Title: Atashinchi no Otoko, アタシんちの男子
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Family, Comedy
Episodes: To be announced
Broadcast Network: Fuji TV
Broadcast Period: 2009 April 14 to (to be announced)
Timeslot: Tuesday 21:00
Theme Song: "Infinity" by Girl Next Door
Official Website: http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/atashinchi/index.html



Horikita Maki as Mineta Chisato (20yo)
Kaname Jun as Ookura Fuu (30yo, Eldest Son)
Okada Yoshinori as Ookura Takeru (27yo, Second Son)
Mukai Osamu as Ookura Shou (25yo, Third Son)
Yamamoto Yusuke as Ookura Masaru (22yo, Fourth Son)
Seto Koji as Ookura Satoru (17yo, Fifth Son)
Okayama Toshiki as Ookura Akira (12yo, Sixth Son)
Kusakari Masao as Ookura Shinzo (Chisato's Husband)
Takashima Reiko as Koganei Kyoko (Shinzo's legal adviser)
Yamamoto Koji as Tokita Shuuji (Shinzo's secretary)
Tsuruno Takeshi as Kokudo Yutaka (28yo, Chisato's confidant and supporter)
Tsurumi Shingo as Chisato's Father


Mineta Chisato’s (Horikita Maki) mother dies of an illness and her father, who is saddled with a debt of 1 million yen, also disappears. In a bid to flee from the debt collectors, she ends up staying in internet cafes while on the run. Then she meets the president of an established toy manufacturer who offers to assume the debt on condition that she marries him and she begins living together with six eccentric but handsome step-sons.

Translated by: Jdrama Weblog





Running away from bill collectors. Without a home.
This is a story about a homeless girl who kept her pride despite all this toughness and now happens to have to change a bit in order to become a family with 6 very unique men.

Horikita Maki becomes a homeless?

Homeless --- Nobody seems to care about this matter these days. People who are homeless now are restricted to cardboards as their homes in parks or subway stations. The number of young people without a job or a home also drastically increased and because of them the saying "Net Café Refugees" was born.

Horikita Maki plays a girl named Mineta Chisato who is such a person, a young 20-years-old girl who is moving from public parks to net cafés and back. Chisato lost her mother to an illness at a very young age and her father disappeared, making her the co-endorser for his debts and forcing her to run away from bill collectors every single day... The debts are high, she owes them 100 million yen. Night after night she got into a fight the bill collectors, at least until...!

One encounter with a man changed Chisato's life forever. The girl with her original feelings, "You don't need a family" and "Family isn't important" gets guided into a bit of a strange "family", but it's happiness and warmth are just the same as those of a real family.

It's the Ookura family that had been unbroken since the Edo period. For some reason all children who got born in this family are boys. Even the pet dog and the turtle are males. For generations they've been "masters of illusion", but nowadays they changed into some huge toy makers.

The present head of family Shinzo doesn't have a heir and therefore he picked 6 good-looking men and adopted them as his children in order to be able to entrust the company to someone after his death. However...They don't get a long very well with the eccentric Shinzo, plus none of them have a cooperative personality and are quite self-willed as a result to how they have been brought up. From one working in a host club, one working as a model and one being a gifted magician... All of them have very good looks, but they are all odd on their own and have very unique characters. However, at the same they all also suffer from loneliness, a trauma or other complexes. It's just natural that with those guys and a foolish head of the family, they don't show each other their feelings or see themselves as a family.

And now Chisato gets thrown into this strange household as the new wife of Shinzo? Moreover Shinzo suddenly dies right after their marriage....!!!

Siblings unrelated by blood and a very young stepmother living together!?
It's the beginning of the fight, "Young Mama Vs. Super Unique Siblings".
A "family" without any relation between the family members.
It's the beginning of the Ookura family to live together as a strange bunch in the strange villa called the "Trick Heart Castle."

The theme is "family!" A new kind of home comedy!!

Skipping this part as it's about families and patchwork families in general. A few more details about the girl Horikita is playing, but nothing we already know from the first press release.



Ookura Fuu is 30 years old.
He likes to call himself a free spirit, in other words, he doesn't have a job.
At first glance he seems like a careless person, but he's actually very reliable.
He sells paintings and things like that with flashy words as a stallholder, but he has a surprisingly bad taste.
However, he's very popular with women and therefore doesn't have anything to be worried about.
(He gets everything from them.)
Every woman in central Tokyo has heard rumors about him.
He has vagrant habits and has an elusive personality.
In his childhood he always had top grades, but nowadays he can't get over 50% in qualification tests anymore.
Usually he's reticent, but once in a while he can say the wisest things with a single word!
He was 15 when he got adopted.
He's not the least bit interested in succeeding the company, but as a possible heir he received a special education for gifted children. That special treatment is also why he got this carefree attitude.
It's also the reason why he constantly says so many harsh things to Chisato, he tries to save her from this life.





Ookura Takeru is 27 years old.
He's part of a biker gang and his pride is his motorcycle, but during the day he uses it to job as courier.
His hobby is gambling.
He's an old-fashioned yankee (delinquent), can't read the simplest atmosphere and even neglects his juniors.
He often gets into fights, but he's weak. What's worse is that he's a show-off and talks the talk, but can't walk the walk.
He easily falls for things that are too good to be true and often gets involved into incidents by other troublemakers.
Once he drinks alcohol, his character suddenly changes, he becomes the most humble and soft-hearted person on earth.
There must have been something in his past that made him unable to show his true feelings to others.
He always hangs out with others, because he's afraid of becoming lonely.
He also has a room in the "castle", but he almost never returns to use it.
His cheerful face and idiotic acts are just his ways to hide his extreme weakness.
In truth he would like to believe in someone more than anyone else.
He basically is a kind person who once must have gotten hurt very badly.
He refers to himself as "the man who can summon miracles"
In truth he isn't a very fortunate person, though. Is he really the best in causing miracles!?




Ookura Shou is 25 years old.
His occupation is that of a host.
The establishment he works in moves from place to place, but he constantly stays the number 1 host due to his outward appearance and art of conversation.

Shou grew up in an orphanage and got adopted when he was 10 years old.
He never had a family and therefore he respected his new benefactor a lot.
However, something caused a breach in their relationship when he was 18, so big that he left from home.
After that he started to make a living by working as a host.

On the surface he seems like a cheerful character who is easy to make happy, but he's actually a realist.
He's working recklessly, because he believes that all he needs is money.
What he hates the most, is when somebody makes fun of him by calling him Ookurashou (former Ministry of Finance).
He became an assertive man with his motto, "If you have time to do it, do it."




Ookura Masaru is 22 years old.
He's an exclusive model for fashion magazines and very charismatic.
His popularity is really incredible and yet he's still a virgin...
At work he's the cool and attractive man, but in reality he's indecisive and a man of gentle manners.
He's really shy, especially of other people and panics, if a woman comes within a 1m radius around him.
Masaru got treated really cruelly during his first love and that experience left him with a trauma.
It's also rumored that he only became a model to take revenge on that girl...
He basically has no self-confidence at all and sometimes can be really menial.
Both of his parents died very early and he was left in the custody of his grandmother.
His grandmother also died when he was 8 and that's when get adopted by Shinzo.
He's now living in the "Trick Heart Castle."
At first glimpse he really seems like a gentle person, but he's actually very egoistic and unsocial.
He doesn't have any friends either.





Satoru is 17 years old.
He's a high school student, but he's a a truant and shut-in.
He always got praised for being a gifted magician from an early age.
However, ever since one certain incident he received nothing but slander from other people.
His parents then simply disappeared and Shinzo adopted him into his family.
Their disappearance caused him to loose trust in people and even in himself...
He gives up everything he starts and often shows a sarcastic and aggressive attitude.
Satoru also hates to be around people and so he shuts himself in his room in the "Trick Heart Castle."
The only way he communicates with other people is through his computer.






Ookura Akira is 12 years old.
He's a very smart junior high school student.
Akira makes a living by dealing with stocks over the Internet, but he also seems to be a skillful hacker.
His rationalism is incredible for a child, he's extremely cheeky and even looks down on his elder brothers.
He's not too eager about going to school, because he himself says that, "They and I are on a totally different level."
However, the real reason is that he's actually getting bullied for his self-important behavior.
On the other hand he can also be a typical 12-years-old who gets sleepy after 09pm and has the runs in the worst situations.
Akira also labels Chisato to be incompetent...




Kokudo Yutaka is 28 years old.
His nickname is Kokudokun. He's a geek who works at the net café Chisato often visits.
He's a typical geek who totally fell for Chisato's two-dimensional idol act.
Therefore he listens to everything she says.
Apart from being a geek, he also has some kind of charisma hidden deep inside of him.
"I would move a mountain, if you asked me to," that's how much she can rely on that geek.
He gets all the information and does all the investigations Chisato asks him for.
At first glance he looks gross, but couldn't he actually be an ikemen as well!?
He can become very negative and looses every fight, yet he still has an incredible desire to be a hero.
Yutaka is very sensitive and proud, he also helps anyone who seems to be worried about something.
(None of them really appreciate his help, of course.)


The full and wonderful cast!




He's a company employee of the toy maker "Miracle" and works as the secretary of Shinzo.
Tokita graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is very efficient subordinate who is more anxious about Miracle's future than anyone else.
He becomes in charge of looking after Chisato after Shinzo's death.
He even puts a bit of trust in her and regularly approaches her for consultation.
Tokita is a humorous person and has a very good way with words.
He's not really a straight forward type, but when he's off guard, you can see his kind personality and his gentle smile.




He's the president of "Miracle", a toy factory.
Edison has been his inspiration since childhood and he loves to invent things
The "Karakuri Shop" (Trick Shop) has been inherited from generation to generation since the Edo period, but as soon as he took over the office, he changed its name to "Miracle" and started to produce a more modern game.
This game became a huge hit and he started make it one of the biggest toy companies.
He now became a toy maker with a total asset of over ten billion yen (over 100 million USD).
However, Shinzo devoted himself to work so much that became an "eccentric" person without a woman on his side.
He doesn't have any own children, therefore he adopted one boy and put him under some intense training.
However, that boy didn't really get along with his eccentric character and so the will to become his successor didn't really sprout.
After that, Shinzo adopted 5 more children as possible heirs, but his own odd civility once again caused them to end up the same way.
Some already left the house, some are still there, but not a single one of them sees Shinzo as his father.
A while ago, the doctors informed Shinzo that he only has half a year left to live.
Shinzo started to look back at the life he lived so far and thought about what he should do in his short remaining life.
Suddenly he changed his entire life and devoted himself to create toys that are much more simple, but can bring a smile on a child's face and are not only based on their utility value anymore. During that phase he meets Chisato...
So far his new toys are all rubbish and he could probably invent some much better things, but unfortunately his time is running out.
Also, he might be clumsy when it comes to family, but he thinks about them more than anyone else.






She is Shinzo's legal adviser, has a backbone and is quite a puzzling person.
Koganei always appears in unexpected moments and surprises everyone.
She is what you call a "dekiru onna" (capable woman).
She's always calm and shows no expressions, but she's also a beautiful woman with desires and is overflowing with adult pheromones.
Koganei explains Chisato about all the inheritance procedures, but she's really worried about her.
At first glimpse she seems to be perfect, but she's actually full of weaknesses.
Her biggest complex is love itself.
She actually never experienced love, because she always has been an extreme drudge.
Koganei is also the only person who knows where the inheritance of the Ookura family is hidden.



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Mineta Chisato (Horikita Maki) is a 20 years old girl who either lives in a cardboard house in a public park or places like an Internet café. There are certain reasons for why she has to live a life as a homeless. An illness killed Chisato's mother when she was still very young and her father (Tsurumi Shingo) simply disappeared one day, forcing her to survive all by herself in this world. If that wasn't difficult enough, bill collectors suddenly show up at Chisato's place. She was declared a co-debtor for her father's gambling debts of about 100,000,000 Yen. Since then she had to run from place to place in order to escape those bill collectors, but not without help of the charismatic Internet café shop assistant Kokudo Yutaka (Tsuruno Takeshi) and his influence in the otaku world.


The one day Chisato eventually gets driven into a corner by the bill collectors. That's when the company president of the national toy company "Miracle", Ookura Shinzo (Kusakari Masao) suddenly appeared. Shinzo hands the bill collectors a check of 100,000,000 Yen and rescues Chisato, but of course not without taking out a written oath about returning that money someday and asking her to sign it. However, he then turned over that document and revealed that it's actually an official marriage registration document.

Shinzo then tells her that he only has 1 month left to live and wants a wife on his side for the remaining days, but he exaggerates a bit with his emotions. He then presses her to choose between marrying him or paying back the 100,000,000 Yen. Chisato doesn't know whether she will ever get the choice to return the money and eventually agrees on marrying him.

Then after 1 month Shinzo dies. Just like written in his will, Chisato then got on an airplane scattered his remains in the sky. After that Shinzo's secretary Tokita Shuuji (Yamamoto Kouji) appears and takes her to Shinzo's 2nd residence, the "Trick Heart Castle". Shortly after that she also meets "Miracle" legal adviser Koganei Kyoko (Takashima Reiko) who took out that document Chisato signed before. On there it's written that her debt of 100,000,000 Yen will be considered annulled not just by being Shinzo's wife, she also has to live for at least 3 months in the Trick Heart Castle and be the mother of Shinzo's 6 sons.

Shinzo was a bachelor and therefore he adopted 6 people as his sons and possible successors of his position, Fuu (Kaname Jun), Takeru (Okada Yoshinori), Shou (Mukai Osamu), Masaru (Yamamoto Yusuke), Satoru (Seto Kouji) and Akira (Okayama Toshiki). However, all 6 of them were annoyed by Shinzo's odd courtesy, so that none of them really loved him as a father and started to do whatever they wanted.

Chisato has no choice but to accept those conditions and meets with all the sons, except for the oldest one Fuu who doesn't live in the Trick Heart Castle. However, it goes without saying that none of them is really fond of the new situation...