The tag team of an impoverished, debt-ridden detective with a sharp, analytical eye and a girl with the strange ability to “hear lies” crack cases in this retro-modern back-alley sleuthing drama.
In 1926, Kanoko Urabe, a girl growing up in the countryside, has had the ability to hear when people are lying for as long as she can remember. However, the villagers shun her because of her power. Kanoko’s mother, Fumi Urabe, tries to protect her, but Kanoko leaves the village, not wanting to trouble her mother any longer. She winds up in Tsukumoyacho, a town awash in lies. In search of work, Kanoko goes to a cafe called “Rose,” which had a help wanted ad posted looking for waitresses urgently, but the waitress there, Lily , turns her down, saying that the position has just been filled. With nowhere to go, Kanoko collapses from hunger, and the head of the Iwai Detective Office, Soma Iwai, who was coincidentally passing by, stops to help her. Eventually, Kanoko becomes Soma’s assistant, and together they solve many difficult cases as she looks for a place where she can belong…

The mismatched pair of a compassionate retro-style police inspector and his cool modern-style partner take on unsolved cases that are about to go cold in this humanist mystery series.

With the removal of statutes of limitations, criminals now have to keep on running forever. This reform in the law, which means that anyone who is caught will definitely be prosecuted, is ideal for the families of the victims…or it should have been. However, reality isn’t so simple. In the past, cases that were getting close to the statute of limitations were often taken up by the media, which could lead to new information suddenly coming to light. Now, without that excitement, almost all such cases go cold. When the statute of limitation for murder was 15 years, many members of the victims’ families would use that as a turning point to move on, but now they have to carry that incident with them for the rest of their lives, and some find that exhausting.
There is a department, OKURA, which handles cases which have remained shelved as a result of abolishing the statute of limitations. Two investigators there, Senju Hidaka, a retro-style investigator with a deep sense of compassion, who believes in the importance of hitting the pavement, and Toshiki Fuwa, a cool modern-style detective who focuses on saving time and being efficient, solve cases on the verge of going cold. The pair investigate using the handful of clues that were left by investigations performed at the time of the incident, along with new tips that have come in after a long time. Sometimes working with their minds, sometimes with their bodies, their investigations will help time to start moving forward once again for those who have been affected by the incidents…

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office solves both familiar modern incident and bizarre and incomprehensible cases that can’t be explained even with cutting-edge science in this orthodox mystery drama that will keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

One day, Koyume Amano, a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Band Color Guard, is suddenly ordered to go to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO for short. When she arrives at their headquarters, which resembles the office of a shrine from the outside, the deputy director, Miyabi Okitama is there. According to Okitama, the AARO is the oldest investigative agency in the world, dating back to the time of the Yamato Imperial Court. They report directly to the Cabinet Office, and investigate “unsolvable cases” such as paranormal phenomena. Koyume is surprised to learn that such an organization exists, and also wonders why she would have been assigned to it.
At this point, Okitama tells Koyume about the Spiriting Away Incidents that he is currently investigating. The first incident happened about half a year ago. The only things left at the scene were the victim’s clothing, their possessions, and copious amounts of blood. No body was found, as though it vanished on its own. Online, there was someone who claimed responsibility, saying, “This was a spiriting away,” and, “I am the god Hiruko.” The incident was followed by others like it, and Hiruko put out a statement each time. Gradually, people came to believe in, fear, and some even worship Hiruko.
Under the orders of AARO director Tamio Ukino, Okitama and Koyume go to the First Investigation Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police to take part in a joint investigation. There, they learn about a key figure named Rui Matsumiya. He was originally a member of an underground male idol group, but started making money by dating his fans after the group broke up. Out of eight disappearances that have happened so far, Matsumiya was the first to discover the scene in the three most recent, and the victims in all three cases were passionate fans who had repeatedly gone on dates with him. However, at the times of the crimes, Matsumiya was working in a shared office, and the security camera footage backs up his alibi. After the first incident, Matsumiya began to talk about being able to see Hiruko, which caused a stir online. Is this case really the work of the god Hiruko? Or is it someone else in the shadows? What answer will the Okitama and the others find?!

Birds such as cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, and have their young raised by them. But it’s not only birds that engage in this sort of behavior. Humans can too…

Miwa Kanzaki has a busy life with a job in a main career track position at a major company. She has been married five years, and hasn’t had a child yet. Considering her age, she wants one soon. Her relationship with her husband, Hiroki Kanzaki, is good, but they both have busy work schedules, which are only getting busier. Eventually, Hiroki becomes indifferent to Misaki, and the rift caused by miscommunications between them widens. But despite this, Misaki still wants children. It is at this point that Misaki is reunited with Ryo Fuyutsuki, a friend who she often played with at the library back when she was in primary school. He always seemed appear out of nowhere when she was hurting, and would be there when she needed him. He was her hero, and the one she loved for the longest time. Now, he’s here to save her again… Misaki begins to harbor secret feelings for him. Fuyutsuki once harbored similar feelings, and it disturbs him to see she is not happy in her marriage. Eventually, the two cross the line, and she becomes pregnant with Fuyutsuki’s child. Misaki resolves to have the child raised by her husband. Her forbidden act of cuckoldry will change all of their fates. The story is propelled towards the truth as her daughter grows. What is this “love” which can drive people to madness? Where will this tale of love and hate that begins with cuckoldry go?

Every path leads to baseball. This autumn, a new hero is born!

“Today’s post-game interview features Hiroto Yanagisawa, who hit a game-winning home run in his first professional at-bat!”
Fourteen years after his incredible debut, Hiroto Yanagisawa remains a slugger for the Dragons. However, between injuries and slumps, he has spent much of his time out of the limelight. This year, during the off-season, he received notice that his contract would not be renewed. Still wanting to play baseball, Hiroto decided to participate in a tryout with his junior colleague. Just then,Hiroto received a surprising call—from Seiichiro Sakurada, the CEO of Inning Nine Group—inviting him to help employees who are struggling at the company, like a batter bunting to help the runners advance to the next base. Will Hiroto be able to shine in his new role as a “buntman”?

A notorious villainess brings people to ruin one after another! There is no escaping her.
Kyoko Nonomiya has been reunited with her beautiful cousin Michiru Gamou.
In middle school, the two came to share a past that involved murder, and Kyoko has spent the past seventeen years running away from Michiru. Michiru takes over the company that Kyoko works for and starts a consulting business for people who are experiencing trouble in their lives. Fame, money, recognition, and unattainable love… The evil Michiru cruelly manipulates people’s desires, leading them to ruin one after another. Having been tied down by Michiru as an accomplice, Kyoko eventually comes to worship her… This is the long-awaited drama adaptation of the best-selling novel from Shichiri Nakayama, the Emperor of Twists!
The negative catharsis and schadenfreude of watching Michiru send people’s desires running wild, giving them the push that sends them falling into hell, makes this “The Laughing Salesman” of the Reiwa era! The terrifying true face of humanity will be laid bare, plunging viewers this summer into the depths of terror! Experiencing fear and delight from the foolish nature of humans, pushing forward toward their own ruin, has been continuously carried on from kabuki theater and rakugo storytelling. It might even be called the origin of all entertainment! Now, what will become of Kyoko, ensnared by Michiru?
An unpredictable and shocking twist will strike viewers until the very end!

When and how do people become “fathers” and “mothers”?

This is a story of family which conveys the message of parental love that is so important in the times we now live in.
During their time at university, Natsu Tsukioka and Mizuki Nagumo ended up going out and life was good for them. However, one day, all of a sudden, Mizuki told Natsu she wanted to break things off, and they went their separate ways. Seven years have passed since then, and Natsu has moved on, when he learns from an old university friend that Mizuki has passed away. The two never met again after she told him it was over, so it still doesn’t feel real to Natsu when he goes to attend the funeral. There he meets a young girl named Umi. Natsu cannot hide his surprise when he learns that the girl is Mizuki’s daughter. Mizuki’s mother also informs him that he is the father. When Natsu learns that Mizuki had given birth to their child without telling him, and she had been raising her alone, he looks back on the seven years Mizuki and Umi spent together…
We bring you a work that carefully depicts the love between people, and the story of a family.

A new, entertaining emergency medical drama on the theme of “life” set in Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku!

The story takes place at St. Magokoro Hospital, secluded in the back streets of Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku.
Unlike at other hospitals, owing to the character of the area, the patients who come to receive emergency care at St. Magokoro often come from backgrounds with special circumstances, and they run the gamut from homeless people and foreigners to hosts and prostitutes. Then a mysterious woman named Yoko Nishi Freeman suddenly arrives in Kabuki-cho. She is a former military doctor with American citizenship. Born in New Orleans, she moved to California with her mother at the age of fourteen. She would later get into medical school, receiving her license to practice at the age of twenty-eight. She has thirteen years of experience working in a military hospital. On one battlefield, Yoko came across a wounded soldier among the ruins of a city. When he was on the verge of death, he used the last of his strength to entrust her with an important item and a certain message. She has come to Japan to keep her promise to the fallen soldier.
Yoko becomes someone who cheerfully shines a light on the various dark happenings in Kabuki-cho. She also meets Toru Takamine, a cosmetic dermatologist who works at his elderly uncle’s hospital.
The little run-down hospital has been left behind as Kabuki-cho changes with the times, yet it quietly continues to exist. For the people who live in the neon-lit nights of a town where human desires twist and turn, the small lights of the hospital offer a haven for their hearts. Together with the unique staff of doctors who work there, the hospital will go on bringing light to the city.

Geeky women working at the police station who have sharp-minds and problematic social skills lend a huge helping hand in cracking cases while chatting on the weekends in this novel form of “chit-chat puzzle-solving entertainment.”

In this drama, three geeky women who work at the police station, each with a no overtime policy, use their skills, curiosity, and a little thirst for justice to solve crimes before leaving work on time.
The protagonist, Yui Saijo, is gifted with a photographic memory, and a considerable ability to analyze evidence; Masumi Kira, an occupational physician, is a pro at psychological analysis and profiling; and Iori Motoyama, who works in the traffic division, knows her geography so well that people say she has every fact about the area stored inside her head.
These women get together at the same tavern every Friday, bonding over their complain about the workplace and their personal relationships. And as they’re chatting, cases that have been stumping the investigators come up…
Even as they use their knowledge and skills to quietly solve difficult cases, the three geeks personal and professional lives are full of problems. The curtain is about to rise of a fresh new series that will depict the tumultuous life of three troublesome women in a cute and comical way, while also providing the thrill of solving crimes!

His public face is that of a teacher, but he’s secretly a CEO?!
A comedic school drama that smashes modern common sense is born!

At Eto Private School, Class 3-0 is where the school dumps students with “zero motivation, zero talent, and zero potential for the future.” They are called the Zero Class, and mocked fiercely, but now these bottom-of-the-barrel students have a new homeroom teacher. He is Rei Kagami, a handsome but somewhat unique educator. The common thinking at the school holds no sway with him. This teacher’s financial assets and motivation are off the charts, and that’s because, incredibly, he is the billionaire CEO who inherited of one of Japan’s leading corporate empires. Rei Kagami has been curious and caring from a young age, and that curiosity stayed with him as he matured, even as a more self-centered personality became apparent. He has come to Eto Private School without revealing his identity in order to achieve “a certain objective.” Although he is a superb manager, Kagami Rei’s lack of understanding of what is normal for the common people makes him useless as a teacher, and this leads to friction with his students and the rest of the faculty. How will someone like him, who might as well have come from an entirely different dimension, take on the troubles ailing the Zero Class? What can the students learn from him? And why has he come to the school?
Recently, people have lamented “Do we even need teachers in an age of AI?” Now, a new hero is here to smash that kind of common sense!

A genius meteorologist saves people from natural disasters!
Kiyohara is a researcher with the Japan Meteorological Agency Meteorological Research Institute. With his trademark good looks and refreshing smile, he even makes appearances on the weather program. However, there is another side to Kiyohara, one that you wouldn’t imagine from his outward appearance… He is fighting hard as a member of SDM (Special Disaster Management) to save people from natural disasters caused by the weather. With the abundance of such disasters in recent years, SDM was established as a team under the direct authority of the Cabinet Office with the goal of preventing the expansion of human losses that can result from a slow response. Their leader, Kiyohara, is a genius at meteorology. He is able to use his natural intelligence and his sense of the raw weather on the ground to analyze vast quantities of weather data from a multitude of angles. Even in tense situations where lives are at stake, he is able to stay one step ahead of things. However, his sharp tongue can sometimes earn him the enmity of those around him… Even so, Kiyohara’s passion for saving lives and his diligence eventually win over his teammates, and he builds the ultimate SDM team with those who sympathize with him. But there is also a mystery Kiyohara has been pursuing all this time… He was driven to save people using meteorology because of the death of the one he loved most. Therein lies the story’s greatest mystery, and it will be unveiled over the course of the series!

An original love story inspired by HY’s hit song “366 Days” is born!
After reuniting with the one she loved, and going out with him after twelve years, all seems well until an unforeseen tragedy strikes…
Asuka Yukihira is a twenty-eight-year-old receptionist at a music school. Her old high school is about to close its doors, and she decides to go there for a class reunion. As she visits the familiar halls, excitedly conversing with old classmates, she is reunited with her high school crush, Haruto Mizuno. She had resolved to reveal her feelings to Haruto on graduation day, but mutual misunderstandings kept her from doing so, and they parted with the words left unsaid… Ever since then, Asuka has thought of it as “the love that I can never forget.” In the excitement of the class reunion, the pair exchange contact information. As they talk, they discover that the feelings they had for one another back in high school were mutual. Having realized their past misunderstandings, they confess their true feelings and begin dating, twelve years after the first time they met back in their second year of high school. With the blessings of their classmates, Asuka is as happy as she’s ever been, until one day when Haruto meets with an unforeseen tragedy. He is left unconscious and in critical condition. Asuka believed her happiness with Haruto would go on forever, but now what will become of the romance they had rekindled after twelve years…? As she stays by the unconscious Haruto’s side, Asuka recalls forgotten memories of the times she spent with Haruto and her classmates all those years ago…

A power struggle at a major hospital causes a variety of incidents, and with the cast’s ambition and desire for revenge thrown into the mix, the hidden desires of humanity are laid bare in this revenge suspense series.
Kaito Tendo, the son of the chairman of one of Japan’s largest hospitals, Tendo Memorial Hospital, chose not to pursue a career in medicine due to differences with his father, and instead works as a reporter for a weekly publication. He spends his days swamped with work, but his romantic life has been going smoothly, and he has been getting ready to propose to his beloved. However, just before the time comes for his proposal, Kaito hears that his father has been caught up in an incident, and so he heads to Tendo Memorial Hospital, a place which he had drifted away from. Having learned his father’s true intentions as a result of the incident, Kaito recalls an important promise he made with his father in the past. However, many problems lay hidden at Tendo Memorial Hospital, which his father left to him. A power struggle is about to break out over who will be chairperson. In order to reclaim what his father built from the mass of “desire” that has devoured Tendo Memorial Hospital, and to protect the one that he loves, Kaito resolves to fight against the power struggles at this giant hospital, but…

The undynamic duo of mystery author who can no longer write and an elite police detective who can no longer solve crack the case with witty dialogue and banter in this mystery comedy!
The protagonists of this series are mystery writer Miko Kuroba and police detective Tohru Morino of the First Investigation Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Miko has written best seller after best seller ever since her debut, finding her place among popular authors, but she currently finds herself with writer’s block. Now she spends as much time working on her side job as a commentator on variety programs as she does writing. As for Morino, his arrest rate has fallen off ever since a certain event, and he can no longer solve crimes. They both have a case of the yips, where things that they could do effortlessly before have suddenly become impossible for them because of pressure. The two of them meet by chance at a sauna facility which they visit to get away from work. Once they encounter a murder, the two buddy up in no time. Miko is fascinated by the case, thinking about how it will give her material for her next novel, and how she’s never seen a dead body before. In contrast, Morino is less enthusiastic, but he displays sharp powers of observation as a police detective, and together the two get closer to the truth. Their investigation gives them a lead on the culprit, but as they try to close in on their suspect, Morino’s yips strike… They’re a mystery author who can’t write, and an elite police detective who can’t solve. This undynamic duo with the yips help each other as they struggle to get a fresh start in this painfully funny mystery comedy!

Ame(Rain) and Taiyo(Sun), two people with opposite names, face a ”severe miracle” in the purest love story of this winter!
The main character, Ame Aihara, has been unable to open her heart to others because of her sad past and lack of self-confidence. However, one day after returning to her hometown in Nagasaki, she is reunited with Taiyo Asano, the only man with whom she had a heart-to-heart communication in the past, and whom she still cannot forget to this day. However, her joy at the reunion was short-lived, as he was involved in an accident. A man who claims to be a “guide” from the other world appears before the sorrowful Ame and says, ”If you give me your heart, I will perform a miracle for you”. However, the condition of “offering her heart” was too severe for Ame…. What is the meaning of the “heart” that Ame is deprived of in exchange for the “miracle”? And what will happen to them as a result of the “miracle” that the guide performs?

I want to get married! Then my ex-boyfriend came back as a ghost! A bizarre story where the two of them are about to embark on a wild adventure of marriage hunting!
Ayako Minami, 32 years old, is a single novelist who has not had a boyfriend for several years. One day after returning from her hometown in Nagoya, the intercom rings and it’s Yamada, the asshole who ran away from her.
Yamada, who insist he is a ghost, had been stabbed in the chest by a woman he had played with, and had really died. He said that if he does not fulfill the promise he made to someone before he died and has not been fulfilled, he will not be able to enter into nirvana. This promise came about when Yamada and I had our first date and I said to him, “When I get a boyfriend, I want to go to a hot spring together” and where he replied he will be her boyfriend. He told me that he would support my desire to go on a hot spring vacation with my boyfriend within a year with a marriage activity advisor, but she refused the offer flatly, thinking that such a ridiculous idea was unthinkable.
However, at the end of February, when Ayako went out for dinner with her colleagues, Yuko, the accountant, told me, “It is considerably more embarrassing than you think to be a woman who is over 30 years old and has no man in her life. You are not recognized for your worth as a woman, and you will never meet a good man.” She was so frustrated and sad, but by the time she arrived home, her tears had dried up and a decision had been made in my heart. When she entered my room, she told Yamada, who was there as a matter of course, “I’ll do it, marriage hunting.” Thus began a year of marriage activity between me and a ghostly asshole…!

Former skilled detective vs. genius surgeon! A unique new hybrid drama!
The story takes place at Asukure General Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in Japan. Asukure General Hospital has an “in-house police box,” which is still not common in Japan, to protect the security of the hospital. The man who works there, Osamu Murai, is the only young in-house detective who is not a retired police officer. He is the only one who is not a retired police officer, and he is working as a young in-house detective. Kyoko Kawamoto, who was hired as a clerical staff of the in-house police, is annoyed by this unpopular man who causes various troubles at the hospital with his blunt and careless manner. One day, Shunsuke Sakakibara, a young surgical genius, returns from overseas. And for some reason, he is obsessively clinging to Sakakibara. It seems that he has a special connection with Sakakibara…? A detective and a doctor. When their incompatible beliefs intersect, a story of life at the scene of the crime begins to unfold, exposing the “darkness” and ”sickness” that lurks in people…

The main character is forced into a loveless political marriage!
The most beautiful and sad love story in the history of ”Ooku” is born, with ”love” as its theme!
It was the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), the economy was in the midst of a downturn, and the people of Japan were forced to live a life of frugality, thrift, and hard work. The disparity between the people of Japan and those of other countries is widening, and the people are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Shogun who will improve the economy and make the country and its people wealthy. Under such circumstances, Rinko was forced to enter into a political marriage with the 10th shogun, Ieharu Tokugawa, and traveled from Kyoto to the Ooku, the inner palace behind the Honmaru of Edo Castle, where she found nearly 1,000 women serving the shogun. The fierce battle to win the favor of a single Shogun was about to begin. Meanwhile, someone is plotting to plunge the inner chambers and the Edo shogunate into a whirlpool of confusion.

A human comedy where a strait-laced father update himself!

The protagonist of this drama is a middle-aged man, Makoto Okita (Taizo Harada), who is set in his old-fashioned and prejudicial views. His children resent how inflexible he is, while his coworkers avoid him due to how tactless he can be. Even his wife Mika (Yasuko Tomita) seems to have given up on him lately…
And yet, in his own way, Makoto has always followed the path he believes in—the one which he thinks is “the only right answer.”
One day, a chance for change arrives. When Makoto’s high-school aged son, Kakeru (Kairi Jo), who became a shut-in three months ago, brings a friend over to the house and Makoto finds out this friend is gay, he reflexively rejects him. What Kakeru says in response shocks his father:
“I never want to be like you!”
Makoto has endured the packed train to go to work every day for his family, and yet…now that his son has outright rejected him, he gets depressed. He never chose to be the way he is.
But then, his son’s friend, Taichi (Souta Nakajima), makes him with an offer:
“Why don’t we be friends?”
When this prejudiced old guy who’s just over fifty makes a gay friend who is much younger than him, everything he thought was “common sense” is about to get an update! This is the start of Makoto’s struggle for the sake of his family, and for all the people he loves!