Duty First, Kiss Later

Duty First, Kiss Later (Japanese: キスは捜査のあとで, Kiss wa Sosa no Ato de) is a Japanese boys' love television drama from ABC Television in Osaka. It began on Monday 27 July 2026 at 0:10 am on the Kansai local broadcast, which is late Sunday night, with a first episode that started at 0:35. It ran for ten episodes and ended on 28 September 2026.

It is adapted from the manga of the same name by Suu, published by J Publishing, a series with more than 150,000 copies in circulation. Kokeshi Murata writes the scripts, and Takahiro Ouchi and Yoshifumi Asami direct. The producers are Yohei Fujita, Mami Terakawa and Taku Kawanishi of ABC Libra, and ABC holds the production credit.

The setting is a police station in a country town. Takoi Heisuke (多古井平助) is a kind, unmarried detective aged 38. Shiono Shu (塩野秀) is a sharp tongued, elite junior colleague. The drama follows the two as cases arrive and their working relationship turns into something harder to name, with a mix of crime investigation and the awkward feelings of two adults who do not say what they mean. By the eighth episode a rival for Shiono's attention has appeared in Date George (伊達ジョージ), and Takoi answers the challenge by saying that he is the one beside Shiono now.

Shu Watanabe plays Takoi and Saito (齋藤璃佑) plays Shiono. Haruka Kudo, Yuta Kanai, ドロンズ石本, Joji Shibue and 小方蒼介 are also in the cast. The theme song, Natsumeki, is performed by OCTPATH.