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Chaser Game

2022 · 1 season

A light, workplace comedy-drama about a game creator managing difficult colleagues and tight deadlines, easy to watch with mild tension and humor.

Genres
Drama
Tagline
The game industry is in trouble.
Overview
Tatsuya Shindo (Keisuke Watanabe) has worked as a game creator for Dynamic Dream for the past 9 years. He dreamed of holding that job since he was a middle school student. Now, Tatsuya Shindo gets promoted to a middle management position within the company. He is excited to work in his new position as a manager, but what awaits for him are team members who are hard to deal with. A new project is also assigned to him. While working on the project, Tatsuya Shindo encounters various problems. Can he complete the project successfully?

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 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
  • ambition
  • friendship
  • identity
  • power
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour5
Realism7
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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Genres
drama
Starring
Keisuke Watanabe, Keisuke Higashi, Misato Ugaki, Hina Kagei, Takafumi Imai, Satoshi Kanada, Kyosuke Yabe, Yuma Wakabayashi
Length
1 seasons, 8 episodes, 30 min each
Network
TV Tokyo
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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