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Kissing the Ring Finger 王様に捧ぐ薬指   왕에게 바치는 약지   獻給國王的無名指

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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.
아야카는 예식장에 입사한 신입 웨딩플래너.
화려한 외모와는 정반대로 거침없이 말하는 기센 성격에 집안은 “초”가 붙을 정도로 가난하다.
경제적으로 힘들지만 아야카에게 있어서 무엇보다 소중한 것은 “가족”이었다.
어느 날, 신임 사장 토고에게 불려가게 된 아야카는 서로에게 「메리트」가 될 테니 결혼하자는 돌연 억지스러운 프러포즈를 받게 된다.
사랑하는 가족을 지키기 위해 결혼을 선택한 “초 빈곤 신데렐라”와 경영부진 예식장의 재건을 위해 사랑하지도 않는 여자와 결혼을 선택한 “츤데레 재벌 2세”가 펼치는  심쿵 러브 코미디.
綾華是個在婚宴會場工作的新人婚禮策劃師。
與美麗的外表相反,有著強勢又直言不諱的個性,並且家境貧窮。
雖然經濟上有著重重困難,但對她來說「家人」才是最重要的。
某天,新上任的社長・東鄉突然強勢的綾華求婚,希望能來一場對雙方都「有利」的婚約。
為了守護家人而選擇結婚的「貧窮灰姑娘」,以及為了重整業績敗壞婚宴場地而與不喜歡的女性結婚的「傲嬌富二代」,一場臉紅心跳的戀愛喜劇即將展開。

Around 40

Around 40 -注文の多いオンナたち-

75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 10 eps|11 episodes

Satoko Ogata is a brilliant psychiatrist, 39 and single. She loves her work and has a good social life with her friends, but as she nears 40 her best friend of many years tells her, “If you want children you have to get married soon” prodding her to actively seek “happiness as a woman.” One day, Satoko meets Keitaro Okamura, a man whose devotion to ecology borders on the eccentric. As one of the “around 40 generation” who blazed a trail for the women of today, how will she deal with the situation?

Dragon Sakura

ドラゴン桜   드래곤 사쿠라   東大特訓班

75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 10 eps|11 episodes

A struggling lawyer, Kenji Sakuragi, takes a position at private school Ryuzan High to pay off his debts. Kenji decides to try to turn this hopeless school into one of the elite institutions in Japan to help rejuvenate his career. His barometer of success will be to get five of his students admitted to the prestigious Tokyo University the following year. But rather than cramming them with lots of general information, his down-to-earth class concentrates on unknown techniques for passing the entrance examination and how to live a good life in these turbulent times. His refreshing outlook and strategy may just be what is needed to turn around the future prospects of himself and his students, and teach the rest of us a thing or two as well!

For Love

恋   사랑   戀

135 min x 1 ep|1 episode

The year is 1972. Fumiko is a very ordinary college student working a part-time job translating English literature where she meets university professor, Shintaro Katase and his wife, Hinako. She finds herself “enamored” with them. But the appearance of a young man named Katsuya Okubo leads to the destruction of those feelings. On one fateful day, Fumiko shoots Okubo to death in a violent incident that renders Professor Katase paralyzed from the waist down. His wife had witnessed the scene, but never speaks of it, allowing Fumiko to shoulder the blame. Fumiko does so willingly to keep a certain secret. 40 years later, in 2013, a reporter named Mit-suhiko Torikai is reexamining the case, trying to find out what really happened. Finishing a long sentence, Fumiko, who now suffers from terminal cancer, decides to bare her soul at last and reveal the secrets she’s kept locked away for so long.

MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge)

MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge)

30 min. x 78 eps|Eps 78

Highly rated and critically acclaimed, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge is the break through comedy that premiered in the United States on Viacom’s Spike TV. Known as MXC, and made from footage from the popular game show, Takeshi's Castle, it has been re-edited, re-written and re-voiced into a hilarious, intentionally over-produced, modern "action/X-treme" sports show. MXC pits such teams as "America's Meat Handlers" against their hated rivals, "The Cartoon Voice-Over Actors."

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.

PANIC IN

PANIC IN

30 min × 10 eps|10 episodes

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 graphics add a level of scale and impact never before seen in made-for-television entertainment.
Torao Kurumada (43) is a hapless, middle-aged bachelor who is always changing jobs, but every time he starts at new place of employment, he is interrupted by some major incident or disaster such as a runaway bus, an unidentified mysterious animal, or terrorists. Each challenge is accompanied by a fateful encounter with a woman whether a college student, an office lady or a widow with whom he falls helplessly in love and for whom he is willing to sacrifice life and limb to save. It is the classic tale of a guy trying to win the girl amid extreme circumstances. But will it ever work for Torao?

Each episode is filmed by a guest director; Taichi Suzuki, the first ever 4-award winner at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (“The Brat” ’12), action specialist, Yoshikatsu Kimura (“Karate Girl”, ’11), globally-acclaimed director SABU ( “Bunny Drop”, ’11 & “Kanikosen”, ’09), Munenori Nagano, who while active also as an actor in the popular theatrical troupe “European Project” is an award-winning independent filmmaker, for a total of 4 directors all bringing their own flair and taste to this all new “panic” action-comedy genre.

ROOKIES

ROOKIES   루키즈   ROOKIES (菜鳥總動員)

120 min x 2 eps / 60 min x 9 eps|11 episodes

The setting is Futakotamagawa Gakuen High School. Upset that the baseball club has been forced to suspend its activities after a scandal caused by one of its members, the boys have slipped into delinquency. This is an inspiring story of blood, sweat and tears as Kawato, the dedicated schoolteacher, tries to open up communications with the toughs through baseball, and we see the boys clawing their way back from delinquency as they set their sights on Koshien despite their lack of skill.

Swimming in the Dark

わにとかげぎす   심해어   超級懦弱的男人的戀愛

40 min x 1 ep / 30 min x 9 eps|10 episodes

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, a mysterious woman appears in his life. She is Azusa, a next door neighbor who instantly falls in love with him. But as the kind of social awkwardness, Tomioka is obtusely unaware of her feelings for him. Can love bloom between these two? Especially when compounded by the sudden emergence of a homeless guy, who calls himself a “life wanderer”, and then an enigmatic death threat in the form of a letter that reads: “You will lose your mind within a year and die”. Life is suddenly turned upside down.

The Demon Girl Next Door

まちカドまぞく   길모퉁이 마족   小恶魔女在街角   小惡魔女在街角

30 min.|12 episodes

One morning, a sealed demonic power awakens in 15-year-old Yuko Yoshida. Her mission? To defeat the “Magic Girl” who lives in her town. Yuko has grown a tail and horns, but her powers fall short of a normal girl’s, and she struggles to lift the curse of having to live off 40,000 yen per month.
To fulfill her destiny of defeating the shrine maiden of the Light Clan, she challenges Momo. However, she hasn’t become any stronger despite being in the Demon Clan, and her lack of experience results in her losing. After the duel, she becomes friends with Momo for some reason and ends up receiving her help on many occasions. Though she’s strict when it comes to money, Yuko is so nice that she could never hurt anyone—quite ironic for a member of the Demon Clan. Her kind heart wins the trust of people around her, and she works hard to repay Momo for her help and to become a respectable Demon Clan member.

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun 2

地縛少年花子くん2

Part 1 : 30min × 12eps Part 2 : 30min x 12eps

Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun is a popular comic book series that sold more than 10 million copies before being adapted into a TV anime in January 2020, followed by a short animated series: After-School Hanako-kun in 2023 and 2024. The latest in the series is Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun 2, to be aired in January 2025, given the great reception for the earlier anime both in Japan and abroad. The Seven Wonders of Kamome Gakuen, Hanako-kun and his occult-loving assistant, Nene Yashiro, spend their days trying to solve mysteries in their school. What is behind all the strange occurrences and creatures these unique students encounter?