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Scenario Writer Name: Natsuko Ikeda (池田奈津子)


Clone Babies

クローン ベイビー   클론 베이비   複製人嬰兒

30 min. x 11 eps.|11 episodes

Two humans with identical genetic makeup will attract and find each other, no matter how far apart. And those drawn-together clones will enter into a mutual battle of extermination. “The laws of magnetism” and “survival of the fittest” clash the moment these clones are pulled together, leading to crafty scheming and high-stakes competition in what turns out to be the ultimate game of “musical chairs” played out by clones yearning for distinction as “the true one.”

Miss Double Faced Teacher

黒の女教師   검은 여교사   黑暗女教師

75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 9 eps|10 episodes

Yuko is a biology teacher and education counselor at a local high school. Between the school bell chimes, she’s an ordinary teacher with superlative instructional technique. But when school lets out, she transforms into the one person you don’t want to mess with, a super problem-solving mercenary for whom no method is off limits when it comes to rooting out the myriad problems infesting teenage life in the schools. With an “eye for an eye” approach, she’s not above breaking a few laws and demands payment for her services. Enlisting as her sidekicks, Sumire and Aya, the personality-diverse trio run their elite “extra-curricular social work” club unified around Yuko’s charismatic leadership. High school students do not live in a sanitized bubble, and some extraordinary problems require extraordinary solutions that black-and-white rules of propriety or common sense alone cannot solve.

Ouran High School Host Club

桜蘭高校ホスト部   오란고교 호스트부   櫻蘭高校男公關部

30 min x 11 eps|11 episodes

The setting is one of Japan’s most prestigious private high schools, Ouran Academy, with a student body made up of scions of the country’s rich and famous. It is also home to an extracurricular club made up of “beautiful” boys called the Ouran High Host Club. The story begins with the only penniless boy in the school, Haruhi Fujioka, making his way into the school on academic merit alone, and unwittingly stumbling into Ouran High Host Club membership. Having found himself saddled with enormous debt, Haruhi is ordered by the club’s leader, Tamaki, to make his debut as a host. But the problem is… Haruhi’s actually a girl.

Ouran High School Host Club

桜蘭高校ホスト部   오란고교 호스트부   櫻蘭高中男公關部

104 min.

Ouran Academy – Japan's most prestigious high school, attended by the the rich and famous. The school's six most handsome guys run their own extracurricular “Host Club.” Each with their own unique character, they offer tender loving care to the girls of Ouran. In a bizarre twist of events, female student Haruhi ends up dressing as a boy and debuting as the club's seventh member. Before long, she captures the hearts of her fellow hosts. However, recently it's thoughts of the club's leader, Tamaki, that gives her chest pains. Is she just sick, or lovesick?

The Thorns of Alice

アリスの棘   앨리스의 가시   愛麗絲的復仇

75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 9 eps|10 episodes

The story is set at a university hospital where the strong ambitions and sharp minds of unscrupulous doctors clash in a never-before-seen medical suspense drama. A cute but strong heroine who lost her father to a mistake in O.R. that got covered up. She joins the hospital staff as a rookie physician, and then one by one takes revenge on those responsible. Anger and sadness cloaked beneath a white smock, a lifelong vendetta is about to be paid!
“An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth.” To fight demons… you need to be a demon yourself.

Tower of Sand

砂の塔~知りすぎた隣人   모래의 탑 ~ 너무 잘 아는 이웃   砂之塔

75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 9 eps|10 episodes

Aki Takano is a homemaker who has built an ordinary yet amply content family life. When she and her family move into a luxurious, high-rise condo with all the latest security advancements, Aki anticipates the start of the kind of family life of which dreams are made. Until, that is, she meets her creepy and scary neighbors. Behind the walls of this ivory tower, life is a social ecosystem dictated by strict rules and decorum of vainglorious housewife residents. There are “compulsory Halloween parties”, “hellishly exorbitant lunches”, “floor discrimination”, and even “strictly enforced proper attire for putting out the trash.” Though farcical and comical at first glance, the housewives’ behavior easily becomes sinister, as Aki begins to discover in unexpected ways. Someone is trying to tear her life and family apart.
Will she have be able to stand up and defend her beloved family? Is there another reason why the neighbors are targeting the Takano family?