I Love You Just a Little Bit: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Mitsu is a 29-year-old woman who married "the number 2 man in her life," but has been unable to forget her first love, Arishima. When she accidentally encounters him after several years, she feels it is destiny calling, and the two spend one night together in secret from their spouses. Airtime himself has just begun a family of his own, with a newborn child, but he and Mitsu find themselves continuing their affair. While they at first enjoy what seems to be a no-strings at-tached affair, it gradually begets subtle changes in feeling. Mitsu's husband, Ryota, becomes aware of the affair and ups his devotion to her to keep her. Meanwhile, Arishima's wife, Reika, is a picture perfect mother and devoted wife, throwing this four-way relationship into an increas-ingly complicated web of mixed emotions.

Series details

• Title: I Love You Just a Little Bit
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Romance
• Premiere date: 2017-04-18
• Final broadcast date listed: 2017-06-20
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TBS
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 55 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 35424
• IMDb ID: tt6552026
• TVDB ID: 325893

Cast and credited roles

• Haru — Mitsu Watanabe
• Masahiro Higashide — Ryota Watanabe
• Riisa Naka — Reika Arishima
• Nobuyuki Suzuki — Koki Arishima

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2017-04-18; final listed air date 2017-06-20; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from I Love You Just a Little Bit on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.