On February 14, Netflix will release the original series “Fishbowl Wives” worldwide. The series is based on the Kurosawa R manga “Kingyo Tsuma”, with “Fishbowl Wives” being the name for the international release.

The series tells the stories of six women who are having affairs for various reasons. Ryoko Shinohara stars as the main woman in “Fishbowl Wives”, Hiraga Sakura, who is physically, verbally, and mentally abused by her husband Takuya, played by Masanobu Ando. She finds relief in the arms of Toyota Haruto, played by Takanori Iwata, the manager of a local goldfish shop she meets while shopping for a new pet.

The full trailer, with English-language subtitles, has been released. Check it out below!

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This week, Aimer retook the top spot on the Hot 100 single chart with her digital single “Zankyou Sanka”, with 9,820 points, topping the chart for the second non-consecutive week.

NCT topped the Hot Albums chart with their album “Universe.”

YOASOBI retook the top spot on the Artist 100 chart.

Ayase topped the Hot 100 Lyricists chart for the 19th consecutive week.

Ayase also topped the Hot 100 Composers chart for 19th consecutive week.

Aimer also topped the Streaming Songs chart for the third consecutive week with “Zankyou Sanka.”

King Gnu topped the Download Songs chart with their new digital single “Sakayume.”

UVERworld topped the Download Albums chart with their new album “30.”

This week, BUMP OF CHICKEN topped the Combined Single chart with their new single “Nanairo”, with 109,739 points in its first week.

NCT topped the Combined Album chart with their album “Universe”, with 59,158 points in its second week.

BUMP OF CHICKEN also topped the Single chart with “Nanairo”, selling 105,366 copies in its first week.

NCT also topped the Album chart with “Universe”, selling 57,589 copies in its second week.

King Gnu topped the Digital Single chart with their new digital single “Sakayume”, selling 29,299 copies its first week.

YOASOBI topped the Digital Album chart for the fourth consecutive week with their mini album “THE BOOK 2”, selling 2,759 copies in its fourth week.

Aimer topped the Streaming chart for the third consecutive week with her digital single “Zankyou Sanka”, with 8,545,108 streams in its third week.

The ratings for the “72nd NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen” are in, and they’re not good! In fact, they’ve never been worse! Ratings fell to a record low of 34.3%! The ratings were down 6% compared to the 2020 edition.

The YouTube channel “THE FIRST TAKE” released its 180th performance video today, and the performer was SixTONES. This marks the first time that a Johnny & Associates act has appeared on the popular channel.

SixTONES sang their 2020 debut song, “Imitation Rain”, with a special arrangement for “THE FIRST TAKE.” Of the performance, the group said it had a different feel than recording in the studio or performing on stage.

Check out the video below!

The final part of Arama! Japan’s 2021 year end posts! This one is the return of Arama! Japan Playlist! Instead of just doing the playlist based off of Staff Selections, I decided to include the faves of our guests from the year end episode of the Arama! Japan Podcast, Ryo and Patrick.

There are some songs missing from the Staff Selections post (Johnny’s due to them not being on streaming, but that’s what YouTube is for!), and songs that appeared on multiple lists have only been included once.

But there is something here for everyone, from Sandaime J SOUL BROTHERS to Philosophy no Dance to femme fatale to For Tracy Hyde!

Check out the playlist below!

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