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!”!

Michi Ichijo’s acclaimed BL work, from *Small Worlds* and *TSUMIDEMIC*, gets the long-awaited live-action adaptation! “I want to connect with the person I love...” A bittersweet adult love story about two awkward people struggling with sexlessness. Starring Asahi Ito and Jun Muto (Genjibu) in a double lead live-action drama! A secret relationship begins with a mistaken email. Tossed about by unrequited love and desire, where will their romance lead—? The series will begin airing on Thursday, January 9, 2025, in MBS’s Drama Tokku slot. After being serialized in the web novel magazine *fleur* (Kadokawa), Michi Ichijo’s representative BL work exploring adult love and sex, *Futtara Doshaburi: When it rains, it pours*, was published in paperback in 2013 and later reissued in 2018 as a Shinshokan Dear+ Bunko edition. It has now been decided that it will be adapted into a live-action drama starting Thursday, January 9, 2025, in MBS’s Drama Tokku slot!

“This is definitely going to go viral!!” Once it starts, there’s no escaping! A live stream where lives are on the line!? A friendship in ruins!? Music streamer Akagi (Masanari Wada) is troubled by the fact that his channel subscriptions just won’t grow. Just when he’s getting desperate, thinking, “I have to do something…,” he hears from Shiraishi (Shunta Sono), a former teammate who is now a hugely popular cooking streamer, about a “doll that grants wishes.” It is Buaou, a magical doll handed down among a minority ethnic group in Africa... If you perform a ritual using this doll, any wish can be granted—but in return, an equivalent price is demanded. Despite the unsettling air surrounding it, Akagi decides to go through with the ritual, and reaches out to Kurotani (Yo Maejima), Aoyama (Keito Sakurai), Midorikawa (Raiga Terasaka), and Shiraishi, with whom he once worked as part of the streaming group “Five Colors.” And so, by coincidence, that “Five Colors” has reunited. Then, a mysterious woman (Yuka Hyodo) who claims to be a director for a documentary program suddenly appears... Five streamers, one mysterious woman, and an eerie magic doll— What on earth is happening? Who is behind it? And what is the purpose? Though confused by one unpredictable development after another, they continue the ritual...