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Title (English): Mirai Koshi Meguru
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Comedy
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-11 to 2008-Mar

Synopsis:
Yoshida Meguru is an English teacher at a cram school. On her 24th birthday, she awakens to a new power - she can see 20 years ahead into the future of everyone around her.
Cast:
Fukada Kyoko as Yoshida Meguru
Katsuji Ryo
Takeda Shinji
Kurokawa Tomoka

Title (romaji): Daisuki!!
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human drama
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-17 to 2008-Mar

Synopsis:
Yuzu, a mentally disabled woman with the mind of an 8-year-old, who falls in love with a man with a similar disability. She becomes pregnant, but he dies in an accident, leaving her alone in raising the child.
Cast: 
Karina as Yuzu
Kishimoto Kayoko
Hiraoka Yuta
Konno Mahiru
Yo Kimiko
Fukuda Saki
Nakamura Shunsuke

Title (romaji): Koshonin
Tagline: The Negotiator
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Detective mystery
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan to 2008-Mar

Synopsis:
Usagi Reiko was originally from the Juvenile section and was transferred to the SIT, a special unit which is part of the Metropolitan Police Department’s 1st Criminal Investigation Division. She is isolated in the SIT which is a male-dominated world but puts her keen mind and unique negotiating ability to use when facing vicious criminals.
Cast:
Yonekura Ryoko as Usagi Reiko
Jinnai Takanori
Takahashi Katsumi
Kakei Toshio
Yasu Megumi
Takaoka Sousuke
Shirota Yu
Osugi Ren
Ibu Masato

Title (romaji): Saito-san
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Comedy
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-09 to 2008-Mar

Synopsis:
Saito Masako is a mother of one child. Unafraid to speak her mind, she constantly confronts people who violate proper manners and other rules of society.

Cast:
Mizuki Arisa as Saito Masako

Title (romaji): Hachimitsu to Clover
Also known as: Honey and Clover
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, friendship
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-08 to

Synopsis:
Honey and Clover follows the lives of five college students and their love triangles.

Cast:
Narumi Riko as Hanamoto Hagumi
Ikuta Toma as Takemoto Yuta
Narimiya Hiroki as Morita Shinobu
Mukai Osamu as Mayama Takumi
Harada Natsuki as Yamada Ayumi

The summer edition of the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix has concluded. A total of 16,725 votes were submitted between the 1st and 12th of this month. The big winner was NTV’s “Hotaru no Hikari,” which took four of the five categories.

The series won Best Drama with almost 6,400 votes, more than double the second-place “Hanazakari no Kimitachi e.” The show’s star, Haruka Ayase, also won by a landslide for Best Actress, receiving almost 7,700 votes versus Maki Horikita’s 3,700 votes.

For Best Supporting Actor, Naohito Fujiki beat out Toma Ikuta by a 2,000 vote margin. Meanwhile, the race for Best Supporting Actress was much tighter, with Ryoko Kuninaka defeating Mikako Tabe by only 58 ballots.

The only other winning drama was “Yamada Taro Monogatari,” as Kazunari Ninomiya won in a close battle against Koichi Domoto and Shun Oguri.

>>from:tokyograph.com

Title (romaji): Hatachi no Koibito
Also known as: 20-year-old Lover
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romantic comedy
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-14 to 2007-Dec
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Opening theme: Because It’s Not Love by The Pipettes
Insert song: Pick It Up by Fergie
Synopsis

Hatachi no Koibito tells the story of Inoue Keisuke, a married salaryman. At the age of 50, he begins thinking about his purpose in life. By chance, he encounters Sawada Yuri, a 20-year-old graphic design student full of hopes and dreams for the future. Because of her resemblance to his girlfriend from long ago, he finds his heart unexpectedly beating faster..

 Cast
Akashiya Sanma as Inoue Keisuke
Nagasawa Masami as Sawada Yuri
Tsukamoto Takashi as Kawamura Yukio
Morishita Aiko as Inoue Sayuri
Kimura Midoriko as Nakajima
Kurose Manami as Inoue Risa
Koizumi Kyoko as Sawada Eri
Megumi Toshiaki as the convenience store employee
Ichimura Masachika as Suzuki Futa

-From Drama Wiki

Genre: Taiga drama, period drama
Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-7 to 2007-Dec

Synopsis
The 46th Historical Drama is a life story of Yamamoto Kansuke, a lonely genius of strategy at the Age of the Civil War in the 16th century. Kansuke works under Takeda Shingen and pursues his dream of unifying the whole country through aiding the warlord of Kai. At the same time, Kansuke supports Shingen’s concubine Yu from his selfless affection for the woman who hates but eventually loves the warlord who killed her father and family. With the aid of Kansuke’s strategies, Shingen expands his power northward, where he is destined to fight with Kenshin Uesugi, the warlord of Echigo. The drama portrays how those who fight for their dreams face their destinies in the turbulent age.

-From Drama Wiki

Title (romaji): Chiritotechin
Episodes: (15 mins. each)
Genre: Family drama
Air time: Monday through Saturday at 8:15
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-1 to 2008-Mar-?

Series Synopsis
The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father’s hometown. Kiyomi-B’s grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro’s factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.

Cast
Wada Family
Kanjiya Shihori as Wada Kiyomi (heroine)
Wakui Emi as Wada Itoko (Kiyomi’s mother)
Matsushige Yutaka as Wada Masanori (Kiyomi’s father)
Enami Kyoko as Wada Koume
Yonekura Masakane as Wada Shotaro
Kyomoto Masaki as Wada Kojiro
Hashimoto Atsushi (橋本淳) as Wada Shohei
Kabira Jay as Wada Hideomi
Sato Megumi as Wada Kiyomi

-From Drama Wiki

Broadcast period: 2007-Nov-03 to 2007-Dec
Genre: Action suspense
Tagline (romaji): Keishicho Keibi Bu Keigo Ka Daiyon Kakari
Format: Renzoku
Episodes: 11

Synopsis
Okada plays Kaoru Inoue, a member of a police escort division. Ever since losing his parents at a young age, he has possessed heightened senses and a photographic memory. He also has other skills, such as analyzing footprints. His boss is being played by Shinichi Tsutsumi.

Cast
Okada Junichi as Inoue Kaoru
Tsutsumi Shinichi as Ogata Soichiro
Maki Yoko as Sasamoto Eri

-From Drama Wiki