Kumiko Asō

Kumiko Asō (阿相 クミコ, Asō Kumiko) is a Japanese screenwriter born in Tochigi Prefecture. She is a member of the Japan Writers Guild.

Works

Wakako Zake

Murasaki Wakako, who is 26 years old, loves going out alone to enjoy eating and drinking, especially when something unpleasant happens at work. Thie show follows Wakako through many solitary outings, where she enjoys different combinations of food and drink!

Release Date2015-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Vote Count5

At 25:00, in Akasaka

When a rookie actor is cast alongside a charming former classmate, he struggles to separate his on-set performance from his true feelings.

Release Date2024-04-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count20

Vote Count15

ReLIFE

Arata Kaizaki, a jobless adult, undergoes an experiment that makes him 10 years younger. He goes back to high school and falls in love with Chizuru Hishiro, who is more than she seems.

Release Date2017-04-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count72

Rental a Girlfriend

In today's Japan, “rental” services can deliver an afternoon with a “friend,” a “parent,” even a fake girlfriend! After a staggering betrayal by his girlfriend, hapless freshman Kazuya gets just desperate enough to give it a try. But he quickly discovers how complicated it can be to “rent” an emotional connection, and his new “girlfriend,” who's trying to keep her side hustle secret, will panic when she finds out her real life and Kazuya's are intertwined in surprising ways! Family, school, and life all start to go wrong, too… It's sweet but naïve boy meets cute but ruthless girl.

Release Date2022-07-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Vote Count8

Marumo's Story

Marumo no Okite is a Japanese television series which premiered on Fuji TV on April 24, 2011. This television series stars Sadao Abe as Mamoru Takagi, a public relations officer with a stationery company. It also stars child actors Fuku Suzuki and child actress Mana Ashida as Mamoru's late friend Jun-ichiro's twin children. The television series was broadcast as part of the Fuji TV's Dramatic Sunday time slot, which airs every Sunday from 9pm to 9:54pm.

Release Date2011-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count11

Vote Count2

Barakamon

A proud young calligrapher is punished for punching a critic by being sent to a faraway island in the east coast of Japan. But as he meets and lives with the island's friendly people, his attitude begins to improve.

Release Date2023-07-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

Cain and Abel

Takada Yu is an employee of a development firm. His father has favored his high-achieving older brother and been indifferent to Yu since young. So Yu craves for his father’s love and wants his recognition somehow. Then one day, Yu encounters a woman. Although it was the worst possible meeting, he gradually starts to have romantic feelings for her through work and an unexpected development. But ironically enough, she turns out to be the girlfriend of his older brother. Yu begins to realize what he truly treasures and matures as a person as he struggles with this complicated romance and with his older brother and father.

Release Date2016-10-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Vote Count2

The Guide to Late Night Bad Love

Madoka Koga, who maintains her fierce attitude from her delinquent days, but is still a virgin; Chiyo Fukuma, a woman who treats shoujo manga as bibles for romance; and Sawako Chidori, a woman who can't help but always fall for poor excuses for men. The story centers on the three women who meet each other while carousing at night, telling each other bad stories of men they have met or dated. (animenewsnetwork)

Release Date2018-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Vote Count2

My Fair Prince

Izumi Hidaka is 36-years-old and the CEO of start-up game company Pegasus Ink. Four years ago, she developed the game Love My Pegasus, which was targeted towards women and became very popular. Since then, she has been obsessed with the character Kento-soma from Love My Pegasus. Izumi Hidaka created Kento-soma from her ideal man, having the same personality and appearance. Because of Kento-soma, she has not had a boyfriend for years. One evening, Wataru Igarashi suddenly appears in front of drunken Izumi Hidaka. She is shocked by Wataru Igarashi’s appearance, which is just like game character Kento-soma...

Release Date2021-07-15

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Nagareboshi

Natsuko has been in a cold relationship with her husband, Kensaku, for many years. One day he dies suddenly, leaving Natsuko alone with a wizard, Mari, who appears and offers to grant up to four wishes. Natsuko requests to go 50 years back in time to the past before she met her husband. There, Natsuko meets young Kensaku, her young self, and her father Shintaro. Natsuko pretends to be someone she is not and attempts to uncover hidden truths while living in the past. What awaits Natsuko at the end of her time travel? And what will be her last wish to the wizard?

Release Date2021-03-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

The Diary About Ayame's Easygoing and Aggressive Days

The story centers on Ayame and Tsubaki, who are researchers at a lab in the biology department of T University. Ayame is a “returnee,” someone who lived abroad for a while and then returned to Japan. He does things at his own pace and is a “dinosaur otaku,” and Tsubaki is his older colleague who is an enthusiast of studying the skeletons of birds and dinosaurs. The story follows their slightly strange romantic relationship. Based on the comic by Mai Machi

Release Date2017-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Janus no Kagami

Ozawa Hiromi, a second-year high school student, lives with her strict grandmother Takako who deprives her of all freedoms. One day, Hiromi faints and wakens to a new personality named Yumi who is the opposite of Hiromi in all ways. Can Hiromi stop Yumi?

Release Date2019-08-16

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

Oshi wo Meshiagare: Koho Girl no Maroyakana Hibi

Oshi wo Meshiagare: Koho Girl no Maroyakana Hibi

While Yuzu Hodaishi (Riho Sayashi) tried to find a decent job, she became hooked on a novel about yoghurt and became a big fan of the bacteria lactobacillus bulgaricus that appeared in the novel. Meanwhile, I is a lactobacillus bulgaricus and sees Yuzu Hodaishi. I jump out of the package of yoghurt and follow her as an invisible presence. After a year of trying to find a job, Yuzu Hodaishi finally gets hired by a food company in Meiwa and gets assigned to work for the company in Osaka. At first, she worked with the supermarket staff, but she was transferred to the PR department at the head office in Osaka. Her senior there is Itsumi Midori (Rio Asumi). Yuzu Hodaishi struggles with her life in unfamiliar Osaka and also her work in the PR department. She then gets assigned to work on a magazine article for Meiwa Yogurt's 50th anniversary. (Source: AsianWiki) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Reiwa Bulgaria Yogurt" (令和ブルガリアヨーグルト) by Miyagi Ayako (宮木あや子).

Release Date2024-01-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

The Lunchtime Detective

The Lunchtime Detective

Reiko Akutsu works for a residential construction company. She plans a lunch matchmaking meeting to find love with someone in the same company. New employee Yuika Amano offers to join the matchmaking event. Yuika Amano and Reiko Akutsu hold the luncheon and meet two men. During their lunch, Yuika Amano and Reiko Akutsu hear a story filled with riddles by the two men. Yuika Amano can't help but to solve the riddles. Going forward, during their lunch matchmaking meetings, Yuika Amano hears various stories involving things like ghosts or missing people and she attempts to solve the mysteries.

Release Date2020-01-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Kare wa, Imouto no Koibito

Kare wa, Imouto no Koibito

Miyuki is a timid florist, frustrated with her non-existent love life. While down on her luck she runs into an old classmate (and crush) of her's on the street. Things are going great when her younger sister, Haruka, who has taken away every guy that she's ever liked, begins to weasel her way between them. Can Miyuki overcome her obstacles and fight for the man she's loved since high school?

Release Date2011-07-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count12

Perfect Report

Perfect Report

Release Date2010-10-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Mirai no Musuko

Mirai no Musuko

A love story across time where an aimless woman in her late twenties, whose life is at a standstill, suddenly becomes a mother to a boy claiming to be her future son, leading her to discover the meaning of connection and reinvent her life.

Release Date2026-01-13

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles SP 2019

Let cool, mysterious high school student Ms. Koizumi and her girlfriends show you around the authentic ramen culture of everyday Japan in this fun food manga. The noodles, the toppings, the broth--the street stalls, restaurants, and home cooking...and yes, cup ramen too! You'll slurp down a whole new knowledge of Japan's greatest fast food that even many Japanese don't know...but Ms. Koizumi does!

Release Date2019-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles SP

Mysterious transfer student Mitsukuni Naruto (Ryo Narita) appears in front of Koizumi (Akari Hayami). Koizumi and Mitsukuni have different opinions about ramen which leads them into arguments. They decide to have a battle over who has a deeper love of ramen. --asianwiki

Release Date2016-01-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter