Otona Joshi: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

A still-single 40-year-old Nakahara Aki has a successful career but struggles when it comes to love. She appears to be an attractive, independent and capable woman, but whenever she starts going out with a guy, she tries too hard and often ends up miserable. After experiencing a series of disastrous relationships, Aki is now fearful of falling in love.

Aki has two best friends she often gets together for a girl talk: Osaki Moeko an owner of a flower shop, and Sakata Midori, a divorced working mother raising three boys on her own.

At work, Aki has been put in charge of developing a role-playing romance game app with a group of team members who are all younger than Aki. One day, Aki approaches a scriptwriter famous for romantic dramas, Takayama Fumio, and asks him to be the supervisor/advisor for the game app development project. At their first meeting, the two get into an argument when Fumio makes a comment about being 40 and still being infatuated with crush-like romance...

Series details

• Title: Otona Joshi
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance
• Premiere date: 2015-10-15
• Final broadcast date listed: 2015-12-17
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Fuji TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 54 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 41437
• IMDb ID: tt4976536
• TVDB ID: 301226

Cast and credited roles

• Ryoko Shinohara — Aki Nakahara
• Michiko Kichise — Moeko Osaki
• Sawa Suzuki — Midori Sakata
• Yosuke Eguchi — Takayama Fumio

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-10-15; final listed air date 2015-12-17; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Otona Joshi 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.