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Can't Write! ~A Life Without Scenario~

2021 · 1 season

A gentle, wry look at creative frustration and domestic role reversal, easy to sink into with a warm, comic touch.

Created by
Yuki Saito, Keisuke Toyoshima
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Masaki Okada, Teppei Koike, Anna Yamada
Overview
Keisuke Yoshimaru is a screenwriter, but instead of working, he is responsible for all household chores. On the other hand, Keisuke's wife, Nami, is a popular novel writer under the name "Ririko Kōsaka". Nami is the breadwinner with outstanding fame and income. Keisuke is somehow satisfied with his current life, but, one day, the main writer of a prime-time drama suddenly drops out, and Keisuke was given the opportunity to write again. Although Keisuke starts writing with full of expectations, he begins to be swayed by various problems.

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Created by
Yuki Saito, Keisuke Toyoshima
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Masaki Okada, Teppei Koike, Anna Yamada
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 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
  • work
  • identity
  • family
  • ambition
  • parenthood
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Created by
Yuki Saito, Keisuke Toyoshima
Written by
Yasushi Fukuda
Starring
Masaki Okada, Teppei Koike, Anna Yamada, Fuma Kikuchi, Michiko Kichise, Toma Ikuta, Yunho, Kenta Hamano
Music
Akio Izutsu
Length
1 seasons, 8 episodes, 30 min each
Network
tv asahi
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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