Mariko Kobayashi

Jun is a girl whose words have been sealed away so that she cannot hurt anyone with them. But, one day, she is nominated to become an executive member of the "community outreach council." On top of that, Jun is also appointed to play the main lead in their musical...

Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might strike, everyone has escaped the disaster. She checks her school, but no one is there. She meets her classmate, Fujii, unexpectedly. Fujii asks Mado to find a shelter together. He doesn't want to leave her alone. Both start looking around to see if anyone's left behind: An empty theatre, a movie is still running on the screen. A young girl stands by a desolated pool. A strip show theater with a retired stripper. An old man brushes his shoe in a bowling center continuously. Both guys search everywhere. And finally in the heavy rain, they find shelter in a factory. This is a factory where Mado's father had died in.

Toru, a high schooler, decides to leave his grandmother's home in the mountains and moves in with his aunt. There he meets three sisters at his welcome party. On his way to his new home, he is struck by one of the sisters' beauty. A boy who spent his life quietly like a plant starts to take action on his own.

Daisuke Yuge travaille comme guide touristique à Hawaï et étudie également l'astronomie. Il rencontre Rui Fujishima dans un café et c'est un coup de foudre. Mais Rui Fujishima souffre de pertes de mémoire à la suite d'un accident passé.

La vie paisible de l’intrépide Chihaya prend un tout autre tournant le jour où Arata, un élève fraîchement transféré dans son école lui fait découvrir le Karuta (jeu de cartes traditionnel japonais aux influences littéraires). Mais plus qu’un amour pour le jeu, c’est le fait qu’elle puisse partager ce loisir avec Arata et son ami de toujours, Taichi, qui rend la fillette aussi heureuse. Cependant, le départ de Arata à la fin de l’école primaire créé une blessure auprès des trois amis. Les années passent et Chihaya est aujourd’hui au lycée. Elle retrouve Taichi qu’elle avait perdu de vue au collège. Malheureusement, le temps passe et les gens changent. Taichi n’éprouve plus d’intérêt pour le Karuta mais reste attaché à Chihaya. Alors que Arata n’a plus donné de nouvelles depuis des années, Chihaya prend conscience qu’elle est seule mais compte devenir la numéro un au Karuta pour atteindre le titre de Queen of Karuta…

Third year high schooler Makoto lives in a rural town with his younger sister and his mother who runs a small shop. His childhood friend Shinpei has a crush on classmate Haruka, but realizes Haruka likes Makoto. Then Mizuki comes into their lives.

Sasai Memorial Hospital has a good reputation for its sincere care for patients. However, holding up a strong policy of 'customer first' has put doctors into uneasy circumstance where they have to deal with 'monster patients,' unreasonable complainers. The drama depicts doctors' growth and struggle experienced in the severe situation of the present healthcare industry.

Again we follow a pair of police detectives as they track down offenders with special abilities (SPEC). However, since the events of the previous chapters, MPD Public Security's special division for solving cases involving unknown circumstances (Mishou) no longer exists. Instead, there is now an exclusive special division (Tokumu) as part of the Cabinet Information Research Office that only deals with cases involving SPEC holders led by Nonomura Koutarou's younger brother, Nonomura Koujirou