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Hotaru no Hikari: It's Only a Little Light in My Life

2007–2010 · 2 seasons

A gentle, amusing romance about an unmotivated woman and her tidy boss, easy to watch and often funny.

Created by
Satoru Hiura
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Haruka Ayase, Kazuki Kato, Naohito Fujiki
Overview
Hotaru works for a famous interior design company. It's a glamorous job, but Hotaru's private life is totally the opposite of glamorous. She lives alone, and when she isn't working, she's mostly lazing about her rented house in training wear. She's really not interested in doing anything, much less dating. "I'd rather lay around than fool around," is her motto. One day her landlord's son comes to inspect the rental property, not knowing that someone is living there. He is shocked at the mess, but not as shocked as Hotaru, as he turn's out to be her fastidious boss, Takano.

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  • Amazon Prime Video
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Created by
Satoru Hiura
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Haruka Ayase, Kazuki Kato, Naohito Fujiki
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • work
  • identity
  • family
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Created by
Satoru Hiura
Written by
Fumie Mizuhashi
Starring
Haruka Ayase, Kazuki Kato, Naohito Fujiki, Tomohiro Ichikawa, Osamu Mukai, Tomomi Maruyama, Ken Yasuda, Takuya Ide
Music
Yugo Kanno
Length
2 seasons, 21 episodes, 46 min each
Network
Nippon TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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