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Beside the Hearth at Alice-san's House

2025 · 1 season

A gentle, unhurried return home, where quiet meals by the hearth slowly rebuild a friendship and soothe old distance.

Genres
Drama
Overview
Alice returns to her hometown after ten years to live in a farmhouse with an irori hearth, where shared meals and moments help rekindle a bond with a childhood friend.

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Drama
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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • healing
  • family
  • coming-of-age
  • isolation
Places
  • small town
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance3
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Miki Tomita, Tetsuo Shinohara
Written by
Yuko Imanishi
Starring
Fumika Baba, Ryuga Sato, Masaya Katō, Kokona Sumi, Moemi Katayama, Kotona Minami
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 23 min each
Network
BS-TBS
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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