JDrama Zone

Synopsis
A success story with depth involving work, love and friendship. Its setting is an IT enterprise which once basked in the limelight because it tried to take over management of a pro-baseball team. There’s the entrepreneur who’s acquired immense wealth with business success. The man who becomes his apprentice shows his ability in the firm and makes an upward climb. In depicting these events, the drama poses the question: What is real success in life?

Synopsis
“Holmes Agency” is a private detective office known as the “Big-Eating” Detective Office. Seiya Takano (Noriyuki Higashiyama), who is known for have a huge appetite, gets assigned to this office as the new leader. Ryosuke Noda (Go Morita) and Ryoko Izumi (Mikako Ichikawa), both also having a big appetite work under Seiya. Murder, robbery, and kidnapping – many incidents occur around them. And the three solve each of the many cases in a most surprising way – their appetite results in marvelous speculations! They eat at themurder scene. They eat on the track. They even eat dog food! They keep on eating and eating, not even listening to the witness. Everywhere they go, they eat and eat and eat! And every time after finishing, the criminal appears. KUITAN is the words “Big-Eating (KUIshinbo)” and Detective (TANtei) combined together.“Real Gourmet” plus “Real Mystery”. The big-eating detectives are on the run, solving cases from their deep knowledge about food. “KUITAN”- a new type of mystery drama you’ll sure enjoy!

Synopsis
Morita Sakura is a peculiar “freeter” (freelance part-timer) who dreams of becoming a mystery novel writer. While switching between various jobs throughout the series, she also becomes an assistant to Officer Udagawa, a detective who discovers her excellent memory and reasoning skills. On the other hand, Udagawa (who has just joined the police ranks through his father’s connections) is fairly inept and has a tendency to fall in love with female suspects.

Synopsis
Based on the comic “Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge” (The Wallflower) by Tomoko Hayakawa. This is a love comedy about Kyohei, who is so good looking that it sometimes becomes a problem for him, and Sunako, a girl who looks and acts like she has just come out of a horror movie.

Kyohei is fired yet again from his part time job after screaming at the manager who tried to seduce him. He is broke and does not have enough money to pay rent. Just around this time, the landlord comes up with a proposition. She tells Kyohei and his housemates that if they manage to turn her niece Sunako into a “lady”, their rent will be waived. Kyohei and his housemates all agree to this, but the niece who appears before them is not at all the kind of person they were expecting to see…

Synopsis
Utsumi Kaoru is a rookie crime detective. Hot-blooded, reckless, and with a strong sense of justice, she finds herself trying to solve crimes that have an element of mystery. To aid her in these investigations is Yukawa Manabu, a Physics Professor and genius in his own right. Enjoying the challenge of solving “impossible” mysteries, he helps the detective in making possible the impossible.