Close Range Love
2014 · 1 season · 12 eps · Drama
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In high school, Sakurai Haruka, Mirei and Kanata are good friends whom everyone envies. The three of them believed their relationship would remain like this forever. Then Haruka’s stepsister Ririko suddenly returns from overseas. After several years away, she has become beautiful to the extent that classmates call her “goddess”. Although Haruka has often built walls around other people, Ririko deliberately gets close to him. One night, she barges in all of a sudden and starts to cry against his chest. “I have no where to go. You’ll let me stay here, right?” Haruka is baffled by his pushy stepsister, Mirei secretly loves Haruka and Kanata has become aware of Mirei. The distance between Haruka, Mirei and Kanata who had taken it for granted that they would always be close, starts to change little by little
Directed by Hayato Kawai · Written by Yuko Matsuda
Network: Nippon TV
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Alan Abe Sakurai Haruka -
Anna Ishibashi Takizawa Mirei -
Rika Adachi Koto Ririko -
Yuta Kishi Ayukawa Kanata - F Foo Takahashi Kajiwara Mitsuteru
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Reo Nagatsuma Shiomi Go - Y Yuzu Higuchi Fujisawa Airi
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Amane Okayama Kiritani -
Airi Suzuki Maika
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