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Jyouou

2005–2010 · 3 seasons

A breezy, lightly comic drama about debt and ambition, easy to dip into and watch a young woman hustle her way through a competitive nightlife world.

Created by: Ryo Kurashina
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Starring: Noboru Kaneko, Kirara Asuka, Nana Ogawa

Overview: Fujisaki Aya is a young college student whose family is 150 million yen in debt after her father's corporation went bankrupt. To earn the money, she enters the Hostess Grand Prix.

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Created by: Ryo Kurashina
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Starring: Noboru Kaneko, Kirara Asuka, Nana Ogawa

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
ambition
family
survival
identity
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	5
Realism	6
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	4

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Genres: drama, comedy
Created by: Ryo Kurashina
Starring: Noboru Kaneko, Kirara Asuka, Nana Ogawa, Mikie Hara, Gota Watabe, Ai Haneda, Miki Asaoka, Megumi Kagurazaka
Length: 3 seasons, 36 episodes, 40 min each
Network: TV Tokyo
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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