# Oh! My Boss! Love Is a Separate Volume

Oh! My Boss! Love Is a Separate Volume is a Japanese romantic drama that was broadcast on TBS Television in the Tuesday 10 PM slot (22:00 – 22:54 JST) from 12 January to 16 March 2021.

## Synopsis

Nami Suzuki (Mone Kamishiraishi) was an ordinary woman who thought that normal was the best way to do everything. She had a crush on and wanted to marry her childhood friend Kenya, so she moved to Tokyo from her native Kumamoto and planned to have a job interview in the facilities management department of a publishing company.
However, she met Junnosuke (Yuta Tamamori) on a bridge. The bench there had a fresh coat of paint on it, and she sat down and soiled the clothes she was wearing for the job interview. She lamented that she would not be able to go to the interview. Junnosuke then bought her luxury brand clothes and gave her a luxury brand bracelet he wore as a good-luck charm.
After the interview, she was appointed not to the facilities management department but to the editorial department of a fashion magazine as an assistant to the editor-in-chief, Reiko Horai (Nanao), who had just returned from Paris. Beautiful and able to do her job, Reiko's assistant was fiercely busy and she grumbles. However, Reiko reprimanded Nami for not taking her job seriously.
When Nami met Junnosuke again, he asked her to met his elder sister and pretend to be his girlfriend. However, the sister was Reiko, the editor-in-chief. Their father was the president of a large company and came from a wealthy family.
At first, Nami thought that normal was good for everything, that she wanted to get married and lead a normal woman's life, but her encountered with Reiko and her colleagues in the editorial department changed her way of thinking and helped her to grow as a member of society. And through her romance with Junnosuke, she grows into an adult woman.

## Character
### Nami Suzuki (age 23) – Mone Kamishiraishi

    Protagonist. Stability-oriented person who "wants to have a normal, ordinary happiness like other people."
    Born in Kumamoto Prefecture. She chases after her childhood friend Kenya, whom she has a crush on. And she had interviews for a job in the equipment management department of Otowado Publishing, a major publishing house in Tokyo, but is assigned to the editorial department of the fashion magazine MIYAVI.

### Reiko Horai – Nanao

    Youngest editor-in-chief of fashion magazine MIYAVI.
    At the young age of 30, she became the first Japanese editor-in-chief in Europe of the fashion magazine Marie Claire. She was headhunted by Ugajin and returned from Paris for the launch of MIYAVI. In addition to her well-groomed appearance and outstanding style, she is a career woman with a strong sense of responsibility for her work.

### Junnosuke Horai – Yuta Tamamori

    The son of the president of a major paper company and freelance photographer.
    He has a fateful encounter with Nami on the bridge. He asks Nami to pretend to be his lover and meet his sister Reiko.

### Ryota Nakazawa – Shotaro Mamiya

    Editorial staff member of MIYAVI.
    He is stoic about his work as an editor and is often shunned by Nami and Haruka because of his harsh words. However, contrary to his words, he is actually considerate and caring.

### Shinichi Ugajin – Yūsuke Santamaria

    Vice-president of Otowado Publishing. He is a brilliant man full of leadership skills and headhunts Reiko.

### Haruka Izumi – Sayu Kubota

    Deputy editor-in-chief of MIYAVI. She aspires to become a member of the editorial staff of a fashion magazine and sees working under Reiko as an opportunity.

### Rio Hasumi – Kana Kurashina

    Former lover of Junnosuke. Professional violinist active abroad.

### Ichita Oashi – Asei (Miki)

    Exclusive camera assistant to Junnosuke. Respects Junnosuke. Born in Osaka.

### Shonosuke Horai – Takashi Ukaji

    Father of Junnosuke and Reiko. Head of the Horai Group.

## Staff

* Screenplay – Shigenori Tanabe
* Production – Akiko Matsumoto
* Direction – Kenta Tanaka, Yasuharu Ishii, Takeyoshi Yamamoto, Taichi Imura
* Organiser – Masako Miyazaki
* Music – Hideakira Kimura
* Theme song – "Luv Bias" by Kis-My-Ft2 (Avex Trax)
* Script supervisor – Emi Sugiyama
* Photography supervisor – Yusuke Takeda
* Photography supervisor – Ryota Haraguchi
* Kumamoto dialect instruction – Emika Nakahara
* French and English language instruction – Free Wave
* Production – TBS Sparkle Ltd., TBS Television (Japan)

## Broadcast schedule

| | Date | Subtitle | Directer | Rating |
| #1 | 12 January 2021 | An ordinary girl becomes a scullery maid for a devil boss! | Kenta Tanaka | 11.4% |
| #2 | 19 January 2021 | Operation Fool the Boss with a Fake Girlfriend! | Kenta Tanaka | 11.3% |
| #3 | 26 January 2021 | A big upheaval with demon bosses vs. subordinates! | Yasuharu Ishii | 11.0% |
| #4 | 2 February 2021 | Love at the barbecue! | Takeyoshi Yamamoto | 11.6% |
| #5 | 9 February 2021 | Are we lovers? | Kenta Tanaka | 10.8% |
| #6 | 16 February 2021 | Graduated from being a scullery maid-like assistant? Living with a man who is like a puppy? | Yasuharu Ishii | 11.8% |
| #7 | 23 February 2021 | A reversal of fortune! I love you more than anything in the world! | Taichi Imura | 11.4% |
| #8 | 2 March 2021 | 10 things I want to do when I get a boyfriend. | Kenta Tanaka | 11.8% |
| #9 | 9 March 2021 | I love you... I want to be with you! | Yasuharu Ishii | 12.0% |
| #10 | 16 March 2021 | Someday the future will be... | Kenta Tanaka | 13.2% |
| Average rating 11.6% (ratings are from Video Research, Kanto region, households, real time). |||||

## Public response

* The number of views of the drama's first missed episode (total views on TVer (streaming service), TBS FREE and GyaO!) reached approximately 2.21 million in one week, making it the second most viewed drama of all time in the TBS Tuesday drama slot.
* The show received a strong response, recording a rating of 11.4% from the first episode, making it the first double-digit start for two films in the same slot, and ranking number one in global trends every week.
* This drama was voted No. 1 in "the Model Press" readers' list of the most addictive dramas of winter 2021.
* In the January (January-March) programme views ranking of TVer (streaming service), the official commercial TV portal, it broke the record for the highest number of views in the service's history held by "An Incurable Case of Love", coming in first place with 18.65 million views, a massive 3 million views ahead of second place.

### Bridge setting

The bridge that was an important setting for the scene where Nami and Junnosuke meet and reunite is the Nakame Park Bridge over the Meguro River in Meguro, Tokyo. There are actually no benches on this bridge, and benches were brought in for the filming. In 2024, Yuta Tamamori who played Junnosuke, visited this location and introduced it on his Instagram, which became internet news.

### Awards

* 107th The Television Drama Academy Awards - Best Supporting Actress Award - Nanao
* Drama Song Award – "Luv Bias" by Kis-My-Ft2 (Avex Trax)

## Oh! My Tsundere! Love Is a Separate Volume

Oh! My Tsundere! Love is a Separate Volume is spin-off drama of Oh! My Boss! Love is a Separate Volume. It was distributed on the Paravi distribution service after the main drama had finished. The story depicts a love affair between two contrasting characters: editorial assistant Haruka Izumi, who has the worst first impression of senior editor Ryota Nakazawa, and editor Kazumi Wada, who fell in love with Nakazawa on the first day they met, and the "Tsundere" poker-faced guy Nakazawa.

### Main cast

* Ryota Nakazawa – Shotaro Mamiya
* Haruka Izumi – Satoru Kubota
* Kazumi Wada – Yuzuki Akiyama

### Staff

* Screenplay – Takeshi Miyamoto
* Direction – Taichi Imura, Naoki Kato
* Music – Hideakira Kimura
* Producer – Akiko Matsumoto
* Planning – Masako Miyazaki
* Production – TBS Sparkle Ltd., TBS Television (Japan)

### Streaming schedule

| | Date | Subtitle | Director |
| #1 | 12 January 2021 | The "best" love in the world begins. | Taichi Imura |
| #2 | 19 January 2021 | I love what I love! | Naoki Kato |
| #3 | 26 January 2021 | Cycling for love is a dangerous love triangle! | Taichi Imura |
| #4 | 9 February 2021 | Valentine's Day for unrequited loves. | Naoki Kato |
| #5 | 23 February 2021 | We don't give up even if it's black and white! | Naoki Kato |
| #6 | 9 March 2021 | If you can't push, try pulling! | Naoki Kato |
| #7 | 16 March 2021 | Happy ending? | Naoki Kato |