Yuu Matsuo
Ryota Tanaka, a young man who was struggling to become a manga artist in Tokyo, came back to his hometown in Fukuoka, feeling the limits of his dream. It was a part-time job at the local life extension zoo that introduced Ryota, who was in the old friend's room, without relying on his parents' home. While working with the director Noda and veterinarian Aya Ishii, Ryota knew that this is a rare zoo in the world that puts emphasis on “animal welfare” that puts animal health and happiness first. However, the management of the garden is in a critical situation due to the budget reduction, and Ryota decides to draw a comic again to convey this effort with her own picture...
A former pro-baseball player finds his passion again in Keirin, a professional bicycle racing sport.
Five stories of romance, farewells, bitter love and stolen kisses...
Yoko Taniguchi
Three female idols appear on a television show to investigate an exorcism. An exorcist with psychic powers named Unsui claims that the show’s subjects, the Kaneda family, are cursed by a demon that’s too powerful for him to banish on his own, so he calls in a fellow exorcist to help. Soon, a reckless ghost hunter enters the fray as the three idols witness a series of terrifying events.
Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s accidental death, which marks the start of a personal recovery that mirrors the town’s for Shiori as well as forgiveness of surviving coworker Takumi.
Nozomi é a boneca inflável de um cara muito solitário, que a trata como se fosse uma mulher de verdade. Dá banho, leva para passear e ensina os nomes das constelações; até que um dia Nozomi realmente toma consciência, e começa a sair de casa enquanto seu dono está trabalhando. Ao conhecer um balconista de uma locadora a boneca vai descobrir que tem também um coração, e começará a ser difícil cumprir seu papel de "substituta para o desejo sexual".
Mie
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
A cadre of backup dancers is left astray when their star singer moves on with her life and marriage. They each had their own ambition and hope, which subconsciously rested on the star power of the singer. When plan A does not work, they cling to plan B. When that does not work, in an act of desperation, they are assigned to plan C by their agency. A fight and unprofessionalism seems to put the Backdancers on permanent ice.
Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are the same as in their own world, but their parents are missing from home and are only contactable when using one particular phonecard.
Beat Takeshi leva a vida ocupada, e por vezes surreal, de uma celebridade do mundo do espetáculo. Mas o seu sósia loiro chamado Kitano, caixa numa loja de conveniência, ainda é um actor desconhecido à espera de uma oportunidade. Após cruzar-se acidentalmente com Beat, Kitano mergulha num estado de fantasia pontuado por aspectos da vida real e das suas personagens que Beat desempenhou...
Mean Housewife at Park
A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.