Asian Drama

10 years after her middle school days and now a full grown woman, Takagi-san returns to the middle school where she graduated from as a trainee trainer. There, she meets Nishikata who was one of her middle school classmates and he was frequently teased by her. Now, Nishikata works as a PE teacher at the same school.

Kawauchi Miyabi was once a promising neurosurgeon, but an accident caused damage to Miyabi's brain. She is unable to remember the past 2 years of her life and she will forget everything that happened today when she wakes up the next day. She has all but given up on becoming a doctor and works as an assistant nurse. One day, Neurosurgeon Sanpei Tomoharu appears in front of her. He is known as an eccentric person. Sanpei Tomoharu guides Kawauchi Miyabi at his own pace, regardless of her will. This actually helps Kawauchi Miyabi as a doctor and a patient. The mystery hidden in her missing memories is gradually revealed, which contains a secret.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the manga series "Unmet" (アンメット) written by Kojika Yuzuru (子鹿ゆずる) and illustrated by Ootsuki Kanto (大槻閑人).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Monday

The story follows Fushiki, a newbie employee from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare who is assigned to the department to work alongside Yukimura Kai, an 88-year-old vampire detective who still looks 18 due to his immortality. Together, they will investigate a series of murders by the “Ram Killer” that have been occurring every Christmas in the year of the Ram over a period of 70 years.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 30 min.

Airs On: Friday

Mochizuki Seitaro was full of enthusiasm as a pyrotechnist, but 1 year later (after the season one finale), his enthusiasm for his work has gone away. He hardly goes out, and he lives like a recluse. His fireworks store, which has been passed down for generations in his family, is still open but in danger of going out of business. Meanwhile, Mizumori Hikari works part-time as a pyrotechnist at a different fireworks store. In the midst of all this, for the first time in a while - a quarrel breaks out between Wataru and Seitaro. Then, a mysterious woman, Fumiko Noguchi, suddenly visits the shop and not only asks to become Seitaro's apprentice but also suddenly proposes to him. Seitaro, Hikari, Fumika, and Wataru will live under one roof.

Oda Teruasa, a gifted high school senior who is the heir of Japan's wealthy trading company Oda Group, lost everything 13 years ago when his father was murdered by a mysterious organization. The culprit was, in fact, after a weathered key which was in Seiji's possession.

Whoever acquires this key will allegedly see their fortune rise with the number of keys they collect, and with 99 keys, one can gain control over everything in this world. Entrusted with this key by his father just before the fatal incident, Teruasa managed to escape overseas, and since then, he has traveled the world, accumulating knowledge and experiences.

Returning to Japan after 13 years to avenge his father, Teruasa finds himself entangled in the "Akuma Game", a life-threatening battle of wits against rivals aiming for the demonic key.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the manga series "Acma:Game" (アクマゲーム) written by Mebu (メーブ) and illustrated by Megumi Koji (恵広史).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 55 min.

Airs On: Sunday

Anata no Koibito, Godatsu Shimasu (2024)

Yukihira Asuka is 28 and works at the reception desk for a music school. She hears that her high school will soon be abolished and decides to attend a school reunion held at her high school. There, Yukihira Asuka meets Mizuno Haruto. Asuka liked Haruto when they were high school students, but she never conveyed her feelings to him. Asuka and Haruto talk during the school reunion and they learn that they both had feelings for each other and they still feel the same way. Asuka is ecstatic, but, the next day, an unexpected tragedy strikes Haruto. That leaves him in an unconscious state.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the song "366 Days" (366日) by HY.

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Monday

Yuka, who lost her father when she was young and was raised by her mother alone, receives all of her mother's love and grows up to be a devoted, energetic, and kind child. Yuka's dream is to build a happy family. Yuka is attracted to Nakamura Kosei, who grew up in similar circumstances to her and is devoted to his family, and begins dating him.

Then, her mother takes her last breath, and Yuka, who is left alone for the rest of her life, marries Kosei. She comes forward to become a liver transplant donor for Kosei's mother, Seiko. However, it was all a sham marriage for an organ transplant to her mother-in-law. She learns that she was deceived and is forced to divorce, but she becomes pregnant with Kosei's child, and after much trouble, she gives birth and decides to raise him alone.

Then, one day, five years have passed since her liver was taken away, and she meets Kosei by chance... She feels resentment towards Kosei and his family for insulting her late mother and her beloved son and is overflowing with anger so she decides to take revenge on her Nakamura family.

(Source: Japanese = NTV)

Adapted from the web manga "Kanzo wo Ubawareta Tsuma" (肝臓を奪われた妻) written by JYUN and illustrated by Mana.

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Airs On: Wednesday

Drama series depicts the life of Ieyasu Tokugawa (January 31, 1543 - June 1, 1616).

Takechiyo (later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born as the son of a poor and powerless daimyo. Takechiyo lost his father during a war. He grew up lonely and away from his mother. Takechiyo didn't have a clue about what his future would hold. He then has a dramatic meeting with young Oda Nobunaga.

Space aliens from a different planet invade Earth in an attempt to expand their territory. They are confronted by 3 individuals, who have overwhelmingly mechanic technology and individual creativity.

"Alchemy" is a pseudo-science that attempts to create "gold" from various different combinations. One experiment to do so artificially brings to life a race of creatures, and the story revolves around an era where these experiments were being conducted in secret.

In the story, the artificial lifeforms known as the "Chemies", made to imitate things that exist in the world such as grasshoppers, were created from the art of the best alchemy techniques. Each and every one of them were carefully stored in "Ride Chemie Cards' until they were accidentally released all at once into the wild.

Our main protagonist, Houtarou Ichinose, is entrusted with the Gotcha Driver and the mission to recollect the Chemies that have been released into the world. Some are well suited for human companionship and if resonated with a good heart, Houtarou can fuse with them and transform into Kamen Rider Gotchard. However those that are influenced by human malice, there is a danger of them birthing monsters known as the Malgam. This is a story that explores the nature of good and evil, which are two sides of the same coin.

Will Gotchard be able to "collect them all", or will he let his carelessness mark the destruction of the world?

(Source: Kamen Rider Wiki Fandom)

Episodes: 50

When Kiriyuu Aoi was a child, her mother died, and her father then raised her alone in their suburban town. During the year 2008, a series of murders took place. One of the victims was the younger sister of a classmate that Kiriyuu Aoi liked. Kiriyuu Aoi was the person who found the body of her classmate's younger sister. Kiriyuu Aoi was so traumatized by the discovery that she lost some of her memories just before the incident. Making things worse, Kiriyuu Aoi’s father was arrested as the serial killer. With no one left around her, Kiriyuu Aoi left her hometown. Now, 16 years later, Kiriyuu Aoi has become a detective. She returns to her hometown to prove her father's innocence, but another incident takes place. Detective Kiriyuu Aoi and her buddy detective Kosaka Kei chase after the truth behind the case. She soon learns the hidden faces of her ex-classmates from her youth.

Japan has a conviction rate of 99.9% for criminal cases that goes to trial. A lawyer is able to defeat those odds and obtain an acquittal for his client, even though there's conclusive evidence that says otherwise. Sometimes, due to minor things, good and evil can switch sides and good people can become bad people.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Sunday

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Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Friday

Centers on a 39-year-old pharmacist. She lives a peaceful life, doing the job she loves. However, the man she has loved for a long time has gotten engaged to another woman. On her way home from a drinking party with her colleagues, a younger man appears in front of her, and somehow, they start to live together out of the blue. Meanwhile, she meets another man who gives her peace of mind with his honesty and kindness. As she starts to realize the true meaning of happiness and the importance of being loved by someone, something begins to change within her…

Kuroba Miko is a mystery writer. Her books are popular and she has written bestsellers since she made her debut, but she is unable to write anymore. She currently works as a commentator for TV show. Morino Toru is a detective. Due to an incident, his arrest rate has plummeted and he is unable to solve cases anymore. Kuroba Miko and Morino Toru both suffer from the yips and they happen to meet at a sauna facility. They become good friends and solve cases together.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 58 min.

Airs On: Friday

Tendo Kaito is the son of the chairman of Tendo Memorial Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in the nation. Due to a bad relationship with his father, he did not become a doctor. Kaito now works as a magazine reporter. He is busy with his job and he also about to propose to his girlfriend. One day, he then learns that his father got involved in an incident. He goes to his estranged father's hospital. Due to the incident, Kaito becomes to know his father’s true intentions and he remembers the precious promise made with his father in the past. Kaito learns of the various problems hidden in the hospital left by his father and of the power struggle about to take place for the chairman position. Kaito decides to fight against the power struggle to take back the precious things his father built and to protect the ones who he loves.

Ikuko Shiraishi is about to turn 30 years old. She works for a company and is dating Hiroji Kurokawa. Her boyfriend is kind of a loser who lives at her house and does not have a job. Ikuko Shiraishi feels uneasy about getting married and her future. She makes the decision to break up with Hiroji Kurokawa and look for someone to marry. But, in her heart, Ikuko Shiraishi doesn't really want to break up with Hiroji Kurokawa, and she wants to be with him for good. At this time, her co-worker Aoyama confesses to her that he has always liked her.

A psychological thriller centered on Sakai Yoichi, a freelance video director, and Mitsumi Kei, a piano teacher who moonlights as a serial killer. When Yoichi, who is stuck in his current situation doing small jobs to make ends meet, returns to his office, there's a package waiting for him. Inside is a human finger, and the message for Yoichi to get in touch if he's interested to "document his activities." Yoichi was going to call the police, but after considering, he decides instead to contact the sender. The person he meets at the designated house is none other than pianist Mitsumi Kei. This encounter leads Yoichi to continue documenting the murders, but what awaits him as a result of this decision... remains to be seen.

At the end of the year, a poison gas terror attack takes place at a terminal station in Tokyo. 666 people die or are injured in the attack.The terror attack's number of victims is related to the "number of the beast" and the case is given the name "The Beast." The person who carried out the attack is a 25-year-old popular actress, Kotone Kido, who died at the terminal station. Kotone Kido had a childhood friend named Hajime Kanzaki. They were not blood-related, but they were very close like a brother and sister. Now, Hajime Kanzaki is 33-years-old and works as an undertaker. He wants to find out why his childhood friend committed the mass murder, who made her do that, and was there a chance she could have been stopped. While he investigates, he is killed by someone. At that time, he travels back in time and meets Kotone Kido again.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the manga series "From the Fust" (君が獣になる前に) by Sano Takashi (さの隆).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 40 min.

Airs On: Saturday

Cinderella Complex is about the affair between a popular married high school teacher and his female high school student. When his wife, another teacher at the school, discovers his affair and vows revenge, things start to go awry.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the manga series "Cinderella Complex" (シンデレラ・コンプレックス) by Inoue Risako (井上里彩子).

Episodes: 7

Airs On: Friday

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.

With his parents frequently away for work, Natsukawa Ryota had been the main caretaker for his younger sisters and the housework, but now he’s finally about to go to University, he’s looking forward to being able to live freely on his own! However, in a surprising turn of events, he’s surprised to discover his roommate will be his childhood friend Tanaka Kazuhito. Despite his picture-perfect looks and pleasant personality, Kazuhito doesn’t have a girlfriend. Curious, Ryota accompanies him in searching for the reason why, but is unable to find any flaws and finds his heart fluttering over Kazuhito’s kind words and actions. As he gets to know more about Kazuhito, their relationship develops. Thus begins their cohabitation life where they’re mutually self-aware of each others presence!

Sakuraba Mio, a newcomer assigned to the Department of General Surgery at the prestigious Seirei Medical University Hospital, is neither a doctor nor a nurse but her job as a nurse aide makes her the closest person to the patients. Mio is not only a caring person but also a medical geek, so she often sticks her nose into the doctor's examination and gets into trouble with other hospital staff.

Meanwhile, the skilled handsome surgeon Ryuzaki Taiga thinks that a doctor's skill is everything to make a successful surgery. Taiga's complete opposite belief from Mio makes them often clash with each other.

(Source: Japanese = NTV)

Adapted from the novel "Tonari no Nurse Aide" (となりのナースエイド) by Chinen Mikito.

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Wednesday

The story is set in a small Italian restaurant. Half-brothers Fuyuuma Amazuki and Haruyo Amatsuki, Haruyo's childhood friend, Torataro, and his friend, Sora, manage the restaurant, which is small but secretly popular but has a "secret menu" that solves the problems of customers who visit the restaurant.

In fact, the younger brother, Haruyo, is the heir to the large company Amazuki Holdings, and according to his promise to his father, he has to inherit the family when he turns 30. As the deadline passes and his father's secretary, Kaede Kusumi, urges him to return to work, it becomes clear that her father is ill and has only a short time left to live.

As if to coincide with his father's death, a mysterious man, Tsukasa Nitta, comes into contact with Fuyuma, and Fuyuma gradually changes from his previous role as an older brother. What is Touma's true purpose?

(Source: Japanese = prtimes.jp)

Airs On: Monday

Shibuya Taikai is a popular young actor with excellent acting skills and a charming smile. Women are crazy about him, but Taikaihas never been in love in his life. He has a 4-year-old sister named Rizumu who attends nursery school. One day, Rizumu comes back home with a scratch from the nursery school. Taikai is concerned enough that he passes up on a drama series acting offer and decides to take Rizumu to school and pick her up after school. At his sister's school, Taikai Shibuya meets Rizumu's teacher Aota Aika. He gets attracted to her. Meanwhile, Aika is a devoted nursery school teacher who likes children. She has a warm heart and cares about other people.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the manga "Omukae Shibuya-kun" (お迎え渋谷くん) by Mitsuno Makoto (蜜野まこと).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Tuesday

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

As a 24 year old woman, Ogata Makoto doesn't like to show her true self or draw attention to herself in her private life or when she is at work. This is because she doesn't want to be disliked. One night, Ogata Makoto has an accident. The accident causes her to lose memory about herself. She finds a male ring in her bag, but she doesn't remember who she was going to give the ring to. Soon, three men appear in front of Ogata Makoto and the ring fits perfectly on all three of the men. One of them proclaims himself as her ex-lover, one man claims to be her only male friend, and the other man claims to be her man of fate. Each of them have their own lies.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 57 min.

Airs On: Tuesday

While Nishimura Kanade was a 3rd grade middle school student, her father, who worked as a prosecutor, died in an incident. After her father’s death, she and her mother moved to her moved to her mother’s hometown in Nagano Prefecture. Nishimura Kanade wanted to become a prosecutor like her father, and she entered law school at a national university in Nagano Prefecture. There, she had 4 friends, including Nogi Masaki. They became really close friends and shared memorable experiences together. Due to a case involving a death, their relationship ended.

12 years later, Nishimura Kanade is now 35 years old and works as a prosecutor in the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors’ Office. Her boyfriend is Okuda Takashi, who works as a doctor, and they live together. One day, one of her law school classmates, who disappeared after the death case, appears in front of her. Nishimura Kanade must confront the suspicious death case from her law school days. This leads her to examine the truth behind her father’s death from 20 years ago and also the secret faces of her friends.

(Source: Japanese = TV Asahi)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Tuesday

Adapted from the manga series "RoOT of Oddtaxi" (ルート オブ オッドタクシー ) written by Konomoto Kazuya (此元和津也) and illustrated by Abaraya Takeichi (肋家).

Episodes: 1

Okatani Wataru, who was an ace reporter in the social affairs department of a major newspaper company, witnesses his wife having an affair and decides to get a divorce. Although he makes steady preparations to gain custody of his daughter, a talented lawyer he consults with tells him that his chance of winning is only 10%. Instead of going ahead with the divorce right away, he works hard with his partner, a detective, to gather evidence of his wife’s affair in order to earn the right to be the rightful caretaker of his daughter.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the manga series "Rikon Shinai Otoko" (離婚しない男) by Ohtake Reiji (大竹玲二).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Airs On: Saturday

Business editor Miyata Akihiro invites University professor Iwanaga Takashi to write a column for his publication. It’s not their first encounter since they used to be star-crossed lovers way back in high school. In still-to-be-explained circumstances, Miyata broke the affair completely, sealed the romantic episode, and moved on. With his busy schedule and a girlfriend to boot, his ‘normal’ world is starting to unravel and collide with his dark past. Can Miyata and Iwanaga start all over again?