It's Not That I Can't Marry, But I Don't Want To: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Miyabi is a single female doctor, who runs an aesthetic dermatology clinic in Aoyama. She is going to be forty years old soon but hasn't had a relationship for 5 years. At a school reunion, even though Miyabi gathers much attention at first as she is a "winner" with good looks, a good career and a high income, people's attitudes quickly change and they begin pitying her when they hear that Miyabi is still single. Meanwhile, she has a shocking encounter with a chef, Tokura at his Japanese restaurant when she pays a visit there with some female friends. Seeing Miyabi and her friends neglecting his culinary art, offended Tokura breaks her pride by pointing out why she cannot get married. While Miyabi gets upset at first, she somehow decides to take Tokura's strict lessons on love when she takes Sakurai - the man she had a crush on in the high school - to his restaurant.

Series details

• Title: It's Not That I Can't Marry, But I Don't Want To
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance
• Premiere date: 2016-04-15
• Final broadcast date listed: 2016-06-17
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TBS
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 14801
• IMDb ID: tt5266012
• TVDB ID: 309534

Cast and credited roles

• Miki Nakatani — Miyabi Tachibana
• Naohito Fujiki — Seiji Tokura

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2016-04-15; final listed air date 2016-06-17; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from It's Not That I Can't Marry, But I Don't Want To 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.