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About this archive
Osaka rather than Tokyo is the thing worth knowing about Mainichi Broadcasting System. Japan’s commercial television is organised around Tokyo networks, and MBS is the Kansai anchor of one of them, which gives it a degree of programming independence that shows in what it puts out late at night.
The record filed here came from Drama Phil, the slot MBS reserves for short-run drama broadcast after midnight. That placement is a production category in its own right in Japan, not a scheduling accident: it means a shorter order, a smaller budget, and far more latitude over subject matter than a prime-time commission would carry. A considerable share of the Japanese material on this site arrives through slots of exactly this kind.
The broadcast itself is a regional terrestrial signal, so a viewer abroad reaches the same series through one of the streaming licensees the title page lists alongside it. What this credit records is where the drama was made and first shown, which is a different question from where it can now be watched.
MBS ACROSS THE SITE
There are 5 records under MBS. All of them are recorded as TV Series.
Every one of them is from Japan.
The earliest dates from 2024 and the most recent from 2026. The busiest year is 2026, with 4 of them.
A typical entry here runs 8 episodes of about 25 minutes.
One production house recurs: C&I Entertainment (2).
The genres attached to them most often are Romance (5), Drama (4) and Youth (2).
The longest run recorded here is When It Rains, It Pours: Mellow Rain at 10 episodes. The shortest is Love Is Better the Second Time Around at 6 episodes.
The most recent entry on this list is How Do We Relationship?, from 2026.
Every figure above is counted from this site’s own records and changes as records are added.
