Shuuko Arai (Writer)

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The story begins the day before the graduation ceremony. Five middle school girls each are preoccupied with their real everyday lives. These girls meet each other in a fantasy world after being sent there through a sudden occurrence. There, they learn about the impending crisis that this world is facing. The way to avert this crisis is for the five to collaborate and bring their five hearts together as one through dance. However, the five cannot come to love the world, and cannot tell their true feelings to one another, so their hearts are unable to unite. The time limit is fast approaching. Can the dance of the five girls save the world? And will they be able to graduate?

Release Date2016-12-23

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Vote Count25

Kita-kun Is Too Cute to Handle, So the 3 of Us Decided to Share Him!

Three individuals facing life’s challenges form an unusual relationship when they meet Kita-kun, a charming young man who accepts them all. Unable to handle their feelings alone, they agree to share him equally and start living together.

Release Date2025-07-01

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Episode Count12

Song of the Beginning

Wataru, a freelance cameraman who works for a travel magazine in Tokyo. He had aimed to be a teacher but failed to achieve his goal and left home to go to Tokyo. However, he does not do well in Tokyo and has to return to his hometown. Wataru reunites with his former girlfriend who is a primary school teacher now and through his interaction with his family, friends and a group of primary school students who want to take part in a choir contest, he begins to take steps to resurrect his dream of being a teacher.

Release Date2013-09-23

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Vote Count1

Suppin Hero

A conflicted superhero gains ultimate powers whenever he transforms, but must go completely bare-faced, diving him into a struggle of love, courage and self-acceptance.

Release Date2024-02-24

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Dear Patient

Sasai Memorial Hospital has a good reputation for its sincere care for patients. However, holding up a strong policy of 'customer first' has put doctors into uneasy circumstance where they have to deal with 'monster patients,' unreasonable complainers. The drama depicts doctors' growth and struggle experienced in the severe situation of the present healthcare industry.

Release Date2020-07-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

The Island Teacher

Students who have previous troubles in the city's schools are sent to a small school on an island. Warm-hearted people on this remote island change them and they can grow. Chihiro Natsumura, who is a teacher on the remote island, struggles to solve the problems her students have.

Release Date2013-05-25

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JobScreenplay

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

Nomen Kenji

A mismatched legal duo uncovers hidden contradictions in a high school girl's murder case while confronting parallel evidence tampering, as an unyielding prosecutor dismantles a web of judicial deceit.

Release Date2025-07-11

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JobScreenplay

Episode Count8

Mother Game

Kanbara Kiko is a divorcee and raises her 5-year-old son alone. To open a box lunch food store, she moves to her grandfather's house. She tries to enroll her son Haruto into nursery school there, but a person in charge of the district office tells her Haruto can't attend immediately. Kiko, busy to open her box lunch food store by next month, finds herself in a predicament with her son not having supervision by then. At this time, a director of a kindergarten school, Fune Naraoka, talks to Kiko.

Release Date2015-04-14

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JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

My Girl

Back in his high school years, Kazama Masamune had a girlfriend four years his senior, who one day left to go study abroad. Now, six years later, Kazama hears that his girlfriend has passed away, and that she had secretly given birth to their daughter, who is now five years old. Kazama then decides to raise his daughter on his own.

Release Date2009-10-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Angel's Ears: Night of the Traffic Police

Adapted from the novel "Tenshi no Mimi" (天使の耳) by Higashino Keigo (東野圭吾).

Release Date2024-04-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Way Too Kawaii!

A newly transferred employee discovers the hard work and passion of the professionals that fuels the ‘kawaii’ fashion magazine and its culture!

Release Date2018-10-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count3

Aquarium Girl

Yuka is an employee at a major Japanese trading company who finds herself dumped by her elitist boyfriend, also a colleague. To make matters worse, she ends up getting demoted and is transferred to a soon-to-be-closed aquarium that's affiliated with her company. Yuka's former boss and ex-boyfriend from the head office come to the aquarium with intentions of closing it, arousing suspicions in Yuka's trainer, Kaji. As a result, Kaji pushes Yuka harder and harder in her work as a dolphin trainer. But over time, Yuka sees through his harsh exterior and recognizes he has a deep love for the aquarium's animals. She becomes competent at her job through the relationship with her dolphin, while beginning to develop feelings for Kaji. Yuka's personal and professional lives are now poised to emerge from the depths!

Release Date2016-06-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7