Ayako Kato (Writer)

Chihayafuru

Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.

Release Date2011-10-05

DepartmentWriting

JobSeries Composition

Episode Count25

Vote Count59

Kids on the Slope

Two different students - a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent - form a friendship through their love for music.

Release Date2012-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count12

Vote Count70

Cinderella Closet

A small-town college student and a cross-dressing beauty school student team up to explore fashion, self-discovery, and love in the city.

Release Date2025-07-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count12

Vote Count10

Until I Destroyed My Husband's Other Family

Kisaragi Minori, who thought she had a happy family with her pure love since they were students and was married to her husband Yudai, was blessed with children, but the story begins when she finds out that her husband Yudai has been cheating on her for 15 years. Minori, who has vowed to take revenge on Yudai, who has another family, and on his lover, Riko Miyake, plots her revenge using Riko's son, Wataru.

Release Date2024-07-08

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

Transit Girls

High School student Sayuri is falling in love with Yui, the daughter of her father's fiancee.

Release Date2015-11-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count24

Neo Ultra Q

Ultra Q has returned, and continues investigations of monstrous appearances and strange ecological phenomenons.

Release Date2013-01-12

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count2

Vote Count4

Sweet Moratorium

Kashiwagi Kokoro is a university student. He enjoys his campus life and has begun dating Kamijo Sayo. One day, his ex-girlfriend Omori Ringo, who is the one that decided to end their relationship, visits his home and begins to live there. Kashiwagi Kokoro doesn't tell his new girlfriend Kamijo Sayo about Omori Ringo moving in with him. (Source: AsianWiki) ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Sweet Moratorium" (スイートモラトリアム) by Tama Izumi (たまいずみ).

Release Date2023-05-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count9

DIVE!!

Tomoki Sakai is a first-year high school student. He has talent for diving and has been partaking in the sport for six years. He is also member of the dive club MDC, but the club is on the verge of shutting down due to budget deficits. Kayoko Asaki becomes the new coach of MDC and informs the team that they must produce an athlete on the national dive team for the next Olympics. Otherwise, their team will shut down forever. Tomoki Sakai has rival divers: Yōichi Fujitani and Shibuki Okitsu.

Release Date2021-04-15

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count3

My Right Older Brother

Riyo is attracted to Kairi, but isn't Kairi a murderer? A love story of a man and a woman carrying the past.

Release Date2021-10-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Vote Count4

Whether You Can or Can't

A selfless woman, after being dumped and losing her job due to an infertility diagnosis, meets a younger man and impulsively proposes a bold arrangement to escape her despair.

Release Date2025-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Wadaiko Girls

Tamaki got disheartened when she was sent to the Percussion Division of her catholic Music School. There she overheard a Girl playing Wadaiko Drums. She was instantly captivated. So she decides to try playing them seriously.

Release Date2021-05-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

Hitsudan Hostess

The story is based on the bestselling autobiography of 25-year-old Rie Saito, who became a number-one hostess in Ginza despite being deaf. "Hitsudan Hostess" was published by Kobunsha this past May, and so far it has sold roughly 115,000 copies. The book depicts the life of Saito, who was born in Aomori and became deaf at the age of 1 due to an illness. She rebelled against her strict parents, and she ran away from home several times as a youth. At a local club, she began taking an interest in "hitsudan" (communicating through writing), which she later made use of when she moved to Tokyo and became a popular hostess at a Ginza club. --Tokyograph

Release Date2010-01-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Hello, Goodbye

Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to helping an elderly woman, they're forced to interact, confronting their differences and similarities as well as their deepest secrets.

Release Date2017-07-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

HONMADEKKA!?TV

With Sanma Akashiya, one of the biggest comedians in Japan as the host, the show will transmit gossip and truth about what is rumored around the world.