Ishikawa Tsubame and Sakamoto Marin are first-year students at a university for aspiring navigators. The two girls join a month-long practical training aboard a vessel for their first test as freshmen in an environment where 80% are boys. They have to cope with the gruelling training and unimaginable seasickness as they struggle together with the male students.
Sayo is a career woman who believes that if you work hard, anything is within reach.Miharu is a nurse who has been in a too-long relationship as her hopes of marriage diminish.Miwa works at a credit union and has a hard time turning down men’s advances and suffers from low self-esteem.Akane is a secretary with a beauty everyone notices and an elegance that makes her unattainable, yet there’s also a sadness about her.Four ladies with different views of love, all looking for a husband, end up going to a matchmaking party together.Four ladies, all at a critical moment in their lives, get real, as their spouse-hunting love story unfolds!Engaging in spouse-hunting parties and dating apps, they try to find their match but things don’t work out.At times they find themselves involved with a married man and at other times, they becomefriends with benefits...Will these four ladies ever find happiness?
Yamada Fumiko, nicknamed Bun, is a poor university student who lives alone in Kita Senju, Tokyo with her talking soft toy Hokusai. A shy person and a day dreamer, Bun makes the people around her happy with imaginative, delicious food that takes little effort.
Akane is a popular and beautiful male idol with the voice of an angel. He is scheduled to join the project group "Stellar Crowns". Stars including actors, idols and other are to join the project group, but Akane suddenly goes missing. One day, a mysterious letter arrives at Akane's management company office. According to the paper, Akane is alive and the person responsible for his disappearance is a member of Stellar Crowns. The president of the agency decides to put all members of Stellar Crowns living under the same roof, under the pretext of shooting a documentary on the group in order to find the culprit. What is real? What is fake?
Daitetsujin 17 is a 1977 tokusatsu series created by Shotaro Ishinomori and produced by Toei. It revolves around a giant battle robot commanded by a young boy who fights the giant robots of an evil organization bent on world conquest. It is similar to Giant Robo in premise and how it ends.
High school girl Shimoshiraishi Mugi, a former idol otaku is about to graduate high school but still is undecided in her career path. Her grandfather, who was the chief priest of a temple, passes away, and during the funeral, she discovers he had left behind considerable debt. There she also meets her childhood friend Isono Shuu, who had studied at a Buddhist University and is a qualified monk. Mugi, who doesn’t want to let go fully of her grandfather’s temple accepts Shuu’s proposal to become chief priest, and the two work together to rebuild the temple.
The School of Water Business is a manga series created by Shinobu Inokuma, the author of Salad Days. It is based on a novel by Hikaru Murozumi, and is set in a fictional trade-school—that focuses on the mizu shōbai—located in the Kabukichō district of Shinjuku, Tokyo.
The school's focus is to give students their last chance in the school system. Classes are divided into occupations such as hostesses, hosts, "managers", "geibaa" and, finally, "soapgirls". The series is mostly a romantic comedy but also mixes in many positive messages about life, work, friendship, and other topics.
The series has a sequel, 都立水商!2, with one volume published as of March 2012. Oda Mari, now a teacher at the high school, replaces Keisuke Tanabe as the focus character.
A love story between a 24-year-old office worker who has neither love experience nor communication skills and a 32-year-old female shōgi player he meets on his daily commute.
Tokyo Seimenjo is a udon franchise restaurant with the motto "Quick, cheap, and delicious." The restaurant has a lot of regular customers, but their manager has been on maternity leave for the past two months and a reliable staff member has just quit. The four other staff members, Haruto Aoi, Yoshio Midorikawa, Rin Momota, and Setsuko Kimoto, feel uneasy about the situation. At that time, 27-year-old Kotarō Akamatsu is sent to the restaurant as the new manager. He previously worked for a hotel, which is the parent company of Tokyo Seimenjo. Kotarō Akamatsu assures the staff that he knows how things work at a restaurant, but he works there like he is still working at a hotel. He is overly polite to the customers and he seems very nervous while working. The staff members become embarrassed.
Mitsu became a college student while dragging along the trauma of her first boyfriend and a broken heart in her years back in junior high school. She was thinking about going to college and finding a new love, but the person in the room next to hers is Kaede, her ex-boyfriend! It had been 5 years and he has become sophisticated and grown-up, but his gentle smile has not changed. Mitsu wants to forget her old love and enjoy university life, but she finds herself trapped between her grown-up ex-boyfriend and her best friend.
Cats who are always free. But what if, behind the scenes, they are protecting the peace of the town? To put it too much, what if they themselves had a sense of mission that they were protecting the peace of the town?
Cats that swiftly leave the owner's house and gather at the base. Their name is the cat squadron "Bitatama". The town is still confused, and it is still protected today from the hands of the evil spirits of the evil organization “Matatavi Dan” who plans to conquer the world.
A shaved-headed boy named "Igaguri," his partner "Dog," and various other creatures appear in each episode. Welcome to the mysterious and pleasant world of "Ikimono-san"!
"Married at 26" "First child at 27" "Second child at 29"... She always just assumed that's the way things would go... 28-year-old Kawai Yoshiko is still single. She has a broken heart a few days before her 29th birthday. On the way home, she runs into her colleague, Yuuki-san. Yoshiko cannnot help telling him about what happened just before. Then Yuuki-san suddenly offers Yoshiko to get married with him a year later only if...
Miyanaga Saki, a first-year student at Kiyosumi High School, lacks enthusiasm for mahjong and plays it so that it will end with neither a win nor a loss. One day, she is influenced by Haramura Nodoka’s genius mahjong tactics and decides to join the mahjong club. Nodoka is the titleholder of the national junior high school mahjong tournament. Together with Nodoka and the other club members, Saki contends for the title against formidable opponents.