Manatsu no Cinderella (2023)

A story about a group of young people from various educational backgrounds and environments, who fatefully meet at the sea in the middle of summer, and grow up together as they confront with their complex feelings and bottled-up emotions.

Kamiya Naoki is a basketball player from a professional basketball team, JC Arcs. However, due to his relatively smaller size and his tendency to crack under pressure, he has been unable to show his true skills on the court since he went professional.

Shirakawa Riko is a cheerful, strong-spirited music-college graduate aiming to become a professional violinist but also struggling to find a placement in the professional music world.

Riko and Naoki's paths cross when Riko finds a cellphone which Naoki accidentally left on the bus but it takes some time before these complete strangers find themselves meeting again, striking up an unusual friendship. Can that friendship eventually lead to love?

Upon getting thrown out of his girlfriend Fujiko's apartment, Hiromi decides to head for the ocean. En route, he crosses paths with Kaito, an elite employee of a large multinational trading company in Tokyo who is running away from his problems at work after losing a key client.

The two stumble into a quiet B&B on the beach run by the aging surfer Masaru and his high-school-aged granddaughter Makoto. Hiromi immediately applies to work there for the summer, and Kaito is forced to join him after he loses his wallet. The two share a room, with Hiromi trying to make friends, and Kaito at first resisting, unimpressed by Hiromi's devil-may-care attitude.

Slowly over the ensuing episodes, Kaito becomes more and more at home in this sleepy rural town, and begins to wonder if he should give up his pursuit of success in the big city, and try to relax, and enjoy himself more. When he returns to Tokyo to finish his work, Hiromi and Makoto come to lure him back, but when he returns to the B&B, his boss and girlfriend Sakura likewise come looking for him.

Kamiya Naoki is a basketball player from a professional basketball team, JC Arcs. However, due to his relatively smaller size and his tendency to crack under pressure, he has been unable to show his true skills on the court since he went professional.

Shirakawa Riko is a cheerful, strong-spirited music-college graduate aiming to become a professional violinist but also struggling to find a placement in the professional music world.

Riko and Naoki's paths cross when Riko finds a cellphone which Naoki accidentally left on the bus but it takes some time before these complete strangers find themselves meeting again, striking up an unusual friendship. Can that friendship eventually lead to love?

While going back to Kinmen island during summer, Ah Kwan learns from the internet about a pretty girl called Chen Wen Qing, who emerged champion in the National Piano Competition. One day he coincidentally meets up with her. For both, this is the best summer holiday they ever had in their lives. Before going back, Wen Qing promises to Ah Kwan she would email him every day and coming next summer, she would find him in Kinmen again.

On top of one of the Pescadores Islands, where there's a deep blue ocean, salty winds, and also glittering sunshine, 21 years old Xia Ri and his friends are currently confronted with a successive of new tests. The Ba Li Mi Wei Lan business that Grandpa manages is faced with a financial crisis. At any time, they might lose everything that they have. Living with Grandpa andtaking care of each other is Xia Ri and Xia En. On one hand, they are helping out with running the lodge's business and on the other hand, they are awaiting for the return of their mother who has left the island. All the changes would take place with the appearance of Pin Hui and Jia Jun. Coming to the island with a secret mission in his hands, Jia Jun unexpectedly sinks into complications with love at this important moment. Coming on a business trip, Pin Hui got into a short love relationship with Xia Ri. Nobody was able to guess that this quadruple relationship of chasing love would unexpectedly involve the resentment and the animosity of the Xia and the Wu family. This battle of defending the island that was built because of love would test each and every person. How should they solve this succession of triangular problems? All these things that are independent and yet it is also entangled together, is just something that is hard for a person to predict. And at this important time, a mysterious person appears. He secretly bought the lodge and once again gave rise to a burst of great waves..

Kenting is like a loser's paradise. Located at the southern tip of Taiwan, its weather is always sunny and its beach beautiful. A place where people go to escape their lives and just have fun.

South Korean student Dong Ha met a Chinese student named May while studying in America several years back. The two students became friends but didn't realize the bond they had until they went their separate ways. Now, as an architect, Dong Ha travels to China in lieu of a business partner to work on a construction project. By coincidence, Dong Ha runs into May again, and they share their memories spent together as students in America. Dong Ha and May fall in love once again...

It remind me of this drama with similar story line of group of adults who got friends opposite sex & they all try overcome obstacles & hardship in their friendship. Starring famous Japanese actor & actresses.

Aoi Miura was born and grew up in Toyama Prefecture. He has an indecisive personality and does not like summer. He was the focal member of the high school swimming team, but he now works as an assistant at a small architectural office in Tokyo. One summer day, he meets his childhood friend and first love Akari Serizawa. During their school days they spent everyday hanging out together until the fireworks night in their 3rd year of high school. That night, Akari suddenly disappeared.

Shuta, Saku and Michiru have been best friends since they were kids. Tragedy strikes the friends when during the winter of 2010, Saku dies from a heart attack. After Saku's death, Shuta and Michiru become more distant. On the second year anniversary of Saku's death, Shuta boards a train in the Enoshima subway. Somehow, Shuta travels back in time to 2010, before Saku died from a heart attack. Although Shuta is confused by the time change, he attempts to save Saku by changing the past.

Taiga Kusunoki is a less than popular, tsundere, second-generation actor. Although he is the son of the famous and popular actor, Kotaro Kusunoki, his career is far below the level of his father's. Taiga develops an inferiority complex due to the huge difference between his image and his father's popularity to the point that his management company struggles to find work for him. Due to his lack of roles, he spends his days with Keita Ueno, a fellow second-generation actor with a similar plight as Taiga. As fate goes, the two friends go sky diving one day and Taiga loses control of his parachute, landing himself in a tree several miles away from his destination point. Shiori, a beautiful, cheerful woman, rescues him. Laughing away all her worries, Shiori is the exact opposite of Taiga and a huge fan of his famous father.

Sena is a college music graduate who dreams of becoming a professional musician and a world-class pianist. Unfortunately, he has not been able to find any breakthrough opportunities and has to settle for currently teaching piano at a local piano school.

Minami is an out-of-work model. On her wedding day, she was dumped by her fiancé, and when she rushed to her fiancé's apartment, she finds out that not only was her fiancé Sena's flatmate but that her fiancé had also skipped town along with all her savings. Rendered penniless, she then moves into Sena's apartment, occupying the empty room that was her former fiancé's.

The two down-on-their-luck persons with very different personalities find themselves bonding over their similar situations in life.

Hyun Jae is only 19-years-old, but he has a terminal illness and he does not have much time left to live. He leaves the hospital and goes back to high school. There, he falls in love with Soo Min.

Nakajima looks up to his father, who was a war photographer but can only get a job as an assistant for gravure magazines. Mizuno is a provisional high school teacher, currently on probation. Nishimura is Mizuno's best friend, whose boyfriend has been avoiding her since she discovered she was pregnant. Ichihara works at a magazine where he is being blackmailed into sexual favours by his chief editor. Park, on Twitter, takes on the persona of a doctor, when he is actually working at a company that sells medical equipment to disinterested doctors, and at the same time, trying to take care of his younger sister.
This is a story about the blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by Twitter and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves