Learning the Hard Way - Recommendations

• TV (9 eps)
• 2018

Part-time worker Sousuke Aikawa lives in a run-down apartment. One day he hears a creaking sound from his ceiling, and suddenly the resident of the apartment above his, Sunao Unyuu, falls through a hole that appears in his ceiling onto his bed. Thus starts Sousuke and Sunao's comical life of living together.

• 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?

• TV (8 eps)
• 2021

Follows the relationship between two co-workers, office worker Rena Yukuhashi and businessman Ryōhei Hachiya. Yukuhashi seems like the plainest woman at her company, but she transforms into a stunning beauty when she dresses up outside the office. Flustered upon seeing Yukuhashi transformed, Hachiya inadvertently utters what sounds like an invitation to get to know each other better — without realizing they are standing in front of a love hotel.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2023

Kazuya begins producing a movie with Chizuru, and when things start to become close, a new girlfriend enters the mix!

• TV (12 eps)
• 2022

The second season of Rent-a-Girlfriend.

• OVA (4 eps)
• 2007 - 2008

Three years ago, a terrible tragedy occurred which caused old relationships to end, new ones to begin, and the lives of four friends to be torn apart. Takayuki was forced to make a choice between the two women he loved – the one who was taken from him, and the one who helped him live again; but what would have happened if he had chosen the other? Mitsuki and Haruka's stories are revisited once more, while Takayuki does everything in his power to keep the woman he loves happy.

• OVA (4 eps)
• 1997 - 1998

Meeting up with the members of the junior high school tennis club after many years certainly brings back memories, after hearing about what each of them became. For Tatsuya, it is a perfect occasion to find out which girl secretly cheered on him, putting flowers in his locker. Through dates and shopping with all of the girls, the careless boy breaks countless hearts, while trying to uncover the truth. Will he be able to find out who his secret admirer was? Who will earn his heart in the end?

• TV (24 eps)
• 2013 - 2014

Banri Tada is a newly admitted student at a private law school in Tokyo. However, due to an accident, he lost all of his memories.  During his freshman orientation, he encounters another freshman from the same school, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, and they hit it off at once.  Without any memory of each other, their lives become more and more intertwined as if set by the hands of fate. But what is their fate, and will it lead to happiness or another memory to forget…

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2021

A recap episode, covering episodes 1-6 of Remake our Life!

• TV (12 eps)
• 2021

Follows unsuccessful game director Kyouya Hashiba. His company goes bankrupt, and he ends up returning to his parents' home. He lies in bed thinking about the successful creators of his generation. When he opens his eyes, Kyouya finds that he has gone back in time 10 years to when he started college. He has an opportunity to remake his life, starting as an arts college student. He now lives in a four-person coed share house. Kyouya has the chance to spend his formative years with creators he knows will be famous in the future, but things might not turn out as he expected.