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- StarsTakayuki YamadaHaruka KinamiTsuyoshi MuroThe Hero Yoshihiko returns with his three companions to find a mystic key that seals away monsters.
- StarsYutaka TakenouchiBakarhythmNao MinamisawaEdawakare is the driver of Sen Taxi. His taxi is able to take passengers back to the past to a time they request.
- StarsShun'ya ShiraishiJunki TozukaYûko TakayamaPhantoms appear and attack the human because they create New-Phantoms from hopeless human minds. Haruto Souma uses magic rings to turn into a Kamen Rider Wizard, and fights against Phantoms. Why did he undertake his fate?
- StarsKen'ichi EndôMasaki SudaYuika MotokariyaOne day, the current prime minister of Japan, Muto Taizan, and his useless son, Sho, suddenly discover that they have switched bodies. With no known cause or solution at hand, Sho reluctantly ends up appearing in the Diet on his father's behalf. But he completely cannot follow the deliberations as well as the questions and answers because it has been his routine to skip his studies. He is also repeatedly caught making childish responses or misreading kanji in documents. However, untainted by the adult world, Sho's straightforward opinions and genuine feelings start to mobilise the Diet and the public. On the other hand, Taizan has to lead the life of a university student and search for a job on behalf of his son, but with the brains of a prime minister. He refutes arrogant interviewers with his overwhelming knowledge and debating skills. Although Taizan wins the war of words, he is an absolute failure in the interviews itself. Furthermore, several peculiar girls whom Sho has had relationships with appear and makes Taizan more bewildered.
- StarsRyôta OzawaYuki YamadaMao IchimichiThe five space Pirates come to earth looking for the greater powers of the 34 super Squadron.
- StarsTôri MatsuzakaHiroki AibaShôgo SuzukiFor eighteen generations, samurai of the Shiba Clan have suppressed the evil intentions of the Gedoushu, malevolent spirits that enter the world of the living from gaps between buildings and other structures. Now, Takeru Shiba, the youngest head of the Shiba Clan must gather his four vassals in order to battle the Gedoushu under the revived Doukoku Chimatsuri as the Shinkengers.
- StarsKento YamazakiMackenyuMasaki SudaA man's past has made him detest love and human relationships. He has become single-mindedly materialistic and greedy for power. This jerk is faced with a woman who literally possesses a kiss of death that yanks him back to the past again and again. What will he do now?
- StarsGaku SanoSeiji HiratokoHôchû ÔtsukaYggdrasill Corporation transformed Zawame City into a feudal-like city. To escape the city authority, many of the youth formed dance crews along with the rising of a game that uses the mysterious Lockseeds that can summon Inves monsters.
- StarsRio SuzukiYûta KishiKaito MiyachikaMkiko (Rio Suzuki) is an elementary school student. Her family is poor. To get her ideal older brother, she turns the handle of a gacha (toy vending machine).
- CreatorNahoko UehashiStarsHaruka AyaseMasahiro HigashideFumino KimuraA mysterious spear-wielding woman named Balsa arrives in the New Yogo Kingdom. After saving Prince Chagum from a thinly veiled assassination attempt, ordered by his own father, Balsa is tasked to protect him from his father.
- StarsYûta TamamoriMitsuhiro OikawaMirai ShidaFrench chef Ken (Yuta Tamamori) travels back in time to the Sengoku period. Due to travelling through the timeslip, Ken has lost his memory, but still retains his knowledge on fine cuisine. Thanks to his excellence in cuisine, Ken eventually becomes the chef to powerful daimyo Nobunaga Oda (Mitsuhiro Oikawa).
- StarsTakayuki YamadaHaruka KinamiTsuyoshi MuroA pure young man named Yoshihiko becomes chosen as a hero, and he sets out on a journey in order to save a village from a mysterious plague.
- CreatorNaoko TakeuchiStarsJun MasuoMiyû SawaiRika IzumiLive-action series which is an original re-telling of the original Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon manga and anime series.
- StarsSatoshi OhnoMirei KiritaniMasaki SudaShinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would appear with the signature phrase "Congratulations. I'm here to call on you" although it is hard to say how this can be a happy occasion, and watch over the dying. To a grim reaper, persuading people attempting to commit suicide and preventing unforeseen deaths is also an important task. But because #413 is new to this grim reaper work, he has a tendency to lean towards humans in his judgments, break the rules of the nether world and get reprimanded by his superior.
- StarsMirei KiritaniKeiko MatsuzakaMitsuhiro OikawaAn overworked 65-year-old woman who is given the chance to re-experience her youth when she's turned 20 again.
- StarsKeiko KitagawaNatsunaSôsuke TakaokaMomoko has just started a new job at a company that offers funeral services and cleans up after crime scenes when she discovers she has an amazing supernatural power. When she touches an item belonging to someone recently deceased, she travels back in time and has a chance to save that person from their untimely death.
- StarsKazuya KamenashiFumino KimuraShinnosuke MitsushimaMakoto Masaki and Haruko Kogetsu are both single and they have passed each other since they were children, yet they are not aware of each other at all. One day, a man introduces himself as God who tells about their destined soul mate.
- StarsTaishi NakagawaMaika YamamotoNaomi AkimotoGirl magically shrinks to a 15 cm (6") height and hides out in her former childhood sweetheart's bedroom, both hoping for her return to normal.
- StarsHaruma MiuraYu ShirotaAnne WatanabeMochizuki Kotaro is a mild-mannered, unmanly high school student. One day, he visits a library and meets the mysterious librarian Himiko, who recommends to him an ancient book about a heroic general from the Sengoku period 400 years ago. Kotaro notices that he has the same name and age as the general described in the book, and he experiences a flashback - Kotaro later mentions the book to his father, who tells him that he may be the descendant of a powerful samurai. At that moment, Kotaro receives a message from his childhood friend Ai telling him that their classmate Nakamura Tsuyoshi is in trouble. He rushes to the scene but doesn't have the guts to help, until another flashback transforms him into a samurai.
- StarsTomohisa YamashitaMasami NagasawaNana EikuraThis is a romantic comedy in which a young man who missed a chance to confess his love, is given a second chance and struggles to undo the past and win the heart of the woman on the day she is getting married to someone else.
- StarsMika HijiiRyosei KonishiAnri OkamotoGaro focuses on Kouga Saezima, the current possessor of the title, Golden Knight Garo, who protects humanity against dark demonic infestations called Horrors. One day he meets a young girl named Kaoru whom he saves from a horror, but gets stained with horror's blood. The makai knights have the rule that those that have been stained by the blood of a horror shall be executed before experiencing a painful death after approximately 100 days.
- StarsTae KimuraJun MihoIkki SawamuraAme Sakurai is in junior high and lives with her father, who is a butterfly collector in search of the Troides Magellunus. One fateful day, he decided to take a trip to Taiwan in hopes of catching the elusive specimen. Unfortunately, something goes wrong and Ame is left with only memories of Father. Memories that seem to have allowed him to return as a spirit guide for Ame.
- StarsMirei KiritaniMokomichi HayamiMizuki YamamotoMeisuke Nueno (Ryuhei Maruyama) is the homeroom teacher of a 2nd grade 3 class in high school. He is referred to as Nube. He sometimes carries himself as an idiot, but he does care about his students a lot. He also has a hidden side. Meisuke Nueno has a demon's hand. He solves monstrous case and fights desperately to save students from monsters.
- StarsSaki FukudaTakahiro NishijimaAyame MisakiA 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.
- StarsKuranosuke SasakiAsami MizukawaHaruRyuzaki Shinji who possesses a "God Hand", the power to heal wounds and illnesses just by touching the patient, is in fact a dark introvert who does not reveal his true self to others. Aoi Ryosuke who possesses the "Demon's Hand", the power to kill a person just by touching him, is as kind and pure as an angel. When the demon meets the God, a fatal battle begins... Detective Hasebe Nagisa gets caught by the criminals during a deep cover operation. Ryosuke, a man she does not even know comes to save her and she witnesses his "Demon's Hand" in action. Thereafter she discovers by coincidence the existence of Shinji's "God Hand" and brings the two together. Little did she know that this would cause great disorder to the world and even to her own life.
- StarsSôta FukushiTao TsuchiyaRyohei SuzukiWhat's this bizarre part-time job? Helping spirits cross over to the other side.
- StarsRyô NishikidoKana KurashinaYuri ChinenAbe no Shomei starts working as a fortune-teller in a quiet part of a town. Although he doesn't have real fortune-telling abilities he manages to help his customers and solve their problems. He is a mysterious man with a secret agenda.
- StarsShingo KatoriAnne WatanabeAtsuko MaedaTeacher Akira Kamiyama tried to stop a bullying case and the bullying became his own trauma. Since then, Akira has decided to not get involved if its not absolutely necessary. He then begins teaching at a middle school and moves into a new apartment. Akira then discovers that his apartment also houses a ghost named Akane, who was a teacher before she died. Akira Kamiyama and Akane then solve problems which the middle school students have.
- CreatorTomoko HayakawaStarsKazuya KamenashiTatsuomi HamadaAya OhmasaFour guys try to turn a wallflower girl into a popular girl.
- StarsKeiko KitagawaGacktYûka"In this world of uncertainty, would we be happier if we could predict the future...?" What would you do if all of your dreams had a way of coming true...including nightmares? Beautiful and young, Ayami has a solid reputation as a dedicated and reliable elementary teacher, but her true character is solely clandestine. Ayami does not believe in love and trust, and her values make her oblivious to other peoples matters. Almost devious, she is always scheming so she never has to deal with responsibility and troubles that spur around her. One day, a new student Yuiko enrolls in her home-room class. It does not take long for Ayami to find out that Yuiko has an ability to predict the future through the dreams she sees in her sleep; dreams which are symbolic and require proper interpretation to understand the upcoming occurrences. But when Yuiko begins to have nightmares of people around them, Ayami, though unwillingly, must team up with Yuiko to try to change the tragic fate of those around them... But can they properly assess what Yuikos nightmares truly mean and change what may already be destined? Akumu-chan is a family drama enjoyable from kids to adults, packed with excitement and fun fantastic visuals with a pinch of humor that shows how Ayami learns the true meaning of life. Each episode will transport the viewer to a bizarre and seemingly paranormal dream world that is a fantasy-filled treat to the eye and an oneirocritical ride for the mind! --NTV
- StarsAlan AbeNanase NishinoYûta JingûjiDan is a first year high school student. He isn't so good with his studies or sports. He spends most of his free time at home. One day, his father's spirit enters Dan's body. His father originally died in an accident. It just so happen's his father is the type that excels at everything and now Dan possesses the same gift. He starts to play well in basketball and begins to date a popular girl at school. Dan also becomes popular among his classmates. His school life is just going amazingly well. Because of his change in personality, the other students are surprised by him, but they become influenced by his adult like point of view. Soon, his friends realize the secret of his change.
- CreatorClampStarsAnne WatanabeShôta SometaniKaren MiyazakiKimihiro Watanuki high school pupil and loner has a secret, he can see ghosts, a gift or curse he could well do without. One day he is drawn to the house of Yuko ichihara, a self styled dimensional witch who offers to cure him in return for an unspecified length of service as her house boy. Watanuki and his friends are slowly drawn into a world of ghosts, God and demons and an unending battle between the forces of positivity and the darkness.
- CreatorClampStarsAnne WatanabeShôta SometaniKaren MiyazakiKimihiro Watanuki high school pupil and loner has a secret, he can see ghosts, a gift or curse he could well do without. One day he is drawn to the house of Yuko ichihara, a self styled dimensional witch who offers to cure him in return for an unspecified length of service as her house boy. Watanuki and his friends are slowly drawn into a world of ghosts, God and demons and an unending battle between the forces of positivity and the darkness.
- StarsYûma NakayamaRosa KatôShôta SometaniRuka has yet to mature into a full-fledged vampire. His canines have yet to fully develop, which means he still hasn't tasted human blood - or, at least, human blood that he's drawn himself. In order to get him prepared, he is cast down into the world of humans, where he boards with Jiro, the owner of a Chinese restaurant, and enrolls in high school. His homeroom teacher is a cheerful, though meddlesome, young woman who catches the fledgling bloodsucker off-guard. Is he actually falling in love with a mortal?
- CreatorKiminori WakasugiStarsShôta SometaniKahoErina ManoIt happens that many inhabitants of Oita Prefecture in southern Japan have extrasensory powers. One student can read others' minds. he is not alone, however, and soon bands with others, who are both from the area and one who has moved there from Tokyo, to put their powers to use.
- StarsAi YoshikawaShôko HamadaTakeru SatohAnimal familiar Daniel was assigned to the most unusual of the Grim Reapers, Momo. Instead of the traditional black robe of the grim reapers, Momo wears all white. Instead of being cold and dispassionate towards her charges, she cries for their plight. These are stories of those who they are charged to reap.
- CreatorTsutomu TakahashiStarsYumiko ShakuLeo MorimotoMiho Miyazawa"The Gate of Rancor" is where people who had died of unexpected accidents or were murdered return to visit as spirits. The victims who had suffered violent deaths are approached by Izuko, a beautiful gatekeeper, to make the ultimate choice. Unlike deaths due to illness or old age that come after one had lived his or her life fully, people who had died of unexpected accidents or who were murdered become spirits and visit the Gate of Rancor. A beautiful gatekeeper Izuko awaits the spirits and approaches the victims to choose between three options. (1) Accept their death, go to heaven and resurrect, (2) Refuse to accept their death and wander through this world, or (3) Curse a person of this world to death and go to hell. Victims who are unable to make up their minds return to this world. They begin seeing things they could not see while they were alive, such a love, hatred, change of people's hearts. They witness the other side of their lives they were unaware of while they lived. And what sort of decisions will they make after going through such an experience? Beyond their ultimate decision lies the true salvation of their souls. "Sky High" is a drama that asks the viewers, through dead persons' perspectives, what the value of life really is.
- StarsJuri UenoYô ÔizumiSeiji Rokkaku"Loss:Time:Life" is a Japanese TV drama series in which some of the characters are about to die. The characters then tackle the difficult question, "If there is something i could do right before i die, what would i do?"
- StarsYû YamadaNobuaki KanekoMasanobu KatsumuraOne day, struggling model Kurusu Reina (Yamada Yu) suddenly has the special vision to see images of murderers come to her mind. Asano Kazama (Kaneko Nobuaki), a First Investigative Division detective pushed into temporary suspension because of a case, unluckily meets Reina. He makes use her special ability to solve difficult cases.