


Carnation is a Japanese television drama that aired in the Asadora slot on NHK from 3 October 2011 to 31 March 2012. It is the 85th Asadora. It is based on the life of the fashion designer Ayako Koshino in Kishiwada, Osaka. Ayako was the mother of the internationally famous designers Hiroko Koshino, Junko Koshino, and Michiko Koshino.
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It follows a group of people who are still living in temporary housing 12 years after a natural disaster called "Nani" destroyed their town.

Murai is an introverted high-school student with a look that nobody notices. Long hair, curved gait, he is not really what one could call a beauty canon, nor even a person you want to dwell on… He shyly confesses to the young teacher he loves, the beautiful and sparkling Tanaka, an inveterate otaku who only has eyes for the characters in her games. However, she simply declines his feelings… The next morning, Murai comes back to school transformed from head to toe. He has dyed and cut his hair and now wears the style of Tanaka's favourite character! Murai will do everything to seduce her and attract her attention!

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Sato, a young woman from a modest family, marries Kenta, a young man from a well-to-do and respected family. She settles in the family's home, where she meets the father, Keiichi, a strict man, Mihoko, the unfriendly sister-in-law and Akito, the elder brother. Although not everyone sees the union of Kenta and Sato in a very good light, the father seems to have great plans for our heroine.

After witnessing his captivating performance in a play, Takara quits his job to pursue acting under the watchful eye of Yujin. However, as the genius protege eclipses the teacher, how will their codependent relationship survive?

This work is an ensemble drama in which three cleaners who specialize in erasing the dirt of the past, and a reporter who exposes the mistakes of the past. In Kinshicho, Sumida Ward, Tokyo, at the house cleaning shop “Seiriseiton,” three childhood friends work together: Kaku Kento portrays the president Kinomoto, Emoto Tokio as the wheelchair bound Yu-chan, and their junior colleague. They clean places with complicated backgrounds, such as the company ruined by a young enterpeuner who was seen as “The Emperor’s New Clothes;” the home of a couple who lost their daughter to bullying ten years ago, and the Filipino pub where a childhood friend worked. Meanwhile, an investigative reporter was posting QR codes around town that, when scanned, would reveal the truth about unsolved cases and scandals.

"Newlyweds" Keiichi and Akira Hirose have moved to a new city. Keiichi, who works as an author, and Akira, who works with kindergartners, are hiding a big secret from the people around them.

Kobayashi Haruka fell in love before finding out that her boyfriend was actually a married man. At that time, a regular customer predicts that she will wind up meeting 3 different men. She begins encountering them just as predicted. There's the hairdresser Shintaro, the band vocalist Yu, and the bartender Yoshi. What will come of these fateful encounters?

In 1972 Okinawa, a $1 million heist risks a US-Japan crisis. A covert police team has 18 days to recover the cash, uncovering ties to gangs, elites, and US forces.

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Edo Moiselle is an exhilarating, heart-warming comedy that takes place in Tokyo. It is about a big-hearted Edo era courtesan looking for solace for her weary soul while getting wrapped up into trouble wherever she goes. An entertaining love story that transcends the ages.

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Imachi Jun is a newbie novelist whose debut work was a big hit. Her first work was sold so well that it pressures her, making it impossible for her to continue her work. Jun then escapes from Tokyo and ends up at Cable-Hachimangu-Sanjo Station, a station from the Keihan Electric Railway, where she meets former chef, Sousuke, and elementary school student, Kokoro. Jun ends up living at a lodging "Kizunaya" and learns about life while interating with the guests there.

Kenzaki Motoharu has been married for five years. Throughout these five years, he has been receiving stress from his boss and wife, Mio. Motoharu begin to wonder why he ended up marrying with Mio. While showing dissatisfaction and regret with his married life, he suddenly slipped back in time and witnessed his wife getting replaced.

Miyoshi Hayashi is one quirky high-school student who enjoys doing fun things that don't always quite make sense. Despite being hard to pin down, his mysterious charm never fails to draw others to him. In order to finance his activities, he sometimes helps out at his parents' restaurant, allowing him to continue living by his motto, "It's comfortable to have enough free time to waste."

Kakinoki Kukichi is a doctor who runs a small clinic in Kyoto. He specializes in making house calls and even helps his patients with shopping and taking care of their bonsais.

Four adults suddenly become third grade students and do their best to live a meaningful life.

Nami Suzuki is an ordinary girl with no particular dream and only wants a moderate amount of work and love. She decides to go to Tokyo to chase after her crush, Kenya. However, instead of working at the equipment management department where Kenya belongs, Nami has been assigned to the magazine editorial department and meets Reiko Hōrai, the youngest editor-in-chief, who is very smart but has a poisonous tongue. Nami becomes stressed as she constantly gets criticized by Reiko for her poor working performance. At the same time, Nami meets cameraman Junnosuke, a son from a rich family who made a surprising proposal to Nami. Nami,mwho used to want a moderate amount of work and love, is now running at full speed towards both.

Tatsuya Fujiwara plays a talented detective who trades hardened criminals for troubled teenagers. Placed in an unruly public junior high school, he gets to work contending with the many problems it faces and uncovers some more serious ones. While the detective tries to operate in the hard-line way he knows best, he finds himself confronted by a skeptical and fiery teacher, played by award winning actress Yoko Maki.
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151 episodes • 2011
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
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| 1 | Yearning | Oct 3, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Oct 4, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Oct 5, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Oct 6, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Oct 7, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Oct 8, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Episode 7 | Oct 10, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Episode 8 | Oct 11, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Episode 9 | Oct 12, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Episode 10 | Oct 13, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Episode 11 | Oct 14, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Episode 12 | Oct 15, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Episode 13 | Oct 17, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Episode 14 | Oct 18, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Episode 15 | Oct 19, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Episode 16 | Oct 20, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Episode 17 | Oct 21, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Episode 18 | Oct 22, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Episode 19 | Oct 24, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Episode 20 | Oct 25, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Episode 21 | Oct 26, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Episode 22 | Oct 27, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Episode 23 | Oct 28, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Episode 24 | Oct 29, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Episode 25 | Oct 31, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Episode 26 | Nov 1, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 27 | Episode 27 | Nov 2, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 28 | Episode 28 | Nov 3, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 29 | Episode 29 | Nov 4, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 30 | Episode 30 | Nov 5, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 31 | Episode 31 | Nov 7, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 32 | Episode 32 | Nov 8, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 33 | Episode 33 | Nov 9, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 34 | Episode 34 | Nov 10, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 35 | Episode 35 | Nov 11, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 36 | Episode 36 | Nov 12, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 37 | Episode 37 | Nov 14, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 38 | Episode 38 | Nov 15, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 39 | Episode 39 | Nov 16, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 40 | Episode 40 | Nov 17, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 41 | Episode 41 | Nov 18, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 42 | Episode 42 | Nov 19, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 43 | Episode 43 | Nov 21, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 44 | Episode 44 | Nov 22, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 45 | Episode 45 | Nov 23, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 46 | Episode 46 | Nov 24, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 47 | Episode 47 | Nov 25, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 48 | Episode 48 | Nov 26, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 49 | Episode 49 | Nov 28, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 50 | Episode 50 | Nov 29, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 51 | Episode 51 | Nov 30, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 52 | Episode 52 | Dec 1, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 53 | Episode 53 | Dec 2, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 54 | Episode 54 | Dec 3, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 55 | Episode 55 | Dec 5, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 56 | Episode 56 | Dec 6, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 57 | Episode 57 | Dec 7, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 58 | Episode 58 | Dec 8, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 59 | Episode 59 | Dec 9, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 60 | Episode 60 | Dec 10, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 61 | Episode 61 | Dec 12, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 62 | Episode 62 | Dec 13, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 63 | Episode 63 | Dec 14, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 64 | Episode 64 | Dec 15, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 65 | Episode 65 | Dec 16, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 66 | Episode 66 | Dec 17, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 67 | Episode 67 | Dec 19, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 68 | Episode 68 | Dec 20, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 69 | Episode 69 | Dec 21, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 70 | Episode 70 | Dec 22, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 71 | Episode 71 | Dec 23, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 72 | Episode 72 | Dec 24, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 73 | Episode 73 | Dec 26, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 74 | Episode 74 | Dec 27, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 75 | Episode 75 | Dec 28, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 76 | Episode 76 | Dec 29, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 77 | Episode 77 | Dec 30, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 78 | Episode 78 | Dec 31, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 79 | Episode 79 | Jan 2, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 80 | Episode 80 | Jan 3, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 81 | Episode 81 | Jan 4, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 82 | Episode 82 | Jan 5, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 83 | Episode 83 | Jan 6, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 84 | Episode 84 | Jan 7, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 85 | Episode 85 | Jan 9, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 86 | Episode 86 | Jan 10, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 87 | Episode 87 | Jan 11, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 88 | Episode 88 | Jan 12, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 89 | Episode 89 | Jan 13, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 90 | Episode 90 | Jan 14, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 91 | Episode 91 | Jan 16, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 92 | Episode 92 | Jan 17, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 93 | Episode 93 | Jan 18, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 94 | Episode 94 | Jan 19, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 95 | Episode 95 | Jan 20, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 96 | Episode 96 | Jan 21, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 97 | Episode 97 | Jan 23, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 98 | Episode 98 | Jan 24, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 99 | Episode 99 | Jan 25, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 100 | Episode 100 | Jan 26, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 101 | Episode 101 | Jan 27, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 102 | Episode 102 | Jan 28, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 103 | Episode 103 | Jan 30, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 104 | Episode 104 | Jan 31, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 105 | Episode 105 | Feb 1, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 106 | Episode 106 | Feb 2, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 107 | Episode 107 | Feb 3, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 108 | Episode 108 | Feb 4, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 109 | Episode 109 | Feb 6, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 110 | Episode 110 | Feb 7, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 111 | Episode 111 | Feb 8, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 112 | Episode 112 | Feb 9, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 113 | Episode 113 | Feb 10, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 114 | Episode 114 | Feb 11, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 115 | Episode 115 | Feb 13, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 116 | Episode 116 | Feb 14, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 117 | Episode 117 | Feb 15, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 118 | Episode 118 | Feb 16, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 119 | Episode 119 | Feb 17, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 120 | Episode 120 | Feb 18, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 121 | Episode 121 | Feb 20, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 122 | Episode 122 | Feb 21, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 123 | Episode 123 | Feb 22, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 124 | Episode 124 | Feb 23, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 125 | Episode 125 | Feb 24, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 126 | Episode 126 | Feb 25, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 127 | Episode 127 | Feb 27, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 128 | Episode 128 | Feb 28, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 129 | Episode 129 | Feb 29, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 130 | Episode 130 | Mar 1, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 131 | Episode 131 | Mar 2, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 132 | Episode 132 | Mar 3, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 133 | Episode 133 | Mar 5, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 134 | Episode 134 | Mar 6, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 135 | Episode 135 | Mar 7, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 136 | Episode 136 | Mar 8, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 137 | Episode 137 | Mar 9, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 138 | Episode 138 | Mar 10, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 139 | Episode 139 | Mar 12, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 140 | Episode 140 | Mar 13, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 141 | Episode 141 | Mar 14, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 142 | Episode 142 | Mar 15, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 143 | Episode 143 | Mar 16, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 144 | Episode 144 | Mar 17, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 145 | Episode 145 | Mar 19, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 146 | Episode 146 | Mar 20, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 147 | Episode 147 | Mar 21, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 148 | Episode 148 | Mar 22, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 149 | Episode 149 | Mar 23, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 150 | Episode 150 | Mar 24, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 151 | Episode 151 | Mar 26, 2012 | 0.0 |