Sakuraba Junko (Ishihara Satomi) is a part-time teacher at an English conversation school who dreams of one day working in New York. Junko strives hard to achieve her dreams, but New York seems a far distant reality. And she hasn’t had much luck with romance for a while either. But things suddenly start to change when one day, Junko encounters a handsome Tokyo University graduate monk Hoshikawa Takane (Yamashita Tomohisa) at a funeral service. Due to numbness of her legs after sitting for a long time, Junko accidentally knocks over the bowl of ashes, which falls right onto the head of Takene—probably the worst impression anyone could make. After such embarrassing mishap, Junko figures she would never see him again. However, the two end up meeting again in a matchmaking session that was set up by Junko’s mother.

Based on the popular comic series by Yamazaki Sayaka, the story follows Satomi Shinobu (Matsuzaka Tori) and Inokuma Yuki (Kimura Fumino) who work as detectives in the Mobile Investigation Unit of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The two are assigned as partners on the job and consider each other as rivals. However, once off the job, they are a couple but they keep their relationship a top secret. One day, Shinobu and Yuki were at the site where a dead body was found. There, they encounter a mysterious beautiful woman named Tachibana Kara. Soon, a series of bizarre crimes involving gruesome murders begin to occur; and strangely, Kara always appears at these crime scenes. Together, Shinobu and Yuki attempt to find the truth behind the serial murder cases and uncover Tachibana Kara’s identity.

A still-single 40-year-old Nakahana Aki (Shinohara Ryoko ) has a successful life with her career but struggles when it comes to love. She appears to be an attractive, independent and capable woman, but whenever she starts going out with a guy, she tries too hard and often ends up miserable. After experiencing a series of disastrous relationships, Aki is now fearful of falling in love.

Aki has two best friends she often gets together for a girl talk: Oosaki Moeko (Kichise Michiko) an owner of a flower shop, and Sakata Midori (Suzuki Sawa), a divorced working mother raising three boys on her own.

At work, Aki has been put in charge of developing a role-playing romance game app with a group of team members who are all younger than Aki. One day, Aki approaches a famous scriptwriter for romantic dramas named Takayama Fumio (Eguchi Yosuke) to ask him to be a supervisor/advisor for the game app development projects. At their first meeting, the two get into an argument when Fumio makes a comment about being 40 and still being infatuated with crush-like romance…

Yamase Kazuko (Morikawa Aoi) is a 23-year-old part-time worker who recently got cheated and dumped by her boyfriend and also just lost her job—basically she feels she has reached the rock bottom in life. One day, she walks by a store and finds a teddy bear she fell in love with at first sight. She immediately buys and happily returns home with the teddy bear. The next morning, as she wakes up, what she saw in the mirror was a reflection of herself cuddling with … an tough-looking, middle-aged man! However apparently, no one can see him but Kazuko. He is actually the spirit of a man named Amano Yasuo (Aikawa Sho), a detective who lost his life in the line of duty, hosted within the body of a teddy bear. With exchange conditions, the appealingly odd pair a job-less young female and middle-aged detective decide to work together to uncover the truth behind that criminal case that Amano pursued while he was alive.

In the midst of all this, a mysterious beautiful girl named Shanin (Miyoshi Ayaka) enters Ryo’s life. It turns out that Shanin is a heart transplant recipient, and the heart that she received belonged to the brain dead Kaori. Shanin got another chance at life, thanks to Kaori’s heart!
Continuing the world views of “City Hunter,” “ANGEL HEART features a new heroine in the form of a mysterious beautiful girl named Shanin. Just what is Shanin’s true identity? As Kaori lives on within Shanin, what will become of her relationship with Ryo?

Yet somehow the Mugen was suddenly dispersed during a fierce battle… And in the aftermath of the chaos are five organizations that aim to take control of that area. As a result, this area came to be known as SWORD, an acronym attribute to the names of the five organizations. And in that area dwells a gang that goes by the name “G-SWORD”. These 5 organizations include: “Sanno Association” and its second-generation Sanno Shouten brawlers, the alluring white demons known as the “White Rascals”, the dark and brutal “Onija High School”, the ghosts on the ruthless street aka the “RUDE BOYS” and the family of vengeful destroyers of “Daruma Hooligans”.

These 5 gangs will put their pride on the line as they engage in a fierce battle for dominance! However, the plot thickens… a mysterious group called “MIGHTY WARRIORS” appears. And the question that everyone is asking now is, are they enemies or allies? What fate awaits this town…

Though Tsukuda Kohei (Abe) quits research at the Space Science Development Agency to suceed Tsukuda Manufacturing, he cannot leave behind his passion for developing rocket. The cost for developing rocket engine has put Kohei’s company in serious financial trouble. While he scrambles for funds, their rival company – Nakashima Industrial – sues Tsukuda Manufacturing for patent infringement. The company’s reputation soon goes down and banks refuse to finance them, but then one of the leading companies in Japan, Teikoku Heavy Industries, offers to buy a Tsukuda’s patent for 2 billion yen. Although the company is heavily in debt and desperately needs the cash, the patent is what the engineers put their dreams. Kohei – a president who is responsible for the living of his workers – faces a difficult judgement to make.

Serizawa Hitomi (Karina) was raised by her father, Kensuke, who runs a sushi restaurant in Tsukiji. She becomes a project leader at the real estate company she works for, and is also engaged to a doctor, Sonoda Yuichi (Suzuki Ryohei , whom she will marry in 100 days. One day, however, the doctors find a brain tumor after a medical check-up. While she is struggling to accept the diagnosis, her mother, Kanako (Harada Miek), who is supposed to have died 28 years ago, suddenly shows up out of the blue. Kanako says that she couldn’t help coming back to see her daughter getting married. Hitomi, on the other hand, feels resentment at how self-centred her mother is.

For the first time ever, it allows boys to enroll. Fujino Kiyoshi (Nakgawa Taishi) and his four friends Gakuto, Shingo, Joe and Andre are the first to be accepted. Shortly after being admitted, they fail to comply with the school’s strict rules against voyeurism and sexual harassment and get transferred to a “school prison”.

Will Ikuo and Kaede be able to lead a normal family life? Or will they be dragged into an ugly battle over the family fortunes? This drama will make us think about the meaning of family, and the impact of fighting over inheritances.

After their marriage, at the cusp of the Meiji era, the Shirooka’s found themselves in dire financial straits, as money changing was no longer a lucrative business anymore. Shinjiro deemed himself not suited to making money and devoted his time to playing the shamisen and pursuing other refined cultural activities. As they neared bankruptcy, Asa decided to turn to coal mining, as that is the much-needed commodity at that time. She set off to Kyushu by herself, to talk to the coal miners to talk about coal supply.

Meanwhile, Hatsu was also married to another prominent family of money changers in Osaka. Facing the same financial difficulties as the Shirooka’s, Hatsu and her husband ran away in the middle of the night, disappearing without a word. One day, Asa bumped into her sister and tried to offer her financial help, but the young couple refused, as they wanted to rebuild their lives using their own capabilities…

The drama depicts the challenges faced by Asa, in a very much male dominated society, and how she overcomes them triumphantly. It also showcases the changes in the Japanese society as the Meiji Restoration slowly swept across the nation

Then one day, a man calls her, claiming that he may have been an intended victim of Satake. A man who is the son of another woman named Junko…

Tatsuhiko Kajii was the Managing Director of Yamaichi Securities when he was suddenly transferred to the Headquarter’s Operations Administration department. As the role of the department is to perform an independant audit on the company’s operations, the office is actually located in a different building from the main office. Nicknamed as the boondocks where demoted people are sent off to, on his first at work in his new office, Kajii is told they are to be audited by the SESC (Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission). During those times, within the financial industry, many are resorting to profit racketeering schemes. Kajii then announces that he will be carrying out investigations together with the Sales Audit Department’s Hanase, his staff Nakanishi and the secretary Gamo. In the midst of the investigation, they discover material proof of the Internal Audit department’s Takimoto and Yoshioka being involved in such racketeering schemes.

The chairman, Arihara seems to be not too worried over the SESC probe, but the Vice President seems to be all jittery over it. Suspecting that something is afoot within the top brass, Kajii and his colleague Hayashi, try to get to the bottom of what they are hiding.

When the autopsy records the said drug to be found in the deceased’s body, Anjo instructs Takahiro to approach the family, to persuade them on an out-of-court settlement, while they are writing up reports for the Ministry of Health. Torn between his obligation to the public and to the company, Takahiro approaches the company lawyer, Tatsumi Takafuji, for advice and help.

In the end, will Takahiro ignore his conscience in order to protect the company’s profit?

Due to the death of Shiro, the auto workshop employees have no choice but to file for bankruptcy. Hungry for revenge against Kuwata, Noa takes over as the President of the company, and pledges to repay the 300 million yen debt. She is a child prodigy and after applying herself at studying management and company law, she begins to strategise on how to outsmart Kuwata with the help of Ippei and his group of old cronies; ex-trading company employee Eisaku, locksmith Tokichi, electric engineer Daimaru and ex-actress Nagisa