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Kururi 〜Who’s in Love with me〜

くるり~誰が私と恋をした?~   구루리 ~ 누가 나와 사랑을 했어?~   轉轉轉~誰和我戀愛了?~

Makoto is a 24-year-old company employee who lives her life avoiding attention so as not to be disliked. But her life changes one night when an accident erases her memory! The only clue is a ring in her handbag she clearly meant for a man. When three men appear, one claiming to be her ex-lover, another her only male friend, and the third her soulmate, the mystery begins. Who is the ring for? And who is she? Makoto goes in search of true self and true love in this fun, romantic-comedy mystery.

9Border

9ボーダー   9보더   9Border

A woman’s teens, 20s and 30s - each decade brings its own level of expectations and anxieties. These watershed life moments tend to highlight issues of employment, love, marriage, childbirth, and parenting, with the added pressure of perceived time limits. Three so-called “9-border” sisters - aged 19, 29, and 39 - gather under one roof after their father's sudden disappearance struggle with love, life, and time issues in this melodrama about finding happiness and moving forward in life.

Eye Love You

Eye Love You

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps

An accident endows protagonist Yuri with the unwelcomed ability to see into people’s hears just by looking into their eyes. Such exposure to the true feelings of herself and others scares her into social reclusiveness. That is until the day she meets Teo, a Korean youth with a genuinely affable personality. Her telepathy being neutralized when with Teo, Yuri begins to harbor hopes of a romantic relationship she’d once thought impossible. But can this ray of sunshine melt the frozen wall that protects her?

Ripe for the Picking

瓜を破る~一線を越えた、その先には

Maiko is an ordinary office worker with a deep hang up about being a virgin at over 30. She obsesses over what she feels is an inability to experience life as other “normal” people do, which haunts her in her work and private life. Then things begin to change when she meets Kagiya, an employee at a copy machine maintenance company. New circumstances propel them both on personal quests for answers as they struggle to overcome life’s many challenges in a poignant love story that explores the human condition.

An encouragement of love

恋愛のすゝめ   名校菁英的戀愛大作戰

30min × 8eps

Distractions are strictly forbidden for the student body leader of a super prep school where 95% successfully get into Japan’s most prestigious University of Tokyo. But then he falls in love for the first time. Turning his back on studies and defying school rules, he now stakes his life on the most difficult challenge of all: winning a person’s heart! But he is so undaunted by repeated failure that his quest soon takes on a life of its own, engulfing the hearts and minds of the entire school! Super elite boys in glasses take on forbidden "love” in this over-the top, no holds barred rom-com!

My Second AOHARU

マイ・セカンド・アオハル   마이 세컨드 아오하루   我的第二青春

75min × 2eps / 60min × 8eps

Sayako is approaching 30 and has begun to mourn a life devoid of money and an education. “It wasn’t supposed to turn out like this,” she sighs, lamenting her past failed college entrance exams. That’s when she meets college student, Taku, whose words of encouragement rekindle her desire to chase a once abandoned dream of becoming an architect. As a 30-year-old office worker, Sayako joins with Gen-Z college students to embark upon a new chapter and second youth in life.

I Cannot Reach You

君には届かない。   너에게는 닿지 않아.   無法傳遞給你。

30min × 8eps

Yamato and Kakeru are childhood friends. Yamato with his cool demeanor and good looks is a straight A student who is often confronted by girls professing their love.
On the other hand, Kakeru is a typical high school teen with many friends and a cheerful personality.
One day, Kakeru asks Yamato if he likes anybody, to which he mumbles, “Kakeru.” Kakeru responds jokingly that he can’t possibly mean himself, but Yamato has in that moment made his own confession as best as he could in this boyhood youth story about finding direction for unrequited feelings.

30min × 2eps

Featuring new, original episodes, not shown in the anime series, delving into the unspoken emotions of each sister.
Futaro, a part-time tutor, has taken on the task of guiding the Nakano sisters—quintessential beauties who are on the brink of flunking out of school and despise studying—until their graduation. With only six months left of their high school lives and the final summer vacation about to commence, he decides to take a break from his tutoring job during the summer break to focus on exam preparation.
While the quintuplets are disheartened by their inability to see Futaro, an unexpected phone call from him turns everything around! A 500% adorable romantic comedy, the summer vacation edition!

18/40: Unbreakable Bond of Dreams

18/40 ~ふたりなら夢も恋も~   18/40 ~꿈 사랑 두여자~   18/40 ー兩個人的夢想與戀愛-

75min × 1 ep / 60min × 9 eps

18-year-old Arisu dreams of becoming a museum curator overseas.
But just as she earns a recommendation to study art at a university, she finds out she is pregnant. Enter co-protagonist Toko, a business-savvy contemporary art dealer on the cusp of 40 who has shelved the idea of romance for the past decade. A passion for art and their bad luck or indifference to romance help the two women forge a bond despite their age difference. But then they both find themselves falling for “troubled” men in this empowering girl-bonding tale.

Sweet Moratorium

スイートモラトリアム   스위트 모라토리엄   甜蜜成長期

30 min × 9eps

Kokoro leads a happy college life dating Sayo who is madly in love with him. Then one day, his ex-girlfriend Ringo shows up. Still seeking some closure after being dumped by her, Kokoro allows Ringo to move in with him without telling Sayo. She learns of it unbeknownst to Kokoro and is wary of Ringo’s motives but her inexperience with romance and fear of getting hurt makes her balk at confronting him. Meanwhile, Kokoro’s heart begins to waver between Sayo and the free-spirited Ringo as things get clumsy in this life-sized, triangle love story.

Kissing the Ring Finger

王様に捧ぐ薬指   왕에게 바치는 약지   獻給國王的無名指

75min × 1 ep / 60min × 9 eps

Ayaka is a poor but peerless beauty who, despite her looks, is a strong-willed woman putting herself through school to support her beloved family. When she takes a job as a wedding planner, she meets standoffish company boss, Togo Nitta, who runs the place like an absolute king. Then one day, he suddenly proposes marriage to her as a business move to revive his underperforming wedding hall. Ayaka accepts for her family’s sake, and thus ensues a comical war of the sexes in a new sham marriage story sure to yank on your heartstrings.

Hide from the Rain

私がヒモを飼うなんて   내가 기둥서방을 기르다니   我竟然養起了小白臉

30 min × 8eps

Sumire is a 26-year-old dress pattern maker who just got dumped by her boyfriend. She responds by joining a lingerie maker run by a female boss, Yuri. When Sumire is again smitten by a captivatingly young man, Soichi, he turns out to not only be a “himo,” a professional mooch, but the very guy who has been living off of Yuri! Enter Morio, a chef who also pines for Sumire, to complicate matters further in this modern love spectacle full of intrigue and tangled romance.

BROTHER TRAP

ブラザー・トラップ   브라더 트랩   兄弟陷阱

30min × 9eps

Akari is a college student whose recent breakup has her afraid of taking on new relationships.
That is until love pays her an unexpected visit. She falls for Izumi who surprisingly is not only younger, but also happens to be the kid brother of her ex-boyfriend, Yamato. Akari feels drawn to Izumi for his straightforward honesty. Meanwhile, Yamato comes to realize that he still loves Akari, and sets about trying to win her back. From this love triangle comes a delightfully pure and unadulterated love story sure to set the heart palpitating.

Hold my hand at Twilight

夕暮れに、手をつなぐ   해질녘에, 손을 잡는다   黄昏時分, 牽起手

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps

Soramame leaves the countryside for Tokyo in pursuit of a childhood friend and fiancé, but instead meets a scrappy young musician, Oto. By some odd circumstance, the two end up living under the same roof. Influenced by Oto, Soramame awakens to the world of fashion while Soramame becomes Oto’s muse, reviving his forsaken dream of becoming a musician. As they chase their dreams, love is sure to germinate, but struggles to take off for these two dreamers unwittingly caught in the world’s most beautiful love story.

Why didn’t I tell you a million times?

100万回 言えばよかった   백만번 말할 걸 그랬어   要是說了100萬次就好了

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps

When childhood friends Yui and Naoki are by chance reunited as adults, they begin to feel they were destined for each other. However, just as Naoki prepares to propose to Yui, he becomes embroiled in a mysterious incident and dies.
Now Naoki's soul wanders the world unable to express his true feelings for Yui. Yuzuru, a detective and the only person who can see Naoki, goes in pursuit of the truth behind Naoki’s death. At Naoki tries to use Yuzuru to talk to Yui, but will he be able to convey his message of love?

My Hot Sexless Lover

私のシてくれないフェロモン彼氏   키스조차 해주지 않는 내 섹시한 남친   不跟我做的費洛蒙男友

30min × 9eps

30-year-old Rei quit the real estate agency she started working at after college and bootstrapped a company that offers an art subscription service. She starts dating a younger, handsome freelance photographer named Shuto, whom she met at a shared office. Although she’s on cloud nine with her nearly perfect boyfriend, she’s bewildered by how he won’t even kiss her or give her any after just two months of dating. But Shuto the “Sexy Boyfriend” seemingly has a side to him that he doesn’t show Rei. Just what sort of guy is he? Witness the struggle of a 30-year-old woman trying to change herself into a “new me”!

I Will Be Your Bloom

君の花になる   너의 꽃이 될래   為你綻放的花

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps

Asuka had once realized her goal to become a teacher, but after a gutting failure, she gives up her dream profession and becomes extremely withdrawn. After a series of events, she finds herself becoming a live-in housemother for a dorm... where the boy band septet 8LOOM live together!
At the dorm, she is reunited with her former student Dan—as a teacher, Asuka used to encourage him to go for his dreams. Inspired by Dan’s leadership in the band and his passion for making his dream come true, Asuka, too, regains the passion she had in her teaching days and comes to terms with her own failure.
Don’t miss this adorable story about a woman’s journey to new heights in work, friendship, and romance!

LOVE by A.I.

LOVE by A.I.

Love by A.I. is a dating reality show where couples who are selected by Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) as the perfect match, go through dating completely assisted by A.I. and see if they can find true love. The A.I controls everything, from matching the couples, to choosing where the couples go for their first date, to who plans subsequent dates, to even detecting dopamine levels.

The Van Gogh Downstairs

階段下のゴッホ   계단 아래의 고흐   樓梯下的梵谷

30min × 8eps

Miyako is a beautiful salesperson on the fast track at a major cosmetics company earning more than 100 grand a year. But when she begins to question her life, she drops everything to pursue a past dream to become a painter. At a cram school for getting into an art institute, she meets a cute yet younger painter with prodigious artistic talent, but he’s also a penniless jerk. Can Miyako capture both her dream and romance in this newfangled rich-woman-poor-man love story?

Riding a Unicorn

ユニコーンに乗って   유니콘을 타고   騎上獨角獸

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps

Sana is a 23-year-old is an entrepreneur whose educational app “Dream Pony” catapulted her to CEO of a unicorn firm less than ten years old. Determined to create a brand used by people all over the world, she is disinterested in romance and unaware that her partner, Ko, is secretly in love with her. That is until Sana’s world is thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a midcareer corporate transfer named Satoshi lacking in basic startup instincts but setting into motion a love and romance triangle. Can Sana achieve both love and career dreams?

Seven Days of a Daddy and a Daughter (2022)

パパとムスメの7日間   아빠와 딸의7일간 (2022)   父女7日變 (2022)

30min × 8eps

A high school girl, Koume, and her working stiff father, Kyoichiro, wake up one day after a traffic accident to find they have switched bodies. The two had been drifting apart, but are now thrown into each other’s lives. Kyoichiro, for example, shows no interest in Koume’s love interest, a classmate named Kenta. Ironically, however, Kenta finds himself more attracted to Koume ever since the swap. There’s plenty of hijinks in this bizarre love triangule style romcom!

When Will Ayumu Make His Move?

それでも歩は寄せてくる

30min × 12eps

When Ayumu Tanaka falls in love with the only other member of the school’s shogi chess club, Urushi Yaotome, he vows to confess his love for her as soon as he can beat her in a match. But this proves difficult. Urushi is nevertheless thrown off by Ayumu’s aggressive style as the two begin a cat-and-mouse game in both shogi and life in this heart-tickling romantic comedy created by manga artist Souichirou Yamamoto (“Teasing Master Takagi-san”).

The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie

映画「五等分の花嫁」

136min

Five lovely young girls who “hate studies” and find themselves on the “verge of failing” hire a part-time tutor, Futaro, to guide them to successful graduation. Having successfully completed their third year of high school and safely returned from their senior trip, the five girls turn their sights to graduation and their respective future paths. But all five become aware that so much time spent with Futaro has planted seeds of love, and gradually so with Futaro, too. So where does that lead them next? Is there a future bride among them? Find out in the conclusion to this romantic comedy of 100% cuteness times five!

Ideal Boyfriend

理想ノカレシ   이상적인 남친   理想的男友

30min × 8eps

Yumeko is a hot-shot business woman recently headhunted by a venture capital firm.
Outwardly, she is brash, confident and self-possessed, but at home, she’s a total slob. Emotionally wounded from a recent 18-month romance in which she was dumped, Yumeko still pines after her first high school crush as her ideal partner. When she encounters a mysterious man who looks identical to him, it sends her life spinning out of control in this reverse Cinderella tale for all women with big dreams.

Is Love Sustainable?

持続可能な恋ですか?〜父と娘の結婚行進曲〜   지속 가능한 사랑입니까?   持續可能的戀愛?

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps

Kyoka is perfectly happy being single as is her father, Rintaro, a forlorn widower who lost his beloved wife, Yoko, to cancer. One day as the two clean house, they stumble upon a divorce form signed by Yoko. Shocked and reflecting on this revelation, Rintaro at age 63 decides it’s time to start over and find himself a life partner. And he challenges Kyoka to do the same. The race for wedding bells is on! In this love story, it is about a modern family growth and rebirth.

MURAI in LOVE

村井の恋   무라이의 사랑   村井之戀

30min × 8eps

A high school teacher is dubbed “Tetsuko the Iron Mask Lady” for adamantly refusing to meddle in her students’ lives or socialize with her colleagues. But she is actually a closet computer in love with a character in a dating sim game. Spending her days divorced from real-life romance, she is one day confronted by a bright but hard-to-figure out, long-haired male student named Murai who confesses his love for her. It is a non-stop romantic comedy pitting a female teacher blindly in love with a fictional character against a male student who will stop at nothing to pursue his teacher’s affections.

KAPPEI

KAPPEI カッペイ

118min

July 1999. The world is in turmoil. Nostradamus prophecies are on everybody’s lips. Chaos, violence and fear rule the day. In crazy times, a band of special men prepare to rise to the challenge and rescue mankind from the coming Armageddon.
Flash forward to 2022. Well, the end of the world did not come. And there are no signs that it will. With no opportunity to test their highly lethal fists, the downtrodden band of specially-trained men break off their ascetic training as their master gathers them to forlornly announce: “You are dismissed.”
A slightly different kind of coming-of-age tale unfolds about would-be world saviors rendered irrelevant by the times.

FIGHT SONG

ファイトソング   파이팅 송   心動迎戰Song!

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps

Hanae dreamed of representing Japan in karate until misfortune deprived her of everything. She mopes about until she encounters Haruki, composer of the song that once motivated her before karate matches. Romance blooms but is complicated by Shingo, a flashy childhood friend long in love with Hanae. Meanwhile, Hanae harbors a secret” that she can’t tell anybody, and determines to experience “the last romance of her life.” Will this slightly awkward but unclouded heroine get her wish?

Dearest

最愛   최애   最愛

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps|10eps

Leading female industrialist, Rio, has been named a key person of interest in a serial murder case investigated by Detective Daiki. The two were once in love with each other in their youth. Rio’s legal advisor, Kenichiro, will do anything for her. Caught in a love triangle and a criminal investigation, Rio and Daiki’s “forbidden” romance seems doomed by a missing person incident 15 years ago and its possible links to a current serial murder case. Is Rio complicit? What would you do to protect those who are most beloved to you, be it a first crush, a sibling, a parent, a child, or a lifelong friend? This suspenseful romance evokes the uncompromising passion, struggle and redemption of true love.

ONLY JUST MARRIED

婚姻届に判を捺しただけですが   혼인 신고서에 도장을 찍었을 뿐인데   只是在結婚申請書上蓋個章而已

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps|10eps

Akiha extols the virtues of the single life and has no desire for marriage. But then she encounters a sudden proposal from Shu, a handsome company man whom she just met. Shu has an urgent need to be officially designated as “married” when he floats the fake marriage proposal. For her part, Akiha is hurting for the money to care for her sick grandmother and keep her family business afloat. So a bargain is struck. Shu agrees to take over her debts if she will marry him. After a rocky start, however, Akiha gradually finds herself drawn to Shu’s kind and gentle nature. But then she learns the true reason behind their marriage in this disarmingly poignant romantic comedy about love built on a lie.

Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War

かぐや様は告らせたい ~天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦~ ファイナル

112 min

Love is war… especially when victory goes to the one who gets the other to confess their love first through a psychological battle of attrition. At the elite Shuchiin academy, as students vie for top positions in the school pecking order, another much more heated battle is being waged between its leading members, Miyuki Shirogane and Kaguya Shinomiya. When a (charming) new student council accountant, Miko Iino, enters the sacred space of the student council room, it becomes an arena for a “force a confession” game. But even this stalls in deadlock, leaving the fate of Miyuki and Kaguya’s confrontational romance to the two biggest events of the schoolyear - the sports and culture festivals.

Promise Cinderella

プロミス・シンデレラ   프로미스 신데렐라   約定的灰姑娘

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps

Hayame’s peaceful existence is suddenly shattered one day when her husband announces he wants a divorce, and she runs away from home. Then all her money is stolen, and she finds herself with no place to live. That’s when she encounters high school student Issei, a rich, handsome rogue who offers to let her stay with him if she will agree to take part in a “real-life game.” And so, Hayame takes up residence in Issei’s family mansion where she is introduced to a world of excitement, thrills, and romance that she never could have imagined. This is one heart-pounding love story that you won’t want to miss! What’s more important, love or money—or maybe neither?

How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family!

リコカツ~全員離婚家族~   리코카츠 ~전원이혼가족~   離婚活動

75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 9 eps|Eps 10

Newlyweds Saki and husband Koichi have decided that getting married was a huge mistake. They met by chance and had a whirlwind romance, but their lifestyles and values couldn’t be more different. She’s a fashion editor raised in a modern, liberal home. He’s an ace air-rescue pilot from a strict, conservative upbringing. After their big wedding, they’re too embarrassed to tell their families, friends and colleagues that they’re already getting divorced! So they decide to do it in secret…It can even be a positive first step toward both partners’ future happiness. But when it comes to men and women, the more things change, the more they stay the same. This highly entertaining new series takes a hard look at today’s social values through the lens of divorce.

Why I Dress Up for Love

着飾る恋には理由があって   꾸미는 사랑에는 이유가 있어   打扮的戀愛是有理由的

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps|Eps 10

Fashionista Kurumi Mashiba works as a publicist for a popular online home décor company. When she launches a social media account to promote the company, she ends up amassing 100,000 followers and becomes a fashion influencer in her own right. But she’s so wrapped up in work that she forgets to renew the lease on her apartment and finds herself thrown out onto the street! Help comes in the form of Kouko Saotome, an older female friend and successful food stylist who lives in a luxury apartment in the heart of trendy Omotesando. Kouko invites Kurumi to move in with her, but it turns out she doesn’t live alone. And so, the stylish Kurumi finds herself living with an eclectic group of men and women very different from her. Don’t miss this heartwarming series packed full of love in all its many forms!

Oh My Boss! Love not included

オー!マイ・ボス!恋は別冊で   오ー!마이・보스!사랑은 별책으로   Oh My Boss! 戀愛放別冊

75min × 2eps / 60min × 8eps|Eps 10

Don’t miss this heartwarming, madcap romantic comedy!
Nami is an ordinary small-town girl with no special dreams or ambitions, someone who goes along to get along and wants nothing from life but a modicum of happiness. Then she moves to the big city to pursue her childhood crush. In Tokyo she by chance lands a job at a major fashion magazine where she meets the glamorous but intimidating Reiko, the youngest editor-in-chief in the magazine’s history, and Junnosuke, a dashing and loveable young photographer. Nami soon finds herself trying to satisfy the demands of her domineering, workaholic new boss while navigating the pitfalls of workplace romance. Along the way she discovers her values, her ambition, and a sense of purpose.

The Full-time Wife Escapist SPECIAL

逃げるは恥だが役に立つ ガンバレ人類!新春スペシャル!!   도망치는건 부끄럽지만 도움이 된다 스페셜   逃避虽可耻但有用 特別篇

150 min x 1 ep|Ep 1

Husband as employer, wife as employee, marriage as a job... That’s how it all began for Mikuri Moriyama and Hiramasa Tsuzaki, working as managing partners in a work place called home, sharing household chores in efficiency maximizing manner, and otherwise leading a peaceful and happy life. Until Mikuri gets pregnant. The two decide to formally marry, but their plans snag when trying to register. More problems ensue from childbirth to parenting as Hiramasa tries to take paternity leave right before an important project. And then, one “incident” arises that threatens to tear the couple apart for good. Will they ever find their way back to “hug day”?