The Stories of Those Around Me - Recommendations

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2006

• Web (27 eps)
• 2018 - 2019

A collection of sweet stories about couples and singles, office workers and unemployed people. But be warned: there’s more than a touch of bitterness here.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2020

In an elderly couple's peaceful day-to-day life, an old man proves to his wife that he has all the boyish charm of someone decades younger. A master at sweet and charming gestures that make her heart flutter, this charming old gentleman proves that love isn't dead no matter how old you are.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2023

Shinozaki is an office worker who is taken care of and coddled by his senior team member Katase Shiori, who is a gorgeous, profoundly kind, loving, and diminutive woman. Shinozaki certainly hopes that she's not doing it out of duty... but her joy of doing so increasingly exposes her feelings!

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2019

Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love. Just as they become inseparable, a tragedy happens. Hinako is so distraught that she can no longer even look at the ocean, but one day she sings a song that reminds her of their time together, and Minato appears in the water. From then on, she can summon him in any watery surface as soon as she sings their song, but can the two really remain together forever? And what is the real reason for Minato's sudden reappearance?

• TV (2+ eps)
• 2024 - ?

Shozo and Ine are an elderly couple who are living a quiet life in a farming village in Aomori Prefecture. After eating a mysterious apple they discover on their apple farm, Shozo and Ine spontaneously regain their youth, but even after being reinvigorated they continue to live life at a grandparent-ly pace.

• 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 (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.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2015

Second season of I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2014

Kaoru is an OL you can find anywhere, serious and works diligently, but her husband is a super otaku and more-or-less a NEET. She is caught up in one of her husband's whims one day or the subject of his concerns another, but the two are so close that it's embarrassing to even watch them!