Kenja no Ai: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Takanaka Mayuko is an editor of a literary magazine. She has been having secret rendezvous with Sawamura Naomi without the knowledge of his parents, Yuri and Ryoichi. Naomi is dependent on Mayuko and keeps seeking her. This is precisely Mayuko's "revenge" of two decades... 13-year-old Mayuko lived happily with her parents and Sawamura Ryoichi, a teenage boy she liked who stayed in a detached house on the grounds of their family estate. But her first love was stolen by Asakura Yuri, a new neighbour with whom she became fast friends. Little did Mayuko realise that Yuri wanted everything that was hers. One winter soon after they had become working adults, Yuri suddenly confessed that she was carrying Ryoichi's child and the couple got married. Mayuko was there to witness Yuri's childbirth and give a name to the boy at Yuri's insistence. She called him Naomi. -- Jdrama Weblog

Series details

• Title: Kenja no Ai
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Romance
• Premiere date: 2016-08-20
• Final broadcast date listed: 2016-09-10
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: WOWOW
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 19330

Cast and credited roles

• Miho Nakayama — Takanaka Mayuko
• Ryo Ryusei — Sawamura Naomi

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2016-08-20; final listed air date 2016-09-10; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from Kenja no Ai 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.