Hotaru no Hikari 2

Based on a shoujo manga by Satoru Hiura of the same name, this drama continues from the first season. It is about the life of a young office lady named Hotaru, who has no interest in romance, preferring spending her time lazily at home. However, her life changes when circumstances lead her to live under the same roof as her boss.

The first season focused on Hotaru's reawakening to love, while the second will be more about her path towards possible marriage...

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Boku to Kanojo no XXX

Adapted from a manga of similar name, this story revolves around a high school student named Akira Uehara. Contrary to his sensitiveness and demureness, that he has a huge crush on the schools's most feared and violent girl- Nanako Momoi - who appears fragile and cute... until she opens her mouth.
It so happens that one day due to school circumstances, Uehara has to make a trip to Momoi’s house. This is where the true story starts as he meets her mad scientist grandfather and unwillingly becomes the test subject for one of his machines.
Due to a freak accident, Momoi also gets tangled in the experiment and the two end up switching bodies. And to make matters worse, the strain of Momoi being in Uehara’s body breaks the machine, thus causing them to incur a debt of cost 2 milion yen, in order to repair the machine and return them to original selfs. And so begins their adventure into a world full of debts and troubles....
An interesting story for comic relief... watch only if you are bored or want a good laugh...

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Nobuta wo Produce

Kiritani Shuji is a popular guy who gets along with everyone, from the jerks to the nerds to the just plain weird, and lives his school life day by day; treating it all as some sort of game. The only person Shuji cannot stand is Kusano Akira, whom he finds plain annoying due to his funny ways.

Things start to get interesting when a transfer student comes to school. Her name is Kotani Nobuko, a girl with a low self-esteem and is quite used to being made fun of and bullied in school. As circumstances would have it, both Shuji and Akira come to an agreement that in order to make use of their "youth" they will "produce" Nobuko as the next popular girl in school. One of the conditions, being that nobody should find out that they are working together as a team.

And it is here where the adventure and story of these 3 individuals start, where the story of true friendship between three unlikely candidates who would not have been friends if not given the special circumstances is unveiled.

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Hotaru no Hikari

Although Hotaru works for a famous interior design company, her private life is a total opposite of her glamorous job glamorous. She lives alone, and when she isn't working she spends most of her time lazing about her rented house in training wear. She has little interest in men, or anything else as a matter of fact.

Her motto is "I'd rather lay around than fool around". As it turns out one fine day, her landlord's son who just separated from his wife, comes to inspect the rented place, unaware that someone is living there. When he arrives he is shocked at the mess he has entered into, but not as shocked as Hotaru who discovers that her landlord's son is in actual fact... her boss!

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Himitsu no Hanazono

This story revolves around a 28-year old female magazine editor who is tired of work and feels she doesn't have a life. She is starting to feel resigned to this kind of life when she is assigned to be in charge of a very popular cartoonist, Yuriko Hanazono.

But as fate would have it, Yuriko Hanazono is not what she expected her to be. She is met by four men who seem to be Yuriko Hanazono's assistants when she visits the residence/office. It turns out those four men are brothers who form a team using a pen name called Yuriko Hanazono, each having their own roles in creating popular comics.

This is a heartwarming comedy, join the exhausted editor as she may find out the key to be happy while she is being driven crazy by this unique gang of brothers....

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Mop Girl

The story revolves around Hasegawa Momoko, who due to an accident was given some special ability – the ability to go back in time to save people from death. Her dormant special ability manifested itself when she blundered on her dream job as a wedding coordinator. As a result, she was transferred to a special cleaning department – doing undertaking jobs: funeral ceremonies, handling dead bodies and cleaning up blood pool of death crime scenes. Although she is a hardworking individual, she is naïve and can get clumsy at times, adding to the comical relief for the series. She also has an obsession with muscles, lots of it.

On her first day of work in the new department, that special ability that hidden inside her was awakened - able to travel back in time (usually the day before the death occurs) when she comes in contact with items belonging to the deceased. As a result, she is able to somehow change the future of those people, saving them in the process.

Although the show is entertaining and comical at times, it gets repetitive after the first 3 episodes. She encounters dead person, gets to know more about them, comes into contact with the deceased items and gets thrown back in time to save them from imminent death. The déjà vu thing gets tiring after a while, but still a good watch if you want to pass time.

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Attention Please

Having lost her mother at a young age and due to being raised by her three brothers, Misaki Yoko is a slightly tomboyish girl who is stubborn and straight-forward. Due to her upbringing, she prefers the company of boys over girls, resulting in her not really having a feminine side. She starts a band with 4 guy friends, becoming the band’s lead singer.As time passes by, she develops feelings for one of her friends, Tsukasa. However, one day Tsukasa has to leave town and subsequently the band as well, as he found a banking job in Tokyo. Tsukasa's impending departure is the catalyst for the band getting dissolved.

On the day of Tsukasa departure, although Yoko is unable to tell Tsukasa how she feels about him and is feeling upset, she puts a strong front and joins the rest to see Tsukasa off at the airport. When a group of air stewardesses pass by, the guys get excited and Yoko is clueless why they react that way. She reminds them that even she could wear the uniform, but the guys just laugh it away, not taking her seriously. That’s when Tsukasa comments that he wonders how she would look like in that uniform. This one phrase from Tsukasa inspires Yoko to work as an air stewardess.

And so she embarks on her adventure to attain her goal, meeting new friends and enemies, getting into sticky situations and was even on the verge of giving up her dream to be an air stewardess. Along the way, her reasons for doing so shifts to something more realistic and practical, and she starts to mature – developing into a better individual suited to be an air stewardess.

A pretty engaging story about the ups and downs of life, and the maturing of a character, with a tinge of funny, sweet and sad moments as well.

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Nodame Cantabile

This light-hearted quirky romantic drama is about the story of two totally different characters in the world of classical music, based on the manga by Tomoko Ninomiya. It has its moments of outlandishness, but the storyline is engaging as well as enjoyable, having its comical and moving moments. A definite must watch!

Megumi Noda, or known throughout the drama as “Nodame”, is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music in Japan: an extremely talented pianist who aspires to be a kindergarten teacher. She is a messy and disorganized individual who takes baths several days apart and loves to eat, sometimes even resorting to stealing her friend’s lunchboxes, especially when it is filled with delicacies. She is bad at reading music scores, but has excellent hearing, preferring to play by ear rather than reading the music score.

Shinichi Chiaki on the other hand, is Momogaoka’s top student. Born into a musical family, he is talented in both the piano and violin and has a secret ambition of becoming a conductor one day. He is an arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist who lived abroad in the music capitals of the world when he was young; however he is unable to leave Japan due to childhood phobia.

These two polar opposites meet by accident and sparks start to fly. Nodame falls in love with Chiaki at first sight; nevertheless it takes much longer for Chiaki to appreciate Nodame’s unusual qualities. Their relationship and interaction causes them both to develop and grow as individuals and musicians. In the due events of their meeting, Chiaki transfers into the Conductor Division, leads a student orchestra and begins to have a greater appreciation of people's musical abilities. And Nodame manages to face her fears, entering in a piano competition. As the story progresses, opportunities start to open up as both begin taking risks - progressing far more than they ever thought possible.

The storyline is engaging and there never is a boring moment in this series. You get to know a little bit more of the world of classical music too. It's worth the watch if you want a good laugh, or an unconventional love story. It has a proportionate focus on the different characters and classical music.

Episode Guide

• Episode 1

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