Suyama, an assistant director for a television news show, travels to Nishinari to search for a friend who has gone missing. He joins forces with a schizophrenic man named Motoyama he meets there and begins to shoot footage of the young people of Nishinari in the hope of turning it into a program......
Arisu Ryohei—a listless, jobless and video-game-obsessed young man—suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive. In this strange world, Arisu meets Usagi, a young woman who’s navigating the games alo...
Haruta Soichi is a 33-years-old single man who isn't popular with women. He works at a real estate office and lives with his parents. However, one day, his mother walks away from him and he has to live independently. Soichi doesn't know basic things such as cooking or washing his clothes. He then de...
Criminologist Himura Hideo looks for the pleasure of the murder scenes and announces "I never wanted to kill a person". He seems to be a rather dangerous guy who pursues the ultimate crime. His companion is the somewhat unreliable writer of police novels Arisugawa Arisu who observes his investigatio...
Ango Ishikawa is a detective with smarts and a keen sense of observation. He's in a great physical shape and also highly ambitious. Ango also only focuses on his work and his personal life is pretty much non-existent. One day, Ango is shot in the head by the killer who is lurking at the crime scene....
Two transfer students, Mitsuhashi Takashi and Itou Shinji, tired of their boring normal life and unpopularity decide to take their arrival at a new school as an opportunity to reinvent their image, and become delinquents! Itou's justice clashing with Mitsuhashi's mischievous ways, they initially ant...
Kousaku Aizawa, Megumi Shiraishi, Mihoko Hiyama, Kazuo Fuikawa and Haruka Saejima have worked and pursued careers down different paths.
Kousaku Aizawa left the hospital emergency room. He now works as a brain surgeon. Megumi Shiraishi works hard as a staff leader for flight doctors at a hospital eme...
Hidari Shoutaro is a detective working in his beloved town Fuuto. But something is threatening the peace in the town - Gaia memories, which turn people into monsters. Shoutaro has a secret partner, and together they protect Fuuto.
Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
(Source: AsianWiki)
~~ Remake of the American TV series "Cold Case" [2003].
Tin Yat Hung, a single guy, has been unsuccessful in getting a girlfriend. One day, he discovers that his boss, KK, secretly collects photos of him and he soon learns that KK is in love with him. Unsettled by KK's bold confession and romantic pursuit, Tin Yat Hung seeks advice from his friends and...
Go Da Kyung is an eager rookie investigator who gets paired with the famous forensic doctor, Yoon Ji Hoon. They initially clash due to their different styles of investigation as well as their opposing personalities - Da Kyung's energetic nature is a source of irritation for the prickly Ji Hoon - but...
In all-boys school with a tradition of Princesses (boys chosen to attend school functions dressed up as girls to alleviate the tension between the students), Yutaka Mikoto, Shihoudani Yuujirou and Kouno Tooru are this year's chosen Princess team. Dissatisfied with the half-hearted efforts of the cur...
Follows mystery-solving college student Kuno Totono. At the beginning of the story, the police bring him in for questioning on suspicion of murdering his classmate.
(Source: mangaupdates)
~~ Adapted from the manga " Mystery to Iunakare" (ミステリと言う勿れ) by Tamura Yumi (田村由美).
Shimura Teppei grew up watching her police father who was participating in motorcycle marathons, and dreamed of becoming a marathoner from childhood. But Teppei's father lost his job and disappeared. Teppei ruined himself by becoming a well-known offender in the area. Under the influence of his chil...
Set in present-day Tokyo, Homare Shishio works as a freelance crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio has been fascinated with original sin and how people become criminals. He is a genius, with an impulse to commit crimes. Shishio works on police cases that interest him and does private investi...
Takechi Hanpeita, a samurai of Tosa domain who campaigned for the expulsion of foreigners, unwittingly travels 150 years in time from the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate to present day Japan. He becomes a teacher at a private school run by Saeki Makoto in a village in the remote countryside thro...
When she was 17, Minase Akari visited Uki Island on a family vacation and fell in love with Morita Ikumi, the son of the guesthouse owner. The two of them affirmed their feelings for each other as they watched a meteor shower which happens once every four years. They promised to meet there again fou...
Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes bankrupt, they run away and settle down at a fishing village in Noto. The family rents a couple's home who run a salt pond. Mare's father starts a new business, but it also fails. Her mothe...
29-year-old Kuroki Sayaka is a writer working for a magazine at a publishing company. She's engaged to her long-term boyfriend and will have her wedding in three months, so resigns from her job. But that night, she discovers that her fiance Kazuya, who was her first love from high school, has actual...
Kohei Kuryu is a prosecutor at the Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. He looks and thinks different from the other prosecutors. When he takes on a new case, he first goes to the scene of the incident and looks around with his own eyes. His unique habits as a prosecutor hav...
A strange horror comedy that takes place in a share house where Meguro Mio and monsters [Youkai] live.
Mio Meguro is a timid person. She is afraid of being hated by others, and this causes her to refrain from saying what she really wants to say. She doesn't have any specific things she wants to do....
Shikamori Umi is an overwhelmed office worker. Her boss always pushes Umi to the limits saying that she is essential to the company, and makes her not able to get enough sleep or time for herself.
One day, when Umi is working on the set of a live broadcast, she falls asleep. This results in a vira...
The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefecture. Her father Minoru has gone to Tokyo to work in order to earn extra money. However, her life completely changes when her father does not come back for the New Year. Mineko asks her fam...
Shingyoji Kome has recently begun work at Marufuku Komuten, which is a home renovation company. She is 30-years-old and single. The company where she works is owned and run by the Fukuyama family. Shingyoji Kome worked as a sales ace for a large construction company, but she made a mistake that led...
A school psycho suspense that depicts classmates, students, and their families being involved in a whirlpool of suspicion and confusion when a mysterious and beautiful high school girl, Kiritani Sara, suddenly transfers to another school.
(Source: Natalie)
Keito is a reporter for a weekly magazine. The magazine covers everything from corruption by politicians to entertainers' scandals. She watches out for the next big scoop. Keito is also rich and enjoys her work, as well as her love life. One day, Keito's mother suddenly dies. Anna was a single mothe...
Set two years later. The story follows the growth and conflicts of Kounotori Sakura. He works as a doctor delivering babies and also performs as a concert pianist under the nickname of "Baby."
(Source: TV Japan)
Iruma Michio is a devil-may-care, unorthodox criminal judge at the Tokyo District Court’s first criminal court. He used to be a lawyer and was deeply involved in a past case that was behind his transformation into a judge. Iruma personally inspects crime scenes to prevent a miscarriage of justice an...
Reiji Mano is a forensic science researcher at the Scientific Research Laboratory in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He is good at his job, possessing a vast amount of knowledge and having excellent technique. However, he is a lone wolf who does not cooperate with others. When he works on...
A man identifies himself as “Kizoku” ("Aristocrat") and works as a private detective for a hobby. Nobody knows his age, address or anything about his family. The actual deductions and investigations are carried out by his employees including his butler, maid, and chauffeur. He only has a good time t...
Seductive Kishi Keiichitaro is the only pathologist at Sobokai First General Hospital. Described as intensely eccentric and with a very sharp tongue, he is an outstanding doctor. He opposes the other party, no matter who it is, in the name of medical justice and patient life. He is considered a nuis...
During their childhood, a little girl and a boy made a pledge to meet again. Now at the age of 45, the girl, Kasumi, is now a divorced mother of a son of high school age. She works as hard as she can at a laundry delivery shop for the wealthy, in order to make a living. Then one day, Kasumi encounte...
Tsutomu Madarame is a rookie detective at the Third Investigation Team of the Tokyo Police Department. His section deals mainly with petty crimes which leads Tsutomu to lose all his enthusiasm for the job. One day, he meets a master thief, Garasu Kemuri, who helps him solve cases.
(Source: MyDramaL...
People tell lies with words through their cerebral neocortex. However, the moment before a person speaks, the mental reflexes of the limbic system will be apparent. There is a police sergeant with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division who can see through the lies of...
Saito Hiroshi is a young man with a great heart who grew up in a loving family. He must start working in a long-established insurance company. On the first day, he is expected by the strict HR employee, Tsubaki Mako. New employees begin their 2 week training and the first thing Mako imposes on newco...
As criminals become more sophisticated and crimes more complex, the police must turn to speedier and more scientific means of weeding through clues and narrowing down suspects. That's where the forensics labs come into play. Sakaki Mariko is a highly talented forensics scientist who must dodge stere...
A popular work by the Metropolitan Police Department special mission officer Ukyo Sugishita who tries to solve the case with his partner. In the first special, looking for Ukyo, whose name is unknown, Watanabe Castle visits the northernmost remote island.
(Source: Nikkan Sports News)
"Love is the age of subscription. You can share your boyfriend."
A high school student confused by the suddenly visited harem state decides to enjoy the "multiple romance" with seductive girls while being influenced by strange dating rules. However, behind the strange sharing of love is a surprising...
In the year AD 2017 (nine years after the final episode of Ultraman Tiga), TPC has advanced beyond Earth, and has created a new GUTS team, "Super GUTS". Humans have begun terra-forming Mars and other planets in what is known as the "Age of the Neo Frontier". One day, however, the Neo Frontier is att...
Sugishita Ukyo's partner, Kai Toru, was arrested and Sugishita was suspended indefinitely. He temporarily moved into the "old" section of special missions that had lost his head. Kaburagi Wataru is a career bureaucrat who wants a detachment from the Ministry of Justice in the Tokyo Metropolitan Poli...
Genba Shido is the director of Team A in the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). He is excellent at his job. He is a reasonable person, but he often has to make drastic decisions to save lives. He is separated from his wife because of marital problems. They have a daughter.
Meanwhile, Urara Asakura is the...
The Japan Forensic Research Institute is co-managed by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as well as the National Police Agency. The forensic pathologists listen to the silent voices of the dead but come up against the powerful who cover up inconvenient truths. One of pathologists is the ecc...
Tokyo decides to introduce a police system for schools. The school police will reside on campus at middle schools.
Ryuhei Shimada is a detective for the Investigation Unit 1 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He always stays cool and calm, but he has a spiteful tongue. Ryuhei Shimada decid...
This time Azumi and his team have to work together to solve various cases under the shadow of Tokyo Sky Tree in Oshiage, Tokyo. Azumi and his team are getting assigned to a branch office in said area of Tokyo, which sort of serves as a real police station and a local police box at the same time. The...
Tamami Esumi's character is the " bull doctor" of the title of the series, which comes from the word "bulldozer". Ignoring any opposition from her entourage, she uses all the means necessary to determine the truth behind the death of the bodies she examines. Because of her personality, she constantl...
Amagi Yu and Katagiri Masatoshi have become subordinate and boss in the Criminal Documents Unit while Mizuta Tamaki and Aoyama Arata remain detectives in the Twelfth Section under the instructions of Katagiri. Together with professor of forensic medicine Domoto Shuntaro, veteran senior detective Ebi...
Ryo Saeba is a private detective and a sweeper who rids society of evil. He is also known as City Hunter. He works with partner, Kaori Makimura. An accident leads to Kaori Makimura's death and her heart is transplanted to Xiang Ying. Xiang Ying then appears in front of Ryo Saeba.
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Setsu and Souwa are members of the Inui family, descended from Itako. Their high school graduation is coming up, but the head of the Inui family suddenly runs away. Their older brother Kai, a priest who studied exorcism abroad, becomes their guardian, and Setsu and Souwa are forced to take over the...
Nakaido Gota is a detective at the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Station. Majima Shuhei is a prosecutor in the Yokohama District Prosecutors' Office in Kanagawa Prefecture.
Gota is the kind of detective who tries to catch criminals as hard as he can and he wants to be thanked by the victims. Shuhei b...
Sato Tomoko leads an ordinary life as a 40-year-old wife and mother with a part-time hourly job to supplement the household income. One day, she defies an unfair rule at her customer service job because she wants to help the customer, and is fired on the same day her husband loses his job. Tomoko is...
Shinichiro Hanasaki is a former detective with the police department, which is currently engaged in the nursery "Smiling Garden". Wishing to help poorer families and single parents are very low fees for childcare, but this means that it is still far broke. To replenish the budget decides that during...
The 41st NHK Taiga Drama is Toshiie to Matsu. During the turbulent Warring States Era, one man's life and career intertwined with the three great generals of Japanese history-Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu. With political savvy and the support of his fiercely loyal wife, Maeda Toshiie rose to secon...
Follow up the story of 52 years and covers three editions of 1912 Stockholm Olympics, 1936 Berlin Olympics and 1964 Tokyo Olympics where it features the two lead characters Kanakuri Shisou as the first Japanese man to participate in the Stockholm Olympics' and achieved a world record and Tabata Masa...
Megumi Saotome is a contract employee in the editorial department at a publishing company. She is invited by her colleagues to join them for a drink get-together, but Megumi Saotome declines their offer. She leaves quickly after work. The reason why she is in such a rush, is so she can have a "solo...
Emiru Yoshitsune is a 22-years-old who has just started working as a case worker to poor people needing public assistance. She has no knowledge about the social welfare system and struggles to carry out her work. One day, a man who she is assigned to help commits suicide. [MyDramaList]
A divorced single mother Shimada Kana who is a web writer, a single company employee Shudo Yuri and a very popular and beautiful jewellery designer Deguchi Nao start sharing an apartment. While the three of them have totally different personalities, jobs and statuses, they soon get on terms where th...
A forbidden secret love story that consists of an omnibus with four women as the main characters. A love story about a night when a woman wanted a man like a beast, stimulated by libido from the events that happened to each other.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Sakisaka Kento is a lawyer with an outstanding career. He seems cool and handsome, but he is a zealous person who will confront things that are unreasonable and wrong head-on. There are times when he values the words of a single person and not a lawyer. Sakisaka is regarded as the ace of the law fir...
31-year-old Iwasaki Urara became a lawyer and did a disservice to client because of her own mistake in her first court case. This traumatised her and she gave up being a lawyer. Fretting that she isn’t cut out to be a lawyer, Urara ekes out a living by working part time. She is saddled with a debt o...
Kotaro Tanimura is 22 years old. He is smart enough to have graduated early with a MBA from the University of Cambridge in England. Afterwards, Kotaro Tanimura returns to Japan. He gets a job at a toy company. Kotaro Tanimura is ambitious and enthusiastic with his work. He must deal with fools and h...
Murakoshi Seiichi works as a lawyer. He deals with mid and small size companies who are facing bankruptcy. The many people involved in these businesses also face crisis in their lives. Murakoshi Seiichi tries to save these people from bankruptcy. To do so, Murakoshi Seiichi deals with creditors pers...
In a small village in the Kanto regioin, which is surrounded by mountains, residents and a management consultant (Shosuke Tanihara) struggle to rebuild the village through its only industry, farming.
When Masato (Takashi Sorimachi) was in his 20's, he failed with an organic farming business and accr...
"Animals" will showcase celebrities and animals living together in an “animal town,” and effects of long term interactions between animals and humans.
(Source: SeoulBeats.com)
Soichi Haruta is 33 years old, he is single and works in the division of product development in a company. He wants to get married, but he's not popular with women. One day, he discovered that his older at work, Musashi Kurosawa, had saved many of his photos on Musashi Kurosawa's mobile phone. Soich...