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A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.

After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.

19-year-old Rui finds life disappointing but falls in love with Ama in Tokyo, who pierces her tongue. Shiba, a tatoo designer, becomes curious about Rui due to his sadist split. A love triangle ensues, involving violence and sex.

A child's horrific murder brings to light the haunted truth of an affair between her mother and a neighbor. As a magazine reporter investigates the case, he finds that nothing is as it seems.

Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Living in Kamata Town, Yuko divides her time between a variety of men friends, each with his own peculiarities. Her university classmate, Homma, suffers from impotence. "K", whom she meets on the net, is a self-confessed pervert. Then, there is a young gangster, Yasuda, who is a fellow manic depressive. Her cousin, Shoichi, is also on the scene, having left his family to pursue his mistress, only to be given the cold shoulder by her, too. Yuko seems to create a different persona depending on whom she is talking to at the time. Human contact is just as important for her as for anyone else, but sometimes her condition makes it difficult for others to relate to her for as long as she would like.

After meeting a handsome truck driver (Nao Omori) in the midst of an urban mini-mart, a 30-something freelance writer (Shinobu Terajima) embarks on a life-changing emotional journey of sexual self-discovery.

Gyagu Manga Biyori is hyperactive, random, and nonsensical, revolving around various plots and characters throughout the series. It makes absolutely no sense.

A cadre of backup dancers is left astray when their star singer moves on with her life and marriage. They each had their own ambition and hope, which subconsciously rested on the star power of the singer. When plan A does not work, they cling to plan B. When that does not work, in an act of desperation, they are assigned to plan C by their agency. A fight and unprofessionalism seems to put the Backdancers on permanent ice.

Miyuki is a single mother with a 10-year old boy Keiji. She is eager to make him a child model. Eventually, Keiji begins to get jobs rather constantly. But Keiji himself doesn't like the job much. He only does it because it pleases his mother, who hates empty pages in the schedule book. One day they attend a big audition. While Keiji wins first stages of the audition, he begins to feel distanced from the mother. It makes things worse for him when she gets a new boyfriend.

A cult leader is as cynical as the next and picks up a loose woman at a bar one night. This is followed by a car accident, which sends the woman into a coma. Anticipating attempts on the cult leader's life his assistant hires three thugs as bodyguards to the man. The cultist is holed up at his mansion in Okinawa and plots a surprise to his family and followers.

Hideyoshi Date (Katsunori Takahashi) is at his wits' end when we first meet him in. Deep in debt, with no job, no prospects, and no family, he's ready to end it all, and tries to do so, but he doesn't even have the nerve to commit suicide. Wacky events are set in motion when Densuke (Roi Hayashi), a grade school boy, gets into Hideyoshi's cab and demands to be taken to his prep school. Hideyoshi at first tries to get rid of him, but when he learns that Densuke comes from a rich family, he seizes on the opportunity to get himself out of his financial hole. Recalling the advice of an old prison mate (Takashi Sasano), Hideyoshi hits upon the idea of demanding ransom from Densuke's parents. Densuke is also on the run; he is impulsively running away from home because he hasn't been getting along with his parents lately. Complications ensue when Densuke's father turns out to be no ordinary business executive, but a yakuza boss (Sho Aikawa), who sends an army of underlings out to find Densuke and Hideyoshi. But in all of that, a special relationship is growing between them. Hideyoshi is starting to see the world from a new point a view, and is moved by the purity of Densuke's heart.

20 years ago, Reiko Shiotani and Naomi Sato were spies code-named Salt and Sugar. They carried out secret intelligence investigations. Now retired, they meet once again.