Himawari: Miyazaki Legend

The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea

Set on Hashima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture during the coal industry's rise in 1955, this story follows themes of family, friendship, and love. It contrasts the post-war era, where people had little but were full of dreams, with present-day Tokyo, where abundance prevails, but young people struggle to find their dreams.

Gezan Meshi

Death Game de Matteru

Living, Dying, Father, etc.

Tokiko’s mother died 20 years ago and her father Tetsuya is now in his 70's. Her father has a free spirit and is cute. Tokiko is in her mid 40's and still single. She has a strong personality. In their past, Tokiko and Tetsuya did not have a good relationship. It got so bad that they almost ended their relationship, but now they occasionally meet. They go out to eat together and have conversations. Tokiko decides to publish an essay about her father Tetsuya. To collect information for her essay, she meets Tetsuya and listens to various stories, but it's not just pleasant memories.

Kanojo no Ura Sekai

Nishimura Toshiro works at a production company as a drama director. He has been having a hectic time, discussing the script for an ongoing drama with the female producer who is not satisfied with it. The proud and elitist Toshiro intends to make interesting works. But he does not realise that his mindset is elitist and old-fashioned, and that he tends to be chauvinistic. His life has gone smoothly so far and he believes he has everything. Toshiro proposes to his 29-year-old girlfriend, Kondo Akiko, whom he has been dating for three years. Well, from his perspective, he proposed because he feels responsible for her. Akiko is a modest-looking woman who has been supporting the busy Toshiro, doing the housework and cooking perfectly. But the day after his proposal, Akiko leaves the engagement ring behind and vanishes all of a sudden.

夢みたいな恋したい女たち

I Don't Know the Fashionable Answer

Akane Kinomiyais a 19-year-old university student. At her school, she meets Yuto Tominaga. They graduated from the same elementary school and middle school. Yuto Tominaga is popular with the girls at their university. He remarks to Akane Kinomiya that she is still so plain. Akane Kinomiya decides to become more fashionable. She visits a beauty salon, where she meets mysterious hairdresser Makoto. Due to hairdresser Makoto, Akane Kinomiya becomes to have a fashionable appearance. (Source: AsianWiki)

The Country of Beauty

Eri and Hiroyuki are remarried couples in their 40s. They enjoy going on trips, having meals, and living an elegant life together. However, their only worries are the slight deterioration of their appearances and the fact that they have gave up getting children. Suddenly, a mysterious woman appears in front of Hiroyuki and the couple starts to experience a mysterious event.

Romance Storm Zone

~~ Adapted from the manga "Romance Boufu Iki" (ロマンス暴風域) by Torikai Akane (鳥飼茜).

Prism

Maejima Satsuki works part-time at a garden centre in Tokyo. While her aspiration is to be a voice talent, she is on the verge of giving up. Satsuki has never been serious about what she does. It is the same with romance. However, she meets Morishita Riku, who is a garden designer. After a terrarium that she made captured his attention, Satsuki ends up helping out with a garden project he has undertaken. Before long, the two of them become a couple. Then, the gardener, Shiraishi Yuma, joins the project, and Riku is greatly shaken. Satsuki is unaware of their reunion. The feelings of the three of them intertwine as they focus on completing the garden. Satsuki eventually makes a choice.

ANIMALS

Overworked and exhausted, Umi gets a glow up in life and love when she leaves her job in TV production to work for an exciting cosmetics startup.

The Great Haruko

Watashi no Otto wa Reitouko ni Nemutte Iru

Kisaragi Nana, who lived quietly in a suburban house while earning a living at an online shop that handles imported furniture and miscellaneous goods, lives with her fiance Sato Ryo. However, Ryo suddenly changes and becomes violent. Afterwards, she strangles Ryo. She hides the corpse in an old freezer in the storeroom and her free life would soon begin, however...

100 Days Left Until You Die

Tsuda Rintaro is a high school student with the capacity to predict the lifespan of living things. However, he has struggled with his abilities since he was a child, and he can only gradually observe the people around him without being able to assist them. He discovers one day that Kanzaki Umi, his childhood buddy and the one who has feelings for him, has less than 100 days to live.

ラブコメの掟～こじらせ女子と年下男子～

Ruri, who is a beautiful woman and can also work, is thought to have a lot of love experience by the people around her, but in reality she is a beginner in love for 15 years without a boyfriend. Because of such a lapis lazuli, he decided to give a love affair to his junior Ryo, who is "perfect in appearance and content" but continues to be shaken.

Pandora's Bell

Stageplay "Pandora's Bell (パンドラの鐘) " by director Kunio Sugihara. Live stream available on streaming service WOWOW.

I Just Want To See You

Nagase Yuma and Asakura Sakura, lifelong friends, navigate unspoken feelings until their final high school summer, when Sakura finally confesses with a kiss.

Gimbap and Onigiri

A disillusioned former college track star working at a diner meets a tired Korean animation student struggling to find housing in Japan, and they instantly connect over an emotional moment involving a rice ball.

今日もふたり、スキップで

A married couple of three years who, between playful squabbles, family quirks, and late-night strolls, discover joy in the little everyday moments that make their life together irresistibly happy.

Koshodo Monogatari

Set in a certain old bookstore, when the girls who visit there start reading a mystery novel recommended by the store owner, they travel back in time to the world of the novel, where the brutality unfolds. It also depicts the growth of a girl who finds answers to the troubles and conflicts that girls have in the real world by interacting with people they meet in the world of novels that have slipped back in time.