# Oh My Boss! Love is a Separate Volume

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

## Synopsis

Nami Suzuki (Mone Kamishiraishi) was a very ordinary woman who thought that normal was the best for everything. Wanting to marry her childhood friend and unrequited love, Kenya Hioki(Atsuhiro Inukai), she moved from her hometown of Kumamoto to Tokyo. And she had a job interview at the equipment management department of a major publishing house, Otowado Publishing.
Nami was on her way to a job interview when she happened to meet Junnosuke(Yuta Tamamori) on a bridge. The bench there had a fresh coat of paint on it, and Nami unknowingly sat down and stained her suit for the interview. Nami lamented that she won't be able to go to the interview, so Junnosuke bought Nami some luxury brand clothes and gave her a luxury brand bracelet that he wore as a good-luck charm to help her get through the job interview.
After an interview, she was hired in the editorial department of a fashion magazine MIYAVI and appointed as a assistant to the editor in chief, Reiko Horai(Nanao (model)), who had just returned from Paris. The assistant to the beautiful and hard-working Reiko was extremery busy and Nami was dissatisfied, and that she was like a scullery maid. However, Reiko reprimands Nami for not being serious about her work.
Then, Nami met Junnosuke again. He asked Nami to pose as his girlfriend and meet his elder sister. The sister who she met was Reiko. Their father were the presidents of one of Japan's leading paper company, and they came from very wealthy families.
Trouble was constant in the editorial department of MIYAVI, but each time they successfully overcame it by working out a solution together with Reiko's ideas and their colleagues in the editorial department. Under these circumstances, Nami was not content with just being normal, but began to find her work interesting and actively engaged in her work.
Nami was severely heartbroken by her childhood friend Kenya, but she and Junnosuke later developed feelings for each other and became lovers. Junnosuke was longing for a career as a photographer and worked in Tokyo, occasionally holding exhibitions, but he was never recognised by the public. Later, Nami was upset when Junnosuke's ex-lover Rio Hasumi(Kana Kurashina) appeared in front of her, and Ryota Nakazawa(Shotaro Mamiya), a senior member of the editorial department who had feelings for Nami, confessed his love to her. However, after each of these various trials, their romantic relationship deepened.
The magazine was in a pinch because of the effects of the absorption of Otowado Publishing, which caused the magazine to cease publication. Reiko's quick thinking helped boost sales, but the company being absorbed removed Reiko as editor-in-chief. A new editor-in-chief arrived to take her place, but the job did not go well, and Reiko eventually returned again in response to the editorial staff's requests.
Junnosuke decided to give up his job as a photographer and returned to his hometown of Kanazawa to take over his father's business, and proposed to Nami. Nami, who had longed to get married, once readily agreed, but her feelings began to waver as she was just beginning to find the editorial work interesting. Junnosuke notices Nami's wavering feelings and decides to leave her.
Shocked by her break-up with Junnosuke, Nami was depressed for a while but concentrated on her work. Later, Reiko told her that Junnosuke had decided not to take over his father's business and was leaving for Cambodia to become a photographer. Before leaving for abroad, Junnosuke dropped by the editorial office and handed her an engagement ring, asking her to wait until he returned home as a full-fledged photographer, to which Nami agreed.
Three years later, Nami left the Miyabi editorial department and took a job at a company where Reiko had already changed jobs and is the editor-in-chief. She heard that the billboard for Cambodia tourism that Junnosuke filmed is in Shibuya, and went to see it, but Junnosuke was not there. She went to the bench on the bridge where they met. She finds Junnosuke there, who had returned to Japan, and they met again and kissed each other.

## 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. She is appointed assistant to the editor-in-chief, Reiko, and while she struggles with the gap between the job she envisions and Reiko's unreasonable demands, she gradually grows as a member of society as she overcomes these obstacles.

### Reiko Horai - Nanao (model)

    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, Nami is a career woman with a strong sense of responsibility for her work and is willing to get down on her knees to carry out her duties. She is strict with Nami, who lacks ambition, and gives her various assignments. As a young woman, she was expected to take over her father's business because of her excellence. However, she herself was interested in fashion and wanted to attend ESMOD and work fashion industry. However, her father denied her this dream and she left for Paris in disappointment.

### Junnosuke Horai - Yuta Tamamori

    The son of the president of a major paper company and freelance photographer. Brother of Reiko. Hobbies include motorcycling.
    He asks Nami to pretend to be his girlfriend in order to refuse an arranged marriage proposal from his mother and to bring his sister Reiko and his estranged father Katsunosuke together on the pretext of supporting his own love life. He has a gentle nature and was once lovers with violinist Rio, but accepted to break up with her when Rio said she wished to concentrate on her violin. This time, he gave up his own dream of becoming a photographer in order to respect his father's wishes and was about to give up his relationship with Nami and break up with her in order to respect Nami's wishes.

### Ryota Nakazawa - Shotaro Mamiya

    Editorial staff member of MIYAVI.
    He used to work on culture magazines and has no experience with fashion magazines. He is stoic about his work as an editor and is often shunned by Nami and Haruka because of his harsh words, but contrary to his words, he is actually considerate and caring, offering a helping hand when he sees that Nami and her colleagues are having trouble with their work. He is in love with Nami, who is growing through her work.

### 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. At first, she is sometimes harsh towards Nami, but after growing up as Reiko's assistant, she comes to recognise Nami as her rival.

### Rio Hasumi - Kana Kurashina

    Childhood friend of Junnosuke. Professional violinist active abroad.
    Horai family and her parents have a business relationship and she has known Junnosuke since kindergarten. When she studied at a music college in Italy, Junnosuke, who was one year younger than her and a high school student, asked her to be his girlfriend and they had a long-distance relationship, but she told Junnosuke she wanted to concentrate on her violin, so she left him. Ten years have since passed.

### 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.
    When Reiko, who was graduating from university, told him that she was interested in fashion and wanted to visit ESMOD, a fashion school in Paris. He said that it would be a waste for his daughter who graduated from a prestigious university and has top grades, not to take over the family business. It caused a rift between him and Reiko.

## Staff

* Screenplay - Shigenori Tanabe
* Produced by - Akiko Matsumoto
* Directed by - 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.

### The bridge where the drama filmed

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 (model)
* 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 |