Second Blue

Naomitsu Nakamura, a freelance video editor, who's both shy and sincere, spends his days together with his close friends Anna Fujisaki, a freelance writer, and videographer Yoshiaki Saiki with whom he shares an office. His only source of anxiety in his life recently has been his client, director Igarashi, whom he has never met in person before. His arrogant behavior over e-mail correspondence drives him insane. Then comes Naomitsu's 30th birthday. Pushed by his friend's Anna's words and emboldened by alcohol, he signs up for a gay dating app and arranges to meet a guy named Sota with whom he matches immediately. The same evening, the two meet and share a kiss, Naomitsu's first-ever kiss. However, the nerves and alcohol cause him to vomit on the spot, and the evening comes to a disastrous close. The next day, the director lgarashi finally comes to the office to introduce himself in person. However... the man who appears before Naomitsu is none other than Sota.

Hamada Maki is a woman who aspires to be a screenwriter. Her grandfather, Shoichi, runs a mini-theater in Tokyo. One day, Maki meets Arai Kunihide, who works for a film distribution company, and they fall in love. As the relationship deepens, Arai tells Maki that he is a third-generation Korean resident of Japan. From that moment on, their relationship begins to change little by little.

Tateishi Daichi, an employee at a book design company in Tokyo, has very little interest in real life romance and prefers romance found in books. That is until one day, he reunites with Ichikura Kousuke, someone he knew from his university days who is now working as an editor at a big publishing house. This stirs memories in Daichi as Kousuke was the one person in his life he wanted to forget. (Source: Sketchy BL Subbing Team)