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Title: ぼくの妹
Title (romaji): Boku no Imoto
Also known as: My Younger Sister
Format: Renzoku
Episodes: 11
Viewership rating: 7.8 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-19 to 2009-Jun-28
Theme song: Futari by Ikimono-gakari

Synopsis

Egami Mei is a genius surgeon, but is somehow still lacking. On the other hand, his younger sister Satsuki is poor at studying, but she has a good nature and a strength for living. "Boku no Imouto" is a human drama about these two siblings whose parents died while they were still children. Because of their different values, they are always arguing, such as when the brother finds out that his sister is having an affair with a married man. However, the siblings have also developed a strong bond that keeps them together despite their constant conflicts. But a huge and unexpected incident occurs, which threatens to shake their relationship. --Tokyograph

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Odagiri Joe as Egami Mei
Nagasawa Masami as Egami Saya
Chihara Junior as Kuki Koji
Tomosaka Rie as Kirihara Satoko
Tanaka Tetsushi as Segawa Kinya
Suzuki Sawa as Segawa Shigeko
Sasamoto Rena (笹本玲奈) as Okawara Haruna
Yamada Meikyo as Odaka Kunitaro
Satoi Kenta as Tsukamoto Shin
Wakabayashi Go as Okawara Ryuzo
Otaki Hideji as Sakurai Chuji
Ogi Shigemitsu as Haneda Takemi (ep2)

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Title: 婚カツ！
Title (romaji): Konkatsu!
Also known as: Marriage Hunting!
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 11
Viewership rating: 10.4 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-20 to 2009-Jun-29
Theme song: Wedding Bell by PUFFY


Synopsis

Amamiya Kuniyuki is the unemployed son of a tonkatsu restaurant owner. He finds a job that requires a married person, so he lies by saying that he has plans to marry, and he is forced to keep up the charade using Hida Haruno, a part-time worker from the restaurant. The relationship between the two is the key of this romantic comedy, though the series also focuses on family and friendship through Nakai's interactions with the other characters. --Tokyograph

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Nakai Masahiro as Amamiya Kuniyuki
Ueto Aya as Hida Haruno
Sato Ryuta as Fukazawa Shigeru
Shaku Yumiko as Murase Yuko
Ueda Tatsuya as Amamiya Kuniyasu
Tanihara Shosuke as Nihei Takumi
Kitamura Yukiya as Ito Masaru
Kohinata Fumiyo as Amamiya Kunio
Ryo as Takakura Makoto
Fubuki Jun as Mizoguchi Shizuko
Hashizume Isao as Sakurada Shugoro
Otomo Minami as Hayami Rika
Tanaka Yoji as Masuoka Fumihiko
Yamada Shintaro as Komatsu Narimichi
Kazama Shunsuke as Mogi Hideo
Toda Keiko as Amamiya Kaoru (special participation)

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Title: BOSS
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Detective
Episodes: 11
Viewership rating: 17.0 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-16 to 2009-Jun-25
Theme songs:
Opening theme: Alright!! by superfly
Ending theme: Best Of My Life by superfly


Synopsis

This series revolves around a group of peculiar detectives in a new division created to fight against an increase in atrocious crimes. Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "boss" of this division. But despite her intelligence and capabilities, she can never understand a man's heart, so she remains unable to find a husband. In fact, her assignment in the U.S. was really a demotion after she ruined her career track over a man. So why was she chosen as the boss of the new division? Even though the detectives are talented, they all have some kind of issue or flaw, and they are considered to be the "problem children" of the police force. In the end, the division's true purpose is just to isolate these problematic detectives. --Tokyograph


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Amami Yuki as Osawa Eriko
Takenouchi Yutaka as Nodate Shinjiro
Tamayama Tetsuji as Katagiri Takuma
Toda Erika as Kimoto Mami
Mizobata Junpei as Hanagata Ippei
Kichise Michiko as Narahashi Reiko
Kendo Kobayashi (ケンドーコバヤシ) as Iwai Zenji
Nukumizu Youichi as Yamamura Keisuke
Shiomi Sansei as Onoda Tadashi
Hasegawa Hiromi (長谷川博己) as Kawano Akio
HILUMA as Mori Masao
Mitsuishi Ken as Tanba Hirohisa
Aijima Kazuyuki as Yada Kenzo
Maruyama Tomomi as Ikegami Hiroshi

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Title: 白い春
Title (romaji): Shiroi Haru
Also known as: White Spring
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Family, drama
Episodes: 11
Viewership rating: 12.5 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-14 to 2009-Jun-23
Theme song: Yokogao by Sakai Ayumi (阪井あゆみ)


Synopsis

Former yakuza Haruo is finally released from prison after completing his sentence. With nine years worth of prison gratuities in hand, he stops at a restaurant to enjoy a good meal, but all of his money ends up being stolen. With nothing left, he spends the night at a net cafe, and he manages to look up his old friend from his yakuza days. When Haruo visits the next day, he learns that his old girlfriend Mariko was living with another man, but later died of illness. Haruo, who had committed murder 9 years earlier to earn the money for Mariko's medical treatment, is shocked and angered. He decides to track down that other man, who runs a bakery with his wife and daughter Sachi. Haruo later runs into Sachi at the park, but he has yet to find out the truth about her. --Tokyograph


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Abe Hiroshi as Sakura Haruo
Ohashi Nozomi as Murakami Sachi
Yoshitaka Yuriko as Nishida Shiori
Endo Yuya as Kojima Yuki
Konno Mahiru as Takamura Mariko
Endo Kenichi as Murakami Koji
Shiraishi Miho as Takamura Kanoko
David Ito as Yasuoka Tatsuya
Murakami Kouki as Yamanaka Keiichi
Nagai Risa as Tamura Emi
Fukui Hitomi as Matsushita Akiyo
Nakajima Hiroko as Saegusa Keiko

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Title: スマイル
Title (English): Smile
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 11
Viewership rating: 10.1 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-17 to 2009-Jun-26
Theme song: Ariamaru Tomi by Shiina Ringo


Synopsis

Hayakawa Vito has a Filipino father and a Japanese mother, but he was born and raised in Japan and has never visited the Philippines. The ever-smiling Vito works at Machimura Foods during the day, and at night, he works a part-time job trying to make his dreams come true. One day during an incident at a bookstore, he meets a girl named Mishima Hana, who lost her ability to speak due to an accident. But even though she can't speak, Vito is drawn to her beautiful smile. However, Vito becomes wrongly suspected by the police for a crime, and after meeting the lawyer Kazuma, the issue begins to grow... Together, Vito, Hana, and Kazuma will go through challenging times and have to overcome many obstacles. --Tokyograph


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Matsumoto Jun as Hayakawa Vito
Aragaki Yui as Mishima Hana
Nakai Kiichi as Ito Kazuma
Koike Eiko as Machimura Shiori
Tokuyama Hidenori as Kawai Kinta
Suzunosuke (鈴之助) as "Bull" / Kazama Kenji
Kitami Toshiyuki as Detective Furuse
Ikeuchi Hiroyuki as Detective Takayanagi
Oguri Shun as Hayashi Seiji
Katsumura Masanobu as Kashiwagi Keisuke
Maeda Gin as Machimura Sosuke
Ishida Ayumi as Machimura Midori

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Title: ゴーストフレンズ
Title (English): Ghost Friends
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Horror, fantasy, comedy
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 3.6 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-02 to 2009-Jun-04
Theme song: Aitai by Yuzu


Synopsis

A comedy story about a teenage girl who runs into mysterious happenings through her communicating with ghosts. Asuka suddenly develops her supernatural ability after her traffic accident. While trying to help make ghosts' wishes come true, she falls in love with a mysterious guy named Kaito who turns out to be an incarnate ghost. --NHK


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Fukuda Saki as Kamiya Asuka
Nishijima Takahiro as Hayami Kaito
Okada Yoshinori as Shinjo Tatsumi
Iriyama Noriko as Hongo Misora
Misaki Ayame (水崎綾女) as Aoyama Miku
Kawakubo Takuji as Nagai Takumi
Shibuya Asuka as Shibata Nao
Irie Jingi as Kamiya Takeshi
Katase Nana as Ono Ayaka
Tomochika as Kamiya Shoko
Moto Fuyuki as Kamiya Kotaro
Wanibuchi Haruko (鰐淵晴子) as Anna

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Title: アイシテル
Title (romaji): Aishiteru
Tagline: 海容 / Kaiyo / Forgiveness
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human drama
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 14.7 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-15 to 2009-Jun-17
Theme songs:
Ending theme: Aishiteru by MONKEY MAJIK
Insert theme: Utsushie by Aragaki Yui


Synopsis

Typical mother Noguchi Satsuki spent her days trying to balance her life as a wife to her hard-working husband Kazuhiko and mother to their only son Tomoya, a seemingly withdrawn fifth-grader with whom Satsuki struggled to communicate. Seiko and Ozawa Hideaki, living in the same neighborhood as the Noguchi family, were raising a rebellious junior high school daughter Mihoko and their first son Kiyotaka a second-grader who was showered with much love and affection by his mother.

On that ill-fated day when Kiyotaka was reported missing and was later found dead, Tomoya was taken into custody by police as the prime murder suspect. Tomoya slowly begins to open up about his innermost feelings as the hidden truth reveals the true motive behind his cruel act of violence. Satsuki, as mother of the perpetrator, comes face-to-face with her son’s true self while Seiko, as mother of the victim, deals with her sorrow and anger. --NTV


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Noguchi Family
Inamori Izumi as Noguchi Satsuki
Yamamoto Taro as Noguchi Kazuhiko
Kakazu Issei as Noguchi Tomoya

Ozawa Family
Itaya Yuka as Ozawa Seiko
Sano Shiro as Ozawa Hideaki
Kawashima Umika as Ozawa Mihoko
Sato Shion (佐藤詩音) as Ozawa Kiyotaka

Tomita Family
Tanaka Misako as Tomita Yoko
Yoshikawa Fumiki (吉川史樹) as Tomita Kenta

Morita Family
Tabata Tomoko as Morita Ayano
Fujita Yumiko as Morita Toshie

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Title: アタシんちの男子
Title (romaji): Atashinchi no Danshi
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 11
Viewership rating: 10.8 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-14 to 2009-Jun-23
Theme song: Infinity by GIRL NEXT DOOR


Synopsis

These days, the term "homeless" has taken on new meaning. There are youths referred to as "net cafe refugees," who have neither a job nor a place to live, but who find themselves hopping around internet cafes. One such refugee is a 20-year-old girl named Chisato, who lost her mother at a young age due to sickness. She spent her youth trying to escape from the huge debt her father left her, and her battle with the repossessors unfolded every night. However, her life changed after meeting one man named Shinzo, changing her views on the meaning of "family." Shinzo comes from a rich family tracing back to the Edo period, and he adopted six good-looking sons with the hope of one becoming his successor, but all of them have strange personalities. Shinzo promises to free Chisato from her debt if she marries him and becomes the mother of his sons. However, a life with these six guys under one roof will not go smoothly... --Tokyograph


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Horikita Maki as Mineta Chisato

Okura Family
Kaname Jun as Okura Fuu
Okada Yoshinori as Okura Takeru
Mukai Osamu as Okura Sho
Yamamoto Yusuke as Okura Masaru
Seto Koji as Okura Satoru
Okayama Tomoki (岡山智樹) as Okura Akira
Kusakari Masao as Okura Shinzo (company president)

Miracle Toymaker
Yamamoto Koji as Tokita Shuji (company director)
Takashima Reiko as Koganei Kyoko (legal adviser)
Nadaka Tatsuo as Iwamoto
Watanabe Kenkichi (渡辺憲吉) as Misawa
Kodama Raishin (児玉頼信) as Okudera
Nakamura Osamu (中村修) as Toyama

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Title: 名探偵の掟
Title (romaji): Meitantei no Okite
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Detective, comedy
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 9.4 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-17 to 2009-Jun-19
Theme song: Fighting Pose no Uta by Baba Toshihide (馬場俊英)


Synopsis

The original writing is a short mystery collection that takes a humorous approach to many of the genre's cliches. Matsuda stars as the "famous detective" Tenkaichi Daigoro, while Kashii Yu plays the female lead as a rookie cop. --Tokyograph


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Matsuda Shota as Tenkaichi Daigoro
Kashii Yu as Fujii Mana
Kimura Yuichi as Okawara Banzo / Kaneda Hajime (ep9-10)
Takagi Shinpei as Okawara in highschool (ep9)
Takagi Manpei as Kaneda in highschool (ep9)
Kim Ji Sun (김지순, ちすん) as Moriyama Mizuki
Irie Jingi as Uematsu Keita

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Title: 臨場
Title (romaji): Rinjo
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Police
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 14.4 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-15 to 2009-Jun-24


Synopsis

Kuraishi Yoshio is a coroner known for his keen powers of observation and his thorough investigations. The term "rinjo" is said to be police slang for the initial investigation carried out at the scene of the crime. --Tokyograph


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Uchino Masaaki as Kuraishi Yoshio
Matsushita Yuki as Kosaka Rumi
Takashima Masanobu as Tachihara Masumi
Watanabe Dai as Ichinose Kazuyuki
Ibu Masato as Komatsuzaki Shuichi
Ryu Daisuke (隆大介) as Bando Haruhisa

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Title: MR. BRAIN
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Comedy, mystery
Episodes: 8
Viewership rating: 20.0 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2009-May-23 to 2009-Jul-11
Theme song: JUMP by Van Halen


Synopsis

Tsukumo Ryusuke is a quirky, yet brilliant neuroscientist working for the National Research Institute of Police Science. Wielding a unique perspective and psychology, Tsukumo tackles the nation's most baffling crimes and scandals, going head-to-head with the most brilliant and twisted criminal minds. But his eccentricities and poor social timing can also aggravate people and circumstances, further complicating matters. --TBS


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Kimura Takuya as Tsukumo Ryusuke
Ayase Haruka as Yuri Kazune
Mizushima Hiro as Hayashida Toranosuke
Hiraizumi Sei as Funaki Junpei
Shitara Osamu as Kanda Junichi
Yamazaki Shigenori as Ochi Koichi
SHIHO as Mariko
Kinoshita Yukina as the cleaning lady
Isaka Shunya (井坂俊哉) as Namikoshi Katsumi
Hayashi Yasufumi as Iwabuchi Kiyoshi
Kobayashi Katsuya (小林克也) as Seta Ippei
Tanaka Yuji (田中裕二) as Natsume Mitsuo
Tortoise Matsumoto (トータス松本) as Nanba Jotaro
Daichi Mao as Sasa Miharu
Kagawa Teruyuki as Tanbara Tomomi

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Title: 夜光の階段
Title (romaji): Yako no Kaidan
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Drama
Episodes: 9
Vieweship rating: 10.6 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-23 to 2009-Jun-18
Theme song: CRIME OF LOVE by Fujiki Naohito


Synopsis

Sayama Michio is a young and callous beautician who will stop at nothing to fulfill his ambition(s). Coming from an impoverished background, he suddenly becomes the darling of the beauty world. He holds women who desire beauty captive and puts on several different faces when dealing with Murase Minako, the female owner of the place that he works at; Hatano Masako, a woman of leisure; and Fukuchi Fujiko, an editor of a weekly magazine to come out tops. He also gets involved with two detectives who are investigating him for a prior incident. --JDrama Weblog


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Fujiki Naohito as Sayama Michio
Kimura Yoshino as Edamura Sachiko
Natsukawa Yui as Fukuchi Fujiko
Watanabe Ikkei as Murase Shintaro
Oginome Keiko as Murase Minako
Takachi Noboru as Sakurada Takeshi
Tamaru Maki as Kuwayama Aki
Hara Mikie (原幹恵) as Muraoka Tomoko
Emoto Tasuku as Hasuda Shigeo
Masuda Shuichiro (増田修一朗) as Yanagida Toshio
Shinsui Sansho as Master
Satoi Kenta as Detective Yoshikawa
Omiya Taro as the real-estate agent
Haruta Junichi as Inspector Yamamoto
Kusami Junpei (草見潤平) as Editor-in-chief Aoki
Ebisawa Kenji (海老澤健次) as Hasegawa Jun
Noguchi Airi (野口逢里) as Hayase Rie
Suzuki Yuki (鈴木雄貴) as Nishioka Eiji
Miura Rieko as Okano Kazuko
Minamino Yoko as Takezaki Yumiko
Akaza Miyoko as Fujinami Ryuko
Ishii Masanori as Okano Shoichi
Yo Kimiko as Maruoka Fusae
Muroi Shigeru as Hatano Masako
Kobayashi Nenji as Kuwayama Shinji

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Title: ラブシャッフル
Title (English): Love Shuffle
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, comedy
Viewership rating: 8.7 (Kanto)
Episodes: 10
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2009-Jan-16 to 2009-Mar-20
Theme songs: 
Main theme: Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire
Insert song: Eternal Flame by The Bangles


Synopsis

Usami Kei is a salaryman who has risen in status due to his engagement with Mei, the wealthy daughter of his company's president. Shortly after she breaks off the engagement, a power failure leaves him stuck in the elevator of his apartment building. Trapped with him are three others living on the same floor - Airu, a trilingual interpreter, Ojiro, a model photographer, and Masato, a psychiatrist. While waiting, their conversation hits upon their love lives and the question of whether there is truly only one fated partner for everyone. As a result, they decide to try "shuffling" their relationships with each other. --Tokyograph

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Tamaki Hiroshi as Usami Kei
Karina as Aizawa Airu
Matsuda Shota as Sera Ojiro
DAIGO as Oishi Yukichi
Yoshitaka Yuriko as Hayakawa Kairi
Kojima Hijiri as Kamijyo Reiko
Kanjiya Shihori as Kagawa Mei
Tanihara Shosuke as Kikuta Masato

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Title: メン☆ドル
Title (English): Mendol
Tagline: イケメンアイドル / Ikemen Idol
Format: Renzoku
Broadcast network: TV Tokyo
Broadcast period: 2008-Oct-10 to 2008-Dec-26

Synopsis

The story revolves around three ordinary girls named Asahi, Nami, and Hinata who are aiming to become idols, but they repeatedly fail in their auditions. One day, they witness a serious crime, and they are forced to flee from the culprits. Fortunately, they are saved by a producer who is willing to let them debut, but they have to hide their true identities and dress up as boys instead. --Tokyograph

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Kojima Haruna as Wakamatsu Asahi / Riku
Takahashi Minami as Kawachi Nami / Kai
Minegishi Minami (峰岸みなみ) as Otawa Hinata / Kuu
Hirota Reona as Saeko
Yingling (垠凌, インリン) as Marilyn
Kawano Naoki as Jiro
Tagawa Yosuke (太川陽介) as Sarukawa Keiji
Takigawa Hanako (多岐川華子) as Rei
Hakuryu (白竜) as the killer

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Title: マイ★ボス マイ★ヒーロー
Title (romaji): My Boss, My Hero
Format: Renzoku
Genre: School drama, comedy
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 18.91
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2006-Jul-08 to 2006-Sept-16
Theme song: Sorafune by TOKIO

Synopsis

Sakaki Makio, also known as "Tornado" is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. By academic standards, he's pretty dumb. His father decides to force Makio to return to high school to receive his diploma and he asks an old friend who happens to be the principal of a nearby school to admit Makio. If Makio doesn't graduate, the position of boss will be given to his younger brother, Mikio.


Furthermore, he must pose as a 17-year-old during school hours and in the presence of any classmates or teachers outside of school. If his cover is blown, it would be the end of his high school career as well as his hopes to become boss. Things start out rough and tough as Makio's violent temper is tested. As the lessons and days go by he learns there is much more to school than just tests and studying.

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Nagase Tomoya as Sakaki Makio
Tegoshi Yuya as Sakurakoji Jun
Tanaka Koki as Manabe Kazuya
Aragaki Yui as Umemura Hikari
Murakawa Eri as Hagiwara Saki
Kikawada Masaya as Sakaki Mikio
Osugi Ren as Kuroi Teruyuki
Ichimura Masachika as Sakaki Kiichi

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Title: 野ブタ。をプロデュース
Title (romaji): Nobuta wo Produce
English Title : Makeover
Format: Renzoku
Genre: School drama
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 16.89
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2005-Oct-15 to 2005-Dec-17
Air time: Saturday 21:00
Theme song: Seishun Amigo by Shuuji to Akira (Kamenashi Kazuya and Yamashita Tomohisa)

Synopsis

Kiritani Shuji is the popular guy who gets along with everyone, from the jerks to the nerds to the just plain weird. The one person Shuji cannot stand is Kusano Akira. To Shuji, Akira is just plain annoying. He laughs, talks and acts funny. Things heat up when a new student comes to school. Her name is Kotani Nobuko, a girl who has no self confidence at all and is content at being made fun of and bullied in school. Shuji and Akira come to an accord that in order to make use of their "youth" they will "produce" Nobuko as the next popular girl. One of the conditions, however, is that nobody should find out that they are working together as a team to make this concept possible. Unveiled here is the story of true friendship between three unlikely candidates who would not have been friends if not given the special circumstances.

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Kamenashi Kazuya as Kiritani Shuji
Yamashita Tomohisa as Kusano Akira
Horikita Maki as Kotani Nobuko
Toda Erika as Uehara Mariko
Ukaji Takashi as Kiritani Satoru
Fukaura Kanako as Kiritani Nobuko
Nakajima Yuto as Kiritani Koji
Okada Yoshinori as Yokoyama Takeshi
Kimura Yuichi as Sebastian
Fuwa Mansaku as Iehara Yasuo
Takuma Seiko (たくませいこ) as Kuroki Hiroko
Imawano Kiyoshiro as owner of the Gooyoku diner
Takahashi Katsumi as Hirayama Ippei
Natsuki Mari as Catherine
Yanagita Erika

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Title: 秘書のカガミ
Title (romaji): Hisho no Kagami
Format: Renzoku
Episodes: 12
Broadcast network: TV Tokyo
Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-11 to 2008-June-27

Synopsis

The story revolves around a temp secretary named Kagami Yu who has no luck with finding a boyfriend. However, her true strength is her sense of justice. She faces off against various problems, such as the sexual harassment caused by her male co-workers and the incompetence of her company's president, who values his mistress more than the company. --Tokyograph

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Yasu Megumi as Kagami Yu
Suzuki Ryohei
Kajihara Zen

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Title: ルーキーズ
Title (English): ROOKIES
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Sports drama
Episodes: 11
Viewership rating: 14.8 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-19 to 2008-Jul-26
Air time: Saturday 20:00
Theme song: Kiseki by GreeeeN

Synopsis

The story revolves around a high school teacher and coach that tries to reform delinquents by having them join the baseball team. --Tokyograph

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Sato Ryuta as Kawato Koichi
Ichihara Hayato as Aniya Keiichi
Koide Keisuke as Mikoshiba Toru
Shirota Yu as Shinjo Kei
Nakao Akiyoshi as Sekikawa Shuta
Takaoka Sousuke as Wakana Tomochika
Kiritani Kenta as Hiratsuka Taira
Sato Takeru as Okada Yuya
Igarashi Shunji as Yufune Tetsuro
Kawamura Yosuke as Hiyama Kiyooki
Onoue Hiroyuki as Imaoka Shinobu
Murakawa Eri as Yagi Toko
Amano Hiroyuki as Kakefu Mitsuhide
Asano Kazuyuki as Ikebe Shunsaku
Fukiishi Kazue as Mayumi Rie
Osugi Ren as Fujimura Akihiro
Ibu Masato as Murayama Yoshio

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Title: ヤスコとケンジ
Title (romaji): Yasuko to Kenji
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 13.0 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2008-Jul-12 to 2008-Sept-20
Air time: Saturday 21:00
Theme song: Amagasa by TOKIO

Synopsis

TOKIO's Masahiro Matsuoka will star in a new NTV drama series called "Yasuko to Kenji." It is based on a comical manga by artist Aruko that was serialized in Bessatsu Margaret between April 2005 and November 2006.

The show focuses on a man named Kenji and his younger sister Yasuko, whose parents died in an accident 10 years earlier. Kenji was once the leader of a gang, but in order to support him and his sister, he began making a living as a shojo mangaka. His character normally wears glasses and appears to be a gentle guy, but he throws off his glasses and reverts to his violent side whenever he tries to protect Yasuko from danger. Part of the story follows Yasuko's romance with an intelligent and good-looking man named Jun Tsubaki. Jun's older sister Erika now runs a flower shop, but Erika was once a leader of a female gang, and she used to be in love with Kenji during those days. --Tokyograph

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Matsuoka Masahiro as Oki Kenji
Hirosue Ryoko as Tsubaki Erika
Tabe Mikako as Oki Yasuko
Yagi Yuki as young Yasuko
Okura Tadayoshi as Tsubaki Jun
Yamaguchi Sayaka as Miyazono Kaori
Uchiyama Shinji as Mosu
Watabe Gota as Ajidasu
Higashi Ayu (東亜優) as Aki
Egashira Yui (江頭由衣) as Chisato
Kojima Haruna as Shingyoji Hiyoko
Nishida Natsumi (西田奈津美) as Rumi
Matsumoto Kana as Ayame
RIKIYA as Aota
HIRO as Akagawa
Shima Daisuke as Shibuya Masaru
Sakurai Atsuko as Hoshikawa Yukiko

Details
Title: ここはグリーン・ウッド
Title (English): Here is Greenwood
Format: Renzoku
Genre: School romance comedy
Episodes: 13
Broadcast network: TOKYO MX
Broadcast period: 2008-Jul-02 to 2008-Sep-24
Theme songs:
Opening theme: Dream Runner by access
Ending theme: naissance by Tomatsu Haruka (戸松 遥)

Synopsis

The story based on the manga of the same name and focuses on the lives of Kazuya Hasukawa and his dorm mates at Ryokuto Academy where they live in a former insane asylum turned dorm, called Greenwood.

Cast
Izawa Yuki (井澤勇貴) as Hasukawa Kazuya
Miura Riki (三浦力) as Ikeda Mitsuru
Sato Yuuichi as Tezuka Shinobu
Suzuki Hiroki as Kisaragi Shun
Okuchi Kengo (大口兼悟) as Hasukawa Kazuhiro
Fukui Yukari (福井裕佳梨) as Hasukawa Sumire
Kato Koki as Fujikake Tatsurou
Kawamoto Ryo (川本稜) as Watanabe Yoshiki
Nakada Yuya as Sakaguchi Hideya
Horie Ryuta (堀江隆太) as Aoki Kunihisa
Ikkei (一慶) as Tochizawa
Saito Ryo (齋藤遼) as Katori
Oka Kazuki (岡和輝) as Kaneda
Aoki Keita (青木啓太) as Habu
Nagao Hiroshi (長尾浩志) as Furusawa Shinichiro
Kyohei (恭平) as Tomaru Yoshitake
Kubo Sho (久保翔) as　Fuse Naoshi
Sakujima Ichiro (佐久嶋 一籠) as Hashimoto
Ogata Ryosuke (緒方涼介) as Tsuji
Kawagishi Ginji (川岸銀次) as Iwashita
Koshida Keisuke (越田圭祐) as Urata