40x40: Chikuwa Kaigi - Recommendations

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1995

When Kazuomi Honjou gets dumped by yet another girlfriend who realizes he has just been using her, he finds himself in need of a place to stay. When he runs into adorable model Mizuki Shinohara, he makes him an offer - a night he’ll never forget in exchange for a roof over his head. But what starts as a bit of fun for Kazuomi suddenly starts to feel serious. Could the man who has never truly loved anyone be falling for a guy he just met?

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2021

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2020

Kunieda Kei is a popular TV announcer known for being a cool and flawless professional. But on the inside, he’s the opposite: brash, hot-tempered, and as prickly as can be. Still, Kei juggles his private and professional personas successfully until one day, the unthinkable happens: stop-motion animator Tsuzuki Ushio from work sees him at the grocery store with his real personality on display! Now Kei has to figure out how to navigate a relationship he didn’t expect. But is that really as scary as the possibility that someone might love both sides of him?

• Web (6 eps)
• 2021

• TV (13 eps)
• 2018

Takato Saijyo has reigned as the idol industry's "Most Huggable" for five years, that is, until freshman actor Junta Azumaya. Takato was always considered brusque while Azumaya's smile is winning over admirers by comparison. The whole fiasco drives Takuto to over indulge in alcohol and his actions catch the attention of the last person he wants to see. To his surprise, Azumaya uses this new info to blackmail Takuto for physical affection.

• Other

Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. One day he meets Kurose, a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion. As the two go through each of the ten steps, Shirotani's attraction to his counselor grows.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2007 - 2008

As the only son of a yakuza boss, Ranmaru Oumi is set to marry his childhood friend Kaoru in an effort to unite their families - but he's not happy about it! When a wedding night spat sends Ranmaru to the cruise ship's bar, he meets Alberto "Al" Valentino, an Italian man with a love of all things Japanese. Between Kaoru's bossiness, fights with a rival gang, and Al's unexpected advances, Ranmaru is sure to have a honeymoon to remember!

• TV (8 eps)
• 2019

Kouya Asumi is a fourth-year college student who works as a housekeeper for the single father Keiichi Naruse, and a relationship develops between the two.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2010

Office manager Kazuhiko Otakara has spent all 33 years of his life without a girlfriend. An encounter with a new employee named Harada makes Otakara realize that he is gay.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2014

Ichijou Ryouma has been away on a film set for two weeks time and wasn't able to see Izumi Sena since their last encounter when they both expressed their mutual love for each other. Now that the shooting is coming to an end Ichijou Ryouma is thrilled to get back to Izumi who seems very distressed and troubled so much so that he rarely leaves his room.