Hold on, Harutora-kun

Hold on, Harutora-kun (ちょっと待とうよ、春虎くん) is a Japanese Boys' Love series in MBS's late-night Drama Phil slot, adapted from Amekiri’s manga for Dear+.

Kishida Sui (Tsubasa Nakagawa) is a second-year at a boys' boarding school. Since being outed to the people around him he has kept himself safe by playing the boy everyone teases, laughing along and letting it pass. A face mask does the rest of the work. What looks like ease is a full-time job.

Then Kurobe Harutora (Masaya Sakuragi), a first-year on the basketball team, moves into his room. Harutora has no talent for the thing Sui has spent two years perfecting: he says what he feels, immediately, to the person he feels it about. The series watches what that does to someone who has trained himself never to answer honestly.

Around them are Sui's closest friend Daiki Shimizu (Rio Takahashi), Yuma Shibusawa (Aren Sakurai), Rui Sakuraba (Yuga) and Shun Tsuchiya (Gakuto Tanaka), who make up the dormitory world both boys have to live in.

Eight episodes of 25 minutes, directed by Keisuke Shibata and Masayoshi Kishida, written by Mikiko Takahashi and Ryuji Yoshizaki, with a score by Koji Endo. MBS credited an intimacy coordinator and an LGBTQ consultant on the production.