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三笠のキングと、あと数人

2025 · 1 season

A warm, gently comic summer story about friendship and finding purpose, with a bittersweet undertow.

Created by: Yusuke Sakakibara, Yuji Hariu
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Starring: Mahiro Takasugi, Tokio Emoto, Tokuma Nishioka

Overview: Two young men, one an aspiring idol and the other struggling to find his place, reunite and set out to transform their small town, leading to a chaotic yet soul-searching summer.

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Created by: Yusuke Sakakibara, Yuji Hariu
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Starring: Mahiro Takasugi, Tokio Emoto, Tokuma Nishioka

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
identity
coming-of-age
ambition
found family
Places: small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	6
Realism	7
Romance	2
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama, comedy
Created by: Yusuke Sakakibara, Yuji Hariu
Starring: Mahiro Takasugi, Tokio Emoto, Tokuma Nishioka, Shinnosuke Abe
Music: Yasuhisa Inoue
Length: 1 seasons, 6 episodes
Network: HBC
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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