Yo nimo Kimyou na Monogatari

Five Stories

• 非常識宴会
• 隣の声
• ガード下の出来事
• ラブチェアー
• いじめられる女

Do you know about the phenomenon called the butterfly effect? It’s a meteorological concept that suggests a tornado occurring in Texas, America, could be caused by the flapping wings of a single butterfly living in Brazil.

You might think that’s ridiculous, but the butterfly’s wing flapping disturbs the air, and the heat generated by this disturbance gradually spreads outward without disappearing. That energy may very well expand over time. A butterfly’s wing flapping – such a trivial beginning can influence the future weather of a distant place…

…Achoo!

Even this sneeze of mine is affecting the weather somewhere. Strange phenomena also begin from trivial incidents that occurred in the past, and by the time they manifest, they’ve already formed an inescapable, massive vortex.

Now, tonight, we present five people who have been invited into a strange world once again. What will their futures hold… please see for yourselves with your own eyes.

──Haaaa-choo!!

As the saying goes about “morbid curiosity,” people somewhere deep down crave fear. This is said to be because dopamine, which is secreted in the brain when humans feel fear, is a substance accompanied by pleasure.

However, videos are merely pseudo-experiences after all. We can only say such leisurely things because we know absolutely that no danger will reach us.

…How about now? This is far from pleasurable, isn’t it? The five men and women we’re about to introduce will also experience true terror because they opened the door to the strange.

Now, the first victim is──.

Five Stories:

• Replay
• Fire of Life
• Rain Visitor
• The Wife Shop
• Mr. Imakiyo

1. 夢男 (Dream Man)
2. 一本足りない (Missing One)
3. カメレオン俳優 (Chameleon Actor)
4. 妻の記憶 (Wife’s Memory)
5. アバンストーリー(短編) (Avant Story)

An Omnibus Special Drama.

Follower
Story: Fujita Koharu (Shiraishi Mai) is the sparkly Minato-ku OL_Haru. On weekends, she goes glamping which is all the rage, and has BBQs with handsome clients. However, Koharu is occupied in photography of the meat and foreign-made cars and neglects these handsome men because she is the “new queen” of a photo-sharing social media platform and has set her sights on having the most followers. Daily posts on her sparkly “Minato-ku life” “fantastic boyfriend” “800,000 yen casual down” are essential. But all of this completely fake. The real Koharu works for a humble printing company and lives in a cheaply-built apartment. Her life is far from glittering. Koharu’s only joy is increasing her number of followers amid the weary days, particularly the numerous supportive replies of Mimiko@Remote Countryside who recently became a follower. Then one day, Koharu discovers that she has lost in a survey on who is sparkly – Minato-ku OL_Haru or Uruwashi no Uketsukejou Sayu. Uruwashi no Uketsukejou Sayu only has 30,000 followers. This stirs up Koharu’s fighting spirit which is egged on by Mimiko’s replies, and intensifies her fake lifestyle. However one day, Koharu gets a response from Mimiko which says her real life is being watched from nearby.
Cast: Shiraishi Mai, Tomaru Sayaka, Naito Tomoya, Kawamochi Chiaki, Saeki Daichi

Furin Keisatsu
Story: Kuzuki Yoshio (Karasawa Toshiaki) is an ordinary salaryman and devoted husband. He has been living a peaceful, uneventful life and goes to work after kissing his wife Yoko (Konno Mahiru) this morning. One day, while Yoshio is working in office like usual, he sees his subordinate get arrested on suspicion of violating the Adultery Control Act all of a sudden. In fact, the Japanese government was pressured by overwhelming public opinion to set up an agency to crackdown on adultery as a result of a stream of affair scandals in society. A campaign is launched to thoroughly eradicate adultery. Informants are given certificates of commendation and cash rewards; adulterers are handed life sentences; and novels, dramas as well as movies depicting affairs are banned. Adultery is rooted out from this society. Then one day, Yoshio carelessly touches his subordinate Kyono Suzuka (Kakei Miwako) in office. He intends to just drop her an apology message but makes a mistake and sends a lovey-dovey emoji to her mobile phone instead. Adultery control officers led by senior staff Haruta Tsuyoshi (Masu Takeshi) rush in and take Yoshio and Suzuka by force … …
Cast: Karasawa Toshiaki, Masu Takeshi, Kondo Koen, Konno Mahiru, Tateishi Ryoko, Kakei Miwako

Asu e no Warp
Story: Kobayashi Mineo (Miura Haruma), a young man who dreams of being a movie director, has been making his own films while working part-time but has not had his big break yet. All of his classmates have decent jobs and started families. As he became an adult, receiving invitations to friends’ wedding ceremonies became an inevitable misery. Even Mineo’s girlfriend Sudo Yuki (Sakuma Yui) who aspires to be an actress and once shared his dream, is fed up with him. He is driven to frustration and exhaustion. After several sleepless days, Mineo is prescribed a mysterious drug called Airium by psychiatrist Udo Kimiyasu (Aijima Kazuyuki) at the department of psychosomatic medicine. The moment one tablet of Airium is taken, his memories of the next 24 hours completely disappear and he feels as if he has been carried 24 hours into the future. That is to say, if Mineo takes it before an awful incident, this can be erased from memory as if it never happened. When memories can be controlled by a drug, can life go according to what he wants? Mineo places his hopes on this mysterious Airium but … …
Cast: Miura Haruma, Sakuma Yui, Aijima Kazuyuki

Shounen
Story: Office lady Okabayashi Haruka (Kurashina Kana) lives alone and turns down her boss’ suggestion of an arranged introduction with the excuse that she has a boyfriend. She witnesses a traffic accident. The victim is a youth who says his name is Tayama Keisuke after he regains consciousness in hospital. But when a nurse makes a call to the Tayamas, she is told that Keisuke is dead. When the nurse asks him for his name again, he replies that he made a mistake, his name is Ryota. Meanwhile, Haruka returns home to silent phone calls … … Then one day, Haruka is about to leave work when she catches sight of the youth in front of her company. On another day, she looks down from her veranda and there he is looking up at her. Furthermore, when she goes shopping, the youth goes out of his way in the rain to deliver the items she had forgotten. Haruka cannot bear to see him drenched and invites him into her house. However, the moment she takes her eyes from him, the youth begins to check her personal effects.
Cast: Kurashina Kana, (Ito) Kentaro, Takamura Kaito

1. 脱出不可 (No Escape)

2. あしたのあたし(Ashita no Atashi)

3. 幽霊社員 (Ghost Employee)

4. クリスマスの怪物 (Christmas Monster)

5. マスマティックな夕暮れ(Mathematic Sunset)

1. さかさま少女のためのピアノソナタ [Sakasama shojo no tame no Piano Sonata]
2. しらず森 [Shirazu mori]
3. 永遠のヒーロー [Eien no hero]
4. 人間の種 [Ningen no tane]
5. 大根侍 [Daikon samurai]

1. 鍋蓋 (Nabebuta/Pot Lid)

2. 恋の記憶、止まらないで (Koi no Kioku, Tomaranai de)

3. コールドスリープ (Cold Sleep)

4. ソロキャンプ (Solo Camp)

5. 恵美論 (Emiron)

[Stains] Miura Azusa (Hirose Alice) works at a dry-cleaning store, but one day a mysterious woman brings a stained shirt into the store, and she becomes involved in a case.

[Three Wishes] A beautiful and beloved wife is kidnapped, but it has something to do with a mysterious lamp that a mysterious man, played by Hideaki Ito, once held in his hand.

[The father who wouldn’t burn] A sister and brother, played by Anne and Matsushita Kohei, are waiting for their father’s body to burn at a crematorium with their family after his death. However, no matter how many times the cremation is attempted, the body does not burn. What kind of mystery is really hidden in there?

[Streamer] Akagi Ryota (Shirasu Jin), who works as an AD at a TV station, sometimes does live streaming on the Internet to relax. Then he received a URL with a comment that said, “Let me tell you a viral topic…

[Laundromat] Hashimoto Manabu (Hamada Gaku), who is a freeter, is at a laundromat. He suddenly mumbled, “I need a beer,” and there was a beer in the broken dryer… Then a cleaner appeared and told him that this dryer could give him whatever he wanted if he asked for it…

[Tatemoto Masako] Shikura Kaede (Narumi Riko), a member of the general affairs department at Shinwa Stationery, is proposed to by Kondo Masaya (Saeki Daichi) of the same company, but Kondo jumps off a building the next day. Apparently, on the evening of the day Kondo jumped, he was having a dispute with Tatemoto Masako (Otake Shinobu), a member of the general affairs department…

[Imaginary Friend] Saki (Hirose Suzu), a university student majoring in clinical psychology, remembers that when she was a child, she had a friend named Yuki who was a stuffed rabbit that only she could see. Suddenly, Yuki-chan reappears in her room at home, but this is only the beginning of an incident…

[Update Family] The Kurosaki family’s father, Mutsuo (Katsumi Takahashi), is an uptight businessman. One day, he sees a product called “Family Updater” in an insert flyer and decides to update his family to improve the efficiency…

Comprised of four stories, Deja Vu, Sando River Outlet Park, Become and Die in 15 seconds.

Comprised of four stories: Honor Student, Skip, Fukatsu no Jumon and Golden Egg.

Story 1 – This or that Ginza Yusuke Hatori and his father Akio catch a “wild rich man”, a Japanese millionaire, in a park in Ginza and decide to keep him at home. Yusuke’s mother, Mitsuko, is disappointed when Yusuke decides to keep it as a birthday present, but she approves. However, Japanese millionaires are very particular about Ginza and have a very troublesome lifestyle, such as not accepting anything other than tableware and food bought in Ginza… The story of such the “rich man” and Yusuke’s strange summer begins.

Story 2 – Sing along the Melody (Uncertain about her first name) An office worker, Kanoumi Murano, suddenly suffers from a strange disease called “brain melody syndrome,” which causes her brain to react abnormally if she does not act in accordance with the music playing in her brain, leading to her death in the worst case. With no cure for this unknown disease, which has only a few cases, Kanoumi is at the mercy of melodies of various genres playing in her brain wherever she goes, whether she is in a meeting or on her way home. One day, Kanoumi, who is scared of not knowing when a melody will play in her brain, meets Mitsuru Shindo, who is rumored to be a weirdo at her company…

Story 3 – Otodokemono (Delivery) One evening, web designer Takuya Yamabe and nurse Yukari Yamabe are looking for an app on their smartphones to make a delivery and happen to find one called “Otodokemono”. The app was an excellent app that could ask for anything and deliver it in seconds. Takuya is suspicious of this application but tries it out and places an order. Then, indeed, seconds later, the intercom at the front door rang and a sexy-looking delivery young lady came to deliver the order. They are surprised at how quickly it works, and gradually are drawn to the app and begin to use it on a daily basis…

Story 4 – Pretending to be on a call Nozomi Kawasaki pretends to be “on a call” with her dad in order to fend off being picked on. One night, a pick-up man shows up and she pretends to be on a phone call with her father as usual, but he sees right through her and takes her phone. When the man put his ear to Nozomi’s phone, he found that she was really connected to her father, who passed away when she was 11 years old…

Translation: ECOTVSubs at MyDramaList

1st story: Ex-boyfriend and Love Triangle

2nd Story: Myself

3rd Story: Concierge

4th Story: Wait A Minute!

An omnibus drama that comprises 4 segments:

Shisen (starring Ikeda Elaiza)
Ohimesama Club (starring Suzuki Honami)
Kobayashi-ke Wonderland (starring Nakagawa Taishi)
Niji (starring Nishihata Daigo)

In Shisen, Shintani Anna (Ikeda Elaiza) becomes the target of everyone’s gazes one day and is scared to meet anyone’s eyes.

In Ohimesama Club, Endo Minami (Suzuki Honami) is a housewife who also works part-time. She struggles to forget an experience she had at a dance party when she was younger. One day, she receives an invitation from a man named Himeno who is part of the Princess Club, which leads her to develop an obsession with living like a princess.

In Kobayashi-ke Wonderland, Tatsuya (Nakagawa Taishi) is the eldest son of the Kobayashi family, who is informed by his father one day that their family home will be transformed into a neighborhood theme park unlike any other.

In Niji, Takuya (Nishihata Daigo) is entranced by a mysterious girl that he discovers who only seems to appear through the lens of his TLR camera when there’s a rainbow in the sky.

Kusanagi Tsuyoshi and Eguchi Yusuke to star in the chapter: 永遠の二人 (Eternal Couple)
This will be the first time in 11 years that Kusanagi has appeared in this series.
It’s been 27 years since Kusanagi has starred alongside Eguchi Yosuke.
 

Eien no Futari: Assistant professor Sakamoto Hajime has been accused of killing his professor. In order to prove his innocence he barricades himself inside the research facility together with the professor’s secretary. At the moment when the police are about to break in, Sakamoto presses a certain button…
 
Jigoku de Enzai: Yamane Kohei is working in an empty office late at night when he hears a voice across the room proclaiming “I’m innocent! I was falsely accused!” The owner of the voice is Mikumo Ichiro, who was supposedly executed a few days before for murder. He declares his innocence as a false charge and says he is being tried in hell. He desperately pleads that if he cannot prove his innocence in hell, he will suffer there forever. Although he is in disbelief, Yamane decides to defend Mikumo in order to prove his innocence, and as they investigate the incident, shocking facts come to light.
 
Transistor Gijutsu no Asshuku: Depicts the battle of men who risks their lives to compress the electronics magazine “Transistor Technology.” Published monthly, it’s a fairly thick book, so much so that Japanese homes are too small to store it. So people thought “why not compress Transistor Technology? Someday it will surpass the knowledge of daily life and become a global competition”. Kajiwara Michio inherited the compression technique using an iron from a man known as the “God of Compression.”

Will consist of four episodes.

Tomobiki Mura: Hara Nanoka stars as the lead role. After receiving news that their friend Yamato has passed away, Rin and her friend Souma head to the village where he was born and raised to attend his funeral. It is a village where funerals are held according to strange customs…

Jinrui no Takara: Takasugi Mahiro is Eisuke, a freeter who lives day-to-day, moving from one part-time job to another while creating graffiti art. One day, as he was drawing graffiti art as usual, he was suddenly taken away by Mishima Sakon of the World Cultural Heritage Conservation Organization (WCCO), who declares “You are truly a treasure of humanity! We must protect you.”. Left bewildered in a white room with almost no furniture, Eisuke hears a faint woman’s voice singing from somewhere. When he called out through the ventilation duct, a woman named Miharu responds…

Shuukan Moto-Koibito wo Tsukuru: Takahashi Hikari stars in the leading role for “Shuukan Moto-Koibito wo Tsukuru,” based on a manga / webcomic by Taniguchi Natsuko. Takahashi plays Nanami, a high-achieving college student attending seminars with the goal of starting a business. After being dumped by her boyfriend Otani, who was also her teacher, she kept this fact hidden from those around. However, none of her friends had ever seen Otani. One day, Nanami discovers a magazine called “Weekly Publication: Making a Former Lover,” which allows her to create an android of her ex-boyfriend and begins making her ex-lover in order to heal her broken heart.

Tsuioku no Youkan While out visiting a secluded waterfall, Amagiri Kozue (Wakamura Mayumi) slips while walking along a wet mountain path and loses consciousness as a result. After a while, she woke up to find herself in a bed inside an old Western-style mansion, with her injuries from the fall already treated. As Kozue, still disorientated, went to leave the room, a young man who introduces himself as Hoshino Akira (Jesse) appears. He told her, “We were the ones who treated your injuries,” and then led Kozue to the dining room. There, she sees an elderly man, a madam, and a high school girl.

[City Lives]: The largest animal in the world is not an animal at all—it’s a “city.” A massive lifeform that mimics cities, reading human memories and disguising itself as urban landscapes, “the city” is the world’s biggest living creature. Sato Shori (playing himself) and documentary filmmaker Mizutani Kentaro, (Itakura Takeshi) were told they were filming an animal documentary, but when they waited in their car, they were suddenly swallowed up and trapped inside “the city.” In order to document the mysterious ecology of “the city,” they begin an intensive investigation, focusing on Tsuji Misaki (Katayama Yuki), the only human living within the city—an agent of the Urban Organism Protection Agency. As they witness strange phenomena inside the city, such as mobile building complexes roaming the wilderness and artificial “pseudo-residents” grown as part of the city itself, Sato and Mizutani work to uncover why the city has trapped them inside.

[Ah Sokoku yo!]: “I” (Onoe Matsuya), who works in program production at a television station, receive a phone call from my superior (Tsuda Kanji). The small African nation of the Republic of Pagizia had suddenly declared war on our country, with two small ships approaching to attack. Following my superior’s orders, “I” am assigned to cover a special news program and begin investigating the newly independent Republic of Pagizia. What could be the reason for this small nation’s attack? And what will be the fate of our country!?

[第1回田中家父親オーディション]: Tanaka Kenichi (Tanaka Takushi), a salaryman, was spending his days entirely consumed by continuous overtime work. On this day, after finishing overtime and returning home, his wife Azusa (Ikezu Shoko) told him she had an important announcement. Thinking it might be about divorce, he instead learned that she had decided to hold the “First Tanaka Family Father Audition.” This news spread quickly throughout society, and Kenichi found himself challenged to participate in an audition for the Tanaka family father, competing against unique members…

[Free]: Shinozaki Rika (Seino Nana), who works at a video production company, was overwhelmed with editing videos for men’s beauty treatments. On the screen, various stock footage “men” lined up – a man “cooking”, a man “having an evening drink”, a man “standing still” – featuring an older gentleman (Fukutsu Kenzo). Rika paused her work and returned from a break, only to find that the stock footage “middle-aged man” who had been on her computer screen had vanished. When she heard a sound from the seemingly empty office and turned around, the “middle-aged man” who had been on the screen was standing right there…

Anata Hatabutsukan: During a nighttime drive, Shinoda Misaki (played by Kawaguchi Haruna) and her boyfriend Ito Kensuke (played by Kasamatsu Sho) lose their way. Hoping to ask for directions, the couple stops at a peculiar place called the “Anata Hatabutsukan (Museum)”
Inside, Misaki discovers displays featuring her childhood photos, school uniforms, and other mementos tracing her life’s journey. As they continue exploring, they come across exhibits about their first meeting and dates, leading Misaki to wonder if this might be a romantic surprise prepared by Kensuke.
However, in the next room, they encounter a quiz corner asking how many ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends each has had. While Kensuke enjoys the game, Misaki begins to feel an unsettling sense of dread…

Nanakai Tousou: When Morisaki Hokuto (Ito Atsushi) returns to his apartment after work, he finds a city hall official waiting for him. The official informs him that he needs to vacate his unit and a new place has been arranged for him. The government has decided to remove the seventh floor from all buildings nationwide after a string of mysterious incidents occurring exclusively on seventh floors. The next day, Morisaki’s coworker and fellow seventh-floor resident Namikawa (Yoda Yuki) invites him to a meeting of the “Seventh-Floor Citizens,” a group determined to protect their floor at all costs. As Morisaki joins their resistance, his bond with Namikawa grows—until tragedy strikes when their leader is arrested by the police…

Tomaranakereba Ikirarenai Game: Tokunaga Masao (Yamada Ryosuke) ends up hospitalized after being attacked by a friend whose bankrupt company he had guaranteed. Adding to his despair, his wife threatens to leave him if he remains in debt.
He decides he has nothing to lose after receiving a mysterious invitation to play a game of “Daruma-san ga koronda.” The anonymous letter contains one simple rule: “After the signal, stand still for 30 seconds. The last one remaining wins 3 billion yen.”
As huge sums of money are deposited each time he clears a round, Tokunaga becomes drawn deeper into the deadly game. Then he discovers that his friend (Watanabe Daichi) is also a participant…

“Tales of the Bizarre” is an anthology drama series in which storyteller Tamori takes viewers into “strange worlds.”
The lineup for this episode includes four new short “stories”.
“Itai wa Ittai…” begins when veteran detective Sakuraba Takao, played by Kamikawa Takaya, arrives at a detached house that has become the scene of a mysterious incident.
As Sakuraba steps inside, he discovers the bodies of a man and a woman lying in a second-floor bedroom. After leaving the room, he continues his investigation in the garden, only to realize that he has forgotten his gloves. When he returns to the bedroom to retrieve them, he is met with a shocking sight: the woman’s body, which had been there only moments earlier, has vanished without a trace.
 
In “Jikka Jimai,” Natsume Saya (Shuri) returns to her childhood home to clear out her late mother’s belongings. But when discarded items mysteriously reappear and her mother’s friend Matsuno Satomi begins acting increasingly obsessed, Saya finds herself drawn into a disturbing mystery tied to her mother’s lingering influence and the secrets surrounding the family home.
 
Story 3 is “Oji-san ni Naritai,” which follows Koharu, an elementary school girl who dreams of becoming an old man as soon as possible. Possessing a mysterious costume that allows her to transform into a remarkably lifelike old man, Koharu witnesses her father doting on his daughters while treating his own mother coldly. After seeing this troubling behavior, she makes a life-changing decision.