Season 1
12 listed episodes · First aired January 10, 2014
Season overview
One half of the famous Japanese comedic duo – Cocorico – Naoki Tanaka plays our off-beat protagonist who is a masterfully talented lawyer, full of mystique and mystery. His whole business is predicated on the opportunity costs between men and women’s unfortunate relationships. His intention is never focused on using money to buy back their once lost love, but more from helping them achieve a fresh start on life and love. However the intertwined, complex relationships will test our talented lawyer as he litigates through these trouble and perhaps troubles of his own…
Episodes
The case of Kurasawa Kanae (Housewife), who is a homemaker aspiring to become a manga illustrator. Her husband is in charge of finances; he forces her to make do with an oppressively low allowance. In the shadows he ref…
E2Strikes back! W affair trail of cheating housewifeA beautiful homemaker Kodera Kiyomi is vexed by her cheating husband. While she is out gathering evidence of her husband’s affair, she comes to the realization of double-adultery. As a woman, she cannot bring herself to…
E3Middle aged divorce...bitter resentment of long-standing housewifeSaionji Fumiko (Housewife) had already decided to divorce her senior citizen husband, one year ago; she had to endure his moral harassment for decades. She has been saving up money from teaching flower-arrangement class…
E4Timid husband monster wife fierce counterattackIchikawa Tomohiro has reached a breaking point in his marriage to a monster wife, and comes to the Law Office of Hakamada for legal counsel. Most of his salary vanishes in expenditures of his wife’s purchases of expensi…
E5Crisis of Hakamada law firm!?Work doesn’t come around much at the Law Office of Hakamada, but suddenly there’s a crowd lined up to see him. At the end of Nonomura Kanae’s syndicated manga, the landlord Toyama Yoshie had taken initiative to place an…
E6Request to settle parent-child feudHakamada Yukio wins compensation lawsuits for his clients, so they can start their lives over. But who is his client this episode, but his own long-lost father? According to Yukio’s half-sister Suwa Natsuki, their 72-ye…
E740 year old single woman sneaks into unscrupulous marriage agency, watch out!The matchmaking company GET MARRIAGE has a list of people who are most unlikely to get married; they have a scam going of obstructing those members to keep squeezing membership fees from them. Yukawa Natsuko, the chief …
E8Child custody mediation...Ikumen stay at home dad vs career woman wifeCompensation lawyer Hakamada Yukio becomes friends with little kids? And who is the client this time but their father, Sakagami Takeshi? He was laid off a year ago and has been a stay-at-home dad, but in the meantime hi…
E9Kontsuma vs Kontsuma 2 wives fierce battleNishijima Aoi has been living with her common-law husband for two years, and he suddenly decides to call off the relationship. It seems her husband has found another woman...
E10Daughter-in-law determined to get alimony from relentless bullying Mother-in-lawThis episode's client is a victim of her mother-in-law Tomoe's incessant bullying: Yoshioka Miki slaves from morning till night at the tavern, like a laborer in a sweat shop. She invites Miki's husband's ex-girlfriend t…
E11Fate! Final battle with talented female lawyer nemesisThis episode’s client is Kurasawa Yoshihito, none other than assistant Nonomura Kanae’s ex-husband. You’d think he was caught cheating again, but no, it’s a case of double-adultery by his second wife Shiori, who is gett…
E12Fate! Final battle with talented female lawyer nemesisDivorce lawyer Hakamada Yukio gave a warning to the formidable attorney Karasuma Keiko, his ex-lover. But Keiko is no easy opponent, even as he tries to gather evidence with his assistant Nonomura Kanae, to prove that H…