Candy Color Paradox Blu-ray Box

Isaku Natsume’s Candy Color Paradox, published by Shinshokan and with more than 1.3 million copies in circulation, becomes a live-action drama starring Keito Kimura and Jyutaro Yamanaka. As the fifth collaboration between MBS’s Drama Shower programming slot and KADOKAWA’s boys’ love drama label Tunku, it brings together two very different colleagues whose arguments gradually give way to attraction. Each new assignment pushes this combative pair closer together.

Kimura plays Satoshi Onoue, an honest reporter with a strong sense of justice who tackles his work head-on. A member of FANTASTICS from EXILE TRIBE, Kimura had been expanding his range through screen roles before taking his first leading part here. Yamanaka stars as Genji Kaburagi, the surveillance team’s photographer. Cool and effortlessly charming, Kaburagi will do almost anything for a scoop, yet he also has a considerate and caring side. Yamanaka, a member of M!LK, which made its major debut in November 2021, likewise takes his first leading role after building his acting career.

Director Tomoyuki Furumaya draws on his experience in youth cinema and television drama to bring his own perspective to Onoue and Kaburagi, highlighting the personalities behind their clashes.

Working as a reporter for the weekly magazine DASH!, Onoue is suddenly transferred by his editor to the stakeout team. There he finds Kaburagi, the photographer he has secretly regarded as a rival. Forced to work together, the two begin investigating an affair involving Yumi Asaoka, a celebrity known as the queen of television commercials. Unaccustomed to surveillance work, Onoue makes one mistake after another. Kaburagi struggles to hide his irritation—but the friction between them may be the beginning of something neither expected.

The box includes a special booklet and a selection of supplementary footage: episode-three visual commentary with Kimura and Yamanaka, making-of material, event footage, opening and ending videos, and assorted trailers.