Starring Rino Katase and Isssei Mamehara (JO1) A 61-year-old woman who sees herself as a "16-year-old beautiful girl" falls for the handsome husband of the newlywed couple next door! This live-action drama adaptation brings to life a romantic horror story depicting "madness in the name of innocence"! It has been decided that "Fuufu to 16-sai ~Kyoki no Rinjin~" ("The Couple and 16-Year-Olds: The Mad Neighbor"), which will air on TV Tokyo starting Thursday, July 2 (every Thursday at 12:30 a.m.), will be broadcast. The original work is the manga of the same name by Pumpkin, currently running as an indie series on Shonen Jump+, and it is a notable title in which the shock of love and obsession beginning with a love at first sight for a married person was chosen by readers in the "serialization battle ranking" on "Jump Rookie!" This romantic horror, full of madness as a 61-year-old woman who sees herself as a "16-year-old beautiful girl" runs wild for love, is now being adapted into a live-action drama! The madness of love awakened by a "16-year-old beautiful girl" Kind-hearted handsome office worker Hiro Nomura and his bright, cheerful wife, former hostess Sae Nomura, were spending their newlywed life in a small apartment. However, Hiro is dissatisfied with Sae, who is bad at cooking and housework and always runs back to her parents' home whenever they fight. Right in the middle of one of their marital spats, Shizuko Shiraishi, who has moved into the next room, comes by to greet them. Shizuko falls for the handsome and kind Hiro at first sight, and through sharing homemade dishes, she becomes close to him, visiting his room almost every day to help with housework and nurse him when he catches a cold. Hiro feels a motherly sense of comfort in Shizuko's devoted care, and while he is troubled by their awkwardly mismatched conversations and her baffling behavior, he gradually deepens their friendship. Shizuko becomes even more drawn to Hiro's kindness, but she has "a certain secret"... In fact, Shizuko is a 61-year-old woman who sees herself as a "16-year-old beautiful girl"! Even knowing that he is married, Shizuko attacks the Nomura couple with every possible romantic scheme, determined to "take what she wants if she loves it," and the madness in the name of innocence begins to spiral out of control...

Playwright and director Shoko Nemoto makes her first original serial drama as a director! Mariya Matsumoto and Maryjun Takahashi co-star as best friends who grew up together This work is an original creation by Shoko Nemoto, a playwright and director who is at the cutting edge of the theater world. With this project, Nemoto also makes her debut as a director of an original serial drama. In their late 30s, many people suddenly find themselves wondering, “Is life just going to keep going like this?”—a vague, hard-to-put-into-words sense of unease. Love, marriage, career, youth—none of these are urgent problems right away, and yet the heart still stirs. This series presents those inexpressible feelings in an original four-episode drama built on realistic yet humorous dialogue. Emily (Mariya Matsumoto), 35, single, and raised in a private girls’ school from kindergarten, runs an apparel brand. Maria (Maryjun Takahashi), who works as a drama producer at a TV station, has been her best friend since childhood. They still meet regularly, and over cake at their favorite café, they start catching up on life. The conversation begins with “So, how was it?” and then shifts rapidly from matchmaking, beauty, Korea, Pilates, and social media. They take photos with their cake, edit them, and keep the pace brisk as time passes with remarks like, “Our skin really has gotten better, hasn’t it?” Then Sakura, the younger nail artist at the salon they both go to, joins them. Their talk about trendy topics and the videos that appear on their phones never quite seems to click. As they feel the generation gap with someone younger, Sakura blurts out, “So what is it you two actually want to become?” Emily and Maria are left speechless. “What is this sense of unease we’re feeling?” “Why is it that we end up longing for youth?” Carrying those thoughts with them, the two women set out in search of their own version of happiness—.

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W主演: Shiori Akita × Masashi Ikeda A powerhouse pairing of the hottest rising young cast members and the hitmakers behind “Taikan Yohou” and “Jofu ~ Women Need ××××? ~”! A high school girl searching for a place to belong falls in love with a young gay man―― A sweet and bittersweet love story about living together, with a complicated twist, that portrays the difficulty of loving someone and growing up! The original work is “share,” a hit manga by Yuu Mitsuba that has surpassed 300,000 copies in total circulation. This much-talked-about title delicately and carefully depicts the “special relationship” between a high school girl and a gay young man, earning a strong 4.4 rating on Japan’s largest e-book store, Comic Cmoa! The shocking story of a high school girl who loses sight of where she belongs, falls in love with a gay young man, and depicts the difficulty of mutual feelings and personal growth is finally being adapted into a drama! Playing the lead role of Kasuga Kusaka, the high school girl protagonist, is Shiori Akita, whose powerful presence has stood out in films, dramas, and stage productions such as “The Flowers of Evil,” “3-nen C-gumi wa Furyou Shitemasu.” “Why Did My Fiancé Become My Sister’s Husband?” and “Anonymous Lovers.” She brings a down-to-earth portrayal of a girl who falls for a gay young man and, though troubled and in pain, grows through the experience. Playing the gay young man Ryo Fujiwara is Masashi Ikeda, who is drawing attention for “Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger” and is currently on a hot streak with back-to-back lead roles in “About Us at Dawn” and “I Wish I Hadn’t Met My Ideal.” With a natural, gentle, yet somehow lonely air, he richly conveys the feelings of the character and superbly expresses the inner conflict of falling in love through his solid acting skills. As the colorful housemates living in the share house where the two reside, Rio Teramoto appears, known for “The Scum of the Obscene” (2024, DMM TV), “Sanctuary” (2023, Netflix), and “Shinjuku Yasen Byoin” (2024, Fuji TV), alongside Naoya Kusakawa, who has appeared in the film “The Sunday Runoff” (2022), “Monsters” (2025, Fuji TV), and “I Wish I Hadn’t Met My Ideal” (2026, Mainichi Broadcasting System). Teramoto plays a popular hostess known as a “night butterfly,” while Kusakawa plays a university student aspiring to become a screenwriter; both appear as reliable allies to Haru and Rio. Also appearing are Koudai Fujimoto, from “I Joined a Group I Don’t Get Along With on a School Trip” (2025, ABC TV) and “Why Am I Giving Sermons?” (2025, Nippon TV), as Haru’s childhood friend who secretly harbors feelings for her; Atom Mizuishi, from “TOKYO VICE Season 2” (2024, WOWOW) and “Dear Radiance” (2024, NHK), as Rio’s regular hookup and company president; Tatsuya Shirato, from “Jofu ~ Women Need ××××? ~” (2025, TV Tokyo), as Haru’s non-blood-related father and her first love; Akiko Hinagata, from “PUNKS△TRIANGLE” (2025, Fuji TV) and “25ji, Akasaka de Season 2” (2025, TV Tokyo), as Haru’s mother; and So Yamanaka, from “Happy of the End” (2024, Fuji TV) and “Okra ~ Maze-locked Case Investigation ~” (2024, Fuji TV), as Rio’s uncle, who serves as a parent figure after Rio loses his parents. This lineup brings together a host of popular and accomplished actors. Director and screenwriter Ayaka Kato made her feature film debut with “Onna no Ko Kirai,” and has since worked on a wide range of projects including BL dramas such as “Old-Fashioned Cupcake” and “Taikan Yohou,” as well as “Jofu ~ Women Need ××××? ~.” In addition, the theme song is performed by the Indigo, who made their major debut in 2000 and were responsible for many drama theme songs in the early 2000s. The song chosen is “BLUE,” their major-label debut single, which also reflects their work writing and composing for artists in Japan and abroad, adding a gentle touch of color to the story with its soft vocals.

Synopsis: The protagonist, Midori Momono (32), tends to put others before herself. After discovering through a bridal check that she is infertile, she is dumped by the boyfriend she had been dating for seven years, and when the rumor spreads at her company, she ends up quitting her job. Emotionally and physically exhausted, she meets Mao Tsukidome (26), a younger handsome man who comes to her rescue from a predatory pick-up artist. “I somehow believed that being able to do ordinary things would be ordinary. —” Her days of struggle and effort to find her own “true happiness” begin as she sets out on a new start!

This spring’s most heartbreaking time-slip love story Starring Mitsuki Yoshida and Toru Fujiwara (THE RAMPAGE) in a dual lead role!! ――If you could go back and undo that regret, what would you do?―― I want to save my senpai no matter how many times it takes! That feeling changes everything! A time-slip love story that resonates across generations is born! When you lose someone, you can’t help thinking, “If only I had done things differently back then...” The protagonist is manga artist Maho Haruta. She has a secret: she has been drawing manga as her own work based on the setting of a manga created by her high school manga club senpai, Shu Yukishima, who died ten years ago... And even now, one regret still lingers in her heart. If she could live her life over, she wanted to return this work to Senpai Yukishima and have him finish drawing the manga with his own talent...! One night, something mysterious happens to Maho as she thinks this... and she time-slips back to her high school days. Carrying her regret in her heart, Maho decides to “redo” her high school life once more, in order to “return the work to her senpai”――!

The hugely popular Korean drama “Suspicious Partner” is getting a Japanese remake, starring Yusei Yagi (FANTASTICS) and Kyoko Saito in a dual lead role! A thrilling and heart-racing “suspense x romantic comedy” that begins with the worst possible encounter The Korean drama “Suspicious Partner” is a romantic comedy starring Ji Chang-wook that aired in 2017 on SBS in Korea. When it was distributed and broadcast in Japan as well, it won support from a wide range of viewers, especially Korean drama fans. A cool-headed prosecutor’s life is turned upside down when he meets a free-spirited woman who mistakes him for a sexual harasser!? Ever since meeting her, nothing but bad things keep happening, and he tries to cut ties with her somehow, but for some reason, he just can’t push her away... Is this a “bad fate,” or is it “destiny”? Centered on a romantic comedy depicting the pure love story of the two, this is a new kind of thrilling “suspense x romantic comedy” in which mystery elements also intertwine around a certain incident. The role of Haruto Tateishi, a sharp-witted prosecutor called “the worst prosecutor ever” by a lawyer, will be played by Yusei Yagi, who has been active as a vocalist in the dance and vocal group FANTASTICS and has drawn attention for the “My Beautiful Man” series, and has since continued to build an impressive acting career with numerous drama and film appearances including “I Became a Host, So I’m the Heir,” “Konkatsu 1000 Knock,” “Minami-kun Is My Lover!?,” “Yano-kun’s Ordinary Days,” and “Stellar Neighbor.” The role of Sakura Miyashita, a judicial apprentice aiming to become a lawyer who ends up tossing Haruto around, will be played by Kyoko Saito, formerly of Hinatazaka46, who has taken leading roles in dramas such as “How to Drown in the Ocean” and “Sudden Marriage,” and is active across variety shows, dramas, and more. The film will be directed by Yuka Yasukawa, whose works include the film “Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight,” the dramas “Jack Frost,” “If You Wish to Fall in Love, Make It Two Times Better,” and “Love Battle Royale,” as well as the upcoming film “A Girl & Her Guard Dog.” The screenplay will be written by Yosuke Masaike, who won the 46th Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Screenplay for the film “Anime Supremacy!” and has worked on numerous screen productions, including the currently airing Thursday drama “Japan’s No.1 Worst Man” (CX) and the film “A Girl & Her Guard Dog.”

Akane Nakano (Mao Ioki) is a gifted high school student who has been accepted to Seiran Academy, a prestigious preparatory school with the highest university advancement rate in Japan and, for the first time since its founding, admitted a student with perfect scores in every subject on the entrance exam, along with an偏差値 of 78. Because of her exceptional abilities, the school has high expectations for her, but Akane herself is indifferent, finding the world boring and unable to see the meaning of life. Then, on the morning of the entrance ceremony, the body of a woman with her left arm severed is discovered in a park near the school. A crowd gathers, and Akane is drawn to the scene as well. There, among the onlookers, she notices a man with a cold gaze named Yuu Kurokawa (Ryuta Yamamura), and for some reason, she can’t help but be intrigued by him. Meanwhile, Akane had taken the entrance exam for Seiran Academy, the toughest school in Japan, hoping there might be at least a few interesting classmates there. But the students who gathered in her class are all the type to flaunt their impressive achievements and look down on society and adults, including Shin Eto (Kouhei Higuchi), a three-time champion of the national junior high school quiz competition, and Hiroto Miyauchi (Eiku Yamashita), a mathematics Olympiad winner. As Akane grows fed up with their dull conversations and is about to leave, she spots a man speaking with a school staff member on campus. It is Kurokawa, the same man she saw at the murder scene, and intrigued, Akane goes to visit the electrical shop where Kurokawa works...

Lovably awkward around love: a woman in her thirties × a younger man whose personal boundaries are completely off A live-action adaptation of a swoon-worthy, mutual-doting romantic comedy set in a silent café TV Tokyo has decided to air the Drama NEXT “Yabusaka de wa Gozaimasen” from Wednesday, April 2, 2025 (every Wednesday at 12:30 a.m.)!! When the series began serialization on “Gene LINE,” a LINE Manga exclusive label, it sparked buzz with comments like, “His desperate devotion is irresistible!” and “Every character is so cute—it makes my heart race!” and quickly took the No. 1 spot on the LINE Manga daily rankings. This popular Marita manga of the same name is now being adapted into a live-action drama! The protagonist, Mai Fushigi, works at the silent café “Asagao.” One day, due to a certain incident, she and her coworker Ryo Ueshita, a younger man who is unusually close with people, begin to “observe” each other. As they work together, Mai finds herself drawn to Ryo, but because she has trauma from her first love and is struggling with her love life, things are not so simple... Meanwhile, Ryo is also intrigued by Mai, and behind his cool expression, his feelings for her keep overflowing... Will the two of them be able to open each other’s hearts!? Playing the protagonist, Mai Fushigi, is Sayuri Matsumura, who starred in “If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die” (ABC TV) and the film “If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die: The Movie,” appeared in numerous acclaimed works such as “The Moon on a Rainy Night” (MBS), “Gekokujou Fufu” (Kantele), and “Let’s Start Love After a 0-Day Marriage” (Yomiuri TV), and is active across many fields, including as a regular model for the fashion magazine “BAILA”! This will be her first leading role in a TV Tokyo drama. And playing Ryo Ueshita is Kiita Komagine, who gained popularity as the lead in “25-jikan, Akasaka de” (TV Tokyo) and “Tengu no Daidokoro” / “Tengu no Daidokoro Season 2” (BS-TBS), as well as appearing in “Legendary Boss, Sho” (TV Asahi), “With You and the Rain of Spring: A Shinsengumi Youth Chronicle” (TV Asahi), and “Why We Fall in Love” (TV Asahi). He is also well known for serving as a Monday regular on Bunka Hoso’s “Reco Men!”!

My secret is that I can read other people's minds through their scent... Co-starring Yuika Kuren and Tainai Fujibayashi A live-action drama adaptation of a heart-fluttering office romance about a mind-reading woman who can read other people's hearts through scent, and her colleague, who is cool on the outside but can’t stop fantasizing about her in his head!!! BS TV Tokyo has announced that “The Dry Colleague’s Spoiling Habit” will begin airing on Wednesday, July 8, 2026 (every Wednesday from midnight to 12:30 a.m.). First released as an e-comic in 2022, the hit series by Aoi Peki drew attention for its irresistibly heart-fluttering romance between the two leads. This live-action drama adaptation follows Ayame Hanazawa, a woman who can read minds through a person’s scent but is somewhat hesitant when it comes to romance, and her colleague Sui Miyajima, who is neat freak, expressionless, and cool, yet whose heart Ayame cannot read. When Ayame happens to read Miyajima’s mind, she discovers that beneath his dry exterior he is actually a pervert who lovingly fantasizes about her...! The story depicts the two of them, each awkward in love, as they take a step forward, alongside the human relationships surrounding them. Please look forward to this heart-fluttering office romance in the style of BS TV Tokyo, a network renowned for romantic dramas! Yuika Kuren × Tainai Fujibayashi, co-starring One half of the dual leads, playing Ayame Hanazawa, a woman with the unusual ability to hear people’s inner voices from their “scent,” is the much-anticipated actress Yuika Kuren, who rose to popularity as a top female performer of the Moon Troupe in the Takarazuka Revue thanks to her outstanding dance skills and exceptional expressiveness, and since leaving the troupe has appeared in many buzzworthy works including the drama “Revenge Spy” (TV Asahi), “Professional Insurance Investigator: Ren Amane” (Fuji TV), and the Sunday Theater drama “GIFT” (TBS). This will be her first drama as a co-lead. The other co-lead, playing Sui Miyajima, Ayame’s colleague, a cool and “super dry” man whose cleanliness obsession means Ayame cannot read his mind, is Tainai Fujibayashi, who first gained popularity for his role as Kurogane Spanner / Valvarad in the drama “Kamen Rider Gotchard” (TV Asahi) and has since appeared in works such as the drama “Jofu ~ Is ×××× Necessary for Women? ~” (TV Tokyo) and the stage play “Chushingura.” A multi-talented performer with a steady stream of roles, Fujibayashi has been chosen for this production!

Drama adaptation of a medical novel depicting the light and shadow of the pharmaceutical industry, starring Satoshi Mukai! Co-starring Jun Kaname, Ryoki Masumoto (Aぇ! group), and Kosuke Toyohara! Is an MR (Medical Representative) there to save patients’ lives, or to maximize the profits of pharmaceutical companies――? A medical-business suspense drama that sharply confronts the essence of medicine and the realities of the pharmaceutical industry! Is it medicine for life, or medicine for profit―― A new “socially conscious medical drama” depicting the hidden side of the medical field and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the struggles of those who face life head-on “Serial Drama W: MR – Medical Representative –” adapts the novel by Yoko Kusakabe, a celebrated medical mystery writer who is also active as a novelist and physician. Centering on an MR (= Medical Representative), essentially a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company who visits doctors, pharmacists, and other medical professionals to provide and gather information on prescription drugs and promote their proper use, this new “medical drama” portrays the hidden side of the medical field and the pharmaceutical industry, along with the struggles of those who confront life and death. Japan’s pharmaceutical industry is worth roughly 10 trillion yen. Bringing a single new drug to market takes 10 to 15 years and hundreds of billions of yen in research and development costs, yet the odds of actually reaching the sales stage are about 1 in 25,000. Pharmaceutical companies continue their research every day in order to break through this narrow gate. This drama offers a glimpse into the reality of the medical world, where many organizations and people are involved around a single drug—pharmaceutical companies, university hospitals, doctors, academic societies, guideline selection, and more—and powerfully depicts the convictions of those engaged in the “work of handling lives,” as well as their conflicts between sales competition and medical ethics. While drawing on the original work’s brisk human drama, the series also incorporates pharmaceutical supervision to reflect the industry as it is today, and weaves in issues surrounding modern medicine. As a drama about the familiar subject of “medicine” for everyone, not just medical professionals, it delivers deep empathy and thought-provoking questions to a wide audience. WOWOW’s screen adaptations of Kusakabe’s works, which have also drawn attention with the film Haibyōshin, are now in their third installment, following the shocking suspense Drama W: The Third Mist ~Throw the First Stone~ (2009), which exposed the dark side of modern medicine through the theme of medical error, and Serial Drama W: God’s Hand (2019), which tackled head-on the major social issue of whether euthanasia should be permitted in end-of-life care. Praised highly for the realism that comes from the author’s extensive experience as a physician and for its weighty themes centered on life and death, the works have won the support of many readers. The script is written by Takashi Kohsaka, known for Hayabusa Fire Brigade (2023) and Angel Flight: The International Repatriation of the Dead (2023), while direction is handled by the talented Hiroshi Kanai, who makes his first directorial effort on a WOWOW drama following Scandal Eve (2025) and Caster (2025), and with his film The Gate of Murder soon to be released. The lead role is played by Satoshi Mukai, who portrays Masaki Kionaka, an MR at Tenho Pharmaceutical who, torn between patients, doctors, and the pharmaceutical company, tries to uphold his own belief in “patient first.” Co-starring are Jun Kaname as Atsushi Samejima, Kionaka’s former colleague who now works for the foreign rival company Taurus and is an MR who pursues profit without compromise; Ryoki Masumoto (Aぇ! group), making his first appearance in a WOWOW drama, as Kazumi Ichihashi, a rookie MR at Tenho Pharmaceutical who admires Kionaka as the ideal MR; and Kosuke Toyohara as Kazuhiko Isogawa, a former MR and now an executive officer and head of sales at Tenho Pharmaceutical, who was once Kionaka’s direct superior. Also appearing are Yoshi Sakou, Satoru Matsuo, and Takeshi Masu as doctors with whom Kionaka becomes involved; Makiko Watanabe as an executive director at Tenho Pharmaceutical; Rena Takeda, Junya Kawashima, and Yasuomi Sano as members of the sales office MR team; and Mirai Morita and Yoshihiro Nozoe as patients and family members whom Kionaka becomes indirectly involved with. Be sure to look out for this colorful cast of accomplished actors. “Patient-first MRs” vs. “business-first MRs” vs. “pharmaceutical company executives protecting the company” vs. “medical professionals flocking to profit” … This work depicts the various positions and conflicts of people fighting over “profit” in the hidden world of the medical industry. Through the lives of people torn between the ideals of medicine and the realities of business, this weighty socially conscious human drama comes close to the essence of “life” and “medicine,” relentlessly confronting viewers with a reality that is “by no means someone else’s problem.”

A game in which you can earn a cash prize depending on how long you evade the hunters within a limited area. If you can keep running until the game time runs out, you can win a large prize. “Hunters are scary,” “but I want the money.” Will you choose to turn yourself in? Or keep running to the very end for money or pride!? A “psychological escape drama” that reveals the inner thoughts of the fugitives.

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