago then became clear. A child went out on a raft to the sea and went missing. The man was the father of the missing child, and Shogo was a close friend who made a raft with the child....

Mr. Love Chemistry 2

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Despite working as a matchmaker, Sosuke is an awkward person. He works with Shion and they bicker over their different beliefs of love and marriage....


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