40+ New Japanese Dramas Out in Autumn 2026 You Can’t Miss!

Fifteen years ago, “The Bat” was a serial killer who terrorised Japan. Their crimes had a very clear signature: they left black flower petals with the victims’ bodies. Despite the police’s efforts, the killer’s identity, motives, or any connection between victims were never discovered, and The Bat simply disappeared without a trace, leaving the case unsolved.

Almost two decades later, Ando Kaede (Nimura Sawa) is a criminal psychologist, and her younger brother, Okuzawa Yukiji (Sato Taiki), is a detective. Their parents were two of The Bat’s victims, a crime that also involved keeping Kaede in captivity for six months. When a new murder is linked to The Bat, Kaede and Yukiji become determined to find the truth and bring The Bat to justice.

Even though Motoi (Komagine Kiita), Yui (Shiono Akihisa), and On (Koshiyama Keitatsu) now live separate lives, they will reunite in their beloved village. This original story was created with Tanaka Ai’s oversight and approval.

Based on Tanaka Ai’s manga series of the same name.

When Tsukihashi Kazushi (Ali) proposed to his beloved girlfriend Kurumiya Haruka (Hasegawa Kasumi), he was thrilled to hear a “yes”. As they start to prepare for their wedding, Kazushi and Haruka head to her family home for a visit. That’s when he meets Haruka’s younger sister, Yuki (Takano Mao).

That night, Kazushi stays over and spends the night in the living room. At some point, he feels someone join him. Believing it to be Haruka, he eagerly embraces her — just to realise it’s actually Yuki, who turns out to be a lot more mischievous than he initially thought.

Adapted from Megi’s web manga of the same name.

Shoemaker and salesperson Sabasaki Ryo (Matsuda Genta) is a carefree player: he approaches any woman who catches his eye, whether or not they might already be taken. While in a sort of “friends-with-benefits” relationship with his dentist, Tsutsui Momo (Kato Rosa), he takes an interest in Momo’s friend, Hotta Kyoko (Osawa Akane). As their lives become ever more entangled in a web of desire, Ryo might find himself in a much trickier spot than he imagines.

Adapted from Ekuni Kaori’s novel of the same name.

Thirty-year-old Shimizu Mugi (Saito Asuka) used to be a fashion magazine editor. But fate hasn’t been kind to her lately: she’s lost her career, dreams, and relationship. She then meets Yoneda Mame (Tomita Miu), a twenty-three-year-old struggling to attract customers to the izakaya she inherited from her grandparents.

They realise that by combining Mugi’s experience as an editor and Mame’s stellar culinary skills, they can transform the izakaya into a successful business. The time Mugi, Mame, and their patrons spend together opens their eyes to different ways they can rebuild their own lives into much happier existences.

Adapted from Taniguchi Natsuko’s web manga series of the same name.

Eighteen-year-old Matsuoka Hayato (Sano Masaya) dreams of becoming a manzai comedian. His passion is so contagious that it soon pulls his classmate Tanimoto Ryo (Santoki Soma) into Hayato’s manzai orbit despite his stutter. They then form a comedy duo with a very clear goal in mind: winning the National Student Comedy Competition.

After being fired from a prestigious restaurant, chef Mizuhashi Eiji (Kitamura Yukiya) finds work at a nursing home. That’s where he crosses paths with Osawa Kana (Non), a young woman grieving the death of her grandfather and the closure of his beloved Western-style restaurant.

Crushed by her loss, Kana’s grandmother Tomoko (Kaga Mariko) has lost her appetite and will to live. But after Tomoko moves into the nursing home and starts eating Eiji’s food, Kana is surprised to see her grandmother gradually restore her appetite and spirits.

Tomoko believes that one of Eiji’s dishes tastes impossibly similar to her late husband’s signature recipe. In order to find the reason behind the similarity, Kana and Tomoko go to Eiji with a proposal that might help them preserve the legacy of the Osawa restaurant and move on from their deep sorrows.

Forty-year-old Tamura Uzume (Imoto Ayako) once dreamt of becoming an actress. At the age of 28, an incident put an end to her dream, and she retreated into her family home, where she has spent the last twelve years. Unmarried, unemployed, and without any contact with the outside world, Uzume merely survives one day after the other.

Her mother, Sakiko (Ichige Yoshie), can’t bear to see Uzume live such a lonely, isolated life. She then hires Korogi (Shirasu Jin), a handyman, to clean her daughter’s room in hopes that it will bring some sort of change into her daughter’s life. To her surprise, Korogi recognises Uzume from her child actress days and offers her a job as a stand-in: her assignments include pretending to be someone’s lover or someone’s “secret child”. Despite the peculiar nature of her duties, working for Korogi allows Uzume to interact with the world again.

Adapted from Tendo Kirin’s web manga series of the same name.

According to Nippon TV,

Freelance journalist Tsukura (Fukushi Sota) loses his beloved partner, Sana (Shida Sara), in a bombing incident, only to find himself falsely accused by the government as the terrorist mastermind behind the attack. Desperate and hiding out in South Korea, he receives the impossible: a call from Sana.

Is she alive, or is she someone else entirely?

In this game of escape and pursuit, Tsukura flees the authorities while hunting for his mysterious lover. Every character harbors a hidden identity, and every betrayal brings him closer to a shocking truth.

“Run to pursue your lover and the truth!” It’s a heart-pounding love mystery where romance, deception, and an extreme chase collide.

Tarayama Kiko (Hara Nanoka) is an 18-year-old university student best known as “Angry Kiko-chan”. Years earlier, Kiko stopped going to elementary school, which worried her father, Ryota (Tsutsumi Shinichi). He then decided to record short videos of her and post them on “You-Tune” in hopes of making her smile. One of these videos went viral unexpectedly, turning her into an internet meme widely recognised around the country.

Now, as a young woman, Kiko feels burdened by the internet fame she never asked for: her parents constantly need online validation, she has little to no privacy, and her everyday existence feels like a constant and exhausting performance. Even though she has lost track of who she truly wants to be, Kiko puts up with it all out of fear of hurting her beloved father.

However, when her father tries to turn a personal incident into content for their “You-Tune” channel, their relationship falls apart. Kiko then decides to put an end to her content creator “career” and starts living life on her own terms.

Kionaka Masaki (Mukai Osamu) is a medical representative (MR) and the manager of the third sales office at Tenpo Pharmaceuticals. While working to secure the success of the company’s groundbreaking new drugs, Masaki engages in fierce competition with a rival multinational pharmaceutical company that is going to place his work under intense scrutiny just to stop it from reaching the general public.

Meanwhile, Tenpo Pharmaceutical is also facing problems with its other drugs, which might be linked to fatal side effects. As the company faces the threat of a major pharmaceutical liability lawsuit, Masaki and his colleagues at Tenpo have to decide who medicine should truly serve and what its purpose should really be.

Adapted from Kusakabe Yo’s novel of the same name.

Hayama Ao (Chinen Hidekazu) comfortably stands at the top of his class, well known for his academic and athletic prowess. Ao has been close friends with Yamamura Midori (Kusakawa Naoya) since high school, and their relationship, full of affection and care, has been stuck in mutual, unrequited love for years. As they break free from what society deems “normal” and embrace what truly makes them happy, they grow closer and closer.

Adapted from Roji’s manga series of the same name.

Former child actress Ayukawa Honami (Asahi Nao) is now happily married and the proud mother of little Miyu. One day, Honami agrees to let Miyu debut as a child actress, an idea suggested by her husband Renya (Inukai Atsuhiro), who is the head of a famous talent agency.

However, during the filming of a commercial with popular actress Izumi Maika (Shinkawa Yua), Miyu suffers a strange accident that leaves her in critical condition. Also present at the scene was actor Wakui Subaru (Tokito Yuki), Honami’s long-time friend, who tells the desperate Honami that Miyu got hurt because of “her husband’s affair”.

Determined to uncover the truth, Honami decides to make her comeback as a star actress. Is revenge on the cards? If so, Honami isn’t scared of dragging the entire entertainment industry down to avenge her beloved daughter.

Adapted from Akaishi Mana’s web manga series of the same name.

A wave of simultaneous abductions paralyse seven of the major Asian cities — Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok, Naha, and Manila — and brings together seven victims of completely different nationalities, backgrounds, and faiths. Their families then receive an email: “How far are you willing to go to save your loved one? Only one can be saved.” This is the “kiDnap GAME”, a survival competition orchestrated by a twisted criminal who gives each “contestant” a set of missions they need to complete before anyone else. But why these people? Why now? What do they gain from all of this?

Sakaguchi Kentaro and Lee Joon-gi are leading the series.

This is a co-production with Hong Kong and South Korea.

Depending on your region, Kidnap Game will be available on Viu, FOD, TVer, Disney+, and Hami Video.

Nozaki Michiru (Ihara Rikka) is a talented baking instructor who became very popular on social media. Now that she’s even published her own book and her husband, Kento (Mikata Ryosuke), is also succeeding in his own career, Michiru believes that she’s living her dream life.

However, right after she finds out that Kento is having an affair with his assistant, Sugimoto Kanae (Teramoto Rio), Michiru meets an untimely death.

To her surprise, she opens her eyes to find herself two years in the past, just before Kento proposed and long before she even developed her famous recipes. She decides to rewrite her life, and as she reencounters cooking instructor Ino Yugo (Shimekake Ryuya), she’s inspired to go much further than she ever has.

Adapted from Akao Deko and Minami no Ha’s web manga series of the same name.

After Lee Yu-bin’s (Ji Chang-wook) career as a spatial designer in South Korea goes awry, he decides to start over on a remote Japanese island. There, he meets Shirahama Karin (Imada Mio), a strawberry farmer battling a mysterious illness. Despite their differences, Yu-bin and Karin inspire each other to see their own lives in a completely new light.

This is a co-production with South Korea.

Merry Berry Love will be available internationally on Disney+.

Set in the fictional country of Nipponia, Kisaragi Yayoi (Ishihara Satomi) is a phantom thief who decides to steal illicit political funds. To reach the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, she’ll have to outsmart an elite ruling-party politician who works as the party’s treasurer.

Shirai Sakura (Yoda Yuuki) works at the city hall. She has a huge crush on her senior colleague, Watanuki Keisuke (Nomura Shuhei). One night, Keisuke ends up at her home, where they connect both physically and emotionally — or so she thought.

Ever since that night, Keisuke has made himself unavailable to Sakura: he ignores her messages and pretends she doesn’t exist at work. When she finally manages to talk to him, he coldly tells her that “they should keep their distance”. Even though she’s heartbroken, Sakura can’t bring herself to hate him. That’s when she finds a mysterious doll, the “Fairy of Love”, who offers Sakura a rigorous romance boot camp to help her become Keisuke’s one true love.

Adapted from Zaku Zakuro’s manga series of the same name.

Ever since the mysterious death of his beloved wife, former actor Mito Yusuke (Asaka Kodai) has spent his every second searching for the truth. He concludes that she probably died because of an incident she was investigating at the prestigious private academy where she worked as a teacher, which is why he decides to infiltrate the school’s teaching staff.

There, he meets transfer student Toyama Takumi (Mokudai Kazuto) and the drama club members, who also believe there’s something off about the school’s hidden past, the student council, and the chairman’s powerful family. They decide to work together and use their theatrical skills to uncover the secrets lying under the academy’s prestige.

Hiiragi Koichi (Yoshida Kotaro) is an internationally acclaimed furniture craftsman. As a young man, he fell in love with his classmate Kaoru (Asaka Mayumi), but, desperate to pursue his dreams, he decided to leave the country and move to Italy to hone his craft. Before going, he promised Kaoru that, once he became a true craftsman, he would come back to her. Koichi didn’t keep his word, and years later he feels his passion for his work has disappeared despite his success. He now lives a secluded life in a workshop deep in the mountains.

One day, he receives a visit from university student Moriya Natsuki (Nakajima Sota), who asks him to repair a precious whiskey glass that belonged to his grandmother. Once he realises Natsuki is Kaoru’s grandson, he decides to help the young man repair the glass using kintsugi, a process that will help the two of them confront the memories that haunt them most and find new ways to move forward.

Kataoka Kinji (Wada Masanari) and Odajima Ren (Takahashi Hiroto) are now a happily married couple who run an ice-cream shop together in Okinawa. One day, they receive a message asking them to return to Kirii-gumi, the syndicate they left three years before, in order to save it. As they choose to go back to the underworld and abandon their peaceful days, Kataoka and Odajima will be forced to face the scars that still remain in their hearts.

Adapted from Asai Sai’s manga series of the same name.

Eight men and women in their 30s to 50s go on a trip together to Guam after having won a dating app prize. For some reason, they have all struggled to find lasting relationships. As they face their own pasts and insecurities, they set out to find the acceptance they need and a person with whom they can share their future.

Hostess Kurose Kyoko (Baba Fumika) has been fired from the cabaret bar she worked for and now has nowhere to go. Meanwhile, Yashiro Rei (Maki Yoko) is a wealthy housewife stuck in a dreadful existence due to her emotionally abusive husband and rebellious daughter. When they are both struck by lightning one night, Kyoko and Rei mysteriously swap bodies. Free from the lives that have caused them so much pain, they celebrate this little “miracle” and do everything to keep the truth about their identities hidden. But in the long term, will that really be the solution to their problems?

Adapted from Ikoma Sakura and Bohemian’s web manga series of the same name.

When office worker Yamane Shiori (Hayashi Meari) attends her high school reunion, she feels strangely suffocated by the atmosphere. As she’s about to leave, Shiori is approached by her old classmate Taguchi Ryosuke (Higuchi Kouhei). Years back, Ryosuke was an aloof delinquent whose blond hair and piercings made him easily recognisable from afar. Now, however, he’s a sophisticated, composed young man — the change is so drastic it takes Shiori aback.

As past and present blend in this new relationship, Shiori and Ryosuke slowly rekindle the feelings they had almost forgotten.

Adapted from Kamemizu Tora’s web manga series of the same name.

Welcome Back, First Love. will be available internationally on Viki.

Yanagawa Satoshi (Kurosaki Kodai) lives with his parents in a meaningless routine: he doesn’t work and doesn’t do much else besides losing fights with the local delinquents, who are always extorting him for money. Satoshi then finds a part-time job directing traffic at a construction site. There, he meets Akiyama Chiko (Narumi Yui), a strong-willed young woman who seems keen to help him build his courage and self-confidence. At first, Chiko seems a tad scary, but soon Satoshi finds himself falling for her warm-hearted attitude.

Adapted from Kira Takashi’s manga series of the same name.

Tadokoro Sakura (Watanabe Miho), Sanda Koichi (Sunada Masahiro), Kino Suzuha (Asakawa Nana), and Aihara Mino (Ikeda Masashi) are childhood friends. Even though they are now 25, adults with their own lives, they are still bound by their unwavering friendship.

One day, Suzu and Mino announce they are getting married. But rather than being a cause for celebration, the announcement slowly reveals hidden cracks in their connection. As long-kept secrets come to light, their friendship is torn apart, and the affection they once shared becomes ever more twisted.

Adapted from Tamaizumi’s web manga series of the same name.

According to Nippon TV,

The story takes place in the sports department of Dainichi TV, the network responsible for the live broadcast of the “Hakone Ekiden,” Japan’s legendary two-day university relay marathon.

Behind the scenes of a nationwide broadcast where failure is simply not an option, Chief Producer Tokushige (Oizumi Yo) faces a series of unexpected crises that force him into impossible decisions. At the same time, Director Miyamoto (Ito Sairi), determined to prove herself in her first major assignment, repeatedly clashes with her team. As unity falls apart, can they overcome the chaos and capture the runners’ finest moments for millions of viewers?

Meanwhile, the Ekiden community is shaken by the sudden appointment of Kai (Yamashita Tomohisa) as the new head coach of Meisei Gakuin University, a traditional powerhouse. A former ordinary office worker with no coaching experience, his unconventional training methods spark anxiety and resistance among the runners.

 Is it time to reform, or stay true to conviction?

The TV crew members pour their hearts into the relay broadcast to share the athletes’ present moments, while a rookie coach and runners on the brink fight to rise from rock bottom. Can they pass the “tasuki,” the baton of hope, to the future? The passionate battle of those who stake everything on the Hakone Ekiden begins now.

According to Fuji TV,

Since its debut in 1999, the series has depicted doctors and nurses on the front lines of emergency medicine, confronting life-and-death situations. Over the years, it has produced five drama series and five special programs.

With this sixth installment, the series sets a new record as Fuji Television’s longest-running contemporary live-action-drama (sic) series. A towering presence among Japanese medical dramas, this landmark series returns this fall. It has been approximately 13 years since the last installment, 5th Series in 2013.

Moreover, this marks the long-awaited reunion of Yosuke Eguchi, who plays the brilliant and solitary emergency physician Dr. Shindo, and Nanako Matsushima, who plays Dr. Kojima–once his protegé who has saved countless lives. The two last appeared together in the 2010 special, making this their first co-starring reunion in 16 years. (…)

Now in its 27th year, one of the key highlights of the series is its portrayal of how the medical field evolves alongside the times! This new series tackles themes such as work style reform, generational differences, the growth of the next generation, and choices surrounding life itself!

Iroha (Kamishiraishi Mone) is the only daughter of a courier in the mid-Edo period. Her soul mysteriously travels through time, and she finds herself in the life of Nashiki Iroha, an elementary school teacher in modern-day Japan. As she faces all sorts of challenges that seem so foreign to her (such as educational inequality, school refusal, and excessive workloads), she grows alongside her colleague Ichinose Ikuru (Mukai Koji).

A mysterious restaurant stands in the realm between life and death. There, the deceased is served a final dish that allows them to let go of regrets and lingering attachments to the world of the living. This dish is usually the one they remember most vividly from their lives, which is carefully prepared by the chef Mouba (Nakamura Aoi) so that their souls can heal before they embark on a journey to the next life.

Adapted from Mao Wu’s collection of short stories 十六夜膳房 (Shi Liu Ye Shan Fang).

Miyagi Eriko (Yoshida Yoh) is an ambitious 50-year-old who has slowly climbed the ranks of a male-dominated organisation. She has been informed that, after the successful release of her current project, she’ll finally be promoted to the company’s board of directors.

Just as she’s about to wrap up such an important project, she starts to receive anonymous threats. Eriko remains undeterred, however. As she decides to investigate who the person hiding behind these letters is, she ends up entangled in a system of corruption, exclusion, and chauvinism that might bring her career — and the entire organisation — down.

Set in 1937 (a year after the first season), Ebata Natsumi (Yoshine Kyoko) and Takimasa (Honda Kyoya) continue to grow together as their relationship as a married couple deepens over time.

Adapted from Nishiga Hachi’s manga series of the same name (oh, and we reviewed the first season of A Calm Sea and Beautiful Days with You here!)

The Special Cases Unit (SCU) works under the Commissioner General of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The unit employs five highly skilled professionals: former member of Public Security Yuki Shinjiro (Sawamura Ikki); former First Investigation Division detective Yagami Tasuku (Takasugi Mahiro); ambitious detective Asahina Yu (Tamashiro Tina), who is determined to become the first woman to head the Criminal Investigation Bureau; IT expert Mogami Kota (Mizusawa Rintaro); and seasoned investigator Wataya Ryosuke (Mashima Hidekazu).

The SCU works together to solve complex cases that can’t be handled by the hierarchical structure of the police organisation.

Adapted from Doba Shunichi’s novel of the same name.

As the police investigate a mountain climbing tragedy known as the “Shikaradake Incident” in Hokkaido, the life of a missing person remains at risk. A long list of suspects makes things ever more complicated as motives and complex emotions intertwine to reveal a wide web of secrets that have gone unspoken for too long.

LOST10 will be available internationally on Netflix.

Haruki Nao (Eikura Nana) is an internal medicine doctor working at a municipal hospital. She fought long and hard to get the position, a journey that was anything but easy because her problematic older brother, Ryosuke (Kimura Tatsunari), kept causing her trouble.

Despite her passion for her job, Nao is exhausted and overworked. She is then assigned to the case of a young woman, Sonoda Eri (Miyazaki Yu), who is battling a serious illness. Eri is fully supported by her loving older brother, Shuji (Akaso Eiji). Moved by Shuji’s love for her sister, Nao becomes obsessed with finding the right treatment to save Eri. Throughout this process, Nao and Shuji inevitably grow closer, but an incident puts an end to their romance. Three years later, they meet again at a hospital in Tokyo.

Following the events of the first season, Hioki Asahi (Fujimoto Kodai) and Watarai Tsukasa (Kan Hideyoshi) are now a couple who face all sorts of challenges as high school seniors growing together.

Adapted from Kakuregi Uzura’s novel of the same name.

Minamida Minami (Ashida Mana) is an autistic person who not only graduated at the top of her class from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law, but also achieved the highest score on her bar exam.

However, securing a job proves challenging until she’s finally hired by Hirokawa & Howard Law Firm, one of the most prestigious firms in the industry. Her colleagues initially doubt her ability to succeed as a lawyer due to her difficulty reading other people’s emotions and adapting to unexpected situations. But Minami’s passion and intelligence soon make her shine and, with the help of her fellow lawyers and paralegals, she tackles one complex case after another.

This is a remake of ENA’s Extraordinary Attorney Woo (South Korea, 2022).

Extraordinary Attorney Minami will be available internationally on Netflix.

After losing four years of her memories, Kashiwagi Sakura (Riko) begins a new life in Singapore alongside her fiancé Nishikido Eita (Yoshizawa Kaname). There, she finds a job as a guide at a wildlife park and settles into a comfortable, happy life.

For some reason, she keeps thinking about a key she found among her belongings. It doesn’t seem familiar, and the only feature that distinguishes it is an engraving of the number 203. One day, as she seeks shelter from a torrential squall, she runs down a back alley and stumbles upon a Singaporean man named Tae Wei Lun (Glenn Yong). She feels inexplicably drawn to him, as if she’s known him for years. Could the key open a door to her lost memories? Could Lun?

This is a co-production with Singapore.

Squall will be available internationally on Viki.

Cool, serious accountant Ueno Ko (Suzuki Jin) and bright, easygoing salesman Kanda Eito (Oshida Gaku) work for the same company. Even though they seem to have opposite personalities, they are secretly best friends.

Kanda reveals to Ueno that he’s gay, but guarantees that nothing will ever happen between them. As their friendship grows stronger, Ueno starts to wonder if Kanda still feels this way.

Adapted from Yamayade’s manga series of the same name.

Sugishita Ukyo (Mizutani Yutaka) and Kameyama Kaoru (Terawaki Yasufumi), the great detectives of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit, return to investigate a shocking case. When the senior adviser to the Prime Minister is stabbed to death, Ukyo and Kaoru embark on a quest for the truth that goes way beyond a simple homicide and threatens to unveil dark secrets tied to the nation’s most powerful figures.

Even though the healthcare sector in Japan is becoming ever more modern and digital, Nasuda Akari (Matsushita Nao) is a nurse who remains committed to an analogue approach. She refuses to rely on fancy equipment and electronic records, documenting everything herself in her handwritten notebooks and using her experience and intuition to personalise the care she offers her patients.

Now at the Momoi Medical Centre, Nao witnesses doctors and nurses gradually losing their ability to make judgements for themselves. Shocked at how her colleagues grow more and more dependent on digital technology to do their jobs, Nao does her best to open their eyes to the importance of critical thinking in medical care.

The character of Nasuda first appeared in a guest role in Doctor X Season 7 (2021).

Takasegawa Gen (Yakusho Koji) is a prestigious stage actor and the very first Japanese performer to play the lead role at London’s Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

After two years abroad, he finally returns home — but to his complete bewilderment, once he lands in Japan, the entire world seems to have forgotten who he is. Even though he’s lost his fame, family, and money, Gen hasn’t lost his undying desire for recognition, so he decides to start his career from scratch and make a proper comeback.

High schooler Tachibana Ayaka (Saito Nagisa) lives in Kumamoto with her single mother. After she loses her mother and suffers an unforgivable betrayal by her first love, she decides to drop out of high school, leave Kumamoto, and join the nightlife industry. Determined to seek revenge against the male-dominated society that wanted to destroy her, she uses her femininity and intelligence to become “the Empress”, who is chased by politicians, businessmen, and yakuza alike.

Adapted from Kuroshima Ryo’s manga series of the same name, which was also adapted into a 2007 television drama by ABC & TV Asahi and a 2011 Korean drama by E-Channel.

Fourteen years after the Battle of Sekigahara, legendary samurai commander Sanada Yukimura (Ando Masanobu) now lives in exile in Kudoyama, at the foot of Mount Koya, alongside a band of loyal ninja who continue to serve him in secret. Their seclusion comes to an end when Tokugawa Ieyasu declares a campaign to destroy the Toyotomi clan, to which Sanada and his ninja pledged allegiance over a decade ago.

Inspired by a meeting with legendary ninja Sarutobi Sasuke (Iwamoto Hikaru), Sanada decides to escape from Kudoyama and fight once more for the Toyotomi clan. With Sarutobi’s help, Sanada and his band of ninja march toward the Siege of Osaka.

Shadows of the Ten Ninja is coming to Netflix in late October!

Baba Aoko (Matsui Rena) works as a porcelain painter in Hasami, a town renowned for its long-standing tradition of pottery craftsmanship. One day, Manabe Tatsuki (Ichinose Hayate), a solitary ceramic artist returning from Finland, arrives in Hasami and declares that his pottery needs no painted decoration, which hurts Aoko and the other townspeople. However, she soon falls in love with the beauty and artistry of Tatsuki’s craft, and the two slowly develop a relationship that changes both their perspectives.

Adapted from Kodama Yuki’s manga series of the same name.

Set a little over a year after the first season, Natsuo (Soma Satoru) invites Hiro (Iwahashi Genki) to live with him when an unexpected accident makes Hiro’s place unlivable. As they find happiness in their shared everyday routine, Natsuo and Hiro start to question what they truly want from their lives.

The second season is an original story that incorporates a spin-off from Ogeretsu Tanaka’s manga series of the same name.

Takahara Satsuki (Momotsuki Nashiko) has been subject to constant emotional abuse from her boyfriend, Aikawa Itsuki (Ikeda Hyoma), for a long time. Satsuki and Itsuki live together and work for the same company, which makes her life unbearable.

When Satsuki discovers that Itsuki is also cheating on her, she’s at a loss as to what to do next. That’s when her handsome, competent, and reserved junior colleague Fujisaki Mashiro (Yoshida Jinto) enters the picture. It turns out Mashiro has admired Satsuki from afar for quite some time, and now that he sees her being harassed by her awful boyfriend and his lover, he’s decided to step up and help Satsuki out of her predicament.

Adapted from Misaki Nemuru and Ichijo Lemon’s web manga series of the same name.

When her husband asked her for a divorce, housewife Takada Aina (Yabuki Nako) felt that she was about to lose everything. Things change when she meets tax accountant Kishimoto Ryo (Iijima Hiroki), who, despite his harsh approach, encourages her to become independent. In order to do so, Aina finds in the nightlife industry the means through which she can start her life over from scratch.

Adapted from Haruno Haru’s manga series of the same name.

Housewife Uehara Haruka (Ishida Yuriko) lives a peaceful, comfortable life alongside her husband now that her children have grown up and left home. She shares an unbreakable bond with Sakaki Akie (Nakajima Tomoko), Takiyama Natsuki (Sakai Maki), and Iino Fuyumi (Tomita Yasuko), with whom she’s been best friends since their student days.

As the years went by, Haruka, Akie, and Natsuki met regularly, bringing their partners along and keeping in close contact despite the distance. However, Fuyumi slowly drifted apart from the rest of “The Four Seasons”, as they named their little inseparable quartet.

One day, Haruka, Akie, and Natsuki receive news of Fuyumi’s death. As they reminisce about their lives and friendship, they realise they have always lived the life they were expected to and never strayed from the path laid out before them. To honour Fuyumi’s memory, they decide to embrace her heartfelt wish to “be someone else once” and do something crazy that would make Fuyumi laugh from the heavens: they will embark on a “two-week trial life” by swapping partners.