Series
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| Title | Debut | Ending | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Ohanahan (おはなはん) | 1966 | 1967 | Starring Fumie Kashiyama |
| 11 | Mayuko hitori (繭子ひとり) | 1971 | 1972 | Starring Karin Yamaguchi. Second highest rated Asadora with an average rating of 47.4%. |
| 12 | Ai yori aoku (藍より青く) | 1972 | 1973 | Starring Hiroko Maki. Screenplay by Taiichi Yamada. Third highest rated Asadora at 47.3%. |
| 15 | Mizuiro no toki (水色の時) | 1975 | 1975 | Starring Shinobu Ōtake. The first six-month Asadora. About a young woman aiming to become a doctor. Average rating of 40.1%. |
| 31 | Oshin (おしん) | 1983 | 1984 | Starring Ayako Kobayashi, Yūko Tanaka, and Nobuko Otowa – Oshin's perseverance pulls her through various challenges during her life. Episode on November 12, 1983 is the highest rated in Japanese television drama history, with 62.9 percent. |
| 34 | Miotsukushi (澪つくし) | 1985 | 1985 | Starring Yasuko Sawaguchi. Average rating of 44.3%. |
| 36 | Hanekonma (はね駒) | 1986 | 1986 | Starring Yuki Saito. Average rating of 41.7%. |
| 41 | Jun-chan no ōenka (純ちゃんの応援歌) | 1988 | 1989 | Starring Tomoko Yamaguchi in her acting debut. Average rating of 38.6%. |
| 48 | Hirari (ひらり) | 1992 | 1993 | Starring Hikari Ishida. Screenplay by Makiko Uchidate, who is a member of the Japan Sumo Association, and is involved in sumo matters, such as advancing rikishi to the rank of Yokozuna. The storyline evolves around sumo - as the heroine become a nutritionist and works within the sumo system. Average rating of 36.9%. |
| 55 | Futarikko (ふたりっこ) | 1996 | 1997 | About a female professional shogi player and her twin sister. Starring Hiromi Iwasaki and Maiko Kikuchi, with Kana Mikura and Mana Mikura (ManaKana) playing them as children. Average rating of 29.0% |
| 58 | Ten Urara (天うらら) | 1998 | 1998 | About a young woman training to be a carpenter who, through her own family situation, learns about the need for a barrier-free world. Starring Risa Sudo. |
| 59 | Yanchakure (やんちゃくれ) | 1998 | 1999 | About a young woman in Osaka who helps resurrect a ship-building company. Starring Miho Konishi. |
| 60 | Suzuran (すずらん) | 1999 | 1999 | Follows the life of a woman, raised in a coal town in Hokkaido by a father who worked on the railroad, from the 1920s to the 1930s. Starring Nagiko Tōno and Chieko Baishō. |
| 61 | Asuka (あすか) | 1999 | 2000 | Asuka learns to become a wagashi maker, even though wagashi is a heavily male-dominated field. Starring Yūko Takeuchi. |
| 62 | Watashi no aozora (私の青空) | 2000 | 2000 | About a young woman whose fiancé leaves her, pregnant, at the altar. With her son, she leaves for Tsukiji to make it on her own. Starring Tomoko Tabata. |
| 63 | Ōdorī (Audrey オードリー) | 2000 | 2001 | About a young woman involved in the Japanese film industry in Kyoto. Starring Aya Okamoto. |
| 64 | Churasan (ちゅらさん) | 2001 | 2001 | The first Asadora set in Okinawa. Starring Ryōko Kuninaka. |
| 65 | Honmamon (ほんまもん) | 2001 | 2002 | About a young woman striving to become a chef in Wakayama Prefecture. Starring Chizuru Ikewaki. |
| 66 | Sakura (さくら) | 2002 | 2002 | Sakura Matsushita is a third-generation Japanese-American, living in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her dream is to become an ESL teacher in Japan, and moves there to achieve her dream. |
| 67 | Manten (まんてん) | 2002 | 2003 | Starring Mao Miyaji. About a woman who studies to be a meteorologist. |
| 68 | Kokoro (こころ) | 2003 | 2003 | Starring Noriko Nakagoshi. Set in Asakusa, Tokyo. |
| 69 | Teruteru Kazoku (てるてる家族) | 2003 | 2004 | Starring Satomi Ishihara and based on a novel by Rei Nakanishi. First Asadora to average under 20% in ratings. |
| 70 | Tenka (天花) | 2004 | 2004 | Starring Ema Fujisawa as a young woman from Sendai, Miyagi |
| 71 | Wakaba (わかば) | 2004 | 2005 | Starring Natsuki Harada as a young woman who becomes a landscaper |
| 72 | Fight (ファイト) | 2005 | 2005 | Yuika Motokariya stars as 15-year old Kido Yū, living with her family in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. Yū faces tough times, and relies on the friendship of a horse to keep her spirits up. |
| 73 | Kaze no Haruka (風のハルカ) | 2005 | 2006 | Starring Eri Murakawa. Takes place in Yufuin, Ōita Prefecture. Haruka's goal is to become a travel agent, and moves to Osaka, leaving her father and sister behind, to achieve her dream. |
| 74 | Junjō Kirari (純情きらり) | 2006 | 2006 | Starring Aoi Miyazaki. Sakurako's dream is to become a jazz pianist. Events take place in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture. |
| 75 | Imo Tako Nankin (芋たこなんきん) | 2006 | 2007 | Based on a true story, Naomi Fujiyama plays the heroine role of Machiko Hanaoka - a 37-year old woman who dreams of becoming a novelist. She marries into an extended family. Events take place in the city of Osaka. |
| 76 | Dondo Hare (Perfect Blue Sky) (どんど晴れ) | 2007 | 2007 | Stars Manami Higa. Screenplay by Eriko Komatsu. Natsumi marries an heir of a high class ryokan, located in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. She then becomes the ryokan's okami or manager. |
| 77 | Chiritotechin (ちりとてちん) | 2007 | 2008 | Starring Shihori Kanjiya. The storyline focuses on the art of rakugo. Kiyomi's dream is to become a rakugoka, despite rakugo being a male-dominated field. |
| 78 | Hitomi (瞳) | 2008 | 2008 | Starring Nana Eikura. Hitomi's dream is to become a dancer of modern music. |
| 79 | Dandan (だんだん?) | 2008 | 2009 | Starring identical twins Mana and Kana Mikura (of Futarikko fame.) Finding each years after being separated as children, together they work at reaching their dreams as signers. |
| 80 | Tsubasa (つばさ?) | 2009 | 2009 | Tsubasa works at a local radio station, and eventually becomes a disc jockey. |
| 81 | Wel-kame (ウェルかめ?) | 2009 | 2010 | About a girl from Minami-cho, Tokushima who, inspired by seeing a sea turtles when she was six, strives to become a magazine editor. Lowest rated Asadora at 13.5%. |
| 82 | Gegege no Nyobo (ゲゲゲの女房) | 2010 | 2010 | Starring Nao Matsushita. Fumie is the wife of manga artist Shigeru Mizuki. The screen play and based on her rags to riches biography. |
| 83 | Teppan (てっぱん?) | 2010 | 2011 | Starring Miori Takimoto and Sumiko Fuji. Akari's natural mother is originally from Osaka. She moves to Osaka to live with her grandmother to learn more about her mother. She learns that her grandmother closed the okonomiyaki restaurant after Akari's teenage mother ran away. Akari then re-opens the restaurant. |
| 84 | Ohisama (おひさま) | 2011 | 2011 | Starring Mao Inoue. Yoko, the heroine's name, means "child of the sun," thus the title of the series Ohisama, which also meaning sun. Yoko's dream is to become a school teacher. But, she also experiences tough times during the Pacific War. |
| 85 | Carnation (カーネーション) | 2011 | 2012 | Starring Machiko Ono. Based on the life of famous fashion designer Ayako Koshino. Her three daughter would eventually all become fashion designers. |
| 86 | Umechan Sensei (梅ちゃん先生) | 2012 | 2012 | Starring Maki Horikita, who plays a young woman striving to become a physician in post-World War II Tokyo. |
| 87 | Jun to Ai (純と愛) | 2012 | 2013 | Starring Natsuna |
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