Season1: 30 min. × 8 episodes
Season2: 30 min. × 9 episodes
A new type of comedy-adventure about two industrial kings, one new and one old, both diametrically opposed to each other in their values, lifestyle and pursuit of money.
The story centers on two “kings”, Akiba and Etchu.
King Akiba once known for eye-opening acquisitions has since liberated h...
With a title inspired by “Stomiiformes”, an order of deep-sea ray-finned fish called, this story follows Tomioka, a late-night security guard at a supermarket who laments his drab and solitary life. Feeling it unnatural to exist alone, he wishes upon a shooting star one night for a true friend. Soon...
Takuto, our protagonist, shares a house with his friends from high school – Kyohei and Hajime. He comes home to find a baby sleeping peacefully in the room. When the other two residents also return, they read a letter that has been left on the desk. “This is your baby.” Although they’re not quite su...
Remi Takasugi is the most popular “item” at the “Rental Lovers” company where no customer request is deemed too impossible, outlandish or difficult to fulfill as long as certain rules and time constraints are observed. The company motto is “The ultimate rental girlfriend” and they guarantee complete...
Food/Cooking
Mystery
Detective
Captain Cook’s Banquet
30 min. × 10 eps.｜10 episodes
Hoshimitsu Kokku is a Criminal 1st Division cop with professional level culinary skills. Nicknamed “Captain Cook”, he brings his own eccentricities and philosophy toward crime-fighting with the conviction that “Food doesn’t lie.” If there is one thing Captain Cook can’t stomach, it is the thought of...
College student and Economics major, Yuka Minami (19) suddenly learns of the freakish death of her friend, Ikumi, on whose corpse were found reams of 10,000-yen bills. The eyes of Yukichi Fukazawa, the face on the 10,000-yen note, had all been darkened black. When the bodies of 5 more men and women ...
Entertainment
Yuriko's Barenaked Diary
30 min. × 10 eps.｜10 episodes
Ever since high school, Yuriko Busujima has been without several boyfriends. Now into her third year as a political beat reporter for a newspaper, she finds herself in a 4-year relationship with a musician named Midori and courting another guy. “Marriage is hell” and “Betray a guy before he betrays ...
Angered by his boss, a strident and selfish production company employee, Takasugi, quits his job as a director and finds himself saddled by a 10 million yen ($100,000) debt. He decides to hatch a plot, conspiring with a former assistant director friend named Sonobe, to kidnap a very rich family’s be...
The setting is the Tsukishima district of Tokyo where the Summer Olympic Games will be held in five years. A small old-fashioned confectionary shop, “Sakuraya” stands as a remnant of the past amid the rapidly changing cityscape. Akiko Sakurai has been running the shop on a shoestring for over 50 yea...
Who can resist a good crisis or the scent of a woman?
The panic-thriller/comedy series “Panic In” celebrates all of the classical panic and disaster movie themes and tropes with a high-octane television drama full of suspense, laughter, tears, joy and soul-satisfying human emotion! Computer graph...
Dark System: Battle for Love’s Throne
30 min. x 10 eps.｜10 episodes
How to win the greatest love by the worst means! The world of romance is not for the timid. For Jiro Kagami, who has never been popular with the girls, the only way to win the heart of his beloved Yuri is by beating out four rivals with the use of a so-called “dark machine” that he hopes will make ...
The Melancholy of an Disguised Interviewer
30 min. x 10 eps.｜10 episodes
A mystery writer and master of-the-trick-ending turns active interviewer in search of answers to a series of mysteries taking place in the realm between the virtual world and reality in an isolated town. Suffering from writer’s block, the author teams with his editor to solve a gothic murder that le...
An extremely fearful youth, Tenma Hokai, grudgingly runs a ghost extermination agency only because he hails from a long genealogy of those with special abilities to communicate with spirits. When a request comes in, he and his company colleagues strap on special devices and head for the haunted site...
Dropping out of high school and joining a bike gang, girl teen Makoto Kiryu's rough-and-tumble life thus far takes a new turn when she meets Rinko Kominato after a motorcycle accident. Rinko convinces Makoto to quit the biker gang and attend evening high school. Nine years later, the fully reformed ...
If you missed the last train, and had no money to get home by other means of transport, and had to spend the night in and around a particular train station, what would you do? This is how our story begins, with the protagonist missing the last trine. He has no money with him and must figure out how ...
Starring Japan's currently most popular comedian, Yuki "Bananaman" Himura finds himself the central character in an eccentric drama that unfolds in ominibus style with each episode penned by a different writer and featuring an ever-changing support cast. Only Himura appears each time without fail, s...
Thriller
Lifeflash Incorporated
30 min. x 10 eps.｜10 episodes
"Somato" is a term referring to the phenomenon at the brink of death where a person sees their whole life pass before their eyes. Those who are lost and happen to stumble into the Somato Incorporated are guided by Kaminuma by the entreaty, "Take as much time as you'd like to look back over your life...
After School is Mystery Time!
30 min. x 9 eps.｜9 episodes
A huge fan of the Hiroshima Carp baseball team, you the viewer become the story protagonist, Ryo Kirigamine, vice-president of the Young Detectives Club at Tokyo’s Koigakubo Academy. In the search for truth, each week the school club gets tangled in perplexing local crimes and mysteries, including m...
Osamu Shirato is a timid man and ultra pushover who goes completely unnoticed by women and is devoid of any sex appeal. He’s been searching vainly for employment for two years. But his life undergoes a radical change when he is reunited with a childhood friend named Hitoshi Kurosaki. Following a cer...
School
Comedy
Ouran High School Host Club
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 penniles...
Romance
For Women
Comedy
Shima-shima (Striped Sheep)
30 min. x 10 eps.｜10 episodes
By day, Shio manages an aromatherapy salon. But by night, she is the owner of “Striped Sheep”, a business that dispatches men to the homes of women who suffer from insomnia to lie next to them. These “Striped Sheep” in fact represent a brand new profession of so-called “co-sleepers,” whose sole miss...
Mystery
Heaven’s Flower: The Legend of Arcana
30 min. x 11 eps.｜11 episodes
ヘブンズ・フラワー The Legend of ARCANA
헤븐스 플라워 The Legend of Arcana
戰地的花
30 min. x 11 eps.｜11 episodes
In the year 2060, a failed science experiment has brought about a barren, famine-plagued world where “flowers” no longer bloom. While recovery efforts show promise, District 7 - ground zero for the accident - has been left to its own devices, exempt from reconstruction as “an abandoned city.” One re...
A young boy with a brilliant mind, a sexy female and two athletes form an unlikely quartet in a game of thievery that calls for cooperation, intrigue and cunning in an effort to steal various treasures ranging from physical objects and data to people’s hearts. But participants must be on constant gu...
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 cr...
Love, Men and Fashion
30 min. x 13 eps.｜13 episodes
In a reception room at a talent agency in Tokyo’s trendy Harajuku district, three struggling fashion models impatiently wait for the phone call they’re sure is coming; the one from their manager giving them work. This is an uproarious, romantic and inspiring record of that long wait. Azusa Okamoto o...
Minami is a deaf girl who, through sign language, tries to relate herself to her first love, Kaiji, and in so doing nurtures their puppy love for one another. In the process, Minami begins to develop an unrealistic desire to “hear Kaiji’s voice”. In response, Kaiji swears to Minami that he will “b...
Nodoka Kuribayashi, is a struggling cartoonist. Excusing herself for being busy with her work, she lets her husband, Tetsuya, be responsible for everything from housekeeping to child care. Tetsuya, who reaches the point where he can no longer take it, presents Nodoka with divorce papers. She then...
Yumiko, a nurse and housewife, has been happily married for 9 years. As she experiences a fateful encounter with her patient, Keisuke, she begins to fall for him. What begins as an infatuation soon turns into a love affair that traps her. While repeatedly saying to herself “That couldn’t happen t...
The Third Senbei Bride!
30 min. x 40 eps.｜40 episodes
56-year-old, Mother-in-law, Misako Yoneda, still acts like the daughter-in-law that married into the household. One day, her son announces his intention to marry Natsuko Fujisaki, 35 years of age, who suddenly comes into the home of this well-established rice cracker shop through her marriage. Thi...
Aki loses her husband-to-be right before their wedding. What is left for her are the three children he had with his ex-wife. This story depicts the transition of Aki and the children instantly becoming a “family,” discovering love and bonds and building a true family. The new family of four heals...
Family
¥5 Million For 5 Daughters
30 min. x 40 eps.｜40 episodes
Heitaro, a father, has just retired from the company for which he has worked for 38 years. He proposes that the combined total amount of 30 million yen, made up of his retirement money and the savings his wife had left, should be divided equally by the 6 members of the family — That is, 5 million y...
The story begins when a housewife named Aoi meets a boy named Yuichi, who is the orphaned son of her close friend. It is a heartwarming comedy about Aoi, the constantly positive, cheerful and accommodating housewife, transforming Yuichi, a sissy and sensitive crybaby, into a mature and independent ...
Wedding Dream Believer
30 min. x 55 eps.｜55 episodes
The heroine, Aoi, is a wedding planner. She struggles every day for the sake of not only couples soon to celebrate their wedding ceremony, but also for those who are involved in the wedding ceremonies! Believing in “happiness in marriage," Aoi continues to make every effort. Revolving around Aoi,...
The heroine, Shiori Nakamura, who is an ordinary housewife, has become indifferent about makeup and fashion over the course of time. However, with a school reunion as a turning point, she decides to face her own life once again and rebels against her own self.
Shiori, who had been suppressing he...
Three women working for a big corporation full of catch-22s have finally broken out of the company with a dream of starting their own business! Their goal is to open a specialty shop for mail-order sweets. But challenges and difficulties fall upon them one after another.
These three women, who ...
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