Animals: Kikoku-hen

Shibata Ichiha, who entered a publishing company dreaming of becoming a fashion magazine editor, learns on her very first day that the magazine has been discontinued. With her dream crushed, she spends her days stagnating in the editorial department of a lifestyle magazine. Her fate takes a dramatic turn when she meets charismatic model and ultra–queen-like diva Haizawa Aria. Assigned to launch Aria’s new romance-advice column, Ichiha is even forced into working as its ghostwriter.

At her wits’ end, Ichiha visits a university hoping to interview a “specialist in the study of romance,” only to encounter Associate Professor Shido Tsukasa, a hyper-cool, human-averse researcher who studies not human romance, but animal courtship behavior. Though the two clash at first, they gradually come to realize that the ways animals express love contain unexpected hints for solving the modern dilemmas of work, romance, and human relationships.

Umi and Kazao are finally dating. Umi spends days deepening her love with Kazao, who is overseas, through video calls, and feels lonely that he can't get in touch with her.

When she discusses the situation with her best friend Makoto, she hears from Yuka that she saw Kazao walking with a woman in the downtown area.

A psychological drama about unhealthy interpersonal relationships explained often through elaborate flashbacks. Takanako Mayuko, who grew up in an idyllic mansion with the perfect loving family, blames her childhood best friend for everything that has gone wrong in her life. While maintaining the façade of friendship, Mayuko finalizes the revenge she’s been secretly plotting for decades.